AT VANCOUVER LABOR COUNCIL

Floorlayers set strike deadline; Teamsters put heat on Coca-Cola

Floorlayers Union (Carpen- ters) Local 1541 has set a strike deadline for 8 a.m. this coming Monday, August 12, and will Place picket lines around city Shops, school jobs and housing Projects unless a satisfactory

Settlement is offered by em- Ployers over the weekend,

Reporting to Vancouver

abor Council on Tuesday this Week, a delegate for the Floor- layers said that floorlayers, handymen and_ finishers had ‘Voted 94 percent in favor of Strike action last Saturday 4nd gave strike notice after a last-minute effort to settle the dispute broke down Tuesday,

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Vancouver Labor Counci!’s Tequest to Canadian. Labor Ongress to circulate all affili- &ted councils asking that Sim- mons’ bedding products be Placed on the “unfair” list brought a CLC reply to the effect that a Simmons’ plant at Cornwall has had good labor Yelations for many years and Cannot be classed as unfair.”

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We are very much con- ferned Over this reply,” report- €c secretary E A. Jamieson.

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“We have written again asking what union has a contract in Cornwall Our information is that there is no union there.”

Employees at Simmons Bed- ding, 3585 Grandview, have been on strike since March 27 for higher wages. The labor movement in Vancouver has given them full support and urged the public not to buy Simmons products until a con- tract is signed. Among trade names manufactured by_Sim- mons are Beautyrest, Deep- sleep, Slumber King, Eatonia, Invincible, Liberty and Oster- moor.

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A small firm at Courtenay (Totem Pole and Piling Com- pany) which refused to accept settlement terms reached by IWA and major lumber com- panies, soon changed its mind this week when 30 loggers struck, IWA delegate Stuart Hodgson reported at the, VLC meeting

The strike lasted a bare five minutes when the company

capitulated and signed the agreement. Thetig ie Tee ae Say :

Correspondence dealing with Canadian Labor Congress at- tempts to have immigration placed under the federal de- partment of labor drew a sharp comment from Painters’ dele- gate John Hines,

“The problem of immigra- tion js tied up with other prob-

lems, such as the need for gov- ernment action on a housing program,” said Hines. ‘‘Thou- sands of immigrants have come into B.C. and where and how they are living is a mystery. The federal government should be forced to take action not only on immigration, but on its election campaign prom- ises, in order to provide more jobs.”

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Teamsters intend to “turn more heat’ on the Cocoa-Cola plant which uses pressure to prevent its drivers from organizing, John Brown (Teamsters) told VLC ~dele- gates.

Brown recalled that as far back as 1941 Coca-Cola work- ers had signed union cards. A mass dismissal of 25 workers followed, and intimidated other workers, who withdrew their applications.

“A couple of times since then

a majority of workers have

signed up, but each time com- pany pressure was used to pre- vent unionization,” said Brown.

Coca-Cola is on labor’s “We Do Not Patonise” list, Pepsi- Cola is under contract, and an- other soft-drink firm is expect- ed to sign up in the near future. Meanwhile, plans are under- way to “put more heat” on Coca-Cola.

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Vancouver Labor Council’s educational committee report- ed that the Annual Labor In- stitute will be held this year around the middle of October.

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Doug Hepburn, shown straightening a horseshoe, will perform other feats of strength at the: Annual Labor Picnic in Confederation Park, Burnaby, this coming Sunday, August 11. One of his stunts will be to drive a spike through a board wit

his bare hand.

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SPORTLIGHT

RYE BODY is getting into the act. Over in London perennially optimistic boxing promoter Jack Solomons is planning to stage a heavy- weight championship bout, if these “ifs” materialize: If the winner of the British title fight between Joe Erskine

and Henry Cooper looks im-

pressive.

If Solomons can then per- suade Eddie Machen to go to London for a battle with the British champ,

If Floyd Patterson agrees to take an overseas trip and meet the winner of that elimiation match...

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Every year the Lions look better, but so do the other teams in the WIFU. Rough- riders and Esks appear to be the best teams in the league, and Lions seem ‘fated to battle it out with Stampeders for the bottom slot. Discouraging, ain’t it?

mt R bos What are the world’s most

popular sports? Soccer has no contenders

‘when it comes to world popu-

larity, but in the U.S. and Canada it still ranks among the minor sports. :

On this continent baseball is perhaps the favorite spec- tator sport, although south of the border more people pay to see basketball.

Joe Miller, sport$ writer for the AFL-CIO News, lists his favorite 10 spectator sports as follows:

Baseball, football, boxing, basketball, hockey, rodeo rid- ing, hydroplane racing, track and field, bullfighting and golf.

Miller puts baseball on top “because it is the most unpre- dictable, skillful and diversi- fied of all sports. Anything can happen at any time on the diamond and that’s why your interest never lags.”

Some of Miller’s other com- ments: ' ’ Football: “No other sport has quite the Roman carnival aspect of the grid game. And what can compare, in terms of sustained excitement, with a fourth quarter drive for a win- ning touchdown?”

Boxing: “There is probably no single more'exciting event than a heavyweight champipn- ship fight, especially when an exciting battler like Dempsey, Louis or Marciano is in there under the blazing lights.”

Basketball: ‘This is the most beautiful of all sports because of its cleverness, speed - and grace” :

Hockey: “Probably the fast- est of all sports. It contains also the element of brutal: body contact and exploding tempers to keep the spectator constant- ly on edge.”

Rodeo riding: “There are some who contend that rodeo is a spectacle and not a sport, but don’t tell it to the ’pokes ‘who ride the wild brones and steers. The spectacle of man vs. beast is real drama in the raw.”

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