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—SM^^* ****—*— V I I 'of* *<r SUPPORTED BY ONE HUNDRED AND FOUR LOCAL UNIONS TO EACH UNION MEMBER THE rOUTICAL PARTY or HI! CHOICE No. 616. BOR STATESMAN, BY THE VANCOUVER, NEW WESTMINSTER AND DISTR CT M MAY 5 1950 RAPES & LABOR COUNCIL L InHnnl VANCOUVER, CANADA, APRIL, 1950 -Uta-lis-erj 19.4 BUILD STRONG UNIONS FOE SOCIAL SECURITY 1 th . WHAT THEY SAID. Fair Chance for Everyone Is Goal "We do not want to hand life on a silver platter to every newborn child in America. Nobody can do that, and it would not be a good thing if it could be done. "But we do wajnt to make sure that'every person in the United States ia given a fair chance—a fair chance at edcuation, a fair chance at health, a fair chance to enjoy his declining years, a fair chance to keep his home together in times of economic distress."— Federal Security Administrator, Oscar Ewing. Taxes Hurt Little Guy Theoretically we are taxed according to our ability to pay, but nearly always the man who really gets hurt is the little fellow ... He is the unorganized he has no lobbyist or pressure groups behind him. When he cries, his is the small, thin voice in the wilderness. He may fume and fret, but he pays up."—The country's leading authority on taxation, Jacob K-. Lasser, in the New York Times Magazine. _=— Our Old Folks "Old age homes and a pension scaled just above survival level merely transform a potentially valuable social group into an isolated status in which they are fair game for political charlatans!" Dr. Max Jacobson. _._ My Religion "The world is my-Csmntry,' all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.'—Thomas Paine. Toil Is the Law "If you want knowledge, you must toil for it; if food, you must toil for it; and if pleasure, you must toil for it; toil is the law." —Ruskin. Better Life Open To AH "The applications of science yet to come are manifold and far- reaching, With them we can establish a standard of living in this country far higher than we have ever had; we can make more goods and have them more generally available throughout the population. We can prolong our lives and escape the ravages of old age, overcoming the scourges of mankind, epidemic disease, cancer, senility, to an extent th't we can now barely grasp. We can create an environment in which the creative jpirit has an opportunity to rise and aspire. We can build a society in which there will be justice and good will. "All this is within our grasp; we know it, for the performance of the past 10 years is a guarantee of the effectiveness of the system under which we operate and of the fundamental principles to which we adhere. "All we have to **»--^^~^^^^^~i*"^-cve that system and improve it and' hold fast t?"those irJeaTs and "the"faith from which they arise."—Dr. .Vannevar Bush, Modern Arms and Free Men (Simon and Schuster). Today Is Not So Short "Look to this day, for it is.life. Yesterday is already a dream, tomorrow is only a vision; today, well lived, makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day."—Sanskrit. Some People Never Understand Prosperity "Most of us learned back in 1932 that this country can't be prosperous unless the laboring man, the farmer and the white collar worker have enough money to buy the things they need ... "But apparently some people can't or won't read the lessons of history. They think it is possible for them to get along all right while the rest of the country starves."—Sen. Claude Pepper <D., Fla.). Why Toss Them On the Junk Heap? "Automatic age brackets must be eliminated in industrial and civil organizations. No one should be retired at 65 unless he chooses or unless it is medically necessary. Experience and patience are at a premium in the present time. Why toss them on the junk heap." —Dr. Max Jacobson. Pivotal Domestic Issue Today "The Welfare State is the pivotal domestic: issue today, and on this issue there are, roughly speaking, four general stands: radical, liberal, conservative, reactionary, If our past tells us anything, it tells us that in time' most of us will line up on this issue in the liberal or conservative rank, with our eyes and hearts still fixed on the 'extreme center.' I feel strongly that the Republicans wil' deny their own destiny if they continue to follow those leaders whose political vocabulary on this issue is limited to a shrill 'No.' Reaction will never win a working majority in both White House and Congress."—A. Whitney Griswold, President-designate of Yale. Atomic Energy "The very discovery which is the cause of so much alarm today —the harnessing of atomic energy—holds promise for man's welfare ihat we have been too timid in attempting to envision."—Dr. James R. Killian, jr., president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 1»60 CttL SrAMnz/rs That's why you should let the union bargain for you, Ed!" Wage Hike for Electric Panel-Cemco Workers Alex Dorland Asst. Business Man- alter for Electrical Workers Union No. 213 reports wage increases aad new agreement tor the members employed by the Electric Panel Manufacturing Co. and the Cemco Electrical Manufacturing Co. Over 100 workers will benfit in the wage increases wich range up to 13c per hour and making the Journeyman rate $1.68. The agreement also includes nine statutory holidays with pay 'and a vacation plan which will increase the week by one day each added year's service after one year. It is expected that the official LBEW union label will soon be available for the goods manufactured by these firms. Neon Products Plant Still Closed Down There is no change in the situstion at the Neon Products plant where 55 Electrical Worken are on strike. The members of the Sheet Metal Workers Union and the Sign asd Pictorial Painters Union are not crossing the picket line. The Unemployment Insurance Commission Umpire in Ottawa has authorized payment of unemployed benefits to the non- strikers. Typos Get Increase on Three Local Dailies Members of the Vancouver Typographical Union, Local No. 226 have obtained a 13c per hour wage increase and other concessions on the three local dailies, The Vancouver Daily Province, The Vancouver Sun and the Vancouver News-Herald. The new wage will be $1.80 per hour for day work, and $1.90 for night work. There has been a new holiday provision in the agreement giving the members 10 days annual holiday with pay, after one year of service and 16 days after 16 years of service, and five statutory holidays. Over 200 members are affected by the increase which has also been made retroactive to October I, 1949. New Buying Power Every new Job which supplies a need creates new wealth to pay the worker's wage and thus adds new buying power. If you and other citizens of your" town provide a factory for a firm that needs to expand, you are helping to create needed jobs and new buying power. If you get new customers for your plants by reaching people who need your products and do not know of them, you arc increasing job opportunities. If you use local resources and local labor to Sroduce a better or lower priced pro- uct, you are contributing new income. If you get needed hospitals, water supply, more health service— you are providing jobs which make your community a better place to live. Companies Improving plant snd machinery slso create productive jobs. All auch new work creates value, so that jobs pay for themselves, either now or In the long run. And thi sum total of all projects like these, plus substantial wage increases, can expand business enough to restore "full employment." Clerks in 40 Safeway Stores Get Wage Boost Wage increases have been gained by grocery clerks in t<S Safeway stores in Greater Vancouver, Greater Victoria and New Westminster in a new agreement The new contract retroactive to Feb. 27 climaxed more than three months of negotiations between Canada Safeway and Retail Grocery and Food Clerks (AFL), Local 1518 for 366 employees. A joint company-union statement said wage increases have been gained by most experienced brackets of both male and female employees. Increases are coupled with a reduction in the male apprenticeship period from four to three years. Many journeymen grocery clerks now earn from $30.80 to $50.16 weekly on a graduated scale while female rates are from $26.40 to $39.60. Male clerks receiving top rates' at the agreement date will get over- scale rate $61.92. Other provisions of the previous agreement calling for union shop, checkoff, nine statutory holidays, vacation plan and other provisions will, be maintained with several minor improvements, Non-Strikers Get Then- Unemployment Insur'ce Sheet Metal Workers and Sign and Pictorial Painters who v.ere unable to go to work, when the Electrical Workers Union, Local 213, put a picket line around the Neon Products company plant, are now receiving unemployment insurance. There was some dispute over this pay, when the local claims officer of the Vancouver Unemployment Insurance Commission took the matter up with the Umpire at Ottawa __do£' posed the payment of unemployment benefits to the men, on the basis that they refused to cross the picket line. The Umpire upheld his opposition. The officers of the unions involved, along with the Building Trades Council and the Trades and Labor Council appealed the decision, and the matter was placed before the Local Board of Referees, and after the matter was outlined by Jack Eaves, of the Sign Painters Union, Jamea Walker of the Sheet Metal Workers Union, R. K. Gervin of the Trades and Labor Council and B. W. Watts and Frank Carlisle of the Building Trades Council as well as members of the unions involved, the Board of Referees gave a unanimous decision' in favor of payment. After the report had been forwarded to Ottawa, approval waa given to the payment of the insurance and all workers involved are now in receipt of the payments. Tire Repair Firm Fires and Rehires Workers Automotive Workers Local 1857. reported that the City Council had called for tenders for tire retreading and repair work and that three Arms had tendered, among them, the Butler Tire Co. Delegate G. Webb stated that his organisation had recently accepted Into membership the employees of the Butler Tire Co., New Westminster, and had applied for certification ss the bargaining authority. When the employer was notified that {he Union had applied for certification he dismissed all of the employees including the foreman from that plant. This matter was brought to the attention of Secretary Gervin who when the matter came before City Council was able to have the matter laid over until the firm was investigated as to the wages and conditions under which work was carried on. Delegate G. Webb reported that- the next morning the Butler Tire Co. had rehired the dismissed employees. COUNCIL SUPPORTS IDEA QF BROTHERHOOD COMMISSION Del. Tom Alsbury was authorized to act as the Vancouver Trades and Labor Council's delegate to the pro- j posed Brotherhood Commission. This! was done at the invitation of the! Vancouver Labor Council (CCL) to I take part in the setting up of a per-1 manent Brotherhood Commission to | handle cases of racial Discrimination i and bring to the public eye acta of: intolerance of racial or religious i nature. British Columbia Payrolls %*»_ Hit $625,000,000 Mark^ IF MONEY TALKS, as some say, then tbe voice of prosperity it heard in our land. For the payroll books of the province tell a / **? story of continued expansion in most industries, pouring out ■_£___■ $625,000,000 in wage* and salaries. ' This round figure does not include farmers' cash income estimated at $142,000,000, nor does it include the income of fishermen. Where does the money come from? Where does it go? Here's ;. rough idea, based on 1948, the latest, year for which figures have been published by the provincial department of labor. First let's see where we get the $625,000,000 figure. This was the government estimate, which has not yet been revised. It was made up of industrial payroll $426,000,000, plus payroll of $196,600,000 in non- industrial operations. How the Figure Is O-nputed Industrial payroll is based on reports from close to 9000 reporting firms. Non-industrial payroll is based on reports and estimates for - government workers (provincial; federal and municipal), wholesale and retail business employees, railroads and deepsea snipping. "Provincial" payroll here is taken to mean the two combined. ' v- What kinds of people drew the money? Of ^industrial payroll, the wage ^earners (including piece workers) received $337,711,818. Clerks, stenographers and salesmen got $50,543,021. Officers, superintendents and managers, received $38,135,367. Where did the money go? How was the "Provincial" payroll divided up among the different sections of the province ? Of each, payroll dollar Greater Vancouver residents received 42 cents. Vancouver Island received 38 cents. The rest of the mainland received 20 cents. Wage Eamer'a Share 79 Cents Nine cents went to officers, superintendents and managers. 12 ' cents went to clerks, stenographers and salesmen. 79 cents went to wage earners. How big are the big payrolls? More than 50 companies have payrolls exceeding $1,000,000 yearly. Seven companies pay out more than $5,000,000 a year. More than $100,000 a year: 713 companies. Between $4 million and $5 million: three companies. Between $3 million and $4 million: five companies. Between $2.million and $3 million: 10 companies. Between $1 million and $2 million: 28 companies. On top of these huge sums are the payrolls running into $198,- 000,000 a year, of the municipal, provincial and federal governments, the big retail and wholesale firms, the transcontinental railways, deepsea shipping companies. Average Earnings Rising Average weekly earnings in B.C. industry are edging up to $48 a week. What are average weekly earnings in primary and secondary industries? Lumber industries pay averages $49.92 a week. Best pay is in coal mining: $54.40 a week. Metal mining: $51.72 weekly. Pulp and paper manufacturing: $5125. Public utilties: $47.67. Printing and publishing: $47.80. Oil refining and distributing: $50.38. Construction: $48.23. ^Tg .„_ Jw the Pie Waa Cut •■■-How^was"t-MrpayrolI pie cut in industry, among wage-earners, white collar workers and bosses? ..,_».., ,~« Y - - Here are some representative industries: In lumber, with a payroll of $105,152,349, officers, superintendents and managers took a cut of $6,849,611. Clerks, stenographers and salesmen were paid $3,822,974. Wage earners received $94,479,764. Metal mining: Payroll $18,502,053. Of this'amount the managerial group received $1,209,219. White collar staff received $2,149,- 450. Wage earners received $15,143,384. Food Products Big Industry Smelting and concentrating: Payroll, $12,076,589 in only five firms divided as follows: Managers, $539,230. Office and sales staff, $2,551,344. Wage earners, $8,986,015. Pulp and paper: Payrolls of nine companies totaled $16,644,439, divided as follows: Managers, $1,203,413. Office and sales staff, $1,301,624. Wage earners, $14,159,402. Printing and publishing: Payrolls of 453 companies add up to $9,297,215. Managers received $1,209,597. Office and sales staff received $2,919,273. Wage earners received $5,168,345. Food products manufacture by 658 firms rolls up an impressive payroll of $33,082,805. This was divided this way: Managers $3,813,591. Sales and office staff received $4,992,881. Wage earners I received $24,276,333.—Vancouver Daily Province. I ' I New Union Affiliates With T. and L Council Ernie Cook, chairman of the Organizing Committee of the Trades and Labor Council, recommended that the application of Local 287 of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, for affiliation with the Council be accepted, and was endorsed by the delegr.tes. This is a new lot*, of the ILGW and will be known as "Knitgoods and Sportswear", Local No. 287. Officers of the local will include Mr. S. Clarkson as president. Hiss Joan Soper as recording Secretary and Anne Marshall as Business Agent BCE Office Employees Join Trades Congress More than 1000 members of B.C. Electric Office Employees Association have received a charter of affiliation with the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada. Union President Bill Mann said 268 supervisors in the company have been excluded from membership. Officers elected Include Mr. Mann, who succeeds Ted Collins: Al McQueen, vice-president; L. Bradberry, treasurer, and Elsie Barlow, secretary. WARNING FRASER TAXI LTD., 49th and (rater Does Not Employ Members of Our Union TAXI CAB, BUS AND STAGE DRIVERS' UNION, NO. 151 ~\ ——»* Page Two THE LABOR STATESMAN April, 1950 THE LABOR STATESMAN Published third Thursday in each month at Labor Temple, 307 West Broadway, Vancouver, B. C Authorised as second class mail. Post Office Department, Ottawa. Owned by the Vancouver, New Westminster and District Trades ■nd Labor Council and Labor Council Subscription Bates: fl.00 per year; to Unions, 4c per member Pkaa.i FAiras.at 4343 per month. Vancouver, Canada, April, 1950 It's Time To Start Slum Clearance THE HOUSING PROJECT recommended by Professor Leonard C. Marsh, as a result of a three-year survey of a forty-block area of slums, will undoubtedly be approved by thousands of Vancouver citizens. The project, however, depends entirely upon the City Council, and as in the past, the reaction of several aldermen is definitely in opposition. One of the weakest arguments coming from them is that present tenants would not be able to find places to reside, while some of the area is being rebuilt. That, along with many other barren statements, were made in the City Council before the last war, when the late Alderman Corry gathered considerable data in an effort to have the slums cleared and decent apartment 'blocks built. Had a start been made on such a project then many squalid areas might have been eliminated and some realty low-rental housing in operation by now. Professor Marsh points out that provision "has been made for financial assistance from the Federal and Provincial Governments, hence such a project depends entirely upon the City Council taking the initial action. Slum clearance—the first part of any low-rental housing project—must have the expropriation powers of the City Council, but the actual housing project can be carried on without any large direct financial outlay by the Council. If a slum clearance and low-rental housing project was launched by the City of Vancouver, thousands of citizens would undoubtedly lend financial, moral and other support to the scheme. Short term bonds, such as were used to build the City Hall, would be taken up fast, and many other forms of assistance could be obtained, just as soon as the City Council decided to take up the project. Costs of labor and material are very much higher than they were before the last war, when the job should have been started, and there is no immediate prospects of lower costs. But if the City Council really went into the plan in a big way, such as the elimination of the forty blocks pf slums, over a period of several years, organized building tradesmen might be induced to donate a lot of free labor on apartment block, projects in order to help the low- rental project. Building materials might be obtained at manufacturers' prices, plus transportation charges. Architects and superintendents' services might also be obtained without cost or at a low fee. There are thousands of people in this city who are donating time and labor to community, social and fraternal undertakings every day in the year, and if the City Council asked for this kind of help, there undoubtedly would be a ready and enthusiastic response. If a start could be made on one block, with a two-story apartment covering the entire block, and composed of two (bachelor), three and four-room suites, with an open playground centre, it could absorb the tenants in at least three other slum blocks in the area- While apartment blocks would lend itself more readily to low- rental hqusing, the area could be interspersed with blocks of individual housing units, duplexes or terraces. If arrangements could be made to obtain building materials and supplies from manufacturers, many contractors could be found to construct these places at a price that would also lend itself to low-rental housing. The area surveyed by Professor Marsh is in a location where tenants could be readily obtained, hence there would not be any great loss to the city in having untenanted houses or suites. As a matter of fact, many large insurance companies built series of blocks of apartment houses in several cities of'the United States, starting many years ago, and found them one of their best investments because the suites were always readily rented. Of course, ""they fouritf that itrwas mseessary to give the tenants proper service as far as maintenance of the property was concerned, and they found that by giving this service the suites were always in constant demand by would-be tenants. Taking all these things into consideration, it is our opinion that the City Council should not have to be prodded into taking on this slum clearance and low-rental housing project. But judging by the apathy displayed by previous City Councils, it may still be necessary for union, social and fraternal organizations to write the City Council urging immediate action on such a project.—H. W. W. Political Education-* How They Voted Following- is the first list compiled by the Political Education Committee of the Vancouver, New Westminster and District Trades and Labor Council. It describes how British Colombia Members of Parliament voted on the following; questions in parliament. _______ A. Motion to remove the Means Test (Sept 19,_94»). B. Bill to re-establish railway pension rights lost by strike (fat 8,1049). C. BiU to Bake union dues deductable for income tax pWffb.s (Nov. 7, 1949). MEMBER AND CONSTITUENCY ABC T. H. Goode L (Burnaby-Richmond). against against against W. M. Mott L (New Westminster) absent J. L. MacDoogall L (Van.- Burrard).. against against %uscnt R. O. Campney L (Vancouver-Centre) against against against A. Maclnnis CCF (Vancouver East) FOR FOR FOB H. Green PC (Vancouver Quadra) FOR FOR FOR A. Laing L (Vancouver South) against against against R. W. Mayhew L (Victoria).— against against against 0. L. Jones CCF (Yale)-...- FOR FOR FOR J. Sinclair'L (Coast-Capilano) ....against against against J. L. Gibson Ind. (Comox-Alberni) against FOR FOR G. A. Cruickshank L (Fraser Valley) against against against E. D. Fulton PC (Kamloops) absent FOR absent J. A. Byrne L (Kootenay East) against a-ninst against H. W. Herridge CCF (Kootenay West)....FOR FOR FOR G. B. Pearkes PC (Nanaimo) FOR FOR FOR The All-Canadian Gas Pipe Line Members of Parliament have replied as indicated below to our request for support for an all-Canadian Route for the proposed natural gaspipeline; A. Laing L (Vancouver-South). not clearly stated. E. D. Fulton PC (Kamloops). -favorable. J. L. MacDougall L (Van.-Burrard) -...says matter rest with Board of Transport Commissioners. A. Maclnnis CCF (Vancouver East) favorable. G. R. Pearkes PC (Nanaimo). favorable. O.K Jones CCF (Yale)..........:....: favorable. T. H. Goode L (Burnaby-Richmond favorable. H. W. Herridge CCF (Kootenay West)....favorable. J. L. Gibson Ind. (Comox-Alberni) favorable. L—Liberal PC!—Progressive Conservation Ind.—Independent CCF—Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Not Too Old at 65 NEW EVIDENCE of the vmdesirabllity of employers retiring workers without exception at 65 (an increasing practice) is brought out in the current Socisl Security Bulletin. The Bureau of Old-Age and Survivors Insurance interviewed 4,491 of its beneficiaries in their homes in 19 cities. The first of the conclusions recorded is this: Few elderly workers left the labor market because they wanted to. It was only when they were ill or laid off by their employers that most of them applied for social security benefits. For these men and women, old-age benefits were in effect disability or unemployment benerita. Further the report notes: Fifty-four percent of the male and 42 percent of the female primary beneficiaries in all the surveys combined had lost their jobs in covered employment on the initiative of their employers. Most of the others had quit for health reasons. Only about 5 percent of the men and women had retired voluntarily, and a fifth of these had returned to work. Those who worked after becoming entitled to the old-age insurance usually did so because their retirement incomes were inadequate, the government's interviewers found. Most beneficiaries could not live at a maintenance level on their retirement income and their assets. Few beneficiaries of any type had real economic security. Business is paying a high coat in retiring many of its people at 66, for the skills they represent are thereby wasted. The length of life and the duration of the productive years in the United States are constantly increasing. Fixing the retirement age arbitrarily at 65 is in many cases thoughtless and poor judgment The man and woman of 65 who can still do a first- class job, neither in his old position or a new one, has value to his employer and deserves better than being automatically cast aside.—The Christian Science Montitor. Four and One-half P.C. For Labor Temple Loan In order, to clear up the balance of (26,000 owing to the bnilders of the Labor Temple, Labor Headquarters Limited are offering unions 4H% on monies loaned for this purpose, but you will have to act fast as this offer will close May 16th. This loan will be secured on the same conditions as the 8% debentures recently sold to unions. Union officers and members at. being asked to act immediately on this proposition, so that the debt can be cleared up*' Address your communications to Labor Headquarters Ltd., Labor Temple, Vancouver, B.C. Boys' Club Association Speaker to be Heard* Endorsatlon mas given to a request from the Vancouver Boys' Club Association, to address the Council delegates at its next meeting. The Boys' Club movement especially in the United States, has been endorsed and given warm support of the Trade Union Movement The clubs provide constructive activities in health, physical, training and vocational skills. At the request of Truck Drivers Union No. 81, Del George Johnston, reported that the Grievance Committee had approved placing the firm of Gordon Young (B.C.) Ltd. on the "We Do Not Patronize'* list of the Council, p Canadian Gas-Oil Developents Support Construction Trades MONTREAL—Although preliminary surveys indicate that prospects are bright for private construction in 1960 the federal government Intends to go on maintaining a backlog of postponable public projects to be available as a "floor" whenever required, Rt Hon. Louts St Laurent, Prime Minister of Canada, told delegates to the 32nd annual meeting of the Canadian Construction Association at the annual dinner here last month. "In looking to the future," Mr. St Laurent continued, "everyone counts upon the construction industry to play its full part in maintaining a high level of employment throughout the country. But It would be wrong to assume that the construction industry alone can be an adequate instrument to. stabilize the whole economy. I don't believe the industry itself would want to try to meet all employment problems with additional construction programs. If we tried that policy, the result would be great swings in construction activity. What we should try to do is to pursue public construction policies which,will keep the industry relatively stable and maintain a high level of employment in construction. We must try to direct all our economics in such a way as to create conditions in which businessmen, builders, contractors, workers, in fact all our people, are encouraged to make their most useful contribution to the activity of the whole community. "Canada has greater potential wealth per person than any other country," Mr. St Laurent said. "Much of that wealth, and I believe most of it" he continued, "remains to be developed and development means construction. That is why I believe construction will long remain the watchword of the Canadian nation. "Canadians can best develop our resources and build up our national economy by giving the widest possible scope to private endeavour." The prime minister was "more convinced than ever" that the skill, ingenuity and foresight of Canadians as individuals will bring the most rapid and the most effective development of this country. Although the nation's postwar housing program could well stand international comparison, Mr. St Laurent commented that the nation's greatest need "is still for low-priced houses which can be obtained for a Tow rental. By using material in new ways and by constantly seeking for better methods of construction," he felt that costs, always the big thing for prospective owners, could be kept "within manageable proportions." In thanking the prime minister' for "a very capable graphic picture of what the government is doing in the matter of national economy," Albert Deschamps, a past president of the Canadian Construction Association, voiced the opinion of all delegates when he declared that "the destinies of our country could net be in better hands." ' Mt. Pleasant Undertaking Co. Ltd, KINGSWAY at ELEVENTH AVENUE KimdBness — Understand'mg — Dependability Lady Attendant Phones: FAirmont 0058 and 0059 Meet Your Friends at the . . . EMPIRE HOTEL 78 EAST HASTINGS STREET Licensed Premises Refreshments served as you like it S. Brandolini Si Sons; Proprietors ! HOTEL REGENT Limited FULLY LICENSED 160 Hastings Street Bast Vancouver, B. C Union Agreements for < Alberta Gas Pipelines First major pipeline project-agreement between labor and management in Canada was signed in Edmonton recently. The agreement signed by representatives of three international unions and an official of the U.S. "Bechtel Interests" covers every phase of labor involved in the Edmonton-Regina section of the in- terprovincial oil pipe line from Edmonton to Superior, Wisconsin. Coatract The Canadian Bechtel Ltd., subsidiary of the U.S. Bechtel Interests has the contract for laying the pipe. Signing of the agreement means that every man who works on the pipeline laying must be a paid-up member of his respective union and "continue to be so," labor leaders say. Major Gain The agreements, extensions of those already existing in the U.S., represent a major gain for Canadian labor, union officials stated. Cliff Priestley, business representative of Local 488 of the plumbers' union, and president of the Building Trades Council in Edmonton, signed the agreement for the plumbers. The wage scale provides 81.76 per hour journeymen, 8- per hour for foremen. $1.25 for helper apprentices. The agreement for the engineers was signed by E. Wark, Canadian representative for the international union. The local union is 995. Terms are: 81.75 for top operators, down to 81.20 for oilers, firemen and assistants. The laborers' agreement was signed by Carl Berg, secretary treasurer of | Local 92 and vice-president of th* Trades and Labor Congress. The laborers won a minimum rate of 90 cents per hour for semi-skilled workers. All agreements had time and half for overtime clauses and double pay for work on eight statutory holidays. Berg said the 90-cent an hour rate for laborers wss a "good increase" over the 66 cents an hour "prevailing for similar work at the present time."—The (Calgary) Call ««'_ Power Station Yet The new 40,000-kilowatt raereury- rteini Schiller Station at Portsmouth, r. ijlt hv the Public Service Co. of . w Hampshire for 813 million, is •>i' to produce more power per -o'<nd of fuel than any other ever Hiilt 1950 1950 158.3 165.0 157.8 169.6 164.2 166.0 157.6 160.7 166.3 168.8 168.6 164.6 158.1 169.5 168.4 165.2 160.8 162.4 City Living Cost Climbs 1.8 Points Vancouver's cost of living climbed another 1.8 points in February. Higher food price's and rent increases were mainly responsible for the jump from 163.4 to 166.2. The index is based on August 1939, as 100. Biggest increase was recorded in Toronto, up 8.1 over January. Winnipeg's index rose 2.5, Halifax and Montreal 1.8, Saint John 1.7, Edmonton 1.4 and Saskatoon .9. Here are the comparative figures for the regional index by cities: Feb. Jan. Feb. 1949 Halifax 152.3 Saint John 156.8 Montreal 162.0 Toronto 164.6 Winnipeg 163.8 Saskatoon 161.6 Edmonton 164.2 Vancouver 160.7 Dominion 167.9 The city indexes show changes in living costs for each city and compare the extent of tbe rise and fall between cities. They do not compare the actual level of living costs. Alberta Construction Work May Reach $40,000,000 Construction for 1950 in Calgary and district as far north as Red Deer, west to the Rockies, south to Clares- holm and east to the border, will no doubt this year reach the 840,000,000 figure, which is far larger than the 1949 total. With that amount of construction in the future, prospects of good employment for the next year is a certainty.—The Call, Calgary. UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE FOR HOSPITAL EMPLOYEES Ottawa.—Extension of Unemployment Insurance benefits and coverage to temporary or casual employees wodnna for hospitals or other charitable institutions, -.flJU'lfae not operated for gain, arid employed on construction, renovation or repairs, has been announced by the Unemployment Insurance Commission. This change in the regulations removes the anomaly under which persons working for contractors on such work for such institutions have been covered while similar persons working on similar work for the same institutions were excepted from Unemployment Insurance coverage and benefits. All will now be insurable. ST. HELEN'S HOTEL The House of Hospitality ■— Friendly and Courteous Service Refreshment Parlor Walter and Earl Bennett 1161 Granville Street Your Hosts Vancouver, B. C YALE HOTEL 1300 GRANVILLE STREET Fully Licensed Refreshments Served John Corlett, Prop. AUSTIN HOTEL licensed Premises — Good Service 1221 GRANVILLE ST. VANCOUVER, B.C THE STRAND HOTEL ("OH Tim TSARS) 624 Hastings Street West (near Granville) THE MOST CENTRALLY LOCATED HOTEL IN THE CITY FULLY LICENSED — POLITE SERVICE 1 APPLIANCES • APPLIANCE REPAIRS "FLOOR COVERINGS •PAINTS ^^/^^^^%^. 400 WEST BROADWAY FA. 7107-1 LOCATID ON anOADWAV. ONI SLOCK SAST Or CAMOII ANGELUS HOTEL Corner Dunsmuir and Howe Streets, Vancouver, B. C Phones: MA. 2435-36-37 Gus Anderson and A. Harrison, Proprietors GEORGE'S CAFE Yukon and Broadway — Close to New Labor Temple Home Cooked Meals and Pastries — Reasonable Prices TTDRC NEW—USED—RECAPPING IJLKX-O Buy them on easy Budget Plan! BOURNE SC WEIR LTD. Car. PACIFIC and HOWE Pk.-.t PA«I_« 1IM MILLAR'S MEAT MARKET FRED L1LLEY, Manager — Phone: FA. 5003 328 West Broadway, Vancouver, B. C. / ■___■ JJ^^_ufcW) April, 1950 THE LABOR STATESMAN FRED WELSH & SON Plumbing and Heating Phone: TAtlow 1261 733 BEATTY STREET. VANCOUVER, B. C. W. D. Wallace & Sons Ltd. GENERAL CONTRACTORS ...j Phone: CE 9616 3626 BROADWAY WEST, VANCOUVER, B.C. Vancouver Civic Employees W and The Union Shop ITANCOUVER'S 3,500 CIVIC EMPLOYEES arc fighting for thej V union shop, and the first barrier they have to smash through 'S In .143 the'vancouver Civic Federation bargained for the outside workers, 'firemen and city hall staff, with support of the police. They were turned down on the union shop question. Why? Because the City Council maintained that the City Charter had to be amended by the Provincial Legislature before the Dty could enter into Union Shop Agreements., This has been their position ever Chas. E. Longley Co. Ltd. COMPLETE ELECTRICAL SERVICE Phones: TAtlow 2241-2-3 1319 SEYMOUR STREET VANCOUVER, B.C. But Mr. 0. E. McGrosson, corporation Counsel for the City of Van- ] jaws of couver from 1919 to 1934, had a jaws of different idea when he was engaged fnw ™" by the Vancouver Civic Federation in 1943. This is the considered opinion of this eminent lawyer, the man who looked after the City's legal business for 15 years: "Although there is no power in the City Charter expressly dealing with this particular subject matter, the council enjoys plenary managerial powers, over terms and conditions of employment; and in view of the trend of modern legislation, I would not consider that principle of collective bargaining would be now deemed to be an irrational or illegal interference with any private rights of the employees. Granting therefore, the validity of the principle of collective bargaining, the implementing proposal embodied in your request would seem to be only a question of degree, and one aimed p_* carrying the principle) to the full complement I of its efficacy. I am of the opinion therefore, that the matter is within the powers of the Council; and merely becomes a matter of policy— whether the Council deems it ex pedient to adopt." There, in a very few words, you have the position of Vancouver's civic employees: a charter amendment is unnecessary. However, when the City Council applied to the provincial legislature for enabling legislation, in 1949 and 1950, the civic employees supported ' (fie Council. But in both cases, the proposed emendment to permit the City to enter into the Union Shop Agreement was thrown out the window. British Columbia and the Canada have been changed by the sacrifice of workingmen, in order to permit union men to enjoy this security. Vancouver Civic Employees refuse to stand by, shouting praises for de- Thcy are in the fight to win their mocracy, democracy, and one of targets is tbe union shop. The cry that we are trying to tell the City Council who they can hire, and they who can't, is a false cry. Alt that we atk Is that • man should join his union after „ stimulated period of employment. Three Vancouver aldermen are on the Board of Directors of the Vancouver General Hospital. The lay employees ot this hospital enjoy the Union Shop. Why not the lay employees of the City of Vancouver? I-j UNION BUTTONS SMITH MARKING DEVICES LTD. "Let us solve your marking problems?' Machine Engravings, Badges, Rubber Stamps, Ink, Pads, Stencils, Steel Stamps and Dies 622 Homer Street -^Phone: PAcific 5840 -rmxeeaemm ;:-,:n.W.^Y._-... COMPLIMENTS OP SMITH BROS. & WILSON LTD. GENERAL CONTRACTORS Offices: Vancouver, B. C. Rcgina. Sask. Saskatoon, Sask. J.,|?fcetie;MArineJ7» - 1»7 RICHARDS ST, VANCOUVER sP-ri--aflP--r« ________ '. ""'■-"' ,/t.r ■■'_■_» ;'.':(,«* -'__■, './ll;-..-*,,s.r .■.■,-_■■ .*__-: ;■•,_.,. ■■-. ■*-..,._». ... * I ' -^■'^-■■*.<»~^'"---»_".w.... -r—■-■*,-. - . ■«_-- , fhi CITY CONSTRUCTION CO. LTD. Phona: FA. 3202 107 East First Avenue ~ Vancouver, B. C. COMMODORE RECREATIONS* 840 GRANVILLE STREET — PA. 1531 - PA. 0556 OLYMPIC RECREATIONS! 777 GRANVILLE STREET — PA. 0940 | VANCOUVER, B.C. COMPLIMENTS OF Carter Sheet Metal Phone: FA. 0953 1129 KINGSWAY VANCOUVER, B. C. JACK PHILLIPS Secretary CM. Employe*. Illinois Jobless Get $25 a Week Chicago While unemployment is rising and unemployment compensation benefits are increasing in Illinois, the cost to employers who contribute to the unemployment compensation fund is going down instead of up . Tbe paradox ia only temporary however. What is happening is that both employers and jobless workers are reaping the benefit of an unemployment compensation fund built up during tbe post-war high industrial employment under a new amendment to the Unemployment Compensation Act, the maximum weekly benefit payable to a jobless worker in Illinois went up April 1 from $20 to $25. Because contribution rates are shrinking while benefits expand, the outgo from the unemployment compensation fund will exceed income by about $70,000,000 during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1950, according to Frank Annunzio, state labor director. The law fixes the maximum safety level of the unemployment trust fund at $435,000,000. When reserves exceed that amount, employers are riven reductions in their contribution rates,- if they qualify for it by their contributions over a 6-year period. Since 1945, the fund has been well over $435,000,000. On June 30, 1949 the computation date for 1950 rates it stood at $501,000,000. As of January 31, 1950, it waa $468,000,000. If it goes below $435,000,000 by next Tune 30, there won't be any further reduction in contribution rates. If it goes too low, there may be a raise. Uaio Teamsters Win Wage Increases Increases in ' hourly rates and Now, outside workers, organized in the Vancouver Civic .Employees' Union, Local 28, (Chartered by the fnsAeitmA I*W,CoBg_MS. of Can. eday ur4 totting a ttow--p-wn. g-i rA. GM__CTn»«rt_CgjidJJal__>ll..BoMd, rai_^.."_llawances negotiated in! has been set up to deal with the 1949 affected more than 216,00OJ Unions demands for 1960. The de- driver, helpers and other workers h* mands are: general local and over-the-rosd truck- ; ing, the U.S. Labor Departments Bureau of labor Statistics announced 12 cents an hour across the board The Union Shop; Wider Pension Coverage; Minor Contract Revisions. The terms of reference laid down for the Conciliation Board include the question of the Union Shop. The representative of the City—the official who will conduct their case before the Board is expected to pro- ducclegal arguments to prove that' tributions this week in Washington. Most of these workers received 10 cents on hour or more, according to the Bureau's review of all settlements invo.ving 200 or more workers coming to its attention during the year from press reports and other Eveready Fuel & Cartage Co. Phona: DE. 0665 FOOT OF CROMWELL. VANCOUVER, B.C. • I W& CO. ■ YESI We do manufacture Enamelled Membership Buttons, Badges, Fraternal Insignia, Medals 89 WEST PENDER STREET Phona: PA 2469 sources. New or additional employer con- uu„ »s_ •iBu.„-,,__ „_ ,,.„._ ...... ...buttons to union health and wel- the Board is not competent to deal, fare plans also figured nromlnent'y with this question. Host likely they in 1949 settlements Under terms of will bring in the old argument of the I the settlements covered, about half City Charter and its limitations. of tbe workers could look forward to another increase in 1950 or early 1961. The average increase put into effect in 1949 amounted to approximately 1H_ cents an hour. The range of hourly increases estimated where chinges in mileage allowances were involved, is as follows: About 27,700 workers—these sre figures based on employment - ss stated by the associations or 'he unions invovled in the settlements— received Increases of. 16 cents or more. Approximately 12,500 received l»- crenses of from 14 to 15,9 cents; 68,000 from 12 to 13.9 cents: 64.5^0 from 10 to 11.9 cents; 22,306 from 8 to 9.9 cents; 24,000 from 6 to 7.9 cents; and 9,000 received increases of less than 6 cents an hour. CORMACK & SON • GENERAL MILLWORK Detail Factory Work -Phon«:FA.4886 1920 MAIN STREET VANCOUVER. B. C. W.G. DAVIES Plumbing and Heating Installations Phone: HA. 0661 1943 Comifl-reial Drive , Vancouver, B. C. The position of Local 28 can be summed up as follows: The City and the Union bargain under the industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act. How can the City maintain that every section of the Act applies to them with the exception ot the one that permits an em- filoyer and bis employees to enter nto union shop agreements? How can a civic corporation be covered by a' province-wide statute, and still have the right to pick which sections shall not apply to them? Can the union seek an injunction to be free of all tbe restraints and penalties of the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, on the grounds that the logical outcome of union recognition—full union security—ia denied to them by law? The Union has applied to the Vancouver, New Westminster and District Trades .and Labor Council for financial assistance to meet the cost of legal counsel. As a result, the Trades Council has agreed to engage one of the beat known lawyers in the City, to handle the Union's case for the Union shop. Local 28 has more than 90% of the City's outside workers in their union, on a basis of voluntary recruitment. We are not fighting for the union shop because we want to guarantee the treasury a steady income, or make the work less strenuous for the officers. We are fighting for the Union Shop because we believe in the principle of 100% union membership. Because we believe that a handful of free- A. R. Grimwood Ltd. General Contractors Phone: FA. 8798 1129 KINGSWAY VANCOUVER, B.C. Glenburn Dairy Ltd. Phone: GL !400 3695 EAST HASTINGS STREET VANCOUVER, B.C. Protest Kill-Tifr Washington.—The AFL formally | protested to the Internationsl Labor 1 Organisation rt the March 23 assas-, sination of Luis Negreiros. secretary of the Peruvian Confederation of Labo*. . _ AFL International Representat've | Oeorge V Delnnoy telegraphed u.O| Director General David Mo"se that: the "'1,0 rrntcst strongly such action 1 to th» Peruvian government" "Workers of American hemisn'-ere | demand speedy -ctlon to curtail sne„ violations of hum-n ris-Hs a«vl f'te- dom of aasoel'tlon." Mr. Delanev said. 'The "FL su<"«ests that tMs Kt'r be ca'lod to the attention of riders must either be compelled to!JJ* |LO fWlwnnon Violation of support their fellow workers, or else Trade Union Plghts. ^ forfeit the benefits won by their —- brothers through union organisation. | ...^ ,,„„ ,-irter," snarled the Above all, we are fighting for a' ciatoma officer, "you told me there sacred principle. The union shop In w»s no»MnT in the suitrsse but eifltv North America has traditionally In*, and T found a bottle of whia- taken the form of a contract pro- kerf* vision agreed to between organised, "Sure." wiled the 'accused, workmen and the employer. The!'that's my nightcp." COMPLIMENTS OF UNION SHOP GOUIE & SONS«SHEET METAL WORKS Phon.: FRaier 3626 5057 VICTORIA DRIVE VANCOUVER, B.C. James L. Galloway Building Contractor Phon.: CH. 1818 1011 RICHELIEU VANCOUVER, B.C. l_r ___a 3 Page Four THE LABOR STATESMAN April, 1950 Compliments of Westminster Iron Works Co. Ltd. Phone: N.W. 3066 1135 Queens Avenue, New Westminster, B. C. James Milliken& Son Cement Contractor • Phone: N.W. 747-M3 2421 CARIBOO ROAD. NEW WESTMINSTER, B. C. Westminster Boiler and Tank Company __«. Phone: N.W. 1710 114 ELEVENTH STREET, NEW WESTMINSTER Ed. Walsh & Co. Ltd. GENERAL CONTRACTORS X Phones: Office, N.W. 4732 — Home, N.W. 4733 1721 Mission Ave. New Westminster, B. C. ■ --IfftMM-ir-1 :i-..'-*-_a~*-_atH»» «!B»m---"-J>i*->».ff't3---^-"- - . »**«_nr.__-v;'--"^p^af_;i-«n»UBn------r»--|lt^« H. LANCASTER *mim GENERAL CONTRACTOR Phone: N.W. 826-M 1121 Dublin Street, New Westminster, B. C. W. J. FOWNES WATER MAIN CONSTRUCTION — DRAINAGE lots Slashed and Burned Ready for Bulldozing * Trees Topped Phone: N. V. 2726-R1 2858 Crescent View Drive, Lions View P. O., North Vancouver J. D. NIC0L MJEJ.C, P_Eng. CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERS Phon.: DE. 4181 iPimo Qxl SrAMHsrs Opposition Rips Into Government In Budget Debate PUNT PRAISE AND MUCH CRITICISM from the opposition parties marked the opening debate in the Houss of Commons on the budget brought down by Finance Minister Douglas Abbott. The discussion is to be resumed sometime next week. Before the wind-up comes, a series of votes will have to be taken as an amendment and a sub-amendment have both been moved to the government's main motion for adoption of the budget. Through its financial critic, James M. MacDonnell from Toronto, the Progressive Conservative party has put forward an amendment declaring that the government's policies make higher taxation inevitable; that there has been no adequate attempt to eliminate extravagance and avoid unnecessary expenditure; and that no provision has been made for a program of national development, "without which there can be no hope of a reduction of taxation and the present .high qost of living." '*•« CCF. Sub-Amendment The C.C_F. Party, through. Leader M. J. Colwell, has moved a sub- amendment "regretting" that the government's policies indicate it is prepared to accept the present level of production as adequate for this country and as placing a limit on the services and security to be provided for Canadians. The sub-amendment "regeta" also that no provision is made for increased national production through economic planning, public control of investment, public ownership of mon- opolisitc industries, and the full and proper use of Canadian resources, "so as to ensure a rising standard of living and comprehensive social security." The opening "shots" from the opposition parties could be summarized this way. Social Credit Leader Solon Low complimented Abbott on the accuracy of his financial forecasts as shown by past budgets. The Progressive Conservatives came out bluntly for a greater stimulation of private enterprise. The CCF. party came out just as bluntly for more Socialism, for a greater extension of public ownership in the major industries. Barter Deals As the "lead off" man in the debate, MacDonnell stated that governments by exchange and other controls are forcing business into barter deals. It was no wonder, he said, that people are arguing in favor of barter but this only means "stepping back toward the primitive conditions from which we emerged centuries ago." The whole economic system and international trading Were built up "in a world of freedom." Today every transaction is.u nder control of governments, and instead of regarding this condition as "unnatural and temporary," there is "the most complacent and complaisant attitude" by those in power. MacDonnell argued for a gradual reduction and elimination of ex change control. He called for an end to "our watchful waiting" and demanded that Canada take a lead in taking the shackles off business and trade. "If we had convertibility, that means we could spend anywhere the money received for goods sold anywhere, MacDonnell asserted. "That would mean, of course, that there would be no more dollar problem. I don't deny that there would be some temporary disturbance in making adjustments." "Float With Wia_r Private international investment ire \i eeiaT e_r **ht-_«-m*-4«tA j**Trh _n currengieatat-hfxee. It shrivels under ~^>.*_t_2»*^-» ■afriT^.-nteia^M "The anion committee to see you, ..B-b-tldon't think you'llcow them with that bull!" A GOOD TURNER A woman approached the Pearly Gates and spoke to St Peter. "Do you know if my husband is here! His name is Smith." "Lady, we have lots of them here. You'll have to be more specific." "Joe Smith." "Lotsa those too. You'll have to have more identification." "Well( when he died he said that if I ever was untrue to him, he'd turn over in his crave." "Oh, you mean 'Pinwheel Smith'." 'Tis done beneath the mistletoe, Tis dbne beneath the rose, , But the proper place to kiss, you know. Is just beneath the nose. A little boy whose grandmother had just died wrote and posted the following letter; "Dear Angels: We have sent you Grandma. Please give her 'a harp or violin to play, as she is shortwinded and can't blow a trumpet" Daughter: "I found a horsehoe this morning." Mother: "Do you know what that means?" Daughter: "Yes. It means that some poor horse is running around in his. stocking feet" Joe: "The butter in this boarding house is so strong it can walk right over to the coffee and say, 'How do you do?" Bill: "Yes, but the coffee is too weak to answer." , Bill: "I've eaten beef all my life and now I'm as strong as a bull." Will: "That's^funny. I've eaten fish all my life, and I can't swim a stroke." All the bone in some folks' spinal columns seems to be lamped at the top! wonders to improve the trade situation. Coldwell's main critism of the budget was that the Canadian goyernment is prepared to accept "whatever levels of production, employment and economic activity the uncontrolled, undirected, unplanned operation of the private enterprise system may bring." He said the government h content to "float with the winds." Continuing, Coldwell stated the government should be prepared to accept responsibility for the maintenance of agricultural prosperity and full employment This required, he said, economic planning. Plan the Economy "Erratic fluctuation" of private capital is a prime cause of boom and depression, Coldwell claimed. It is the task of the government, he argued, to so plan the economy that the amount of spending by government by business and by consumers is in the aggregate sufficient to buy all that can be produced. It should be recognised that the world Is witnessing a transition from an economy of private production for gain to one of "public enterprise for the common good," Coldwell went on. Time, he warned, may not be on the. side of the slow-moving democracies. Low called for a national survey commission to investigate the development and distribution of national production. The Federal sales tax should have been abolished. His proposed survey commission, Low stated, should be given the duty of investigating the country's real and potential capacity and the relationship between national income and gross "national production. Low suggested a group of at least 40 technicians, engineers, economists and business men, who would be given a free hand to investigate and report on the "true state of affair* within our country." Some folks spend a year trying to '~A*M*_ftiTO>h»V_^ij<j|tfk, and the next <«ri»y-_.iW-t* get her to keep quiet 4706 Douglas Rd. New Weriminster, B.C. The local union with the longest continuous history in Canada Is the Toronto Typographical Union, No. 91 The first Printer's Society was foi in Toronto in 18S2. In 186V Society joined the National graphical Union as local 91. The name of the Union was changed to International in 1868. Locals S130 and 8185, United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, have gained hospitalisation protection, a bonus plan and other benefits in negotiations with the Ply- i woods Plastic Corporation, Hampton, IS.C. When a young fellow tells a girl he can't do enough for her—maybe he's right! Flattery is telling the other man exactly what he thinks of himself. Doctor: "Your cough sounds better this morning." , Patient: "It should. I've been practicing all night" Bill Black says that rising before dawn these crisp mornings fills one with vim, vigor, miss and vinegar. Something good from Florida: they have adopted a slogan to help prevent forest fires — "Chaperone your cigarettes, don't let them go out alone." The gob, looking for excitement and adventure, said. "Let's get married or something." But gal, more cautious, answered, "We will get married or nothing." The young wife said: "Oh, John, the baby has swallowed the matches. What'U I do?" Her hubby nonchalantly replied: "Here, use my cigarette lighter." Men don't throw glances At girls who wear pantses, Or take out in taxis The ones who wear slackses. It seems to offend them, That gals have out-menned them, So, as gin should have lemon In, A women may don riding clothes and not go riding; she may put on a bathing suit and not go in the water; but whan she gets into a wedding gown she means business. Uttle WilUe on the run, Slipped and dropped a loaded gun. Soon they came and picked up Willie. The funeral, it was a dilly. As he regained consciousness after his operation the room seemed very dark, so he asked, "Why are all the blinds down, Doc?" The doctor answered, "Well you see, there's a fire across the street I didn't want you to awake, see the blaze, and think the operation was a failure." Old Lady: "I think it's wonderful how the filling station people know just where to set up pumps and get gasoline." CUMMINGS & SON BUILDERS AND CONTRACTORS PLANS _ SPECIFICATIONS MORTGAGES ARRANGED Phone; North 218S-R 895 West Keith Road, North Vancouver A ,;« N. W. Hullah Construction Limited General Contractors 3:zz:: x 1485 CLYDE AVENUE, WEST VANCOUVER, B. C. =______=___= C. H. Cates & Sons Ltd. TUGS Phona: N.V. 1038 WEST ESPLANADE, NORTH VANCOUVER, B.C. V Congratulations to Organized Labor X A Pacific Drydock Co. Ltd. Phone: North 1771 Foot of Rogers, North Vancouver, B. C. t ;_r____-____-___. .COW&IM-I-TS OF _ - r~ Nova Electric Ltd. N.V. 2980 N.V. 2087 1325 Lonsdale North Vancouver, B. C. .*:r Hodgson Clarke Building Stores Ltd. Phone: Watt 912 1497 MARINE DRIVE, WEST VANCOUVER. B. C. Keith Plumbing & Heating Co. Ltd. PLUMBING and HEATING CONTRACTORS Phon* N.V. 2391 2480 W. K.ith Rd. North Vancouver, B.C. WHITE SPOT CHIMNEY AND FURNACE SERVICE Phone: HA. 5820 3061 GRAVELEY STREET, VANCOUVER, B.C. ( iiiiiiiiliiiii ***** ■"■■a-" ■;:: April, 1950 THE LABOR STATESMAN vPage Five "BUILD B.C PAYROLLS" Steaming Hot Coffee Fall weather makes coffee doubly enjoyable and when Pacific Milk it adfded, you'll find even greater taste pleasure, Be sure and keep Pacific Milk on hand in your kitchen. Pacific Milk Vacuum Packed and Homogenized SUPPORT THE CANCER FUND This space donated by Bill Couper * 724 Seymour Street Start Public Works Program At Once, Bengough Demands OTTAVVVL-NO FURTHER TIME SHOULD BE LOST in start- ing public works projects as the unemployment situation in Canada'is serious and dangerous, Percy R. Bengough, president of the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada, declared here recently. Bengough was joined in this reiterated demand by the Canadian Congress of Labor, prompted by the most recent official government figures placing the number of job-seeking Canadians at about the 400,000 mark. Several months ago, the two organizations issued a joint statement calling oipon the Federal government to get going on its "shelf" of public works for an unemployment crisis. "Unemployment is serious in Can- BALMORAL HOTEL Say: "MEET ME AT THE BALMORAL • Smartly moA.rft—oamfortobljp t -ralsB«4 . .. yet i*___-_ag m ««!•., diralSaa •Uno.ph.r. that -___»• ft a -.loom, plaw to Mag ot SUM yon fr____u. M_n«».r.: MIKE KOSKI JOB PATTERSON "JOHNNY" McKENZIE FhOB.1 »_L_lfl- Sl_i 159 East Hastings Street Vancouver, ac. For (iOODNESS Sake . . . DAD'S ORIGINAL —-Oat-__-eaf€oo--ie_r"" 4 The Most Delicious Health Biscuit Ever Made When lending parcels oversea, don't forget to include some Dad's Cookies. They will be greatly appreciated over there I DAD'S COOKIE CO. (B.C.) LIMITED 46S Kingsway, Vancouver, B.C. RAY'S PATTERN WORKS Manufacturers of Leader Sawdust Burners R. D. _tcDoutr.il, Prop. Patterns and Models of Every Description Gearing Propellers All Work Guaranteed Estimates Given 114 West 5th Avenue Vancouver, B.C. Phone: FA. -371 RAY'S PATTERN WORKS THOS. H. CLARK Man-IB ooaTBAorom PAINTING. DECORATING AND -FRAYING Work Guaranteed' Fhon.i __b__a ISM ataa wasi «a>n.w«at jvr». J. GLOVER ruimrt oo_-maorom Eatlmatea Furnished on All Painting Jobs a»., va-roovvaa Baxter STTS ada," Bengough declared. "We placed our views before the government months ago and warned them of the danger, but it dops not seem to register." Danger of ''Snowballing'' With 80 many out of work for so long, period, it causes a serious reduction in the country's buying power. "There—is-a very serious danger of this snowballing and creating worse conditions," Bengough added. A properly executed program of public works would benefit not only the unemployed but the "general economy of the country as a whole," Bengough asserted. Such jobs as roads and dams, when completed, would "bring in new revenue and enhance the value of the country." Bengough continued: "The government has said that it had a shelf of public work 'schemes on which to draw in just such times as these, but it is doing nothing about it. I think the people generally are disappointed. The government's actions are much different from its pre-election promises. There are some 400,000 people out of work In Canada. Imagine what a holler there would be if one- tenth of these men were out on strike. The number of man hours lost because of unemployment represents a terrific wastage in a country that needs so much development "There is no doubt as to tbe seriousness of the situation and it is impossible to forecast what the level of unemployment will be during the peak employment period this summer." \ Mora Than Seasonal Speaking for the CCL. Pat Con- roy, secretary-treasurer, declared his organization is satisfied the present situation is more than seasonal un employment Unless something is done and done fast a permanent trend toward unemployment is setting in. The only sound thing to be done is to start on the public Work projects. It is unsound, Conroy stated, for the government to argue that p ublic work projects are not needed at this time because the construction industry is operating at a high leveLThere has been no concentration on the housing problem which is worse now .rate on blulding secondary industrie than it ever was. Employment would be eased by a major housing program. In addition public work programs should be designed to concentrate on building secondary industries in areas of chronic unemployment, like the Maritime provinces. "The government's own figures back our contention that immediate action Is necessary," Conroy asserted. The Labor Department's announcement this week said that the number of persons seeking jobs through the National Employment Service num- bered '375,000 as of March 16. This W!LmjpW&KjLiJ^iS6l&J&r< week before and practically 50 percent greater than at the same time last year. Of course, all those Out of work, have not registered with the Employment Service. Paid Holidays Under the above heading, the .Windsor.. SU_-bail,tl-p-. -fa-awi-g to say editorially recently: Often some of us are apt to think progress moves but slowly, often impeded and in a desultory manner. Yet If we glance back. In almost any field of endeavour, we are surprised to see how far we have moved forward in the same in a couple of short decades. p "It was not so long ago since paid holidays didn't exist Later they were the prerequisite of a favoured few. Yet now they are accepted as a general pattern in Industry, business and commerce. At first they were but for a week, now they are more generally for two weeks, and, in some instances, even three. "We note that in the United Kingdom 20,000,000 workers are now getting vacations with pay, and on this continent the number would be proportionate, or even greater. And this has affected- far more than the employers and employees concerned. It is responsible for the creation of the 'holiday industry' which, especially in such countries as Canada, has become a major industry. This, in turn, gives employment and pay to tens of thousands of people, in the resort areas, in hotels and restaurants, in sale of gasoline and, working back through them, to other industries. "Where once holidays with pay was a revolutionary idea, now it is an accepted way of life. Existing industries survived it and new ones were established." mummi ran. am Thompson Ac Company Warm Air Heating General Sheet Metal Work' Furnaces and Repalra OS Main St, Vanc-aver, B.C. "How eome you are always so busy!" the taxi driver was aaked. "Well, It's like this: I leave the Local 66, Laundry Workers, Boston, has won wage increases, five paid holidays and two weeks' vacation with pay.for 600 members employed by major laundries and linen suppliers in the Massachusetts capital. Local 298, Chemical Workers, has secured increases in wage rates ranging upward to 16 cents an hour for members employed at the Public Service Company, Durham, N'.C. Local 138, Teamsters, New York, has gained a general wage inctf_--> insurance and welfare benefits and other Improvements for 1,000 work- rear door open and an empty purse ers in accords recently reached with lying on tne floor. You'd be sur- the Greater New York Wholesale prised how many people hop in for Grocers Association, Krasdal* Asso- short distances." elates, Inc., and Bernice Foods, Inc.; Agreement Averts Taxi Drivers Strike An eleventh hour agreement with the Toronto Local of Teamsters narrowly averted a strike recently. The agreement was signed between the Union and the DeLuxe Taxi Co. The new contract boosted from 331/3% - to 36% commissions on fares collected in excess of $96 per week. It also provided a commission which was not formerly granted, of 36% gross fares collected between S90 and $96 a week, with the provision, however, that the drivers collectively average $90 or over per week. All other contract clauses including the basic wage rate of $82 per week were retained in the new agreement The drivers work a 48-hour work week and an attempt to have this reduced to forty hours was not successful. The Teamsters' Local is negotiating with twenty other companies in Toronto and district at present Alberta Carpenters Form District Council Calgary.—At a conference held in Calgary recently delegates from all carpenters locals in Alberta decided to form a new District Council and request their International Headquarters to recognize the new district. The new district would be known as District 8 and would include carpenters in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia, the Yukon, and North West Territories. Currently District 7 of the carpenters includes all carpenters in Canada with the exception of British Columbia, who belong to District 6. A resolution was adopted at the conference asking that the Alberta construction industry be governed by a separate section of the Alberta Labor Act so that certification of construction unions cquld be on an industry wide basis rather than with individual employers. The Council also decided to seek affiliation with The Alberta Federation of Labor and will hold their annual meeting from now on at the same time as the Federation holds its convention. Brother M. O. Charlton of Calgary was elected President of the new Council and other officers elected were: W. R. McCuaig, Lethbridge, Vice-President; K. A. Epkin, Edmonton, Executive Secretary-Treasurer. Don Vath of Lethbridge, Ken Peck- ham of Calgary and Jack Craig of Edmonton were elected to the Council's executive board. POLICE YOUR WORDS Prejudice is a miserable weed. Once it gets started, it's hard to uproot Best way to keep it out of your ard is to police your words. Parents 1__y.*Wlf*n'p-pe_tllwcrf-then?' /ou don't belittle' race or religion. Your be sure you don't belittle' them be- children will repeat what you say, be guided by it Big "Tote" Job For Hume and Rumble "Confi-cts" to install and operate the "Bell Punch Tote" to be used at Lansdowne Race Track, have been awarded to Hume & Rumble Limited of Vancouver. This equipment, which is made in England, totalises electrically all sales made and posts the totals, odds, pay-off, etc., on a large annunciator board in the center field. Installation and operation of the apparatus will be under the direction of Mr. Hume. Sixty machines called TIMS, print tickets as each sale is made and the sale is recorded electrically in a central control room. The totals, odds, etc., are then flashed to the infield board where the figures appear in lights. The infield board uses approximately 6000 lamps and has 2500 wires leading to it The total job will require approximately 16,000 man hours work. The Lansdowne installation is the first in Western Canada and will likely be the forerunner of a series of five in the west Hume & Rumble Limited hsa also contracted to operate this apparatus in each case for 10 years, In California the Painters Union has obtained a 12%-cent hourly wage increase, a health and hospital plan and other benefits in an agreement with the painting and decorating contractors covering San Francisco and Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties. Local 7, Printing Pressman and Assistants, Milwaukee, has secured wage boosts ranging from 5 to 10 cents an hour in contract with the Employing Printers Association and the Franklin Association of Printers. Local 3146, Brotherhood of Carpenters, has secured a six paid holidays and other benefits in a contract signed with the Willett Furniture Manufacturing Company, Louisville, Ky. Local 665, Retail Clerks, St Louis, irocurred wage increases ranging rom $1.50 to $5 weekly in a renewal contract with the Kroger stores and the Oxark Paint stores. Local 128, Taxicab Drivers, has won pensions and other benefits in (Pittsburgh. Compliments of British Columbia Bridge and Dredging Co. Lid. BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION CONTRACTORS 544 Howe Street Phone: MArine 6431 Vancouver, B. C. I Cooperation between Labor and Capital spells Success for us all Let's all pull together to make Canada the best Country to lire in. The Dominion Construction Co. Limited General Contractors and Consulting Engineers 130 West First Avenue, Vancouver, B. C. Telephone: FAirmont 6666 Compliments of MARSHALL-WELLS (B.C) LTD. Distributors of Marshall-Wells Paints, Varnishes and Enamels Phone: PA. 8211 549 CARRALL STREET VANCOUVER, B. C. a Compliments of Johnson Walton Steamships LTD. Phone: TA. 4481 355 BURRARD STREET JVm&QllXBMJte^-- A.M.TITERLE GENERAL CONTRACTOR QUALITY HOMES AND COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS 1044 West Forty-fifth Avenue, Vancouver, B. C. Phone: KE. 7236 Compliments of WILKINSON COMPANY LIMITED STEELS AND ALLOYS Telephone: FAirmont 6100 Office and Warehouse: 190 West Second. Avenue, Vancouver, B. C. GREENALL BROS. LTD. GENERAL CONTRACTOR Builders of Better Quality Homes under N.H A. regulations. A proud record of home building achievements throughout the lower mainland. Quality at low cost achieved efficient operation. OFFICE AT 2971 McKEE STREET, BURNABY} B. C. Phone: DE. 4263-F — DE. 3S33 END OF THE LINE A gentleman slipped on the stair of a subway and started to slide down to the bottom. Half-war down, he collided with a Isdjr, knocking her down, and the two continued their way to the lower landing. After they had reached the bottom/1 the lady, still dazed, continued to sit on the gentleman's chest Looking up at her,, he finally said politely, "Madam, I'm sorry, but this is as far as I go.'' DECAICOMANIA (WESTERN) LTD. 312 POWELL STREET Manufacturers of QUALITY DECALS (TRANSFERS) SILK SCREEN WORK, ETC. < 1 "5. _____ Page Six -. THE LABOR STATESMAN April, 1950 LEO KENNEDY ■• • Phone: MA. 4394 1260 Davie Street, Vancouver, B. C Thomas Clough & Son PAINTING COHTRAOORS .' •' ..- Phone: CH. 3615 — Office: BA. 4323 2848 West 18th Avenue, Vancouver, B. C. Spring Is Here- Time To Fix Things Shellac, available at any local paint store, is a valuable household aid. Those housewives and helpful husbands who used it during spring cleaning a year ago will find their annual chore that much easier this season. To keep dirt from accumulating in corners, shellac the baseboards in your rooms. Not only will this make sweeping easier, but it will make washing the baseboards a relatively simple task. Running a rag over their surface from time to time will do the job with energy expended kept at a minimum. Applying shellac, to the panel i boards rimming your ceilings will act as a defence against the accumulation of ugly cobwebs. To keep the boards spic and span, tie a wet rag to the end of a broom handle and rub it around the edges of the ceiling. J You'can also use shellac to fix those unsightly nicks and scratches which appear on furniutre as a result of normal wear and tear. First darken them with wood stain until they are as close to the original color as possible; then apply white shellac to the scratches, one coat at a time until they are filled. If the linoleum in your kitchen €m»o Cwl Staimv/tz "On cold nights I prefer tbe reirtion- ary papers—they're so fall of hot air!" D. M. DIXON GENERAL (ONTRACTOR Specializing in OFFICE AND HOUSE REMODELLING and NEW CONSTRUCTION " " Phone: FR. 7872 89. East 62nd Avenue, Vancouver, B.C. Doctors Oppose Aid To Schools Despite Serious Shortages Washington.—A survey shows an or bathroom is beginning to crack, alarming shortage of new internes to run a strip of celophane tape down staff the nation, hospitals, the _uU length of the crack and then The «urvey waa made pubiic a few shellac the tape. The shellac coating d alter &e American Medical As- .^?_-__£d^„f„r»m8eeP'nf'"™uKh gelation "ran out'* on its commit, ^„£__i ____£■ .u i "I"" to Congress and federal officials „._?_-. ".Li..* -„_0ther 8pecial to "uPP°rt » MM granting federal uses for sheljap—and many more fands •& hard-pressed medical schools wul no doubt occur to you. „ help the education of doctors to . To keep your favorite cook book „vercome the shortage. from staining, paint both covers with a thin coating of shellac. Once the book dries, a damp cloth will keep it clean. AFL officials criticized the medical association's reversal of position on' the federal aid to medical schools -ou can prolong the life of-an b'» which came at the same session ordinary kitchen tray several times that the association si house of dele- -ver b* coating it with shellac. It a^tes voted tor a compulsory $25 a will be much easier to keep clean. ^" asse'sment to fight President But that's not all. Spilled liquids **um-_» national health insurance will leave no odor on it program. To make your child's check-rboard lhe, „h°I_*«_! of internes was re- far more d.rable, shellac it with a P0^"1 by the Hospital Council of the couple of coats. Give the same treat- national Capital Area n a survey of ment to his cardboard puzzles and »'.ospitals.he council said only 102 ot-er board games. They'd look new internes had. signed to fill 140 open- Tc for a much longer period. Yep Morgan Construction Co. Ltd. GENERAL CONTRACTORS Spcializing in New Homes, Stores and Schools Phone: Richmond 1294-R 9S5 Bridgeport Road, Lulu Island, Vancouver, B..C , Labor Is A Monopoly The charge that organised labor ; Kpcat intern.sni|.s is becoming monopolistic and there-, flc5t ot abont S,000. ings next July. It said that even the city's three university hospitals, "ac- knowieuged teaching centres, had failed to fill their quotas. "While there is a need for about 9,50u internes a year throughout the nation, only 5,600 medical students graduate," the council reported. "The interne supply ot about 1,000 graduates of foreign schools or men who still leaves a de- Trades Union Directory LABOR TEMPLE. SOT BROADWAY WEST SIS—RepiwoeniaUve, too. John. Ill Ubor T«mpl«; Tl . »47t. Anto Workera' union, x__g. are. lasr, I. a. oi' «L— Uualne.. Agent. Gordon Webb, Ul Labor Tempi.; PA. HIT. Bakery .-d B.—Business Agent, & SOI Labor Tempi.; FA. 1714. Holo nekera' Ualoa, lawl 488 —Bu.ln.aa As.nt, alelvln Kommla, IS Baal Hast- Inc. 8t: PA. 4T4I. • 7 larber. — laterna tloaal Joaraey--— of America, Be. 130 — Secretary. PC E. Herr.it. Z01 Labor Tempi.: PA. Jilt, .v.rac. Ilmuui aa* Callaary Worker., »o. S_S—SecreUry. J. Dye, 1141 Clinton St.: DExter inry, tltt-l leverage SlnnMn aad Oallaary ' era, Wo. 878—Bu.ln.iat Uanaaer, Mill", SI Weel Haatlnga 8-7mA aad Oallaary Work- P. W Oil Slaokemltbe' Ualoa, local Ul — Secretary. P. Mitchell. 1701 Dublin 8t. New Westminster Boilermakers' Ualom, aro. SSS — Bualnesa Agent. Jama. Downle, MS Beatty St.; TAtlow 1047. Boilermaker.' Ualoa, looal 1M—Secretary, P. Moore, Box 411, N.w Weatmlnster, B. C _ ■ookbla«.rs' Ualoa, local 108— Recording Secretary, P. Milne, (77 Brough- ton St. •rlok « OUy Workan1 Ualoa, Mo. MB— SecreUry, P J Cape, I lit Campbell Avenue. Abbotsford, B. C. Mae-lalata, bsai Alt Dye pa. nh -* ,n/*r- UI L*bor T«n>P'« pea- ana pie: pnor i ,&m*£*f*a~\ *••> «»l — -eeretery. D Wlldy. ItSI Seventh Avenue, iv We.tmtnster BbaUere' Ualoa, Wo. TO—Secretary R. O. Taylor. 1178 Ducheea Avenue. Weet Vancouver. B.C «_ . Malateaaaee-of.Way 1417 Kitchener Street. ' MTU Braployeee, looal 31 — Secretary. R. McLure. Ill* Eaat 14th Avenue. Marin, ■aaiaeera, national aaaoolatloa of, Ooaacll Bo. T—Secretary, H. B. Mo. Kle, Hi V— " ™ — PAclflc ISIS. e. lit Waat Pender Street Phona: Iflc —* KlUwork.r. (Bach, Door ul plater.) looal Ho. ItSS—Secretary, D. MoLeodl 8134 Yew St. ' anik Salesmen aad Dairy Smployeee, Local 4(4 —Secretary, Btrl Showier. 100 Labor Temple: FA. IT1S. ar.old.ra> Ualoa, looal SSI — Bualneaa Agent. Loula Heneg, 101 Labor Temple: FAirmont till. Motion Picture ProJeetloaieU, looal 3**, Buslnea. Manager. T. E. Foley: Secre tary. J. H. Leslie. Phone MArlne 1041. ley: Bo P.O. Box 145: rlckleyna' Ualoa, looal aTo. I—L I-d- gOtt?Br., iftl W. tlat: KErr SJM-ft aatldlag Laborer.' Ualoa, looal BBS — Secretary, L. J. Millman, 107 Weat Broadway. Phone PAIr tltt. S-U-Uujt laborere" Ualoa (New Weat- inlnel.r) No. I07tp-8.cr.iary. T. i'orter. ItOI Sixth St.: phon. N.W. ^17.-R euildlag Material aad Pnel Traok Mv. are' Ualoa, local 313—Bualneaa Agent. H. Bonnell, SOt Labor Temple: phono PA. 1714. anlldlaf Service Brnployeee. looal 804 —Uualn... Ageni, A J. Wybraw. lit w. Pender 8c; Phon. MArine 1101 CoaaoU — SecreUry. Its Labor Temple; aalidlag H. W. Watte, pphone PA. 4141. Carpenter.' Ualoa, Wo. 488—Recording SecreUry, H. P. Hamilton; Fin. Sec, J. O. Smith; BuBlneaa Anitti: J. Stevenson and R. E. Outhrle. Labor Tem pie, FAirmont tltt. arpenura' Ualoa (Chluiwaok), WO. 1848 - Secretary, J. E Towea. Box ill 'hllllwark. B.C Carpeatera' ualoa (Courtenay). Wo. 1638 Rec. Sec.," C Ivereon, Courtenay, B. C larpeatera, looal 1351 (W.w WeitaUa- 1. T. Bannan. Weatmlnater. No. 1. iter)—Bualneaa Agent. J. T. Bannan I0M • tth Ave., New Vancouver's Only Union Funeral Home i I HAROLD EDWARDS LTD. THE FUNERAL HOME OP SERVICE HEATHER CHAPEL FAirmont 0528 704 W. Broadway at Heather fore needs the same type of regulation that is supposed to govern, large corporations, is ridiculous, though partly true. The monopolistic tendencies of LABOR are becoming terrible. To cite only a few of the things in life over which LABOR exercises a complete monopoly will be interesting. Labor has a caaan-ate monopoly on all the ramshackle houses in the slums of all great cities. Those having only rea*.-able wealth would consider living in such shacks abominable. Labor MUST live in these shuns because of the inadequate wages they receive from greedy, wealthy employers. Labor ha. a complete monopoly on every room in the poorhouses of our nation. Labor toils hard to eke out an existence and to accumulate profit tor the adsentee wealthy owners in industry who own tneir jobs. Labor is too old to toil after SSSfdfS «^I^M^^t^™rvr«I. _»gr~ne money will be only a share with .none other except those ti* ., ,,,_ ..Amnion *« <--<-• -.POMfcty other except who have earned their living by the s-eat ot their brow and. who have been beaten badly by the machine. Labor baa a complete monopoly in finding it impossible to give all of tueir children a university education. Usually Hary has to go to work in the isctory anu John has to take a job in the mines so that Nelson Cruikshank, AFL director of insurance activities, said that the medical association's reversal of support is "a run out", on Its commitment to the surgeon general. The asociation did not oppose the bill already passed by the Senate and which contained provisions demanded by the doctors. Presumably part of tbe $3,000,000 to be raised by the 126 compulsory assessment on physicians will be used to fight this measure in the House next session of the Congress. In fixing a compulsory assessment, the doctors did what only labor unions —among all the voluntary associations in this country—are prohibited from doing. The Taft-Hartley Act specificially prohibits Ubor unions from levying any compulsory assessments for any reason. So AFL members can work for a national health insurance program and expanded social security with giv-. _ fraction of the $3,000,000 to which the doctors are forcing their members to band over. Even the Scripps-Howard newspapers said "tut-tut'1 to the medical association's action. Holt AMA members, they said, will gladly chip in tbe $26 to finance the fight But any who may be out of sympathy with that fight should be free to refuse and the I'hnne N.W II1R Carpentera (Wanalmo), looal Wo. 817 — Secretary, F. T. Bolton, SO Fraser St, Nanaimo, B. C Jaxpaaun' Ualoa We. 818 (Port Alberal) —Secretary, R. stubb. Box to|. Port Albernl, B. C. Oeaurat Plalakn* 808)—Busln.u , villa, itl Labor Sleetloa at looal We. lent. W J. Backer ample; FA. till. shaalayeee, looal 88—Bu.lnea. wriOlack, lit Labor Temple; dtp Agent, W. FAirmont till. Orete 88—SecreUry, J. -pit Ave.. New Weatmlnater. Mnalolaaa' Ualoa, looal 148 — Bualneaa Mattager, Geo. E. Leach, Suit, tl, Its Oranvllle St. PAclflc 7141. OMee ■■ploye.s' la. Ualoa, looal Wo. It Seeretary, B. Ooathie, Itl Labor Tempi.: FA. 4141. S-laura, looal 188—Bualneaa Manager, Jack Bavex, 117 Labor Temple; phone Paul St Varalah Workera' Ualoa, looal ~" ■"■— -Secretary. L J. Prl.ylTl-- Phone FRaaer lltl. Wo. 1650— Se-reter EL 4tlh. ~ Paper Maker.' lataraaUoaal Brotherhood, (Ocean Pall.) local Wo. 380 - Sec?? Ury, W. P. Martin. Ocean Falls. . **k. ■n««arkeo_, Local S; i.S t \e» UVeiimiiHteri - Secretary, Helen Oanton, t!7 Ith Street, New Weatmlnater. Patttnune-era. looal We. 1880 —Secre- tary. Leo. Wllea. I0I4 Marine Drive, Weat Vancouver, B.C.; Weat 14II-R. Pile Driven aad Weedea Bridaeiaea, looal 8404—Bualneaa Agent. _7Alie_; Itl a. Haatlnga St.. PAclflc 4041. Plambara aad Plpeflttera, looal ITO— Bualneaa Aaem. Prank Carllala, 101 Labor Temple; FA. ttlt. -»-_• Bagravera, looal 84—B. J. Math- las, B7SI t"' 1I70K. Imjl TtSl Balaam. Phone kerrladale PUataiara' Ualoa. Wo. TVS— Secretary. II. Weal, 1411 Weet llni, BAy. tlll--- Pl-mbere aad Plpeflttera (BaUroad) — local 671—-acretary. Lloyd Klllck. ItJT Haro Street. r^^rn**S!S.n* atalstaav-' Ualoa, Wo. 88 — Secretary. •■"■— " "---" 4407 Commercial, FR Secretary, Thoa 8. KaartT FRaaer 1141. a (Baraasy). Wo Wllaon. till Mar. Olvle Baiplayeee' Ualoa, total a*—Bualneaa Agent, Donald Oulae. 41 Weat Haatlnga Stl Phone PAclflc 4141. Dlvl.lon Ho. couver, *e-4tTras_ora* Ualoa, C.P.R a I—WTPye. Box 4ft, Van. OiatUUry Wet-era, looal Wo. 88—Secretary, ft. P. Redman, 4SI Campbell 8t; New Weeual-ster. a- C Olat-lory Wevt-ra- (OD.L.I—Secretary, O. Beat 47th. Phone FRaaer 1741. U-loa. We. 88 — , al c.uy. 141 -laotrle-l Workara' Ualom, looal 818— Bualaaaa Maaagen Oetirg* Oee. Ill t.: PAclflc Tlll-t Dunamulr 8t: 'Aclljcj eiovatar Oeaaliaeieea, looal 88 Secre- ary. R. C. MacKeehan. 1017 Baal Ttk aveaaa. DRUGS REXALL THE OWL DRUG CO. LTD. (A OAMAXtlAW COMPAWT) OWNED AND OPERATED BT A VANCOUVER CITIZEN Always Ready to Serve Labor TOBACCO CANDY M*.tk„. .._ l_. _ ,.-, __i_ j„ii„_ nam .iiuuiu oe nee to reiuae ana «ii ^keVp'u,. &home taS-4^|u^I^ "rioM" b' n0t *+ Labor baa a carapl.t. monopoly, i . when ill, on the wards in too many rieoiiru.a . _.«■„-u ■ unkempt city hotpiUls. The wealthy! ENOUGHS ENOUGH go to private institutions with trained Three hermits lived in a cave and nurses constantly at their beck and ipent all day staring at the wall, call. .never speaking. One day a stallion Labor, especially black Ubor, baa ""• P*"4 the entrance of their cave, a complete monopoly on ignorance °'x. "I0"'"" later 0n<1 hermit »un>- faecause their white "masters" still bled' ;;That'was a ■ pretty brown reiuse to furnish universities or horse. schoo.s for them to attend In some of Two years later another hermit our sovereign states. said, "That wasn't a brown horse, it Labor baa nearly a complete mon- wa» white." • _ opoly on the light to go to war, to Aaaa} a V1" 1»te,r> the third her- < fight and die to save the world until ">'* «°t up and stalked toward the the next generation of workers can ?nt.ra"fe of ™° cavf-, .« its K°lag develop so ti at another war can be to be this constant bickering," he said |lought and won. im leaving." Labor baa a complete monopoly ■'feevetary/B.' J. Pootrfei 4o0IDouglaa HEADQUARTERS for . . . IMPORTED TOBACCOS, CIGARETTES, CIGARS, PIPES and SMOKERS' SUNDRIES Coaxc and See Our Stock — Largest m Canada E. A. MORRIS LIMITED . to suffer and to die for lack of proper medical attention because of the i.igh feet of proiessional phys- cians. A trip to the good doctor's office EVER. DA. at a cost of $3 a tr.row strains the nurse strings too greatly and ao poor atom just suffers it out and too often her reward is a shroud. Ubor baa a ooaaspWto monopoly "Hard work never killed anybody," on job fear and debt; a complete said the father, ■onopoly on a million .rattling "tin ••That's just the trouble, Dad," re- S-alea" that will be paid for at th; jnrnrf u,, „,„, jMt OBl of eo\lmM. end of three years, if not attached «i mmt to engage in something that beca-se a few paymeats could not has the spice of danger." PROGRESSIVE EDUCATION Judge: "Your profession?" Witness: "Agricultural expert." "What was your father?" "A farmer/ "And your grandfather?" "A peasant TOO DULL) ipo'mere Uadertakara aad Ara-rraata Ualoa, we. BSST4 — Secretary. R. P. Wllaon. 114! Alma Rd saateeen, Wala-a. and Portable, looal 118—Bualneaa Agent. A w avoir in K Haatlnga, St.. 114-18. MArlne M4t 1 aad Caretaker., leoal 888—Secreury, Oeorge Zallo, III Earn 15th Av.nu.. eaglaoote' Ualoa (Buttoaary Opera nag i. looal We. 888—Bu.ln.aa Agent. Berry Beraer. Itl E. Haatlnga. Ste 114-11 MArlne 1141. Pttai B-ehaat- Wmyiayoea, local am— Secretary. C. W. Backua. lltl Eaat 40th Avenue, Plre Plgktera, We. 18—Bualneaa Agent. Hugh-BlrdTutt Weet 14th: CH. Mil. Road. New Weerrnln.t.r. rtre Puratera, w.w Weetralaater, Local 1SI — Secretary. D. Anderson. I III Hamilton Street, New Westminster Ploerteyors* Ualoa, U.B.of al, looal 1841—Busln... Agent, R V. Nash, 1101 Eaat 11th Ave.; DExter I4II-L wo.: **•»•■«_""«*1»» tOeaveatarsl Ualoa, looal 488—Secreury, P. Mackinnoni Bualneaa AsenL a Braat.n, lit W. I'ender. TAtlow lilt. Paip, Salpklta aad Paper WtUl Workera— Intarnauonal Office fUpra_e-ul(lvaT ^Hecret_ry. R. Stover^tl. Wo^dUp.1-- 1*\VSRJglmst .i-*R-u£1ll Dublin Bi* New Wes_nl_atar; aC. Ballway aad Swaauuup Olataa. Mo. tit jjew.iary, T. W. _.ir_y, Ittt Triuut- ■aiiwap ana , , „ __ ^a^.^^aiSTttll Payne ^^Sf^SSK!^:*' *••• ,*»4U — aocraiary, Mue-eU fTaaa. ivi Labor Taaapla; *%. 811-7 ^^ ■etau areeery ana Pea ■a. U18-8-c-r.iar.ij -."wi-aT'sii Labur Temple; PA. .141. —-.tia.aiy. Mm. Alsbury, 14.4 k_el -paup. HA.iuuj. itli.R. ^^ ■keet Metal wetaers, looal 888—1 ii... auuag.r, James Walker. Labor Temple; PA. int. • Stl •eos Metal Workara (auuireadl. looal 814—-avreury, T. ow,_, »,„ a__itet_ Avenue, Vancouver. -a-agiare' aaa Boof.ra' Ualoa, We. 8848 a-iagi. Wear ere' Uaioa, __«al Bo sunt —_wr.u-->, Aiea Low. ii.i We.i l7rS AvouMek Vancouver, t'bun. LAngara v».-K. au-porigau, aweitaudera, Jolaen aad va.u_.ra, Meal aio. bu« — BU.,„^«i ■>■ «<>ai_i, 41 Waat U-atiuga. IA. >IU. ss^uusja. Asun, 1'ttuiie 1-rarrere Worker., u. B. O- looal Wo. 8888—SecreUry, Haael Hart, 4011 SL Catherines. furniture * Mill Workers, looal 8884— Seoretary. Oeorge Powera, R. R. No. t, New Weatmlnater, B. C •laalere aad •Use Workerr, looal Wo. 18ST—Secreury. A. Allen, tilt Cullo- den Street, Vancouver. ... workera' Ualoa, looal Wo. tat — Secreury. K. Reaa, It4l W. 7th: office 'hone: MArlne lilt. Boaptta] ■aaliyef Union. We. II Bualneaa Agent, W. M Black. Labor Temple: PAlrmont till. Ill MAYFAIR CAFE The city's most "At Horn Service" cafe Quality Foods — Reasonable Priceai 29 Was. I-a-tJngs St., Vancouver, B. C PAcific 10S5 be made. When tab giant, LABOR, ergan- rsed lor the purpose of giving mors PAc-fic 3*53 a-.-. MAri_vt 3766 EARL SYKES, Horist FLOWERS FOR ALL OCCASIONS 56 East Hastings St. Vstscomrm, B. C RUNNING SHORT tcho-ling toUHi children, ti keep *&'*£! Ei*mtL**1?e\ -o-^.f them ort of mlaca, mills and fa<£ ^ f«r a tranafutlonj can you give unemployment insurance, to provide l'tat ' «°tto »'" t0B"'"'"r' the underprivileged with opportunt- _.„_ _„ „ Ucs to lilt their moral, social and TIME rCBL-IEFORM intellectual statue, then they are tup- Little boy In woodshed: "Father, posed to suffer with attempted did grandpa spank you when you crucifixion at the hands of modern were - Mttle boy?" Pontius Pilatet of the Ilk of the Father (with paddle): "Yes, my Daffy Taft-, the Joe Screwballs and son." 3 the Heartiest Hartleys. Little boy: "And did great-grandpa The members of organised laber spank grandpa when he was a little should net; forgot that even In ad- bey?'" vertity ihnf meat ktwg* tfctir faces Father: "ft*, son." to the sun mud imiwt k««p tkew ftaith I Boyv "And did great-great-grandps in God, with •the additioiiil toriiflca-' spank great-grandpa?" tion of bigger and stirongvjr unions Father: "Yea", based upon justice, equality and the; Boy: "Well, d<,nt yon think with brotherhood of man.—The Butcher'my help yon could overcome this In- Workman. herited rowdyism?" 84PcreuryrVli_ .. Hallock. tit Weet lltk: PA. IHT-U b-or.wora.ra- -weal at %** 9i SJ m ■."... —»u«iie_a A..,!, Al„ _ur. "u. ,.. u.. i^uiuu... i-uuu, 1At, iillt- -._._,„.- mi. .-tea el Bona —_u.uu(, u. oreuiii,r, se. u-uiil- UPII al , 1'AolUc J»H, —mum ' -» «w *_>MiMai Paiaura, looal rae— ••"•PPfJ. J. Atlddl.iuu, till' Truuoae at , pliuna. OLea. IIH-V. ""•"— -l-oot Bail say BiaployeM, Si vial.. Ml — Uu.li.es. Aa.iit, L. Ka.l.r Lee Bulldlns, lTt -, Broadway; PAiV: IMS. 8t*eet Bauwaymaa-. Oairm, Be. 184- Uusln.s. Agent, K Cormack. It Lorn. 81.. New Waeunlnaur, B. C. -*aS Brl Brtvv-j. leeel Ml — Secreury, Power, lit Utbor Temple; pa. IJli Pieekare' AeoaelsMoa. w.w Wsetaataeeae r?c-"*r,_,w S Navard. It|4Loa- dow. New We.tmln.t.r. 88 — aaalaeea Aa-ai '.' 'I ran vine St; Phone PAeMe n*%\ I WaT 88/188 — aacreuiry. lamee Derwoed. M4t Kltekoaer Bt. "•••'sn Itti-al reawottajea, leeel 8T—Baslneoa Agea- E O. Cook, lit Labor remple; pfcoae lewotrp Wertere' Ttsmm, Wi ury, W. Roetley. 144 Weet Haatlnga 8t, bsater I4IIR After t. PR tTT4. Airent. -T^arr. lit weet H: Pko-e DEkter TTIl-M. ••beef- flea, looal 88t — Secratary. M^ Pjajayaoa. 4141 Dnotfrtso St: , Wosft-ra, So. 888— Boalneee Agenf, s. H. Irving, 111 Labor Temple; PAIr-unt Mil, HSSSELK^ aaata-eea. We. M8—Secreury. X By- pJfilW EJIehener 8t Phone HA. aTcTiTglurt Et^H-^.,.75 nrtna Wo*_ere*~f eiairwe."St—tUeri. ury. OP. Murpb77l AtJMAvt #pF R,ets.rp^,7s-r:/^Vcrw: >WrV,8R *TmrKL!n\7'*n*k Blreet Proevr Bilssao* _ WnsliMHS. Aev>n<_ R»« Loareoty, '■■p-Wr-p ?____»• """'' T <~Tran«iieal U-lea, tAmna 888 H.ero. e*7 mTI-S *U Uh9r rm"' Wtrl«wl •aar_ta-t Wera-ea* «■_*_, W*~. JJJ-»Wref.r». Waller W. gSaw 1411 w»« trii Avenne. »*•«• <-*»•■ Taiirrw eetii "v• '" r^eeeef Tatlow ISM. Uvp*"a Vsk-eS -»o8so rlieaed eWrerar.' •M mnlrt 1*7 W a-vje_way '• -_S8---PB_-I April, 1950 THE LABOR STATESMAN Pag. Seven; ssssa-aaas The Beit Paint Postibleto Meke MARTIN-SENOUR 100 PER CENT PURE PAINT Made in Vancouver Stradiotti Bros. Ltd. River Towing and Fish Buying Phone: FR. 3711 2582 KENT STREET VANCOUVER, B. C. H. E. MOORE Plastering Contractor Phone: DE. 15184. 3419 OLIVE AVENUE, BURNABY, B.C. M.E.GIDDINGS GEffi-U COCTMCTM Phone: CE. 6628 1835 West Twelfth Avenue, Vancouver, B. C. I SPANI & SONS BUILDING CONTRACTORS Phone: DE 0390-Y 3378 CHURCH STREET __ VANCOUVER, B. C. I,N ORDERING A SOCIETY WEDDING CAKE You receive Exclusive Design, Superior Qualify, Guaranteed Satisfaction Plus Society Wedding Cake Service Phone: CEdar 5715 Corner Broadway end Oak I COMPLIMENTS OF J. G., MOFFATT BUILDING CONTRACTOR Phone: CH. 9334 2525 CORNWALL "VANCOUVER, B. C. Bert Laidley Ltd. PLASTERING CONTRACTORS Phone: FR. 4435 11 EAST FIFTY-THIRD AVENUE, VANCOUVER, I. C. Building Industry Maintains High Rate: Buoys Economy DEMAND FOR DWELLINGS, OFFICES AND FACTORIES continues to be a buoyant force in B.C.'s economy, making work for about 25,000 builders and producers of builders' supplies on a payroll close to $66,000,000 in 1948. In B.C., as in other provinces, building has been one of the main props of postwar prosperity, and there are signs that building will continue at a high rate. .i£*y A slackening in the feverish postwar scramble for ho-sing showed in 1949, and appeared to be continuing in the first three months of 1950. •; By the measuring; rod of number of building permits and their value, in the chief metropolitan area, 1949 was the first year of levelling out The metropolitan area, where the trend la less affected by a few big- cost jobs than, other areas, includes Vancouver, Burnaby, North Vancouver City, North-Vancouver District and West Vancouver. And the following figures are compiled for this area: In 1949 the municipalities and cities authorized construction of 11, 682 buildings that were expected to cost $48,707,667. In 1948 the number of building permits issued was 13,069 valued at $63,650,299. In 1947 the number of building permits issued was 10,577 for a value of $33,828,614. Big figures for the building trades mean big payrolls that nourish the body economic. In the whole province last year, 2078 firms willing to tell all to the provincial department of labor reckoned on 22,000 employees and a payroll of $59,422,986. All Type. Most of the companies were erecting dwellings, offices and industrial quarters. But the group includes also those engaged in laying sewers, pipes and valves, dre'dees, pile-drivers, structural steel fabricators, railway fencers, and builders of wharves. It includes, in addition, firms making returns as contractors of dry kilns, refuse burners, mills, brick furnaces, electrical contractors, floor layers and bricklayers. • The department also heard from 132 producers of building materials, who employed about 2600 whose wages - and salaries added up to $6,907,420. The list of products includes brick, cut atone, Portland cement, lime, tiles, firebrick, insulation, sand, gravel and crushed rock. Paint and Furniture Other industries flourish in the wake of booming construction. These are the makers of paint, the manufacturers of furniture, bedding, carpeting, linoleum and tiling. A payroll of $958,288 was reported by 13 paint manufacturers averaging 176 employees throughout the year. And in the furniture industry 187 firms with 2000 employees provided payroll of $4,183,552. 43.»'-__-» (B itse (ml Ststsmri. "Sorry, but these people request a union man!" Nineteen Fifty Half the people say that 1950 will be a worse year than 1949, and half say it will be as good or better. In a little more than eight months, half the people will have been proved right or wrong. The King James version has it that one should take no thought of the itaorrow "for the morrow shall take thought of things for itself." But maybe the translator might have been more accurate if he had intimated that over-anxiety,U,therein. , " "A"T6£ of planiung is necessaryior tomorrow's breakfast, as Zola ruminated when he considered the egg that appeared on his plate. Yet the bachelor who averts marriage because he doubts his ability to provide college careers for his children, if any, is as likely to starve as the man who contracts for more life insurance than his current income justifies. The man who gets places probably Is the fellow who plans to serve his present customers so well that they will continue to be his customers in the near and distant future. In serving a customer well, a business will do whatever is necessary in the way of new inventory, new buildings, new equipment, new staff. In fact, the motto for the 1950 business man might well be to stay in business actively, being neither bowed with caution nor exalted with optimism. After all, the greatest depression in living memory followed a period of optimism.—North Shore Press. R. M. Kirkham LATHING CONTRACTOR Phone: CH. 6510 3336 Wert Twelfth Avenue Vancouver, I. C. W. GILLESPIE CEMENT CONTRACTOR Phone: CE 6514 1049 WEST THIRTY-SECOND AVE, VANCOUVER, B.C. Good Housing Helps Combat Crimea Says Governor of Illinois Gov. Adlal Stevenson of Illinois says: "Wipe out slums I And you'll really be doing something about crime I "In one lection of the city of Chicago, 200,000 people are crowded together into three square miles," he points out "From among these 200.000 people, a mere one-twentieth of Chicago's population, come one-fourth of the total homicide and rape offenders and one-eighth of all reported robberies. "The direct relationship between crime and environment it all too common In American cltlet. The slums of Detroit produce five timet as many crimes, and IS timet at many criminals per 1000 population, at do areas with adequate housing facilities. . . "The rates oi' juvenile delinqency and adult crime show marked decreases where good housing has been developed on former slum sites. ""The juvenile delinquency rate for the area now occupied by the Jane w Addama public housing project in S", Chicago, for .-ample, wen cut In half M when the slum dwellings were replaced by decent housing. Yet isn't it funny how dally newspaper publishers f'crusade" against crime hut block any attempts—like public housing, national health Insurance and aid to education — which would really do something about crime? An old lady was visiting a convict in the state penitentiary. "And what is your name, my good Wn?" she asked. "999". waa the answer. "Oh, but that's not your real name," the old lady said. "Naw, just me pen name," he i swered. HE THEN HURRIED BACK Mechanic; "Well, good-bye, baby, I'm going out of town for a few days; what's your phone number? Ill call you up when I get back." New girl friend: "Plaza 4144' and if a man answers—you stayed away too long." IMPROVING THE DICTIONARY E-con-o-miit—A man who plans what to do with money that isn't his. Home—A place where you can take off your new shoes and put on your old manners. Middle Are—The time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel just as good as ever. Op-ti-mist—A man who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery. Par-a-iite—A man who goes through a twinging door on someone else's push. Wld-ow—A woman who no longer finds fault with her husband. Wom-nn—A person who reaches for a chair when she answers the telephone, AINT IT THE TRUTH One Sunday, a Negro preacher was addressing his congregation. Somewhere in the sermon, he came out with the statement, "Now, Brethren, we is just got to do something about this here 'status quo'. At this, one of his following, a fellow named Rastus, jumped up immediately and wanted to know what this 'status quo' meant Without hesitation, the preacher answered, "Rastus, "status quo" is tarftrfor _e-Tn»_M-we'»1fl.J*" The other day a contractor went to inspect a row/ of partly finished cottages he was building. This was a hurry-up job that had to be completed by the first of the month. The prospective owners had paid down their money and were anxious to move in. Beaching the first house, the contractor stationed his foreman on the other side of a wall, and then called out, "Can you hear me?" "Yes, I can," replied the foreman, "Can you see me?" the contractor next called out?" "No," replied the foreman. "That" commented the contractor, "is what.I call a good wall!" "Why is it that sometimes you seem manly and sometimes effeminate?" "Heredity, I suppose." "Heredity?" "Yeah, half of my ancestors were men and the other half were women." "Do you act toward your wife as you did before you married her?" "Exactly. I used to stand in front and look at her house almost afraid to go in. I still do the same thing." "Pa, my teacher told me that I was illiterate,'' announced the teen-age Arkanaawer. "The heck he did!" snorted the Irate parent "Well, you Just take your birth certificate to school with you tomorrow and show him you ain't" Census taker (to woman at th. door): How many in your family? Woman: "Five. Me, the old man, the kid, cow and cat" Census taker: "And the politics of your family?" Woman: Mixed. I'm » Republican, the oh) man's a Democrat the kid's wet, the cow's dry and the cat's a free trader. Teacher: "The sentence 'My father had money,' is in the past tense. Now Jackie, what tense would you be speaking In. if you said, 'My father hat money?" Jackie: "Pretense". . "Are yon the young man who jumped In the river and raved my son from drowning when 'he fell through the fee?" •Yes, ma'am." 'Where're his mittens?" If' you want to get back on your feet in a hurry, just skip a car payment Husbands prefer clinging gowns— the ones that cling for at least five years. Ivanhoe Hotel _-*a____fe , Phone: PA. 8658 1038 Main Street1 Vancouver, B. C Gosse Plumbing & Heating Phone: DE. 2562 3180 EAST FORTY4HFTH AVENUE VANCOUVER, B.C. Fairview Floorlayers Floorlaying Contractors Phone: PA. 2246 981 EAST TWENTY.THIRO AVENUE VANCOUVER, B.C. - I Compliments of AST SULLIVAN, CEMENT CONTRACTOR Specializing in Step Replacements of Cement Phone: CE. 1929 2145 WEST TENTH AVENUE VANCOUVER. B. C. W. H. FREER PAINTING — DECORATOR Phone: KE. 5449-Y 1512 West Sixty-sixth Avenue Vancouver, B. C. Filbey's Plumbing & Heating Phone: FA. 8861 1492 KINGSWAY VANCOUVER, B. C. I EUROPEAN DRESSMAKING AND TAILOR SHOP Designer— MADAME VISGAK Phone: BA. 1817 1349 WEST BROADWAY VANCOUVER, B. C. CHORNEY BROS. PAINTING CONTRACTORS Phone: GL 1944 3495 PENDER STREET EAST VANCOUVER, 8. C. * * Gordon Bolger PLASTERING CONTRACTOR Phone: FR. 2574 6414 WINDSOR STREET VANCOUVER, B.C BUCHAN'S BAKERY Phone: HA. 2154 2406 EAST HASTINGS STREET VANCOUVER, 8. C. L B_-_- Page Eight THE LABOR STATESMAN April, 1950 THE BIG FAMILY STORE 1409 KINGSWAY Try U» for Vetoes-I to IMS I W. J. HEADS BOOT FACTORY LTD. Makers of the "HEADS SHOE" for Loggers, Miners, Cruisers, Surveyors, etc. Our Shoes are Hand-Made — You'll be satisfied 21 East Hastings Street V____wv_., B.C. 7 INVERMAY HOTEL 828 WEST HASTINGS STREET. VANCOUVER, B. C Always a Good Placel .... NOW BETTER THAN EVER I K. CAMPBELL, K. J. CAMPBELL and C. C. CAMPBELU Proprietors Phone: FAirmont 6276 Stoneberg Bros. Plating Worts We Specialise to Hard Chromium and Heavy Industrial Plating Chrome, Nickel, Copper, Electro Turning, Polishing, etc. 436 East 5th Ave., cor. Guelph and 5th Ave., Vancouver G. W. RIBCHESTER & SON LTD. Automobile Commercial Bodies and Repairs 1253 HOWE STREET MArine 0827 C. 1.0. Unity Offer Goes To Executive Council Washington.—AFL President William Green told CIO President Philip Murray that the letter's proposal for organic unity of organised labor will be submitted to the AFL Executive Council at its meeting scheduled to begin Hay 8 in Philadelphia. Mr. Murray had proposed to President Green and the heads of other labor groups that they create a standing joint committee to coordinate work on economic, legislative and political problems and to achieve organic unity. Mr. Green replied: "The conclusions which yon express in your letter make it clear that time and experience have shown that labor and labor's friends, united can successively deal with the forces of reaction through united action and united effort. That means that one plan and one purpose should be formulated by one strong, well-established labor organisation. "When several plana and policies are formulated, inspired as they may be by the same purpose on the part of those who compose and make up different labor organization., it ia difficult to unite and blend the conflicting plans into unity of purpose. "I eras pleased to note your statement that 'ideal way to meet the challenge (of reactionary forces of the nation) would be organic unity of all labor. This is the desirable goal of which, I am sure, we all aspire/ "You supplement this statement by a proposal to establish a Joint committee consisting of duly accredited representatives of various organizations 'with authority to. embark upon and pursue a common program' and that 'it should be empowered to coordinate our efforts in the economic, legislative and political spheres,' and It should also seek toj achieve the organic unity of all American labor/ "Because your proposal deals with plans and policies to be pursued by tbe organizations to which your letter was addressed, it becomes imperatively necessary to submit your communication to the Executive Council for consideration and official action. I will submit your communication to the Executive Council when it meets on May 8 and will advise you as quickly as possible of such action as the Executive Council may take/' REAL ESTATE - RENTALS PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CEPERLEYROUNSEFEUACO PpVCIFIC 3321 -STAB.1886 646V»HASTINOI METROPOLE HOTEL VANCOUVER'S POPULAR FAMILY HOTEL 320 Abbott Street (Opposite Woodward's Stores) J. E. (BLACKIE) BEN.ERT. PROPRIETOR MUSIC AND DANCING EMBASSY BALLROOM -•24 Davie Street Modern Dancing Every Night Joe Miceli and bis Orchestra COMPLIMENTS OF COMMERCIAL HOTEL Phone: PAcific 0442 Mike Srbdc — John Car — Stan V.lj.cic Fully licenio. NEWLY RENOVATED THROUGHOUT - MODERN AND FIREPROOF 340 CAMBIE STREET VANCOUVER. It stean: (Establiibed 1911) -.•effariaKx,-.^ .«*Bc_r:~—~sr__^_r._r=^Pi.-— SUMNER BRASS FOUl>©RYLTD. Manufacturers of Brett, Bronte end Aluminum Cettingt — Phosphor -rotas Hiah-iiji Menganete Bronzs rVopeJert in Al Size* Phone: MArine 1548 619 Btdwal Street, Vancouver, WC. Jnfmon ¥ro*. itmfteb FUNERAL DIRECTORS AN'DRESEN'S BAKERY Telephone: FRaier 3216 5753 VICTORIA DRIVE VANCOUVER, ft, C. JOE DAMETTO CEMENT CONTRACTOR Phone: KE 0333 1195 WEST FIFTY-NINTH AVENUE. VANCOUVER, R.C. 1950 Engineering Class Will Break 1949 Record Hon. Humphrey Mitchell, Minister of Labor, stated that the 1960 engineering class, would be the largest in the history of Canada. Mr. Mitchell stated that the 8,500 new engineers who would be available for employers next spring would allow many employers to carry out plans for recruitment which had previously been restricted by the inadequate supply of graduates. He explained that the 3,200 engineering graduates in 1949 had gone far towards taking up a backlog of openings, but that the needs of many employers had still not been met, especially in the smaller .firms, many of whom were only now considering tbe possibility of using engineering -graduates on their staffs, Mr. Mitchell reported that a survey made in 1946 had produced the information that an estimated 2,000 new engineering graduates in each of the five years from 1947 to 1961 inclusive would be required to meet the demand by Canadian industry for engineers. These estimates were being reviewed with the same employers, with particular reference to prospective needs in 1960 and 1961. While all of these employers have not yet been covered, the net results to date showed an increase of slightly more than 10 per cent in the combined estimates made three years ago. In both 1947 and 1948, the actual demand for engineering graduates was between 2,000 and 2,200, while graduating classes in these two years amounted to 1,100 and 1,700 respectively. Thus, there was a considerable backlog of openings to add to the normal demand of 1949. This backlog was partially taken care of by the graduating class of 1949, which numbered about 8,000. There were special factors which facilitated the placement of the class of 1949. One was a "number of large scale employers who had restricted their recruiting programs in 1947 and 1948 in anticipation of a better supply of graduates in 1949. Aftother was a wab-t&nti-L number;.'<q&_'cjtin*. -J pany undergraduates", these being uy student..who were attending university on leave-of-absence from their regular employment A third factor was a recruiting program for the Armed Services which accounted for more than 200,. a large proportion of whom were engineering graduates. The minister explained that the bulk of the employment available for new engineering graduates had always been concentrated in the establishment of a relatively small number of large employers. Surveys on which estimates could be based were necessarily made almost entirely through these larger employers. Employment officials believed, however, that there was a substantial latent demand among medium-sized and smaller employers. Even if this prospective field of employment averaged only one graduate per company, the demand for engineering graduates would be increased by several hundreds. In former yean, the minister said, shortage of supply bad been mainly responsible for the rapid absorption of inexperienced graduates into the more publicised openings where there had been well organised recruiting programs. In 1950, it would be rather a ease of seeking out the openings, including the substantial number believed to exist in smaller operations. 1980 (jtKL SmMtlATz "Medicine won't help! Every lime he thinks of returning to his non-union job. he suffers a relapse!" 7. anexciL tStznvlcE, S. BOWELL & SONS Phon* 2656 66 Sixth Street, New Westminster, B. C. Cloverdole, B. C. — Phone: Cloverlsle 193 MArine1959 We Sell Wools, Canary, Mektaf Sevtoes, Best Cj-aUty awa-lak Mandae--, EDDIE'S LOCKSMITH and GRINDERS 313 Mam St. (Near Hastings) SERVICE Keys Oat In 1 mlaau. Keeks Bepalrea *V Boated ISMk- amttha, Tools aad Oat-err _ Baw* Sharpened by as "out" Batter, Moose Jaw Council Clears Temple Debt The Moote Jaw Trades and'Labor Council meeting hall is now free of debt On January 17th, Brother Andy Tait, Secretary of the Council, presented to Brother M. G. Shaefer, President of Moose Jaw Local 395, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffers. Warehousemen and Helpers of America, a cheque in final payment on the hall. For a number of years the Moose Jaw Trades and Labor Council had been dependent upon being able to rent a suitable meeting place, but in 1946 the Officers decided that they should purchase a building of their own. They approached all local affiliated unions asking for financial support by way of loans without interest All the unions responded with the result that sufficient money was raised to purchase the building which is now-known as the Moose Jaw .Sl_M^.i>__8R_i^k F-i •'•>■■■-' ■■"-1>,'.T»f'.uf ii ■jrf-TT-'.'.'. ••.• Vacuum W. A. Thorn Sheet Metal Works Ltd. Bonded Roofers — Sheet Metal Work Telephone: MArlne 2725 1779 Wert Georgia Sheet (rear), Vancouver, B. C. WESTERN GLASS CO. LTD. Offices and Warehouse: 158 West Cordova St., Vattrouver Phones: PAcific 7348-7349 Out-of-town Orders Promptly Shipped Louis Yellowlees BUILDING CONTRACTOR Phone: CH. 0535 4262 Granville Street Vancouver, B. C State Candidates To Be Quizzed in Calif ornia Candidates seeking election to federal and state office at the June primaries in California have been invited to declare their positions' on i issues of importance to the California Labor League for Political Education {when the state AFL political agency meets this week-end in San Francisco. Interviews will be held Sunday I afternoon and evening at the Whit- comb Hotel. Candidates will be in- jterrogated by the League Executive ; Council and by officials of local I leagues and councils of the American l Federation of Labor. Only candidates involved in statewide elections will be so interviewed since district area candidates have I already been contacted by local units I of the state league. Questionaires have been directed to all state-wide candidates which i they may submit by mail if unable to : attend the Sunday session. He wss quarrelling with his wife, and not doing any too well. "Vrt„ AlAm**' U— . When I recall the political illiteracy of our young troops at the start of the war, I am moved to charge education with gross dereliction in its responsibility to t*ach knowledge of the human values at issue in the world. Unlike too many critics of education, however, I cannot lay' the blame on the doorstep of education alone. Rather it roust be shared with the people as a whole. Throughout Europe, wherever our armies were stationed, the people were bewildered by Americans who appeared indifferent to the political and philosophical origins and nature of the most powerful and progressive nation in the world. Unhappily, when driven into a corner intellectually, our soldiers were forced to fall back on our wage scales, our'automobilei, our refrigerators— and eventually and triumphantly to the American bathroom—for their defense. Here is an indictment not only of American education but of the irresponsible indifference of citisens who have permitted this vacuum to remain. Men cannot be impressed into good citizenship. If they are to cherish the freedoms that come to them under democratic self-government, they cannot be disciplined into devotion. Instead they mutt be taught to value the great spiritual possessions to which they are born, by assuming from childhood a share of responsibility for safeguarding those possessions. Good citizenship springs from an appreciation of the great values of our institutions and from active participation in them. Democratic institutions will continue to prosper snd flourish only so long as they are fed on freedom for all, not on abridgment for some. We are engaged in a contest today over the integrity of the individual versus the integrity of the state. It is a contest in which ideas are as important as the atom bomb, and it Is a contest that can conceivably last to the end of our lifetime. A democracy such sa ours cannot be defeated in this struggle; it can only lose by default It can only lose if our people deny, through Indifference and neglect, their personal responsibilities for its security and growth. —General Omar N. Bradley B.C. Marine Engineers and Shipbuilders Ltd. FT. OF VICTORIA Darlington, Haskins & Co. (1943) Limited TILES — MOSAICS — MARBLE — TERRAZZO 2144 Granville Street Phona: CEdar 623* Vancouver, B.C. ' p !.. ECONOMY SAUSAGE CO. •THS SAUSAQK THAT MAD* LITTUt PIOS FAMOUS" FOB'BAOr CV-RYWHOIK - TBV SOMC ■ _ 141 HAWKS AVENUE Phone: HAstings 4397 MARR HOTEL uointD — <o_d x-orwtiax) Remodelled • Newly Furnished - Up-to-date - Good Service . am* raws, sta-ager j^JTIME WI^STLING EXHIBITION GARDENS EVERY WEDNESDAY TICKETS: $1.50, $1.00, 75c, (Tax Free); ON SALE AT WESTERN SPORTS CENTRE LUX CAFE S-oaei airlat tot* 818 BOMOBT </£**£% A50-3 I i This advertisement is not published or displayed by the Liquor Control Board or by the Government of British Columbia. He to she: "I love you, I love you. JOHNNY'S BARBER SHOP FOR GOOD SERVICE PPPOSITE LABOR TEMPLE —324 WEST BROADWAY f > r40*L 7%* titt^S M*L r^vcw You didn t have a rag on your Marry me.' back when t married you," he said She to Be: "You should see Mams acidly. -> before I answer you." Anyway" she retorted, plenty now." "I've He to She: "I "nave seen her but I still prefer you." TED'S BARBER SHOP FIRST CUSS SHAVES AND HAIRCUTS 405 BROADWAY WEST B-TWItN CAMSIC AND YUKON . Ik ■■■ April, 1950 THE LABOR STATESMAN Page Nine Peterson Electrical Construction Co. Ltd. Electrical Contractors 1255 Napier Street, Vancouver, B. C. HAstings 3860 Lockerbie & Hole Ltd. PLUMBING and HEATING CONTRACTORS Phone: CE. 1108 1650 W. 4th Ave. Vancouver, B.C. ' __. WE SECIALIZE IN ... INDUSTRIAL BRICKWORK — PARTITION TILE GLASS BLOCKS — CEMENT BLOCKS and ALL TYPES OF BRICKWORK Phone Vs Day or Night — GL, 1460-M A. & A. Masonry Contractors , 1270 GOVERNMENT ROAD BURNABY, B. C I'BUrtj*.. ■:■ ' «Bi.TMf1-S9_tn>_: COMPLIMENTS OF HOIROW & PARSONS, PLASTERING CWTRACTORS Phona: CH. 8065 3170 WATERLOO VANCOUVER, B. C. Compliments of E. J. TRAYLING Jewelry Manufacturers UNION SHOP Phone: MArine 2829 509 Riehardi Street, Vancouver Compliments of OTTOSUNDELL Floor Laying Contractor Phona: HA. 5159 2525 GRANT STREET VANCOUVER, B. C. Compliments of L. J. MARSHALL Building Contractor Phona: CH. 3883 1928 STEPHENS. VANCOUVER, B.C. ■"ii inii'ii'YPm'UmvifftVit'ltti' Anti-TruSsj Violations Show How Business Kills "Free" Enterprise Washington.—Free enterprise is killed D? business itself, not by government. Thst is the conclusion of a survey made by Tbe Machinist, publication of the International Association of Machinists. The survey shows that the government brought to court more than 500 different firms in the' past two years on charges of attempting to eliminate competition by price-fixing or violating the anti-trust laws. In 194. alone, the survey shows, 263 corporations were charged with attempting to eliminate competition in violation of the anti-trust laws. Meager Badfet In its copyright story, The Machinist points out that even the figures it gives d onot tell the story, as authorities agree that the Department of Justice can investigate only about 10 per cent of the.complainta it receives because -the anti-trust division annual budget is about 13,750,000—less than most cities spend on their police departments. "Illegal price fixing and othev attempts to throttle business competition have reached such proportions," declares The Machinist article, "that Attorney General McGiath has labeled anti-trust'^iolations the most pressing domestic problem of our time next to unemployment'" In an editorial commenting on the survey. The Machinist points out that the anti-trust laws, designed to maintain free enterprise, are dying, and that big business, which talks loudest about protecting the American way of life, is killing free enterprise. Slifle Competition Declaring that big business has made every effort to stifle competition and free itself from the antitrust laws, the editorial points out that the drive began in the 80th Congress, when the insurance and transportation industries won complete exemption from competition; that the drive is continuing with an attempt to ram through legislation to wipe out the laws intended to protect small business firms from price discrimination. Even in industries still supposedly covered by the anti-trust laws, violations are common, and when the companies are caught the fines are small, are charged off to business expense, and the violations continue. 50. rft *' v.»» (fim. SrsMtviTj "You iiaw a heller Medium than l.to learn your fortune!... I mean, of, course, jour labor •Kiper!" Hi. Masterpiece! The aged ex-convict now retired to respectability, sat, in the mellow, glow of a few glasses of "the real stuff," and recalled the good old days. . "I remember the first time I broke out of jail," he mused, "the little woman helped mc—baked me a cake with a file in it. We hadn't been married very long at the time, and she wasn't a very good cook. But she went right ahead and did her best" The ex-jailbird sat silent brows knitted, pondering deeply. "Ton know some of the details of the affair have grown hazy in my mind," he resumed, "and try as I may, i can't recollect them. For instance, I can't remember whether I ate the cake and sawed my way out with the file or ate the file and sawed my way out with the cake!" Frances has a little car, She drives it oh so deft— But every time she signals right, The little car turns left What Your Car Cost* to Run If the family budget is as tight at your house as it is at ours, you'll be interested in some Ideas we ran across the other day on how to cut: the cost of owning and driving the family chariot The Kiplinger Mags- tine, Changing Timet, pot s cot- accountant firm to work on how much the average family actually spends on its ear. The results startled us. You can read them in the magazine's April issue. If your family is like most, yon drive about 10,000 miles a year. That means you're spending approximately $482 a year just to operate your car. That's 140.15 a month. This may be the reason you find it sc hard to balacne tbe budget at home. If you've any doubts, here's the way the accountants break down Complete Change "How,you have changed! You used to have thick black hair and now you're bald. You used to have a ruddy complexion and now you're pale. You used to be stocky and now you're thin. I'm surprised, Mr. Gordon." "But I'm not Mr. Gordon." "Look! You're even changed your name!" -A"fry But why are {toon so angry with the doctor, MrsZ-Hank?" "I told him I was tired, and he asked to see my tongue!" Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.—La Fontaine. -Cevisg This was in New Jersey: Robinson kept hens. One night he had two stolen. The next night he stayed In the hen shed with a friend to wait for the thieves. After a short time a storm blew up and the shed started swaying in the wind. After an hour, Robinson, bored stiff, announced that he was going thtreostt 8-W feT §pS«l__*r«ribr *°-'£»** »B*i8f: *i*^*'_-__*-eata maintenance. 140 for tires; $98 for tonight, Tom.'T « J'™ce .<"-'?.-^»^=SS »'_* _£k*moviSg slowly along a country lane. They are taking the shed, too. ,n-su— V">v, —nw^nDV. age and liability); $19 for fees; $50 for miscellaneous expenses including parking, polishing and minor body work. If yo udo your own repair work, you save $68 a year—bat that's all. On top of that of course, you have to allow for part of the difference between what the car cost and what you'll get for it when you trade_it In. The magazine estimates the normal life of a new post war ear at 4tt years. It is generally trae That It coats more money to keep an old car running than It does to buy a new one. A car is expensive in any family. It's as expensive as rent if these cost accountants are reasonably accurate. Changing Times suggests three ways that any family can save money in operating its car. Here are. three simpe ruies: "Drive slowly. On a 1000-mile trip you can save $12.22 by averaging 45 miles an hour instead of 55. You can save $19.36 by driving 35 miles an hour instead of 55. "Make repairs promptly. Don't try to skimp by postponing needed repairs or replacement parts. Faulty brakes, worn tires, defective steering may cost you plenty." Head Waiter: "Would monsieur prefer Spanish, French or Italian cooking?" Customer: "I don't mind—I want a boiled egg." As Election Without Biaa At a meeting of a Mothers' Babiet Club one day votes were to decide which was the most beau ful baby present Each baby received one vote! • British Ropes Canadian Factory Limited (Branch of British Ropes Limited, London, England) Manufacturers of All Descriptions of Wire Ro,pe ■Noax OP QUALITY Telephone: MArine 4454 Cable Address: "BRITROPE" VANCOUVER GRANVILLE ISLAND T VANCOUVER, B.C. Union Steamships Offer to Everyone a choke of Short Vacation Trips THIS SUMMER Cruises One to Ten Days Picnic Grounds at Bowen Island Secure Accommodation early at BOWEN ISLAND INN (Open Msy 19th) or SECHELT INN (Open AD Year Round) Reservation, and Further Particulars at UNION PIBR Foot Carrall Street PAclflc 3411 ■ City Ticket Office, 793 Granville Street — MArine 5438 Henry J. Meyer & Son PAINTING CONTRACTORS Phone: FA. 8171 4371 Perry Street, Vancouver, B. C. "It your office force like one big family?" "No. Everybody is congenial." "How long have you worked for the company?" "Ever since the boss threatened to Are me." Compliments of IRVINE & REEVES LTD. Plumbing and Heating Phona: FA. 2439 36S Watt -roadway, Vancouver, 8. C "I must be getting stronger." "How can you tell?" "Well, a few years ago I couldn't carry $5 worth of groceries, and now it's easy. "Dad, what is in an inscrutable smile?" "If s the kind, my son, your mother had on her face this morn' ing when I told her that businesi might keep me out late' tonight" Mary had a little lamb, Its fleece was white ss snow. She took it to Los Angeles— And look st the dsmned thing nowT Little Willie, feeling mesn, Drank a slug of gasoline. Struck a match to his cigarette— They haven't found poor Willie yet The honeymoon is over when the wife starts complaining about the noise her husband makes getting breakfast Old Gentleman: "You're an honest boy, but it was a $10 bill, not ten ones that I lost" 8maM Boy: "I know, mister, It _J_ a $10 bill that I nicked up. But [ the last time I found one, the man who owned it didn't have any change." Five-Tear-Old: Inane?" Siz-Year-Old Girl: 'yet I'm not married.' What's your last I don't know The Ontario Hughes Owens Co. limited anufacturers and distributors, scientific instruments and apparatus. X Phone: TA. 5167 1305 W. Pender Street Vancouver. B. C. i l Enterprise Plumbing and Heating Ltd. STOKH-S AND OIL BURNEBS KW WTAiiATWiO AM) mm-MNUmWtmm Phone: FA. 9686 39_u Fraser Avenue, Vancouver, B. C : Wilson & McNeill PAINTING CONTRACTORS Phone: FA. 5163-L 611 East 7th Ave. Vancouver, B. C A tense of humor is what makes j Contrary to general belief, an ego- you laugh at something thst would tist Is not a man who thinks too make you mad h? it happened to much of himself; he Is one who you. I thinks too little of other people. L ,y -..,.■ ■..,..._ *•;•*■•■" ■Ml Page Ten THE LABOR STATESMAN April, 1950 G. He Ingham Co. Ltd. MACHINERY INSTALUTIONS Phone: West 168-M 1872 Fulton, West Vancouver, B. C. City Needs To Start Slum Clearance, Housing Project REPLACING OF A QUARTER-SQUARE-MILE of Main street slums with a $15,000,000 housing project has been recommended following completion of a three-year survey of the area by Prof. Leonard C. Marsh of U. B. C. The report,' ordered by Vancouver Housing Association of the Community Chest, deals with the squallor in the 40 blocks east of Main and bounded by Hastings, Glen Drive, False Creek flats and Great Northern tracks. Living conditio is are "ugly, squalid and depressed," the report says. \ . ■_ - "***mr\stVrW%v&^^&vrGr^&mT&&%v,&*i'&&*y&&,a i *>*V*0*tyrrfJ*rVJ3e'3mOirOrOrW*& COMPLIMENTS OF Ricketts-Sewell Electric Ltd. ENGINEERS and WIRING CONTRACTORS MAINTENANCE and REPAIRS' Phones: MArine 0743 - 8355 1169 Richardi Street Vancouver, B.C. Shannon Dairies Ltd. T ' Phone: KE 5811 Granville Street Vancouver, B. C. The Housemart Limited GENERAL CONTRACTORS Building Supplies—Specializing in Apartment Blocks and Home Building Phona: CH. 9130 2532 Yew Street Vancouver, B.C. GENERAL BUILDING REPAIRS CONTRACTORS Specializing in Alterations and Repairs Phon.: DE 3054 ■■■-■■pp.«.i»..__.-ir.p3ft-tt_p_B^^ l 496rfaynrStr-»r ^'sag9LWSmkr,"iKXi: -g,-~_J-__- _■-■-■■--'.--! C. W. GRAFTON TAR AND GRAVEL ROOFING AND SHEET METAL WORKS Phona: FA. 0971 790 East 14th Ave. Vancouver, B. C. GORDON HOLTZ FLOORLAYING CONTRACTOR Phone: DE. 0738-T 2305 SELLERS AVE BURNABY. B.C. EDVIN H0GLUND CONSTRUCTION LTD. BUILDING CONTRACTOR SPECIALIZING IN HOME BUILDING Phone: FA. 9386 205 W. IStl Avenue Vancouver, B.C. E. P. JOYNER . GENERAL CONTRACTOR Alterations and Repairs Phone: DE. 4242 4036 Rupert Street Vaneo-ver, B.C. | L E. STEVENS, General Contractor ALTERATIONS AND REPAIRS Phone: MA. 4658 1050 HOWE STREET VANCOUVER. B. C. Dr. Marsh believes it would financially benefit the city to rebuild the area. At present, servicing costs for the district total nearly double the taxes received. Servicing now costs about $298,000 a year. Including streets, water,, parks, policing, sanitary inspection, health and medical services and social assistance. Revenues received from tne area amount to only $160,000. But a rebuilt residential district there would pay all municipal taxes and the city would find its net position improved. Financing of the scheme would require a subsidy, which Dr. Marsh says is available from the Federal Government. He claims $500,000 a year would provide new low-rent housing for the 7000 persons now living in the district Eligible for Grant. ~ The $15,000,000 building program would be financed by municipal, provincial and federal governments. The city would be eligible for outright grants of $1,200,000 from the Dominion and province. Recent ammendments to the National Housing Act provide for the Federal Government to absorb 76 percent of losses incurred in rental undertakings. The city and the provincial government could split the .remaining 25 percent, each paying [about $62,600 a year. The Federal Government's share would be $375,- 000. Increased taxes would meet and possibly exceed the city's total contribution of $180,000 a year needed to rebuild the area on a low-rental basis. T. PublUfc Report In his report, which is to be published soon by the University, Dr. Marsh said the "Strmhcona area" described was not thc worst slum in the city. But he feels in spite of the aged, dilapidated rooming houses and former coolie shacks, the area has many features desirable for a residential ares. Survey of the 1000 homes and 7000 persons in the district wss made in a house-to-house canvass in 1947. The district is not populated by "foreigners," the report shows Thirty percent of the population is of British or North American stock and nearly all the children are Canadian-born. . Many live there because they can find no other accommdation and others like the saving on car-fare their close proximity to work affords them. Defective Facilities Report shows that of all tbe homes, rooming houses, apartment dwellings and cabins in the area, 52 percent have defective heating equipment or food storage facilities; 26 percent have defective exterior walls, floors or ceilings. Another 13 percent are excessively dark. ^ are iramp^ruT 9 percent are seriously afflicted with filth or smells, while another 7 percent are infected by rats, cockroaches and other vermin. Defective washbasins, sinks, water supply, bathing facilities and toilets are also common In the area.—The Vancouver Dally Province. Hospital Employees' Union Shows Progress The growth and development of the Hospital Employees' Federal Union, No. 180, T.L.C., over the last five years has-been remarkable. To-day the Union holds fourteen contracts. We have just recently received certification for the Powell River General Hospital. Application has been made for the Ladysmith General Hospital and the Queen Alexandra Solarium on Vancouver Island. Contracts have been completed for the year 1950 with the Vancouver General Hospital, Royal Columbian Hospital, New Westminster, Chilliwack General Hospital, West Coast General Hospital, Port Alberai, and for the "Nursing Section," King's Daughters' Hospital, Duncan, B.C. WILLIAM BLACK Buiines. Arant, City Hall El Union and Provincial 'Joist of Public Employee, and Hospital Employee. Union. We are confronted with two Conciliation Boards; one with the North Vancouver General Hospital, the other with the Nanaimo General Hospital. After months of negotiating in these institutions, no honest effort was made by management to reach a collective agreement with the employees. With the advent of hospitalisation a tremendous amount of confusion exists in bargaining. We attempt to bargain with local Boards who are taking instruction from Victoria. ' ° Fired and Rehired Farm Union Wins Beet Pay Rise Washington. — The AFL National Farm Labor Union announced another historic victory In the San Joaquin Valley of California when 1,200 sugar beet workers won a wage increase for the present sugar beet season. Last fall the union won the first cotton picker strike in California farm annals when It secured a settlement providing for wage increases of approximately $1 per day and recognition of the union as bargaining agent for about 100,000 workers. The beet workers' strike was brought to a successful conclusion after about two weeks of picketing the huge Philip Hanson Ranch, near Corcoran, Calif. Negotiations between the union and grower were conducted under the auspices of the state conciliation service. Hanson agreed to pay the union wage rates of $12.50 per sere or $2 a row, and also pledged that there would be no discrimination againtt members the Nationsl Farm Labor Union. of A.F.o_LWonl69 Union Elections Washington.—AFL unions won 149 collective bargaining elections in February, the National Labor Relations Board reported. This was 67 percent of the 261 elections In waich AFL unions took part The AFL accounted for 41 percent of all union victories during the month. The AFL took part in and won more elections than the CIO (71) and independent unions (52) combined. Chemical Wkrs. Raise Portland, Ore. — Pay Increases ranging from $8 to $17.50 a week were obtained for dental technicians employed in four large dental offices as a result of negotiations conducted 0X|fesl 109, Intl. Chemical Workers (AFL). The contracts also provide for one to two weeks paid vacation and six paid holidays a year. Valleyhaven. -toe Old People's Home at Chilliwack, is now certified and the ten employees are members of our organization. When toe management of this civic institution heard that the employees were organising, they immediately fired them en bloc. After intervention by our re-instated in their positions. The task of organising Hospitals has not been an easy one because of the many classifications: technicians, orderlies, nurses, etc. However, in the last five years, hundreds of workers have been organized in what was hitherto an unorganized industry. Salaries and wages have been materially improved. Pension Schemes are being initiated. Vacations with pay and statutory holidays are becoming standard perquisites. All Union contracts contain either Union Shop or Union Maintenance Clauses. Future Looks Bright For what was once considered a depressed industry, the future looks bright, with salaries approaching or beyond what is paid in related industry. It would be difficult to devise a Union label for hospital workers; but that can be overcome by a word of encouragement when we are in hospital—an institution where, unfortunately, we go on occasion. When there, just remember that you are dealing with Union employees who are trying to give service. — W. Black, Business Agent . # —. Edmonton Hotel Wkrs. Get New Agreement Approximately 450 Edmonton hotel employees are signed to new wage and working agreements for another year, it has been announced by anion business agent Joseph Cherrington. Agreements provide for average weekly wage increases of $2 throughout, additional statutory holidays and other benefits. Unions involved are Beverage Dispensers' Local No. 674 ana hotel service employees Local No. 269 of Hotel and Restaurant Employees International Union. Same Idea Chairman O'Mahoney, of the Joint Congressional Economic Committee, commenting on opposition to its proposal for a "cooling off" period In steel prices, said: "Nobody hat torn hit hair over proposal for a cooling off period for labor. There it no reason the same rule should not apply to concentrated industry." The groom, slightly confused, laid he-ftatnly, "II was to buy either s casserole or a camisole. I can't remember which." "That's enty enough," answered t'o cl»rk. "Is the chicken deed or allveT" Midland Construction Co. Stucco Supply Co. Phone: MA. 4642 937 MAIN STREET, VANCOUVER, B.C. Summerfield's Ltd. Oil Burners and Heating Contractors Phone: MA. 9828 1435 Granville Street Vancouver, B.C. Elligott Bros. BRICK WORK — SCAFFOLDING FOR RENTAL Phones: GL 1977 — HA. 71514. 3525DUNDAS VANCOUVER, 8. C. .____»__- --r^A.JBT-U rawBINE'S CHOCOLATES AND CANDIES that will delight the whole family Phone: KE. 4997 2059 West 41st J. E. KNULL & SONS LTD. GENERAL CONTRACTOR - SPECIALIZING IN MODERN HOUSING Phone: FR. 4073 86 W. 61 Ave. Vancouver, B.C. LACEY SIGNS PAcific %15 /\ND SHOWCARDS • 437 HOMER ST. "ADVERTISING THAT PAYS ITS WAY" NEAME BUILDING CO. Building Contractors—Specializing in N.H.A. Homes • • • Phone: DE 2278 5889 Arlington Vaiteouver, 8. C J Nelson & Holding General Contractors . Phone: HA 2644 1638 Eait Georgia Street Vancouver, B.C. _.. April, 1950 THE LABOR STATESMAN Whitsell Construction Co. Ltd. -*___*_ Phone: DE. 1640 2119King8way ; Va_tcouver, B. C. Industrial Wire and Iron Works Phone: FA. 0848 138 East Fourth Avenue, Vancouver, B. C. Anglo-British Columbia Packing Co. H. BELL-IRVING a: CO. LIMITED, AGENTS Packers of the Finest Quality Salmon in All Grades Phone: PA. 7277 926 WEST PENDER STREET VANCOUVER, B. C. Compliments to the Trade Union Movement from HAWKEN & CO. Man-factoring; Jewelen — Diamond Setter! and Engraven Telephone: PAcific 2714 Room 37, 144 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, B. C. HARRIS 8C MILNE PAINTS LTD. Phone: PA. 1348 VANCOUVER, B.C, AFL Union Co-Op Housing To Rent At $14 Per Room Brooklyn, NX—The API, Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen ot North America is sponsoring a low-rental cooperative housing development in which 228 families wilt-nad- relief from the discomfort of the housing problem's two extremes: apartment shortages and exorbitant rentals. Headed by Joseph Belsky, international vice president and secretary of the-Meat Cutters Union, Local 234 the project will represent the best Spertinents money and talent can uild. Preference will be given to veterans and union members in that ordered, and the remainder will be open to tbe general public. Three 6-story elevator buildings will be erected on a site of 121,800 square feet of land in an attractive residential neighborhood of Brooklyn. The apartment houses will occupy only 33 percent of the land with the remaining grounds dedicated to landscaped gardens and walks with enclosed playgrounds for the safety of the children. The Harry Silver Apartments are named In honor, of Harry Silver, a union member who sacrificed his life in the union's early struggles. His name symbolizes the highest and truest form of the spirit of unionism. No profit in the operation of this development will accure to the union or any firm, person or association. The savings all along the line are passed on to the tenants and will be reflected in the low monthly carrying charges. Similar accommodations, privately built and managed sell for 60 percent above* the prices to be {laid by the "cooperators." - Mutual ownership is achieved with a down payment of $240 a room and monthly carrying charges of approximately 114 a room which includes heat, repairs, amortization, interest and maintenance. Should a "cooperator" wish to surrender his apartment, he will be re quired to give the housing company prior opportunity to repurchase his interest. This is tq prevent the speculative dealings in stock and the Incentive for non-tenants to purchase the stock. That the development it feasible at these low attractive costs is attributable to these facts 1. A partial tax exemption to be granted by the city through Mayor William O'Dwyer and City Construction Coordinator Robert Moses. 2. Construction program costs and management will be under the careful supervision at all times by the State Division of Housing under Commissioner Herman T. Stichman. . 3. Federal Housing Administration will approve the application for mortgage Insurance.. 4. Financing is conditioned upon a first mortgage to be procured from the Lincoln Savings Bank of Brooklyn which will bear interest at 3 H percent for a period of 40 years. 5. The Harry Silver Apartments will be owned and operated by the occupants—there will be no profits for outside interests, and any surplus will be passed on to the tenant-owners in the \form of lower future maintenance charges. Editors; Note: Material prices and construction labor wages are almost double those in Vancouver, hence a similar housing scheme here could re- ld»eS,,„»..p__WJ«**., Page Eleven Reducing fa easy! Just try living on Hie tame diet year employees can afford!" Toronto Firefighters Install Cardiograph Toronto. — Toronto firemen now, after fighting a difficult fire, can have their hearts examined under the cardiograph, and any strain detected can be given early treatment. This advance has been made possible through the purchase by the Toronto Firefighters'Union of a cardiograph at a cost of $1,000. It is the first of such machines to be installed anywhere for the protection of firemen. The Union is hoping that toe cardiograph will aid in the proof that many firemen who die while off duty actually died as the result of heart Injuries suffered while on duty. Union President Don Dunlop has pointed to the record of 27 deaths in the fire department in the last decade among men who bad not yet reached retirement age. In the same period another 48 died of heart ailments within three years of having retired. Many of the firemen who died of heart conditions, the Union-believes contracted the condition while actually fighting fires, yet their widows and children could not obtain pensions unless conclusive proof was provided that death resulted from injury to the heart while on duty. Since buying the cardiograph, more than 300 fliremen have been examined and several have shown heart strains that had not been discovered with the stethoscope. Final decision of the Union to purchase the machine came after the Board of Control had twice refused to purchase a cardiograph as a civic service to its firemen. Union Label Corner The Union Label Trades Council is busy arranging for "Union Buying Week", Sept 4th to 9th next The Vancouver City Council at their last Wednesday meeting endorsed our "Union Buying Week." HOTEL ALCAZAR "IN THE HEART OF THE BUSINESS, SHOPPING AND THEATRICAL DISTRICT' CORNER OF HOMER AND DUNSMUIR, VANCOUVER, B.C. Budd's Cartage and Contracting Co. _5*____fe Phone: CE. 1441 1523 West Third Avenue Vancouver, B. C. Columbia Bitulithic Limited PAVING and GBNERAL CONTRACTORS WARRBOTTB-BITULITHIC PAVBMBNT ROADS — STRBBTS — AIRPORTS Granville Island Vancouver, B. C. H. D. LAYFIELD & CO. ROOFING - FLOORING - INSULATION ' Distributor! and Approved Contractors JOHNS-MANVI-IE MATERIALS 1226 Homer Street, Vancouver, B. C. Phona; TAtlow 1471, W. T. Handy PLASTERING CONTRACTOR Phonai KE. 1124 1750 WESTTHIRTY-FIFTH AVENUE. VANCOUVER. B.C. .«» H. E. Holm » BULLDOZING Phone: DE. 2414 3138 York Street, Vancouver, B.C. The A.F. of L. UNION INDUSTRIES SHOW <the 4th) to be held on May 6th-13th in the Convention Hall, Philadelphia, U.S.A. is the Worlds greatest Labor Management Show. Arranged by the Union Label cs^es.. Dent Washington, Union rms and Employers are now making final arrangements of the grand opening. Over 600,000 people are ex- . Jiectep. ta-attaad. _-iy--Officers -er „, , _ , . . members of our Locals here are i ' Wo* fa-M.!^^ operation of Labor aad Management LL0.Wffl-_<__ H.&H. Sheet Metal Works Phone: PA. 4928 735 RICHARDS STREET VANCOUVER, B. C. GREETINGS TO ORGANIZED LABOR Ideal Concrete Co. Ltd. FOUNDATIONS, FLOORS, SIDBWALKS, BTC. Guaranteed workmanship 536 Drake Street phone: TA. 3913 COMPLIMENTS OF Irish Canadian Club Phonet: PA 0722—PA 2431 166 WEST HASTINGS STREET, VANCOUVER, B. C. Geneva (ILO News Service).—A world labor-management-government discussion of ways to improve living standards through higher labor productivity will highlight the 33rd conference of the International Labor Organisation when it opens at the- Palais des Nations, Geneva, June 1, Thit first official international debate on better wages through greater output will set a precedent ILO Director-General David A. Morse has invited the delegates of the trade unions, employers' organizations snd governments of the 60 member countries to use the time customarily set aside for the opening general debate on his annual report for thit exchange of views. Three aspects of industrial relation! also will be among the questions discussed at the conference. They are (1) collective agreements, (2) conciliation and arbitration and (8) cooperation between public' authorities and workers and employers organisations. Two other matters art also on the agenda of the June meeting for first discussion. These are the questions of equal remuneration for men and women workers for work of equal value, and that of minimum wage regulation in agriculture. The other questions on the agends are s general report on labor conditions in agriculture, financial and budgetary questions, and information and reports on the application by the ILO't member countries of conventions snd recommendations. The Conference will also have before it a special report by Mr. Morse on the problem of unemployment This report was requested in a retolution adopted by last year's conference. MACAUUY/MKOUSMAITUND & CO- LIMITED i ESTATE, INSURANCE AND FINANCIAL AGBNTS A Generation of Experience in Vancouver 43JLHo*e Street, Vancouver, Bt€-. -^tVumerPAxificmr vmAKSOS. It.) '.-.V- __*" The Womens Auxiliary of Local 226 Typographical Union, No. 76 have affiliated with our Union Label Trades Council. We know this ever- active group will prove a great asset in the work of our Council. As we wish to cover every District in Vancouver, New Westminster in Met all parts of lower mainland, we solicit any suggestions that will help pot our first "Union Buying Week" over with the grestost^succestjfrom any member in these-tiwtric-iv Please send them to SecretotaVWdx 6, Labor Temple. As we are now compiling a list of all Firms producing anion foods with or without the Label in B.C. for ths Trades and Labor Congress of Canada, please let me know what Brands or Trade names your firm produces, so that no Firm will be left off this list. Fraternally yours, ED. SMITH •"PTaO sT" TTPC • • • pr\n\*A lot every purpose In ro-t, 1 lV-< JVC/ 1 _> pooo-s, sheets or tingle. NICHOLSON UMTTBD Specialty Printers — Union Shop Phone: CHerry 5191 2092 Watt Second Ave.,Vancouver C. J. OLIVER LTD. BUILDING CONTRACTOR Phone: It IA. 4457 660 HOWE STREET VANCOUVER. B,C Congress Convention Montreal. September 11 Ottawa.—By unanimous ballot vote of the Executive Council, the 66th Annual Convention of The Trades and Labor Congress of Canada will open in the Mount Royal Hotel in Montreal on September 11, and close on the 16th. President Bengough on behalf of the Executive Council has asked the Montreal Trades and Labor Council to set up a local committee to handle the convention arrangements. Vke- Pretident Claude Jodoin it also President of the Montreal Trades end Labor Council. This year's convention of the Congress is the first to be set as to both Radio ExecobVes Get Big Pensions , Dptrnii Antn o,„r£„— „„ .tji,. I E'8Ce and time by the Executive for $120.7 vew Zs^on. .__.|tSSf» EouncI1- The CnaBcii recel™d «"»• t.dal ..curitvXneftS .« ,„„„-,? I P°wer" anair ffl r«»ol»tion P«"«d hy pl.1 ng^e^pe-ttor rj.iu^bV-"^ wtP«%*£ Z?28Z wo'rlfto" S^ETee^ young ti, die ' *"• i Calgary where the -4th annual con- Chairman Wm. S. Paley of CBS..4.°n w" held September 16"23' ™»'t5t-«f?„,?-,0M* yte"i wh<m n8', VSf(,te constitutional changes made rr?°„-M 10'ho,£mMlock »nyn>°re- in Calgary which reduce the number S f,, an?to /„ ppec,»I ^""s"1 ot deIe».»t«» entitled to attend future pX as.',* B(!„,/„.Pa,ey Mt yJ?r- conventions, the expectations already tret. Frank Stanton s pension after are for another large attendance this „!,J0n„?J.?t5,'J„nkPT..?c>f.ih* atan" ?'"• The ""
"~ Office: Foot of Cook Street, Vancouver, B. C. Assault Upon Ontario Labor Relations Act A renewed assault upon the On. tario Labor Relations Act, described by labor spokesmen as permitting employers to fire workers for union activity with impunity, was a highlight of the sessions of the Ontario Provincial Federation of Labor. The convention speaking for 200,- 000 unionists in Ontario affiliated ■L or T.L.C. '•'T—T- li- ANCHOR HOTEL Phone: PA 0022 103-COLUMBIA STREET, VANCOUVER, B.C. AMERICAN HOTEL Licensed Premises "A Good Place to Meet Your Friends" 928 MAIN STREET VANCOUVER, B. C. BRODIE BRUSH COMPANY LIMITED Brush Manufacturers — Brushes for All Trades Phones: PAcific 4184 -5-6 891 Cambie Street Vancouver, B. C. Newspapers — Publications — Pamphlets — Books Commercial Printing of All Kindt BROADWAY PRINTERS LTD. PRINTERS and PUBUSHERS Phone: FAir. 0203 - 6820 115 East Eighth Ave., Vancouver j 2594 Bellevue Ave. West Vancouver, B. C. April 5th, 1960 Copy of letters sent to daily press. The Sun refusing to publish any part of it Dear Sir: Permit me to submit for publication, an outline of letter sent to the Hon. W. T. Straith, Acting-Provincial Secretary, protesting "Carte Blanche" powers the Provincial Government has bequeathed institutional psychiatrists. Like the imposition of other measures and the juggling of the Hospital Insurance scheme to further.,1 2__ga_trr;-£| BENNETT & WHITE (ONSTRUCtlON (0. LTD. CONTRACTORS Phone: MArine 4457 660 Howe Street Vancouver, B. C t,, uce HagmiK i. Lumber and Sawmill Workers, Sudbury, said the Ontario government had seriously affronted labor by refuting to implement any of the federation's recommendations for changes in the act "Some steps will have to be taken to enforce justice between employers snd employees," he said. "Responsibility for deterioration in relations rests with the provincial government -J, W. Brace international representative of the Plumbers' and steamfltters' Union, said the building trades unions are opposed to coming under the act The building trades unions had gained their present conditions by being able to stop a job when required, he said. But the delaying process made possible under the act has robbed the unions of their freedom of action, Mr. Bruce stated. He also objected to government-appointed conciliators in the industry. ^f~ Grain Elevator Agents Are Being Organized An effort is being made by the Grain Elevator Agents of Alberts to organise under the banner of the Trades snd Labor Congress of Canada in an organization which Is expected to bring about furtherance of mutual undemanding between the Organited Farmer and Organized Labor . In a letter recently received from the Executive Board of the Fsrmers' Union of Csnsds, dsted January 2, 1950, -he Board advises that it has no objection to organizing of the Grain Elevator Agents. The Board letter states in part: "They (the Board) believe that only through an organization of thit kind can better understanding prevail between the farmer and the elevator companies." Bill Wilson Busy Organizing in Alberta We have been really happy to work with our previous organizer companion, Bill Wilson, the A. F. of L. representative from Vancouver. BUI is carrying on his reputation as a hard worker while he has been in Calgary for the past two weeks, and, in conjunction with the other business agents, a tremendous amount of spade work and organizing member- snip cards have been tinned up.— Gordon Wilkinson, Organiser, Trades and Labor Congress of Canada, in The (Calgary) Call. Throckmorton: "Do you think someone can really tell the future by looking at cards?" Al: "Mom can. She took one look at my report card and told me just what would happen when Pop got home!" in the economic totem-pole, this is another ■• iHustration-how > democracy | can become saturated with Hitlerism. The vested powers release all brakes relatives had upon possible use of patients as guinea-pigs. That institutional authorities have demanded these powers, after constantly refusing treatments and resumption of treatises proven beneficial to patients, places them in a ludicrous In 1942. Canadian psychiatrists were unwilling to concede the values of pre-frontal lobotomy, proven beneficial in the U.S. A. for cases formerly considered hopeless. Yet today, 2 years sfter capitulating to the need and performing many operations, It is quite possible the doctors are gripped With the mania to bore and carve into the brains of all patients, regardless. When one takes into consideration the amount of wrecks, and mortalities that reached 40 percent a few years ago, after being subjected to lobotomy, the operation doesn't stand out aa a cure-all for mental diseases. All democractlc people should demand the abolishment of these insidious carte-blanche powers Yours sincerely, W. E. BURT. Victoria Printers Get Wage Boost Victoria, B.C. (CP)—Victoria local of tbe International Typographical Union (A.F.L.T.L.C.) has Signed agreements granting wage boosts of nine cents an hour with the city's two daily newtpapers-^-The Times and The Colonist The new agreement, retroactive to Jan. SI, calls for two more holidays with pay. Under the new scale, day workers will get $1.76 sn hour and night workers will get $1.88 an hour. Some of the oldsters in the thop were swspping tall stories. One, who had once been in Alalia, boasted, "I was so cold up there, that the candle froze and we couldn't blow it out" "That's nothing," replied another, from the uppei r.-i-r.,-,. of <'.nails. "Where I was, the words cane out of our moutht In pieces of Ice, and we had to fry them to tee what we were talking about" BT" "Roth," moaned her long-suffering husband, "you promised you wouldn't buya new dress. What made you do "Dear," replied the modern Eve, "the devil tempted me." "Why didn't you say "Get thee behind me, Satan f" the poor man inquired. "I did," the woman replied sweet-, ly, "ami then he whispered over my shoulder: "My dear, it fits you just; beautifully in the back." o.C. notels Ussociation CONGRATULATIONS TO ORGANIZED LABOR CONGRATULATIONS ALFRED ZIRK BUILDING CONTRACTORS — INVESTMENTS TO BUILD FOR SALE Phone: N.W.4055-L 1802 NANAIMO STREET, NEW WESTMINSTER SUCCESS GEO. WHILLANS Plastering Contractor Phone: KE. 5848 8680 French Street Vancouver, B. C. HERB JANTZ PLASTERING CONTRACTOR Phone: FR. 4269 a> 280 East 61st Avenue, Vancouver, B. C Boat and Engine Listing Ltd. _S__3gE___-_^„r«n^j_£_S? Phone; 1923 West Georgia j^E&BrlPK-tiW-'.-Y,*----' ' 3628 Vancouver, B. C. MORT. BROWN LTD. PAINTING — DECORATING — SPRAYING 530 Weat Eighth Avenue Phone: FAirmont 0342 BURRITT BROS. CARPET LAYERS Phona: MA. 4023 570 HORNBY STREET VANCOUVER, B. C. Byrnes Typewriter Ltd. "DISTRIBUTORS OF ROYAL T_T_^^_IT__^_.', Phonet: PA. 7942 — PA. 2752 592 SEYMOUR STREET VANCOUVER, B. C. Bay Construction Ltd. ,. , VANCOUVER, B.C. Cave Electric Service "For AH Your Electrical Contracting Work" Phone: FA. 0172 388 Nigel Avenue Vancouver, B. C. P-a-Bal April, 1950 THE LABOR STATESMAN Page Fifteen Compliments of FOSTER & FENNER PLASTERING CONTRACTORS % \ Phone: DE. 0758-Y 5347 Earles Road, Vancouver, B. C. Compliments of Boyles Bros. Drilling Go. Ltd. f . . CONTRACTORS and MANUFACTURERS Phone: HA. 2881 1291 Parker Street Vancouver, B. C COMPLIMENTS OF KISSACK BROS. PLASTERING CONTRACTORS Phone: CE. 2644 2165 WEST FIFTEENTH AVENUE VANCOUVER, B.C. B.C. DISTRICT TELEGRAPH AND DELIVERY CO. LTD. Vancouver, B.C •*..■«.■*■.■..*■ ejliiin a)ii A Anthony Ltd. FORMERLY KINGSWAY ELECTRIC , ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS Phona: HA 5149 453 EAST GEORGIA VANCOUVER, B.C. ACE ELECTRIC SERVICE CO. LTD. ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS Phone: HAitingt 6592 546 Powell Street Vancouver, B.C. B. ARNELL FLOORLAYING CONTRACTOR Phone: AL 02I6R 4644 W. I Ith Ave. BUS & ARNIE FUELS Pure Fir Sawdust Phone: HA. 4673 2316 Garden Drive Vancouver, B. C. Guaranteed Repairing, •T,V_3171I7'l>TTl?'DC Ovs-huBjitj, Rebuilding A * * ___l TT HI 1 H-IVO We Buy Used Machines — Free Ettimatet ANDERSON'S 534 Wett Pender Street, Vancouver, B. C. - Phone: MA. 1646 Vancouver, B. C Business Shows No Signs Of Slackening in the United States VFORMAL COMPETITION NOW has the ^right-of-way in the Xli United States. Prices are being slashed in many lines—not because of decreasing sales—but because competition is getting back to normal, as in the good old days, when the purchaser could shop around for a satisfactory price. In its Business Roundup, Fortune says: Retail tales were running about even with a year ago, and since the consumer demand seemed solidly buttressed by sn naprecendented construction boom, business confidence coursed ahead and commitments were lengthened accordingly. In Chicago a poll of purchasing agents revealed that one ont of every three firms was now buying ninety days or more in advance, that inventories, which a year ago were being liquidated, were now being maintained, that order backlogs were increasing, deliveries slowing, that fewer firms than at any time since October, 1948, were cutting production. February constr-ction, though down 5 percent from January, wss 21 percent higher than a year ago. The Market. Prices during the month conformed to no over-all pattern. The wholesale commodity index rose slightly, but the cost of living declin-d. Westing- house cut .the price of its washing machines, Argus knocked down its cameras. On the other hand, where the cost of new pension programs or raw materials had forced costs up, priced rose. Thus tiremakers warned of another 10 to 12 percent price boost. Raw materials, too, responded to individual market conditions. Lead, under pressure of large imports, slumped to 1034 cents a pound compared with a postwar high of 21 cents. Zinc went op as gslvanizers upped their output Only where the government intervened wss the market frustrated: In New York, R. H. Macy & Co. took s quiet but effective swipe at another type of price fixing. Alert shoppers at Macy- Thirty-fourth Street store suddenly discovered thst they could buy brand-name electric appliances below the "fair-trade" price. Surprisingly, none of the manufacturers whose resale prices were violated took any immediate retaliatory action. The reason: Macy's had compiled an impressive list of New York "discount" houses where the same products have long been available at 20 to 25 percent off the advertised list price. Obviously, before Macy's could be effectively attacked, manufacturers would have to crack down on the discount houses. Doubtful Daagara The one ominous-looking economic thunderhead was unemployment, which in February rose to 4,684,000, the highest point since 1941. Not counting those idled by strikes, thst was an increase of 204,000 over January. Actually, however, ths employment picture was fsr from dark. Not only was the rise largely attributable to seasonal factors and strike dislocations, it was also reassuringly small compared to February, 1949, when jobless rose two snd a half times ss much. More significantly, employment remained near peak levels — actually higher than s year ago. The longe-range need, clearly, was for business to expand sufficiently to absorb sn annually growing labor foTW'But-ifeiptteoffitttt'pre-ictiWi- that unemployment might soon . the mythical five.million danger point, it seemed more probable now, that the seasonal low joint was past, that it would slack off at least for a few months. A smaller storm cloud was the tex- cuts. Bidding for the low-price market, Nash announced a $1,200 model (cheapest comparable Chevrolet: $1,- 320). B-dser-Fra-er. "cheap" car, due in June, waa expected to carry a tag of $1,224 to $1,324. Trouble far Texan. Independeht oil producers were in an unpleasant predicament. Cutbacks in "allowable" production had. thut far kept crude oil prices up in the face of the world oil glut, but they had sharply reduced the income of oil producers. Texaa operators, their output slashed nearly 30 percent since 1948, were in a tight spot - Over Ik- Falls - With some of the sentiment of honeymooners, the U.S. and Canada last month signed a fifty-year treaty to harness the fabulous, and hugely wasted, power of Niagara Falls. Biggest internationally hydroelectric project in history, the proposed Niagara installations will total 3,300,000 kw, close to two and a half times the present capacity.* The development —which leaves the grandeur of the falls unspoiled—is expected to reduce power costs on the U.S. side by one- third to one-half. On the surface, these were prospects to cheer. But hardly had the ink dried than the familiar question arose: who would develop the power, public or private interests? The State Department had concerned itself solely with equal sharing of the potential power. Niagara Mohawk Power, which already operates three of the seven Niagara power plants, was anxious to take over the development and had Elans for a $150-miUion to $l?5-mil- on expansion program. But the federal Power Commission, which would have to pass on the licensing of Niagara Mohawk, had its own plan for s $300-million public project Harry Truman left no doubt where he stood: "A public development as far aa I am concerned." 'Other major North American hydroelectric installations: Grand Coulee 1,900,000 kw. Hoover 1,300,000, Bonneville 518,400. ■ ;Si»i.,.;;p"T School Teachers Hold Congress Affiliation The Vancouver Secondary School Teachers' Association, delegates reported that at the recent Teachers' Convention a resolution had been brought forward asking that the Teachers' Federation review their affiliations with organized labor with a view to withdrawing from the Trades and Labor Congress of Can- ads. This resolution was voted down sfter very strong argument by many delegates and particularly T. Alsbury, F. Templeton and J. Sutherland. The delegate pointed out that he would like the delegates to support the teachers to the limit It was pointed out that there wss some discussion during the Convention to !'-e effect that Councils in other cities wcre^_«>t-{3WKPabl**a-svbis>to9chen! in affiliation. Delegate T. Alsbury, V.S.S.T.A., reported stating that he was glad that the teachers had voted down the inaccurate resolution calling for review of their affiliation with Congress snd he pointed out thst the manner in which the resolution was voted down in the Convention indi- tile industry. Cotton and rayon mills were industriously spinning away, , , ,, filling orders placed months sgo, but ***** "at the teachers were satis- clothing sales were poor and one New n<>d with labor's support He ex- »r . 1 .. • . • " a. m m *. hu..aJ al.M * * iL-1 aL^.«m — .--.I.J York clothing chsin cut its pries 40 percent in an effort to stimulate sales. It seemed likely, therefore, that once textile mills worked off their backlogs tome might again be shut down. Sev_» Million Car.? Detroit headed toward the biggest quarter in its history. Even with Chrysler shut down, the industry wss producing st an annual rate of six million ears; including Chrysler, it was capable of turning out more than seven million this year. Ford, Chevrolet Oldsmobile, Buick, Studebaker, snd Mercury all set new February production records. People flocked to the industry shows, which were pressed the wish that they could have more locals affiliated with Councils throughout the Province. He hoped that Congress would take the advice of this Council and take active steps to have Teachers affiliated across Canada. Curtail Rise In The Cost of living in Canada The . following resolution from Machinists Lodge No. 692 was en dorsed by the Vancouver, New Westminster and District Trades snd Labor Council, revived for the first tame since thej Whereas the purchasing power of ma. In Chicago the show grossed a dollar now paid to the wage earner $600,000. In Des Moines, 40,000 visitors were expected — 79,000 showed up. There were, however, tome slight bat unmistakable signs that the industry waa racing toward the end of the sellers' market Dealers were again selling "new-used" cars below list G.M. shaved its car prices but Studebaker made more substantial Political Education Committee Activities Secretary R. K. Gervin reported to the Trades Council for the committee, on Political Education at follows r- Your committee wish to report that they are presently compiling a report of the stand taken by Aldermen of the City of Vancouver and members of the Legislature for the Province o t British Columbia on the question of union security. When eomiPlled, this information will be published In the Labor Statesman. The n*xt Labor Forum over Station CKWX, Tuesday. May 2nd, will be devoted to this subject Your committee recommend that: Mr. R. i. MacDougsll, M.L.A. for Vancouvtr-Point Grey, Mr. Don Brown, «f.L.A. for Vaneouver-Bur- <_rd be invited to attend the.next Council meeting aa the first in a series of speakers on political subject-, providing thst it is -greed by the delegates thst such speakers ss arc invited be given a courteous hearing and that delegates refrain from any form of demonstration. is becoming less and lets in vslue due to sharper and constant rise in the price of commodities; and Whereas trade union organization! are forced to pursue a policy to make greater demands upon management for higher wages to meet the rise in prices in order to survive; snd, Whereat all these demands on the part of labor while fully necessary are the cause of much friction between labor -and management and without doubt hat a demoralizing affect on industry and the economy of our country. Be It Therefore Resolved that we, the Vancouver Trades and Labor Council, call upon the government of Canada to take drastic action to curtail any further rise in the cost of living snd to put sn immediate stop to all unreasonable exploitation of the consumer. LABOR MAN ELECTED Sioux City, Iowa. — Labor-backed Mayor Dsn J .Conley was returned to office sfter s bitter battle against the public utilitiet which wat considered one cf the hottest city election contests since the time of Wallace Short Short championed labor's cause at mayor in the early 1920's. Compliments of Clark Oil Burner Sales Phone: KE. 0391 3543 West Forty-first Avenue, Vancouver, B. C. Compliments of Pioneer Equipment (1945) ' Limited SUPERIOR BUS AND TRUCK BUILDERS Manufacturers of School Busses Agents for Latham Equipment and Daybrook Hoists Office Phones: PAcific 2354-5 960 Richards Street Vancouver, B. C. ■_ COMPLIMENTS OF PITKETHLY BROS. LTD. SAND, GRAVEL, BRICK, PLASTER AND BUILDERS' SUPPLIES 8699 ANGUS DRIVE (Turn South off Marina) I Phone: KErritdaU 1841 Night, FRaier 1620 BUFTON'S FLOWER SHOP Telephone: HAitlngi 0187 1520 COMMERCIAL DRIVE VANCOUVER, B.C. ARTHUR J. BOURRIE GENERAL CONTRACTOR Specializing in Home Building Phone: TA. 3648 1520 HARWOOD VANCOUVER, B.C. f* J. R. BEZANSON FIXTURES LTD. RESTAURANT COUNTERS AND BOOTHS STOOLS, REFRESHMENT TABLES AND CHAIRS ALL TYPES OF STORE FIXTURES — STORE FRONTS — DESIGNING ESTIMATES GLADLY GIVEN 1256 GRANVILLE STREET Phone: MArine 5044 Botham Construction Ltd. Contractors Phonet Ta. 1644 1137 West Hastings Street Vancouver, B. C. BUCKERFIEDS LTD. FEED, SEEDS and FERTILIZERS Twenty-one branches serving Britith Columbia farmt and gardens. Phone- HA. 5400 Heed Office foot Rogert Street Vancouver, B.C. a-* Locsl 23, Office Workers International Union, hat won a IS monthly wage increase for members employed at the Tacoma Hotel, Tacoma, Wash. The Flint Glass Worker* have secured a health and accident iusurance protrram and other benefits for 1,600 members employed by manufacturers. FRED M. BEATTY LTD. FLOORLAYING CONTRACTORS LAYING — SANDING — REFINISHING Phona: CH. 2525 2046 W. Broadway Vancouver, B.C, r^l Page Sixteen THE LABOR STATESMAN April, 1950 a progressive newspaper devoted to tolerance and freedom of thought VANCOUVER SUN SupplyingSuncrest Home Development with LUMBER WYWOOD 6YPJUM WOOIKIS Hd-U-OR WEVDSOR BUILDING SUPPLIES LTD. 1804 Kingsway, Burnaby '■>. . Phone: New Westminster 3741 ArW*VJr*<AfAV/V£/, • ROAD BUILDING • ASPHALT PAVING • CEMENT POURING • FLUSH-COATING ''There is no substitute for service and experience" 2929 Harwood, Burnaby fc G. H. ANDERSON & SONS BRICKLAYING CONTRACTORS Phone: Richmond 1288-L 702 No. 3 Road, Lulu Island, Vancouver, B. C. l--.lv. ' •■■'* BEST WISHES TO ORGANIZED leABOfL^Z ^ __._, :■-■:■-." ^ ^ ^. >6^^RC_AM_-_d^ Fishermen's Co-operative Federation "CHALLENGER BRAND FISH AND FISH PRODUCTS" 995 East Cordova Street, Vancouver Telephone: HAstings 1791 Vancouver Prince Rupert Victoria •> "C-THRU ALUMINUM AWNINGS Ask,your dealer about the completely packaged CTHRU AWNI.KIT for VISION, LIGHT and VENTILATION Allied Agencies Phone: FAirmont 8748 3671 Mrnn Street - Ask your dealer to show you goods manufactured by the RESTMORE MANUFACTURINC Co. Ltd. "FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE —ITS RESTMORE" Manufactured in B. C. Why buy goods rnanufactured in other countries, end kick about your sons and daughters having to go to other countries to find employment? TRIPU-AtTION "r- ..." ' , BURNABY LAND SERVICING CO. WE PLOW, DISC AND HARROW EXPERIENCED OPERATORS, STANDARD RATES Phone: GL 09o_,T 17SI Sperling Ave. Loch-ale Pott Office, B. C. PRINTING—For Every Purpose Phone: PAcific 5836 DUNSMUJIjt PRINTING COMPANY 437 Dunsmuir Street Vancouver, B.C. Union Raiding Scored By Trades Council Upon the recommendation of the Executive of the Vancouver Trades and Labor Council, endorsation was given to, a communication from the Street Railwaymen's Union, Division 101, in which the union went on record as being opposed to the raiding of trade unions by other trade union groups. \_ While the communication did not specify any particular instance, speakers from the Street Railway- men's Union and other unions drew attention to the method by which the Steel Workers Union (CIO) had attempted to sign up employees of the Consolidated Mining and Smelting Co. at Trail, B. C. who were, or had been, members of the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Union (CIO). Edmonton Civic Workers In Wage Dispute About 800 Edmonton city employees have asked provincial authorities to conciliate in a wage dispute between their union and the City of Edmonton. Tbe workers, employees of the engineering, parks, waterworks, purchasing, airport and garage departments, are members of Edmonton Civic Employees' Union, -Local 80. Garment Workers Announce Banquet Winnipeg. — Sam'Herbsfc, representative of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, has announced that Local 216 of this city will celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of its founding on September 22nd. The occasion will be marked by a gala banquet for more than 1,200 persons in the Civic Auditorium. Drug Employers In Alberta Get Wage Boost New work and' wage agreement entailing a six-dollar monthly raise for 28 union employees at Alberta National Drug Company warehouse has been signed between Teamsters Union and the company. AFL WINNING CIO WAREHOUSE WORKERS San Francisco.—Rank and file majorities have signed AFL membership pledge cards in more than 180 warehouses and plants in the Bay Area. The successful organizing drive sponsored by AFL warehousemen followed a bolt of officers and rank and file members from the CIO International Longshoremen and Warehousemen's Union in protest against "appeasement" and "tell-out" policies ordered by alleged Stalinists within the CIO union. AFL WINS RENT BATTLE San Diego.—The intense battle of the AFL in San Diego to prevent decontrol of rents was brought to a successful climax when the city council voted down a motion for decontrol. AFL Central Labor Council officials led the anti-decontrol struggle before the city council and carried on fin educational campaign for the benefit of the general public. ". . . Is it wrong for the farmer to accepts price support subsidy for producing the most essential product .9Lfct-#_rS__^rM>4. lor the Juan. ufacturer to accept the subsidy of a Government air mail contract—or the publisher to ^fi^JM^ftorduj!* postage .-i.ni-i ^rr.**JCpja>H_pW-" Agriculture Knox T. Huf__rrM«ftS s ION ^^S^piaOPIAL PAINTERS^ Decorators wcSi.^_^HiliiOH 726 Office Room 117 — Labor Temple — 507 West Broadway Firms listed below are under agreement with tbe above Union A. I. SIGNS 1049 Watt Ptfidar FRED ARMITAGE 1143 Wait 64th Ave. J. BOSHARD _ SON LTD. 1445 Kingsway ' CHAS. BRAWN & SON 45 Wat* 2nd Ave. CtAY SIGNS 2019 Granvill. St. COAST NEON LTD. 1458 E«it (roadway DELCALCOMANIA LTD. ., 382 P.w.ll St. GEO. FLEMING SIGN CO. LTD. 444 Pow.ll.St. WILLIAM FINDLATER CO. HMs^lmiifdtr-Sfc '— This Advertisement inserted by Local Union No. 726 Sign and Pictorial Painters Union, P.D. & P.H. of A. AF.L. — T.L.C. HOPPS SIGN CO. LTDT 375 Waif G.orgi. LACEY SIGNS 437 Hom.r St. NEOLITE LTD. 1396. Gr.nvill. NEON PRODUC1S OF WESTERN CANADA 260 T»rmm«l Ave. SEABOARD ADVERTISING CO. LTD. 301 W«t 5th WALBURN NEON LTD. 1420 How* St. WALLACE SIGNS . NEON SERVICE 717 E. H.rlinai ALF. FARMER 6426 Charter St. tttd J BRAND ia woik clothn. Forwctwcithtr.gct BONE-DRY wain itpellnii clothing. WATSON'S GLOVES "The Wear is There" Treat Your Handi to a Pair of WIN S CENTS AN HOUR Toronto, Ohio.—A 5-cents-sn-hour general increase, in wages has been awarded employees of the Toronto Paper Manufacturing Co. under a new agreement bttwaan the company and Jefferson Local 495 of the AFL International Brotherhood of Paper Makers. LOGGERS REQUEST INSURANCE RIGHTS Ottawa.—Prime Minister St. Laurent snd hit Government are the recipients of s petition presented by the Lumber and Sawmill Workers asking "unemployment inturance coverage for workers in the pulpwood and logging industry of Eastern Canada." The petition carried 4,077 signatures. ^tfTWa[ Appreeiete the * Difference Sold by All Leading Stores JOHN WATSON LIMITED Vancouver, B.C. Too bad that nature didn't arrange that an empty head, like an empty stomach, wouldn't let Itl owner rest until he put something in it **}•****• %^ r/ /to t-i.\\v BRITISH COLUMBIA CONQUER CANCER 1050 CAMPAIGN GIVE THROUGH YOU V - VAMCOUVa C-UKER C0NMT1H 518 HASTING. ST. WEST NT Y. Knox, Provincial Chairman A. C. Law, Deputy Chairman A. C. Turner, Hon. Treasurer 0 Give G£N£R0I/Siy GUARD THOSE YOU LOVE Ornamental Iron The young suitor was going through the formality of asking for j the hand of his prospective bride. "So you want to become my ton- in-law?" asked the father grumpily." "Frankly, no," replied the suitor, "but I don't see any way out of It if I marry your daughter." Officials of the Bureau of Internal Revenue received from a recently naturalised citizen the following note after tending his an income tax form: "Dear Treasury: I got your application blank, but I already belong to several good order and do not care to join your income tax at thit time." A wise fellow stepping up to the but at ''.stopped the other morning tald tc the driver: "Well, No8h, it the Ark full?" The motorman antwered back Nope, we need one more monkey. Come on in." / .. And a diplomat is one who can tell you to go to hell so pleasantly that you're anxious to get started. Note: The Editor frequently tells me to go there but he's no diplomat. The parking apace scrota the ttreet it what disappeared while you were making a U-turn. ,''*'.■•■ ' "Pop, what does it mean when It says a man attends a convention as a delegate-at-largeT" "That meant hit wife wasn't along." Politician: "Did your paper say waa a liar and a scoundrel?" Editor: "It did not" Politician: "Well, some paper In thit town tald ao." Editor: "It may have been our competitor down the ttreet. We ni>ver print stale news." • RAILINGS • GATES • FLOWER BOXES • CHILLS • TRELLISES Write for (lluslrsU. tsttltgas [ in will Call sae (Mva VMS EtUmaUi Jtmcratft Manufacturers at Fine AH Ironwork MM E. Hatttngt OL. I Haven't You Been Missing Something Harwoods CuiKia'll ', FilK it IA ... c^ » April, 1950 THE LABOR STATESMAN Page Seventeen "■!. . Compliments of BLACK TOP CABS LTD. All Union Drivers Phones: PA. 2337 — PA. 2181 250 Dunsmuir Street % Vancouver, B. C. Provincial Governmeiit Refe-^AppIkatioofor Charter Amendment We are not surprised by the report from Victoria stating that the charter «m_.nf,^jint to give Vsncouver civic workers the right to bargain for the union shop, was turned down. We are very pleased to note that 17 members of the House had enough spunk to stand ap aad vote for our civil rights. According to the papers, A. a- McDougsll, Coalitionist for Vancouver Point-Grey, led the forces opposing the measure. Mr. Mc- Dougall is quoted as saying thst "known communists have asked for this amendment" and that "there are some communists on the inside snd outside tuff of the City of Vaa- co-rer." In other words, our claim is so jnst that Mr. McDougall cannot vote against ut without trying to make the issue "Communism." Compliments of Dawson & Hall Ltd. General Contractors ,/_ Phone: HA. 2800 773 Clark Drive, Vancouver, iM_V- n Compliments of R.F0RD PLASTERING CONTRACTOR • Phone: MA. 3953 1107 Thurfow Street Vancouver, B. C. Blain Boiler Works Ltd. * • • Phonet HA. 0172 494 Railway Vancouver, B. C. Tnunan Proposes Jobiew Pay Rise To $42 Per Week Washington. — President Truman arced Congress to overhaul ths unemployment insurance system, including extension of coverage to 6,000,000 more workers and a rise in the amount and duration of benefits. In extending coverage, Mr. Truman would take into the aystem about 3,500,000 employees of DONALD GUISE — B.siaeu Af-at By this measure, Attorney-General Wismer, who voted for the amendment last year snd this yesr, is a "fellow traveller." This Union, Local 28, ia not a Union of Coalitionists, CCF'era, or Communist*. It is a Union of civic worker! certified under the labor law of the province and bargaining under this law. We maintain it is a gross injustice that we are bound by all the penalties and restrictions of the Labor Code of this province but are not allowed to bargain for the onion shop on the tame basis ss other workers covered by the ICA Act Thit fight ia only beginning. We are not going to wsit until next yesr when the House meets sgsin. While we supported the proposed amendment to the City Charter( despite the lukewarm attitude of the City's representatives in Victoria) we do not believe that any impartial body competent to deal with this question would rale thst ICA Act covers us in its entirety. Therefore it is oar intention to seek s show-down on this question in the year 1960. Donsld Guise, Business Agent psnies, 1,700,000 federal gov. employees, shoot 600.000 workers who are paid on a commission basis snd about 200,000 workers on jobs of sn industrial nature connected with agriculture. ' To correct waat ha called the "in- sdequscy of benefits," Mr. Truman proposed country-wide minimum levels for -mounts snd duration of benefits. -imam weekly benefits in tbe states now range from $16 to $27 for tingle persons. Some states provide for dependents allowances. The average benefits for the country as a whole were jnst over S 20 s week in 1940. Mr. Truman proposed these standards: benefits for single persons should approximate 60 percent of normal earnings, up to a matin of at least 130 a week. Additional allowances should be granted for dependents. The proportion of previous earnings replaced would vary with the number of dependents op to a ma-imnm of 70 percent of wages, or S427~wincbever is lower, for a person with-three or more dependents. Maximum duration of benefits varies among the states from 12 to 26 weeks. The average in 1949 wss lest than 13 weeks. Nearly 2,000,000 workers exhausted their rights to benefits before finding another job. Mr. Truman said that benefits should be available for at least 26 weeks in a year. He said it was estimated thst "under my prdposal, the number of workers who exhausted their benefits in 1949 would have been only half as Urge ss it wss." COMPLIMENTS OF MOTT ELECTRIC LTD. Phone: TA. 1454 Vancouver, B.C. and New Westminster ^^sMxzz^~^u.zmm Civic Employees' Efforts lo Obtain Union Snop The question of the Union Shop for Vsncouver Civic Employees baa been op since 1943, when the Vancouver Civic Federstioi in uiitbing and Heating x Phone: CEdar 2116 2166 WEST FOURTH AVENUE, VANCOUVER. B.C. WALTER S. CUDMORE CONTRACTOR Specializing in Alterations and Repairs Phone: FA. 7460 911 E. 20th AVE, VANCOUVER, B.C. Crystal Dairy Ltd. Phone: HA. 0I3S 1803 COMMERCIAL DRIVE, VANCOUVER, B.C. Specialists in All Types of HauBng CROWN 0U.M6E AND WAREHOUSING (0. LID. Light and Heavy HauBng 1293 Homer Street, Vancouver MArine 4121 (Establish.- 1927) Importex Company Ltd. it' the Unions asked for then a Union Shop whereby all employeea automatically joined their respective unions after a probationary period of three months, and remained members ss s condition of employment Such sn arrangement, la effect at the Vsncouver General Hospital, dees not infringe on the employers right to discipline or discharge for proper cause. Such a form of anion security was permiaaable under the labor cods of thst dayr aad is permiassble under the labor code of this dsy. Further, this union bargained under the labor code of 1943, snd bargains under the labor code of 1960. In 194b, 1949 and 1960, the City applied for charter power to enter into Union Security agreements. The proposal was turned down in 1948 snd 1949, snd it looks like history will repeat itself in 1960. This Union supported the City in 1949 and 1960, because we feel that thit it one way out of a legal jungle. . But we feel that such Charter Kwer is not necessary, because the A Act, under which the City bargaina with us, has a Section 7 which reads as follows: "Nothing in this Act shall be construed to preclude the partite to a collective sgreement from inserting in the collective sgreement s provision, requiring ss a condition of employment, membership in s specified trade union or employees' organisation, or granting preference of employment to members of a specified trade onion or employees' organisation, or to preclude tbe esryyvng-out of such provisions." This is oar position in s nut-shell. We bargain under the ICA Act, and wi are legally bound by its prohibitions, restrictions and penalties. Therefore, wa maintain, we are k.vally entitled to enjoy tbe benefits of i«rgaining under Section 7. We fail to tee bew the City, a registered he saw can legally GEORGE DANCHUK CONTRACTOR Spec-iJ--ing in New Building, Alterations and Repairs Phonet GL 2494 36BS TURNER STREET VANCOUVER, B.C corporation under toe pin-point section 7, snd ssy. In effect: We accept sll other sections of this provincial rods, bat not this one. We an not asking you to pass judgement on the issue of the onion'"■<■■> shop versus the non-union shop. We sre asking you to agree that it is grossly unfair that we should be placed in a legal category where wa have no tights to even bargain for the Union Shop, Thus, the issue is one of civil rights for Vsncouver Civic Workers. Don Guise. Basinets Agent Jsck rhillipt Secretary. Site Coostnict-on ' Wage Check Near The Bureau of Labor Statistics of tbe Dent of labor has recently undertaken a study of the "Elements of Housing Construction, Cost" which will be of great interest to building tradesmen. The study is a very limited one, covering only a few of ths larger cities throughout the country. It is intended to provide information on the relative Importance of the cost of labor and materials in' the construction of typical one-family houses in the cities selected for study. What constitutes a typical bouse in a given area will be determined by another study now under way by the Bureau, in which the characteristics of new housing in 16 major metropolitan areas will be snsly-ed. The first report under this study has been issued, on housing in the metropolitan area of Washington, D.C., daring the third quarter of last year. The present study will be comparable to two previous studies msde by tbe Bureau of Labor Statistics. In 1946-47 s ttudy of the labor cost in new housing built in 18 industrial areas was made, and the results were published lest yesr. A previous study had been made in 19.1-32.. Pa/roll st the site both less than a third of total construction cost of new housing, except on WPA projects included in tbe earlier study, on which labor cost was considerably above thst figure. This proves that wages have not increased oat of proportion with the increases in material prices and other coat in the 16-year period between tbe two studies. For the purpose of these studies the BLS has defined construction cost ss including only the cost of labor, materials aad subcontracted work, and that part of the builder's overhead and profit chargeable directly to the construction project It does not include sales profit, selling costs, cost of land and site improvements, snd sll each non-construction expenses ss srcbitectarel snd engineering fees. The study made in 1946-47 covered 1,760 dwelling units, 1,191 in one- family structures and 669 in multi- f-miiy structures. The otie-famiky houses were included in 296 projects and tbe multi-family in 41 projects within the 18 aress the study covered. All the housing was built by contractors, either for occupancy by the owner or for sale or rental. In no eases was a study made of a house in which the owner himself did sny of the work. The ttudy showed, ss wss to be expected, thst the site payroll, as a percentage of construction costs, de- clirx ss the site and the cost of the nous increases. The study also snowed thst Isbor cost in relation to total cost on the average, waa greater on large-scale operations than on small-scale projects, for both ons- fsmily snd multi-fsmily housing. Some dogt have won their fame by playing cheat — a silly game. Other mutts have msde their mark by summing numbers with a bark. These pooches eaa have all that junk, for what they're doing is the bank. Mine don't tell Jok» e—he don't like gags; beneath his my:* there are bags. He hss no psssimistir Manufacturers of LAMPS - LAMPSHADES- GnrrwARB • Brands: Elite - Corona - Plaslipleat - Porcclla 1654 FRANKLIN STREET VANCOUVER, B. C HAsrings 2858 — Phones—HAstings 2059 Congratulations to Organized Labor THE CNEIL CO. LTD. Phone: MA. 4431 1043 West Pender Street, Vancouver, B. C. L. N. Desrochers & Sons PLASTERING CONTRACTORS Phona: FA 7347 . 1*4 East Nineteenth Avenue Vanc-<ivsr,4_C. >^.^-*-.,^*.V . >—''■ T. DAVIES PLUMBING CONTRACTOR -spe-_pnS-sngin'--P--ritao-to Phone: GL 1626 3642 Et on -pfffeMf ■ ■~*_-_--------R---l|"--t-X-h J. ELLIGOTT BRICK AND STONE CONTRACTORS Phone: HA 6388 2241 Wi-isms -treat Vsncouver, I.C. A sign on a stocking counter reads: 'These Nylons Will Look Bet- i ter en Year Lets Than on Our Hands." qualms, for he's working on atomic Three Boy Scouts reported that they had done a a good deed—they had helped a Isdy scross the street "Yes/' itid the scoutmaster, "that was a good deed. But why did it take all three of you?" "Because," explained one of the trio, "she didn't wsnt to go." Forbes & Raven Floors Ltd. gnAVAi$Ayl!**r% Phona: CH. 6141 1964 W. BROADWAY VArrCOUVt-tBLC. R. H. FULTON CONTRACTOR 368! W. 2nd r, In-uth-lel end Home Building Phone: CH. 6030 Vancouvpsr, B.C Lady: "Why don't yoa arrest thst nudist colony thst it disgracing this neighborhood?" I&eriff (aot-ething of a wag)—"I would, bat it't awful hard to get any- I thing on them." I Frank Fenk Contract Plumbing and Healing Steam and Hot Water Phone. DE 3071 3505 East 46th Avenue Vsncouver, B.C Page Eighteen THE LABOR STATESMAN April, 19S0 Kelly & Steffins Lathing Contractors Phona: FA 70574. 2451 Eait Twenty-ninth Avanue, Vancouver. B.C. G. W. HAMILTON UNDERTAKING CO. LTD. Phona: FA. 0268 19 KINGSWAY VANCOUVER, B.C. ARVIN HANNA Contractor Phone: CH. 1232 ^ 3316 WEST SEVENTH AVENUE, VANCOUVER, B.C. A. F. of La Urges Raise In Unemployed Benefits Washington.—AFL President William Green urged that Congress adopt at this session President Truman's proposal to increase the coverage of the unemployment compensation act, raise the benefits paid thereunder and extend the number of weeks for payments. Mr. Green told Mr. Truman that the letter's message to Congrets on April 6 requesting these improvements "sccurstely sppraised the points at which improvement is needed." "I wholeheartedly support your request that Congress adopt these improvements during this session," Mr. Green wrote Mr. Truman. He said: ''On behalf the 8,000,000 working people in tbe American Federation of Labor I with to congratulate you on the timely messsge on the subject of unemployment insurance which you sent to the Congress. "The wsge earners of America know thst economic security is attained through production of goods snd that the stability of our system depends on jobs. Their desire is first of all to have work at good wsges snd under good conditions. During the war and the years following they have amply demonstrated their willingness to produce the goods snd services necessary to maintaining a'sound economy. Their hope is that the opportunity to work afforded by full employment will continue. "At the same time they recognize that in a free economy there will be movement and change that bring about breaks in employment They want to be assured against- lots of Income when these occur. They reslite also that maintenance of purchasing power sufficient to meet the necessities of life for those who are ont of work through no fault of their own can contribute to preventing the spread of unemployment and help to keep it from leading to a disastrous depression. "The states nave not yet measured up to the opportunity of providing adequate protection against unemployment, and with the number of unemployed now nearly 6,000,000 it is necessary for the federal government to assume leadership through the introduction of federal minimum standards applicable to the state laws. "Your message accurately appraised the points at which improvement it needed and offered practical solutions to the problems. As preiident of the American Federation of Labor I wholeheartedly support your request that the Congress adopt these improvements during this session." Mr. Truman's recommendations would: 1. Extend coverage to take into the unemployment compensation system 3,500,000 employees of small companies 1,700,000 federal government employees; 500,000 workers paid on a commission basis, and 200,1)00 jobs of an industrial nature connected with agriculture. 2. Correct "inadequacy of benefits" by increasing benefits paid for single persona, up to at least S30 per week and for a person with three or more dependents up to $42 a week, for at least 80 weeks. 3. Provide benefits for workers who move from one state to another. 4. Revise and improve federal and state laws covering fraud and disqualifications. 5. Improve financing of unemployment insurance partly to help states whose funds are threatened with exhaustion. Mr. Truman urged Congress to act this yesr because state legislatures will have to enact their own laws to fit any new federal requirements and most of these bodies will meet in 1061. The need is expected to be greater next winter also. Unemployment totaled 4,123,000 in March and is expected to rise. The AFL estimates the 1950 average may be 6,000,000 unemployed. , , COMPLIMENTS OF Trayling & Waters JEWELRY MANUFACTURERS Phone: MA. 8251 576 Seymour Street, Vancouver, B. C. Alex Park & Son Ltd. General Contractors Phone: CE. 1912 -__S?...WJ_a:,BROADWAY, VANCOUVER, B.C- ROOTS BROS. FURNACES AND SHEET METAL CO. Phone: FA. 7524 60 EAST BROADWAY VANCOUVER, B. C. Compliments of Ray Bros. Tailoring Co. Ltd. FOR MEN and WOMEN "Union Label" 146 West Haitinqs St., Vancouver, B. C. Phona: PAcific 6960 Torridheat Furnace Oil Burners installed in your present furnace with 6036-gaUon tank, S47SM Roswite Co. Ltd. i: PAcific 4371 722 Homer Street, Vancouver, B. C. Compliments of ROBERTSON SASH & DOOR CO. Manufacturers of SASH, DOORS AND GENERAL MILL WORK J. SAXON SLEDDING, ALma 1939-R 1758 Bast 15th Ave Phone: HAstings 5*500 SIMMONS 8. McBRipE LIMITED Directors of Funeral Service Phone: CH. 0234 1993 West Broadway Milk Drivers'Fund Becomes Effective New York.—Fifteen thousand milk drivers and dairy employees in the New York - New Jersey - Connecticut metropolitan area will receive protection under the first industry-wide welfare fund in the milk industry, effective April 1. Terms of the welfare "package" were agreed upon by representatives of 210 milk distributors and 5 locals of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. David Kaplan, chief economist for the parent union, said he expected the program to become a model for similar agreements In other parts of the countrg____ The employers put up 10 cents an hour to finance pensions and insurance benfits for their employees. Six cents an hour is being earmarked for pensions. The outer 4 cents will be used to provide esch worker with s 12,6000 group life insurance policy, Blue Cross hospital insurance for himself, his wife and dependent children and weekly sickness benefits of $40 a week, with a maximum of 26 weeks' benefit for any one period of disability. Because the program provides more substantial benefits than those prescribed under the disability in- aurancejawt of New York and New Jersey* milk* -rivers snd other covered esattloy-es in the two states will not Hive to pay the employee taxes established under their laws. The New Jersey tax amounts to three- fourths of 1 percent The New Yorlk employee tax will become one-half of 1 percent on July 1. Real Estate Lobby I_j-_-_Sub-id-e-for No0ncBat.t»cif Sometimes we wonder bow real estate lobbyists can look themselves in the face when they shave each morning. Although the real estate industry it building about 50 percent of its houses with the eld of Government subsidies every time they are proposed in the people's—and not solely the mortgage banker's—Interests. The Reconstruction Finance Corp., is buying real estate mortgages st the rate of 11 billion a year. Real estate interests, bankers and other lenders are unloading their bad mortgages on the Government snd keeping the good. If that isn t subsidy, we're a real estate lobbyist!—(LLPK). Homber Council Gains 59th Cbarter Corner Brook, Nfld. — The 68th Trades and Labor Council cbarter of The Trades and Labor Congress of Canada has just been issued to the Humber Trades snd Labor Council here. The decision of the Council to seek direct affiliation to the Congrets was msde on Deceraber 4th. The first charter issued by the Co-greet to a Trades Council treat to the' Nelson Trades and Labor Council In 1800. Since that date several charters have been issued fo Councils that for one reason or another later disbanded. There are now. with the advent of the Homber Trades and Labor Council, fifty-nine functioning Trades Councils under charters from the Congress in as many Industrial and mining centres of the ten provinces of Canada. An Ideal sometimes becomes sn or- desl sfter marriage. A carpenter contributed thit gat: A wjosy gent st the phone asked: "Is dia Spruce, tree, tree, tree, treat" And the answer, "No. This is Walnut, fir, fir, fir, Mr." "Excuse it please. Wrong lumber." Business Grows Rich Under Fair Deal Amid cries of alarm by businessmen comes this report from the U.S. News & World Report, published by the violently anti-labor David Lawrence : "American corporations, as a group, are rolling in money. In four postwar years they have, invested 160 billion in new- plant and equipment; they have increased other assets by $11 billion; they have added »21 billion to reserves for depreciation, and they still have $40 billion in cash and Government bonds on hand." Is that growth under the Fair Deal socialism? Radio Broadcasts On Union Negotiations Vsncouver taxpayers and trade unionists are going to get first hand reports of the current wage negotiations between the City and 1500 Outside Civic Workers. The Outside Civic Workers have leased eight, 6- minute radio spots for a period from the 21st of April to the 16th of Hay. Broadcasts will be at 7 p.m. every Friday and Tuesday over C.K.M.O. and union spokesmen will inform the public of the union's demands and the progress in negotiations. A Conciliation Board has been set up and Mr. Hugh S. Bird of Vancouver, will represent the Union. The Union is desirous of keeping the public of Vancouver fully informed about the current negotiations. As far as the Union it concerned there it nothing ttcret or hush-hush about the Union's demands or the hearings of the Conciliation Board. The membership feel that their demands are fully justified and that no honest taxpayer would objoct if he was fully informed. These radio broadcasts flow from the general policy of the Vancouver Civic Employees', Local 28, which is to give good service to the public in return for good wages and good working conditions and to maintain good public relations with the taxpayers of thit City. Spring Fever Are you one of the victims of spring fever every year? Do you get listless, ltty snd feel sll run down? If you are a spring fever victim you don't need to be, the U. S. De- fiartment of Agriculture advices, snd f you want to avoid it this yesr you had better take special care of your diet during tbe next few weeks. For the Department of Agriculture has found that the "spring weariness" so common in grandmother's day that she dosed her family with spring tonic, is probably due to s shortage of vitamin C in the food you ordinarily eat at thit time of year. Food like potatoes, cabbage, apples, conned tomatoes and other vegetables and fruits gradually lose their vitamin C ss they stand in storage. For example, potatoes held in storage six months have only one-third as much vitamin C ss thoy hsd when they were harvested. Studies msde of the blood plasma of school children has shown that it is low in ascorbic add (vitamin C) at this time of yesr, and the same thing is probably true of most adults as So, instead of waiting until spring fever really hits, a few weeks from now, snd then doting yourself with spring tonics snd other remedies, ths Department of Agriculture recommends you concentrate now on eating more foodt rich in vitamin C—citrus fruit or canned citrus products, more canned tomato juice, more cabbage, and more vegetables and fruits generally, if your budget allows it irS OIL IN FUN Stout lady (st s filling station): "I want tome oil." Attendant: "What kind, heavy?" Stout lady: "You impertinent pup!" CONGRATULATIONS C. Treavor Plastering Contractor Phone: LA 0267-Y , 8432 SHAUGHNESSY, VANCOUVER, B.C. G. EVOY WOOD, WIRE and METAL LATHING CONTRACTORS Phone: FA 29904. 203 SIXTH AVENUE EAST, VANCOUVER, B.C. SHARP 8C THOMPSON, BERWICK PRATT ARCHITECTS X ■+- a Phone: TA. 333S 1553 ROBSON STREET VANCOUVER, B.C. Congratulations l Union Shop Geo. Pickett PAINTING CONTRACTOR Phone: CEdar 0916 248? West Sixteenth Avenue Vancouver, B. C. Seaforth Candy Company (WHOLESALE) 2954Cor_met_ial Drive Phone: HA. 5916 COMPLIMENTS OF SIGURDSON MILLWORK CO. LTD. Phone: CH. 5161 1275 WEST SIXTH AVJ_NUE_-VANCOUVlRT-aVC.— E.H.Shqckley&SonLtd. CONTRACTORS Phone: HA. 3267 1936 POWELL VANCOUVER, B. C. Seaboard Sheet Metal Ltd. Phonei PA. 2949 245 ALEXANDER VANCOUVER, B. C. Skinner-Atkins Ltd. Wl-WMesyM neJpflt-MfteJ. H#_mpf>d -WO M-in>n# SilppiMN HfrS-rTlfrO, Sytf-HIM EltQ/lf. G. C. SKINNER, Sale' Phones: MA. 4154- KE. 0.B3-L 1233 Hornby »„ Vancouver TURNBULL BROS. LTD. GENERAL CONTRACTORS Phone: FA. 9058 205 Wast Rrtt Avenue yoaoo-ver, B.C. ' J / April, 1950 THE LABOR STATESMAN P-age Nineteen B. Ca Concrete Co. Ltd. Phone: KE 7121 1025 WEST SEVENTY-SEVENTH AVENUE VANCOUVER. B.C. Gilchrist Engineering Co. Ltd. Phona: FA. 6691 135 WEST SECOND AVENUE, VANCOUVER, B.C. E.C.A. Chief Lands Labor's Great Aid To Marshall Plan A glowing, new tribute to the "momentous aid" given by American labor was voiced this week by Paul 'G. Hoffman, chief of the Economic . Cooperation Administration, which I directs the Marshall plan for European recovery. As the recovery program reached its second anniversary and half-way mark, Hoffman declared that "the encouragement, enthusiasm and down-to-earth participation of American trade unionists has been in large part responsible for the progress made so far." "Organized railway workers in this country are witb-you for the duration," iyrote A. E. Lyon, executive secretary of the Railway labor Executives Association. "We send you our assurances of continuing endeavor in behalf of free workers throughout the world." President William Green of the A. F. of L. and President Philip Murray of the C. I. O. sent similar pledges of continued support. Imparts Small Meantime Hoffman also sought to allay fears that the E. G. A.'a efforts to increase imports from abroad to this country—so as to cut Europe's dependence on American financial aid—will bring heavy unemployment in America, "We give our assurances that the welfare of U.S. workera generally will be guarded," he said. Hoffman declared that the proposed increased imports would amount to only "one third of 1 percent of our total output of goods" and that this will not cause serious repercussions. "If we do not import, we cannot export," he said. "And if we do not sell lest and buy more, we mutt either continue our aid, or tee the European economy placed in grave danger." Two former trade union leaders now serving as Hoffman's top labor advisers—Bert M. Jewell and Clinton S. Golden—also made a plea for the program. Jewell was for many years president of the A. F. of L. Railway Employees' Department and Golden was assistant president of the Steel- workers' union. LOUIS S. SORENSEN GENERAL CONTRACTOR • Phone: DE. 4554-F 2917 McKee Burnaby, B. C. R. W. PAYNE PLASTERING CONTRACTOR Phone: KE. 7145 1150 Wes» Seventieth Avenue, Vancouver, P. C. -or-, ^m, -. ■ "_*,' ...,!.-,>. P.isrnc-, COMPLEMENTS OF THE MANAGEMENT Princeton Hotel 1901 POWELL STREET VANCOUVER, B. C Outstanding Labor Leader Passes on Hamilton.—An outstanding leader in organized labor, Fred Molineux, who foi' many years waa international representative of the International Brotherhood o f Painters, Decorators, and Paperhangert of America and retired from the pott in 1946, died here thit week. In .'a long and very active career he filled many posts. He waa representative of The Trades -and Labor Congress of Canada on the National Labor Supply Council, the National Research Council, the Industrial Labor Relations Board and the National Board of Construction Industry during the recent war. At labor's representative, he also participated in the work of the Ontario Royal Commission on Education. Molineux, was the T. L. C.'s frat- r:\:al delegate to the British Trades Union Congress in 1936 and was awaried the Order of the British Empire in 1846 for his work during Jtbft_war..-He was a member of the advisory board of Ontario Provincial Apprentices-''? La*. Pacific Marine Repairs Ud. SHIP CONTRACTORS Boiler Scaling, Tank Cle_-__c, Hull and Hold Staling and Painting, Engine Repairs, C_ner.il Ship Work" • Telephone: HAstings 573- 1S5_ Powell Street, Vancouver, B. G Le Beau Cartage & Contracting Ltd. > Phone: KE. 5270 2736 WEST 32nd AVENUE, VANCOUVER, B.C. McLean & Powell iron Works — L 1 POWfi., Manager -TTOVB and FURNACE CASTINGS GENERAL FOUNDRY WORK Phone: FA. 1546 398 Second Ave. W., Vancouver, B£. ). H. McQUIRE - Contractor Ornamental thick — Glass Blocks — Cement Sloths Phone: FR. 6285 217* WAVERlVaVENUE VANCOUVER, I.C. Clerks Gain Wage Increase at Port Ottawa—Wage hikes are recommended in a unanimout report by a Federal conciliation board in a dispute between the Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks and the National Harbors Board at Quebec City. The men involved comprise the elevator system and general maintenance forcea of the port. The Board recommended that employees in the grain elevator tyttem be grafted a 6-cents-an-hour increase, tetroactive to Hay 1, 1948, and a further 5-cent increase retroactive to Hay 1, 1949. The Board also recommended that employees in the general maintenance forces be granted a 5-cent-per- hour boost, as of June 1, 1949. The union's demands were for wage hikes of 10 cents per hour, retroactive to April 1, 1948, for employees in the grain elevator system, and S cants per hour, retroactive to November 1, 1948, for employees in the general maintenance forces. The report was released here by .Federal tabor Hinister Humphrey Hitchell. Chairman of the Board waa Judge Edouard Tellier of Hon- tresl. Marcel E. Francq of Montreal represented the workers on the Board and Paul LeBel of Quebec represented the employers. When driving slwsys remember your ABCs — Alwsys Be Careful I And it might be well to remind you that "Safety Begins Behind the Ears." 47. p» ----- 'S'uso cHAHL SntASIAT^ "Not here! They're anti-labor!" Organ of Business Talks Social Security The magazine "Business Week," foremost organ of industry, came out editorially this week for the Administration's legislation to liberalize the Social Security Act arid expand its coverage. Reactionaries in Congress have been either opposing the legislation or trying to whittle it down, but "Business Week' declared that "the need is obvious" and it called for action at this session. For a long time organized labor has been fighting for higher pensions and other improvements in social security, and now that it's on the verge of success, "Business Week" gets on the bandwagon and admits labor was right all along. It even echoes tome of labor's arguments. Present Law "Inadequate" "Why is there so much steam behind the drive to expand the Social Security program?" the magazine asks, and then gives its answer: "The chief reason is that time has made the present Social Security pension plan, originally passed in 1935, obviously inadequate." Even in 1935 the pensions were much too low "and the cost of living has risen almost 70 percent since then," declares "Business Week." It cites the fact that average annuities under the act are far less than the "charity" pensions paid by states to needy aged. "The pension plan simply isn't doing the job it was designed to do," the magazine adds. "That was to provide an insurance plan that would make people who are to old to work independent of charity." Real Reason for Stand Of course, the magazine concedes a selfish reason for its stand—namely, that unions have been driving for supplementary company plans which would give workers combined Federal and private pensions of $100 a month. Under these plant, company contributions go down as Federal pensions go up. "That give? the companies with privste plsns an obvious interest in raising the level of Social Security benefits," the magazine says. Furthermore, private plans have too many "bugs snd can't be tbe firstline reliance against the h azards of old age for old workers." Only a public plan can do that, because among other advantages, "it can be made to cover all workers in the country, Including the self-employed." "Mast Covar all Worinra" The magazine declares the bill passed by the H ouse last year; and now before the Senate, is a "step in the right direction"—and that Congress should take the final action this yesr. Organized Ubor has also hailed the House bill—which would increase present meager benefits by about 70 percent and expand coverage—but favors additional improvements. Winding up its pies, "Business Week" contends thst "in the long run,, if the plan is to be fair and democratic, it mutt cover sll workers, and provide pensions large enough ao that their living standards will not drop drastically when they retire." Union Secretaries- Harvey's Hardware and Plumbing Phone: DE 2320 2751 KINGSWAY. VANCOUVER. HC Attention! Don't be a lasy citizens, registered voter! Be Huryl Joslyri, formerly employed by the Vancouver, New Westminster and District Trades A Labor Council haa opened a Public Stenography Office in Room 119, Labor Temple, FA. 8986. The following types of work will be handled through thit office: Agreements, Verbatim Reports of Conventions, Briefs, Board Meeting!, Typing, Mimeographing and General Correspondence. Muryl is a graduate in Stenotypy from Shews' Business College in Toronto, and prior to working for the Council had several years of varied experience in stenographic and secretarial work. A Chinese had a toothache and phoned his dentist for an appointment. "Two-thirty all right!" asked the dentist "Yes," repUed ths Chinese, tooth hurtee. all right, but what time I come?" Our fashion editor predicts necklines so low they'll make babies cry. TO SAVE YOW LIFE Oft LIMB Vou owe it to yourself and family to TAKE A FIRST AN) COURSE Contact your local St. John Centre now or write to Provincial Headquarters ST. JOHN ANBULANCE 710 Davie Street Vancouver, B. C Hardwood Milling Co. Ltd. Manufacture-. OAK FLOORING AND SUPPLIES MOULDINGS, ETC. GEORGE HARDY Office Phone and Factory- 225 Salsbury Drive _. JOSEF F. FOISEY CONTRACTOR General Building and Repairs Phone: DE. 4590 2306 East Forty-fifth Avenue, Vancouver, __C Standard Hardwood Floors E. NORLANDER Phone: HA. 5792-Y 2640 WILLIAMS VANCOUVER. It W. E. TERNAN Contractor Cuttom Built Hornet at Fair Prieas Phone: DE 3270 2512 Wellington Avenue ».C Vancouver Tfle Company Phone: FA. 7951 3213 MAIN STREET VANCOUVER t.C Veterans Sheet Metal Phone: HA. 3090 568 POWELL STREET VANCOUVBt 1C. Vasseur Bros. Ltd. BULLDOZING a. s_C T. WOODWARD R00HN6 AND SHEET NHAl CO. e Phona: MA. 7430 1339 RICHARDS STREET. VANCOUVER, I.C. ,i,>MH*» HENRY WILaSON Plumbing Contracting and Repairs Phona: CE. 9220 2916 GRANVILLE STREET VANCOUVER, O.C —————■_—PT" Page Twenty «__■£ 1-tVBOS STATESMAN April. 1950 Vancouver Contractors DA n_w.rA.Ma5 815 W. -fat-tap __r-c* T-EST SALES CO. MANUFACTURERS Of VEKBIIAW MJB 2215 CAM** STREET. VAMpCOIMOI tVC A. BROMLEY PAINTING CONTRACTOR noat-.rA.smt4. 2*990 Sophsst $t9*t*t$t Vs-b-MMNV-pV m.^ -eaCtCrjMCtJWe^^ B. C. FLOOR SUPPLIES PORTABLE EQUIPMENT REJtlAL*. SVCEf A* J MACHINES, FLOOR POLISHERS, MULL UT~ SPRAYERS. WALLPAPER ST_XM_3_1 _e_d HAS 2649 East Hattiagt! aVC B.C.l-ieCo. l-anaer HA «I7 _s>49IIapMiiava_4re«tfa-« iJ1t__5-T-V'«:**;V? v* I I __g_E_______,M______._-BBBBS.-----S»! METAL SIGNS — CUT OUT Lb J JUS — KICK PLATES — DISPLAY GBNERALr4AC-41NE_«C»» Advance Industries Lb noasK __& MM--s_A 2034 Weat Twelfth Atcatj •r Ciiranrcis W«aa_p*i |a__is-HI _a_--e_____ V*wmmts**\ if he is no . the -Uukti-g Trade, Office, *****% 4341, or leave ward at __tmt t"l_, and the htfaratalinn tee aassaad _a 8a the flhingiera' Jaa_- BSB_____E_B_-e -s__-_>_-._-a3 -bast thatthe : an-pilitri of the - The nature of t that -here is never of asaa working at the trade said therefore they cannot of their own. fctoallaeen on the job, question the thei t of all the Oman I CEdar _»-- and get a Gartshore Coffee-Cafes Ltd* WE BOIL EGGS—THE RiGHT WAY No. 1—In the MARINE BUILDING. No. 2—la die MEDICAL-DENTAL BUILDING. No. 3—At PENDER and HOWE. No. 4—At "COFFEE TIME", 1163 Robeon at Bote Easy Parking Vancouver, B. C. V I out at the next There is ao doubt thatthe of organizing activity Ike rise ia eaT mM b-Uding trades s case in Calgary. to one -tadc fauntuc. Sheet -L in r the last week. Jack hat I in Csdgarr Before aad thst he ia a i. The results he (Calgary) Ca_L Monarch Construction Co. Ltd. GENERAL CONTRAOORS Phone: PA. 9291 445 West Second Avenue, Vancouver, B.C. DAVID BAIN PLASTERING CONTRACTOR Phone: CH. 2075 3580 Point Grey Road, Vancouver, B. C _•_■_■ ata-a__L._B.__ f.__P__U-B-_l -_--_, -___,! i *S to $7M\ war week ary c__fa eatfasy-d by Robertson & Hacl_ett Sawmill Co. Ltd 1550 Cranville Sum. Vrntimms, _LC A. K. WOOD floor Sanding and Finishing Hardwood a Specialty m Phone: BA 1292 — Evening phone: GL. 0344-R 1077 Wett Broadway, Vancouver,.B. C. CONGRATULATIONS TO ORGANIZED LABOR Kitsilano Floor Renew Service Phone: CHerry 5510 3628 West Sixth Avenue, Vancouver, B. G -w-irwiw- -. ■ r-jrg „-_-* * C. FULLJAMES LATHING CONTRACTOR Phone: FA 1929-R 2957 East Fourth Avenue Vancouver, it C F. RAMER ' LATHINGCONTRACTOR Plume: HA IPe94t 2721 Graveley Street, Vmmamtr, EC Is ttos a dangerous ■araassai money ea a_ea_t "Rasstan seab- —sit by The Navy. sstt that snniiir 'Russian suhmar- % the Kavy every tone it asked _d iTi_ju years. To prove that, tbe it .seat over aacfe stories year after GEO. A. SKINNER LATHING CONTRACTOR w ' none: DR. tt*%L 48.5 Fairmont Sum. Viim in. __-C ~ ■t* 3sP ____-_-- -M->_ril4i. -disisf fo, wit-Wut of ■ Mstft2npc<l- i.-qicn__-tnrcs? TURNER BROS. PLASTERING CONTRACTORS Office Plume: FA VB4 Residence phones: FA 2572—FA _**_.* 200 Eatt Twentieth Avcnor. Vjaruiei, RC "igftD t8w_db tbe treed from 1Milam, sign and Modems live ia peace api —he lew religions have been iiaa^Hi iin & sntii-1! pohcy of an: aa s-timrtl. India, P___sta_ and part in the world's racial aad rengions sri ssaeBsfesKX aad mod arsS.— -baagt att t-e-lapuntraily. Beck A. & A. Plumbing & Heating Co. REPAIR WORK A SPECIALTY *,. Phone: FR. 7521 5721 Cree Street, Vancouver, B.C THOS. MULLARD PLASTERING CONTRACTOR Phone: CH. 2414 2980 West Twenty-eighth Avenue, Vancouver, B. G HARWOOD ROOFING ASPHALT SHINGLES, GUTTERS AND DOWN P-PES- NEW AND OLD WORK. ROOF REPAIRS. Phonet DE. 3844 3366 Nelson Avenue, Burnaby, B.C. W. G. FRASER PLASTERING CONTRACTOR Phone: HA 2775-Y 2136 Graveley Street, Vancouver, B.C
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