The Labor Statesman
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alternative: [The Labour Statesman]
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2024-02-14
issued: 1956-12-15
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note: ***** _£-V3 Number 676—Sixteen Pages <M&W\\&.VA MCOUVER_AND DISTRICT LAB z 4i tm VAN r Statesman ^?;qunc!L ;OUVER, DECEMBER 15, 1956 ££■ SELL-OUT CROWD attended the first annual banquet of the newly merged Vancouver and District Labour Council this month at the Commodore. The huge crowd applauded the affair as a great success and during a lull in the dancing, the Labor Statesman camera caught the smiles of these merry makers (from left): Council secretary E. A. Jamieson and Mrs. Jamieson, CLC representative Tom Goderham, Mrs. Freda Musgrave and Jack Pater son. Milk Salesmen Win Pay Increase, mtract Rated Best In Canada Milk Sales Drivers and Dairy Employees Local 464 have signed a two-year agreement with _ 10 Vancouver dairies, winning a wage increase of at least $30 a month, and giving milk drivers the first 8-hour day, five-day week in Canada. „ "* The contract was signed this month, and is hailed as the finest milk contract in Canada. It provides: • A $15 monthly increase for • ••.•*• • The Headliner • * * * * TOO CROWDED—B.C. district IWA secretary George Mitchell this mqnth urged some long-range planning to solve the parking problems near the Labor Temple. JHe proposed that the council should: 1. keep an eye out on land adjacent to the labor building and purchase property for parking lots, or 2, (Cont'd page 12) all employees retroactive to March 1. • A further increase of $15 for driver salesmen, and $17.50 for all inside employees. • A further $2.60 monthly Increase for shift differential. • Ice .cream and Fraser Valley divisions gain $32.60 and $22.50 a month, which means that ice cream workers have gained up to 167.60 per month in the past sight months. First steps were taken towards 3v_ntual province-wide bargaining procedures, when Victoria members voted to go along with the Vancouver agreement. Local 464 secretary John Brown said the new contract was lrawn up on the basis of "every- . ther-day" delivery, and wages of home delivery drivers will be pegged …
note: Title changes in chronological order: The Labor Statesman (1924-04-25 to 1965-03), The Labour Statesman (1965-05 to 1969-09). From 1924-04-25 to 1965-03 The Labour Statesman was owned and published by the Vancouver and District Labour Council. From 1965-05 to 1967-07 it was published jointly by the B.C. Federation of Labour and the Vancouver and District Labour Council. From 1967-08 to 1969-09 it was published by the B.C. Federation of Labour.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Vancouver (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0439918
language: English
lat: 49.246292
long: -123.116226
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Vancouver, B.C. : Vancouver and District Labour Council
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