Seod project for jobless Me to Vic Wa Project | ’ Citize, t th tori r their —_Labove) the? More Hir om €me of a Nonme be hestinst Meeting, Unei] Ras? Au 1 ts august 6 Mianedred Who wit, Mack e On: ! Mac, don't Sol Shi meee lothes fo Special atomic weapons to Pm, in eonday, August 8 at 8 bition P ag Theatre, Ex- Sponsored by B.C. anni » COmmemorates the Of the quiversary of the dropping : atomic’ bomb on Hiro- Sust 9, 1945 Speaker will be Mrs. acLeod, of Nanaimo, fe port on the World As- Poor weather, the €s in Men‘s Clothes been F over 50 years. Mbers of a Vancouver City Council delegation\on their way ia last week to discuss unemployment relief with Premier Bennett received an object lesson in one public works: at would meet with the wholéhearted approval of They missed their TCA flight. and were three hours late appointment because the antiquated Marpole Bridge ——_*" Which straddles the route to the airport was opened. City rally planned , Peace Council oshimas” is to be Public demonstra- , 1945, and Naga- held at Pender I get my fortune you can’t beat selling union- value: in, Slacks. _| president, told VLC delegates that Burnaby General Hospital was ‘charged this week with refusing medical attention to an injured milk driver and telling him to go to Vancouver General Hospital. “Tf it had not been for the efforts of an official in the Burna- by dairy ‘firm who applied a tourni- quet to the injured man’s arm, he could have bled to death,” John Brown of Milk Drivers’ Union told & meeting of Vancouver Trades ‘and Labor Council (TLC). The case is being investigated. ‘ * * * Some 4,000 carpenters in Van- couver, New Westminster, Chilli- wack and Mission have voted to accept a two-year contract con- taining a wage increase and other bertefits. x x * An item in this column report- ing the return to work of 20 elec- tricians at Burrard Dry Dock stated that dorsed by all other unions in the yard.” This was incorrect; the men actually had the backing of AFL. Metal Trades Council. Bert Adair denounced thé move as “a Conspiracy of the Metal Trades Council’ at a Vancouver Labor Council meeting and an- nounced that the strike would be continued ‘stronger than ever.” Sam Jenkins, Marine Workers his union had no intention of “staging an illegal strike” to back up the ETU “ill-advised venture.” ' A resolution censuring Marine Workers was sent. to the CCL ex- ecutive council, which promptly vetoed it and passed another, diametrically opposed, which back- ed the Marine Workers refusal to strike their union. _. This week Adair announced that“ the strikers would _re- turn to work if they were all re- hired and if the company would renew the : working. agreement ceive the fourth week, and as a “their action has been en- || plan improvements; 86 percent majority concessions; featuring a fi MINE-MILL Mine-Mill has .won a five-cent across-the-board wage hike in a new one-year contract between Cominco and Locals 480 and 651. Terms of settlement were ratified by the membership by a big ma- jority in votes held last week. first important change in many years in group insurance. It in- creases the insurance, to all active employes to. $5,000 from the pre- vious $2,500. A statement issued by Mine- Mill says: “Another important change in the. agreement is the provision that all employees who qualify next January will receive four weeks of vacation with pay. The company’s contribution to the benevolence fund, to which the company and the men contribute, will be increased by 25 cents per month. “At least 35 percent of the em- ployees now receive three weeks vacation. After January 1 over 700 day pay employees will re- result of this year’s negotiations, there is every likelihood that about 480 staff employees will qaulify forthe fourth week. “The improvements in the pen- sion plan are now under study. The union is’ satisfied that the improvements will be made in the pension plan as a result of the representations made both to. the A two-year .agreement on. sal- mon prices which contains hikes ranging to two cents has been ap- proved by an 86 percent majority in voting this week. .The pact came after four days of almost discussions tween Fisheries Association nego: tiators and a joint fishermen’s committee Fishermen and Allied Workers’ Union, Native Brotherhood of B.C. and the Fishing Vesseb Owners’ Association. The The new agreement contains the | round-the-clock two-year UFAWU representing chums Points on the coast. -to- d The package deal also includes | mand ny Ree ee ae UFAWU secretary Homer Stev- ens said that the union plans ex- tension of benefits $1,000 to the widow an to a maximum of five the event of death of fishermen. In addition, benefits will be increase d. Miners, Fishermen, Woodworkers sign Mine-Mill members at Trail and Kimberley last week vote prove the new one-year contract highlighted by wage ‘increases, organized salmon net fishermen at all point to, accept a two-year agreement. containing and 32,000 woodworkers were expected to approv ve-cent pay hike this year and a second five- United agreement — first of its kind ever Signed in the industry — provides a 24 cent price for sockeye, 15 cents for cohoe, 834 cents for pinks, 6% cents for summer chums, 9 cents for fall Straits and the Fraser, and 7 cents for fall chums at other in John- three cents a case of canned sal- mon toward the important Salmon Welfare Fund, instead of the form- er one cent a case. -to provide d $100 each ie, d overwhelmingly to ap- extra holidays. and pension S on the Coast voted by an price increases and other € a two-year agreement cent increase in 1956, IWA International Woodworkers of America (CIO-CCL) and represen- tatives of 168 Coast: firms have agreed on a two-year contract granting a five-cent increase this year and another nickel next year: for the 32,000 workers in the pro- vince’s’ biggest industry. be- IWA members were voting on terms of the new agreement, and are expected to ratify it by a big majority. The first wage increase will be retroactive to June 15, with the second five-cent boost effec- tive June 15, 1956. * Workers on contract work, such as fallers and buckers, also re- ceive the two raises in addition to existing rates. : The IWA failed to win its de- travelling allowances, but the contract provides that if a worker is laid off within 20 working days the company must pay two-way transportation, and after 40 days one-way fare. * Protest forces cuts children j YELLOWKNIFE, NWT contig aes Protests - against high costs of shipwreck | $asoline and diesel heating fluid has forced transportation compan- ies to slash freight rates: and. oil companies to follow with price re- ductions. Price of diesel heating fluid has been cut by two cents in Yellowknife, gas by one cent. Yel- lowknife obtains its gas and oil supplies from Imperial Oi] at Nor- man Wells. i Cana PROGRAM: India folk songs, Father B.C. folk song, * plus pay hikes given other union workers at the dock. Company of- n ceremonial dances, s of Confederation sc Gypsy ensemble, Engli Russian and Finnish Canadian squar stick dance, Quebec, Newfoundland a TICKETS AVAILABLE AT | oe CELEBRATE da’s National Holiday at the colorful Youth Festival | OPEN AIR CONCERT | Brockton Oval 3 JULY 1 — 8:30 P.M. = Highland fling, Jewish-Canadian | ene, Ukrainian-Canadian dances, sh, Irish and Welsh e dances, Alouett nd Prairie folk songs. Modern. Music By People’s Co-op Bookstore’ F ishermen’s Union Office Marine Workers’ Union. Office al e folk ‘ e, East Indian ficials are considering the request. | PACIFIC TRIBUNE — JUNE 24, 1955 — PAGE 7