oo || VV | Ma MULATION AL imal ro a are TTT TITS TT TROTAT) FT TTT Re ati patti Maren S tiny FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1957 Continued from page 1 POLITICAL ACTION period when we can do some- thing about it. Let’s make a cleanup at city hall this year.” Jenkins ridiculed the plan to spend $300,000 on the St. Roche “as a monument to the RCMP. We've got scars on our heads from past union battles to remind us of the RCMP— we don’t need the St. Roche.” If labor elected a few alder- men it wouldn’t be long until “we'd be sending represent- atives to Victoria and Ottawa,” Jenkins concluded. “We said some months ago that we’d run three alder- manic candidateg this year,” said John Hayward (Street Railwaymen). “Now we have to make up our minds to carry through this plan and put on a campaign.” “We must redouble our ef- forts in the field of political education,” said Tom Alsbury. “Trade unionists must take an interest in politics — because politics takes an interest in us.” ‘I’m not a pessimist,” de- clared Reg Bullock (Marine Workers). “Let’s send speak- ers to every local to explain NWT crews. choose SIU YELLOWKNIFE, N.W.T. Crew members tugs and 40 barges owned by the Northern Transportation Company and the Yellowknife Transportation Company have selected the Seafarers Inter- national Union as their bar- gaining agent in a Canada La- bor Relations Board vote con- ducted by the RCMP. The trade of the tugs and barges is just on the rim of the Arctic Circle. They oper- ate mainly on the Mackenzie River and Great Slave Lake during a short five or six months season. SIU organizer Rod Heinekey, who went north to help bring the men‘into the union, found that wages were as low as $150 a month, and crew mem- bers often worked 16 and 17 hours a day. aboard 26 * the election plans of the VLC in the civic field. This would arouse interest and make it possible for us to implement our program,” INCENTIVE’ SYSTEM NANAIMO LAUNDRY CALLED SWEATSHOP he Sweatshop conditions at Nelson’s Laundries here are reminiscent of the hirties, when laundry workers were victims of speedup and miserable wages- Nelson’s men and women are paid substandard wages (as low as 67 cents an bour for beginners) and work in ill-ventilated rooms. When Nelson’s, an American firm, moved into Nanaimo and. took over Cook’s Laundry, with its broken-down. equip- ment, it rewrote the union agreement for three years (it comes up next year) at an in- crease of five cents an hour each year. Nelson’s also introduced an eae BSS ~ A poster prepared for the Soviet Union's 40th anniversary. incentive plan, based on a point system, and it has become the real bone of contention. The “bill of goods” the com- pany sold. the workers was something like this: : The company cannot afford to install newer and more mod- ern machinery; the money for modernization must come out Soviet Union launches new plan to surpass capitalist countries MOSCOW Soviet plans to beat the capi- talist countries in the produc- tion of goods by developing “sreat new sources of mineral wealth and power,’ were an- nounced here last week« The Sixth Five-Year-Plan, which has three years to run, ' will be extended by a supple- mentary plan covering the years 1959-65. The announcement paid tribute to the current plan — being over-fulfilled in many items — but said the remain- ing three years were not suf- ficient to: cope with “the huge tasks ahead.” The announcement, by the government and the Commun-~ ist party, said the main reason for the decision was the dis- covery of great new sources of underground wealth and power and the recent stream- lining of industry. = ~ Another reason the present plan was considered insuffi- cient was the administrative changes brought about by re- organization of industrial man- agement and creation of local economic councils. More planning is now done locally so that provincial authorities can better develop the natural resources of their regions. The new plan must provide for a further powerful drive ?o develop all branches of na- tional economy with a priority reserved for the manufacture of the means of production. It must help develop to a greater extent the natural re- sources in the eastern regions of the country, further expand agricultural production, in- crease the rate of house’ build- ing, and allow for more rapid electrification. It must provide for an ex- pansion of mining of non-fer- rous and ferrous metals, chem- ical industry, production of artificial fibres and other syn- _ thetic products. : The expansion of agricul- tural production was aimed at catching up the United States within the next few years in the production of:meat, butter and milk. Aim of the new plan was given in these words: “To take a great new step toward solving the main eco- nomic task of the Soviet Union. “To catch up and surpass the more advanced capitalist countries in the per capita pro- duction of goods in the quick- est possible time and to ensure a further rise in the prosperi- ty and cultural s‘andards of the Soviet people’s life on the basis of the increasing public wealth of the country.” October 4, 1957 : IMO, B.C: NANA. Hungty Today @ femal of increased production pe the present setup. ee ork: machinery is installed, ae ers will be able to PF ake more pieces and 5 ee more money But for now od old machines must be ee cee? up and the’ workers mu 5 ace: pace—even if it’s a killing P In the washer clocks were placed tractor equipment, idea of reducing time (There’s been 2 over in the department since.) Skilled pressers, to the union contra get 86 cents an hour, are working for much There is quite a turnove! few this department, becaus? 14 girls can last the nine ea fi period which would BIVE Ag the top rate. The spee up too great. ig turn” big evel according ct, shoul ut man but A scoreboard is set Ce tabulation of points. BOM begin after 100 points 4 when a group’ of gitls ae the 100-point mark they Hi) sent home “for lack of mat to press” and the work. 1S ed to another departmem Many girls only get Foe time work, They have: t® yi in and sit around for 4 fore as two or three hours be starting work. 48 Ventilstion in the Blea bad. Windows have to be oP ed, creating drafts and c™™ ~ colds and sickness. ers, however, is the 1” A system, which under the ge tract signed’ by the comer. and the Laundry Worke!® /.,. ion is “not subject to N&B? ar tion.” That clause will or later have to be change" Oil workers af loco sit tight The strike of 250 work Imperial Oil refinery ™ entered its second week day, with production at halt and union and mane’, ment still unable to 1 agreement. After a short meeting tween plant officials and 1€ nf ers of the Oil, Chemical * (5 Atomic Workers Union |... Tuesday this week, negolt tions were adjourned fF ©, other week, with neither 3 issuing any statement. ) —PACIFIC TRIBUNE—PAG? ers #