This year it was different ee) | = ™~ — ES Acme Screw and Gear workers in Toronto, won ‘a complete victory last week after 10 days on the picket line to back up their demand for the 40-hour week with the same fake- home pay, plus a wage boost. United Automobile Workers, won pay hikes ranging between 23 * ' The agreement runs for two years but the question of wages can be opened at the end of the first year. ne important feature of the strike gains was the elimination of the Rand Formula penalties which proyide for a $3 daily “fine” for all workers taking part in an “illegal” strike. ee and 30 cents an hour. The 1,600 workers, members of CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE | Carpenters win $2 hourly wage Comes effective July 1. @ In the shipyards, about 900 Workers won substantial wage in- pases One month before expira- een Of their old agréément. Bill Stewart of the Marine Workers and ~Cllermakers stated that mechan- ‘es will now get $1.85 hourly, me- chanics’ helpers, $1/32, plus two Weeks holidays with pay and eight ee statutory holidays. “The 8reement is equivalent to 30-cents- “n-hour inorease,” said Stewart. hd Bakery and Confectionery ¥ Orkers (AFI) Local 468 accepted af offer from seven! major bakeries j a $10 weekly increase, effective une 1. aad Strike of 29 employees at ing Pshire Clothes, 64 East Hast- : 5s, enters its third week. The °Pp is being picketed by Journey- Men Tailors of America. @ After officials called off a Proposed strike, 800 members of pnerers International Union are $ Moured to be considering a $15- Monthly raise offer. Original Mand was for $30. an About 200 employees at Pa- "© Meat accepted eight cents an one to boost basic rate to $1.22, = Toactive to May 12. Contract s lement was announced by Bill YMington, ‘United Packinghouse orkers, =e Employees of “Me and Mc” Coney; phursday this week on a 5 Ciliation board report that re- altenended a wage formula or an fo tative $40 monthly increase T 600 workers. iat A special cabinet committee rep this week in Victoria with ou sentatives of the Provincial * ernment Employees Association 10 discuss salary increases for 00 B.C. civil servants. sien More than 200 workers at he Oil Company’s Shellburn re- for ty in Burnaby voted to strike de 25 percent wage increase. No *€ has been set for the walkout. men Members of United Fisher- Ceiy and Allied Workers Union re- Bae a new price offer from Sal- fon Canners Operating Committee au varieties of net-caught sal- Pha; A vote was to be taken on an . Say and Friday this week at wi nts on the coast, and results , be made known on Saturday. new price offer is 25 to 36 nt above 1950 prices. cil IWA quarterly district coun- Meeting will be held early in Perce July, and strong demands for a substantial wage increase will be put forward by woodworkers. As an indication of sentiments in the woods, when vice-president Joe Morris visited North West Logging Camp last week to get workers to agree to some small reclassification ot certain categories involving minor wage adjustments, the men pinned Joe’s ears back, spoke bluntly in favor of an overall $2 a day. hike. The cost-of-living bonus, due this month, won’t meet the needs of woodworkers in these that the Canadian government is hopeful that a British-American draft of a Japanese peace treaty will emerge shortly. ° All indications point to the fact tha{ American negotiators are willing to give away Canada’s Pacific coast-fisheries in exchange for Japanese troops for an Am- erican-controlled army in the Far East. - _,John Foster Dulles, U.S. trigger- man who visited the 38th parallel in Korea with South Korean gen- erals less than a week before Rhee’s troops invaded North Korea, is di- recting the present ‘peace negotia- tions with Japan. Canada’s Fish- eries Minister R.. W. Mayhew has been to Washington to confer with Dulles on the fisheries aspect of the treaty, which vitally affects B.C.’s $75,000,000 fishing industry. “It is quite obvious that Japan is well aware of its bargaining posi- tion with the United States, whose chief anxiety these days seems to be to find troops in other countries to fight American-sponsored wars,” declares an editorial in The Fish- erman. “If the Americans are allowed to get away with giving Japan what will amount to a free hand off the Pacific coast, the en- tire fishing industry will suffer ag a result. The interests of Ameri- can fishermen and most fishing companies are also at stake in this political maneuvering that the U.S. is conducting. “Everyone, and that includes our B.C. fishermen united in fight to block U.S. from selling out rights “Fishermen, canners and members of the cooperative movement are united in demand- ing that any peace treaty with Japan, if and when concluded, shall contain protection against encroachment on our Pacific fisheries by Japanese,” said Homer Stevens, secretary-treasurer of United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union, this week. ed by External Affairs Minister Lester B. Pearson’s statement made in: Ottawa recenthy UCIT aT Stevens’ remarks were prompt- Women pledge fight — against bread increase “We are certainly not going to sit idly by and allow the proposed two-cent increase in bread prices without a most vigorous protest campaign,” said Mrs. Doris Hartley, vice- president of the Congress of Canadian Women, this week. “It is our opinion that the proposed increase is unjustified in view of the profits of the bread and flour combines,” she continued. “Consumers, confronted daily with skyrocketing prices in almost every commodity, simply cannot tolerate an increase in the price of one of our most staple foods, bread. Many of our members are baking their own bread now be- cause of the high price and un- doubtedly many more will if an- other increase is put into effect. “We propose to protest and de- mand action from every level of government, municipal, provincial ‘and federal. We will urge -every organization we can possibly con- tact to do the same. The increase simply must not be allowed.” Mrs. Brita Mickleburgh, former Vancouver school teacher now liv- ‘ng in Toronto, is visiting the city ym holidays and will be guest speak- or at two CCW-sponsored garden government, must be aware, of what the result can be if Japan is nv’ forced to sign a treaty which will forbid encroachment on our sal- mon, halibut and other Pacific fish- eries.. Pre-war experiences must still remain fresh in most minds. “The obvious step now is for every organization in the fishing industry to exert maximum pres- sure on tite Canadian government to see that it does not appease American big business at the ex- pense of not only those employed in the fishing industry, but at days of shrinking dollar values. the expense of all Canadians.” phone rates. Aldermen listened to the August 12 date of Labor Picnic Vancouver’s annual United Labor Picnic will be held this year on Sunday, August 12, at Confeder- ation Park in North Burnaby. As in previous years, there will be a “popular girl’ contest, games, en- tertainment and an extensive sports program, Winner of the “popular girl”? contest will be crowned “Miss B.C. Labor.” ‘s Picnic manager Elgin Ruddell said this week that all progressive organizations have been asked tq keep the date open, in order to avoid conflicting events. -~W‘e in- tend -to make the 1951 United Labor Picnic the greatest ever held in the city,” he added. : Garden parties, beach parties, socials and picnics are now being planned by supporters of “popular girl” candidates. As in former con- tests of this kind, votes will be based on “one cent — :one vote,” modified by handicaps, and books of donation vouchers will be avail- able shortly. Aldermen . women on milk protest “A Congress of Canadian Women delegation visited city hall on Monday this week to oppose the skip-a-day milk de- livery plan and to protest against any increase in BC Vele- agree with CCW proposals for producer subsidies to farmers and lower retail price in stores, and agreed to oppose any curtailment~of ser- vice. Sitting as utilities and airport committee, the aldermen informed the delegation that the city is “try- ing to agree with BCT officials on certain limited phone rate in- creases” but would wage an “all- out fight” against the permanent 12.5 percent increase sought for next fail. When aldermen argued _ that higher wages, rising cost of mater- ials, and “defense tax” made cer- tain telephone rate adjustments necessary, members of the wo- men’s delegation replied, “We are strongly opposed to paying any defense tax for the BCT.” PENDER AUDITORIUM (Marine Workers) 339. West Pender LARGE & SMALL HALLS FOR RENTALS Phone PA. 9481 parties where continued price in- creases will be discussed and anti- HCL actions planned. The garden parties will be held July 4 at 1642 Adanac Street and July 5 at 127 West 21st. Both affairs will com- mence at 2 p.m. BRITA MICKLEBURGH Criminal Code “The government’s amend- be repealed when the House re- assembles in the. fall,” declared Nigel Morgan, LPP provincial leader, this week. A wire sent to Justice Minister Stuart Garson by Morgan earlier in the week said, in part: “The provincial executive of the LPP condemns government railroading of amendments to the. Criminal Code, which constitute amendments must be repzaled = Morgan ments to the Criminal Code must | a grave infringement of the fund- amental right to free speech and criticism. 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