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

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LISTEN IN|
YOURSELF, INVITE
YOUR FRIENDS TO

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7.10-7.15 p.m.

Blakey, 8.45-8.55 p.m.

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