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Toronto citizens sign for peace

Here Miss Mary Jennison, national secretary of the Canadian
Peace Congress, is shown as she participated in a mass canvass of
Toronto citizens for signatures to the world peace pact petition.

B.C. woodworkers .
sign for peace

Thousands of loggers and mill-
workers in British Columbia are
signing the World Peace Pact
Petition.

In Vancouver a Millworkers’
Petition Committee has sent out
nearly 200 petitions and distribut-
ed 4,000 leaflets in the mills.

At the North Shore Lumber
Company more than 70 percent of
the crew have signed the peace
petition. At Pioneer Log 200 men
have signed. Everyone at Phil-
lips Arm camp put down his
mame. There has been 100 per-
cent endorsement at Bloedel, Stu-
art and Welch camp 5 and Beach
camp. More than 170 workers at
camp 6, Cowichan Lake, signed
for peace. Other mills and camps
report similar good results.

Thousands in parade

MONTREAL
Several thousand citizens carry-
ing banners inscribed “Peace in
our family — Peace in our So-
ciety — Peace in the world” par-
ticipated in the peace parade of
the Ligue Ouvriere Catholique
here last Sunday.

CONTINUED

APPEAL

collected in New Westminster. A
team of five Vancouver petition-

ers spent a day in tte Royal City
to gather 557 signatures among
them.

Vancouver's Carole Kelley
still leads all petitioners with a
total of 2,558. Trail’s Bill En-
dicott has 1,587.

“At least 2,000 more people
have already signed the Peace
Pact petition than signed the
Stockholm Appeal in British Col-

-umbia,” the B.C. Peace Coun-

cil announced. ‘‘We have set an
objective of at least 76,000 sig-
natures by July 1.”

The council appealed to all
those with completed petition forms
to send them to its office at Room
41, 144 West Hastings Street,
so that an up-date count can be

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B.C. unions counter
_living costs with

higher wages drive

Trade unions in B.C. are fighting for—and in many cases winning—substantial wage increases
in the battle to maintain present living standards in face of rapidly-rising prices.

Some of the key happenings on the labor f ront:
workers have been offered a 16! percent pay hike (ranging from

@ Five thousand pulp and paper

20 to 38 cents per hour) by seven: firms.

cut in the work week from 42 to 40 hours. ;
Sulphite and P apermill Workers and the International Brotherhood

nt. bushmen
form new union
following ouster

Unions involved are Pulp,
of Paper Makers.

Firms are Alaska Pine and
Cellulose; Bloedel, Stuart and

" Welch (Pulp Division) ; Col-
umbia Cellulose; Howe Sound
Pulp; ‘MacMillan Export
(Pulp Division) : Pacific Mills
and Powell River.

Several of the companies are
the same ones with which wood-
workers have to deal, and set-
tlement is expected to spur
IWA_ members to demand
opening of contracts and up-
ward revision of wages.

@ More than 2,000 carpenters
in Vancouver and New West-
minster have turned ‘“‘thumbs
down” on ‘a proposed 20-cent
wage increase and are voting
next week on strike action to
support their demand for a
32-cent hourly pay boost. The
union, United Brotherhood of
Carpenters and Joiners, wants
an increase from $1.68 to $2
an hour.

@ Nanaimo local of United Mine
Workers of America is asking
that a special convention of Dis-
trict 18 be called to deal with
the wage question. (Similar
action has been taken by
UMW locals in Michel and
Cumberland, and in several Al-
berta locals.) Miners feel that
the last 10-cent settlement was
inadequate; want contracts re-
opened.

@ Vancouver shipyard unions,
opening their agreements ahead
of time, are asking for a 50-
cent hourly increase. Manne
Workers and Boilermakers
Union on Monday called for
a wage conference of CCL
unions in B.C. to co-ordinate
the wage drive.

@ Electrical workers with BC-
Electric and two large con-
tracting firms are seeking a 30
percent pay hike this year, and
negotiations will open shortly.
Contracts” between Intemational
Brotherhood of Electrical
Workers, Local 213, and
BCE: Hume and Rumble, and
Peterson Electrical Construc-
tion expire July 29. —

@ Members of Vancouver Con-
verters Local 433, Pulp, Sul-
phite and Paper Mill Workers,
‘have rejected a 16-cent hourly
wage increase at Pacific Mills
and Canadian Box. About
300 workers are, involved.

@ Fur workers in 19 Vancouver
shops are seeking a 25-cent
hourly pay hike in 1951 con-
tracts. g

City peace canvass

A Vancouver Peace Assembly
house-to-house canvass for peace

signatures, rained out Wednes-

day this week, will now be held
June 13, from 2-5 and 7-9 p.m.,
with headquarters set up in a car
at 49th and Fraser.

Pro posed contract includes a cost of living bonus and a

PORT ARTHUR

Bushworkers of the Thunder Bay and Fort William Districts of

Northwestern Ontario formed an

independent Canadian Union of

Woodworkers at a special meeting held here of bushworkers an

camp representatives.

The special meeting was called in place of a scheduled 16th

annual convention of Local 2786,
Lumber and Sawmill Workers’
Union, which was called off fol-
lowing the arbitrary suspension of
the local by the top leaders of the
Uinted Brotherhood of Carpenters
and Joiners (AFL).

The decision to form the in-

dependent union was unanimous,
the feeling being that: the United
Brotherhood. of Carpenters had,
by the undemocratic action of the
top leadership, severed all rela-
tions with the busaworkers and
no longer spoke on their behalf.

Bruce Magnuson, a leader of
the former Lumber and Sawmill
Workers, was elected recording
secretary of the new independent
union, Marc Leclerc was elected
president.

A report given by Magnuson to
the constituent convention stressed
that “from now on we shall run
our own affairs as Canadians, free
‘from American dictation by an
incorrigible |abor bureaucracy
which is seeking to set itself up as
an iron-clad dictatorship over the
rank-and-file of Canadian and
American labor.”

The former Lumber and Saw-
mill Workers local union was arbi-
trarily sasha by ‘three top
officers. of the Brotherhood: of
Carpenters and Joiners acting un-
der instruction from the United
States. The suspension order fol-
lowed protests from the rank-and-
file about interference in the in-
ternal affairs of the local union.

Officers of the new independent
Canadian Union of Woodworkers
state that the union will not con-
fine itself to bushworkers alone.
but intends to cover all workers
in the primary forest products in-
dustry and auxiliary manufactur-
ing industries. :

The new. Canadian Union of

Woodworkers seeks to include the

entire membership of the former
Lumber and Sawmill Workers’
Union of 20,000 in Ontario.

The majority are in the Thun-
der Bay and Fort William dis-
tricts, plus others in the areas of
Sudbury and. Timmins. .

During the next three weeks

the independent. union will carry.

on an intense campaign to sign all
camp workers into the Canadian
Union of Woodworkers in prepat-
ation to have a solid front when
the union meets employers in the
_pulpwood - logging industry 0?
wages-hours-conditions in connec
tion with contract expirations.

‘Main aim of the new unions
program will be for a seven-hou!
day in the camps with time and a
half for overtime; a guarantee
daily wage for piece workers am™
a 30 percent increase in piece Wor
rates; a $2 per day increase in 4
day labor rates; a clean-up of a
camps in regard to bedding, show-
ers and laundry services; no 1”
crease in current rates for boat
and lodgings in the camps.

Canvasses add —
15,000 names {0
peace petition

TORONTO
It is estimated that the name
of more than 15,000 Canadial®
were added to the five-power pe?
pact last weekend. .
The Canadian Peace Congt®*
which is conducting the peace pac
petition campaign in Canada, 54.
last week that its national coun
would in Toronto on July 8 revé
dampaign figures and dec}
whether to present the petitions
filled by that date or exten
campaign. ‘ :
Outstanding peace petitione™
as reported. by the Canadian Peat?
Congress and local peace coun
are: % Sete ae
Carole Kelley and Bill mndicn al
who are still leading the nation”
field for individual performan®
having gone over the 2,000 mer
Chuck Fine, who is the ae
go over the 1,000 mark| i* ~~
ronto. Pi
Fifteen-year-old Mary Millbor
who led the Stockholm pelt’,
campaign last year, who is age a
in the lead with 4385 Names pal
‘most half the total for Glace

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