folding her son Michael, born two ~years ago in the

aguio concentration camp

in northern Luzon; Mrs.

pupert Foley looks gratefully at the first loaf of bread

fie has seen in three years.

Mrs. Foley is one of the

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BiRIS.—A establishing |
worker-management enter-
in all French
ies’ employing more than
salaried workers was pub-
d by the French Government
fp week. As finally passed,
aw has been severely criti-
| by trade union leaders,
| claim that pro-trust ele-
S in the Consultative As-
ly emasculated their origin-
roposals.

law

committees

vertheless, the bill provides
enterprise committees with
i more power than similar
foittees in the U.S. or Britain
hess. The joint committees
have jurisdiction over all
Bers of management, working
Sitions and- production, ex-
questions of wages, in which
Shave an advisory role. The
tittees, to be known as En-
ise Committees, are to be
ilished in any factory em-
ine more than 100 workers
te order of the Ministry of
©, Ministry of Production
ly Other interested ministry.
' are compulsory and, once
Dlished, both parties must
le ‘to all provisions of the

Embers will include the plant
Meer or his representative
iworkers’ delegzates accord-
to the following formula:
S with 100 to 500 workers,
delesates and three alter-
plants with 501 to 1000
ers, six delegates and four’
dates; plants with 1,000 to
} workers, seven delegates

employees of the factory, male
or female, who are over 18 years
of age vill vote in the election

of delegates, which will be by
secret, sealed ballot.

Members of the joint commit-
tees, who are elected for three
years, will be given five hours
@ month to carry on. committee
business on company time. Ac-
cording to the law, the joint
committees will cooperate with
the management on all questions
of production, working condi-
tions and workers’ welfare. It
will pass on all dismissals and
no worker can be fired without
the approval of the committee.
All workers’ proposals for rais-
ing production will be examined
by the group and put into force
if practical. It will be consulted
en all proposals concerning the
organization of the plant and its
general operation.

Management is required by the
Jaw to supply the committees
with copies of the annual finan-
cial reports, production reports
and any other data they need
to carry: on their work.

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March 31 —— Page 15

Salsberg Accepts Challenge;
Names Firms In Legislature

LORONLO. Ont == In a

stirring speech in the Ontario
Legislature on March 15, J.
B. Salsberg, LPP member for
St. Andrews riding, named
eight companies, “out of
scores, as having violated the
spirit and imtent of Dominion
and Provincial labor regulations
by pursuing a reactionary,
strilce-prevokine labor policy.

Mr. Salsberg was replying to
an editorial in the Globe and
Mail of March 3 which chal-
lenged the  lLabor-Progressive
member to “name names and
give facts so that a full and
open investigation of his charges
ean be held.” The editorial re-
ferred to a recent radio address
in which Mr. Salsbere censured
the undemocratie and provoca-
tive action of certain employers
who refuse to abide by War-
time labor Regulations Order
PRG 11003: J :

DELIBERATE SABOTAGE

“In that editorial,” Mr. Sals-
berg stated, “I and others are
accused of being ‘in the busi-
ness of stirrmg unrest by.
hurling wild accusations hither
and yon, always hiding behind
the bush of vague generalities. ”
He then proceeded to give the
details of protracted union ne-
gotiations which have been
deliberately sabotaged by the
Ford Motor Company of Gan-
ada, Wright-Hargreaves Ltd.
in Northern Ontario, Ganada
Bread Company of Toronto, the
Canadian Westinghouse Co. of
Hamilton, the Electro Metallur-
gical Company of Welland, the
Imperial Optical Co. of Toronto,
and the Halifax Shipyards TLim-
ited.

Taking the case of Ford, he
gave the experience of 900 of-
fice workers in its employ in the
Windsor area, of whom a large
majority joined the UAW in 1943
and were denied recognition by
the management. Since October,
1943 the union has been pushed
around by the managements de-
fiance. of every authorized vote

and labor court ruling. A WNa-
tional WLaber Relations Board
order this month (17 months
f, —

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later) recommends the setting up
of a Conciliation Board.

_ This is an example of flas-
rant disregard of spirit and in-

tent of regulations . _ . in line
with traditional Oppositien

which Ford Motor Company
maintained against legitimate
trade unions throughout its
histery when it employed
labor spies against jts .own
workers,” Mr. Salsbere de-
clared.

PROVOCATIVE POLICY

In 1941 the mine-owners’ re-
fusal to abide by Conciliation
Board recommendations pro-
voked the unfortunate Kirkland
Lake strike. The same policy
is being pursued today by.
Wright-Harsreaves Lid and
Sylvanite Gold Mines Ltd. in
their recent appeals to the Na-
tionai War Tabor Board against
a Regional WLB ruling that they

negotiate: with the miners
through their representative
(UMMSW). The NWLB deci-_

sion in favor of the mine owners
Was condemned by ail parties in
the Ontario Legislature a few
days earlier, li. Salsberg
minded the House.

re-

Employees of Canada Bread
Company received union certi-
fication a year ago, yet the
company continues its deliber-
ate delayine tactic in nesotia-
tions. “If there is no stoppage
of bread in this large baking
plant, it is only beeause of the
desire of the workers to avoid
industrial strife

3

In the case of Canadian Wres-

tinghouse Company Limited of

Hamilton,

large firm
Electrical, Radio
Workers (CIO), Mr. Salsberge
outlined. the devious dodges em-
ployed by the company which
included forming 4 stooge com-
pany union, preventing negotia-
tions to this. date. The com-
pany even insisted that the union
forego its rights to take any
wage question to the WLB, he
revealed. All this in spite of the
fact that the Parent firm of
Westinghouse in the

employees of this
joined the United

and Machine

United |

States has contractual relations
with the UE across the bor-
der. g

“There is no assurance that
he company will not continue to
sabotage the Conciliation Board
(now beine set up) or that it
wili abide by “its. recommenda-
tions,” -he warned. :

COMPANY CREATES CRISIS

Hlectro - Metallurgical Com-
pany of Welland’s flat rejection
of a union security and check
off clause requested by its em-
ployees through the UB, has for
nearly a year created a crisis
ii which a serious strike has
enly been averted by the patriot-
ism of the workers in this most
essential war production plant.
The result is that the union has
been forced to sign an agreement
without achieving what the con-
ciliation board recommended and
what the employees are justly
entitled to. :

The attitude of the Halifax
Shipyard owners toward union
security and check-off clauses
in the Shipbuilding and Marine
Workers (CCL). contract pre-
cipitated last year’s disastrous
strike in this key shipyard, Mr.
Salsberg showed. es

UNIONS SHOW RESTRAINT
Imperial Optical Company has
blocked every attempt to reach
an agreement with its employ-
ees (UE-CIO) since July 1, 1944.

“Union leadership had to
exercise maximum restraint
upon workers to preyent tie-up
in production of essential war
materials in face of the com-
Bpany’s obstructionism and vio-
lation of the spirit of the Labo
Relations Act.” :

Mr. Salsberg, after citing
these offenders, concluded: “Un_
fortunately I must admit that
I can provide additional ‘names
and facts’... to prove the seri-
ousness of the situation which
ealls for immediate action from
our Federal Government to
amend PC 1003 and from our
Provincial Government. to enact
an effective provincial Jabor
code.”

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