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Operators don’t talk about the increased rate of production in the woods.

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Woodworkers seeking 15-cent pay hike

IWA ‘won't be pushed around’

by lumber bosses this year

Admitting that IWA negotiators allowed themselves to be “pushed around” by the bosses in
last year’s negotiations; which led to a 45-day strike, International Woodworkers of America spokesman
Carl Winn told a conciliation board this week that the, union doesn’t intend to be pushed around again

this year.

IWA is asking a 15-cent*hourly pay hike, union Security and other concessions in a renewal of

Kardash defeats

reactionary gang-up

to win re-election

WINNIPEG
William A. Kardash has been
returned to the Manitoba provin-
cial legislature by the people of
North Winnipeg for the fourth
consecutive term, despite a bitter
smear campaign waged against
the Labor-Progressive’ member
during the recent elections..

With four to be elected under
a transferable vote system, Kar-
dash placed second in the elec-

tion night count of first choice ~

votes. The final transfer of
votes, completed three days
later, returned him in third

place, behind M. A. Gray and J.
Hawryluk, CCF, and ahead of A.
Turk, Liberal. . FS
Compared to his re-election in
the 1949 provincial vote, Kardash
emerged in a stronger position, de-
cisively defeating a Liberal-Tory
gang-up against him. :
Liberal-Tory hopes of ousting
Kardash were pinned on a slate
of five reactionary Ukrainian can-
didates, who were used in an at-
tempt to weaken and destroy Kar-

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dash’s support among the Ukrain-
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a large part of the electorate in
North Winnipeg. But when the
votes were counted it developed
that Kardash received twice the
vote of any two reactionary Uk-
rainian candidates combined.

Kardash’s campaign workers, en-
thusiastic over his victory in
North Winnipeg, are now throw-
ing their energies into the fed-
eral election campaign. The Labor-
Progressive party has already
nominated seven federal candi-
dates in Manitoba.

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the one-year contract. The bosses
want a straight renewal of the 1952
agreement. :

“Markets for B.C. lumber have
not yet been lost,’ Winn argued
at the conciliation hearing,” and
we will not permit the employers
to throw around statements loose-
ly this year that leave insinuations
that the lumber market is going
to the dogs and that our people
are going to be faced with unem-
ployment if the companies are
forced to give us any kind of a
wage increase.” :

Other happenings on the trade
union front included these:

@ A strike of 160 CIO workers
at wholesalers Slade and Stewart
Ltd. on Monday this week tied up
more than 50 tons of perishable
fruit and vegetables. The strik-
ers are members of the Retail,
Wholesale and Department Store
Union. In a picket line scuffle
with police Tuesday one picket
was arrested. Two trucks went
through the picket line but left
shortly afterward without a load.

@ Saanich Municipal rants:
ees Association (TLC), on strike
since May 28, voted Monday night
to continue pounding picket lines
until they win their demands. The
men rejected council’s last offer
of an increase of seven cents an
hour and a three percent increase
to monthly-paid workers,

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Swanky contests Peace River

Alta. LPP nominates
in 12 federal seats

EDMONTON ~ |

Ben Swankey, provincial leader of the Labor-Progressive party
in Alberta, hasbeen nominated to contest the federal constituency ° :

Peace River in the August 10 general elections. pod
unanimous choice of 100 delegates and supporters attending a nomi
ating convention at Wolin Farmers Hall north of Rycroft last we

The LPP now has 12 federal can-

‘didates in the field in Alberta.

“The loss of the British market
for Canadian farm produce, the
steady drop in per .capita con-
sumption of such farm products
as milk and meat, the decline in
farm income and the continuous
rise in the cost of production on
the farm—all these are the direct
result of the increasing U.S. dom-
ination of our country, of high
taxes and war preparations,” said
Swankey in his acceptance speech.

‘ “We need new national policies
at Ottawa,” he continued, “poli-
cies aimed ‘at processing Canada’s
rich natural resources at home in-
stead of shipping our raw mater-
ials across the border and buying
most of our manufactured goods
from the United States.

“We should be willing to trade
with all countries and to buy a
dollar’s worth of goods from any
country willing to-buy a dollar’s
worth of ours.

“There is; no justification for
the Liberal government spending
the staggering sum of two. billion
dollars a year for war, most of

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Subs count
for votes”
in election

Between now and the federal
elections on August 10 we hope
to record a sharp upturn in Pacific
Tribune circulation. This week
fewer subs than usual came in, the
total reaching a bare figure of

40

Here’s the scoreboard: North
Vancouver, 4; Natal, 3; Nanaimo,
3; Dry Dock, 3; Fairview, 3; Build-
ing ‘Trades, 2; Forest Products, 2;
Capitol Hill, 2; Victoria, 2.

Remember to rush in your order
for the Canada Day edition, which

will be published July 3. Every

Press club should take a special
bundle for sale and distribution in
key election areas.

FR
EARL SYKES

‘Everything in Flowers’* —
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Swankey was the

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ts of a
few big business concerns. Instead
of this guns before butter poll» —
we should be spending this money
to meet the urgent needs of ~
people—on higher old age Pe&™ |
sions, health insurance, homes 4?
hospitals and the establishment °

floor prices under all farm PFO” :

duce to guarantee every farm fam
ily a decent living.

“Why can‘t a few millions be
spent to help the people of the
Peace River area; to build one
or two more bridges over the
Peace River, to build a rail out
let to the coast, and to devel
hydro electric power-to elect
the countryside? The LPPiae
fighting for such a ‘Put Canada
First’ policy.”

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