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ek he problems of industrial
Yy had been heartily welcomed b
the IWA, Pomeriay this field,
undertaken by the Western Canadian
Regional Council IWA, had borne
fruit. He expressed confidence that
many of the features developed by
the IWA in the lumber industry,
would be found advantageous for in-
dustry generally.

The CLC Committee, he explained,
will strive to co-ordinate trade union
efforts on a national scale, The IWA
experience in safety problems will be
under close examination.

The National Committee for the
New Party will have important an-
nouncements to make following cur-

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rent sessions. One such anticipated
announcement will give the basis of
representation at the founding con-

vention, to commence in Ottawa,
July 31.

Representation Considered
As trade union members out-num-

ber CCF members, the effort will be
made to provide a reasonable balance

in representation.

Draft proposals for a New Party
Constitution and Statement of Prin-
ciples will be placed in circulation to
enable prior consideration by the
members of both organizations. Re-
ports will be heard in regard to the
participation of farmer organizations
in the New Party plans.

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British Union Fights
American Company

For the first time for many
years a British trade union is en-
gaged in a big fight for trade
union recognition, but the com-
pany involved is American.

About 1,300 members of the Amal-
gamated Engineering Union, Britain’s
second largest union, are now out on
strike from the factories of the Ameri-
can-owned Caterpillar Tractor Com-
pany at Tannochside, near Glasgow,
and Birtley, Durham.

Commission Asked For

The A.E.U. has asked the Minister
of Labour to appoint a commission
to inquire into the conduct of the firm,
and has also asked the President of
the American company, Mr. Louis B.
Neumiller, to come over here for talks
with Mr. W. Carron, the A.E.U.
President. The union’s M.P.s and the
T.U.C. have been informed of the dis-
pute, and a complaint has been made
to the American Embassy.

It is regarded as a major issue of
principle which must be fought out
and won by the union. All A.E.U.
members have been instructed to de-
clare all the company’s sub-contract
work to be “black”. The A.E.U. Exe-
cutive Council is to consider at its
next meeting a levy on its million
members to raise funds for the fight.

Mr. W. Carron, the A.E.U. Presi-

dent, has stated that they have had
difficulty in getting trade union recog-
nition from the majority of American
firms which have opened branches
here, but they had now won it from
most of them. He said that the battle
for trade union recognition in this
country had been fought long ago, and
it was not a happy state of affairs
when an American company intro-
duced the struggle into Britain all
over again.

Dispute Cause

Mr. John Boyd, Scottish representa-
tive on the A.E.U. Executive Council,
has stated: “The local management
made no bones about the fact that
the dispute was about union recogni-
tion.”

The immediate cause of the strike
was the dismissal of a shop stewards’
committee convenor at the Scottish
plant, for attending a union meeting.
Another shop steward was fired
shortly afterwards for leaving his
machine to organize a protest against
the dismissal. ;

Such behaviour by American com-
panies here will undoubtedly fan the
flames of anti-American feeling here,
which surely must already be a mat-
ter for concern to far-seeing members
of the U.S. State Department and the
administration.

Earl Kinney
New MSA

Vice-President

Earl Kinney, President, Local
44, Amalgamated Lithographers
of America, an employee-mem-
ber of the MSA Board, has been
elected Vice-President of the As-
sociation. R. T. Wilson, an oil

company executive, was named

President.

Committee chairmen are Leslie
Wong, finance; Dr. A. M. Johnson,
inter-plan relations; Dr. R. G. Wil-
son, professional relations; Earl Kin-
ney, public relations; G. H. Mitchell,
salary; R. T. Wilson, pension plan
committee; and Mames McMillan,
advisory council of past presidents.

The MSA board of directors, elect-
ed at the recent annual meeting, com-
prises four employee, two employer
and two professional representatives.
They choose their own officers.

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WHILE WE KNOW the Convention of Local 1-71, IWA, (the Logg

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ers’ Local) has been over for some time, we feel it’s never

too late to show the fellows hard at work. The highly successful Convention was held in the Steel Hall, December 21-22, in

Vancouver,

Liberals’
Health
Plan Bad

The Liberal convention was
sold a “bill of goods” by its sub-
committee in its so-called “health
care” plan. All the emphasis has
been placed on how the plan will
be paid for — none at all on what
are the important aspects of a
national prepaid health service
such as the quality of the service
provided, its universal availabil- |
ity, encouragement of modern
group practise and development
of preventive services.

The Liberal plan simply assumes
that medical and other services which
are at present available are adequate
and that all we have to worry about
is how it is going to be paid for and
who is going to pay for it. Even in
this regard it falls far short of mak-
ing sense.

It is in fact a “soak-the-sick-ser-
vice’ and has as much resemblance to
an effective prepaid health service as
a cash register has to a stethoscope.

It certainly took a mathematical
genius to figure out that a good part
of the burden of costs should fall
upon families with sickness through
additions to their income tax pay-
ments. The more sickness, the more
serious the ailment, the more they'll
have to pay on top of their normal
income tax assessment.

A basic principle of prepaid insur-
ance must be that the healthy must
equitably share the financial burden
of the sick. A plan of payments which
falls more heavily on those who are
hit by sickness is indefensible.

If the rest of the Liberal program
is as garbled as the so-called heaith
plank, the New Party certainly has
nothing to worry about. The New
Party convention this coming sum-
mer will have a well-considered pre-
paid health program before it along
these lines:

1. A nation wide health insur-
ance plan to provide compre-.
hensive health care for every
man, woman and child and to
include medical, surgical, nurs-
ing, dental, optical and similar -
care as ‘well as hospitalization.

2. Emphasis on diagnostic and

_ preventive services.

3. Legislation to reduce the in-
ordinate profits in the manu-
facture and distribution of
drugs and the establishment,
if necessary, of public plants
and agencies for the purpose.

4, Sickness benefits during ill-
ness of the breadwinner.

Something New?

For a number of people 1961
came in with a headache, not al-
ways due to hangovers from New
Year’s Eve. There was chaos in
Laos, tussles in Brussels, and dis-

astro for Castro. ~
—Spectator, London

Three Theories Why
Police Called Cops

How many times have you
heard someone asked or have
been asked yourself, why is a
policeman called a cop?

No one knows why for sure, but
the most widely accepted theory is
because cop is a shortening of cop-
per and copper was underworld slang,
so therefore the policeman was the
one who would cop or catch you.

Another interesting theory is that

in the early days in England, the but-
tons on the police uniforms were made
of copper. Because of these copper
buttons, workers during the labour
troubles in Manchester, England, in
1864, would hold up copper coins to
the police as a sign of contempt.

Then there are those who hold with
the theory that cop is merely an
abbreviation of the words—constable
on patrol.

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