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AUG. 25

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LABOR AROUND BC.

Floorlayers win wage demands
after week on picket lines

After a week manning pic-

ket lines 160 floorlayers won

a victory Monday when a set-

tlement was reached giving

them a 45-cent hourly pay
Ost.

. ~ The men, members of Floor-

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layers Union Local 1541
(United ‘Brotherhood of Car-
penters and Joiners) had tied
up construction projects in
Greater Vancouver valued at
$5 millions when other con-
struction workers refused to

- MURDOCHVILLE

tack by professional goons
hfreq by the company.”

__ Picketing has been outlaw-
€d inthe Gaspe strike by court
Order,

The fraternal aid of the

_ “Nited trade union movement,
through its leaders, in the
Shape of the picket line, un-
doubtedly spurred tlhe com-
Pany into making this desper-
ate series of attacks — first
On the fraternal delegates, then
®n the union hall.

: The cavalcade from Quebec

ily carried prominently the
-'ame of Herve Bernatchez, the
Sttiker who recently died from
Muries,

Roger Provost, president .of

€ Quebec Federation of
Labor, said Quebec labor
Unions will have to take “im-
Mediate, direct political ac-
tion” to deal with the labor
Situation in Quebec.

_, He said picketing: is no
longer an adequate method to
resolve labor conflicts under

€ current administration.
Following the attacks Roger

€dard, spokesman for the
Striking Yocal, said:
- ~ “It was a deliberate attempt

_'o make our people go up the
ill and attack them.

“But it has been a success-
ful demonstration. No, scabs
have worked! in the plant to-
day. And it proves that all
the company propaganda of
union-inspired violence is un-
fre.

Mass picketing
at Lever plant

TORONTC

Delegates from steel, rubber
and furrier locals affiliated to
the 100,000-member Toronto
Labor Council last week issued
a strong demand for mass
picketing as the way to win
the deadlocked strike at Lever
Bros., makers of a widely-ad-
vertised series of soap pro-
ducts.

Council also agreed“to plan
a city-wide meeting in support
of the strike, issue a leaflet,
and spend up to $1,500 to or-
ganize support for Local 32 of
the Chemical Workers Union.

Chemical Union spokesman.
James Stewart described the
plant as “an armed camp —
foot patrols, cruisers, motor-
cycles and guards armed with
shotguns.”

cross their picket lines.

New contract calls for retro-
active pay of two cents an
hour to April 1, 14 cents to
August 1, an. additional nine
cents October 1 and a final 20
cents April 1, 1958.

it Os it

“Until teachers’ starting sal-
aries approach those of other
university graduates we'll al-
ways have a teacher shortage,”
Stan Evans, assistant general
secretary of the B.C. Teachers’
Federation, said this week.

Evans said average starting
salary for teachers with five
years’ university training is
$3,500 a year, while average
starting salary in several other
professions for graduates is
from $4,000 to $4,200.

Raise pay scales for teach-
ers and the teacher shortage
will be solved, he contended,

o3 bes xt

Some 400 IWA sash and door
manufacturing plant workers
have rejected a conciliation
board award of 13 to 20 cents
an hour and have asked for
a government supervised
strike vote.

The employees, members oi
Local 1-252 IWA will tie up 17
Vancouver plants if they hit
the bricks.

bes bes 503

A Victoria Labor Council
committee has recommended
council support the Victoria
Senior Citizens’ Housing So-
ciety project in Victoria West.

Help from labor © will
strengthen the society’s request
to the provincial government
for a grant of one-third, of the
cost of the $75,000 project, said
Mrs. May Campbell,
president.

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acting -

Mickey Mantle (left) and Ted Williams (right) are in a

neck-and-neck race for the American League batting
championship. At present the veteran Williams still holds
a Slight edge. Mantle is voted the man most likely to crack
Babe Ruth’s home run record (60) but it won’t be this year.
He still has a long and brilliant future ahead of him, but
Williams may soon reach the end of the road.

Bove: Whyte”

SPORTLIGHT

On
Sunday our cup of joy run-
neth gver; cn Monday there

{IONS win, Lions lose.

is weeping and
gnashing of teeth.

Wailing and

Will we be cheering or cry-
ing at the end of the season?

Can the revitalized Leos make
the playoffs? re

Maybe Pll be chopped up
into little pieces a few months
hence for saying this, . but
here’s my prediction: Eskimos,
Roughriders and Bombers to
finish:as top trio in the WIFU,
with Lions and Stampeders
trailing.

at am es
°

Biggest news in the world of
$port$ this week was the con-
clusive word from New York
Giants that they will move to
San Francisco next year.

. The San Francisco Giants.
Sounds good, but what will it
do to Coast League ball? Es-
pecially when Brooklyn. Dodg-
ers are on the verge of trans-
ferring to Los Angeles.

Seems a shame, when our
sizzling Mounties are reviving
interest in pro baseball with
their fighting spirit.

nt be xt

Grand larceny, that’s what it
was, when Ron Williams
aboard Flight Khal whipped
the likes of PoStillion and
Miracle Escort in the featured
seventh at Hastings last Sat-
urday .

A fine judge of pace, Wil-
liams took his front-running
mount to the rail at the break,
then deliberately slowed the
pace. None of the jockeys
aboard the stretch runners
Seemed to sense what was hap-
pening, so at. the entrance to
Payoff Alley the one-eyed
Flight Khal had a lick of speed,
left and managed to get his

nose across the. finish line
ahead of the onrushing Miracle
Escort and the favored Postil-
lion.
xt 5 @ 5 @
Met a friend at Hastings who
had just come in for the eighth,

after watching an afternoon
soccer game, When the gee-

gees finished running he am-
bled over to Empire Stadium to
catch an eyeful of the Lions.
A nice life, yes, indeedy.
ce ot es

Then there was another
friend of mine who phoned that
she couldn’t attend a meeting
Monday night because of a bad
case of sunburn. My sympathy,
pal. Nothing like a little toc
much sun to make life miser-

able. But imagine getting sun-,

burn in Vancouver this year!

5 x x
-Everybody says, “Is boxing
a sport?” “Is bull fighting a
sport?”

Now comes along Lester
Rodney and asks, “Is car rac-
Ing a sport?”

Rodney points to the sense-

lessness of the death of 14 in «

Italy’s “Mille Miglia” automo-

‘bile race, and reminds sports

fans that 46 people have been
killed over the years at the
Memorial Day classic in In-
dianapolis.

“What is a sport?” he ‘asks.
eScait something where when
a man competing for a cash
prize crashes and burns to
death yellow lights flash for
the remaining racers to reduce
their speed and hold their rela-
tive positions until the wreck-
age is cleared and then —
ZOOM! Green lights flash and
the race continues . . :

“Hate to sound like a crank.
But aren’t cars which g0 over
100 miles an hour really anti-
social contraptions, whether
they are little two Seaters
whirling around an oval in In-
dianapolis, or pretty two toned
passenger. cars killed 40,000 a

year on U.S. streets and high-
Ways?”

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