Pay Raises Urged By
A.F. of L.- CCL Executives; ,
Monopolies To Blame

TORONTO, Ont—The fight to re-establish price controls already lifted, and to

retain those under*threat from monopoly pressure,
housewives and other public bodies demanded that the government continue

labor,

was solidfying itself this week as

a policy of subsidies and re-establish rigid controls on prices.

The Canadian Congress of La-
bor urged the government iast
week that “the -policy of price
control be re-established,?
“Not only is it evident
that price control is rapidly be—
ing abolished, but there is a
growing public suspicion that
vast quantities of goods are be-,
ing held in storage by manu-
facturers and wholesalers in an-
ticipation of higher prices.”

It was essential, said CCL
spokesmen, that price controls be
maintained and that workers’ in-
comes be increased. - |

Similar representation was
made to the government: by the
delegation from the Trades and
Labor Congress of Canada which
urged that the present Prices
Board be reconstituted and that
labor be given a seat on it.

The leader of the Canadian
steelworkers, C. UH: Millard,
warned that the government’S
abandonment (ef price control,
plus its rigid adherence to the
wage freezing order, was leading
to a national strike situation -He
pointed out: “All down the line
labor faces increases in consum-
er goods costs.” Wages, he em-
phasized, were below prices, and
he predicted strike struggles in
the near future.

In Toronto, delegates to the
District Trades and Labor, Coun-
cil, the largest AFI council in
Canada, acting on a recommen=-
dation from the executive, en-
dorsed a resolution which de-
manded that the government
“continue and rigidly enforce

ILWU Presents
Wage Agreement

VANCOUVER, B.C——The B.C.
Council of International Long-
shoremen and Warehousemens
Union (CIO) has presented a

draft master agreement to the
Shipping Federation, demanding
wage increases, changed working
hours and holidays with pay.

‘and
warned:

‘TWnder present conditions” said
Joe Thompson, secretary of the
B.C. Council. of the TLWU, “we
are on call 24 hours a day and
365 days a year. We want to do
away with Sunday work and all-
night work.”

The master agreement urged
by the T1iWU would cover opera-
(tions in Vancouver, New West-
minster, Port Alberni and Che-
mainus. Since the 1935 long-
shoremen’s strike, in which the
powerful Shipping Federation
were able to smash the union at
that time, B.C. longshoremen
have been working under open-
shop company union conditions.
The TWU, organized late in
1944 has been consolidating union
organization, and is now Moving
to secure contractural relations’

Mosher, CCL President,
together with Secretary-
treasurer Pat Conroy, present-
ed Labor’s demands to Prime
Minister King. Mr. King didn’t
like labor’s “language.”

AS oR:
who,

price controls and maintain sub- bors jcontention

sidies on consumer products.”

The resolution stressed that
the present policy of lifting, con-
trols is a step which will “dras-
tically reduce! the living stand-
ards of: the people.

The Toronto Labor Council

(CCL) also protested skyrocket-| Pork prices

wage demands with renewed vi-

gor,” said the AML leader.
Similar sentiment was express-
‘d by R. H. Carlin, CCH mem-

# ber of the Ontario legislature

for Sudbury. Mr. Carlin who,
while he did not speak for the
CCF group at Queen’s Park, un-
doubtedly. expressed their views
when he emphasized that the
lifting of price control was just
another method of “decreasing
the take home pay of Canadian
workers.”

“The working people who are
the majority of the consumers,
are being asked to pay for the
total cost of the war via in-
creased prices,” said Mr. Carlin.

George Burt, UAW-CIO leader
in Canada stressed: “The price
ceiling is being slowly under-
mined by the decision to grant
additional increases in the prices
of consumer products.”

Mr. Burt charged that Mr. Ts-
leys admission that manufactur-
ers have not been making low=
priced goods only supports la-
“that the so-
ealled cost-of-living index is in-
accurate” and does not reflect
the true cost of living.

Fred Dowling, Canadian direc-
tor of the United Packinghouse
Workers (CIO-CCL) referring
specifically to the increase in
said it would be

ing prices and endorsed the posi-|2ecessary for the union ,to de-
tion taken by the Canadian Con-,#and wage increases this sum=

gress of Labor.

The Housewives’ Consumer

Association held a public mass.
meeting to protest the threaten-|

ed increase in the price of milk.

D. A. Dunlop, chairman of the
Ontario Executive of the Trades
and Labor Congress, ABI stated
that the abandonment of price
controls was actually a “wage
cut. Minister of Finance J. L.
Tisiley’s statement that the aban-
donment of controls was for the
purpose of maintaining a “rea-
sonable degree of stability to liv-
ing costs -’ was termed “ridi-

mer.
Ross Russell, director of orga-
nization for the UE-CIO, charged
that the government was main-
taining a policy of “hog-tying
workers wages on the ground
of ‘inflation’ but employers are
given free rein to increase prices
and inflate the cost of living.”
All across the Dominion pro-
tests are being heard daily bY
labor leaders, housewives’ spokes-
men, church groups and social
service organizations. Veterans,
finding their inadequate gratuit
ties further undermined by infla-

with the Shipping Federation.

culous” by Mr. Dunlop. tion prices, are beginning to
‘Tabor will have to press its! make their protests heard.
**Canada Day’”’
By ROBERT LAXER
“Canada Day” instead of Dominion Day!
That is the new official name of July ist this year, if the

on the subject of Canadianism,
our country.
And speaking of Canada’s

eation of our vast land.

taxation, public works, etc.,

Labor observers in Ottawa
“Canada Day.”
in
eratic Canadian unity. Labor is

Provincial progress.

House of Commons Bill adopted this week passes the Senate.
Reams of words have been spoken this week in the House

key? What seems so contradictory to observers here is that
some of the very people who were flercest for “Canada” in-
stead of ‘“Domirmion” are opposed to genuine democratic unifi-

This
1946 take the steps to unify our
to complete the job begun in 1867
at Confederation to guarantee jobs,
is the real job for Canada. There’s no use talking about our
loyalty to Canada (vs. provincialism) when measures to achieve
democratic Canadian unity are opposed in practice.

To date there have been many more speeches
the House on these sidé issues than on the crux of demo-

House raised against the Drevw_Duplessis sabotage of Dominion-

immigration and the future of

future—is name changing the

is the problem. Will we in
labor laws, social services,

homes and security? This
the of

welcome new name

waiting to hear voices in the

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