| Page 10—Saturday, December 23, 1944

_Wigdor Takes Charge
Of Education For UE

John Wigdor who has be
for the Workers’ Educational

is joining the staff of the United Electrical Workers’ Union.
as director of educational and recteational activities.

wil assume his new duties im-
mediately.

Mr. Wigdor is well known in
the trade union movement here
for his work in the Boilermak-
ers’ Union, where he held the
position of Art-Education chair-
man. He was insteumental in ar-
ranging a city-wide conference
en education ahd recreation for
Wwar-workers, and organized many
study groups and lectures. Gred-
it is also due him for the exten-
Sive Boilermakers’ library. I¢
was the Art-Education commit-
tee which brought Dyson Carter,
well-known Canadian author and
scientist te the coast to speak to
thousands of Vancouver workers.

A commerce graduate of Mc-
Gill, Mr. Wigdor first came to
the coast as manager of the Pa_
cific Coast Labor Bureau, an in-
ternational organization doing
research and statistical work for
trade unions. After serving in
the Canadian Army “for a few
months, he was honorably dis-
charged and returned to Van-
couver to work in the aircraft

Outlines Plan To
Protect Wages

LONDON. — Labor Minister
Ernest Beyin last week present-
-ed a wage bill to the House of
‘Commons which would safeguard
the postwar wages and conditions
of 15,500,000 workers.

The bill ensures that for five
years after the end of the war
trade union wages agreements
cannot be cut and provides for
machinery to establish national
Suaranteed weekly Wwazes,
which would be legally enfore-
able.

en Assistant General Secretary
Association for the past year,

He

and shipbuilding industries.
Future plans for the United
Electrical | Workers’
program include special leader-
ship classes, cooperation ' with
community agencies interested
in the extension of recreation
and education facilities for
workers, and encouragement of
union libraries and distribution
of reading matter for individual

education |’

union members.

JOHN WIGDOR

Educational Director, United

Dawson Miners’ Union, Local

Restaurant Employees’ Union,
local 884 A¥FoflL, a program
for the establishment of a Yukon
wide Trade Union Coordinatine
Council was drafted. Delegates
attending the conference will
take up with their respective
unions the endorsation of this
program and elect representa-
tives to the Council which it is
proposed, should have its presi-

Electrical Workers.

ing room. This surpr
cision from the B.C. R

lishes a 72ce per hour rate for
experienced filleters and 57c per
our for all other classifications
after a beginners period not to
exceed three months. This is in
contrast to the present 52c hour-
ly seale for al] categories, includ-
ing experienced filleters, which
prevails in this section of. the
Canadian Fish Home Plant.

In addition an overtime rate
of time and one half, for any
hours in excess of nine per day,
or 48 in a six day week, which-
€ver amount is the greater, was
granted by the board. Time and
one half will also be paid for

Cannery Workers Receive
Favorable Wage Award

A really worthwhile Christmas present has been received
by the workers in the Canadian Fishing Co. Home Plant fillet-
ise package came in the form of a de-
egional War Labor Board which estab-

any hours worked on legal holi- |

days as listed in Order-in-Cnuncil

P.C.8082, namely, New Year’s
Day, Good Friday, Dominion
Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving

Day, and Christmas Day.
Wage rates and overtime con-

ditions are retroactive to August
3, which means that many of the
workers will receive a sizeable
amount of back pay.

This decision of the B.C. Board
is in reply to a joint application
made by the Fish Cannery-Re-
duction Plant and Allied Work-
ers’ Union and the Ganadian
Fishing Co. Negotiations be-
tween the Union and the Com-
pany, during which mutual agree-
ment was reached on the condi-
tions established by the Board,
were carried on in a friendly and
co-operative manner,

N. S. Gill Fuel Co.

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dent and general secretary at
Whitehorse and a vice-president
and corresponding secretary at
Dawson.

PROGRAM
The program endorsed by the

Point program for the Yukon,
The establishment of a 48 hour
week (at present the Yukon ordi-
nance has a legislation making a
56 hour week the minimum work-
ing. week).

The demand for a Yukon de-
partment of Labor.

The institution of a compensa-
tion act based on the B.G. com-
pensation Act.

The establishment of legisla-
tion that would make it possible

Yukon Unions M
To Establish Coun

WHITEHORSE, Y.T.—At a conference held
Union Hall on December 7 between representatives ©

trict Workers’ Union, Local 815, CIO, and the Ho

delegates is composed of a four |-

564, the Whitehorse ar

for cooperative movemer
Yukon.

This marks the firs
taken by the Trades Unio
ment in the Yukon to est
Yukon Labor Federation
ing the last six months, t}
Union Movement in the
has forged ahead consi
During the past months i
tivities have been carries |
Whitehorse area and pl
how being made for exter |
these activities into the y
the Yukon, covering al]
and all industries,

Local 8884, H&EREC wh
been the most active and;
ent the largest union
Yukon is at present Ser
call to all other organizaj
act jointly in sponsoring
ter Carnival Week, procéei
used for the organizatioz
of each organization par :
ing. This will mark the ©
large celebration on whic
884 has taken the ini
Labor Day was the other ¢ |
on which Local 884 calle}
the other organizations i |
a committee to celebrate tj —

torie day.

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