rents tats des oes Sloan formula gains cancelled out by threat to IWA of future wage cuts [Dp Ji [ Pp) fies Im rvcimerecel SP th =>’ FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, a ca 3 vf Ud) : EIN N AB a TBS: Neggetegh tae Hon a ae 1952 Ambassadors of friendship Despite the attempts of many Canadian sports columnists and radio commentators to make cold war propaganda out of the Olympic Games, competitors from all countries upheld the high purpose of the great international sports event. Here athletes: from three countries, the Soviet Union, United Upon recommendation of har district leaders, some 32,000 lumber and sawmill workers of the International Woodworkers of America (CIO-CCL) voted early this week to accept the.*‘Sloan formlua”’ With a few hold-outs, the majority of lumber operators, represented strike. and end their 45-day by Forest Industries Relations Ltd. (FIR), have also accepted Chief Justice Gor- don Sloan’s recommendations. States and Britain, link arms in friendship. Viadimir Kazantsev (left of the USSR ran second to Horace Ashenfelter (centre) of the U.S. with John Disley (right) of Britain third in the 300-metre steeplechase which ig Gin aes won in the record-breaking time of 8:45.8. Lack of gov’t aid, facilities blamed for Canada’s poor showing in Olympics No one can blame the small band of Canadian athletes at Helsinki for Canada’s poor show- ing at the 15th Olympiad. Under the circumstances they did a magnificent job. The finger of blame must be put on the federal department of health and welfare and its min- ister Paul Martin; and on the provincial administrations, too. The studied inaction of these august bodies borders on sheer sabotage. “The federal govern- ment, which operates what it calls a National (Physical Fitness department, did not perform a single act to assist Canadian Olympic athletes. The COA, a self-perpetuating body, is under such sharp fire for its mishand- ling of the team that its presi- dent, Sydney Dawes, is reported ready to resign. . It was in September, 1949. that the federal government rejected the modest appeal of the Cana- dian amateur sports governing bodies for a grant of $10 million to foster Canadian sports for three years. If that $10 million had been granted then Canada would have made a far better re- cord at Helsinki! But, in 1950, the federal goy- ernment — through Trade Min- ister C. D. Howe — passed an order in council prohibiting the use of steel for any purpose re- lating to recreation and sports. The young athletes represent- ing Canada at the Olympic Games had a heavy responsibil- ity. They had one hand tied be- hind their backs. They had to train in back alleys at home or in the United States. They gave up jobs and made great personal - sacrifices to compete for Canada against the athletes of the world in friendly competition. But Ottawa gave them the brush off. It appropriated a trif- ling $20,000 as a routine grant to the Olympic Association. No- thing more. Not even good wishes. But as the Massey Com- mission noted in its report, in citing the grant to the Olympic Association: “We have noticed also that the department of Na- tional Defense makes a grant to the military associations and in- stitutes of $115,000.” The federal government sets _aside a grant of $225,000 for its * so-called National Physical Fit- ness department. Grants to provinces must be equally, Neither Ontario nor Quebec have taken them up, But even if. every province participated, $225,000 is pea- nuts. The'’same government ap- propriates with a snap of the fingers, $185,000 for postage stamps for the Canadian army. It spends millions building plush apartments for army and air force officers, ‘but not a dime for a sports centre. Millions for army tanks, nothing for swim- ming tanks. The time has come when every Canadian sports organization, trade union, all youth bodies and every association interested in the health and wellbeing of youth should demand that Health Min- ister Paul Martin convene an all- in conference on the develop- ment of Canadian sports. Such a conference should concern itself with plans to develop mass matched sports —- to make it possible for all Canadian young folks to de- velop their love and abilities for athletics, ; This should be done now in preparation for the British Em- pire Games two. years hence and for the 1956 Olympics -in~ Mel- The COA must be re- organized with democratically elected representation. Every athletic body in the country should demand a_ grant from federal and provincial treasuries to help it provide adequate fac- ilities and competition to train our athletes. bourne. Let’s make sure that never again ‘will Canadian , athletes have to go to the U.S, for train- ing, or take to the back alleys. Let’s start now to develop mass Sports — the real way to build a team of athletes of which Can- ada will be proud, a team that will start out on an equal foot- ing with athletes of other coun- tries and may the best man win. 12 PACIFIC TRIBUNE — AUGUST 1, 1952 — PAGE. The “Sloan formufa’’ provides that the 1951 contract be con- tinued with the following changes: A wage increase of 514 cents across-the-board, The initial wage demand put forward by the IWA, and ratified by its last dis- trict convention was for a 35- cent an hour increase. _ The cost-of-living bonus to be continued, Decline in the offic- ial DBS cost of living index, as registered in recent months, will be reflected in reduced take- home pay. Already three cents has been clipped off the 5%%- cent increase, Three statutory holidays’ to be — paid for, A provision to open the con- tract between December 14, 1952 and January 1, 1953, where either party may demand 4 change of the basic wage, de- pending upon market conditions or “other relevant factors.” This clause could prepare the way for drastic wage deductions. _Any changes made in the wage _ agreement at that time will ‘“‘g0v- ern the last six months of the contract,” and union members are “to continue at work’ and’ accept anything that comes out of these interim “negotiations,” retroactive to December 14. In a press statement issued simulanteously with the handing out of his “formula” to the IWA and the operators, Chief Justi Sloan declared: “The difficulty of the situa- tion is founded upon the firm- ly held conviction of the OP- erators that the present matl- ket recession, both in demand and prices on their products; will continue to become pro- gressively worse during the year—a view which the union resolutely refuses to accept. “It is therefore impossible for me to negotiate success- fully increased wage demands when there jis such a wide and Strong divergence of opinio2 as to the economic future of the industry.” Competent trade union spokes men and labor economists hav® expressed surprise that Chief Justice Sloan could not look b& yond the representations made by FIR on current and futur? market conditions and possibil: ties. “While the Iumber operator plead poverty and falling ped kets in reply to the IWA’S jus wage demands,” say union lea®” . ers, ‘‘H. R. MacMillan and baer lumber outfits have been pocke ing the highest profits on recO™™ Last year MacMillan Exports cut a profit melon of $16 aera profit. That fact is ‘left entire out of the “Sloan formula.’ de Of the 157 lumber an) BY mill companies represente' FIR, eleven at Pacific sary: press time were reusing to * cept the “Sloan formul® ia Among these were two Victol™ mills, Moore-Whittington 3 mills and Crowe-GonnasoM, — notoriously anti-labor. the other small companies iM 4 FIR setup were still to bé be” from.