Turnbull insults postal workers over union stan - TORONTO The growing resentment of Canadian postal employees, linked with their increasing demands for a five-day week and collective bar- gaining rights to increase wages, last week provoked Deputy-Postmaster General Turnbull into revealing the real attitude of the government to- wards the protests of over-loaded postal workers. Miners pressing inferim wage boost demand MICHEL, B.C. The vital issue of peace and liv- ing standards are stirring the fighting traditions of the coal min- ers in the Crow’s Nest Pass. Michel local of the United Mine Workers at its last regular meeting endors- ed the Five-Power Peace Pact pe- tition sponsored by, the Canadian Peace Congress, and called upon all miners to give it their fullest support. Also high on the agenda of the Michel ‘UMWA is the demand up- on officers of District 18, UMWA, to convene a special wage conven- tion. : Interviewed here this week by the Pacific Tribune, Sam English, president of Michel local, stated: “A majority of the UMWA locals have sent individual petitions to the union’s district office urging that @ special convention be called to discuss an interim wage increase —the present contract does not ex- pire until February, 1952—pointing | out that since 1948 the miners of District 18 have only received an -increase totalling 80 cents a day which has long ago been eaten up _ by increased -prices. and. taxes. “At a-district board meeting held | in June the local demands for a special wage convention were dis- cussed and the decision made that the question of an interim wage increase would be taken up with coal operators. If the operators agreed on an interim wage increase, a convention would be held, but if they did not agree, there would be no convention until the regular time in December.” “The operators ‘said‘No’ to’ the interim wage increase proposal,’ English reported, commenting, “Any person with a. little under- standing of the function of a trade union should know that a ‘No’ from the operators must~mean a special wage convention right away. But apparently not the leaders of District 18.” Toronto postal workers, Turn- bull told a Regina postmasters meeting, are “loud talking, over- ambitious people.” Spokesmen for the Toronto branch of the Can- adian Postal Employees’ Associa- tion, said Turnbull, “think that if they make enough trouble they can club their way ie what they want.” Turnbull, pReiGeilt condemned by postal workers for stating they are permitting themselves to be “agitated” by. “Communists,” was referring to a recent overflow meeting of Toronto postal work- ers’ at which Postmaster-General Rinfret was almost run off the platform when he attempted to defend government policy. The postmen, who are fighting against the “one a day delivery” system inaugurated: April 1, are now thinking in terms of union organization and collective bar- gaining to win their fight against back-breaking loads, increased walks, and a. civil service salary system which keeps their wages ‘ar behind rising living costs. (Government policy now denies them the right to a union of their choice.) Leslie Hood, president of the Toronto branch of the Canadian Postal Employees’ Association said of the Turnbull tirade: “The Asso- ciation is asking for’: a five-day week and collective bargaining. It, is not just the Toronto branch but postal workers across the country who are making the demand.” Hood added that postal employees ‘|“are-not interested in his (Turn- bull's) stubborn streak because the question is really none of his busi- ness,’ Benefit dance to aid Hilland-Carlyle fund A benefit dance sponsored by the Hilland-Carlyle Defense Com- mittee will be held in Clinton Hall, 2605 East Pender, on Friday, July 28, it was announced this week. |, Proceeds will go to the fund being raised to defend Mrs. "Gladys Hil- land and Vern Carlyle, former of- ficers of IWA Local 1-217, who face: court action arising out of the breakaway from the IWA in 1948, > PT “SUNDAY, eo | pe Cumberland MISS ELSPETH MUNRO _ Barrister and Solicitor AND OTHERS PENDER AUDITORIUM 339 West Pender Street : ‘ : SILVER COLLECTION ae v2 AUSPICES: LEAGUE FOR DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS Vancouver Branch ELE REEL Ud Oe La tt ts PUL bela LU TU OPEN FORUM Are Your Liberties In Danger? (Re New Amendments to Criminal Code) Does Canada Need a Bill of igh? i HEAR DR. NORMAN F. BLACK _ Well Known Educator hk Soe } REV. JACKSON WRAY Ramil a es United Church Minister (Retired) e at, JOHN CAMERON | ee President United Mine Workers of America, tt Tt Die UU tel d Local | JULY 22 © P.M. ] Picnic speaker Ald. Jacob Penner, veteran la- bor member of Winnipeg city Council, who recently returned from a visit to the Soviet Union, will speak at the United Labor Picnic here on August 12, ‘Shell str : third week, but imperial by decision of workers at Imperial Oil’s Ioco plant to settle for a 25- cent wage boost despite representa- tions from Shell Oil strikers that this would adversely affect their own demand. At a special meeting this week, Shell Oil strikers empowered their negotiating committee to consider company offers for a settlement and report back. Meanwhile, the provincial Labor Relations Board called a meeting for this Friday between represent- atives of the company and the Oil Workers International Union (CIO). Alberta la Alberta Board wof Industrial Calgary nitrogen plant. ing the “Rand formula’’. L. B. Dowell, berta Nitrogen Workers, Mine-Mill Local 690, characterized the actions of the board, and the Alberta AFL- TLC leaders who organized the raid, as setting “an anti-labor pre- cedent which will have harmful repercussions on the entire labor movement of Alberta.” “The raiding Chemical Workers, failing to win more than an insig- nificant minority, embarked on adventpirous tactics on splitting a score of workers away from the joint bargaining of Trail, Kimber- ley and Calgary Mine-Mill locals representing some 7,000 ‘Consoli- dated workers,’ Dowell charged. In Trail, the raiding Steelworkers union, headed by ‘Herbert Gar- grave, former CCF whip in the B. C. legislature, who have been defeated in every attempt to split and destroy the Mine-Mill locals in Trail and Kimberley, hailed the Alberta board’s undemocratic rul- ing as “great victory” for the raid- ing Chemical Workers, heedless of the threat = poses to all organized labor. Unions in B. {ej preparing briefs for submission to the ICA Act In- quiry Board, are placing emphasis ion to bring the labor act into line with the democratic ‘rights of or- ZENITH CAFE 105 EB. Hastings Street VANCOUVER, BC. UNION HOUSE fl i 2 RAPIDS o- ‘BARBER SHOP _ 363 East Hastings Street Always Good Service _ GEORGE MALLOFF . president of Al- upon the need for drastic revis-,| bor board opens door to raiding Relations has opened the door to union-raiding by its recent decision to certify International Chemical "Workers (AFL) as the bargaining unit for a group of 20 workers of the 300 employed by Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company’s The plant was organized by the International Union of Mine Mill and Smelter Workers and 90 percent of the workers belond to that union and are covered by an agreement embody- ganized labor and limit the board’s powers where they conflict with these rights. At Pacific Tribune press time, the strike of 230 employees of Shell Oil’s Bumaby plant to enforce wage demands entered its thir week. The solid support of organized labor and North Bumaby com” munities ‘for their full wage demand of 28 cents, after rejection of @ 15-cent offer led to the strike, was nnderennines this week, howe .this column. ike in settles © a CLASSIFIED A charge of 50 cents for each insertion of five lines or less” with 10 cents for each additional lin€ is made for notices appearing 3» No notices will be accepted later than Monday 100? of the week of pubication. WHAT’S DOING ' ere OPEN FORUM — Are your liber ties in danger? (Re New Ame? ments to Criminal Code). Doe Canada need a Bill of Rights? Hear Dr. Norman F. Black, wel known educator; Rev. Jackson Wray, United Church Minister (retired); John Cameron, pres dent United Mine Workers America (Cumberland Lo Miss Eslpeth Munro, parristet _ and solicitor; and others. SU™ day, July 22nd, 8:30 p.m. Pe? der Auditorium, 339 West pendel: Silver collection. 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