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<_? t The Labor Stat No. 728 OWNED BY THE VANCOUVER AND DISTRICT LABOUR COUNCIL i VANCOUVER, B.C., JUNE, 1962 ,-**.-. ■■■^.p^MMyX.y.m^M^/ _$ „ - . I Play your holiday safe, 1 treat water with respect 1 e summertime is vacation time—and a time of water I tragedy. I Last year in B.C. alone, 153 people—including 41 young I children—lost their lives in drowning accidents. In almost . all cases of child fatality, it was fun followed by tragedy. Water recreation is fun, but only when the dangers | are known and the simple rules of safety are followed. Sj | § Knowing the dangers is the first big step to safety. ! Preventing the disaster by observance of easy practices is | the other necessary step to safety at all times Air-inflated toys can carry a wind-blown cargo of | tragedy on water, so restrict their use t3 the beach. Boating I without a life-jacket is not only against the law but is a I gamble with death. Fun on a raft claims a alarming number of lives everv year. The list is endless and the hazards are ever, present. Pulp men accept new pay pact Members of two unions representing close to 6,000 in the pulp and paper industry have accepted a 3Vfe per cent wage boost and-other improvements in a new one-year contract. More than 5,200 members of International Brotherhood of ■ Pulp, Sulphite and Paper Mill Workers voted 70 per cent in favor oi the proposed ment which ar_p*-_i_«tiW™ proved holidays and job readjustments. Union international representative H. L. Stubby Hansen said the settlement package represented about 11 cents an hour. About 60 members of United Papermakers and Paper- workers earlier in the month had voted to accept a similar . contract settlement. The wage boosts are effective July 1. Hansen said the new base rate under the contract will be $2.10 an hour and the A mechanics rate is $2.96. Mills affected by the new contract terms areAt Wood- fibre, Ocean Falls, Prince Rupert, Powell River, Port Melon, Port Alice, Elk Falls, Port Alberni, Harmac and Crofton. Nelson hotel organized NELSON—Beverage Dispensers Local 835 have been certified to bargain for employees in beer parlors Jn the Queens and Civic hotels here. ERHART REGIER Regier will step down for Tommy Popular MP-elect Erhart Regier has won near-unanimous backing from Burnaby-Coquit- lam NDP constituency association in his move to resign his seat and make way for a by- election and a seat for NDP national leader Tommy Douglas. Regier, who drew more than 19,000 votes and forced the forfeiture of deposits by all his opponents in the general election, will resign "if and when" he feels it is necessary. This provision gives him leeway in the event of another general election becomes imminent and a byelection is not necessary. A decision probably will be reached after the NDP caucus in Winnipeg on July 12. Carper a v in s*-*._<e ballot, talks deadlock Carpenters throughout B.C. were voting in a government supervised strike ballot as the Labor Statesman went to press. Result of the vote is not expected until July A when returns from the many voting areas—and ballots sent in by mail— are received in Vancouver. Carpenters employed by about 67 firms have been urged to back strike action to support their negotiating committee in the drive for the first wage boost since 1959. The contract dispute involves three contractors association— Vancouver General Contractors. Heavy and Highway and Amalgamated. * * * Building contractors have forced carpenters in B.C. to take a strike vote in the dispute over renewal of contracts. The Provincial Council of Carpenters have charged that the refusal of contractors to miigmm ot the union ■unable offer during negotiations have given carpenters no alternative. A statement from the carpenters negotiating committee urged all members of United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners to vote in favor of strike action in the government supervised vote. "Because the contractors refuse to agree to our reasonable requests we must take the initiative," the committee said. "All members should vote in favor of strike action to back up our demands and strengthen the position of our negotiating committee." A mass meeting of union members in Exhibition Gardens earlier this month voted 95 per cent to reject the recommendations made by a conciliation officer. The meeting also rejected the last offer made by contractors. The conciliation officer recommendation permitted putting the dispute before a conciliation board — a procedure permitted under the new labor code—and the next step in the dispute is a strike vote. The carpenters' provincial council said the dispute revolves on wages, working hours, travel time, and other issues. Here are the details: ...IN EtQIEf cent i April 1 this year and an additional 10 cents on April 1 next year. The contractors have offered eight cents on June 1 and another seven cents on April 1, 1963. B.C. carpenters have had no (Continued on Page 12) SIU violence blasted in lakes dispute Vancouver and District Labour Council has condemned the violence of the Seafarers International Union on the Great Lakes. Delegates rallied behind tha new CLC seamen's union, the Canadian Maritime Union, who have successfully won bargaining rights for about 600 seamen in the Great Lakes area. CLC President Claude Jodoin last month made a strong appeal to the government for a full-scale investigation of the SIU. He outlined to tha prime minister a list of beatings J shootings, intimidations and! other crimes which had been launched against persons supporting the Canadian Maritime | Union. Vancouver trade unionists I have urged the four political f parties in Ottawa to push efforts to win an effective polity I to deal with violence in the Lakes waterfront dispute. PLAINLY — Economics professor E. F. Neufelt of Toronto told a panel "discussion this month that there is no reason the price of consumer credit should not be as clearly stated on a contract as is the price of bread in a supermarket. Well ■aid. <MS * CONVENTIONS—Among international union conventions being held in June are Upholsterers in Cleveland. Musicians in Pittsburgh, Communications Workers in Milwaukee, Office Employees in Kansas City. In July, the American Newspaper Guild meets in Buffalo. X U tt WHO'S BALANCE? — Who says the Socreds hold the balance of power in Ottawa? NDP provincial example. If the Socreds try to force the Diefenbaker government to settle the Columbia river treaty dispute on B.C. Socred terms — selling the downstream benefits to the U.S.—the Conservative government would not necessarily fall if they refused. Simple arithmetic, says Strachan. If the NDP voted with the Tories on this issue, there would be a big enough majority to vote it down and still keep the government in office. The full combination of opposition parties is needed to topple the government, he said. *r **** *T* JOINED—Club and Cabaret Workers' Union Local 740 of the Beverage Dispensers International has now merged with a sister local union, Beverage Dispensers and Culinary Workers Local 835, New Westminster. * * * HEAR HEAR—B.C. Lawyers in convention have urged that the B.C. Motor Vehicle Act be amended to give the motorist an even break in the (Continued on Page 12) ONE UNION RETURNS Labour Council waives back dues for unions, new encouragement move-*for reaffiliations :■■.■ ■ 7 c-.v''«v..,;;ne_P , ../; '.;_ ;.,•. ' , _ . • , l" -,' A new move to encourage unions to join the central Vancouver and District Labour Council was adopted this month and already one union has reaffiliated. The council recommended that any affiliated local that had fallen in arrears in per capita could be exonerated from payment of the back per capita to re-establis-h its good standing. Council's organizing committee recently announced a new <Jrive to bring several unions back into the fold. The policy, adopted by delegates, is part of the campaign to encourage those unions which earlier had quit to rejoin. Meantime, International As sociation of Ironworkers Local 97 applied to rejoin the council and was accepted. The 450-member Ironworkers local had left council last November because of financial reasons. Both VLC secretary Paddy Neale and organizing committee chairman Mel Kemmis have predicted that the unions who quit last year will eventually return to the central committee. Council earlier this year adopted measures to streamline business meetings and to eliminate some of the problems that had brought com plaints from unions which disaffiliated. The change in the bylaws have been approved by the CTC and are now in operation. Latest new affiliate of the council is expected to be Lor cal 16-697 of the Oil, Chemical and Atomic "Workers, a new local covering employees of the Hooker Chemical plant in North Vancouver. The application, under normal procedure, goees to the organizing committee for re- port. ff ■..' I ■ .-* m Workers battle Franco Free labor throughout world rallies support for striking Spanish miners The Labor Statesman — June, 1962 Page 2 Aid for 100,000 striking mine and metal workers in Spain has been urged from affiliates of Vancouver and District Labour Council. Secretary Paddy Neale told a meeting this month that -unions should rally financial support for the Spaniards who are on strike in defiance of the Franco dictatorship. The workers are suffering degradation, filth and low wages under the Franco regime, Neal said. Strikes are il legal in Spain but conditions are so bad even the church is supporting the miners. * * * Free labor throughout the world is rallying behind the striking Spaniards. In the U.S., the Automobile Workers made a $10,000 grant to the strikers as President Walter Reuther said it represented "the conviction of UAW' members that the struggle for political freedom and for free collective bargaining against dictatorships and repressive governments wherever they exist in the world, whether in Spain, behind the Iron or Bamboo curtains or behind the bayonets of military juntas in Latin America, is a direct and immediate concern of American .workers." In Brussels, the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions reported that trade unions all over the world are expressing solidarity with the Snanish workers. v ___" , 3 Electricians wm 10-cent pay boost Employees in eight electrical shops in Vancouver and New Westminster have won a 10- cent hourly boost from May 1 in a settlement worked out after workers had taken a strike vote. They are members of International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 213. Three-year contract accepted by Laborers Building and construction laborers have won a 28-cent wage boost in new three-year contracts. The Heavy agreement with the Construction Associa- NOTICE I closed my Dental Office on May 5, 1962, after having practised dentistry for nearly 50 years. I have never had any dentists associated With me during my practice. I did not dispose of my dental practice to any person. Thanking my thousands of patients for their support over the years, I only wish that I could continue to bring guaranteed dentistry to the public at prices they can afford to pay. Dr. R. Llewellyn Douglas, D.D.S. Phone: AM 1-1886 1344 Dogwood Ave., Vancouver. B.C. "OLD DOC 7 THE DEVI L'S EYE * NEXT! „.,„„..„„ Winner of Four British Academy Awards! A TASTE OF HONEY Studio Theatre MU 3-1511 Granville at Smithe tion brings a three stage wage boost that will increase the basic laborer rate to $2.27 by March 1, 1964. The increases: eight cents from June 1 this year, 10 cents on March 1, 1963 and an additional 10 cents on March 1, 1964. Laborers Locals 602 and 1070 in negotiations with gen- eral contractors in the metropolitan area have worked out a similar 28-eent three-stage wage boost. The contract details were being ironed out as The Statesman went to press. Burnaby school employees elect Crockett W. G. Crockett has been elected president of Burnaby 379 In recent annual elections. Other officers are H. E. Wad- ham, first vice-president; J. Linton, second vice-president; H. I. Smith, secretary-treasurer. Executive members are H. D. Dunk, W. E. Apps, J. L. Young, M. A. Griffin, J. S. Fulton. Shop stewards are L. S. Willis, C. J. Clarke and . H. Healy. -Third Generation Firm Starts W. J. Heads Boot Factory ltd Makers of the "HEADS SHOE" for Loggers, Miners, CruiBfers, Surveyors, etc. *\ OUr Shoes are Hand-Made — You'll be Satisfied 21 East Hastings Strefet Vancouver 4, B.C. EWS * convention coverage - * world, notional, and regional news hear complete, accurate news and info1, med commentary on . 7 ■ television - channel 2 radio - 690 kcs. Presently a principal of G. E. Baynes Contractors Ltd.. wishes to announce the formation of a new firm known as Duncan Ltd., with offices at 296 Pember- ton Avenue, North Vancouver, telephone YUkon 7-3832. This firm will engage in general con-' tracting and engineering in British Columbia. The Baynes family's tradition as builders was pioneered by E. G. Baynes, whose first contract was the erecting of Entrance Island light in 1893. Th,? firm of Baynes ft Horie, subsequently built early dav schools in Vancouver. G. E. "Ted" Baynes has enjoyed operating several concerns including Baynes Manning Ltd.. builders of Calgary's Mewata Bridge, and the PGE Peace River Bridge. Duncan Baynes came west a year ago to join his father after two years with Stelco. Both are graduates of UBC in civil engineering. (Advt. Pay boost Squamish hospital "..., SQUAMISH — Hospital Em-" ployees Union Local 180 has settled a two-year agreement with the Squamish General Hospital with a three-stage wage increase and other improvements. ""'Lay employees will get a four percent boost retroactive to Jan. 1, 1962, a two per cent boost on July 1 and a further three per cent on Jan. 1, 1963. Rand formula union security, accumulated sick leave tn 120 days, no loss of pay for jury duty and four weeks vacation after 15 years of service are other provisions of the contract. Frozen food plant signs agreement CHILLrWACK—A two-year agreement has been reached between United Packinghouse Workers and Fraser Valley Frosted Foods Ltd. with a two- stage wage increase ranging from three cents to six cents an hour. Bonuses will be reduced, by one cent this year and one cent in 1963 and wage boosts will be made in two steps, one this year and one next: female labor, two three-cent an hour increases; male labor, three -—-- -~« four cfini** -_*****1** L'U-_yilJtJU, two rour-'cent increases; male classified, five cents and three cents; male adjustments, six cents and three cents. TO RENT Downtowrtr- OFFICE SPACE In sunny upstairs location. Consists of a waiting room, large main office, and two private offices, stationery closet, and large cupboard. Heating and janitorial services included. 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BROADWAY, VANCOUVER mmmSmmmmmmmmmmM ™- - ,» T■■■.•-**^-■-^-*.-^■f^-^-7--T- ii;i in i.Ill Willi The Labor Statesman — June, 1962 Page 3 V':' ■»•*■* *■*"■ ' CC msi fl:*ru^ . t tEH'^CCRI iiri*^. ;_-*uuj.vt__iJ 'mWmim'i Smm&UX Urn mmmmXUiV * QF HB,._i-_ ■ USRIN .. ■ Si M L F. /.'N _ • fl.Ar\$*i MAYOJ 'moi'-at ■ STRONG LABOR PROTESTS Companies fail to justify gas hike, quietly cancel it ■I) K.MbTt*■-.: D!'R RCJREItt: .uvv^hompsoN-.- tR-SWlC'S ji^^SflUiW* Five major oil companies in B.C. have cancelled the one- cent price increase on retail sales of gasoline and the boost in fuel oil following strong public protest. The five had boosted their prices almost immediately after the devaluation of the Canadian dollar was announced. Two companies had held their prices. The B.C. Federation of Labour this month issued a strong protest against the boost in gasoline prices and the "probable increase" hinted by the bread" industry. The Federation said the usual reason given for price inr creases by monopoly industries is "labor costs" but said the companies use.any convenient excuse and this time hopped on dollar devaluation. "It doesn't take much common sense to realize that there are no more thoroughly Canadian products than bread and petroleum . . . we have flour and oil flowing out of our ears," said Federation assistant secretary John McNevin. ufc-a-^-iaa.fr.m'u And bread prices? '■■■.;.':■. . m& STATESMAN FLASHBACK FOUR YEARS AGO this month, tragedy struck many families when the new Second Narrows bridge collapsed and killed 18 workmen—on June 17, 1958. This plaque was erected by the Iron Workers district council of Western Canada two years later as the bridge was completed, to mark the memory of those who lost their lives—most of them members of unions in this area— during construction of the huge bridge. In all, 23 died during the construction, four before the ill-fated bridge went down into the narrows, and one diver who lost his life while attempting to recover bodies of missing workmen. IWA man wins scholarship to US university course SALMON ARM—Cliff Michael, financial secretary of Local 1-417 of IWA, has been awarded an S800 a_Ho__-ra---p from the National Institute of Labor Education. He is the only Canadian attending a 10-week course in economics, labor history, political science and psychology at Uni- versity of Michigan at Ann Arbor. He is sponsored by the IWA regional council. Michael joined the IWA in 1950, has been active at IWA, B.C. Federation of Labour and CLC conventions. He is a first vice-president of the Salmon Arm NDP. hatever News.. the so .important for everyoiip jio \ know what's irafe- ffljl.jtt world. That is wh^ many people value.jhe unexcelled n6ws. •?■*-' gathering tacilities of the Vancouver Sun for ALL the ne*w$ fr4>m everywhere. [itURlii-.-jlU'l Unemployment in B.C. between March and April dropped from 46,000 to 42,000 with an estimated 7.1 per cent of the work force still without jobs, according to Dominion Bureau of Statistics. An indication that the bread industry may be paving the way for acceptance of a price boost came in Toronto this month in the annual report of the General Bakeries Ltd. The report said the "full impact" of additional flour costs combined with other increasing Wage boost for CNR stewards Three year agreements with substantial wage boosts have been negotiated by Canadian Brotherhood of Railway, Transport and General Workers for stewards, radio telegraph operators and assistant pursers of tbe CNR Pacific coast steamship ' service. The effective date of the _^-^Hu*f^9*Vfto¥Sn^ $S& boost will date back to that date. A further $8 a month will be paid Sept. 1 this year and an additional $7 will be paid on Sept. 1, 1963. About 73 employees are involved. It was James Thurber who said that one *r_artini:is all right, two is too many: and three is not enough. I tVakflti Safkr ^hpA 560 West Georgia St. MU 1-4816 ■4 750 West Broadway TR 2-5333 Phone MU 4-7141 For regular home delivery (i96oyod: ! The Only Union Restaurant Chain In British Columbia 5 Locations To Serve You "AU OVER TOWNf '" Open 7 a.m. to 1 a.m. Daily GRANVILLE AT SMYTHE - Heart of the Theatre District GRANVILLE AT BROADWAY - Free Parking at Rear BROADWAY AT MAIN - In the Arcade ef The Lee Bldg. CAMBIE AT 12TH - Opposite City Hall KINGSWAY AT FRASER -Open AH Nigh.; Friday & Saturday costs of operation will be felt by the industry in the near future. The report also said: the company's year ending April 4 showed a net profit of $302,- 078, a 26 per cent jump over the $240,975 profit in the previous year. "These price raises are arbitrary and phony." He said the petroleum industry is 80 per cent foreign owned and the devaluation of the Canadian dollar caused the price of our oil to drop in price below the border, thus irritating the American producers. "Our oil was therefore jumped in price at the well-head to keep the price of delivered oil across the border at the same level as the U.S. produced oil," McNevin said. "The result then was that the Americans continued paying the same price while we would pay more for our own products. "This is the direct result of foreign ownership and control of an essential Canadian industry." Certified Carpenters and Joiners Local 1928 have been certified to bargain for employees of Norman K. Fixtures and Woodcraft, Vancouver. Bett's Shell Service Broadway & Arbutus GAS — OIL — TIRES BATTERIES-ACCESSOR BATTERIES ACCESSORIES LUBRICATION & REPAIRS UNION SHOP RE 3-4712 L HARRplSl BROS. LIMITED FUNERAL DIRECTORS "British Columbia's Finest Funeral Service CHAPEL OF CHIMES 55 E. 10th Ave TB 6-8877 Vancouver ROYAT OAK CHAPEL HE 1-5577 5152 Kingsway. Burnaby Stubby Products Ltd. Union Made BjJE™ — Beverages 6329 Beresford St. Burnaby, B.C. BUY IT BVTHE CARTON VANCOUVER PLUMBING CO. LTD. One of Vancouver's Largest Plumbing Contractors We specialize in Apartments—Industrial and Commercial Installations. Hot water heating—Finest fixtures available. 15 years experience to serve you. AL 5-8454 1784 East Hastings Vancouver, B.C. Loyal Protective Life Insurance Co. R. N. Larson, Manager O" MU 1-4413 Vancouver, B.C. MU 1-7649 736 Granville St. — Mount! Pleasant Chapel Limited KINGSWAY at ELEVENTH AVENUE KINDLINESS — UNDERSTANDING — DEPENDABILITY \jl_iAPY ATTENDANT '■;•)*:■ It |U *'!' US' 11*1*1 Phone TRinity 6-2161 ', mmW The Labor Statesman — June, 1962 Page 4 ^THE LABOR STATESMAN Published last week of each month at Labor Temple, 307 West Broadway, Vancouver 10, B.C. Authorized as second class mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa, and for payment of postage in cash. The Labor Statesman is owned by the Vancouver and District Labour Council and supported.Jt<y,.16iL.te "To each union member tlie political party of his choice" t "Build Strong Union* for Social Security" Subscription Rates: $1.60 per year: to Unions. 6c per copy C. P. NEALE, Secretary O. BRAATEN, Chairman, Public Relations Committee Get the facts straight It was with regret, and even a feeling of shame that we read the recent article by Elmore Philpott written against the Medicare Plan of the Saskatchewan provincial government. We say this because of a knowledge of Elmore's history in politics in Canada. At one time he was a member of the CCF, and an ardent advocate of complete medical coverage on a national scale. He then defected to the Liberal party, but even then maintained his humanitarian belief that all Canadians were entitled to medical, dental, surgical, and even optical care regardless of their income. This recent article however, puts him in the camp of ^ the reactionariesun Canada, including the Canadian Medical Association. Not only that, but he has to revert to out- ~TigmTfabrications to try to seliTuT~position. "■-,<We have read he Saskatchewan Medical Act—and nowhere in the Act does it state that the government will set the rates of pay for (factors. In fact it states that the same method as is used under private plans will obtain in that the College of Physicians ind Surgeons will set the doctors rates. (The College is an organization made up entirely of doctors.) I I Nowhere in the Act does it state that the .conditions Urrder which the doctors will work will be governed by the •government. In fact the legislation is designed tp lean.back- wards to assure there would be no interference in the dpqtors' working conditions, or the patient-doctor relationship i Mh All that the Act does is state that instead of the patient paying the doctor, (or the patient paying -through their equivalent of MSA or CU&C) the patient would pay the government,some $72.00 per year, and the government would guarantee the doctor full payment for all medical bills for all the people of Saskatchewan—be they rich ot poor, worker or pensioner. What can possibly be wrong v#e_ *__*_•. W« Wnow that we pay over $125 per year under pTWl^le pVarv ■w\Wr_"\eB_ mea\ii»*i euv«rag. »>.n «->._nv>^- chewan plan guarantees. VIEWPOINT Consumers cheated daily need further protection The primary objection of the doctors is, first, they are opposed to the introduction of any form of government medicine because they are deathly afraid the people will like it so ^ell they will demand that the planbe expanded and increased, and the doctors are afraid thisi/jtpay be the "thin edge of the wedge." Second.)*, the doctors are afraid that the provincial government will have an accurate record of their total income, and they do not wish this to become public knowledge. These are the sole reasons for their opposition. We think that an honored and trusted profession such as the medical profession, has sunk to a very low pdsit_dn in their unjustified and unwarranted opposition, and we are sorry that Elmore would jump on theSaskatchewan Liberal political bandwagon to assist them. It* is incongruous to say the least, that thfj Liberal party promises us a National Health Scheme if elected} but opposes one on the provincial level. We would urge Mr. Philpott to read the Act, and then \ write retracting the untruths in h_._j, -recent biased article. Political arithmetic Premier Bennett's statement that he will get his own way in Ottawa because of the Socreds' 30 seats in the House has been labelled political blackmail. His statement that he intends to get his own way on the Columbia and on several other issues by threatening to topple the government with a claimed balance of power in the House is a good example of the dictatorial way the Socreds go about the business of government Mr. Bennett's peculiar type of political arithmetic is at workf again. The. Columbia power dispute, land the positions taken by the parries, was an election issue only-in EC. And if the premier will add up the B;(3{ results, he'll note that the Socreds won only two of the 22 seats and that his popular vote was miles behind all other parties. Does this mean that His policies on the Columbia have been vindicated? Only Socred arithmetic could arrive at that concltision. ' • And if the premier claims that the* 26' seats won in Quebec by Social Credit had even any faint connection, with his personal policies on the Columbia—and the Peace —he's away on another wild dream'. ' The Quebec vote had nothing to.do'jyith B.C. issues. other than perhaps the claim that B.C,. is debt free. And we won't get into that arguijnent noivl No other party will ever accept that claim while, the government is guaranteeing hundreds of mill.ori|,q£ mttJBs'iti debts owed by government agencies. By C. P. PADDY NEALE General Secretary Vancouver Labour Council The demand which jconsum- ers make on the goods and services of industry, is the most important single factor in keeping the economy buoyant arid prosperous. Consumer demand creates production which, in turn, requires employment and a multiplicity of further demand throughout the economy. But it is a sad fact that today the practice of bilking or cheating consumers has become an almost accepted practice in some areas. The degree of cheating the consumer ranges from inaccurate advertising, through deceptive packaging, price fixing, area agreements for monopoly selling, poor quality and plan- ngd obsolescence to the ulti- mate Of placing on the market supposed "pure" foods and drugs that are actually diseased, or otherwise unfit for human consumption. And don't forget, too, the out-and-out swindle of hidden interest charges whereby a seemingly small interest charge of 3 per cent per month is actually 36 per cent per year. Every day we read or hear about our fellow citizens being cheated, swindled and bilked. ^ Every day, all of us together pay prices that have been artificially raised on all makes, of a particular product. In very recent years over 150 companies in Canada have been convicted of price fixing, notably in the bread and paper industries. How many cases go undetect- -q.-py-w_r.l__l_<m-*iu ^.llt_*_0-,t- bines iegislation and our understaffed federal combines investigation branch? Our laws for the protection of the consumer are generally inadequate and inspection and enforcement agencies are under-staffed. There are problems of jurisdiction between the federal and provincial governments which leave large gaps in the protection of consumers. —All this leads to one inescapable conclusion: We consumers need more protection. We need a consumers "Bill of Rights." We need an.immediate halt such protection is not needed, claiming that the natural waril ness of the average consumer can be relied upon to force industry and retailers to be fair. This position is ridiculous. Individual consumers are not in a position to resist the Scientifically designed deluge of phoney advertising to which we are continuously subjected. Unless each consumer is an expert on foods and drugs, he cannot detect diseased meats or impure drugs, for example. A consumer making a purchase on credit would have to be a financial wizard to detect the schemes and crookedness dei vised by some of the cunning operators who bilk people on credit purchases through1 financing. Our economy has become far too complex to expect each individual consumer to protect C. P. PADDY NEALE to the infringements of o u r rights as consumers in the areas of quality, a fair price set by fair [competition, accurate, rational and reasonable advertising and packaging, and laws designed to establish fair interest charges on credit purchases, and clear statements as to their amounts. The Vancouver Province newspaper has criticized this proposal on the grounds that YOUR H&P NEEDED -•'i ,ii " . it. himself. Therefore, we suggest that a Consumers Bill of Rights be devised setting out the principles of equity and justice as they pertain to the very important economic function of consumption. This should be backed up with solid legislation and inspection services for the people's protection. Last, but not least, the legislation should have some teeth in it so that violators would not only be fined large amounts of money, but would also be liable for jail terms. The present anti-combines legislation allows a group of companies to fleece the public of millions of dollars, and when, and if, caught their penalty is a fine of less than 1 per cent of their ill-gotten profits. We in Labor say the consumer must Have legislation to protect him from the, trained experts who ,are continually fleecing him,. , • fl :■ t . , Bigger, aim of improved Statesman committee's new plans 1 *•-••»• -* •• • .«■ By O. BRAATEN Chairman, Public Relations Committee -{The Public Relations Com- • mittee of ,the Vancouver and District labour Council have met periodically * since their election in January of this year to review j all matters, pertain- l ing to the Labor Statesman. A review of the situation he- came necessary because Qf the lack of progress in the development of the paper itself in its many phases. As a result lof the committee meetings a number of changes have been planned and future meetings will discuss further improvements to the paper. " One."of the improvements :btot.gl.i' ifc by '.he committee was-'tne suteestittri tn_t the advertising _>e handled by an experienced advertising' agent. This has been done.and an advertising agent on a commission basis is now in the field of soliciting advertising for the Labor Statesman and, as may be noticed,;the number of ads has increased considerably. It is anticipated as time goes on that more advertising will be forthcoming, which in turn will enhance the financial position of the paper. Also discussed was the question of circulation, with the hope of building up subscriptions and working towards greater co-operation from affiliated local unions to see that the paper is effectively distributed to their membership. This, improvement is now in the process of being done. The general content of the paper has also been discussed With suggestions that possibly the paper should become more controversial, thereby eliciting a greater interest from the affiliated unions and readers, i It is felt that articles, with content that would whet the reader to either compliment or criticize would liven the paper and make it the more useful to the labor movement as a whole. Also discussed was the question of trying to establish regular contributors from affiliated unions with certain topics covered in each issue, or reports of activities of the local unions. THEY SAY: ■mxxw:- ■.:-':"'■ ~ ■"■'■ '%x& "Discrimination against employment of older workers is not only a baseless "prejudice which must be vigorously resisted but it may become as well a serious setback to productive human resources. Full employment, which in any case must be our goal, is also the only real solution to this problem and full utilization of all human resources is a supreme obligation of society." (Aharon Becker, secretary - general of Histadrut in Israel, speaking to the ILO in Geneva, June, 1962.) It could well be the Building Trades Council would want to have a regular column dealing with activities of all of their unions. : ' >.I The road to a successful' labor paper is hot an easy'We, but no labor paper ca'H rdtlftn its status with a union''membership unless it speaks freely and sornetimfes quite strongly of the pos-tibri and problems labor has to face from day to day. . i :•■■ The educational facilities for a union'membership can be " greatly increased by educational articles on'such questions as labor legisiarioh Workmen's Compensation, profits and earnings of companies, reports of contract negotiations e 1 s e- where, reports of MP's and MLA's on given subjects, devaluation of the Canadian dollar and what it means to Canadian workers, what the controversy on the Columbia River means tp Canada pnd British Columbia in the future, and any number of othej* topics necessary if our union, membership are to be equipped to make the effective decisions as time'goes on in solvingl:their problems. ..i; •, Z This report has been of a general nature, dealing only with those topics discussed by the Public Relations Committee ifl trying to lay the ground work of participation fro**}, af- /filiated unions and union members. ' *-;*' 7 ' (Continued on Page 12) ___—_____.• * The economic truth Tories hid Canadian financial crisis ring ^ffij^^_^_^BP# comes trouble Tbe Labor Statesman. — June, 1962 Page 5 The grand financial mess that labor predicted has come about in a big way. Of course, it was no i*eal prediction. The facts were there. The situation was there, —'but the Conservative government members were too busy electioneering to tell the truth to the Canadian people. -*" All during the election campaign, while they were telling Canadians that things never looked better, the government was hiding the crisis we now face. In the barest essence, the problem is one of the nation as a whole -living beyond its means. During the past several years we have been importing much more than we have been exporting. There are many reasons for this, enough reasons to fill a large book. The effects, ..-however, are that Canada-J_as_. incurred increasing deficits in our international budget. <*-' We have been able to carry on this way because we have made up the difference by receiving foreign investment in Canada. We have been able to buy more imports because foreigners have provided us with their currencies. They trade their currencies for ours so that they could invest their newly acquired Canadian money in Canada. Obviously this situation could carry on only so long as foreigners wanted to invest in Canaua. but, Canada's general economic situation has not been very attractive to investors for several years. We have a slow rate of economic growth, we have high levels of unemployment, and finally, our political situation is unstable. Only so long as investment prospects in Canada were attractive to foreigners would they provide us with their currencies. The currencies we needed to carry oh importing more than we exported. _• "Ir *p — What has happened then is that our dollar has fallen in value on the international markets because foreign investors no longer want to exchange their money for it — and because there is relatively little demand fay Canadian dollars abroad* :to paji for our exports. Now what is the Conservative government doing to correct this situation which could result in further economic stagnation and depression? 'First, the government had to stop the panic selling of Canadian currency abroad. It is doing this by "pegging" the dollar at a more realistic rate of exchange, and supporting the price with huge loans of foreign currencies. Secondly, the government has increased tariffs on certain classes of imports so that The gas price goof Someone obviously goofed in the oil industry in announcing this month that the price of retail gas and fuel oil was going, up because of increased industry costs brought on by the devaluation of the dollar. ...... The-ell Companies, again a*trv.-~t*i_*-7' -«_«--j «_^-'-tty excuse to hike the price, picked on the wrong one. Devaluation may have some effect on the price of goods brought from the U.S. but who did they expect would fall for the devaluation argument when on and gas flows freely from our own wells and plants? j i The companies later pulled in their horns, cancelled the increase. This was another good* example of how big companies, looking to increase profits, play loose with the consumer's pocketbook. our total imports should decline to a closer balance with our exports. Both these measures will reflect in varying degrees of higher consumer prices. Thirdly, the government has curtailed the amount of Canadian tourist money allowed to be spent abroad. This will further conserve our currencies on the international money markets. Fourthly, the government is attempting to balance its national budget by curtailing federal government expenditures. This measure will also curtail employment. These are emergency and short-run measures only. What is required is a very basic and thorough reorganization of our economy so that we are not so dependent on exports for our national survival. Particularly the export of raw, or semi-processed goods, the demand for which always fluctuates more than for finished goods. We require a program of economic growth and development. The program we have needed for the last five years. Only with renewed investor confidence in our economy can we attract the required levels of domestic and foreign investment. The Diefenbaker government has had five years to prove whether or not it is capable of achieving these goals. It has failed badly. A New York grocer figures he has proved that some custo- He labelled some -tm_ "instant water" and put them on sale at 85 cents each. They were advertised with a sign saying the water was the best possible' for use in making instant coffee. He removed the signs and refunded the money — after five customers had made purchases. READERS WRITE Letters to the editor are welcomed. We ask that you keep them. as brief as possible and reserve the right to edit them in keeping with brevity. * * * I' Water safety Dear Sir: i I. We're very fortunate in Canada to have so many natural resources for pursuing water sports. This year, we'll see many millions of men, women and children enjoying the water in a variety of ways. It is unfortunate that many of these people will drown this summer. They won't be with us by the time • Thanksgiving arrives. > We wonder how many of these men, women and children are amongst your readers. For this reason, we should be grateful if you would encourage your readers and your associates to take time out to brush up on their water safety knowledge and habits before they go on vacation or on a weekend trip to the lake. We urge particularly those who have recently acquired a small boat to look not only into the common sense boating safety habits, but also, the Federal Laws regarding the operation . of small craft. You can contact your local Red Cross for information about water safety. Perhaps many may be interested in ob taining a copy of the Red Cross "Water Safety Manual." It is a comprehensive guide to healthy but safe water recreation. We hope that you and your readers have a very happy vacation this summer and all of you will still be around at Thanksgiving. D. K. DRAPER, B.C. Division Water Safety Chairman, THE CANADIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY. Danger, computers The Editor: An article "Computers take over more, more," in the Vancouver Province described the rapid progress and accomplishments of automation, but of- feed no solution for the resulting unemployment. It stated that William Miller, International Business Machine official in Vancouver, predicted that almost everything will be designed and., operated by computers in the fast-approaching future. This is inevitable, but as this situation develops, we find a race between rising labor costs and falling machine costs. The more labor costs are pushed up, the more money is spent on machines that do more work in . less time using fewer employees. In this race, labor is doomed from the outset. It cannot keep up the pace. How are the millions thrown !■■ out of work going to earn a living and how are 'they going to buy what automation can produce? Professor Wiener of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology recently stated that if we'instal these robots in competition with human beings under our present system "It'll create an unemployment situation beside which the depression of the 30's would seem a pleasant joke." Automation under our present economic system means less and less purchasing power as man-hours of labor decline This must be remedied, pid standards must be . discarded, they have failed/ New standards must be adopted to cope with changing conditions. With economic planning, we could have more security, guaranteed full pay for life, retirement at age 45, a working week of 16 hours, 2V£ months vacation every year and more purchasing power than we can consume. We^ must' adjust our thinking in terms of these new standards, Courageous legislation is needed., If legislation keeps pace with automation, unemployment will cease to be a problem. We owe It to our children to demand such legislation. Morfh. w. 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United Appeal Labor Co-ordinating Committee There must be thousands of working mothers — mothers who have to work because their husbands have either deserted them, are ill, or dead — who need day care for their- children in this city of half a million people. And there are many men left with small children and no wife or mother. What do these people do? The Child Care Centre on Cordova Street takes 60 children; day-care in private homes places about 90 more children (hroughout the city and St. Paul's Day Nursery and Kindergarten, also on Cordova, takes another 40 children. But that's only 190 children cared for—a drop in the bucket compared to the need. Ideally, the one-parent home 3;*".:'a,sssis:i0;; mm • * should have a homemaker to take care of the children and the home while the mother is working so the children would riot have the upsetting experience of leaving the home every day. But there are none available to her. The Family Service Agency, a Community Chest agency, has .nine trained homemakers who will step in where there is ill- part in many activities, of the nursery school type, and at noon there's a good, hot meal. They are picked up daily after working hours and the centre closes at 6 p.m. Payment is very flexible. Everyone is encouraged to pay something, in fact, most people insist on some payment. Full fee is $2 per day. It costs $3.25 a day to care for a child in the ness. Because they can afford centre. only nine they must stipulate**- The prevailing rate for a non a maximum of three months stay, and for families with two or more children. They cannot cope with the need. •* The city Social Service Department has subsidized housekeepers for motherless homes of very low income. Again, not enough for the need. - At the Child Care Centre. another Chest service, children, each in his own age group, take v POET'S CORNER Ocean of peace Pacific Ocean, ocean of peace, Long may the babes at your breast increase, As they give one another the golden fleece. Ship after ship through your half-world ploughs, _'_H-i,1»Wi.;.i<'i..Ti>i "Not here! H_*jY* anti-Iaborr Wst Here on the brim of my city I stand Where a freighter has come from Mao's land, And the whisper I hear of our wheat's command. Never a guard with measured trek. Never a gun on dock or deck, Just the whistling wheat in the funnel's neck. The longshoreman's shout, the creak of the crane, The deep holds emptied now filling again. And China and Canada forge a chain. From Western plain to Eastern plate, A chain that all in a fever await, From labor to labor a link—too late? Perhaps in time: it is hard to shoot Friendship, where trade's firm tree takes root- But of this, or the Bomb, will the future be fruit? I mm.- —Johnny Canuck smmmmw Lunchbox News Red Cross window show 5,T/VW'rZ T,rry, Whiplash, eld boy... You're nur fifdi personnc! _.•«■.*■-.cr T.S'o'a f-_-.- U> \iiVmm the uniot.!" When sandwiches begin to pall, what can you serve a working man who carries his lunch box with him? Try wrapping various meats such as chunks; putting in hunks of cheese, and serving salads which you can pack in plastic containers. Here's one using red salmon: downtown subsidized housekeeper one might get through an employment bureau is !$5 a day. Day-care homes are dotted over the city. They are not allowed to have more than five small children per home including the day-care mother's own children, consequently the atmosphere is like that of a normal family. Many mothers use this service, taking their youngsters to a home in their own Questions, answers Q. I lost my job some weeks ago, and have since been looking for a job on my own. When I went to the Unemployment Insurance Commission's office yesterday, they told me I could not set benefits from the time i'**wr .«-<_ on. miy is this? A. Generally, no benefit may be paid in respect of any week for which an insured person has failed to make a claim for benefit. The decision to make a claim at any particular time belongs to the claimant him* self and when he decides to delay in making a claim he cannot obtain benefit for the weeks prior to his claim. However, if the claimant was prevented from making a claim earlier by reasons beyond his control and can therefore show , good cause for his delay, h i s claim may be antedated and therefore commenced. from an earlier date, provided he also < proves that he was fulfulling I. the conditions for the receipt of. '•benefit in the period covered by the delay. Such antedate, nay not cover a period longer than 13 weeks. An application for an antedate is made at the local office on a form provided by the Commission and an insurance officer decides whether the ante-date can be allowed or not neighbourhood on their way to work and picking them up as they come home. What is the mother to do if her child wakes up with a touch of fever, or a cold?—he should not be taken outside and certainly shouldn't be allowed to infect the other children at the day care home or the centre. And what about measles and mumps and other diseases that come to most children? What does the mother do then? If she stays home too much, she will likely'lose her job. A trained homemaker would be the answer, but there just aren't enough. One homemaker per 7,000 population would enable the needs to be met. In Greater Vancouver we have one homemaker to 62,460 population. Day care and homemaker services are an integral part of any health scheme for a city or, in fact, for the country. These services help to reduce the cost of expensive institutional care, besides the advantages of helping a family to stay together in their own home. Failing to receive this type of help, the parent alone is left to find a non-subsidized housekeeper through.an employment bureau. In most cases this is impossible due to ttye cost Is a woman to quit her job and let the Social Service department keep her? Or is she to let the children go to foster homes on a permanent basis which means the children would then be without both parents? The answer is extensive homemaker service with adequate finances. The Community Chest planning section is aware of this problem, in fact, is* hard at work trying to come up with- a solution now. Train Now—Pay Later No age limit. • High School not required Full Training or Brush-up SWITCHBOARD PBX Receptionist j •• Train on 3-cord & cordless boards. Short Course. Day, Eve. Classes. 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Much more damage to our living standard is done by absenteeism, unnecessary industrial accidents, sloppy production techniques and poor management. * And these problems are probably ,more easily solved than that which reflects in the occasional strike. If we worried and talked as much about them as we do about strikes, we would rapidly increase the efficiency of Canadian industry. Strikes are spectacular. They grab attention. Infuriated bellows from opposing sides make headlines. As a result, the public begins to think they are causing terrible economic damage. There are cases where certain strikes have caused a national crisis (as in U.S. Steel or a local problem (The Royal York hotel). But they are gen erally over-rated as a business problem. The stock market's bright boys regard them with a bored yawn. It's a common rule that vou don't make decisions to buy or sell stocks on the basis of strike news. This rule isn't always followed. However the stock market—extremely sensitive to economic changes—does not usually pay much attention to industrial disputes The time lost by the nation to strikes is not great Last year Canada lost 1.340.- 000 man-days to strikes and lockouts. This works ounp" about one-tenth of one per cent of all the man-days worked — or about one day in 1,000 I'm sure we threw awav more production because employees took time off to go fishing, skiing, golfing or visiting Aunt Minnie. In. 1960. the strike loss record was even better—0.06 per cent, six days of every 10.000. Much the worst year for strikes recently was 1958. That was when Toronto construction men. Stelco employees, Inco nickel miners. Nova Scotia gypsum and B.C. wood products employees hit the picket lines to cost the nation 0.24 _._ Let's face it: a svstem of free collective bargaining results in some strikes. We can avoid them by compulsory arbitration of labor disputes (something I like although neither labor nor management is really very keen about this. By all means let's do what ive can to lessen the chance of strikes. However, even if we pass laws against strikes, management-labor___problejms___canL damage business in less spectacular ways. Production slowdowns and rising absenteeism are not uncommon in such cases. In spending so much of its time, speech-making ability, energy and money to beat the strike, Canada is probably making a poor investment. If we could get as excited about other methods of raising production, the return would be far higher. IN SASKATCHEWAN -mm -->>------_--_-----__-__----__^_----_-__________-_--_W Doctors heading for rude shock (from Saturday Night) As we read the accounts from Saskatchewan, the doctors look to be determined to protect privilege more than principle and if they think their presently j close-guarded profession is above the will of the people, thej*; are in for a rude shock. Because they are not all going to leave the-prov- ince—it isn't that easy to up- sticks with a family and merely transfer your professional life some other place. The Canadian Medical Asso ciation is much more flexible, or seems to be. from the brief it has presented to the royal commissiqn on health services ■- :'■■■■■ and it is about time that the liberal elements in the medical profession stopped the hard ___»ii' ■ -»»p u< in ii^itoi- <-■_.»-1 completely upsetting the patient- doctor relationship which so much is made of in any news release from the medical profession we have ever read. - If both sides can sto n-mra nn_ -won- om _ synvc to improve the health of the nation, we shalTall'be literally the better for it. calling l-TTl Cooperatives ignored by university professors ' >.'l|<~9 BENNETT'S TRANSFER > General hauling \ PIANOS > FREEZERS KM. 3-1323 1673 West 5th Ave. Vancouver, B.C. Most observers agree that cooperatives are an important part of any program for building the underpivileged countries of the world. B u t an incident in Ottawa would make one wonder. 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A U.S. government study report — made by the federal radiation cmouncil — said this month that individual Americans have, at worst, a one-in- 300,000 risk of developing bone cancer and a one-in-100,000 hazard oi developing leukemia from the fallout of all nuclear tests in 1961. According to an Associated Press story, the radiation council said there is a possibility that no cancerous or other physical ills will occur due to exposure to fallout. ,,.. Taking the,same facts, but putting them in the right perspective: 600 people in the U.S. could! get bone cancer and 1,800 could get leukemia from the . nuclear test fallout last year. This, despite all the assurances, surely is a condemnation of further testing. brewing Old Style is still a labour of love! The brewing of Old Style calls for the blending not only of fine ingredients but of many talents as well. The skills of the hop grower, the maltster, the kettleman, the brewmaster... craftsmen, who v still believe that work is worth a man's best efforts. And the care proudly given by men like these is reflected in the mellow taste... the refreshing flavour... and (he golden colour that makes Old Style such a pleasure to drink* brewed end bailed by MOLSON'S CAPILANO BREWERY LIMITFO This advertisement is not published or displayed by the £..«<-s. Control Board or by the Government of British Col oail*t* ■ ■P"*» mmJ Election Review New Democrats lead-4-he way^ii^B.Cv party wins total national vote over one million for first time in history The Labor Statesman — June, 1962 Page 8 '"' New Democratic Parly candidates led the way in the B.C. voting in the federal election, taking the biggest share of seats by any party and capturing the largest count of the popular vote. The strong showing at the polls was a credit to the thousands of workers who pitched in during the campaign. The NDP marched off with 10 of the 22 seats in B.C. It tallied up about 31.5 per cent of the popular vote; well ahead of any other party. The B.C. victory helped to soften the blow of a somewhat disappointing national picture. Although the NDP more than doubled its federal seats to 19 from the eight held in the previous Parliament, NiDP supporters had looked for a stronger support in some Ontario and prairie seats. But the brighter B.C. picture saw incumbents in Kootenay West, Burnaby Coquitlam, Skeena and Vancouver East increase their margin ot victory while NDP candidates handily took seats from the Conservatives in Burnaby Richmond, Co- mox-Alberni, Nanaimo, New Westminster, Vancouver Burrard and Vancouver Kings- way. Close second NDP ran a close second in both Okanagan Boundary and candidates ran second in lour ridings, third in six others and fourth in two. Some of the candidates scored walk-away victories: Erhart Regier in Burnaby Coquitlam had a 9,000-vote majority, Barry Mather in New Westminster had a 10,000-vote margin over the runnerup, Frank Howard in Skeena had a 6,000- vote majority, Harold Winch in ; Vancouver East rolled up 8,000 more votes than the second-place,' and Arnold Webster won handily in Vancouver- Kingsway with a 7,500 majority. In the East Besides the B.C. seats, NDP won one in Nova Scotia, six in.Ontario and two in Manitoba. In Manitoba. David Olikow won the Winnipeg North seat with a 4,000 majority and in Winnipeg North Centre, veteran Stanley Knowles was sent back to the House with a 3,700- vote majority. Both seats had been held by the Tories. In Ontario these seats were won: Douglas Fisher won in Port Arthur to hold his seat; Arnold Peters held the Timis- kaming seat; Murdo Martin was returned again in Timmins; Reid Scott took the seat from the Tories in Toronto Dan- forth; Andrew Brewin won in Toronto Greenwood, held by the Tories last time; and David Lewis took another former Tory seat in York South. The single seat in the M'ari-„ times was won by Malcolm Maclnnis with a 3,600 majority in the Nova Scotia riding ' of Cape Breton South, a former Tory seat. ____The__New_JDemocratic Party__ drew strong support across Canada, capturing about 14 per cent of the total popular vote. But the scattered support throughout the nation picked up only seven per cent of the 264 seats at stake. By comparison with other parties, the NDP, with many runnerups but fewer winners, goV an unproportionate number of seats. For example, Social Credit—with its concentrated vote in Quebec, picked off 30 seats, or 11 per cent of the seats with only 12 per cent of the popular vote. The popular vote NDP candidates rolled up was the second largest since the CCF contested its first national election back in 1935.. TheJ_iggest pop ular vote was in 1945—16 per cent—and that was the year the party won 28 seats in the federal House,i the largest representation it has ever held. 110 M MU US doctors under fire WASHINGTON—The U.S. secretary of Welfare. Abraham Ribicoff, said New Jersey doctors who say they wouldn't treat patients under social security health insurance are "trying to blackmail ihe U.S. Congress and the American doctor's "apparently don't mind the thought of federal funds when the doctors themselves are the, beneficiaries." "These doctors apparently Ml I M^T1 believe it is all right," he said, "for the " federal; government to help build the hospitals in which they practice but that an insurance plan that would help their patients pay their hospital bills would not be good." A nvuabw of doctors signed not treat patients under President Kennedy's proposed program of health insurance for the aged through social secur- ily. Minimum rates boosted REGINA — Minimum wage provisions in Saskatchewan have been boosted in several categories, Hon. C. C. Williams, minister of labor announced. Following recommendations by the Minimum Wage Board, the government has approved an increase of $2 a week in the minimum j wage applying to all employees in major cities which brings it up to $34 a week for employees over 19 years of age. The rates for employees under 18 years in the 10 cities will be $32 a week. ' All part-time rates in the cities will be increased five cents an hour to 90 cents in the case of employees aged 18 and over and to 85 cents for the employees under 18. Other raises have been approved for specific categories. Medical care inevitable The College of General Practice of Canada were given a medical care and the responsi- by.pr. Pierre Jobin, professor of. anatomy at Laval University, when he spoke to the closing session of the doctors- group in Toronto. The public doesn't trust the medical profession and a sys- CLARKE'S FLOWERS FRESHfil. .'.; j;|XMUER . ii . FOR ALL OCCASIONS i 100% Union Shop 'I I " i 3418 Cambie Street, Vancouver 9, B.C. TRinity 4-9416 MARK HAMILTON U. W. (BILL) HAMILTON Hamilton iHertutmj M FUNERAL ADMINISTRATORS FA 5-3311 Froi.r Si. at 38lh Ave. Voncouver 15, S.C. tern of medical care for all Canadians is inevitable, he said. About 80 per cent of Canadians are unable to pay the high cost of serious illness and "compulsory participation by the whole population in a medical care plan is necessary," he said. ., ' "I don't like the word 'compulsory'," he told the doctors. '"But it is for the benefit of society and, as I am a Christian, I have curtain responsibilities toward society. Medicine was given to me, not for my own sake, but for the benefit of others." •; He ,went on: "We must realize that we have lost public, opinion. * - . "Who is responsible for this situation? For years we have been urged to take in hand our own social responsibilities but few Of us have fulfilled this duty," he said. GILL INTERPROVINCIAL LINES LIMITED ^DTO^ET^n-^OiUCSH LINES ______ Vancouver to Montreal Return Vancouver to Toronto Return Head Office and Terminal 2864 Norland Ave., North Burnaby CY 9-9333 Dispatcher: CY 9-7755 General Mechanical Contractors ,1357 East Hastings St. AL5--&51 Vancouver, B. 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YOUR INDEPENDENT DEALER • Sand & Gravel • Cement «. • Plaster • Gyproc Lath - • Lime Putty • Brick .% • Concrete Blocks • Mortar • Insulation • Ytdng Blocks Three Yards To Serve You 8699 Angus Drive 2069 Rosser Vancouver, JB.C. , ml AM 6-2331 6351 King George Highway, Surrey WOodland 1-6822 ^^■__■■_■_____________________________ I j North Burnaby CY 8-6404 ELF ARE PLAN mwmmmmm^^mtm^mmmmmm^i^i ainters ■'•., lake new The Labor Statesman— June, 1962 Page » : age gains Painters have won a boost in wages and have established a health and welfare plan under a new two-year pact with 4. painting contractor firms. The agreement negotiated by Local 138 is effective April 1 and on May 15 an increase of seven cents an hour, went into •ffect. The increase is| made up if three cents on wages and four cents to cover payment of four statutory holidays. Starting Feb. 15, 1963, a iven-cent an hour payment ill be made by employers to \e Construction Industry tandard Welfare Trust Fund |d on May 1, 1963, a fiye-cerrL ir-ly—inerease^Tvllin-ierihade^ cover five additional statu- holidays. fnion business agent Jack Hey said the health and ire plan provides MSA irage, $2,000 life insurance fe $25 a week layoff pay for ■feonths. 'he contract establishes a .fi'cofcivel zone in the Greater VanBiver area — including V.-mBttver. . North and West Vancouver to Horseshoe Bay, Richmond and Burnaby and 2*few Westminster from North Road to Burrard Inlet. rt hits I acts O'NEAL IS CRITICAL Socreds ignore on Columbia 5NTO — The Supreme it Canada in an unani- ■udgment has ruled that _g CPH-owned Royal- _*__•_. committed offences un- the Ontario Labor Rela- s Act when it fired its em- poyees during a strike. The long strike was settled ast month. /•■}■ The court adreed that the trike by members'of Hotel and flub Employees Union was awful and ordered the senior i'oronto magistrate to impose appropriate penalties" on the otel. •!" W The judp-jpnjt, upheld earlier lecisions by lower courts. Fine weather miss ' ui ■... ., j, HERALDING . SUMMER weather which finally ^ rived in B.C. this month after a cool spring is Carol Morris,- a former winner of the Miss Universe contest. A universal winner, too, is the union label—a guarantee of the best -***ih-i*» -you can iflt_>te____—__! TiiTa.n__-.ii.i m. <n*>n ft■ ■— Premier Bennett's recent statements regarding the action he and Raol Caouette (Socred deputy national leader in Quebec) are going to force on the federal government relating to Columbia river development, ignore the hard facts of political life, B.C. Federation secretary Pat O'Neal said. "The Socred policy on- the Columbia.was soundly and decisively repudiated bv an over- tfidians^due more rights Immediate steps by the federal government to alleviate suffering and to grant full citizenship and full opportunity to Indian people in Canada, has been urged by the Vancouver and D i sit r i c jt Unemployed Council, t i The unemployed organization said Indian people "are treated as second class citizens by thefr arrogant conquerors. A rfescflution passed at a meeting in. Pender Auditorium said'native's''are "deprived of oppo'rtunitt-S, degraded, discriminated*' * igainst and have many human dignities denied them.; •' '„.*! " : l' "This*' ii nothing less than flagrant, violation ; of human rights and is cdhtrairy to the mmm whelmina majority of British Columbians on June 18. "Instead of aciina like a small boy with a paper hat. Premier Bennett should recognize that the Columbia river is in B.C., not in Quebec," he said. '' ■ -i ", The B.C. Federation of Labour supports ihe policy of the New Democratic Party in pressing for renegotiation' of ihe Columbia treaty and the retention of down-stream benefits in Canada. '-'<;..:; 'It is a good thing for B.C. -that-iO-NDP memftert **re elected June 18 to protect ihe interests of the province and ihe people. ONeal said. Hotel people stay in union PRINCE RUPERTr-Employ- ees of the Savoy'' Hotel. in Prince Rupert have voted to stay with Hotel and Restaurant Employees Local '6&6 after a representative vote ordered by the Labor Relations Board. The employer had applied to have the bargaining certificates cancelled. Wolf Lincke Signs 247 West Broadway TR 6-6494 AM 6-2516 ' ■' V' .-• 1 Coast contract okayed by IWA Members of International Woodworkers have voted to accept a new two-year contract covering mills and logging operations on the B.C. coast. I! St. Regis Hotel mm:: Jack (Room %hHl On the Lower Main Open 8 A.M. to 8:30 P.M. Monday through Saturday Coffee shop and Dining Room 602 DUNSMUIR STREET MU 1-1135* H'wr. iM PARKING ARRANGED |'"'Modern. Luxurious, CENTRALLY located ■& 100 Rooms ', Rooms with bath from S5.50... ,- "'■i .' 'i J- One Block East of- Granville — See Map The pact includes a 16-eent hourly pay boost—eight cents across the board from June 15 and an additional eight cents on June 15, 1963. ''--■,, The contract renewal includes an additional week's vacation for employees with 2_L/_*r more years' continuous servj.ee .oi pay ,in.lieu. V,Th'..set):lepent terms, recommended by UBC professor Neil Perry who had been appointed industrial! inquiry commissioner in the dispute, aLso included a proposal that the IWA and operators study the practicability of allowing one additional day's vacation for each year of continuous service beyond the fifteenth year. / But interior unsettled Negotiations for a new contract for southern interior woodworkers will move to conciliation. IWA members are seeking a 25-cent hourly wage increase, health and welfare benefits and other improvements. PI HYI • rti i • ! fhf v ■'•■ ■ i ■rwsd: l*i'., , •'l 1 >5?' " in jf" !( !' PROPANE GAS EQUIPMENT APPLIANCES Branches Throughout British Columbia Pacific Shbvil! Productions Ltd. Franchisee! Agents BEN KOPELOW ---.Managing Director Conventions — Banquets — Fairs — Promotions 660 Howe St. !.-*'• MU 1-0021 'in <t>,*r »[ OM'.l fc_«_ OUR COMPLIMENTS TQ ALL AFFILIATES OF THE VANCOUVER & DISTRICT LABOUR CpyNCIL 15 East BroadWby U w -» TR 4-8714 m.iiiiniiiiii.Mimiii vmmm FLAGG&CO i * Membership Buttons • Badges 89, "West Pender St. MU 1-2459 GREETINGS TO ORGAfol££D,, LABOUR • *i "iriiiiriiiLii to HAMILTON HARVEY CANADA'S LARGEST MEMfeE^HIP DEPARfMEKlTJ'STORE " • '■- J- At 2015 Main St. on t TR 4-7311 108th Ave. & Bon Accord WO 1-2272 Surrey, B.C. m* KNOW YOUR LEGISLATION The Labor Statesman — June, 1962 Page 10 Better payroll protection under wage payment lavr Workers in B.C .have gained some measure of assistance in recovering wages owed to them under the new Payment of Wages Act which was passed in the B.C. Legislature this year. The new Act replaces the former Semi-monthly Payment of Wages Act. Many workers probably overlooked the report on the changes when^they were brought in—and this resume of the major provisions of t h e new Act will bring you up to date: • Wages are required to be paid at least as often" as semimonthly. e ALL wages are to be paid in currency or by cheque, sub^ ject to certain authorized deductions. • The Board of Industrial Relations may adjudicate on claims for unpaid wages. •' A certificate setting forth wages owing may be filed in a court and when so filed it has the same force and effect as if it is a judgment of that court for the recovery of a debt. o Where the Board has knowledge that a person is indebted to the employer named in a certificate, the Board may require that person to pay the money, otherwise payable by him to the employer, directly to the Meat workers move to conciliation on portable pensions Meat cutters and butcher shop employees are taking their fight for a portable industry pension plan to conciliation boards. George Johnston, business manager of Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen local 212, told The Statesman that "continued opposition by the Western chains to a pension plan could result in the first strike in 25 years of organized meat cutlers in B.C." He said that two conciliation boards had been applied for— deal -witt. the Weaton went through eight months, including six months of talks under a conciliation officer. Safeway and Dominion previously had their own pension plan but the Weston chains have none. The dispute affects about 600 employees in the five chain groceries and the independent Hi-Low stores in Greater Vancouver, New Westri-.inst.er and Greater Victoria. Negotiations for another 600 employees in independent stores, including. Woodwards and independents in other parts of B.C., will go ahead a£- _ -__Tiir-\tei_3**w'.*'>-*CT^^ " '•»••■ sions and a second to deal with '"llM-. the pension issue at Safeway, Dominion and Hi-Low. The latter group had agreed to contribute 10 cents an hour worked by employees to an industrywide portable pension plan but made it conditional on other companies accepting the proposal. The three Weston chains— Shop Easy, Super-Valu and Loblaws—are opposed to a pension plan. Johnston said that the union and companies had tentatively reached agreement on wages, improved vacations, seniority provisions and other fringe benefits but that the issue of pensions had not been resolved. The present contract expired last Nov. 1 and negotiations Board on account of the liability of that employer for wages owing. • The Board may require an employer to furnish a-bond guaranteeing payment of wages. * • An employer who issues a cheque that is not honored in payment of wages is guilty of an offence. • No agreement can deprive an employee of his rights under the Act. • An employer who is unable to locate an employee in order to pay him wages shall pay the wages to the Board to be held in trust for the employee. # # # Labor in B.C. headed the drive for stronger protection for employees a~ga_nst~compan- ies who issue NSF cheques, and for bonding protection of payrolls. There had, been little or no protection previously — except through the long procedure of civil action. The new Act improves the position of the employee although Labor had urged a mandatory bond provision to guarantee payment of wages. Support Your B.C. Heart Foundation .—,—.—__,,. ._„—-—, __—|fc^..«,_ —. ._-.„ ... 1956 West Broadway Ave., VANCOUVER 9. B.C. RE 6-4404 LLOYD MACHINERY CO. Used Legging and Construction Machinery of All Types '«■ 7450 Mission Ave., Burnaby 1, B.C. LA 1-7622 SUPERIOR CONSTRUCTION CO. LTD. READY MIXED CONCRETE Placing and Finishing if Required Evenings: R. Rasmussen, AL 3-1946 — I. Stubson. LA 4-3188 City Wide Delivery. CY 9-7555 5284 Still Creek Ave. Burnaby, B.C. REWARD YOURSELF Bakery union organizes; pie plant Bakery and Confectionary Workers Local 468 have won the bargaining rights for employees at Rotary Pie Service Ltd. The Labor Relations Board granted certification following hearings held in Vancouver. The unit excludes office staff and salesmen. BROADWAY PAINTS LTD CIL Paints and our line of High Quality NOR-WEST Paint Products. 548 W. Broadway TR 9-3528 C. J. Oliver Limited ■s General Contractors 1308 Seymour St. MU 3-7721 with refreshmg \ . i CARLING PILSENER : t ■■'.•'.. (BRIGHT AND BREEZY FLAVOR, ALIVE AS ALL OUTDOORS!) Vancouver, BX. m tit1 i / . ••,' M-.-I.1 /■ ! I :::»tj ,•: .■■ -i.;| ,M! - THE CARLINC BREWERIES (B.C.) LIMITED This advertisement is not published or displayed by the Liquor Control. Board o. by the; Ceverrtront of British Columbia. ( . SPARKY SAYS Keep Matches Away from Children! I Don't give fire a place to start! I [Bakery union ins pension itH xhain. Bakery and Confectionerv | Workers Local 468 has reached ^agreement with three big super- '■ market chains bringing bakery f employees a two-step $5 wage boost and a portable pension ' plan. Mel Kemmis, union secretary, said wage boosts of $2 on June 1 and a further $3 on June i, 1963, will boost the basic male weekly rate to $105 by next year. The female rate will bf* $88. A monthly pension of $130 at 65 years with a minimum of 25 years service has been established. It is portable between companies and is paid totally by employer contributions. Other contract provisions for the 175 employees at Fairfax Bread (Safeway), Dominion Stores and tjvo bakeries In Super-Valu stores are: three weeks vacation after five years and four weeks after 20 (four after 15, starting in 1963), sick pay clause, severance pay when job lost through automation and wages made up for jury duty. "What flavors of ice cream have you?" The pretty waitress answered in a hoarse whisper, "Vanilla, strawberry and chocolate." Trying to be sympathetic, the boy at the soda fountain said, "You got laryngitis?" "No, replied the girl, with effor,t. "Just vanilla, strawberry and chocolate." McCann's Caterers A COMPLETE CATERING SERVICE * Accommodations for every occasion * Full range of menus * Smorgasbord our specialty (Members H & R Employees Union) HE 3-4051 3845 Kingsway Avenue Burnaby, B.C. Private-profit capitalism dying National head of Canadian Co-ops predicts co-ops will play increasingly important role T.. ***"-*? The "good old-fashioned type of private - profit capitalism" will be virtually dead by the year 2,000, Dr. A. F. Laidlaw, national secretary of the Cooperative Union of Canada has predicted in New York. He urged expansion of consumer co-operatives as a better substitute than strict government control of all business. In a lecture at The New School of Social Research he said North America is moving towards "some sort of collectivity unknown to our grandparents and even to our parents." Jrgent rote This situation "casts the c o - o perative movement in North America in a new and ' urgent role." "Co-operatives are the only institutions that can provide both the economic machinery and the social valftes required by the age which we have already begun to enter." North Americans suffered under an "irrational" system of distributing goods and services "simply because it happens to be woven into our culture." For most city dwellers "it is not going to be changed until through education our thinking and culture are corrected and changed." "We satisfy our basic human needs in food, clothing, and shelter through a sensless system characterized, by and large by conspicuous waste. "Th^yropl.<)fr:WWth Altier- ica could change all this through widespread application of consumer co-operation. "From investigation in both the U.S. and Canada into the economics and distribution of a great variety of consumer goods—food, drugs, electrical products, building supplies, even beer—we have mountains of facts on which to base the need for a new and better system, but the educational approach must be found to trans- Quote from letter to the London Daily Telegraph: "Have statisticians noticed that the safest means of travel is by rocket? At present the casualties per passenger mile are nil." Attempting to park her car, a woman dented the bumper of an occupied car parked at the curb. She completed an accident report form for her insurance company, and asked her husband to check it. He found everything in order until he came to the question: . "What could the driver of the other vehicle have done to avoid the accident?" Her reply was: "He could have parked his car somewhere else." > '-■.'■':■ ■■■■■}■ ■■■:■■■■ ■ ■ ■ ■:■■':-'•*■■• Fly the finest Cross the Atlantic British Overseas Airways Corporation 1020 West Georgia St. > MU 4-8277 * i Offices also in Winnipeg Toronto , Ottawa Montreal late the concept of consumer control into the culture pattern of the people. The "popularly - called, 'free enterprise' economy" was showing signs of decline." It was "no longer competitive and cannot afford to be." "It is not unlikely that by the year 2,000 the old-fashioned type of private-profit capitalism will be all but dead and will survive in only small patches of the economy. "We need be no more surprised at this than that feudalism which served its day well should have passed away. "Capitalism, typified by the search for prof it, has bTought great benefit to mankind, but it has done so at a tremendous price . . . gross materialism and the acceptance of ethical standards in business which were known to be unsound before anyone knew the world is round. "Co-operation . . . can be as effective as capitalism in securing material things, but without violating those principles of morality and equity to which humanity must turn if it is to survive." Public interest On state control, he said: "When an angry President wagged his finger at the powerful and profit-hungry steel companies of the United States and they quickly stepped back into line, we see how strongly the wind is blowing in the dir- lianH-n n .[»>■. a. p-MrO-aa.' 'In the interest of the public.' "Perhaps another President in 1982 will rise up in anger at the distributors of purely consumer goods — and drugs, for example, would even now provide him with a good reason — and then the economy will be well along the way to form a statism which is not entirely consistent with certain traditions of American democracy, from which there wijl be no drawing back." A certain amount of socialism "is both necessary and desirable." Dr. Laidlaw also put forward these points: • North America's economic problem is not production but inability to distribute product "in a rational and equitable way." j • The present "economic chaos" will continue as loog as consumers remain unorganized "while all forms and complexes of production go on pouring STATESMAN (Continued from Page 4) The success of your paper, The Labor Statesman, depends upon you as a reader, you as a union member and officer and your local union in what is contributed towards making this a better and stronger labor paper. The need for a labor paper broad in scope, such as the Statesman, was never greater. It is true a number of unions now have their own papers, but it is equally true that a larger number have no paper whatsoever. ' The purpose and scope of the Labor Statesman is such that it can serve a very wide area of trade union activity in B.C. and the Lower Mainland. We ask your wholehearted support in developing the Labor Statesman towards being one of the most important labor papers in the province. forth goods and services from the viewpoint of and for reasons best known to manufacturers and merchandisers." Don't ape • The concept of the primacy of the consumer is a revolutionary one "and perhaps that is why it has been largely neglected." • But co-operatives will fail "to stir the imagination of a generation in search of a new set of economic and social values" if they "ape profit business, continue to gauge their worth by the "_same—yardstick used by profit business and indeed protest their basic similarity to profit-making enterprise." • Cooperatives are the most valuable North American institutions through which democracy can function. • Consumer co - operatives are needed "to give the great mass of men and women an In stitution through which they can be decision-makers in some of the most important areas of life: food, nutrition, housing, home-making, recreation, pricing, credit, health services." • The average city dweller feels he can do nothing about conditions "so he contents himself with television, spectator sports and occasionally com-* menting on the manipulation of public affairs." • Co-operatives are becoming an essential part of the, culture of Canada', northern Eskimos but "the affluent and sophisticated citizen of San -Francisco-or Vancouver seems destined to go through life blissfully unaware of what consumer cooperation is and what it can do for him." • North American city dwellers have taken the credit union movement, "which is basically co-operative," and diverted it away "from the larger implications of co-operative action." - Frank Sfanzl Construction Ltd. Building Contractors 6549 Fraser St. Vancouver, B.C. FA 1-6106 SAVE LIVES - MINIMIZE INJURIES Learn First Aid — Industrial First Aid ST. JOHN AMBULANCE 6111 Cambie St. FA 1-2651 Commonwealth Construction Co. Ltd. Engineers and Builders Winnipeg — Vancouver — Victoria > The Labor Statesman —June, 1962 Page 11 _______ UNION LABEt^PROMOTION The Labor Statesman — June, 1962 Pags 12 ' I r ,i!:: u ■ New downtown window display A new window display in downtown Vancouver by Vancouver and District Un)on Label Trades Council will show off still more union-made products to the public. Label council secretary Mrs. Josephine Hallock said the display will mark the council's golden jubilee of work in lab<U promotion and is a lead-up tithe big event of the year — Union Buying Week The window space has been donated by Building Service Employees Union Local 244 on Homer street, just north of Hastings. •» Union Buying Weefcwill be marked this-'year1S^.;3-8"Shd -the council will again sponsor a booth at the PNE. But a reminder — all this work takes money. And you and your union are urged to donate as much as you can towards the promotional efforts of the council. Union label work is one of the most powerful weapons in the fight for fair wages and working conditions. CARPENTERS (Continued from Page 1) increase in pay since Dec. 31, 1959. In 1961 union members agreed to hold the line. Since then, the .cost of living has v risen and the most recent blow to living costs was the devaluation of the Canadian dollar— taking an additional 7 V£ cents from every dollar earned. Shorter day Carpenters have asked a 7l_- hour work day starting April 1, 1963. Contractors have agreed that a work-hour reduction must come but not now. In 1959, compared with 1949, it took 25 per cent fewer men to produce the same volume of work. This is brought about by mechanization, prefabrica- tion, and new construction tech- neques. A further cut in the work force has taken place since 1959. «*■ For these reasons, carpenters feel it is necessary to shorten the work day to provide steadier en-jployment. This is a positive approacH"WcxM_-n3_t ui__nT- ployment in the building trades. Wrongful firing Carpenters are asking a contract provision to establish .he right to appeal an unjust dismissal. Contractors have refused. Room and board Carpenters ask a maximum charge of $2 a day for room and board outside of the Lower Mainland area. Contractors have taken advantage of the present clause compelling carpenters to find their own board; in some instances this has-cost the carpenters $7 a day? Coffee break Carpenters are asking, for two-10-minute coffee breaks. Contractors have refused this proposal. In the present union agreement a carpenter is permitted to drink coffee twice in a working shift at his work station. No definite time is set out and because of this many carpenters are deprived of their coffee break. Local travel Carpenters are asking for an improved local travelling clause. The contractors have offered four cents an hour in exchange for the present clause in the Vancouver area. This is not a wage increase and no satisfactory offer has been made for the rest of the province. Mrs. Hallock also said volunteers are needed to help look after the PNE booth_this^eai*. *. The secretary attended the big Union-Industries show in Portland and brought back some new ideas for promotion work in Vancouver. A tribute this month was paid to ~a long-time label promotion worker, Mrs. Myrtle Chambers of the Typos ladies' auxiliary. Mrs. Chambers is retiring from label work after being a staunch member and worker with the label council for many years. JIml Canadian^ SkdL £jwal lAmojtv TfljmbsMu Watch this space every month VANCOUVER BRANCH 1235 WEST PENDER ST. B.C. TRADE UNION DIRECTORY List your union here for quick reference of others - IN BRIEF AMALGAMATED CLOTHING WORKERS OF AMERICA, Local 178-^Room 6—2475 Manitoba, Van- • couver 10, C. Trower, Business Agent, TR 8-3031. AMALGAMATED MEAT CUTTERS AND B.W., Local 212—Representative, Geo. Johnston, 203 Labor Temple; TR 6-5736 AUTOMOTIVE LODGE No. 1857. I. A. of M.—Business Agents, Jack Chapman, Brian Trodden, Room 17, 2414 Main. TR 6-4104-5. BAKERY AND CONFECTIONERY WORKERS, Local 468—Secretary, Melvin J. Kemmis, 337 W. Broad- way; TR 2-5205. BANK EMPLOYEES' ASSOCIATION Local 387, Office Employees' International Union—President, Marsh W. Bluck, FCBA, 337 West Broad- way. TB 4-3615. BARBERS — INTERNATIONAL JOURNEYMEN OF AMERICA, No. 120—109 Labor Temple; TR 6-0641; sec't.. Allan Coleman. (Continued from Page 1) dispensing of justice. The act now says that the onus.of proof is on a driver or owner of a vehicle to prove he was not speeding when charged. This is contrary to the principles of justice and an infringement on civil liberties, lawyers said. Just like some of the provisions in B.C. labor law, guilty until proven innocent. ZEPHYR MOTORS (1960) LTD. AUTO DEALERS Mercury - Meteor - Comet - Mercury Trucks - Anglia - Prefect - Consul - Zephyr Zodiac - Thames Complete One Stop Ford SALES - SERVICE PARTS 130 West Broadway TR 2-7411 Vancouver, B. C. V, H. A. SIMONS LTD. Consulting Engineers 16 East Hastings St. MU 4-4121 Vancouver/ B. C. BEVERAGE' "Dirsi-BrfPr-jTS- t'mow No. 676 — Pres., Harold Courson; Business Agent, Jack Galloway, 440 W. Pender St.; MU 3-3923 and MU 3-4948. _______ BREWERY WORKERS, UNION Local 300—Secretary, Stan G. Tap- £ing, 7742 Elford, Burnaby 3, A 2-3432, BEVERAGE DISPENSERS (New Westminster) Local 835 — Business Agent, Jack Tomson, 59 Alexander. New Westminster; phone LA 2-7410. BOILERMAKERS, IRON SHIP- BUILDERS, BLACKSMITHS, DROP FORGERS AND HELPERS, Local 369—Financial Secretay, M. H. • Hadley, 111 Dunsmuir; MU 4-1047. BRICKLAYERS & MASONS INTERNATIONAL UNION, Local No. 1— Secretary, D. C. Fraser, 5594 Lln- coln. HE 3-8617. BUILDING SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL, Local 244 — Business Agent and Secretary, Ben A. R. Morley, Room 216, 603 W. Hastings MU 5-9452. BUILDING TRADES COUNCIL—Secretary, Harold Taft, 110 Labor Temple, TR 9-1210. CARPENTERS' UNION, No. 452— Business Agents; Lome Robson, X-irry Anderson, Bill Cameron; Financial sec't., Carl A. Erickson, I-abor Temple; TR 4-2720 or TR 6- 1212. __ CARPENTERS (New Westminster) Local 1215—Business Agents, Ray West and K. McDermld, office 732 Royal Ave., New Westminster; phone LA 1-0525. CARPENTERS' UNION (Courtenay), No. 1638—President Irwin Guten- sohn; Sec. and Business Agent, Lome Paisley; Box 515, Courtenay. CEMENT MASONS, Local 919, O.P.' & CM.—517 E. Br-adway. TR 2- .221. Business Agent, Frank StevenB CIVIC EMPLOYEES UNION, Local 407—President Richard Coello, 2567 B. 5th Ave., Vancouver 12. DENTAL TECHNICIANS, Local No. 1643—Secretary George Hygh, 4007 Dunbar. DIHTILLERY WORKERS, Local 69— [resident Carl Rowbotham, 993 8.E. Marine, New Westminster. LA 2- 2021; Fin. Sec. Treas.; R. Cyr, 1890 2nd St., New. Westminster, LA 2- 5'H1. ELECTRICAL WORKERS' UNION" Local 213 — Business Manager A. O'Keeffe, 111 Dunsmuir Street, MU 1-7381-2. ELEVATOR CONSTRUCTORS, Local 82—Sec, H. C. MacKlchan, 3766 Elmwood St, S. Burnaby. HE 4- 7651. - PIRE FIGHTERS (Burnaby) Local 823—Sec!t., John Marley, 560 Hol- dom, North Burnaby. FIRE FIGHTERS (Vancouver) Local 18—President, Gordon R. Anderson, 1386 East 61st, FA 7-3729. Sect, R. N. Middleton, 1496 East 54th, FA 7-7441 ■> FLOORLAYERS' UNION, U.B, of C.J., Local No. 1641—Room No. 108, Labor Temple, TR 6-5920. Business Agent, Bruce Robson, 3238 E. 29th; HE J.-0702. GLAZIERS AND GLASSWORKERS, Local 1527—Recording Secretary, A. Allen. Room 4, 2475 Manitoba. phone TR 4-7635. ■ (OVERNMENT EMPLOYEES' AS- SOCIATION (B.C.)--E. P. O'Connor, Gen. Sec. 2090 Weat 4th; RE 1-5361-62-63. ^ TR 6-1223. GRAIN WORKERS UNION, Local 333 — Recording Secretary R. G. Millar, P.O. Box 194, North Vancouver. Pres R. W. Ferguson, 3930 East Pender, N. Bby., CY 9-6193; Sect.-treas. F. Cooper, 683 School- house Rd., Coquitlam, New Westminster. Phone WE 9-3586. HOSPITAL EMPLOYEES' UNION, No. 180— Business Manager, W. M. Black, 335 JV. Broadway; TR 6-5822. HOTEL AND RESTAURANT EMPLOYEES, Local 28—Sec, A. E. Morgan. Room 406, 402 W. Pender. INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION Qg.HEAT AND FROST INSULA T- fME*»*m ASBESTOS WOBKEBS Room 5. 307 West Broadway, phone TR 6-6814. INTERNATIONAL LADIES' GAR- ENT WORKERS. Locals 276 and 287 — Business Agent, Harry Min- uk, 119 W. Pender; MU 4-5514. IRONWORKERS SHOPMENS', Local Union 712—Business Agent, Benjamin D. Parry, Room 106, 307 W. Broadway, TR 2-5515. IRONWORKERS, Local 97 — President, J. D. Paterson. Room 206, 307 West Broadway, TR 2-7541. JEWELRY WORKERS' INTERNA- TIONAL, Local 42. Office, 339 West Pender, MU 1-5831. President, Frank Popowich, 1960 Quinton Ave., Coquitlam, WE 9-3726. KAMLOOPS AND DISTRICT LABOUR COUNCIL—Box 562, Kamloops, phone 372-5747. Secretary, Mrs. C. E. Mclnnes. LABORERS CONSTRUCTION AND GENERAL, Local 602 — Secretary, C. H. Savage, 3434 Fraser St.; TR 4-9233. LAUNDRY WORKERS, No. 292 — Business agent, Mrs. Catherine Browne, Suite 1, 224 East Broadway: TR 6-4543. LAUNDRY AND DRY CLEANING SALESMEN, Local 334 — J. A. , Currie, Secretary - Treasurer, 2632 West Twelfth, RE 8-9649. MACHINISTS INTER NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, Lodge 692 — Business repesentatlves, D. H. Chapman. Room 17, 24*14 Main; TR 4- 0512, TR 6-7035. MARINE WORKERS & BOILERMAKERS' INDUSTRIAL UNION, Local 1—President, Charles "O. Wilson. Secretary, W. Stewart, -939 W. Pender St. MU 1-9481. PLASTERERS' UNION, No. 779 — Secretary, J. V. Chambers, 517 East Broadway, TR 2-2122. MOLDERS' UNION. Local 281—Business Agent, M. Bjornson, 114 Labor Temple; TR 6-5920. MOTION PICTURE PROJECTIONISTS. Local 348—President A. E. McManus. Secty., E. Stanley Scan- Ion; Business Agent, D. A. Cooper, 1366 Seymour, MU 4-7024. MUSICIANS' UNION, Local 145 — Business Manager, 402 W. Pender, Room 315; MU 4-1564. OFFICE EMPLOYEES' INTERNATIONAL UNION, Local 16—Room 1, 337 West Broadway; TR 4-3615. President, K. Westwold; Secretary- treas., Annette Marcus. OFFICE EMPLOYEES' INTERNA- TIONAL UNION, Local 378—Business Manager, Wm. Swanson, 1118 Horhby; phone MU 3-6134. OIL CHEMICAL & ATOMIC WORK- ERS' INTERNATIONAL UNION, Local 16-601. President, J. L. LeBourdais; Fin. Corr. Secretary, M. DeFeyter, 6560 E. Hastings, CY 8- 3940. PAINTERS UNION, Local 138—Busi- ness Agent, Jack W. Fradley; Ass't. Bus. Agent, Tom Carson: llec. Sec W. E. Baton, Room 3, 1475 Manitoba; TR 6.6033.' PAINT AND VARNISH WORKER Local 1650—Secretary C. Krioksbn, Room 4, 2476 Manitoba. PATTERNMAKERS' ASSOCIATION —Secretary H. Oliver, 93 Abercrom- ble, RR1, Richmond, CR 8-1690. PILE DRITERS AND WOODEN BRIDGEMEN, Local 2404 — Business Agent, S. Allen, Room 116, 307 West Broadway; TR 4-7817. PLUMBERS & PIPEFITTERS, Local 170—Bus. Mgr., J. R. St. Eloi; Asst Bus. Mgrs., James Barton and J. L. Fisher, 115 Labor Temple; TR 9- _1428.. CANADIAN POSTAL EMPLOYEES ASSOCIATION (Vancouver Branch) —O. N. Johnson, general secretary- treasurer, Box 2411, Vancouier 3, Office. 532 Homer, MUtual 5-8724. PRINCE GEORGE AND DISTRICT LABOR COUNCIL—909, 6th Ave., Prince George^, phone 191L2. PRINTING PRESSMEN, Local 69— Secretary, L. Ainsworth, 3849 Cam- brldge, Vancouver; CY 8-6405. PRINTING SPECIALTIES & PAPER PRODUCTS UNION LOCAL NO. 598, Sec't.-treas., Bob Ban- nlnger, .753 Horley Avenue, Vancouver 16, B.C. HE 1-8443. PULP AND SULPHITE (Convert- es) UNION, Local 433 — Business Agent, O. Braaten, 625 W. Ponder, ■ Suite 1; MU 3-828.. PULP, SULPHITE AND PAPER MILL WORKERS. Local 312, Ocean Falls, B.C. — Secretary, Drawer 190. Ocean Falls, B.C. PULP. SULPHITE AND PAPER- MILL WORKERS — International office, 315-316 Crown Bldg. H. L. Hansen, International rep.; MU 4- 3858. REFRIGERATION WORKERS UNION, Local 516—Sec. L. R. Win- tie, 137 W. 40th; FA 7-4409, FA 1-8511. SCHOOL BOARD EMPLOYEES' FEDERAL UNION (Burnaby), Local 379—Secretary, G. J. McCrea, 4292 Winifred. S. Burnaby. SHEET METAL WORKERS, Local 280 — Bus. Manager, Alex McGee, 207 Labor Temple; TR 4-8020. SHINGLE WEAVERS' UNION, Local No. 2802—Business agent and financial sec, Harold P. Reilly, Rm. 116, 307 West Broadway, TR 6-3744. SIGN AND PICTORIAL PAINTERS, Local 726—Sec, J. A. Middleton, 6338 Kitchener, N. Burnaby; Room 4, 2475 Manitoba. TR 4-7535. STREET RAILWAYMEN'S UNION, Div 101—Business Agent, C. Stewart, Street Rlwy. Bldg., 125 East 8th, TR 4-2010 STREET RAILWAYMEN'S UNION, ] No. 134—Bus. Agent, D. L. Bryce, Room 22, 774 Columbia, Newi West- mlnster. Phone LA 1.7330. THEATRE EMPLOYEES, Local B-72 —Secretary, Mrs. F. Foster, Ste. 1, „ 4608 Main; TR 9-5453. Business "-Agent. D. Calladlne, 6692 Laburnum AM 1-0078. TILE SETTERS, Local No. 3 — Recording Secretary, D. P. Euan, 4030 Dominion S. Bnrnaby. TUNNEL & ROCK WORKERS, Local 168—337 W. Broadway, Secretary, H. Croft; phone TR 9-3231. TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION, Local 226 — Secretary, P. Campbell, 617 E. Broadway; TR 6-6810 . UNION LABEL TRADES COUNCIL —Secretary, Mrs. A. E. Hallock, day phone TR 4-0827; evenings TB UNITED GARMENT WORKERS' UNION, No. 232—Secretary, Elslt Hawrylechko, 1846 Nelson, MU 1-4802. , United ' garment, workers? Local 190—Secretary Miss Isabel.*, Rogers, 436 East S-fth, Vancouver, B.C. UNITED STEELWORKERS W AMERICA, Local 6688—Sec, Wm. GleBbrecht, 2384 West Broadway. UNITED STEELWORKERS' LocH 2656—Recording Sec't., Arne Hansen, 3610 Phillips, North Burnaby, CY 9-4264. * UPHOLSTERERS' INTERNATIONf AL UNION, LOCAL NO. 1 — Presl^ dent, Fred Richards; Business Agent, Karl Reich; Office, Rootn i 202, Labor Temple, TR 4-1727. WATER AND SEWER BOARD EM- PLOYEES, Local 393 — Seoretary Robt. T. Callahan. 6606 Yalta Place. Vancouver 8. ' WOOD, WIRE A METAL LATHERS Local 207 — Pres R. Buttle; Sec. O. A Garrison; Organizer, A. H. Bur- ten. Office, Room 4, 2476 Manitoba, v |
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