| CMA Bill 39 campaign | to stop amendments POWELL RIVER, B.C.—Big business is conspiring to prevent the labor movement from winning amendments to Bill 39 at the coming session of the legislature, charged Maurice Rush, LPP provincial view, Sunday. Monopoly groups have pooled their resources and are spending men, and newspaper are being inserted all over the province. These ads are full of misrepresentation and half truths. But lying is Nothing new to these gentlemen Bg: of free enter- Maurice Rush prise, said the speaker. Rush pointed to the. significant victory the unions have already Won in their fight for amend- ments to Bill 39. He welcomed as a big gain the setting up of the labor relations board with union elected representatives. The news from Victoria that amend- ments will be made shortening the period of conciliation, elimin- ating fining of unions and modify- ing supervised strike vote clauses are proof that the united cam- paign of orgariized labor in bring- ing results. The trade union movement in B.C. must now move to the of fensive. With the legislature organizer at a rally at West- slated to meet early in the New Year, labor should immediately launch a large scale campaign for amendments to Bill 39 _ The austerity program recent- ly announced by the federal gov- ernment also came under the speakers new economic program will mean lower living standards for the people, said Rush. The big mon- opolists who dominate our gov- ernment are betraying the na- tional interests of Canada to Wall Street imperialism. Their betrayal is on par with those of Quisling and Laval. They are placing profits before the welfare of Canada, and are being ex- posed as traitors. It is now becoming clearer that the Marshall Plan is not only in- tended to prevent the spread of socialism and democracy in Eur- ope; it is also the economic pro- gram of American imperialism for world domination, including the domination of Canada. . Under the Marshall plan Canada is. to be reduced to the status of an economic colony, producing mainly raw materials for American in- dustries, Unity of the labor movement and the people can halt the present disastrous course ‘the Ca- nadian government is following, concluded the speaker. Mission match workers secure wage increases i k Another gain was chalked up by the IWA last wee when Local 1-367 signed an agreement with the Eddy Match Company’s factory at Mission granting wage increases of 15 cents an hour for female employees and 10 for men retroactive to October 26. Also provided in the agreement are provisions for union recogni- tion, the 44-hgur week and com- plete job reclassification. Under the terms of the agreement, the Wage schedule may be reopened for revision at the end of six Months, that is next April. Original demand of the union was for an overall wage increase of 21 cents an hour across the board to bring the wage scales up For 7-Cent Fare— Vote JONES, Effie for MAYOR Vote RUDDELL, Elgin. for Alderman | represents cents an hour to the general wage level in the district. Later in the negotiations, after consultation with the em- ployees, this demand was reduced to 17% cents an hour, For a number of reasons, this objective could not be gained at the moment and @& compromise settlement was affected. But in view of the low wages paid by the company before the employ- ees were organized into the IWA (only 46 cents an hour for wuo- men and 60 cents or men) and the fact that the plant is just newly organized, the gain is a substantial one to make without resorting to strike action, and a considerable ad- vance on the company’s final of- fer of an increase of 10 cents an hour, made three weeks ago. /NATIONAL AFFAIRS MONTHLY @ SOLVE -@ THAT @ GIFT |