Canners refuse
to make offer
on fall prices

“At a meeting on August 27 between union representatives and
canners the latter were asked to submit their price offer on fall
chums but refused to do so,” said Homer Stevens, secretary-treasurer
of United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union, in a press release
issued this week. Full text of the union statement follows:

Wreath laid
LPP honors

Mackenzie

TORONTO
“The tradition of Mackenzie be-
longs to the people, to us,’ said
Stewart Smith, regional organiz-
er of the Toronto and Yorks! com-
mittee of the Labor-Progressive
party, as he laid a wreath on the
Queen’s Park monument of Wil-
liam Lyon. Mackenzie on August
28, 91st anniversary of the “‘Lit-
tle Rebel’s” death. The National
Federation of Labor Youth, repre-
sented by national chairman, J.
Eleen, and Harry Hunter, secre-
tary of the Toronto and Yorks
LPP Committee, also attended.

STEWART SMITH
“Mackenzie belongs to the people”

Mackenzie was born in Scot-
land in 1795, came to Canada in
1820 and prospered in commercial
life in his new homeland. After
witnessing the vast corruption in
public life and the wholesale}
land-grabbing carried on by the
Family Compact, Mackenzie join-
ed the Reform movement and
started his hard-hitting Colonial
Advocate in 1824.

He was elected to parliament
in 1828, and in 1831-34, he was
expelled four times from’ his
rightful seat in parliament. He
became the first mayor of Toron-
to in 1834. After all peaceful
and parliamentary methods had
come to naught, Mackenzie led
the uprising of 1837 to unseat
the Compact and establish Can-
adian independence.

Though the rebellion was de-
feated, the uprising succeeded in
winning responsible government
by 1849.

Smith said he and Hunter had
urged Mayor Allan Lamport of
Toronto to issue a declaration
marking the great significance of
August 28. ‘However,’ Smith
said, “the city didn’t take any
action I know of.”
barred from laying a wreath at
Mackenzie’s grave at the Necrop-
olis, Smith said, and they there-
fore chose to visit the monument
at Queen’s Park.

They were.

“Under the terms of the sal-
mon price agreement, the prices
for fall chums. were to be nego-
tiated on or about September 1.
The union met the companies:on
August 27 to open discussion on
fall chum prices. At this meet-

‘ing the canners were asked to

submit their price offer but they
refused to do so.

“The union -called meetings at
all points along the coast to ob-
tain the views of salmon net fish-
ermen regarding prices to be de-
manded. The recommendation of
the union negotiating committee
was to proceed with discussions
with the canners in an effort to
reach a settlement.

“At a meeting in Alert Bay
over the weekend, the salmon net
fishermen present decided to cease
fishing and proceed to their home

ports to await the settlement of
fall chum prices. They were op-
posed to fishing after September 1
without knowing what the price
would be.

“The UFAWU has not called
a strike. All members affected
must be given a chance to vote
by secret ballot before the un-
ion officers are empowered to
call or settle any strike. Meet-
ings this weekend will be held
to provide ¢all union members
with an opportunity to vote.
“The prices for fall chums last
year were: Johnstone River and
Fraser River, 11 cents; Central
and Northern Area, 9 cents:
Queen Charlottes, 8 cents a pound
round.

‘from the Iron

Profiteers boast
1952 a good year”

TORONTO

“A good year—1952” ig the
August 30 Financial Post des-
cription of a recent Survey of cor-
poration profits covering 40 com-
panies. “Net profits after taxes
and depreciation are up for 14

out -of 40 companies ‘checked,

down for 26 out of 40. But most
of the companies Showing declines
show much larger depreciation
allowances over the Same period
of last year,” comments the Post.

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TLC raps
gov t for

U.S. order

Vancouver and District Trades
and Labor Council on Tuesday
this week sharply condemned the
federal government for rejecting
a North Vancouver firm’s bid to
supply fork-lift trucks and giving
the order to an American com-
pany,

endorsed a _ letter
Workers Union
which gave a detailed account of
the transaction and charged ‘‘flag-
rant disregard of the workers’
rights by officials of the defense
production department.”

Delegates

Canadian (Mobile Company of
North Vancouver submitted a bid
in May. As it was the sole Can-
adian firm manufacturing such
trucks, company officials confi-
dently anticipated getting the
order, and proceeded with produc-
tion of parts to keep a full staff
working.

Then Ottawa wrote the North
Vancouver company stating that
the department had received ‘a
more attractive offer’ from the
United States. The order was
placed there, depriving Canadian
workers of jobs.

“The difference in price was’
about $1,000, but if the trucks
had been bought here the govern-
ment railway would have receiv-
ed about $500 in freight and the
government would. gain income
tax from the workers,” said one
delegate.

“Taxpayers’ money should be
spent in Canada to help maintain
Canadian employment,” the Iron
Workers’ letter stated,

A delegate from the Restaurant
Employees’ Union told council
that the union has been picketing
the Black Cat cafe near Broadway
and Granville for some time, but
that with the opening of school
many high school students have

He asked fellow delegates who
are parents to “suitably instruct

the picket line.”

At a previous council meeting a
representative from the restaurant
union had complained that some
union members were patronizing
the restaurant.

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No{frecount
in Burrard
says gov t

Last chance of a recount of
ballots. in Vancouver-Burrard van-
ished this week when the Social
Credit government announced it
is ,‘‘without authority’ to issue
such an order. Socred candidate
Bert Price defeated CCF’er Grant
McNeil by ja narrow margin in
the recent election, after MicNeil
had led until the final count.

“Premier W. A. C. Bennett
very definitely has the power, to
order a recount.in the disputed
riding, but he doesn’t want to
use it,’’ was the acid comment
of CCF provincial leader Harold
Winch when he learned of the
Socred decision,

Releasing the provincial cabin-
et verdict on the CCF’s applica-
tion for a recount, Premier Ben-
nett said:

‘It is with great regret that
I have to announce that the cab-
inet has been officially advised
by its legal officers that we have
not the authority to order a re-
count in Burrard.”

CCF attempts to get a recount
have been refused on three occa-
sions. The CCF is planning no
further action.

Miners ask
CCL seat

all unions |

MICHEL, B.C.

A resolution urging that “all

expelled unions be brought’ pack —
into the Canadian Congress of
Labor” will be sent to the COL —
convention at Toronto, September
22, by Michel local 7292, United
Mine Workers of America.

Other resolutions jpassed by
the local at its regular meeting —

called for labor unity and con=

demned the federal govern-

ment’s Bill H-8 as a threat to ‘

civil liberties,

Sam English, president of the
local, was elected as delegate t0
the CCL convention, and secre
tary-treasurer Sim ‘Weaver Wa
named delegate to the UMW it-
ternational convention October 5.
A resolution addressed to the

UMW convention asks that the —

union’s District 18 covering Brit
ish Columbia and Alberta be
granted autonomy. Purport Of
this resolution is to restore t?
union members the right to elect
their district officers,
pointed by the international.

At the same meeting members
endorsed an executive recommen-
dation to reject any form of coD-
tract work for miners in a seam,
maintaining that work on day

rate is more in the interests of |

safety and all other factors t0
the benefit of the miners.

“Contract work only serves t0
make more profits for
and make old men our gf youns

men,”’ said one miner,
—

Alsbury ignores

cost of raiding

Tom Alsbury, president of Val-
couver and District Trades and
Labor Council,
@ council meeting Tuesday this
week that ‘too much money i§
being spent on labor conventions.”
He said nothing, however, about
the sums spent by the TLO if
raiding attempts against Vancou-

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side Workers.

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