7 Labor roundup Tolls when the application was’ Made. Yet many of these “dis & franchised’’ carpenters have spent their entire adult lives in the in- dustry, _ The publicity committee of the uilding Trades Council has is+ Sued a statement’ under the sig- Natures of Frank Carlisle (presi- dent), Alec Doriand (secretary), Tack Stevenson (Carpenters), George Gee (Electrical Workers) and Jack Raves (Painters), de- Rouncing the “Big Lie’ technique Of the bosses and calling on work- A fee the industry to join forces : Winning union demands. “Carpenters Local 452 has Made a survey of carpenters’ earnings in 1951," the state- Ment says. ‘It shows that dur- : last year the average car- Penter made $2,640. This amounts to $50.77 a week or $1.27 an hour, or less than the ‘erage wage of all British Col- Wnbia industrial workers. ° ere do they (the employers) Set the idea of big wages?” te council statement repeat- the stand taken in an earlier is a release: ‘‘The employer has 5 een to beat labor. He will Ucceed only in uniting labor as thas never been united before.” * * * a 10-cent hourly increase was a by Local 505, International ‘4 eee Leather Workers Union, ‘ ts first contract with Paris ed Limited. The agreement 2 enanee after a three-month Scat @ highlighted by the union’s €ating a lockout of members ie Mass picketing, pressure on eco Relations Board, and « Perions to spread the fight 5 € shoe manufacturing plant ' the company. : ha x * Ki A ipedline for the signing of 52 salmon price agreement Salm set for June 22, and On. fishing will stop on that unless an agreement is ched. previously. Overwhelm- ‘iy Ney MULTIOTOM MC MU Nn Le TIM BUCK will speak on What the LPP Proposes OL at a oP 0 BAC MEETING . to be held in : Natiye Sons Hall COURTENAY : _ SATURDAY JUNE 7 | Carpenters.prepare to take strike action Carpenters have voted for strike action if employers fail to srant substantial) wage gains, and all workers in the building trades Unions are uniting their forces in preparation for a showdown. Less than One-third of the carpenters were allowed to vote because they Were ruled ineligible under the ICA Act, as they were not on pay- 8 p.m. Lit SW, ing rejection by aS ballot of the canners’ salmon price -of- fer for 1952 was reported by the joint negotiating committee of United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union, Native Brother- hood and Vancouver Vessel Owners. * ~ x Crying poverty because of fall- ing markets and. lower lumber prices, representatives ‘of Forest Industria] Relations Ltd., acting for 162 logging and lumbering companies, said the operators Jcoulad not grant any. pay hike this year, in an 89-page brief presented to a conciliation board this week. .) IWA leaders, who answer FIR’s argument by pointing to 1951 company profit figures, have stat- ed that the union will-take strike action when the contract expires June 14 unless wage demands are met. » * » xe 4 Leaders “ot the Canadian Bro- therhood of Railway Employees signed an agreement with Van- couver Hotel Company Ltd. on the even of a strike deadline Tuesday this week. Main union demand, the 40-hour week, was: lost, but CBRE spokesmen said 850 workers would receive wage gains ranging from $7 to $55 a month, : ? \ * * * A walkout of miners on the Al- can tunnel job ended this week, with the men returning to work after cause’ of the action had been discussed. and the matter settled. LPP final Kast rally on June 9 Windup election rally for Van- couver East Labor-Progressive candidates Maurice Rush and Steve Endicott will be held at Victoria Road Community Hall (48rd and Victoria) Monday, June 9 at 8 p.m. At this final election meeting the LPP candidates will discuss the main issues before the elect- orate, and will outline their pro- posals for using the alternative vote to best advantage in securing progressive representation in the next legislature. This Friday night, June 6, has been set as a mobilization day for canvassers and distributors in Vancouver East, and LPP election headquarters at 550 Kingsway and 1903 West Hastings will be busy places. f Completion of the big distribu- tion job in the constituency will T result in the LPP’s message of la- bor unity for -peace,, markets and jobs reaching thousands of homes. B.C. iron shipped to J apan : en U.S. One aspect of Premier Byron Johnson’s vaunted “Build B.C.” policy is shown here. Iron ore is being hauled from Quinsam mines to Campbell River where it is loaded by conveyor belt on Japanese- bound freighters. Steel made from the ore in Japan is shipped back to the U.S.. After 30 years of Lib- era] and Tory promises B.C, still lacks a basic steel industry, No justification for rushing ae Bill H8 through parliament, says Democratic Rights head TORONTO “There’s no justification at all for rushing Bill H-8 through parliament,’ Thomas C. Roberts, na- tional secretary of the League for Democratic Rights, declared in a statement to the press last week He called upon all organizations concerned with dem ocratic rights to act at once and urge the members of the Senate Committee on Banking and Commerce to give the people adequate time to study H-8 and to make their representations. Roberts outlined eight reasons for this: : Bill H-8 revises the entire * Criminal Code and deals with matters that will affect the rights of every Canadian; The present Criminal Code has sufficed for years and will serve adequately for a few months ‘more as Bill H-8-is exam- ined; 3. The Commission that revised the Code was set up in Feb- ruary, 1949, worked for three years and only reported on April Woalvons : Between April 7 and May 12 the federal justice depart- ment made changes, and possibly additions to the commission’s re- vised code; 5. The people and their organi- zations are entitled to time to study H-8 and prepare their representations; : 6. The government has no man- date to make substantive “NEW ADDRESS -9 EAST HASTINGS ‘Gorner Carrall I invite you to visit my new office. I have: no connection with any othe dental office. . Phone TA. 5552 DR. R. LLEWELLYN DOUGLAS STANTON, MUNRO & DEAN - Solicitors - Notaries ‘ Barristers SUITE 515 FORD BUILDING (Corner Main & Hastings Sts.) MARINE . 198 E. HASTINGS 5746 changes in the code; 7. to all the people and the peo- ple are entitled to expect that the government will not use its major- ity to push through parliament legislation that has neither been demanded, understood or sanc- tioned by the people; Bill H-8 contains some eX- * ceedingly repressive sections that will not be approved by the majority of the Canadian people who are for democratic rights and are opposed to reaction and police state methods, The government is responsible’ Roberts pointed. out that the bill is now before the Senate’s Banking and Commerce commit- tee. : ; “T want to emphasize that certain. sections of Bill H-8 are very, very dangerous,” Roberts — said, ‘The lesson of the Taft- _ Hartley, Smith and McCarran Acts in ‘the U.S. and Malan’s legislation in South Africa must — not be lost on the Canadian peo- ple. We must act swiftly and - unitedly now to prevent Canada - from becoming a reactionary “police state.” VANCOUVER VICTORIA | NANAIMO ALBERNI | 5 _ LISTEN WITH YOU. June 6 — CKWX 980 ke., Steve Endicott, June 7 — CJOR 600 ke., ; ‘ Tom McEwen, 6.25-6.30 p.m. ‘June 9 — CKMO 1410 ke, Maurice Rush, 6.45-6.50 p.m. June 9 — CKDA 1340 ke., : Barney June 9 — CHUB 150k, = re , Nigel Morgan, 5.45-6.00 pm. | June 9 — CJAV 1240 ke, _. Alf Dewhurst, 9.15-9.30 p.m. — Inserted by LPP Election Committee — LISTEN IN| YOURSELF, INVITE YOUR FRIENDS TO i: rc . hig 7.10-7.15 p.m. Blakey, 8.45-8.55 p.m. PACIFIC TRIBUNE — JUNE 6, 1952 — PAGE 7