Two million injured

at work since 1917 &

The 1959 annual report of the Workmen’s Compensa-
tion Board shows that 262 workmen were killed and 75,982

workmen were injured in
during the year.

The fatalities were up slight-
ly over the past ten year aver-
ge. There were 934 more in-

1959 than in

British Columbia industry
ient enforcement of safety con-
ditions by profit-hungry em-
ployers.

The WCB report shows that
> than 2,000,000 work in-

ot | Workers, widows and or-,
|phans have been deprived of |
Last week the C.L.C. expell-) Workmen’s Compensation
ed the 40,000 Teamster sear eteg? soa Bs
This brings to almost a quar-| penefits due them, accord-
ter million the number of or- | ing to a ruling last week by
ganized workers outside the| the B.C. Court of Appeal.

“official” labor centre in Can-| The Court, ruling, on an ap-| ™¢l eee
|peal of Louis Battaglia and) yer Act in 1904,

ada, close to 25% of the Cana-
dian Union membership.

| Donald McLennan against the|

dent rate reported
attributed to | since 1917 when the Act come

into force.

es have been

military charges McEwen

LAKE COWICHAN, B.C.—Mr. Tom McEwen, editor
of the Pacific Tribune, told an audience Friday night. in
the Community Hall here that Khrushchev had a gun at
his head before the Summit meeting when after the U-2
spy plane incident he was expected by the west to sit down
at a meeting where the sovereignty of the USSR was
already held to be of no consequence, judging by the state-
ments of Pres. Eisenhower. , a

He said that the main thing Canada is in the position of
now, however, was for the peo- being a guinea pig for the Un-
ple of the world to seek a|ited States military, he said,
peaceful solution, and bend and of having to pay for our
every effort to prevent a nuc- own annihilation in a war
lear war, which could only re- which those people could trig-
sult in a world of ashes both | 8€T

We have no quarrel with the
Soviet Union or China. he
said, and have never reached
the point where we could not
settle our differences around |
the negotiating table, but we |
have to take our orders from

MU 3-2926 the Pentagon in our relations

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We do not recognize China
Auto Body Work

because of this alliance, and
HING LEE, Proprieior with nearly a million unem- |
ployed in Canada we throw
away all the jobs that trade |
with China could bring.

for the east and the west.

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ee

|B.C. Federation of Labor.

| alleged to advocate actions in|

| DEADLINE

| BUSINESS PERSONALS

The reaction in labor circles} -workmans Compensation}
is far from happy. Most un-| Board, ordered the WCB to ac-}
ions concede that in spite of| cept as binding the findings!

the expulsion it will be essen-| made by specialists appointed
tial for them to develop good} eee

solid trade-union relations with}
the teamsters.

'Bomarc explosion

Sam Jenkins, President Boil-|
ermakers. Union stated, “such | hows need for ban
expulsions are wrong at all |
times. It does not help but| ‘The near-disaster in New
aggravates currents of disunity | Jersey last Tuesday, when a
in the trade union movement.” | Bomarc A armed with a nuc- |
From the Fishermans union, | jear warhead caught fire on |
“ts about time the CLC top} its pad, points up the great
executives sought ways and) danger of calamity facing civ-
means of uniting the labor|jlian populations in the atomic
movement rather than creat-| age,
ing more splits and divisions.|_| Had the warhead exploded
That’s what the workers are| in the highly-populated centre
paying them salaries for.” |the results would have been |

e | frightening. The only way to

Reports are that over ninety-|end such threats is to reach
five percent of the members of; agreement to destroy all nuc-
the old Local 97 International| lear weapons once and for all.
Ironworkers are signing up| : ag
with the new Canadian Local| violation of Bill 43. Officials
No. 1 Ironworkers Union. The} of the Federation are consid
leadership of the new local ae ering taking some action in
presses confidence that the} answer to the dailies. \

membership will back the new |

under section 54A of the Com
pensation Act.

A statement issued by the
B.C. Federation of Labor on

RI E FS} benefits or be fired

| the Court ruling points out that

the WCB has been over-ruling

| findings of specialists since the

inclusion of section 54A in the

It asks that all Specialists
Certificates issued through ap-
peals under Section 54A be
made public. This would en
able all those wrongfully dealt

| with by the WCB over this
| period to obtain the benefits

due them.

The B.C. Federation state-
ment asks the Provincial Gov-
ernment to fire the commis:

| sioners of the WCB if they Te
| fuse to make these certificates

public.

ROOFING

& SHEET METAL

oe. eae

Duroid, Tar and Gravel
Reasonable
Gutters and Downpipes

NICK BITZ

BR 7-6722
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local through whatever steps|

: Vancouver Film
are necessary to establish the, .

|new local as their bargaining| Bolshoi Opera
agent.

e

Latest development in the|
Mc and Mc, Marshall Wells|
lock-out is the refusal of the |
daily press in Vancouver to|
print the full contents of an |
advertisement placed by the|

PARK THEATRE —
Sunday, June 12,

at Duthie Books, Robson
Co-op Bookstore, 307 W.

The controversial parts are|

Tschaikovsky’s “EUGENE ONEGIN’

in SOVCOLOR

Membership $1.00 — must be purchased in advance

Guild Presents

production of

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7:30 & 9:30 p.m.

| Labor demands WCB pay |

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ae {

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and Hornby, or Peoples
Pender Street.

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foe |
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Latest precision equipmient
used. 1420 West Pender St
MU. 4-1012.

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—Seandinavian products a
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Street. Phone MU. 4-9719.
June 10, 1960—P

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