Hg Solidarity with strikers keynote of Toronto Labor Day parade marching of 10,000 Metro TORONTO Solidarity with strikers in two major Ontario walkouts featured Labor Day Toronto trade unionists. Prominent were slogans calling for support of 7,500 Hamilton Stelco strikers and 1,200 brewery-warehousemen at many. points across the province. Workers, United Auto hard- PATRONIZE CEDAR FUEL & TRANSFER Phone: 566-R-3 Cedar, B.C. } OVALTINE CAFE 251 EAST HASTINGS Vancouver, B.C. QUALITY SERVICE “Everything in Flowers” FROM EARL SYKES PA, 3855 56 E. Hastings St., Vancouver, B.C. FOUR - TEN COFFEE SHOP 410 Mi AIN STREET Try Our “HOT” CORN BEEF ON eae E nd other fine dishes LOU IE and | MOL LY 7 a.m. - 6 p.m. Closed Sunday HRB Big PEE Tn HT : Special POSES TEER SERRE EE Castle Jewelers = Watchmaker and Jewelers Dis- = count to all Be Tribune Read- 3 ers. Bring & this ad with you. " 752 Granville Street ERE) SRE ETE EE ER eet ay UT Te 0 Ty e Ges Installations FURNACES — STOVES WATER HEATERS Harry C. Weinstein GAS CONTRACTOR 692 East Hastings MUtual 3-5044 Res.: AL. 2991-L FREE ESTIMATES Book recalls memory for kin of pioneer A casual visit to the Pacific National Exhibition last week rekindled an old memory for a San Francisco’: woman. At the People’s Co-op Book- store booth in. the Pacific Show Mart Building a display of British Columbia: The People’s Early Story by. Har- old Griffin caught her eye. She was immediately interest- ed when she saw the chap- ters on the struggles in the Vancouver Island coal fields. “T wonder if it mentions my gre andfather,” she said to Merwyn Marks, bookstore manager. “He was one ‘of those arrested in the strike at Wellington in 1877.” Her grandfather, it trans- 1s Alex Hoggan, one arrested miners of inducing strike- quit work after government sent militia to break the strike. After 90 years the injustice still rankled. Her grandfather, had not been direct- ly involved in the action taken by the miners against the strikebreakers but had trying to intervene on of the miners when was arrested. For singled out by Duns Diggle and Com- pany and the evidence given j him at the trial in sent him to prison. she said, he this he was himself smuir, Victoria She “bought two’ copies when she found that. the book TED HARRIS Painters’ and Paperhangers’ : Supplies Sunworthy Wallpaper Reg. 45c, Now 19c a roll 757 E. Hastings, TA. 1105 ROOFING & SHEET METAL REPAIRS§ Duroid, Tar and Gravel Gutters and Downpipes Reasonable NICK BITZ BR. contained an account of this and other strike struggles con- ducted by the Vancouver Is- land coal miners. eect ee & Now in Moscow attending the Fourth World Congress of Slavists is John Weir (above), national secretary of the Can- Slav Committee. Weir was invited by the Academy of Sciences of the USSR and the Soviet Slavist Committee. adian Steelworkers spike productivity claim TORONTO—L abor Day speeches of government spokesmen like federal Labor Minister Starr that high wages could only be justified by high productivity were countered by United Steel- workers in large advertisements here this week. The ads pointed out that in 1947 for every $1 in wages, the average steelworker turned out $3.60 worth of steel. By 1956 he was turning out $4.20 worth of steel for every $1 in wages. Stelco operating profits went up from $15,423,061 in 1947 to $63,150,262 in 1956. “Our increased productivity been passed on to Canadian consumers in the form of lower -prices,” the union declared. Instead prices have con- tinued to rise. This being so, has not the union declares it cannot “hold-the-line” on wages alone while prices and corporation earnings continue to climb. In an appeal for support of labor across thé country, the union posed this question: If Steleo, one of Canada’s most profitable ‘corporations, can force this “hold the line on wages only” policy on_ its Hamilton Works what hope is there for any im- provement in conditions for unions employed by other small, less profitable concerns? employees ., Continued LONGSHO. B.C. Shipping Federation® 0 viously wants the mediator te mediate nothing but the Pe sion issue. It must not be fF gotten that’ there are ofh® issues involved.” As the strike which has tied up five ports — - Vancouvel New Westminster, Victoria Chemainus and Port Alber —entered its third week; ILWU was assured of the il support of the internation’ labor movement. In U.S. Pacific coast pa longshoremen are refusing © unload ships diverted from Vancouver and _ other ports. But ships diverted at while en route to B.C. ere come within the provisions © the notorious ~Taft-Har‘ley in the U.S. Despite the nit culties this presents, the am here, has been assured that f will not be allowed; to affee the outcome of the strike. — } With the full support of B.C. Federation of Labor ® Vancouver Labor Council, ILWU is asking trade ubi locals throughout the provid to support its stand a8 federal legislation for compu” see > aks * sory arbitration througit