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jn Surrey
sICLOVERDALE, B. C.—Two
juncillors, Tom Binnie in Ward
-gaud Ben Shepherd in Ward 2,
@dorsed by labor and farm or-
|Gizations, including the LPP
wid the CCF, were reelected
mpthout opposition when .nomin-
seous for Surrey municipal of-
fee were entered this week.
Binnie, whose fight for pro-
}\essive municipal policies has
ide him an outstanding figure
=) the Fraser Valley, has repre-
@ited Ward 1 continuously since
'8, while Ben Shepherd, a
other of Len Shepherd, CCF
m@eA for Delta, has also sat on
mj? council for several years.
aa'wo other progressives, John
swles in Ward 4 and BE. B. AL
agrd in Ward 5, are also con-
#itimg council seats in the
sw ction to be held this Satur-
ss/, aud three progresive can-
r lates, Mrs. Anna Dp. Lowrie,
*¢ Eyton and Ray Shepherd
wave entered their names for
s@ three school board vacan-
@s- Last year, Floyd B. Hamil-
2 (5 IWA sawmill organizer, was
cted to the board for a two-
#ir term.

tamache Runs
7: Coquitlam

7 OQUITLAM, B. C—Nomin-
d by the United Traade Un-
@ Conference representing a
,jjority of trade unions in the
i} eater New Westminster area,
mie Gamache, first vice- presi-
@it of TWA Local 1-317, is Ia-
@’s candidate for council in the
quitlam municipal election
@; Saturday. Labor already
one representative on the
Bic in Perey Smith, presi-
Wit of IWA Local 1-317, elected
> year for a two-year term.

7irson Named
1 Maple Ridge

\VYHONNOCK, B.C.—Supported

§ progressives, John Marson,
@mer councillor, has again en-
2d the Maple Ridge munici-
. election, to be held this Sat-
ay. He is opposing Arthur

= N. Watson in Ward 5.

Loggers
Reaffiliate

The B. €. District Council of

the International Woodworkers
of America has been reaffiliated
to the Canadian Congress of
Labor after being under suspen-
sion since Jast January. Notifica-
tion to this effect came this week
from Pat Conroy, CCL general
secretary, afterall eight locals
of the union in the district voted
to apply for re-entry.

Since the reaffiliation takes
effect immediately, the IWA
plans to seat its delegates at
the next regular meeting of the
Vaneouver Labor Council, Nigel
Morgan, IWA international board
member, declares. In addition,
the coming convention of the
district council will likely elect
a representative to the national
council of the CCL.

The IWA was suspended last
January by the CCL executive
on charges that Harold J. Prit-
ehett had “interfered” in the af-
fairs of another union by appear-
ing at a meeting of the Boiler-
makers Union and supporting
rank and file oposition to ap-
pointment of an administration
board over the affairs of the big
shipyard organization.

llews-Merald Policy
igain Under Attack

Editorial policy of the News-Herald was again attacked
delegates to Vancouver Labor Council Tuesday night,

fien a letter was read from

C. B. Delbridge, News-Herald

blisher, declaring that the paper printed editorials favorable

flabor, but only scored the CCF.
Well, that is not an attitude
pr will support,” said delegate
@arles Saunders, Dock anc Ship-
id Werkers Union, “because
or recognizes that the CCF
iid become a real labor party
Mit abandoned certain of its
Mnciples and became the fed-
Wtion it was intended to be.
Gerefore, recent News Herald-
i terials on the CCF are definit-
“not pleasing to labor.
Neither is the fact that a cer-
4m mountebank, who is no trade
Wionist; is given a four-column
ead on a speech made before
# audience of six people, while

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distorted or omitted.”

Saunders reported on a meet-
ing he had had with Delbridge
in which the question of a signed
agreement for employees who are
Wewspaper Guild members was
discussed.

“He admitted that he would
have to sign an agreement. Then
he attacked me personally on my
stand—but I haven’t changed my
mind at bit!” said Saunders.

Much discussion also took place
on two letters read, one from the
cflice of the Prime Minister stat-
ing that National War Labor
Board awards were subject to re-
vision, and one from the Canad-
jan Congress of Labor stating
that on their information the
awards were not subject to
appeal.

Delegates unanimously agreed
to send a strong protest to Prime
Minister King against the issuing
of such conflicting rulings.

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3 Seats In

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ICTOria
VICTORIA, B.C.—Support
of united labor behind a trade
union slate resulted in the
election this weelx of three
trade union endorsed ecandi-
dates to city council and

School board here.
Labor’s

victorious candidates
were Mrs. A. S. Christie, for
council, and Mrs. Lily Bertha

Parsons and Captain Wilfred Ord
for school board.

Mayor Andrew MecGayin was
elected for his eighth consecu-
tive term. Opposing him were
former alderman Percy E. Geo-
rge and Dr. G. A. B. Hall . The
vacancy in the council created by
withdrawal of George was the
seat taken by Mrs. Christie.

By more than four to one citi-
zens voted in favor of an elective
Police commission as against the
present system of having the
mayor and two aldermen act.

Mrs. Christie was elected for a
one-year term, aS was Mrs. Par-
sens. Capt. Ord will serve on the
school board for a two-year term.

The three candidates were for-
mally endorsed by a meeting of
trade union representatives from
both labor councils several weeks
ago.

Lumber

Wages

To Be Reviewed

With agreements between the International Woodworkers
of America and some 23 major logging and sawmill concerns
scheduled to go into effect as of December 1 as soon as the
Signatures of local union officers and managers of individual

companies are affixed, TWA Dis-
trict President Harold J. Pritchett
said this week that the next bigs
job of negotiation with the oper-
ators, to begin in the new year,
will be the question of wage
seales, which are toe be agreed on
separately.

Three points for discussion on
this matter are being put forward
by the IWA, according to Prit-
chett. These will include:

@ A basic wage rate for all
icgging camps and sawmills coy-
ered by the union agreement.

@ Reduction in the existing
number of job categories.

@ Stabilizing job categories as
between logging camps and saw-
mills.

“Right now there are some 168
eategories of employment in the
industry,’ Pritchett said, “and we
believe it will be quite possible
to reduce them almost by half to
around ninety-eight. If we can
arrive at some settlement on
these matters, it will eliminate the
present practice of men going
from job to job seeking a few
eents higher pay.”

Labor Board Setup

Unfiair To

Workers

MONTREAL, Que.—Addressing a conference of textile
workers here, J. Ih. Cohen, K.C., former labor representative
on the National War Labor Board, stated that “the demands
of the Canadian labor movement that the cost of living bonus

be equalized throughout Canada,
and that youths and women
should be entitled to receive a
full bonus, has been entirely eva-
ded and sidetracked in the new
wage control order of the govy-
ernment.

Cohen pointed out that “the in-
clusion of the cost of living bonus
in the basic wage dismisses coun-
try-wide discrepancies and ig-
nores demands that overtime be
freed from taxation.

“It is a case of sweeping the
Girt under the carpet,” he said.

“Any idea that this inclusion
(of the bonus) will be of perman-
ent benefit, is illusory. It will
not provide permanent security,
because when the peace Is sign-
ed the employers, who have been
“Fighting wages consistent with the
increased costs of liviung, will
dispense with the bonus fraction
of the wage and base their action
on the fact that this order ap-
plies only so long as the war
lasts. :

“T eannot but regard it as a sin-

City Slavs
Hold Bazaar

Slavie organizations of Van-
couver are sponsoring a bazaar
at the Croatian Educational
Home, Campbell Avenue, which
opened this week and will con-
tinue through to December 23,
the committee has announced.

Proceeds will be used to pur-
chase supplies for the Rer Army
and Soviet civilians. All pro-
ceeds are being turned over to
the Canadian Aid to Rusia fund.

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ister fact,” he added,“ that the
newly -constituted War labor
Board will include only one la-
bor representative in a total of
Six, and that the new order was
established without any regard
for the opinions of experienced
labor representatives.”

Rogers Heads
Machinists

The annual election of officers
of Lodge 692, International As-
sociation of Machinists, this week,
saw a number of changes in lead-
ing positions.

Shelly Rogers was elected as:
president, with the
dency going to Alf Dyer: Omer
Paquette is the new recording
secretary, and J. H. Irving, run-
ner-up in the recent civie elec-
tion, was reelected secretary
treasurer.

Other officers are: James Cald-
well, treasurer; Pat Cahill, con-
ductor; Joe Enos, sentinel; Bob
Buchanan, Buster Foster and Sid
Edmonds are trustees; and bus-
iness agent is Dick Osman.

Lodge 692 is one of the largest
local unions in the city,
some 1600 members.

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with

It is expected that when the
negotiations with R. V. Stuart,
who will again represent the
companies, are completed, and
the basic wage decided, that the
recommendations will be for-
Warded jointly to the National
War Labor Board for accept-
ance.

Pritchett also announced that
IWA Local 1-367 has opened nego-
tiations with the Allen, McDoug-
all and Butler Shingle Company
at Ruskin for a union agreement.
This is the first of numerous op-
erations scheduled to come under
the agreement after being certi-
fied for collective bargaining un-
der the ICA Act. - Only those firm
already certified are covered by
the union agreement at present,
but other operations will come
under its provisions as soon as
certification is granted.

Clauses in the agreement now
ready for signatures call for
union recognition, adjustment of
disputes and arbitration of dis-
putes, no discrimination, no
strikes or lockouts, time and a
half for overtime, Sundays and
holidays, safety and health
measures, seniority rights, ad-
mission of union officials to
operations, and the same vaca-
tion with pay scheme as is in
effect in Vancouver shipyards.
Operations immediately cover-
ed by the agreement will include:

Victoria Lumber operations at
Chemainus, Fanny Bay, Camp
Nine Youbou and Camp One Cop-
per Canyon; Industrial Timber
Mills at Youbou sawmill, and
Camp Three and Six Youbou;
Comox logging camps at Lady-
smith, Headquarters and Comox
hake; Hillerest Lumber~ at Me-
satchie Lake; Forest Products at
Nanoonse Bay; Alberni-Pacific
sawmill and shingle mill and
Camp One, Fraser Mills, largest
sawmill in the British Empire;
Mohawk Lumber Company saw-
mill; Bloedel, Stewart & Welch,
Red Band shingle mill; Alaska
Pine Company; Wellburn Timber
camp; Timber Preservers Limited
eresote plant; Hammond Cedar,
sawmill; MeKay & Flannigan,
sawmill; as well as a number of
smaller operations.

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