folding her son Michael, born two ~years ago in the

aguio concentration camp

in northern Luzon; Mrs.

pupert Foley looks gratefully at the first loaf of bread

fie has seen in three years.

Mrs. Foley is one of the

vilian internees recently liberated from Bilibid prison

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abor-Man. Committees tablished By Law

BiRIS.—A establishing | worker-management enter- in all French ies’ employing more than salaried workers was pub- d by the French Government fp week. As finally passed, aw has been severely criti- | by trade union leaders, | claim that pro-trust ele- S in the Consultative As- ly emasculated their origin- roposals.

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vertheless, the bill provides enterprise committees with i more power than similar foittees in the U.S. or Britain hess. The joint committees have jurisdiction over all Bers of management, working Sitions and- production, ex- questions of wages, in which Shave an advisory role. The tittees, to be known as En- ise Committees, are to be ilished in any factory em- ine more than 100 workers te order of the Ministry of ©, Ministry of Production ly Other interested ministry. ' are compulsory and, once Dlished, both parties must le ‘to all provisions of the

Embers will include the plant Meer or his representative iworkers’ delegzates accord- to the following formula: S with 100 to 500 workers, delesates and three alter- plants with 501 to 1000 ers, six delegates and four’ dates; plants with 1,000 to } workers, seven delegates

employees of the factory, male or female, who are over 18 years of age vill vote in the election

of delegates, which will be by secret, sealed ballot.

Members of the joint commit- tees, who are elected for three years, will be given five hours @ month to carry on. committee business on company time. Ac- cording to the law, the joint committees will cooperate with the management on all questions of production, working condi- tions and workers’ welfare. It will pass on all dismissals and no worker can be fired without the approval of the committee. All workers’ proposals for rais- ing production will be examined by the group and put into force if practical. It will be consulted en all proposals concerning the organization of the plant and its general operation.

Management is required by the Jaw to supply the committees with copies of the annual finan- cial reports, production reports and any other data they need to carry: on their work.

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March 31 —— Page 15

Salsberg Accepts Challenge; Names Firms In Legislature

LORONLO. Ont == In a

stirring speech in the Ontario Legislature on March 15, J. B. Salsberg, LPP member for St. Andrews riding, named eight companies, “out of scores, as having violated the spirit and imtent of Dominion and Provincial labor regulations by pursuing a reactionary, strilce-prevokine labor policy.

Mr. Salsberg was replying to an editorial in the Globe and Mail of March 3 which chal- lenged the lLabor-Progressive member to “name names and give facts so that a full and open investigation of his charges ean be held.” The editorial re- ferred to a recent radio address in which Mr. Salsbere censured the undemocratie and provoca- tive action of certain employers who refuse to abide by War- time labor Regulations Order PRG 11003: J :

DELIBERATE SABOTAGE

“In that editorial,” Mr. Sals- berg stated, “I and others are accused of being ‘in the busi- ness of stirrmg unrest by. hurling wild accusations hither and yon, always hiding behind the bush of vague generalities. ” He then proceeded to give the details of protracted union ne- gotiations which have been deliberately sabotaged by the Ford Motor Company of Gan- ada, Wright-Hargreaves Ltd. in Northern Ontario, Ganada Bread Company of Toronto, the Canadian Westinghouse Co. of Hamilton, the Electro Metallur- gical Company of Welland, the Imperial Optical Co. of Toronto, and the Halifax Shipyards TLim- ited.

Taking the case of Ford, he gave the experience of 900 of- fice workers in its employ in the Windsor area, of whom a large majority joined the UAW in 1943 and were denied recognition by the management. Since October, 1943 the union has been pushed around by the managements de- fiance. of every authorized vote

and labor court ruling. A WNa- tional WLaber Relations Board order this month (17 months f, —

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later) recommends the setting up of a Conciliation Board.

_ This is an example of flas- rant disregard of spirit and in-

tent of regulations . _ . in line with traditional Oppositien

which Ford Motor Company maintained against legitimate trade unions throughout its histery when it employed labor spies against jts .own workers,” Mr. Salsbere de- clared.

PROVOCATIVE POLICY

In 1941 the mine-owners’ re- fusal to abide by Conciliation Board recommendations pro- voked the unfortunate Kirkland Lake strike. The same policy is being pursued today by. Wright-Harsreaves Lid and Sylvanite Gold Mines Ltd. in their recent appeals to the Na- tionai War Tabor Board against a Regional WLB ruling that they

negotiate: with the miners through their representative (UMMSW). The NWLB deci-_

sion in favor of the mine owners Was condemned by ail parties in the Ontario Legislature a few days earlier, li. Salsberg minded the House.

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Employees of Canada Bread Company received union certi- fication a year ago, yet the company continues its deliber- ate delayine tactic in nesotia- tions. “If there is no stoppage of bread in this large baking plant, it is only beeause of the desire of the workers to avoid industrial strife

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In the case of Canadian Wres-

tinghouse Company Limited of

Hamilton,

large firm Electrical, Radio Workers (CIO), Mr. Salsberge outlined. the devious dodges em- ployed by the company which included forming 4 stooge com- pany union, preventing negotia- tions to this. date. The com- pany even insisted that the union forego its rights to take any wage question to the WLB, he revealed. All this in spite of the fact that the Parent firm of Westinghouse in the

employees of this joined the United

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States has contractual relations with the UE across the bor- der. g

“There is no assurance that he company will not continue to sabotage the Conciliation Board (now beine set up) or that it wili abide by “its. recommenda- tions,” -he warned. :

COMPANY CREATES CRISIS

Hlectro - Metallurgical Com- pany of Welland’s flat rejection of a union security and check off clause requested by its em- ployees through the UB, has for nearly a year created a crisis ii which a serious strike has enly been averted by the patriot- ism of the workers in this most essential war production plant. The result is that the union has been forced to sign an agreement without achieving what the con- ciliation board recommended and what the employees are justly entitled to. :

The attitude of the Halifax Shipyard owners toward union security and check-off clauses in the Shipbuilding and Marine Workers (CCL). contract pre- cipitated last year’s disastrous strike in this key shipyard, Mr. Salsberg showed. es

UNIONS SHOW RESTRAINT Imperial Optical Company has blocked every attempt to reach an agreement with its employ- ees (UE-CIO) since July 1, 1944.

“Union leadership had to exercise maximum restraint upon workers to preyent tie-up in production of essential war materials in face of the com- Bpany’s obstructionism and vio- lation of the spirit of the Labo Relations Act.” :

Mr. Salsberg, after citing these offenders, concluded: “Un_ fortunately I must admit that I can provide additional ‘names and facts’... to prove the seri- ousness of the situation which ealls for immediate action from our Federal Government to amend PC 1003 and from our Provincial Government. to enact an effective provincial Jabor code.”

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