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NEW YORK

A campaign of resistance to the
reactionary program of the incom-
ing Republican administration and
Congress was endorsed by 150
members of the national committee
of the Progressive party meeting
here last week. :

The campaign stemmed out of
proposals made by Vincent Hal-
linan and Mrs. Charlotta Bass, the
party’s candidates in the recent elec-
tion, C. B. Baldwin and other
party leaders.

Pointing out that Eisenhower's
appointment had placed the big
anti-Roosevelt corporations in pow-
er, the party’s national committee
said:

“The basic political problem is
how to prevent the NAM, General
Motors, Taft and company from
turning the country into their own
private preserve while making @
shambles of the world with the war-
like policies of Dulles and Mac-
Arthur.”

The national committee adopted
‘a seven-point program for immedi-
ate action by the state organizations
in cooperation with other groups.
it included these points:

@ Demand that Eisenhower make
good on his campaign promise to
end the war in Korea at once.

@ Demand a cut in the arms
budget and in taxes.

@ Demand the end of the Wal-
ter-McCarran, McCarran and Smith
Acts and an end to deportations.

_ @ Organization of state and city
legislative and action conferences in
- preparation for the 1953 elections

— and sessions of the legislature.

Runs in Burnaby

Tax reform is a main plank in’
the platform of William Turner,
Independent candidate for Bur-
naby council in the municipal
elections this Saturday, Decem-
ber 13. Turner believes that as-

sessments on increasingly valuable »

industrial properties are far too
low, compelling homeowners to
carry more than a just share of
the tax burden. Turner is pledg-
ed to fight for reassessment of
industrial properties.

Union strikes
six jewellers

A strike against six jewelry man-
ufacturing and repair firms in Van-
couver was called Monday this week
by Lecal 42, International Jewelry
Workers Union.

Firms being picketed are Trayl-
ing and Waters, E. J. Trayling,
Jacoby Brothers, Grimson and Sons,
Hawken and Company, and Zuker
Jewelry Company.

Phone rate boost laid
to city council failure

“The telephone rate increase granted last week to the BCTele-
_phone Company is completely unjustified,” Mrs. Effie Jones told the

Pacific Tribune this week.
major responsibility for this
to the Board of Transport

|Natal led
sub-geiters
\this week

‘Election. work» and Christmas
shopping didn’t stop our Pacific
Tribune supporters from getting a
bundle of subs this week. With
Natal and the Building Trades press
club leading the parade, our sub
total for seven days shot up to

99]

“Club of the Week” was Natal,
with 12 subs, — Sg ee:
Trades, 11; anaimo, 8; Viv-
pane Square, 6; West End, 5; Kit-
silano, 4; Vernon, 3; Victoria, 3;
Alberni, 2; Campbell River, 2;
Forest Products, 2; South Burn-
aby, 2; and Prince Rupert, 2
The lasting results achieved in
election campaigns can often be
accurately measured in the number
of new readers won for the pro-
gressive press. Vancouver civic
elections are over, but friends made

~ during the campaign should be re-
visited by canvassers and signed. Os
ike!

up as PT subscribers.

“Vancouver City Council must assume
increase. A protest wire from council
Commissioners at Ottawa might have

changed the outcome of the jrecent
hearings. ;

“Failure of city council to dis-
sociate itself from B.C. counsel Al-
fred Bull’s suggestion that Van-
couver would not oppose an $800,-
000 increase made the present boost
a foregone conclusion. The public
has been betrayed.”

The new rates, averaging 3.5 per-
cent increase for home and busi-
ness phones, 12.2 percent for long
distance, and a 100 percent jump in
pay phone charges (from 5 to 10
cents per call) go into effect this
week.

company this week. There are
some 1,800 pay phones in Van-

' couver. :

“The public should protest _this
increase and demand that it be res-
cinded, pending a full public hear-
ing in Vancouver in February,”
said Mrs. Jones, who led a delega-
tion of citizens to city hall last
week to formally lodge a protest
against the increase.

- Mayor Claude Harrison of Vic-
toria and Mayor F. H. Jackson of
New Westminster have denounced
the increase, and Attorney-General
Robert Bonner, condemning the in-
terim boost of 45 percent of the
amount asked for, has promised to
“continue the fight” against the

Report shows Canadian rail
workers paid 45 percent

OTTAWA
Canadian rail workers produce
an average of $5,710 each in operat-
ing revenues for the owners of
Canadian railway corporations.
They are paid 45.4 percent less than
rail workers in the United States
doing exactly the same work.

These figures emerge from the
conciliation board report on the
demand of the 17 ‘Canadian non-
operating rail brotherhoods for a
wage boost of 45 cents an hour.

The board was headed by Justice
Kellock and offered the workers—
an estimated 144,000 are involved—
an increase of 16 cents with no
union shop as demanded. The min-
ority report of David Lewis, for
the unions, suggested a 26 cent
boost.

The report details comparisons
with the United States and points
out that the demand for wage par-
ity with U.S. rail workers has been
a persistent demand since 1918.

The report also lists other inter-
esting comparative wage figures:

In manufacturing’ as a whole,
U.S. wages are 28.3 percent high-
er than in Canada. In durable
goods, the basis upon which the
board recommended the 16 cent
increase, ,the difference is 24.9
percent in favor of U.S. workers.

In shipbuilding it is higher by 40.5
percent; in auto, 21.4 percent;
non-ferrous metals, smelting and
refining, 12.3 percent.

The companies’ claim to higher
costs reflects the dependency of
Canada upon U.S. monopoly con-
trol of key sections of basic indus-
try especially steel. Figures are
cited to show that Canadian rail-
ways pay 61.7 percent more for
rolled steel wheels and 53.8 per-
cent more for coal, which is the
largest single item of cost.

The non-operating rail unions
have rejected the conciliation board
report and this week enter into

Says conciliation
tobe streamlined

NANAIMO, B.C.
A “streamlining of conciliation in
labor disputes” was promised the
TLC convention meeting here this
week by Labor Minister Lyle Wicks,
who addressed the 1385 delegates
representing 70,000 unionists here
Wednesday this week.
Wicks claimed there had not
been enough direction “from the
top down” in the labor department

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less than U.S. counterparts

direct negotiations with the com-
panies. But before any agreement
had been reached, the companies
made new representations to the
Board of Transport Commission-
ers for another nine percent freight
rate boost, to yield an additional
$42 million revenue.

TORONTO
A survey taken by Labor News
Service correspondents in key rail
centres show that rank-and-file
railroaders are in a militant mood
and prepared to fight, if necessary,
for a substantial wage boost, retro-
active pay and the closed shop.

The LNS survey covered Lon-
don, Regina, the Lakehead, Win-
nipeg, Montreal and Toronto. The
survey showed: —

V  Unanimity in rejection of the.
16 cent raise proposed by the con-
ciliation board.

V The feeling that the 26 cents

proposed in the minority report

submitted by David Lewis is not —
enough, but is a figure which can
be used as a base to fight from.

V_ That a vote to strike would
be overwhelmingly endorsed if
such a vote were taken.

Vv

The issue of retroactive pay

is a key one, railroaders openly ex-
pressing the sentiment that they.
will have been “robbed” unless the

wage boost they win is retroactive
to September 1.

V A feeling of distrust of Frank
Hall based on the 1950 sell-out set-

tlement of the national rail strike.

V An understanding that rank-
and-file pressure must be maintain-
ed on the union negotiating com-
mittee.

V A strong sentiment that the
closed shop must be won and the-
rail unions strengthened by its in- |
clusion in the next contract.

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~ PACIFIC TRIBUNE — DECEMBER 12, 1952 — PAGE 6