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To stimulate the work of such committees, consideration was given to the conduct of “Union Opinion Polls”.

Election 1957

The development of programs

for Federations and Labor Coun- ceils was also discussed. The Com- mittee then turned to the prep- aration of a CLC national pro- “gram, with the evident determi- nation that labor should register its influence in a Federal election now scheduled for 1957.

Consideration was given to the submission of Labor’s program to the major political parties. The Committee reviewed the work of the farm fairs now in

progress throughout Ontario, a venture intended to bring the aims of the unions before the farming section of the population. A number of Farmer-Labor con- ferences are in prospect, and early steps will be taken to form a Farm-Labor Economic Council.

One important project contem-

plated by the Committee is the promotion of a nation-wide campaign in support of a na- tional health services plan. Fur- ther details will be discussed at the staff seminars. It is ex- pected that a National Health Plan will be one of the major issues in the forthcoming Fed- eral election.

Council Prepares

For Convention

Impressive range of topical resolutions will be presented to the November merger conyen- tion of the B.C. Federation of Labor and the Trade Union Congress, it was decided at the last meeting of the Vancouver and District Labor Council.

The eleven resolutions ap- proved dealt with the following subjects:

The provincial government to provide low-cost car insurance.

The provincial government to set up a permanent commission, free from political control, to study from time to time the dis- tribution of electoral seats.

The Canadian Labor Congress to study the problem of increas- ing American ownership in Can- ada, with a detailed report and recommendations to be presented to the 1958 CLC convention.

The B.C. government to amend the Hours of Work Act, which “still clings to a 44-hour week.”

The convention to support the principle of public ownership of

utilities and ask the B.C. govern- ment to take over the “monopoly of the B.C. Power Corporation.”

The CLC to continue to study the question of free transfer of members among affiliated unions.

The B.C. government to spon- sor, as soon-as possible, a confer- ence on provincial-municipal fi- nance.

The B.C. government to include in the expenditures of hospital insurance fringe benefits for hos- pital workers “which may be or have been agreed to by hospital boards.”

The provincial government would be asked to give its em- ployees arbitration rights.

The convention will be asked to go on record favoring appoint- ments to the judiciary “on a basis of merit, divorced from po- litical considerations.”

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Felder.

A representative meeting of fallers and buckers held in Dun- can gave full endorsement to this policy, and laid plans to secure acceptance from the employers.

Fatalities Increasing

One urgent reason for this spe- cial action was the death of a faller who had died as a result of an accident which occurred while he was working alone. He had not been missed until lunch time.

President George Smythe stat- ed that there had been a tendency to cut the falling and bucking gangs down to two men and sometimes to one. Strict adher- ence to the three-man rule had been decided upon because of the high accident rate sustained by fallers and buckers.

“It is the highest of any class of workers in the industry,” he said. “Increased efficiency of mod- ern machines and methods has increased production to a point where fallers and buckers have to work much faster and with less regard to safety than formerly if they are to make the same wages.”

Daily Rate Favored

Modern methods have greatly inereased the production for the operators, but at the same time have vastly increased the hazards for the falling crews,” he added.

He expressed concern over the fact that fallers and buckers

LOCAL DEMANDS 3-MAN CREWS

Declaration of policy recently made on behalf of Local 1-80, IWA, Duncan, reaffirmed the views previously ex- pressed by the Union and urged enforcement in all opera- tions of a policy requiring three men for every falling gang, and prohibiting one man to fall alone at any time.

were often required to work too closely to the rigging crews.

The Local Union President ex- pressed himself as favoring a daily rate for fallers and buckers based on the average of the pre- ceding thirty days.

“Have you given the goldfish fresh water?”

“No, ma’am. They ain’t finished the water I gave them yester- day.”

Drive Wins Plant

TORONTO (CPA)—A deter- mined organizing campaign by Textile Workers Union of Am- erica, Canada’s major fextile union, to bring unorganized ' textile workers in’ the Province of Quebec into union ranks has met with initial success ‘with recognition of the union as bar- gaining agent for the 300 em- ployees of Belding Corticelli_ Ltd. of Montreal.

Certification Rights

The recent campaign through- out Quebec led to the provincial labor relations board granting TWUA certification rights fol- lowing a hearing that revealed a majority of the Montreal textile workers as union members, ac- cording to J. Harold Daoust, TW UA’s Canadian director.

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