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Vol. 6. No. 33:

IWA ASKS GOV'T TO
ACT ON VIOLATION

Charges CMA with breaking pact -

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Vancouver, B.C., August 15, 1947 Five Cents

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_ John Ruddock, ..repre-
sentative of the Canadian
Manufacturers’ Associa-
tion in Interior woodwork-

Hillman memorial

-@ On the first anniversary
of the death of Sidney

an, founder and first
President of the Amalgamat-
*d Clothing Workers (CIO)

Meeting in New York that
a registration campaign

® like of which this na-
°n has never witnessed
Will be the CIO’s memorial
Oruliman.” Mayor William
‘Aerated of New York said
os Hillman “saw clearly
4 t some other labor lead-
"Ss stubbornly refused to
peoenize. Labor could mot
dg or extend its eco-
Aaa rights unless it en-
Ted the political arena and

President Hyman Blumberg,
sky President Jacob. Potof-
» Mayor William O'Dwyer.

Se

Stanton exposes
Plea for gas boost

just; The BCElectric’s contention that increased labor and raw material costs
Su ified its application for an increase in gas rates was left without facts to

rt it this week as John Stanton, representing the Civic Reform Commit-

ing negotiations, this week
was charged with having

violated his own _ interim
and dir ; Oo i

th meres ee Ck agreement by Harold Prit-
Dromisad at “a aSpeitsied chett, IWA district president.

Pritchett told the Pacific
Tribune that he was placing
the situation created by Rud-
dock’s breach of faith before
Bill Fraser, chief conciliation
officer for the provincial la-

bor department, who witness-
ed the interim agreement, and
would ask the government to
lay charges against the CMA
official,

es Be Sande Rolteat According to IWA officers
here, Ruddock, operators and

@ Below (left to right): IWA district representatives
uray, ACW Vice signed an interim agreement

as of August 7 covering all
Interior woodworking opera-
tions. Signing of this agree-

(Continued on Page 8)
See IWA

Court dismisses appeal

Holds union legal entity

Despite the ruling handed dewn this week by the British
Columbia Court of Appeal that a trade uniom is a legal entity
under the new Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act (Bill
39) and that Magistrate Lionel Beevor Potts therefore has
jurisdiction to hear the charge against Nanaimo Dry Cleaning
and Laundry Workers Union, Local No. 1, arising out of the
now-settled strike, the government’s hope of being able to
maintain the discriminatory provisions of its new legislation
appears to be dim.

tee
q i i re the Public Indicative of a changing attitude towards Bill 39 on the
tile. Yancouver Labor Cae eee produced figures before port of never top" Av tial who" have eines ves
iSSi i snow: suppo: the was the s ent made by s
3 p season near ings + . Rayment, president of Victoria Trades and Labor Council, that
at the 653 percent in- stead of the 51 percent Union Research Bureau econ- AFL members “are not satisfied with the ICA Act in its pres-
Tease in the prj f 1 claimed by the company’s omist and chief witness for ent form” and will press for “essential amendments” at the
Claj Price or coa the Civic Reform Committee next session of the legislature.

eae by the company

With ot stand comparison

Tan os the actual increase
Sing from 124 to 36}
Cen:

t paid ‘
, mers, Paid by other con

brief:

That actual wage costs per
unit of production, even al-
lowing for the wage in-
crease sought by the Gas
Workers Union, would de-

and Vancouver Labor Council

in the hearings concluded on
Monday, maintained that the
company’s expectation of a
marked decline in industrial
consumption of gas beginning
next year was not based on

Leaders of the British Columbia Federation of Labor this
week were reported to be discussing what further steps they
might take to consolidate growing opposition to the Act in
view of the appeal court’s decision.

Mr. Justice C. H. O’Hallaran, the only one of three judges
who had handed down his reasons for dismissing the appeal of
Mrs. Eula Patterson, president of the Laundry Workers’ Union,
as the Pacific Tribune went to press, stated:

“The trade‘union is not regarded simply as a collection of

‘s : = Peace atoms Sopa uh DERE ee Week facts. individuals, but as some & possessing a separate legal exist-
i Production had actually new BCElectric gas plant. eto pes. Ee hoe ne ere
aa Emil Bjarnason, Trade See GAS

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