| Moulders’ Offer To End Strike On Sloan IWA Basis, Rejected MEDIATOR APPOINTED AS | INERS PREPARE STRIKE | Pacific TRIBUNE Vol.1. No. 20. Hive Cents Vancouver, B.C., Friday, June 28, 1946 Formerly PACIFIC ADVOCATE mons, Tim Buck, national budget: EUSTON A Workers’ Budget [IN -connection with the budget, which the Hon. J. &. Usley, minister of finance, is expected to submit to the House of Com- LPP today sent the foliowing wire to LIlsley: “As important reform to uphold liv- ing standards ef majority of Canadian families I urge that you include follow- ing, provisions im forthcoming federal G) Exempt from personal tax income up to twe thousand dollars —— a year of ali married men and women supporting families; (2) exempt from personal income tax income up to twelve hundred dollars per year of all single persons, rise in the cost of living and decline of take-home pay ne- eessitate such reforms this year.’ UIUC TOTES leader, income The stiff P.R. Needed To End Electoral Inequalities By ROBERT LAXTER OTTAWA.—A major item of parliament’s business this year has been consideration of the government’s bill to redis- tribute seats. Increase of Canada’s population to almost 12,- 000,000 has brought a growing inequality in representation. Lf redistribution had been carried through on the basis 9f 65 seats for Quebec, as laid down by the BNA Act, all Irovinces with the exception of Srince Edward Island and the Yu- ron, whose representation is fixed if a minimum, would have lost seats. The alterna- ive was to mend the BNA Sct. Under the ill now passed y the House the opulation of Janada outside i ~HT, and the Yukon is divid- d by 250, sivine King _ Quotient of 45578. On this new aSIS €ach province is represented S follows: Prince Edward Island, 4 (un- changed); Nova Scotia, 13 (gain of 1); New Brunswick, 10 (un- changed); Quebec, 73 (gain of 8); Ontario, 83 (gain of 1); Manitoba, lS (loss of 1); Saskatchewan, 20 (loss of 1); Alberta, 17 (un- hanged); British Columbia, 18 (gain of 2); Yukon, 1 (un- hanged). This means a House of 255 in- fad of 245 members. The principle of representation 7 population for each province sPEars to be sound. It is advisable 0; to increase rather than to re- ice representation so that no “Ovince losés more than one seat. But the most glaring inequality is te be found within the provinces as between constituencies. Constituences with a large work- ing, class population, principally the big cities and adjacent areas, have four to six times the vote of many outlying constituences. Consider these figures based on the 1940 voting list: Quebee: Miontreal-St. 64,3823; Argentueil, 12,495. Q@ntario: Spadina, 56,944; Wel- land, 52,356; Glengarry, 11,299. Prime Minister Mackenzie King, in his Prince Albert riding last June and subsequently elected in Glengarry, now represents the smallest constituency in Canada. What is true of the Hast to a lesser extent is also true of the West, particularly of British Co- lumbia. No Vancouver riding had less than 40,000 voters in the 1945 general election and two ridings, Vancouver South and New West minster, had more than 60,000. The only method of overcoming this inequality, which operates against working class representa- tion, is through introduction of proportional representation, al- ready in effect in Manitoba and Alberta, for which there is a grow- ing demand throughout the coun- try. James, 4 tes Appointment of a commissioner to hear the case of British Columbia hardrock miners was promised on Wednesday this week by federal Labor Minister Hum- phrey Mitchell on the suggestion of provincial Laber Minister George Pearson gotiations between mine operators and the Mine, Mill Among those mentioned as possible choices for the appoint- following breakdown of ne .|and Smelter Workers’ Union. ment is Chief Justice Gordon Sloan, discuss terms of settlement in Interio who is now meeting with IWA representatives to t woodworking operations. Discussions between leaders of the Mine, Mull and Smelter Workers’ Union and mine Moulders Strike Solid, Financial Help Needed Efforts were being made this week to set up a com- mittee representative of CIO and AFI moulders’ unions to negotiate jointly for de- mands of some 800 moulders and foundry workers involved in the strike of Vancouver District Metal. and Chemical Workers’ Union, now in its sixth week. During the past two weeks both unions have rejected employers’ offers to settle the strike for five cents or less and the 40-hour week. The negotiating. committee for the CIO, headed by Harvey Mur- phy, western representative of the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers’ Union, last week rejected an of fer of five cents an hour “across the board’? and the 40-hour week when it met representatives of the Canadian Manufacturing