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Hilton of Canada Steel and the
dominant sections of big business.

Here is what the committee
Proposes:

@ It endorses the thesis of
Gordon and the monopolists that
price increases today are deter-
mined primarily by wages and not
by stepped-up profits. It is “con=

of the men affected.” If this
recommendation were adopted,
Labor Minister Humphrey Muit-
chell would be empowered to
take a strike vote in Canada
Steel today. He could include
office workers, foremen and
scabs to weigh the vote against
the workers on strike. Present-

- Master pact
concluded for
8 city hotels

Some 450 employees of eight

North shore ratepayers
irate over BCER steal |

NORTH VANCOUVER.—\A mass. meeting on ftrans-
portation called by the Ratepayers’ Association here Tues- _
day night turned into a demonstration against the City Coun-
cil as a host of irate speakers and questioners expressed in-

dignation at the way in which the Council had rammed
through preliminary approval of a deal which would give
the BCER a 20-year monoply on public transit on the north
shore. :

ed as a democratic procedure, | Vancouver hotels will receive
this proposal is actually de-
signed to rob the workers of

their right to decide their own

winced that comtinued price con-~
trol is only possible with a reason-
able measure of wage control.”
There is not a word about corpor-

Wage increases and vacations
With pay as a result of the

ation profits being the highest in actions democratically through Gheiredl by, walliama Aneus tHe
Canada's history. Here the|. their own unions. conclusion this week of the|/ccting heard Blue Line and|€d to overflowing, and expressions
Pon detone 18) laid fer the Mac. @ it recommends that steel BCER spokesmen present their re- | 0f indignation reached a tumultuous :

first union Master agreement

chell-Gordon-Hilton formula of pitch which precluded full discus-

S controllers “be instructed to 3 - 2 spective offers. City ‘Council has | P? S
a cent eee Bees ok implement the terms” of the to be signed in Canada with had the BCER monopoly steal ap-| Siem en the proposals themselves.
meres. a 2 = order —i n - council appointing |the Hotelmen?s Association. proved by the Public Utilities'Com-| The North Vancouver Labor-Pro-

Mission and is submitting it to a
ratepayers’ vote September 11.
Repeated cries of “Answer the
question” came from the audience
when Alderman Copping, speaking
in the absence. of Mayor Loutet, was
anable to satisfactorily deny that
the Council had not even seriously
considered Blue Lint proposals.

The Horticultural Hall was pack-

Arctic

them. In other words, the gov-
ernment is urged to operate the
plants for the big corporations,
with a $20 a day penalty im-
posed for failure to work, union
leaders to be arrested and so
on.

From acceptance of profits-first
policies, to condemnation of
union tactics and mass picketing,
stifling of the right to strike and
calling upon the government to
break strikes—this is the gamut

gressive Club is demanding a pub-
licly-owned bus system (such as is
already working successfully in
West Vancouver), and calling on
the ratepayers te vete down the
BCER deal. According to Damon
Hisenman, club spokesman on the
issue, this will throw the issue
wide open in the December elec-
tions.

Mayor Loutet was quoted at the
meeting as admitting a “no” vote
would mean the subsequent defeat

@ It echoes the Toronto Glebe
and Mail and such individuals
as Ald. Norah Henderson of
Hamilton who are inciting vio-
lence and advocating provincial
police intervention against the
workers on the pretext that
unions are using force. The
recommendations state that
“the committee condemns use
of physical force, either by em-
ployer or union.” To cover up
the use of force by governments

Wine other hotels will be includ-
ed under the agreement when,
certification proceedings now pend-
ing have been completed.

The agreement, which was to go
before the Hotelmen’s Association
for ratification this week, was
negotiated by Emily Watts, presi-
dent of Local 28, Hotel and Res-
taurant Employees Union; Stan

and reactionary employers the|/run by the committee._ ee Smith and A. J. Wybrew, business of the Council. The possibility is
unions are accused of being |could have asked for nothing bet agents for Local 244, Building eS i : epee seen that this would mean a major
equally guilty. ter. it is with this realization of break-through in the efforts of low-

Service Employees Union; and M.

‘@ It condemns unions which er mainland voters to clean our

It is clear that the government, how far Canada is already com-

have bypassed the War Labor | through the committee, is attack- Cole, secretary of the Building| iteg upon the read to £nother | PrO-BCER spokesmen from the city
Se ee 5 eee ing and Girest ong. the exintence Service Employees’ Northwest]! war that the fight for peace must |224 municipal councils of this area.
‘ of the entire trade union move— < i. AFL affili- is S : z

against the workers. This is a],sent. Joint Connell Both are aifili-| be conducted. And with unity 5
direct attack on the Canadian News that Hamilton CCL ated unions. of the labor movement with all $
Congress of Laber Wage Com-| unions (Steel, Electrical and The agreement provides for: other forces of the ‘people, the St le 3
mittee’s fighting policy. Rubber workers) have estab- « overwhelming majority of the

@ it completely ignores flag-| lished a united committee to- Wage increases ranging from 5| people, who sincerely want peace, §

rant violations of picketing | canvass the city for 50,000 sig- |: 5 14 cents an hour. the fight can be won.

rights as in the seamen’s strike
on the Great Lakes, textile
workers’ strike at Montreal,
foundry workers’ strike at Ana-
conda.

natures to a petition is an indi-
cation of what labor is doing
and can do to defeat this at-
tack on its rights. Popular
pressure, as shown by the suc-

Vacations with pay, one week
being given for one year’s service

and two weeks for two years.

King may choose to ignore, but

to give life to the profound truth
of a recent Izvestia editorial:

the people have it in their power |

Value
Quality §

“Kang and his friends have
forgotten the lessons of history,
which have offered no few ex-
amples of how shamefully all

Time and a half for overtime
above the 8-hour day, 44-hour week
and for four statutory holidays—

ivi ist- g
Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Chr: OSS | AAEESia pee Ee
mas and New Year. have broken down, despite all ef

= 4 forts and tricks of the most ac- CLOTHING — and i

4 knowledged reactionaries leading: | 2 Friendly Service

} these inimical campaigns against 5

} the Soviet Union. Established For
4 “The same shameful downfall
| awaits King and his friends.”

cess of British Columbia unions
in forcing the government to
relax its interim ruling on the
10-cent maximum wage in-
crease, can force the govern-
ment to retreat.

@ To stifle union rights still
further and particularly to re-
strict labor’s right to strike, it
urges that the minister of labor
take votes before or after
strikes to “determine the wishes

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