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WAGES

Average weekly wages in manufacturing for the last pay
period in September rose to $71.14 from the revised August figure

of $69.56. The increase was due in part to an increase in the

average number of hours worked, from 41.0 hours in August to -

41.2 hours in September.

PRICES
The cost of living in Canada showed a further increase
when the Consumer Price Index rose to 128.3 (1949

prices equal 100) from 128.0 in October. ‘The new record high
CPI figure was due to a sharp increase in the clothing index and
a slight rise in the index of other commodities and services which
more than offset a small decline in the food index.

‘THE LAW

The Supreme Court of Canada has reversed a decision of the
Quebec Appeal Court and established the right of a company to
retire an employee covered by a union contract. The company
involved initiated a pension plan and provided for compulsory
retirement at age 65. An employee, aged 72, claimed that his
forced retirement was a violation of the seniority clause in his
union’s collective agreement which, the employee claimed, covered
the employment of members for the one-year term of the contract.

DECISION

The Manitoba Labour Board has ruled that a company was
not guilty of failure to bargain in good faith in demanding from
the bargaining agent for its employees a bond of $500,000 as
assurance of good behaviour and the signing of a 25-year contract.

BUSINESS OUTLOOK

The year 1960 looks like being a prosperous one for business-
men, according to a survey of 100 Canadian business executives
carried out by the Financial Post. Business will be good, they pre-
dict, particularly in the first nine months and in the domestic
field. Consensus indicates: More sales competition in both the
domestic and export markets; No substantial change in the credit
situation; and an increase of 5% to 7% in the Gross National
Product (the value cf all goods and services produced by Cana-
dians.) A 6% increase in the GNP in 1960 would raise the total
for the year to $37-$38 billion.

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Latest CMA Brief Seeks

New Labour Restrictions

In its annual brief to the B.C. Cabinet, the B.C. Division
of the Canadian Manufacturers’ Association has asked for
changes in the Labour Relations Act which, it claims, would
“provide an orderly system for the peaceful settlement of

Parksville

Big Business Shows
Its Generosity

Big business donations to philanthropy “soared” between 1957
and 1958, according to the American Association of Fund-Raising
Counsel. :

In the 1958 fiscal year contributions received from corporations
in the U.S. jumped to 0.91 per cent of their net income — all the
way from 0.87 per cent the previous fiscal year.

That’s pretty good, considering its beneficient source!

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erti: t is not published or displayed by the.
Board or by the Government of British Columbia,

disputes.”

Its major proposal is ‘that a
definite date should be given for
the start of a strike or lock-out
when a vote for a strike or lock-
out is taken.

It suggests the date should be
not less than 10 days and not more
than 21 days after the vote, At
the present time a strike can be
called any time within three
months of the vote.

The old argument is used by
the association that the three-
month period has led to situations
where decisions to strike are not
made seriously, but only to pro-
vide the union negotiating com-
mittee with a “big stick.”

Labour’s position in this matter
was made clear by B.C. Federa-
tion President, Bob Smeal, who
stated “It’s hardly going to give
the parties a chance to reconcile
their differences. They are trying
to scare the union members, but
I don’t think it would deter many
unions.”

JAPANESE BUSINESS is
studying the idea of building
industrial plants in Saskatche-
wan to produce such items as
transistor radios, pumps and
farm machinery, The idea was
promoted by the Saskatchewan

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Other recommendations made
by the association:

The minister may, at his own
discretion or at the request of
both sides, call for a supervised
secret vote of employees or em-
ployer organizations on any
settlement offers made while a
strike or lock-out is in progress.

A vote of employees should
be taken by the department of
labour where certification or
decertification is asked.

A craft union should not be
allowed to apply for certifica-
tion where an industrial union
is already certified, unless the
application is favored by a
majority of the workers.

The lieutenant - governor
should have the power to refer
a dispute to arbitration if the
health and safety of the. public
is imperiled.

Closed-shop agreements
should be outlawed.

Government. Premier Tommy .
Deuglas stated that the plans

are not based on low prairie

wage rates. He added that if

low wage rates attracted in-

dustry, the Maritimes would be

the industrial heartland of

Canada.

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warned
South Africa that it would set
a target date for a consumers’
boycott of South African goods

The ICEFTU has

unless the South African
Government changed its racial
“apartheid” policy.

J. H. Oldenbroek, General Sec-
retary of the ICFTU, has written
to Dr. Hendrik F. Verwoerd,
Prime Minister of South Africa,
informing him of the resolution
approved by the ICFTU’s recent
Sixth World Congress in Brussels
voicing deep concern over “racial
policies which did violence to all
concepts of decency and morality”
and condemning the South Afri-
can Government’s persistent re-
fusal to grant collective bargain-
ing rights and other trade union
rights to the African workers.

The resolution instructed the
Executive Board ‘to establish a

target date for the boycott and
instructed the General Secretary
to _advise the South African
Government of the determination
of the ICFTU and its affiliated
organizations to carry out the boy-

cott unless that government
changed its “inhuman racial
policies.”

The name of the country of

origin must appear on all imports
of electronic tubes and of cloth-
ing made mainly of textile fibres,

send money

the government has ordered.

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