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553 OVER 71,000 IMMIGRANTS, almost 19 per cent from
Germany, were granted Canadian citizenship papers last year.
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A MORATORIUM ON DEBTS of the unemployed was
_ urged by the Vancouver and District Labour Council meeting
_ recently. They also asked that repossessions of unemployed

workers’ goods be halted. ;
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¥ CONTROL OF the Sidney Roofing & Paper Company
% Limited has been bought by MacMillan, Bloedel and Powell River
= Limited from the Eddy Paper Company for an estimated
$20,000,000.
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WATERBORNE SHIPMENTS of lumber from B.C. in the
first three months of this year rose 69 per cent above those of the

1959 first quarter, reports the Pacific Lumber Inspection Bureau.
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CANADIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION is backing the
i Saskatchewan doctors in their fight to defeat the Saskatchewan

CCF Government's new compulsory prepaid medical plan.
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CHAIRMAN of the MacMillan, Bloedel & Powell River
Limited, Hon, J. V, Clyne, claimed charges that the forest industry
is making enormous profits were lies and that in actual fact his
company’s profits were comparatively meagre.

Ontario Labour Protests Goverment’s
Anti-Union Legislation

Ontario Federation of Labour has been bluntly told by the
Provincial Government that proposed anti-labour legislation will
not be altered.

The Government will not change legislation contemplated to
protect the rights of employees in provincial agencies to organize
in unions of their own choice.

The OFL has called a meeting of all the unions concerned to ,
launch a general protest against the policy of the Ontario govern-:

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IWA Delegates Hold Meet
On Closer Organization

. Meeting of IWA delegates to the convention of the Canadian
Labour Congress met in Montreal one day prior to the convention
{ April 24, and gave consideration to the present trend of anti-labour
; legislation. :

Reports were heard from both the Eastern and Western
Canadian regions. Views were exchanged regarding legislation in
both areas. Closer co-ordination of organizational efforts was dis-
| cussed.

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The repressive measures con-
tained in anti-labour legislation
in the province of Alberta were
brought to the attention of the
CLC convention in Montreal by
Roy Jama, staff representative

of Oil Atomic and Chemical
Workers Union.

The anti-labour legislation in
Alberta has been buried under
the publicity given to similar legis-
lation which preceeded it in other
provinces, he told the 1700 dele-
gate convention.

Legislation Includes

Provisions of the new legislation
include such sections as: “No
union and no person shall per-
suade or attempt to persuade any
other person to refrain from doing
business with any firm or entering
a firm's business or purchasing the
goods of any firm ... where the
employees of such a firm are on
an illegal strike.”

Jama pointed out that the
government has within its power
to decide wirich strike is legal or
illegal, and therefore can in effect
declare any or all strikes to be

Regarding picketing: “No trade}
union shall be certified if the
application is made following any
picketing of the premises of the
employer.”

Decertification

On the subject ef decertification
“a trade union shall be decertified
if in the opinion of the Board

{a) the bargaining agent is not|’

proper bargaining
majority of em-
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agent; (b) a
ployees no
bargaining agent

Congress Ups
Per Capita
Tax

Decision was reached at the
Montreal convention of the
Canadian Labour Congress to
raise the per capita tax for
International affiliates from
seven to ten cents.

This tax is paid by the
International Union in the case
of the IWA.

A safe principle to guide one
through life is this: instead of!

trying to reform others, set about
trying to perfect one’s self.

WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER

2nd Issue

May; 1960.

Canadian Standards. ©

Canadian trade unions have
built a new floor under the
standard of living for the Cana-
dian people through their legisla-
tive representations and collective
bargaining, declared President
Claude Jodoin, as he delivered the
keynote address at the opening of
the CLC convention April 25.

He claimed that the additional
security now provided for Cana-
dians against the hazards of old
age, illness and unemployment was
due in no ’small measure to the
persistent endeavours of the
unions.

He added that much more re-
mains to be done, and urged con-
sideraticn of a comprehensive
national health services plan.

Employers Censured

The Congress President used
scathing language in his condem-
nation of the employers’ attacks
on trade unions. He described the
drive against the unions as a con-
centrated effort to place on the
statute books of the nation laws
which would weaken the workers’
organizations and render them
ineffective in negotiating for better
wages and working conditions.

He stated that the worst in
anti-labour legislation had been
seen in Newfoundland, and
British Columbia. Anti-labour
provisions were being written
into the Ontario Labour Rela-
tions Act, he said, but these
were most smoothly worded.

Raised By Unions

. He said, “But we are not dis-
mayed for these incidents are
after all only milestones of
inequity in the history of our
country. We will outlive the
Smallwoods and the Bennetts
as we have outlived others of
their kind.” ;

Fresh Tensions Created
The trade union moyement has
not been weakened as the
organized employers had hoped,
he declared. AJl that has happened,

he said, is that they have’ created ~

fresh tensions hetween manage-
ment and unions, and they have
set back the clock in industrial
relations. , 3

Not Sectional in Outlook

In the course of his remarks,
the President stated that the work
undertaken by Congress had
proved beneficial to all citizens.

He stated, “It is a source of
pride to us that the labour move-
ment has never limited itself to
the protection and preservation of
section interests . . . Throughout
every day of its history the labour
movement of the country has been
the voice of numbers far greater
than those in union ranks, and it
has looked to the general interest
as well as its own. In the fields
of world peace, of education, of
civil liberties, and human rights—
on behalf of farmers, teachers, the
aged and the needy—the labour
movement has again and again
been in the forefront.”

Geederham Charges

Employees

Federal Labour Minister Starr
was bluntly told by Tom
Gooderham, B.C. Director of
Organization for the Canadian
Labour Congress that the char-
tered banks in this province are
subjecting their employees to
“intimidation and interference”
in their present attempts to
organize. y
He asked the Minister for the
protection of the Federal Govern-
ment in the rights of association
and collective bargaining.

Blatant Violations

He said that the latest attempt
by bank employees to form their
own association had heen centred
in British Columbia, and had been
met with “the most blatant viola-
tions of the Federal Industrial
Relations and Disputes Investiga-
tion Act.” Collective bargaining
for bank employees is under
Federal jurisdiction, because of

Intimidated

In Union Bank Drive

the inter-proyvincial nature of
chartered bank operations.

Instances were cited of actual
intimidation, which were fully
documented. He said “Employees
have been interrogated, individu-
ally and in groups, as to their
intentions regarding the associa-
tion; warnings as to the economic
consequences to follow any forma-
tion of an employees’ organization
and definite threats of lay-offs
have been common.”

Gooderham asked the Minister
to make it clear to all concerned
that the chartered banks of
Canada are in no manner immune
from the laws of the country con-
cerning free association and collec-
tive bargaining.”

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