sii OPEN FORUM who pay sub-standard wages? I am a chef by trade and my pay for my last day’s work was $69. That’s right, $6.59. National Selective Service sent me to the Mirador Cafe at 755 Burrard Street, run by Essex. Restaurant Limited, to apply for a job as assistant chef. According to NES, the job paid $225 to $240 a month. I started work at 9 a.m. and worked to 5:30 p.m., which actually meant 6 p.m. Then I was asked to work to 11 p.m. The chef told me, “We all have to do it.” I refused. I said there were too many unem- ‘Overpaid’ workers A . Sutherland, B.C.: The papers are always happy to Vancouver, Vancouver daily run letters to the editor from misguided readers complaining about allegedly high wages paid to workers in well organ- ized trades. But what about those workers (and there are plenty of them) in trades that are poorly organized, if they are organized at all? 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I quit the job there and then. My pay—I have the cheque and slip to prove it—totalled $6.59: “Wages, one day, $6.67. U.I. stamp, 8c.” Not shown was the one meal I received, which in other places I have worked would be estimated as being worth 50 cents. Of course, the prices this restaurant charges for its meals are far higher; in fact ,they are among the highest in the city. I should add that I am an experienced chef. I don’t have to work for such wages and I have no intention of doing so. Chef’s wages usually ‘run around $300 to $350 a month. A lot less talk about “ovér- paid” workers who have had to fight to get the wages they are now getting, and a lot more organization among the underpaid workers would benefit all workers. Low PNE wages Taxpayer, Vancouver, B.C: I don’t expect the Vancouver Sun or Province to publish any letter protesting the unfair wages being paid to. temporary employees by the Pacific Na- tional Exhibition, but I appeal to you, as a labor paper, to put the facts before the public. The PNE is paying its tem- porary help from 90 cents an heurs, the lowest, to $1 -an hour, the highest, for a seven- hour day, six-day week — 42 hours a week. I think it is a disgrace for any such institu- tion, dependent as it is on public support, to be paying these wages and it is about time the trade unions took up the matter. This year, as a result of un- employment, there were twice as many applicants as there were temporary jobs at the PNE, and by paying these wages the PNE board is. actu- ally taking advantage of the unemployed. As well as work- ing a 42-hour week, the tem- porary employees must also work on Labor Day without time and a half or double time. Does this comply with pro- vincial labor legislation gov- erning hours -of work and minimum wages? I have been advised that all exhibitions in the prairie provinces, Edmon- ton, Saskatoon, Regina, as well as the Calgary Stampede, pay their temporary help the mini- mum wages as set by the various provincial govern- ments. But what about the PNE? I repeat, that 90 cents and $1 an hour, the same amount paid to many. baby-sitters, is . a disgraceful wage. Temporary workers at the PNE work a period of 13 days this year, from August 18 to September 1. But the PNE holds back their cheques until September 9, eight days after the close of the exhibition. The PNE claims it can legally do this, but is.it just? It should be challenged by the trade union movement and appealed to the minister of labor, if necessary. Temporary workers at prairie exhibitions are paid when the exhibitions close. There is no good reason the PNE can’t do the same thing. Who’s responsible? Gust A. 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AS rae stand, the logging indus! all the machinery and power it needs to compe get? operations in ‘six months. qo i) I myself have worke two months this hs: vost” there are hundreds & | walking the streets of vol town and hamlet i? % ne of the fire hazard seer us the greed of* the poss } as logging is cheape mer than winter. ! These and mat 5 problems of conce!? Ps people the world a ig” find space in the ™ nal, pnt In addition to eg edition, the journal, jes general title ProP i Peace and Socialis™ ‘os? published monthly in iy oe Spanish, German, cx? ut ese, Russian, Polisi, nt iau, Bulgarian, _ i? and Korean. Ene Subscriptions to thé = “ edition ($3.50 per “bok : oy be sent to People ; * pet Bookstore, 307 Wé, git” Street, VancOuver 9 ah copies will sell fot Subscriptions ee languages other can be sent to f scription Service a os Street West, Toro? of"