FRIDAY, JUNE

20, 1958

Continued

COUNCIL

Hyde Park clo 350
been locked out

Park Clothing in

thes. (Some
workers have

by Hyde

Montreal). “The ‘union send-
ing -the - la number of
volunteers r li
volunteers n t wil

receive a dress shirt from our

10Cal rie Sala

WaiC.3 Lloyd Whalen
jokingly referred to Dronick’s
“shirt offe when he called
for volunteers to distribute
B.C. Labour. “We can’t. give
you free shirts, but we ap-

consciences as
he said.

peal to your

trade unionis

“Tf we don’t get out and dis-

this material as

part
of our fight-t
we'll all
mented Or
verters).

yack campaign,
lose our shirts,’ com-

e Braaten (Con-

on the Hyde Park
Dronick. said

Reporting

Clothing dispute,

that Woodwards had agreed
not to handle the firm’s pro-
ducts in future.

VLC delegates expressed
concern over the unemploy-

ment crisis, and endorsed a
resolution presented by Local
359, Boilermakers, instruct-
ing the council executive to
“call a meeting of al unem-
ployed committees. at the
earliest posible moment.”

A proposal advanced — by
Marine Workers that VLC call
a meeting of all and
set up-an unemployed ‘organ-
ization under the

council was

jobless

direction of
referred to the
further

executive for study.

% Admiral Lewis L. Strauss
(above), 62-year-old chairman
of the U.S. Atomic Energy
Commission, has resigned. Sci-
entists opposed to continued
H-tests hlave frequently . ac-
cused him of giving out mis-
leading information.

Morton wins
PT contest

T. Morton of 1560 Nelson
Street, Vancouver, has been
awarded first prize in’the Pa-
cific Tribune’s Centennial con-
test for an anecdote, serious
or humorous, relating to any
historical event in the labor
movement. The- prize was a
Polaroid Lens Camera.

The contest attracted many
entries, brief and not so brief,
and the best of them will be
published in the Pacific Trib-
une’s Centennial Canada Day
and succeeding - issues.

Other © main _ prizewinners
were: second prize (transistor
radio), Floyd Mortenson, 482
Hillcrest, Nanaimo; third prize
(Cowichan. Indian sweater),
R. N. Towle,. 4526 Halley,
Burnaby; fourth prize (glass
fishing rod and reel), J. Sedg-

Wich, 3261 Eden Place, Vic-
toria; fifth prize (watch),
Jack. Gilbert, Box 418, Castle-
gar.

Full list of  prizewinners

will be published in our next
issue,

BEHIND LOCKOUT

How big business in Vancouver

shown by the contractors’

Columbia, reports

“Your publicity committee
met recently with senior offi-
cials of the B.C. Telephone
Company, Canada Safeway,

and the Bank of Nova Scotia,
and in each case those officials
expressed a sympathetic un-
of the
and pledged their cooperation.

derstanding situation

“The Works Commissioner
for the City of Vancouver also
expressed understanding and
a feeling that the problem of
the that
faced all employers, including

contractors was one

the City of Vancouver.

“Your publicity committee
have met senior officials of the
Royal Bank of Canada, Wood-
ward Stores Ltd., Imperial Oil
Company Ltd., and B.C. Elec-
They report
that these firms have

tric Company.
now a
complete understanding of the
situation, and have offered full
support and cooperation.”

The lesson for organised la-
bor in this contractors’ lockout
directive would seem to be
unity and more unity.

Russian group
gives concert

A colorful concert was held
last Sunday evening in the
Majestic Theatre here by the
local branch of the Federa-
tion of Russian - Canadians.
Staged as a special centennial
event before a capacity audi-
ence, the highlight of the con-
cert was a recital by the
Doukhobor Choir. With a
choral ensemble of some 50
members, the choir’s. youth
group of the choir also gave
a few numbers.

Marguerite Rudkevich, out-
standing FRC vocalist, spoke
on the great significance of
the B.C. Centennial, and the
role of Slavic immigrant
workers had played in build-
ing the province.

Big business
gang - up bared

“cooperating” pith building contractors in a concerted
effort to prevent locked out visible Bil electrical workers from winning their demandes
own
Harold Cole, secretary of the Building and Construction Industries Exchange of Brit
in Newsletter No. 17 sent out over his signature on June 13:

confidential reports.

Continued from page 1

ish

BRIDGE PROBE

who boasted loud and long
about his bridge construction
program — to try to wash
his hands by saying that the
company has bonds and in-
surance. What if the fault has
not been found until after the
bridge came into public use
by heavy traffic?

B.C. is celebrating 100 years
of progress. This progress has
been. made possible by the

‘They were
our boys’

Officials of the Internation-
al Association of Bridge and
Structural Iron Workers, Local
112;
heavily in the
rows’ bridge

members. suffered
Second Nar-
disaster this,
week, informed the Pacifie
Tribune that the majority of
those dead and injured were
“our boys.”

whose

Because of the hazardous
occupation ‘of its members the
Iron Workers’ parent interna-
tional as well as the local,
carries accident and death in-
surance benefits for its mem-
bership.

This, it was
done by numerous unions
whose members work
at hazardous occupations in
industries in which the com-
mercial accident and insur-
ance underwriters prefer not
to assume the “risk” involved
in such industries, or charge
insurance premiums so high
that even the highest paid
skilled workers cannot pay
them.

Spokesmen for many of
Vancouver’s largest trade
union have already voiced the
demand that labor must be
represented on any body or
commission charged with in-
vestigating the causes of the
Second Narrows disaster.

June 20, 1958 —

learned, is

eal
working class — the z

ot
builders of B.C. But it has®
t treme?

a

been possible withou
dous cost. Over the yeals as
cidents in the woods, 1
mines, in the factories;
on construction jobs a Ty
claimed thousands of e |
and’ crippled and injured at
of thousands: more. /
The LPP provincial alt
noted that “many acc “he
are caused by speedup ° on
part of contractors, |
quate attention to safety a |
tors, reckless gambling |
workers’ lives.

“In the case of this most «
cent disaster, we want
know its cause, and what Fi
going to be done to preve
such disasters in the futul®

“Tabor will not be satist
with the verdict of 4 ot
man commissioner, wer
legal qualifications may
suitable but whose practi
knowledge of bridge- -puil tf
is nil, and whose impartia isa
where labor is. concern®
most questionable.

“Labor wants a represen
tive on the commission, ", 4
preferably a union
from the industry con ti
Nothing less will satisfy
working people of this pr
ince.”

Kardash loses
after 17 years

WINNIPEG —
increase in his vote, W. ne |
Kardash, LPP member 9 47 |
Manitoba legislature 1% |
years, went down t0 “ii
in last Monday’s provi
election.

His old constituency '
mandered in a redivisi? i |
seats, Kardash ran seco?
Burrows to the CCF§
Hawryluk, who receiv a
support of Ukrainian N@ er?
alist papers which els@Y iy
in the province weré
paigning for the Liberals

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