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|LPP candidates
contest 18 seats

The Labor-Progressive party
is contesting 18 constituencies
in this coming Monday’s fed-
eral election.. Candidates and
constituencies, by ‘ provinces;
are:

British Columbia: Ernest
Knott, Esquimalt - Saanich;
Tom McEwen, Vancouver
South; Maurice Rush, Vancou-
ver Centre; Charles Stewart,
New Westminster; Alexander
Mowers, Okanagan-Revelstoke.

Alberta: William Tuomi, Ed-
monton East; Frank Maricle,
Vegreville.

SaSkatchewan: Bill Beech-

ing,- Regina; Fred Schofield,
Swift. Current-Maple Creek.

Manitoba: Bill Ross, Winni-
peg North.

Ontario: Bruce Magnusson,
Fort William; Alf Dewhurst,
Hamilton East; Leslie Morris,
York South; Sam Walsh, Tor-
onto-Spadina; Nelson Clarke,
Toronto-Parkdale; Tim Buck,
Toronto-Trinity.

Quebec: Frank Brenton,
Montreal St. Lawrence - St.
George; Camille Dionne, Mont-
real-Hochelaga.

Voting hours are from 8
a.m. to 6 p.m. local standard
time.

SOME GAINS MADE

IBEW stri

return to wor

Strike of 1,500 electrical workers against the B.C. Electric and two c
and Rumble and Peterson Electric, was formally ended Monda

began. Strikers were to return to work this Friday...

Decision to end the strike was made at strike meetings held in

The settlement came out of
three days of negotiations be-
tween the BCE, representing
the three companies, and In-
ternational Brotherhood of
Electrical Workers, initiated
after Vancouver Labor Coun-
cil had made a direct approach
to the BCE for resumption of
negotiations.

Three main issues were in
dispute: wages,’ retroactivity
and working conditions.

It was agreed that the wage
issue referred to
“voluntary arbitration.” Chief
Justice Sherwood Lett is to
Supreme Court

would be

appoint a

Pressure exposes duplicity of —
Tory, Liberal China trade stand

. Public pressures — by trade unions, fraternal organizations and two political parties,
the LPP and the CCF — has succeeded in cracking the Liberal and Conservative ban on trade
with People’s China, a ban imposed by Washington and similarly followed by the Liberal gov-
ernment and the Conservative government that succeeded it.

First victory in the long-term people’s campaign for trade with China — which
means jobs for Canadian
workers — came this week China, but the Conservative grown, but the U.S. state de-

when Marshall Johnson, presi-
dent of East-West Export lmn-
port Co. Ltd., announced gov-
ernment approval for export
of machinery to China.

“I received a letter from
Trade Minister Gordon Chur-
chill assuring us that we will
receive an export permit for
this opening order for Cana-
dian machinery,” Johnson
told the Pacific Tribune.

If the Chinese government
purchasing commission, which
now is examining price and
quality of the machinery, con-

firms the order — which is
worth about $145,000 — it
opens the door to larger

orders in the near future for
the same type of machinery,
which is manufactured mainly
in B.C.”

In September, 1957, he had
secured an order for $2 mil-
lion worth of ball bearings for

-then

government had refused an
export license, Johnson re-
vealed.

Earlier, on his return from
a visit to China in 1956, John-
ston had brought with him an

order for 1,000 low-priced
automobiles. He had com-
pleted arrangements with

Ford of Canada to manufac-
ture the cars at Windsor, down
to an agreement on commis-
sion to: be paid, when the par-
ent company in the U.S-
quashed the deal.

(In Windsor last week George
Burt, Canadian director of the
United Automobile Workers,
told. the press how the parent
Ford Company in the USS.
vetoed the deal for 1,000
Canadian-built cars, at a time
when “thousands of auto
workers were jobless.” Since
unemployment among

auto workers has. steadily

partment still keeps a ban on
trade with China.

(In Washington a treasury
official said no Canadian sub-
sidiary of a U.S. company can
sell goods to “a Communist
country” unless the parent
firm obtains an export license
irom the U.S. government.)

“There is no doubt that pub-
lice pressure has paved the
way for better trading rela-
tions with China in the fu-
ture.” said Johnson. “TI met
Trade Minister Churchill when
he visited Vancouver recently,
and discussed with him the
need for developing more
trade with China. This ma-

chinery order, which has been

given government approval,

could lead to a rapid increase
in exports and that in turn
would mean more jobs for B.C.
and Canadian workers.”

judge immediately as arbitra-
tor. The arbitrator will hear
arguments from both parties
and rule on the difference be-
tween the unanimous recom-
mendations of the conciliation
board and the original wage
demands of the union. His rul-
ing will be final and binding.

The union is seeking 40 per-
scent increase for skilled work-
ers, 30 percent for semi-skilled
and 20 percent for unskilled.
The conciliation report recom-
mended 19 percent for one
group of skilled workers, 15
for another, 12 percent for
semi-skilled and 8 percent for
unskilled. This was to apply
over a two-year period.

The negotiated agreement
provides full retroactivity to
August 1, 1957, thus removing
one contentious point.

Reaction. to “voluntary ar-
bitration” is mixed, both
among the electrical workers
and in the labor movement

generally. Some trade union

members believe the settle-
ment will encourage anti-la-
bor forces to promote the idea
of labor courts and compul-
sory arbitration. Others con-
tend that under the circum-
stances, the strikers did no
more than accept the lesser of
two evils, voluntary arbitra-
tion now or a long strike with

no clear prospect of anything
better. :

Important gains were made
in working conditions.

A proposed
Rights. clause”

“Management
was deleted,

“Purpose cf this clause was to

make it possible for “manage-
ment to claim almost any con-
dition is not covered by the
agreement.” ;

The arrangement whereby .

a worker can accumulate 50
percent of his overtime, and
take time off in lieu of, during
slack periods, was regained.

On standby time with -pay
during inclement weather, the
settlement restores the old
clause, which the conciliation
report had “mutilated.”

There is no doubt that the

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