s-month period.

*to go by the board and be sseded by a more optimistic ation as Hervey Murphy, iiSW international representa- told The People that in the pseven-day period four new ' of the union had been organ- pone of them covering the 600 )yees of Britannia Mines, one be biggest copper properties )8 province, and lone known nie of the worst open shop, finy town outfits in the coun-

@ lier in the week Mr. Murphy

"aken a quick “trip into the i country and had signed up Piajority of workers in the f loth and Standard Lead and ‘Mines near Silverton. This m= ed the setting up of two other One at Pinchi Lake and the f at the Red Rose property, © 2wned by the Consolidated m= and Smelting Company.

) union is meeting with an fisiasm that is literally un- fi leled in the history of the etry,” Murphy told The Peo- uring a brief visit to Van- wir this week “There’s liter- _& wave of organization /iing the province, and right | ye're close to having 75 per-

zess than two weeks ago officials of the International Union e, Mill and Smelter Workers predicted that BG’s metal ~ industry, which had been 50 percent organized within

fully unionized within the next

cent of the industry organized in the union.”

On Sunday the IUMMSW organ- izer called meetings at Britannia Mines and before leaving the same day had signed up over 400 of the 600 workers in the operation, An executive was elected, with Alec Spady, president, and Wes Baird, Secretary, and a charter will be applied for immediately. Meetings at which the charter will be in- Stalled will be held July 11 at the Tine and July 15 at the mill. Murphy will attend the installa- tien ceremonies,

Local 480, Trail and District Smelter Workers Union, reported this week receipt of a wire from Labor Minister George S. Pear- son declaring in effect that the remnants of the Worlmen’s Go- operative Committee, now known as the “Independent Smelter Workers Union,” has no legal Standing under the ICA Act “nor could any so-called independent union receive the Tights granted to unions under the Act.”

This was interpreted as defin- itely establishing the illegal status ef Blaylock’s company union and placing the international union as the only real bargaining agent for the employees once certification is

Sranted under the three-month clause in the act.”

| operations in addition to © application for arbitration other cases,

© to file for certification was | 1357 on behalf of the 1500 fees of the giant Fraser Mills a of Canadian Western Lum- > ompany, largest sawmill in §2 Fraser Mills is now close 1 per cent organized, and d 7%, Unien members met to ® a negotiating committee

© will meet the management the labor department has On the certification. Those ineluded Gouncil President Pritchett, Secretary Bert 438, and Percy Smith, Ray George Mitchell and Stuart YY of Local 1-357.

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|e International Woodworkers of America, BC District il, went through one of the busiest periods in its history ‘eek as district council and local union officials made ap- f on to the provincial department of labor for certification

| gaining agents in five dif-O—

the big Boundary Road shingle mill of Bloedel, Stewart and Welch, Mohawk Lumber Company, Ham- mond Cedar, and the Iadysmith logging operations of the Gomox Logging and Railway Company. The negotiating committee for Boundary Road include Floyd Hamilton, Ben-Orr, Bert Melsness and H. J. Pritchett; for Comox Logging at Ladysmith, Jack At kinson, chairman of the sub-local, William “Scotty” Sutherland, Prit- chett, Nigel Morgan, and District Vice-President Hjalmar Bergren.

In addition, the TWA will apply immediately for an arbitration board under the IGA Act to hear union requests for collective bar- Gaining agreement in all opera- tions of Industria] Timber at You- bou, covering some 700 men in the company's camps and mills, and for the operations of Lake Logging Company at Cowichan Lake. In both cases the union conducted preliminary negotia- tions which broke down over the companies’ refusal to agree on union recognition. Wegotiations will also be opened with the Vic- toria Lumbering and Manufactur- ing Company, operating camps and the big Chemainus mill.

Wext meeting with operators of the three Queen Charlotte Island companies who two weeks ago were instructed by a federal ar- bitration award to enter into a contract with the IWA will take

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place on July 5, according to inter- national board member Nigel Morgan.

Pretty warm, huh?

With their union, Local 400, United Auto Workers, CIO, trying to iron out their grievances — the right to wear skirts instead of slacks — 50 office workers at the Highland Park, Michigan, Ford plant are back on the job in slacks. But these girls played safe, wearing both skirts and slacks.

All Shipyards Close For July 5 Holiday

West Coast Shipyards, as a result of a strong campaign car- ried on by Boilermakers Union, will call July 5 the Dominion Day holiday in company with other members of BC Shipbuild-

ers Federation. When the first indecision as to what day should be Dominion Day

arose, shipyard unions and the Shipbuilders Federation agreed to take July 5 as the holiday. When it was decided that the official public holiday would fall on the customary July i, the Shipbuilders Federation asked unions to stick by the original agreement. ‘The unions and each member of the Hederation agreed with the excep- tion of West Coast, which insisted on closing up on July 1,

The Boilermakers’ Union, how-

ever, appealed to union members in West Coast to stick by the agree- ment. One noon hour the union sound truck was taken to West Coast, and executive members asked support of Boilermakers in the open shop yard.

Shortly afterwards, the manager of West Coast announced over the company’s public address system that because of strong demands from Boilermakers, they would give in, and with the rest of Van- couver’s shipbuilding industry, agree that in the yards at least Dominion Day will fall on July 5.

Boeing Workers Ask For Holidays With Pay

Reports in local newspapers last week regarding the signing of an agreement between Boeing Aircraft of Canada and Aero- nautical Mechanics Union, Lodge 756, were shown to be prema- ture this week with publication of the union’s monthly journal with the full story of the negotiations.

Contrary to the original press report which stated that the union had won holidays with pay and the closed shop, the union paper, the “756 Review” points out that the only major point conceded by the company in the proposed agreement is that an increase in the basic pay rate, plus a number of other points such as labor-man- agement committees, and safety committees.

Regarding the closed shop and

holidays with pay, the company refused to give a definite answer and would not put its signature to the joint application which was to be forwarded to Hon. GC. D. Howe for ratification.

It is expected, however, that the request for revised wage schedules and other points, to which the com- pany has agreed, will receive fay- orable consideration from Mr.

Strike Talk

False Say Transit Men

The question of increased basic. wage rates for junior motormen will be discussed at a general meeting of Street Railwaymens Union next Mon- day night, C. M. Stewart, union business agent, declared after a meeting with the BC Electric Tuesday. No statement about the meeting was made, except that the discussion was “long and friend- ly.”

“Threats of strike action are just talk. The executive is in sympathy with the stand taken by junior men, but as officers of a responsible

trade union we must utilize the ma- chniery that has been set up by. the government to deal with such a situation. If that procedure fails our union as a whole must decide what action to take,” said GC. Stew- art after headlines in local papers reported that 200 junior men em- ployed on BC Hlectrie trams would take strike action on-Tuesday.

The dispute arose because junior employees felt that they should re- ceive the basic wage rate of 69 cents an hour. The present union agreement calls for a sliding scale .of 59 cents for the first six months,

634% cents for the second six months, 6642 cents for the third

six months, and 69 cents only after 18 months of service. At the pres- ent time younger men point out that some are not working full

of living, are not able to make a living. They also estimate that 43 men have left the service since May 15.

“Many of these men have fami- lies,” said Stewart, “and find it in- creasingly difficult to get along on the wage they make. The Sliding scale must be abolished.”

The union’s application for an in- crease in the basic wage came be- fore the Regional War Labor Board last Tuesday and a decision is be- ing awaited: The application asks for an additional 10 cents per hour Plus the 434 cents bonus for junior men.

Chivalry Is Not Dead

VANCOUVER, B.C.—A hard- boiled shipyard manager, look- ing out of his office window upon the busy scene, suddenly reeled back and fell weakly into his chair.

“I don’t believe it!” he mut- tered.

He had seen a journeyman pipefitter, at his work, walking along carrying a heavy steel pipe. Behind him was his help- er. Previously, for all his life among workingmen, he had al- ways seen journeymen pipefit- ters walking along, untrammel- led with anything, while the helper tottered along with tools and pipes on his back.

It is the prerogative—and a jealously guarded one—of pipe- fitters and plumbers that their helpers do the heavy work. The journeymen always did it before he was a journeyman.

But in this case the helper was 3 helperette. Chivalry is conquering the shipyards.

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