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resentatives of the people of
Bix

In rapid-fire order delegates
to the Tuesday meeting | of
VDLC approved 11 resolutions
drafted by. the executive for
submission to the merger con~-
vention next month of _the
two provincial labor bodies.

“We didn’t bother with
‘whereas’ clauses, because we
wanted to keep the resolutions
short,” said council secretary

mpuPorting the principle of
a Ownership of power,
4 “af couver and District Labor
ly Neil this week unanimous-
fndorsed a resolution to be
ecnted to the November
ae convention of the B.C.
Th ration of Labor and the
ade Union Congress urging
Sige rovincial government to
‘on Over the private mon-

Roly : z
ration’ B.C. Power Cor-

: led
Another : ill b E. A. Jamieson, as he rattl
jallght up Be erect oa off other resolutions which
()Sking the Canadian Labor Would:

jearess “to study the prob-

of ever increasing Ameri-
Deseret ship in Canada and
Ye, ut a detailed report, with

@ Ask Victoria to estab-

operated auto insurance.
e Ask the provincial gov-
ernment to’set up a perman-

T Cnyendations, to the 1958 ba

24 ~—sY"ntion of the CLC.” ent cornipissiens ae

j} A thir : _ political control, to stu
RA mereolation sells up distribution of electoral seats.

Bon ttorney-General Robert
fee to place before the
A Session of the legislature

e@ Ask the government to
amend the Hours of Work Act,

se “full RCMP report on the with its obsolete 44-hour
. im, E :
dis €ts case, for scrutiny and Sas Fe the CLC to study

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26
8 p.m.
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BRIEF BUSINESS MEETING, INCLUDING
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OLLOWED BY PROGRAM OF SHORT FILMS

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WELCOME
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carrying the new postage stamps
as Vancouver Fire Chief Hugh Bird.

Vancouver Labor Council calls for
public ownership of B.C Electric

the free transfer of members
among affiliated unions.

@ Ask Victoria to sponsor
a conference on_ provincial-
municipal finance.

@ Ask the provincial gov-
ernment to have BCHIS ex-
penditures include fringe bene-
fits for hospital employees.

@® Ask the provincial gov-
ernment to grant its employ-
ees the same bargaining rights
as other workers.

x x x

The biggest “Aye!” heard
at the labor council meeting
eame when delegates voted on
the demand that Attorney-
General. Bonner place the
RCMP report on the Sommers
case before the legislature.

* Kee ek

A letter to council from
CCF provincial secretary Har-
old E. Thayer said an invita-
tion extended to Bill Hunchuk

of Tunnel and Rock Workers.

to speak at Stanley Park CCF

club’s forum was “not author-

ized by the CCF provincial

executive.’ He said CCF poli-

cy was “not to interfere in

trade union affairs.”
x x x

Tom Alsbury, very upset be-
cause his alleged advocacy of
“curbs on labor” as’ reported
in a daily paper has aroused
a great deal of unfavorable
labor comment, tried to get
himself off the hook by cir-
cularising copies of the speech
he made October 1 at the Van-
couver Board of Trade man-
agement institute clinic.

His speech contained none
of the remarks offensive to
labor. Natch. For they were
all made in reply to questions
during the discussion period
which followed the formal
speechmaking.

The reporter to whose report
Alsbury. objected still has
his notes, taken on the spot, to
support his story.

* x *

General Laborers Union in
New Westminster has asked to
affiliate to Vancouver and
District Labor Council. The
request is in the hands of
council’s organizing committee.

Mine-Mill supports

prices probe demand

“Prices do not rise, they are raised,” says a press state-
ment issued by the national executive board of the Inter-
national Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers. If
the monopolies which push prices skyward continue to
follow the present disastrous course, unions will demand

interim increases to protect
the living standards of mem-
bers and the gains made in
collective bargaining, Mine-
Mill predicts.

“Prices are being pushed
up all across Canada,” the
union says, citing figures to
show that prices are at least
19 percent higher than they
were in 1949, while living
“costs of workers and their
families have gone up much
more.

“The buying power of our
dollar is shrinking rapidly.
Higher prices hit everybody
—the workers who have won
wage increases as well as those
who live on fixed incomes,
such as pensioners.

“Workers who win wage ‘in-
creases are being told over
and over again by employer
propaganda that higher prices
are due to higher wages. That
is not true. Corporation pro-
fits so far this year have in-
creased far more than wages
have. Prices are higher be-
cause they have been pushed
up by the companies, who
want to increase their profits

still more.”
The Mine-Mill statement

says labor’s position against
the higher cost of living is
based on these facts, which
no amount of company propa-
ganda can hide:

@ Prices do not rise, they
are raised.

@ The power to raise
prices comes from monopoly
control of the price of milk,
bread, meat, clothing and the
other necessities of life.

@ High profits, not higher

wages, .cause higher prices.
And‘ profits right now are
soaring.

“Mine-Mill joins in the de-
mand which has been made

by the trade union movement
that the federal government
investigate recent price rais-
ing and profiteering. Respon-
sibility for the higher cost of
living must be placed where
it belongs — on the compan-
ies who raise prices and make
the profits — and government
action taken accordingly.

“If prices. continue to be
pushed up, our union, along
with other unions, must de-
mand interim wage increases
to protect the living stand-
ards of our members and the
gains. made in collective bar-
gaining. Further united ac-
tion by all unions must be
taken to alleviate the plight

of pensioners and others who —

have to live on fixed incomes.”

City host to
delegation

A forest industry delega-
tion from the Soviet Union
arrived in Vancouver this
week for a first-hand look at
pulp and paper, sawmill, ply-
wood and logging branches of
B.C.’s biggest industry.

The Soviet party will relax
from its schedule of visits
long enough to attend a foodt-
ball game at Empire Stadium
this Saturday.

The Soviet. delegation in-
cludes: G. M. Orlov, minister
of timber; O. E. Raev, deputy
minister of timber; S. A. Bruk-
hov, also deputy minister of
timber; A. I. Bovin, deputy
minister of agriculture; I. A.
Pasutin, deputy minister of
timber for the Ukraine; L. V.

Ross, research director, min-
istry of timber; V. F. Maiorov,

research ~director, ministery-
of timber; and U. P. Glady-
shev, interpreter, from the

Soviet embassy.

The Soviet party was met
at Banff by Hector Stone,
Hillcrest Lumber, Vancouver
Island, and at the railway
depot here by Angus McBean,
chief forester, MacMillan and
Bloedel, who were members

of the Canadian forestry dele-
gation which recently visited
the USSR.

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