A oD RONTO — The Ontario Labour Relations Board has ordered Anaconda Iron Ore (Ontario) Ltd., at Airport Lake in the under Bay district of north-west Ontario, to permit the United Steelworkers of America to have equal opportunity with an em- -ployees’ association “to distribute propaganda and engage in electioneering” prior to an O.L.R.B. certification vote. * 4 LONDON, ONT. — A construction firm engaged in a $1,000,000 low-rental public housing project was convicted for the second time on a charge of discrimination against union members. : , G. Barker Construction Co. Ltd. was fined $90 and costs in the case of Anton Bakker. = M 4 WINNIPEG — Spokesmen for the United Packinghouse Workers Union, out on strike at Brandon Packers in Brandon, Manitoba since February, say their efforts to spread a boycott of the firm’s products has cut the company’s shipments to Winnipeg from 20,000 to 600 pounds daily. i hag a = ue OTTAWA — Canada’s consumer price index declined 0.1% from i 127.6 to 127.5 between the beginning of June and July this year. A year ago the index stood at 125.9, t A & % TORONTO — The United Automobile Workers of America has reached agreement on a first contract with Mercedes Benz of Canada. Workers covered are employed at two service and repair in Toronto. depots in A J S AVERAGE PROFITS in Canada’s manufacturing industry rose between 1958 and 1959, a survey by the Canadian Manufacturers’ Association has shown. Profits as a percentage of net worth rose to 8.7% in 1959 against 7.3% the previous year. Profits per sales dollar rose from 4.6 cents to 5.1 cents in the same period. Wages WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER UNQUALIFIED SUPPORT for labour’s cam 12, was given by these delegates attendin 2nd issue Aug., 1960 \ paign to elect a CCF Government in British Columbia, -September g the one day IWA Regional Delegate Conference in Vancouver. to employees were down to 21.9 cents on the dollar compared with 22c in 1958, but fringe benefits were ap slightly from 1.6c to 1.7c. * rs ; THE UNITED Steelworkers will press for the enactment of legislation for a four-day work-week with no loss of take-home pay, President David McDonald told the 22nd, annual CWA con- vention. If Congress does not act, he said, the Steel union “will have no alternative but to press for the four-day week in our next contract negotiations. The idea is neither radical nor impossible. The 40-hour week came into being some 27 years ago, in the face of the most critical depression this nation has ever faced.” . ee eae THE CANADIAN CONSTRUCTION ASSOCIATION has Suggested an amendment to the proposed Bill of Rights that “it should be made unlawful for a person or group to deny anyone ILO officials and experts, Congo. In response to a request by Dag Hammar A. Morse, Director-General of the ILO, a who will be placed a ILO Experts And Officials Sent To Congo On Request Of U.N. Head A group of specialists from the international Labour Office is being sent to the Congo. skjold, Secretary-General of the United Nations, David nnounced his decision to assign to the Congo a first group of t the disposal of Ralph Bunche, UN representative in the the right to seek or accept employment or to deny anyone the right to employ him.” In less flowery language, this means a so- called ‘Right to Work’ law. : ae 4 IN THE MEAT PACKING INDUSTRY “less than 160,000 production workers are now required to produce the same amount of red meat which over 190,000 produced in 1956.” In the canning industry and retail food markets, 85 workers now do the same volume of work which required 100 workers four years ago, while in the leather industry automation combined with declining sales hhaye displaced more than 10,000 of the 40,000 production workers employed in 1956. — Vice-President Henry Freise, Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher’s Workmen. upsurge in Democratic strength. Democratic bias‘in April. Poll Shows Democrats Gaining In Favour A poll of delegates taken at the recent convention of the Com- munications Workers of America in St. Louis showed a huge The poll showed that 83 percent of the 817 delegates who filled out forms want to see a Democratic victory. While the pro-Demo- cratic leaning was no surprise, the measure of it is far more nounced than a membership poll which showed a pro- 60 percent —{[.U.D. Bulletin. For a light and bright pilsener beer CARLING'S \* me PILSENER When does a loss turn into a profit? When you include as revenue the two-and-a-half percent subsidy from general revenue that helps f meet the costs of B.C.’s toll bridges. eet of COUrSE. The explanation came from Premier. Bennett when he tried to explain the financing after criticism that Vancouver’s profit- making ($1,549,000) Lions Gate “Heads He Wins — Tails We Lose” Bridge was carrying all the others’ losses. It’s not so, he said. Vancouver’s profit will go into a special fund. When the debt is paid off, the bridges at First and Second Narrows will be toll-free. Under B.C. statutes, a subsidy of two-and-a-half percent of each bridge’s cost is paid each year into the bridge’s account, and there’s the profit. Store your valuables ina... This way you know where your important papers are, Why not call in and arrange for one . . . now! at CANADIAN BANK OF COMMERCE 800 Branches in Canada G. Woadeoel New T.U.C. Secretary George Woodcock, who has been Assistant General Secre- tary of the Trade Union Con- gress for 13 years, will become General Secretary when Sir Vincent Tewson retires in September. Mr. Woodcock, who is 55, started as a weaver in a Lanca- shire cotton mill. In 1929, he went to Ruskin College, Oxford, and won a first-class degree in Philosophy, Politics and Econom- ics. He then became a civil servant until he joined the T.U.C. research department 24 years ago. ; He has often been described as one of the best educated and most intellectual of Britain’s trade union leaders, The salary for this top job in British trade unionism is $7500 a year, which is only about $8 a week more than he was getting as Assistant General Secretary.