A press statement issued this
week over the signature of
Harold Pritchett, secretary, an-
nounced that the executive coun-
cil of the B.C. Federation of
Labor “has unanimously decided
to accept the invitation of the
minister of labor and submit
three names from whom will be
selected our representative for
the new Labor Relations Board.”

The statement continued:

“We have taken ‘this action
because we have been assured
that the Industrial Conciliation
and Arbitration Act (Bill 39)

Federation to submit names for board

will definitely come before the
next session of the legislature
for amendments to make it a

more fair and workable Indus-
trial Labor Relations Act.

“The board will have as one
of its tasks the making of recom.
mendations for amendments to
this Act to the legislature. We
therefore consider that we can
best serve the interests of our
membership by our participation
while at the same time main-
taining our position with re-
gard to certain sections of this

Act for which the B.C. Federa-
tion of Labor will actively work.
“Our brother trade unionists
in the unions affiliated to the
AFL and TLC have already sub-
mitted their nominations and
there is agreement on the need
of amendments by the major
organizations in B.C. labor. It
is the desire of the B.C. Federa-
tion of Labor to do all in its
power to establish in B.C. the
best Labor Code in the whole
dominion which will lead to
improved labor-management re-
lations and industrial peace.”

BCElectric

Alderman’ Charles Thompson,
chairman of the city council’s
transportation committee, mayor-
alty candidate in the forthcoming
civic election and _ self-advertised
“man with a plan,” injected him-
self into the dispute this week
with a proposal that the striking
street railwaymen return to work
on the basis of ‘the 10-cent offer
already made and agree to be
guided by the result of a plebis-
cite to be submitted to voters on
election day.

The proposed ballot, adroitly
linking the men’s wage demands
to increased fares, was worded:

‘Do you favor settlement of

the BCElectric and employees

dispute on the basis of 10 cents
an hour increase, which will in-
volve'a fare of, say, 8 cents per
ticket?”
‘Mo you favor settlement on
basis of a 15-cent increase and
a fare of, say, 9 cents per ticket?”
‘Do you favor settlement on
a basis of a 20-cent increase
and a fare of, say, 10 cents per
ticket?”
The fact that the “man with the
plan” was also the man who
steered the city’s new 20-year fran-
chise witn the BCElectric through
the storm of public opposition

into the safe harbor of the legis-.

lature condemned the

from the outset.

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Non-Partisans
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Announcement that a Citizens’
Non-Partisan League has been
formed to contest civic elections
in Victoria because sooner or later
the CCF can be expected to enter

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aldermanic candidate, as exposing
the announced purpose of the Civic
Non-Partisan Association here.

“The Non-Partisans claim their
only purpose in contesting elec-
tions is to keep the CCF—and
that means all progressive and
labor candidates—out of Vancou-
ver city hall,” said Ruddell this
week. “They've always maintained
they will abandon their slate if
the CCF does likewise.

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. and I’m exhausted.”

to remove three officers of
Emily Watts, president; May
Leniczek, business agent; and Roy
Moore, organizer.

But he reckoned without the
members of the local union, to
whom the international’s charges
that their elected officers had not
been conducting their affairs in
their best interests sounded
strange after they had concluded
one of the best contracts obtained
in the local’s long struggle to
organize city restaurant workers.

This week, two well attended
meetings of the local’s member-
ship rebuffed Johnstone by unani-
mous votes reaffirming their
confidence in their arbitrarily
deposed officers, charges against
whom for allegedly being com-
munists have not yet been heard
by an international trial board.

Rebuffed by the membership and
facing the refusal of the three
union officers to vacate their
elected offices, from which, they
charge, they are being undemo-
cratically removed under cover
of accusations that they are com-
munists, Johnstone is now resort-
ing to the courts to obtain control
of the union’s offices, records and
funds. ;

He has engaged Senator J. deB.
Farris as his counsel and his ap-'
Plication for an injunction will
be heard this Monday.

Earlier, John Stanton, counsel
for Emily Watts, May Leniczek

Restaurant workers rebuff
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Archie R. Johnstone, international vice-president of the
Hotel and Restaurant Workers Union (AFL), arrived in
Vancouver last week to carry out an international decision

the union’s Local 28 here—

Farris suggesting that “before en-
tering on what may well prove
to be a long and costly lawsuit
against your clients, Archie John-
stone and James Morrison, the
best interests of the members of
this local would be served by
attempting to settle the differences
which have arisen in the custom-
ary democratic manner—that is, by ©
the taking of a secret vote of the
local’s membership, after free dis-
cussion of the issues.” :

Farris rejected Stanton’s pro- —
posal, contending that his sugges
tion for determining the wishes of
the membership was “constitu-
tionally subversive’ and an at-
tempt “to force our hands by
propaganda.” Consequently John-
stone was barred from the mem-
bership meetings this week whet
he insisted on carrying through
court proceedings against the
local.

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