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March 19, 1948'B. C. DISt R 1C T USIO N- -N E W SAROUND DISTUNION7-I tiOES i^iih oiir^eajnhdian unions. See how it grows. -■ ■.......———’—. I be complimented in the -why| Labor on behalf -of the Island j ^^duct^, their meetings andtheincidentallythe Boird of,Trade,: coal miners. The employers | o^t union buatoess^-Keepi agrees with this action,-of the : have 'threatened to shut the i good work Bill and Blacjfie. and[prince Edward'island legislative : mines down ' forever despite a|.beflt;re long, we wlU beyfeporttng‘ i conciliation board award 'of 52.00. jassembly... f It 'isn't-' very' clear how - coal can (I your local 100 percent/ A*_On_Mandav Jhe 15th, a delega:_!_ii t ‘ . We regret to say/here that ourti'.r. from tie British Coiumiia be- n-.uted-.tn Alberti-, shipped by caBd)d.lte coUeen/sibelair wpa e cdcr'e.iic-ri of Uii/Ui met1 with rail to tire ctrant7~arni the.lt; ^cft‘i.not elected queen for\the Ross-- the hew War. Labor Relations j tors there can still make money I land Winter Carnival. Colleen. ; _, ~ Beard The delegation was head- i after accepting the award of a who is the daughter ,of Brother______. lated it. would it be-asking too ed- by Dan -'0*Brien;.:--pr«5iaent.! conciliation board of a similar [ and Mrs. Sinclair of .Rofcsiand, \IX A HCBb/We are rT-hing out this second mt^ch that- the. ' company also and .•eke’ other officers of 'the . ampunt. The operator at Prince- came second in a nip and tuck fr.nr-p*^tn make up for the de- ~frrT*»r» b^prh.^ more reciht. Federation, .as -*«tf as represen-. ton has also accepted the $2.00 contest that was in doubt to the lay in getting out the last issue .of... av r* rfc* ’ pw*?* ^*lVes 'o1' tne Steel—Workers.: wage award, but the Island ntfnes nd^A=closei--contest- eould -not-4^' reports* L-iC D* r tt w « /i“D »r’T P : ...L; „ J _iA^i ' Ko a nxrraliovA* onrl wA mAitlflthe.per. A lot /of the material'Trace Union Delegation 'which-Mine, Mill. XWA.. CB. o£R.! which are tied in very closely be held anywhere, and we wouldmay/tie somewhat dated hut we; ^ ^''“ Amalgamated Building Workers, to the Vancouver bunch, refuse ‘ ljke at this time to convey dur-ifeF It JfrHt ft- nnd visited!-the- Soviet recently as. an Boilermakers.,In our dis-1 tp accept ,the conciliation “ board tbanks to Colleen for entering therar the/decks for our regular e‘di-official body, of reputable men, -cussicr; with the. Board we ex-faward. - ' . i-contCst on our behalf. Thaiiks_al-.ion which is due in two weeks.tben j* would also suggest plained the amendments we had ■ ‘ •««*•-+„' it lhat '(b.eB f° *° ^ r13”* suppq^ers of Col-rom Mon day. /_As i c cere apology V' comments of the Dean -.of-pravfgusly submitted^ _ tradg 1^°' ^ IT* aifromthe editoivto the correspond- i^^.frbury, Hewlett Johnson, vtoelal, C^neL ' The'ents who havThia thaiynawrial ..r,, „f ,bo Ibadan, it the.V.2li- of ’J:e t2'■ °cl' havo they always sup! i eaeelient job during the, cup.can* Church. whc,y ,..rd _Shch!d -o-.-rnj amendment^te. plt;jrted ^ ^ flgh. ^ J'eld up_ •* * * . ^ ^ at least 'as ...that'ttff-itbe pre^ntA^t when ^ , . . * *. *iXewspaper editors have had this person, Hladun, and Uord 'r~ - v oo*. * : ing dbe operators^ now too.. The i Tune tin to Sydney Rogers,quite a day of it. Whole reams of ■ and Lad- Passfield who . made .tit^POR TAT , B.C. Federation of I^lwr Execu- i cvery Monday. Tuesday and“exposures . and “exposure all | a real study of Russia aboht .the; Eyerv member, of our union is i live has assigned President Dan ] Thursday at 16:15 pan. Wednes-, f ^ui e fa£t 1 ^re Red9 ; same time that Hladun ’claims ■ dat., ^c,-nlt;2 to contribute gen- j O’Brien to mobolizb. rglief and day nights at 10:50, KGO, Sanm Canada, and that cnmo are to to have been there.^Hladun’s ] ero]1£iv 1o ine appeal for finances ] hold meetings to explain the ] Francisco, 800 on your radiohiding positions in trade unions, speeches ori the Soviet L'nion ] f^ued* bv itie B.C. FederaUohxof 1 issues in all parts of B.C. ' ’ • I diaL This program Is CIO spon-This should b^just as startling as which got him invitations to |_•■-.. —- j sored and should prove tnter-discoverine that most big business ; Trail, Kimberley and' Rosslandj ^firms'in Canada are dominated by : at the expense of the Canadian \ ^ ^Conservatives and Liberals, or! Clubs, and also an invitation! that the chains of Boards of Trade 1 from the School Board at Trail;Chambers of Commerce, and Can- i to address the1 children, are Inadian Clubs are completely domto- i *ue same category as those of Are we ever grateful the time \fted .b?.fempIoyers- °f COurse there ! ^r. Kirkpatrick on trade union- {has' rolled around, for anothei is a two-way stretch on. the use j ism. Mr. Kirkpatrick’s associa- ] chat! One more announcement ofxtoe word “dominated’’ as ap-| tion with trade unionism ha*|Uke what the heads of-the AFLpliedsto labor organizations who j been on the other side of the made this past week and we elect their officers- by. ballot and j tablk in negotiations. Xow he is [ would be out fiathave regular union meetings to- an authority on trade unions,? Imagine, if you can. a manlike ‘ ^Aclde on all questions of policy, never having- been a member of j Burton K. . Wheeler being paidthe devil a monk ] one himself.The CMS-has-gone-on the .:bard up.They must be 1 $20,000 a year for carrying on theair to give the Workers advice, not on how to meet the cost mad*.. «*/i^*-'nor to e^bia—how the eompany makes “ siidb- tremendous .profits and- leaves so little in the communities, but the company has gone on the -air-totell the workerehbwrnuchit loves, them and what a keen interest it has in our union.Could this be the same company which fought trade unionism aD its life- and issued statement after statement un^er the - signatures of its top officers that — International trade unions are no good at all and that the workers should have a cooperative ^ committee without outside Tuitions ?“ A“ Iot Of -oTd^tTtoe^ who were blacklisted by this lur-“ same- company for belonging to 'touhismf-f fight against- the vicious- Taft^ fi.WHAT IT COMES TO 5 Hartley Act. When Green, AFLThe Board of Trade is on the |fcead' made ^ announcementwarpath again- They have just gulped up the judgement of Indge Wilson against the Inter-natipnal , Typographical Union, and under Bill 39 the foundryemployers have just got a decision to sue the United Steel Workers for scores of thousands of dollar*.„ The . provincial legislature of the ^rovtoce vof Prince “Edward Island, noted as a tourist resortand a place where the people have the-lowest wages, has gonethat Wheeler would be approach ed to take the position, be said, “We need someone of great prominence to carry the fight against this act to a successful ending.”about the prominence of Mr. Whe£j£r, but I’m sure we all have our own opinions of exactly the type of fight Wheeler would-carry for any labor union. We are more than overjoyecl to learn that Wheeler has declined the appointment, but then again, who is it going to be now? WTe hae our one better. -paisiftg a jaw- making '- thoughts: let s hope—they—areit an offence for,, a union.-. to j wronfor what reason? To fight'Com-Here is-somethihg we would reallv like to know. Where has'a 'union and 1 are still around • Some people thought it / ^°b Mcrnson been during the te-Trail and Kimberley must bid very fine for labor to join with ! ^ in ® C;? a dis~wondering what has- come over”; the Dominion Government to pre- ] f ur the head office. / .vent -American organizers com-PU^ between the. big. oil com pan the government howThe' CMS id no\y circulating.; inf into Canada and they, cheered * *®ucl1 °'^n .increase, is-justifiable, to all its employees the 1930: their heads off. Now ] and the ^fusial of the oil com-news storips of John Hlad uni Ed ward-Isfend- has - just^prohib-iFaaie3 ^o-ecsnply-is-npt-A-strike ..* . vWch . not been verified j ifed Canadian orginers ' from ! {” Eoi^ opinion Maybe the defl-» by the CMS nor by anyone else, coming : irito Prince Edward Is-j r‘®tton °f tbe 'Vord strlk^ in |• r Since'.the companv has taken land and prohibited—Io-ca! -miAn* I Morrison s dictionary is the re-,'| , ; the word of Hladun and circu- therfe from havto- anv ‘connec- tfu£ai M a workeT to seli hishnly - _ r-rr- . ~ ~ ^1 . ■ - • If- esting to alt We should j tune, in to CJAT, Trail, 610 onj your 1 dial, for the CCL broad-. casts' ev fy Monday night at 1-11:00. These broadcasts are be-] ing aired for five weeks. All time are Pacific time, but KGO public might not be half as in-j fe n0w on dayUght saving timeterested in what thejNme going] ,t 9^ and *9:80.to pay .for gas a gallonas they] ^product. Then agairi the generalwould be in knowing wnitough time the-poor gold opera-We know this is not a sportstors of last year were going to have on marginal ore. 1Last Saturday,- Brothers Billingsley, Melvin, Barnes and Ridgers paid Unit J Zincton a visit A well attended meeting was called to order at 3 p.m., many interesting points /and questions being discussed. Unit J is very well organized now, 96 present and practically all j the boys active. Presi-,1 fdent Bill/Kelly-ahd Sec. R. W. O’GradyJ both young men, are tocolumn, but we just can't resistletting you in on our prediction' for the,- outcome, this year’s hockey .playoffs. Trail will take Nelson, it wifi go three games' though. Trail will drop., the-first one at Kimberley and will take the -next one. Then to polish _ off the Dynamiters,' Trail- will ; take the -next two straight in Trail. Believe It or not but that j ^ wiH make the Smokies B.C. ^ Champs when they do this and that Ts^gust what tbey are going to do. 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Vancouver BC District Union News
Vancouver, British Columbia, CA
Fri, Mar 19, 1948
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