http://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0345028
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issued: 2017-03-28
issued: 1914-08-14
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note: MSB THE BRITISH COLUMBIA FEDERATIONIST INDUSTRIAL UNITY: 8TRBNOT 'jT , b OFFICIAL PAPER: VANCOUVER TRADES AND LABOR COUNCIL AND B. C. FEDERATION OF LABOR. l"A'* SIXTH YEAR. No. 1% STOEET P/^LWAYMEN'S DISPL*" £ SEEMS ENDED VANCOUVER, B. C, FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 1914. SIX PAGES POLITICAL UNITT: VICTOBTI Further Negotiations Result in Terms Approved by the Men at Special Meetings Held This Week The street railwaymen's committee has almost, after two months' negotiations, concluded the argument with the B. C. Electric railway over Ihe company's contention that it had the right, under in agreement with the employees, to discharge, without question on the part of the employees' com- ittee, uy worker whom they suspected of dishonesty. It will be remembered that at the request of the employees a board of [conciliation was appointed consisting of Mr. Justice Macdonald, Jas. H. Mc- /ety and John Elliott to ascertain, if possible, just what the agreement be- reen the company and its employees meant and what the intention of ihe Mies to the agreement were. The report of the board has already been exclusively published in The 'ederationitt, and was, on this particular point, in favor of the contention of the men, scoring the company for attempting to take an advantage to which it was in no way entitled. Negotiations have been proceeding ever since the board reported, both sides accepting the award, but the company again trying to twist and distort it to conform to its original view of the dispute. As a result of the various conferences between the committee and the Company's officials and the assistance of Mr. H. H. Stevens, M.P., and J. D. McNiven, western representative of the department of labor, an arrangement has been arrived at whereby Mr. Justice Macdonald will be asked to draft a clause in place of the faulty one, providing for the same methods of appeal in the case of an employee charged with dishonesty as apply in other cases of discharge or suspension. During the week th…
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The British Columbia Federationist
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has type: Newspapers
spatial: Vancouver (B.C.)
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language: English
lat: 49.261111
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provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Vancouver : The B.C. Federationist, Ltd.
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
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