goa RAND BELLE) Ps Everywhere in British Columbia, from south of the Fraser to North of the Peace it’s ‘‘Pil’’ for people who enjoy a truly fine beer, a beer with a distinctive flavor — fresh, natural, satisfying. Say ‘Pil’ please, for CARLING - PILSENER beer, enjoyed by British Colum- bians for four decades. CARLING PILSENER: The B.C. Beer with the Fresh Natural Flavor 1-417 Unfair labour practices charges laid by Local 1-417, IWA, against the Cattermole- Trethewey planermill opera- tion, Clinton, were upheld at a Labour Relations Board hearing July 15. The Board ordered the Company to cease using co- ercion or intimidation of any kind that could reasonably have the effect of compelling or inducing any person to re- frain from becoming or con- tinuing to be a member of a trade-union. The Union pressed the charges after two employees were dismissed by the Com- pany for Union activities while certification of the firm was being sought. During the hearing, the Union produced evidence showing the Company had advised a Union member to circulate a petition among the crew to revoke their IWA membership. Unfortunately, attempts by THE WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER BX = EMPLOYEES of the Cattermole-Trethewey planer- mill, Clinton, who attended the Labour Relations Board hearing July 15, in Vancouver, at which Local 1-417, IWA, pressed charges of unfair labour practices against the Company. Group standing left, Cliff Michael, Local 1-417 Financial Secretary; Cecil ’Flyn,. Mervin Watkins; seated left, Wayne Watkins, James Paulsen, Ed. Ziola. aD the Union to have the two discharged employees rein- stated to their jobs were re- fused by the Board on. the grounds that there was in- sufficient evidence to prove they were fired for Union activity. d The Board recommended however, that the operation be certified to Local 1-417, IWA. British unions demand legislative protection LONDON (CPA) — An- other House of Lords decision has added to the confusion about the legal position of Britain’s unions which, until recently, had apparently been settled for 58 years by the Trade Disputes Act, 1906. A London barge - owning firm has secured an injunc- tion to prevent the Watermen, Lightermen, Tugmen and Bargemen’s Union (4,000 members) from declaring the company’s barges “black” and instructing its members to re- fuse to handle them. The President and General Secretary of the union may now be faced with an action for damages. This barge company re- cently reached an agreement with the Transport and Gen- eral Workers’ Union on the conditions of service of 47 em- ployees who belonged to that union. Three other employees belonged to the Watermen, Lightermen, Tugmen and Bargemen’s Union, which was not consulted or informed. This latter union then put its _ban on the barges to obtain recognition. An interim injunction ob- tained by the barge company was reversed by the Appeal Court, whose decision has now been reversed by the House of Lords. Considerable protection is given to trade union officials by the Trade Disputes Act in the case of acts done in furtherance of a “trade dis- pute,” but the Lords have ruled that this is not a dis- pute between the union and the company and in effect is a dispute between two unions, which cannot be regarded as a “trade dispute.” Earlier this year, in the Rookes vs. Barnard case, the Ba tn Mer re ts TOP LOG BIRLER, Casner Felix demonstrates his skill during the Shuswap Regatta at Canoe Beach by dumping Earl Hassard. House of Lords ruled that Rookes was entitled to dam- ages from three officials of the Draughtsmen’s and Allied Technicians Association be- cause he had been dismissed by the British Overseas Air- ways Corporation when the three officials had threatened to call a strike owing to his continued refusal to rejoin the Association. Rookes had re- signed from the Association in 1955 after a disagreement on policy. Trade union leaders now want the Government to in- troduce immediately a simple amendment to the Trade Dis- putes Act 1906, closing these loopholes and giving union officials the protection which for 58 years they have thought they had. The Government has refused to do this but wants to set up, with the co- operation of the unions and preferably after the general election, a general inquiry into trade union law before any new legislation is intro- duced. Trade unionists fear that such an inquiry held by a Conservative Government would encourage many oppo- nents of trade unionism to try to take advantage of this inquiry to limit the power of unions. There have been several outbursts of anti- unionism from Right - wing Conserva- tives recently. One Conserva- tive M.P. has imtroduced a private bill which would give the Minister of Labor power to ban any trade union prac- tice, or to declare null and void any union rule, which a specially established commis- sion declared to be against the public interest.