: Development of barter trade wi Credits is urgently needed if markets Nigel Describing rapidly deteriorating °Onditions in logging, pulp and Ashing’. industries on the coast, organ said: ‘ “The people of Britain need ur lumber; fish and agricultural Products. We can use British tex- tiles, Machinery, steel and other Products in exchange for our Bae tor which we need o max ket if 0 . i 5 ur people are to have Morgan denounced the Atlantic an terming it the military side a. Marshall plan, through drivin Wall Street financiers were an to capture and control the \ ets of the world. q a loss of British markets and } be Nt slump in the demand for Raat fish, apples, eggs and other ne Sts, ig the direct result of yy © Policies,” said Morgan. —a! Street plainly says that Am- Pro Morgan calls for B.C. credits for British barter deal * VERNON, B.C. th Britain as well as European and Slatic countries and the organization of a system of provincial-backed are to bé found for B.C. products, organ, LPP provincial leader, told an audience. last week. erican¢Marshall dollars are not go- ing to be spent on Canadian prod- ucts while there are growing sur- pluses of American goods. That is why we had 50,000 unemployed in British Columbia last winter, and why today there. are over 300,000 unemployed across Canada. “The acute economic crisis that has hit Britain in the last few weeks, mounting unemployment here, the closing of pulp mills log- ging camps and fish canneries on the coast is no accident, nor is it a temporary recession. It is the direct consequence of the big busi- ness policies our governments have pursued. How can we have jobs and markets upon which they de- pend, when our governments flat- ly refuse to trade with over half the peoples of the world? “We must make our voice heard: demand policies of peace instead of war, trade and jobs instead of depression and hardship. We must fight for the placing of human rights before profit. - Labor costs Of high pric an ee teating prices. This is the ~ ares were upped to 10 cents Song of itn mapek the home-secker. The « high cost of labor” myth is atte | OD the head. by H. W. Labo. in the current issue of the T Statesman, organ of Van- co Uven Trades and Labor Council. atts Says: Nocke se or Before the war direct labor— not cause e of houses ; i. rofiteers always blame “high wages of union labor’ as an excuse argument used by the BCElectric a ride; and it is the favorite theme building contractors, who take advantage of the housing shortage and on the cheapest kind of hou- ses about 16 percent. “Here are the figures for direct labor on the average five-room house, built in Vancouver. The to- tal of $1,366.56 is actually what the contractors have to pay out in fro on-the-job- labor—used to cost} wages to the men employed on the of ty 25 to 30 percent of the cost | house, Union labor eannot _be jo an house; today direct on-the-| charged with being the cost of high R r costs about 18 percent, | priced houses.” Ticklayerg Aya) 6.8 < $14.00 per day...'...$ 28.00 ee See ois 1840 mmiiters, 59 days ....... 12,00 per day..!... 620.00 €nt Finishers ......... 2 ae 12.00 per daiy...... 24.00 Lah ticians ERE BGBNS Riess 13.60 per day...... 40.80 on Sh Ra batts 6 days <.-.+5: 9.20 per day...... 55.20 B Lene Hp Sg 5 fave 2. ee 13.76 ‘per day...... 68.80 pnters BPO NER Ais f 16-age fT 14.00 per day...... 28.00 eee 2 days ....... 10.80 per day...... 172.80 Be Ss 1 ae ee ioas per dhe. se 20:86 Bemere 8 Gays: . ess 13.20 per day...... 105.60 eee Rie Une ie oes 2 OVS cose 92420" Per day. sc359 24.80 Tie | Metal Workers ..... $ days ....... 13.20 per day...... 39.60 Rees 8 days ......- 14.00 per day...... 42.00 Ropers SSCL Hie 8 dave at ua 9.20 per day...... 27.60 fay Pay and Workmen’s Compensation .........+.++++++- 60.00 Brel chi snite in bbie Gébth saat. $0 ie ish eds poms ac wka = $1366.56 The bakery workers are demand- ing the LRB produce reasons in court to show why their union was refused certification. Full hearing of the application will take place August 8 before Justice Wittaker. Melvin Kemmis, business agent for the Bakery Workers, said that when certification was applied for “more than 40 of ¢he 55 inside wor- kers at Scott Bathgate were mem- bers of our union.” On June 21 the LRB turned down the certification application and claimed that the union had “failed to show its jurisdiction.” “We had been told by our inter- national head office that the wor- kers involved came within our jurisdiction,” said Kemmis. “Sven Jensen, international vice-presi- dent, appeared before the board to testify to this effect. “It seems obvious to us that the LRB is wrongly taking upon it- self the authority to interpret trade union jurisdiction and union con- stitutions. . “The stand of the board con- tains a real threat to all trade unions.. It sets a pattern for fu- ture union-smashing that the whole trade’ union movement must fight against,” When bakery workers wore union buttons to work, a mass “lay-off” took place the following day. A week later the company be- gan rehiring, and employees were told that they must join the Team- sters Union. International head of the Team- sters igs the notorious Dave Beck, who for the past six months has been conducting a national “or- ganizing drive’ which consists mainly of union raiding. Since January, 1949, Beck has set up 15 “national trade divisions” which. in many cases conflict with existing organizations. These include a warehouse division, cannery (and its production workers), taxicab drivers, bakery workers, dairy workers, brewery workers, garage workers and produce workers. An ambitious man, Beck has not failed to glorify himself in his efforts to obtain one-man control over the industries he hopes to in- clude in his powerful union. His international organizers were re- cently treated to a showing of a Beck-produced technicolor movie showing Beck’s “achievements” in the west. Bakery union says LRB, company, aid Teamsters An autocratic attempt of the B.C. Labor Relations Board to prevent certification of Bakery and Confectionery Workers Union, Local 468 as bargaining agents for employees of Scott Bathgate, wholesale confectionery, was checkmated when the union obtained an inter im Supreme Court injunction preventing the board from handing over jurisdiction to the AFL Teamsters an d Warehousemen’s Union. Lumber industry low, work projects asked PORT: ANGELES, Wash. Government-sponsored public works program af union wages and under union conditions was recommended as one prong of an offensive against unemployment by a labor representative on the Clallan county commissioners’ advisory committee here. The committee has been set up deal questions to with general economic and particularly with the almost complete shutdown of the lumber and pulp industry. It is made up of representatives of government, industry, civic groups and labor, The strong insistence on a works: program was made to the com- mittee by Rex . McCarty, vice- chairman and secretary of IWA Local 2-90, which has 700 logger members. Murray Randall, the other vice- chairman and ‘head of the Inter- national Brotherhood of Pulp, Sul- phite & Papermiil Workers Local 155, told the committee that some 550 members of his local have been unemployed since June 10. The demand for work projects was first raised by Labor’s League for. Public Welfare made up of representatives of AFL, CIO un- ions, the Progressive party, Wash- ington Pension Union and farm groups. The league, of which Mc- Carty is chairman, reports that Clallam county unemployment in July is 587 percent over the same month a year. ago. Accuses un-Americans _ Dr. Edward U. Condon (right), director of the U.S. Bureau of Standards, testifies before a Senate sub-committee in Washington in favor of the Lucas bill which would allow witmesses to be ad- vised by counsel before congressional committees. Condon accused the House Un-American Committees of “violation of ordinary fair play.” Nine Hours of Entertainment! FINE FOODS - POPULAR GIRL CONTEST - WRESTLING AND BOXING GAMES - RACES - NOVELTIES - CHILDREN’S NURSERY cA UNITED LABOR PICNIC Confederation Park, Sunday, August 7 5S t Take Ne. 14 Car to Boundary Road - Free Buses to Picnic Grounds mu NG ‘cr OD PACIFIC TRIBUNE—AUGUST 5, 1949—PAGE 11 eo eeu TULL WU AU Ment