While AFL, and CCL unions
on the Pacific Coast are en-
gaged in raising a solidarity
defence fund to aid locked-out
Great Lakes Seamen, the situ-
ation remains largely un-
changed, with Canadian Sea-
men’s Union (TLC) pickets
braving mass arrests to hold
solid against company’ at-
tempts to break the labor
laws of, Canada.

At a church-labor confer-
ence in Toronto, Percy Ben-
gough, president of the Trades
and Labor Congress of Canada,
calle@ upon the whol: labor move-
ment to give support to the CSU
and suggested the government with-
draw licenses from the shipping
companies involved as well as
their officers until such time as
the companies abide by the law.

The conference by resolution
condemned the “violent § disre-
gard of the Colonial and Sarnia
and Canada Steamship Lines of
all established processes of col-
lective bargaining” as “the most
flagrant union-busting instance
in the long history of labor-man-
agement relations in Canada” and
“setting a pattern of lawlessness
and undemocratic practice which
is a challenge to the entire labor
Movement and to law-abiding
citizens at large.”

The resolution called on the gov-
ernment to implement the recom-
mendations jof Federal Commis-
sioners and to order both com-
panies to attend a government
supervised conference with offi-
cers of the Trades and Labor Con-
@ress of Canada to seek a peace-
ful settlement.

The conference proposed that if
the companies refuse the govern-
Ment should take over the compan-
ies’ steamships and operate them
itself, as well as withdrawing their
licenses.

The conference agreed that if the
8overnment refuses to uphold its
own laws the union will be justified
in calling a full-fledged strike on
ships involved.

By contrast, the CSU announced
signing of an agreement with
Branch Lines Ltd. covering that

Anti-Semite arrested

Lakes shipping companies’ action
termed ‘flagrant union-busting’

Here, 25-year-old D’Assise Menard is being escorted from St. Jer-
ome, Que., jail where he has been held since his arrest on charges
of having set fire to Jewis-owned summer hames, because, he
claimed, Jews were fomenting world communism,

“J found a million-dollar baby
In a five and-ten cent store.”

The words of the popular song
have been getting a new meaning
in Vancouver five and ten cent
stores these days, :

Walk into any Woolworth’s stcre
to buy anything from a tube of
shaving cream to the cheap crock-
ery most working class families
use. You'll be served by a girl who's
a million dollar baby all right.

She's worth a million dollars to
the children or old folks she may
be struggling to support, to the
boy friend she may be saving uP
to marry, to the people in the real
life she leads when she’s not an
| overworked automaton behind a

sales counter filled with a miscel-
lany of geegaws, nicknacks and
cheap articles of all shapes and
sizes.

She and a lot of other girls are
worth plenty of millions to the
company, too. But she only gets
$18 or $20 or $22 a week for being
a million dollar baby on the sales
floor from 9 to 5:30 every working
day.

Each counter is like a little busi-
ness in itself. Take a look at the
millinery counter for example and
see what it takes to run it. You’ll
probably find there a head girl and
an assistant. The head girl isn’t
just there to look pretty and be
Sweet to the customers she serves
—though that’s part of the job. She
also has to order, counter-check,
take inventory, arrange the mer-
chandise, train the girls under her,
wait on customers, and keep a
sharp lookout for “swipers’’—all for
the going wage.

If she’s on the stationery counter,
for example, she’s responsible for

its candidates from Bellwoods
of labor unity, defeat of Drew
ment in Ontario on June 7.

company’s oil tankers on the Lakes.

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every rubber band. And it’s up to
her to make the counter pay plen-
ty or she’ll know the reason why.
The supervision is tough.

It’s like running a whole store,
but the take goes to the company,
not the girls.

Out of thousands of counters run
by “million-dollar babies” in Wool-
worth’s stores across the continent

Union gives Woolworth’s
million-dollar headache

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WORK and

DRESS CLOTHING

come the millions squandered by a
different
baby — Barbara
Woolworth's heiress:

kind of million-dollar
“Babs” Hutton,

“Babs” has

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been married to so many playboys
it’s hard to keep count or remem-
ber their names but there was a

count with a pretty tough name,
and Cary Grant, and let’s see just
who is the latest?

Her- marital problems are on a
different level] from those of the
working girl who's saving to get
married, or trying to supplement
hubby’s inadequate income, or who
has been left to keep the kids after
the war claimed her husband or
the housing crisis broke up her
home.

The Woolworth’s heiress will have
little insight into what it means
to try to get along on $18 a week,
and the whole supervisory system
of Woolworth’s is geared to look-
ing after Bab’s millions.

But the working “million-dollar
baby” is looking for a better deal
for the job she’s doing and she’s
not sold on the “one big happy fam-
ily” line that the supervisors peddle
so they won’t get any black marks
against their career through hav-
ing a big nasty: union come into
the five and ten cent store.

The clerks have been joining the
Retail Clerks’ International Asso-
ciation (AFL) in Vancouver and
when Woolworth’s launched a
wholesale campaign of job intimi-
dation the union fought back with
court charges of unfair labor prac-
tices.

Hearings are proceeding this
week in one of the largest Prose-
cutions of management on record,
with eight charges laid by the la-
bor department against the com-
pany and twelve against its offi-
cials.

The charges range from conspir-
acy and intimidation, to dismissal
for membership in the Retail
Clerks.

Firing of union members has not
eased the problem of poor pay and
overwork, and the girls are per-
sisting in their efforts to firmly
plant union organization behind
the counter. .

If they succeed they'll be million
dollar babies to the whole trade
union movement, which will wel-

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