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Page SeveftWCB Cla i m s(Continued froip/page 6) ■Medical Society paid for the operations . that Brother Ciarricoates received. The boais' not satisfied-as yet as to whether or notabor rican s ofHi'cil of7i for rgan-:are axter. ’ious-rgan-1s asmion ed in have eightthat isfied i un •r tojur-! of-iaBrother Ciarricoates' will be recognized as a compensation case until thit^y have their hearing with all interested pary.es there in Kim-The District Union has handled numerous.compensation -cases and could go on for hours stating cases such as those above,.where the Compensation Board has hot recognized the Claim because of. some technicality or other.It ig‘also interesting to note that-in the case of Colonel Uniiowsky of Trail who had lost time because of an accident, and because of the fact that his wages evceeded $208 a month, the Compensation Board wouldn’t make any payment, unless the earnings dropped below this amount. - 4I wish to Impress' upon the membership that everyone should immediately report to their super-visor or other appropriate official when they have an injury on the job when such injury happens, ■and by doing so they will alleviate a lot of hardship upon them-^lvcs^and.T7theff~familli?6l^:.;~ —;ers’est.arehip-andtous;hesebat-mionthebytouedingiidsJablemnan-lled’in•y'snl--Inhaenfold,pro-Sin-itin-orldjoldSuchsellarid,riceWe, as workers, will not continue to subsidize the industry out of our living conditions or working, conditions any ftmger. 7 We declare that the responsibility forthesituationtodaymust rest squarely upon the Domin- —Ion government. : /We *urge ail local unions to — protest vigorously , to the dominion government against their an- — nounced policy, and to inform all members of Parliament and mem-bcraof the provincial legislature representing^ mining constituencies to take their position now on this vital question and demand £ change/in Federal gold policy. /_Wc urge._aji . mining, jcoirnmmi- -------tics to. join/with us In this protest and to insist that our Midi’sand MB’s support our position.Wc urge the B.C. government in the pre^nt session of the legislature to at once inform the /Federal government at Ottawa ^ ,■■//that the people o| this province will not stand idly by and w#fch ^fne communities dependent upon the gold mines being turned liito ' ghost towns, and. to urge upon the Federal government that the product of the gold mines-he- allowed to be sold on., the best market possible witliout restrictions. • . /We see no sense in the Fed- ^ erm government subsidizing mutl of taxation the mainteance of the gold mining industry when this industry cotiltd be MntBin-lt;*d and would /develop, providing. more jobs and better conditions, if It was allowed to sett gold on the world market without dlserimfaiatfrwy- . ^ ;-s 3 We upge all local unions to call public /meetings of._citizens, and - — unite/with every organization of citizens, to further our protest to-Ottawa with the end in view that ’iV Dominion government’s policy ' • •. ill be changed to save yhe gold mining industry from destniction, and with it the job. opportunities ^nd iHving staiidards “of over 30,-Ow^Canadian .working men.
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Vancouver BC District Union News
Vancouver, British Columbia, CA
Fri, Mar 30, 1951
Page 7
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