Le monde ouvrier = The labor world, 1 décembre 1947, Décembre

èüurief 32e Année — No 12 DECEMBRE 1947 MONTREAL DECEMBER, 1947 32nd Year — No.12- S;.1^ S;.-si S.X 5.7.^ 5;:W SX XX X.X X.X XX XX XX XX XX XX X X SX S X S X X X X X X X S X SX X X XX Si * -J Les officiers et les membres de l'exécutif de la Fédération Provinciale du Travail souhaitent à tous un \ X x Nk iï4i l#*/ K B The Officers and Members of the Executive of the Quebec Provincial Federation of Labor Wish a flfîexrç dbristmas to PAGE 2 DECEMBRE 1947 MONTREAL — DECEMBER, 1947 THE LABOR WORLD Prospérité et paix en 1948 A titre és des édifices publics viennent d’etre renouvelés avec l’Association des propriétaires et gérants «les édifices publics de Montréal, Inc.Le renouvellement «le ces contrats • accordent une augmentation de salaire de 1 lc/( aux 225 membres de ce local couverts par ces conventions.De plus ces contrats font bénéficier les unionistes de deux (2) semaines de vacances avec paie par année, de sept (7) jours de fêtes payés, et temps et demi assuré si les employés doivent travailler ces jours de fêtes, et d’un boni de vie chère de 25 cents par point d’augmentation du coût de la vie à partir du 1er décembre 1947.L’organisation de l’hôpital St-Luc va bon train.Kn effet l’Union internationale vient de remporter une victoire éclatante sur les Syndicats nationaux.Un vote pris sous la surveillance des autorités gouvernementales a accordé la victoire à l’Union internationale par le compte de 150 à 42.Les négociations en vue d’une convention collective de travail sont présentement en marche et il n’est pas téméraire de croire que dans un avenir très rapproché tous les employés de cet établissement jouiront d’améliorations quant à leurs salaires et leurs conditions de travail en général.Le contrat de travail signé dernièrement en faveur des employés de l’Université de Montréal accorde une augmentation de $178 par année pour les employés travaillant 44 heures par semaine et $282 pour ceux travaillant 48 heures par semaine.Deux semaines de vacances payées sont garanties à ces employés.Le contrat stipule également que temps et demi sera payé après les heures régulières de travail et le plus lorsque des employés auront à travailler les jours de fête.*» stipulés au contrat.A l’occasion de Noël et du nouvel an je désire offrir à tous les membres de l’iinion internationale des employés d’édifices, à tous mes collaborateurs, à tous les organisateurs du mouvement ouvrier, ainsi qu’à leurs familles, un Joyeux Noël une Bonne et 1 leureuse Année.Que l’an 1948 soit une année des plus prospère, pour la classe ouvrière en général, et pour tout le mouvement ouvrier organisé.Nous avons vu au cours de l’année qui vient de s’écouler, que les membres de l’union internationale des employés d’édifice, ont obtenu grâce à leur union, des conditions de travail plus avantageuses.Espérant que l’année 1948 nous apportera, une solution pratique à tous les problèmes du mouvement ouvrier organisé, à qui je dis avec sincérité Joyeux Noël Bonne et Heureuse Année.Fernand Boger FRontenac 1242 Etablie en 1900 JOS.LUSSIER & FILS DIRECTEUR DE FUNERAILLES Salons mortuaires 4715-4733 Avenue Papineau, près Gilford Spécialité "PRESCRIPTIONS" Specialty Pharmacie A.HELIE Pharmacy 414 JARRY DUpont 5735 Tel.: 2-1013 bureau : 2-1012 JOS.AMYOT de prendre les décisions pour faire de cette aimée neuve ce que tous les hommes en attendent.\ nous d’empècher un retour de la catastrophe monstrueuse de la guer-e A nous de voir à ce qu’il y ait Paix sur la terre aux hommes de bonne volonté" Noue pays a su conserver un système démocratique.Il a su triompher des forces du fascisme mondial.Noire pays est riche et fertile.Nous sommes en paix avec les autres nations.Nous pouvons aller de l’avant dans la voie du progrès et du bonheur A nous de savoir prendre les mesures nécessaires pour cela.A nous de garder ces biens si précieux et si fragiles que sont la liberté et la paix.Eu cette veille de l’année nouvelle je tiens à exprimer fous mes voeux aux officiers et membres qui ont si bien facilité mon travail par l’appui qu'ils m’ont accordé, l’apprécie hautement la confiance que vous m’avez témoignée, et j’estime beaucoup l’amitié qui me lie à vous tous.Aux ot liciers des compagnies avec lesquelles j’ai eu affaire je souhaite également mes meilleurs voeux.C’est un plaisir que de traiter avec une gérance qui fait preuve de bonne foi et de sincérité.De la part du Congrès des Métiers et du Travail du Canada, je souhaite à tous les membres la meil leure année nouvelle qu'ils puissent désirer.Contrat de travail à la Brasserie Champlain Le 4 novembre dernier se complétaient à Québec les négociations entre notre Union locale 269 comprenant les ouvriers de la Brasserie Champlain, Limitée, à Québec, qui au préalable faisaient partie de l’Union Internationale des Ouvriers de Distillerie, ayant comme représentant canadien M.Paul Fournier et qui avaient laissé leur affiliation à cette union, n’étant pas satisfaits des services rendus du représentant canadien et n'appuyant pas ses activités politiques, joignirent les rangs du Congrès des Métiers et du Travail du Canada vers le 20 juin de cette année.La signature de ce nouveau contrat de travail apportait aux ouvriers une augmentation de salaire de H cents l’heure rétroactive au 20 juillet ainsi que de grandes améliorations dans les clauses de cette convention et la perception YS VICTORIA LFWIS, ménagère, on a sound basis of the Marshall Plan will become an economic reality by awakening to new life the latent productive capacities of Europe.But the economic revival of western Germany can never be achieved by reducing and paralyzing its means of production.It is necessary to embark in a resolute manner upon a reindustrialization of Germany in order to create the possibility of paying for imports by German exports."Communist totalitarianism Ls now attepting to conquer the European totalitarian methods to Germany would lie catastrophic for all Europe with disastrous worldwide consequences.We defend ourselves against this all-devouring nationalist egoism of the vistorious power in the East.For the German people communism is an alien system which serves alien interests."We do not want any dictatorship.Wc went through the hellish cxperienecc of totalitarianism on cur own soil.We saw the reprehensible irresponsibility of communist policy with its banking on catastrophe.The Weimar republic would not have fallen into the hands of the Nazis had the Communists not pursued such policies."Tlie best proof that tlie German workers understand the profound significance of the fight for freedom is the fact that they did not pass from nationalism to communism as has happened in other parts of Europe, but are now engaged in a struggle for democracy."We stanl for the political and economic unity of Germany on a nation-wide basis, if the splitting up of the world and of Europe were to result in drawing the dividing line right across a great nation tills would be the most dangerous form of division.In our opinion the conquest of Germany by communism would be the gravest menace to tlie peace of the world.“A partition of Germany engineered by the East will not last the economic revival and recovery of western Germany must be achieved in a manner sufficiently effective rapid and convincing to serve as an irresistible attraction for eastern Germany."In a crucial situation like the present even a single false step may have disastrous consequences.If for instance the western powers were to evacuate Berlin tills would undermine the confidence in the consistency firmr.ess and continuity of their policy.It would be a shock to tlie German people which would make an indelible impression upon them and would transmit their feelings of fear and insecurity to the other peoples of Europe."This atmosphere of deadly fear is the strongest weapon of the eastern dictatorship.” A call to war veterans employed by the Canadian National Railways to dedicate themselves to service of the public in the same high-minded way that prompted them to play aside all other considerations during the years of war, was sounded by R.C.Vaughan, C.M.G., chairman and president of the National System in an address in Toronto recently before more than 1,(100 members of the Canadian National War Veterans Association.Mr.Vaughan was elected honorary president of the association, the largest independent group of service veterans in Canada with a membership from coast to coast.“Progress”, said the CNR president, “can only be attained through service, and the highest type of service is that which is dedicated to the public good.Never in the history of the railways has it been as necessary as now that there should he such an awareness within and without our industry.We have never been so indispensable to our nation’s welfare.Never have wc had more obligations to meet.Never have wc had a harder time to meet them.Economic forces beyond our control seem to be working constantly to our disadvantage and although management has used every precaution, applied ingenuity to the best of its ability and has sought all means to win, the battle, so far, has been a losing one."This railway of ours is more than a common carrier.Its duties far transcend those of railways elsewhere.Our responsibilities far exceed those of any other form of transportation on this earth.Wc are a complex organization employing more highly trained technicians than any other industry in Canada and wc arc engaged in a multitude of activities of constant importance to our country’s welfare.Wc are, therefore, public servants in the highest interpretative sense that can lie given to that term.We shall he derelict in our duty if we do not strive to discharge these obligations to the utmost of our ability.Elaborating on the problems of the railway industry, Mr.Vaughan said, “It is hobbled by economic skirts designed a quarter of a century ago while all other industries in the land have been liberated from controls and allowed to move freely along the road of the new economic progress."This year our operating gross income will rank among the highest in our history.It will exceed four million dollars.In spite of that huge gross figure, it will not be large enough to enable us to meet our fixed charges and we will wind-up the year with a discouraging deficit.The fault for this lies not with manage-gement but with those economic forces over which wc have no controls and towards whose amelioration we have been unable to receive relief, although wc have spared no effort to get it.” The railways arc badgered by difficulties of obtaining materials and supplies, apart from financial anxieties.This situation resulted in lack of locomotives, freight cars and passenger equipment, as well as delaying the reconditioning program," he said, “and wc have backed our willingness with large orders, but there is a vast difference between placing an order and its delivery'.These arc tough times for the railroads." "It is reasonable to presume", he continued, “that the public would not be demanding modernization of equipment if it did not intend to use it; industry would not be pressing for more freight cars if there was any other form of transportation that it could employ as economically.Obviously, therefore, there is a general recognition of the fact that no form of transportation since devised can do the job the railway have done as cheaply, as effectively and as quickly'.” “The price-tag of freedom is moral, not material” said Mr Vaughan.“Never in our history has it been as necessary as now that there should be an acceptance of the principle that progress may be attained only through service, and that the highest type of service is that which is dedicated to the public good.This is a fact to be kept in our minds as we enter the third Christmastidc of peace.Let us go forward in that spirit and direct all our energies towards that end.” CCF Premier Douglas Surveys the Canadian Scene Edmonton, — The backlog of purchasing power in Canada is still in the hands of the wealthy classes, Premier T.C.Douglass of Saskatchewan said in an address here.“More than 55 per cent of the people in Canada would be on the breadline within a month in the event of a depression," lie declared.Therefore, a plan for countering unemployment should be made at once for use when necessary.Douglas, the first man to head a Cooperative Commonwealth Federation government, demanded the modernizing of the British North America Act.lie declared that Canada’s Federal constitution had been drawn up for the "horse and buggy days”.Funds and facilities to handle social service work, unemployment insurance and labor legislation, all of which have only recently been recognized as important, arc insufficient, the C.C.F.Premier stated.Because each province administers its own labor legislation, any province with a "social sense" which tries to establish sound labor laws is "penalizing itself in the Dominion market.” There must be a fairer distribution of tax revenues, and for this purpose a 11 provincial governments must relinquish their rights to collect succession duties, inheritance tax and corporation duties."As matters now stand, the heavily industrialized provinces of Ontario and Quebec are getting all the money and the western provinces and the Maritimes, who earn it, get practically none”, he declared Though seven provinces have signed the new taxation agreements with the Dominion, Ontario and Quebec have not.That is one reason why the problems of old age pensions, labor legislation and unemployment remain unsolved, Douglas said.Best 'Wishes for Christmas and the New Year Meilleurs voeux à l'occasion de Noël et de laNouvelle Année HENRY MORGAN & CO.LIMITED The Store with the Christmas Spirit La Maison où règne en maître l'esprit des Fêtes Ask Your Sports Dealer About • ARCTIC SLEEPING ROBES • ROUGHRIDER OUTDOOR CLOTHING • MAPLE LEAF GOLD BAGS • CANADA GOOSE HUNTING CLOTHING WOODS MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD.OTTAWA, ONT.OGDENSBURG, N.Y.A Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year PRICE BROTHERS & COMPANY, LIMITED Joyeux Noel et Bonne et Heureuse Année i>pa0on’s dmtutp THE FOUNDATION COMPANY of Canada Limited Marine and General Contractors HALIFAX - MONTREAL ¦ TORONTO LE MONDE OUVRIER DECEMBRE 1947 MONTREAL — DECEMBER, 1947 PAGE 15 GROCERIES, MEATS FISH, FRESH FRUITS AND VEGETABLES THRIFT - STOPeSHOP Stoats WlHlYtO RICl &URCO TELEPHONE SERVICE FREE DELIVERY LA BANQUE CANADIENNE NATIONALE offre ses meilleurs voeux de Noël et du four de l'An aux lecteurs du "Monde Ouvrier" Season's Greetings UNITED AUTO PARTS LIMITED 3437 Park A.POUPART CIE LIMITEE LAIT OEUFS 1715, rue Wolfe Compliments de TAVERNE PAPINEAU PAPINEAU & ONTARIO EST Hommages de AIRD & SON LIMITED Manufacturiers de Chaussures 916 ONTARIO EST 342, De Castelneau Tel.CAlumet 1221 1114 Beaubien Est Tel.CRescent 6284 MArquette 8151 CREME .BEURRE BREUVAGE AU CHOCOLAT FRontenac 2194 MONTREAL JOS.PROVENÇAL Marchand — Dealer BOIS et CHARBON — WOOD and COAL CADET HOSIERY MILLS LIMITED H.DUVAL, Président J.-PAUL DUVAL, Vice-Président Manufacturers of Worsted Cotton, Cashmere Hose Manufacturiers de Bas de Laine, Coton, Cachemire, Meany Urges Enactment Of Marshall Plan To Stem Russian Advance, Bring Peace George Meany, Secretary-Treasurer of the American Federation of Labor, called upon Congress to swiftly enact the Marshall Plan for the recovery of Europe as a means of promoting world peace.In a radio address over the nationwide network of the Mutual Broadcasting System, Mr.Meany reiterated the position taken by the ALL convention which met last October in San Francisco.Mr.Meany emphasized the need to preserve the democratic way of life in the nations of Western Europe and declared that our failure to render assistance in their hour of need will result in the expansion of Soviet Russia over all of Europe.He declared: “Mr.Stalin, the Russian Hitler, and all his agents and henchmen are moving heaven and earth to block the Marshall Plan.There is no mystery about their motives.They know that if France and Italy and the other non-Communist countries fail to receive assistance, they will fall into the Russian basket.Nothing helps the Communist cause more effectively than hunger and misery and economic chaos.Until aid from America comes in time to turn the tide, Stalin’s fifth columnists in these nations will continue to have tilings the way they like them.“If we do nothing, if we make the tragic choice of saving some money and letting Western Europe work out its own salvation unaided by America, it is but a matter of time, and not a great deal of time at that, before we will find we have a new neighbor on the Atlantic shore.“That neighbor will not he friendly to our way of life, will not have our concept of human freedom, nor will that neighbor believe in our kind of civilization.If we permit the nations of Western Europe to fall, our new neighbor on the Atlantic will he Joseph Stalin’s brutal, fascist dictatorship.Stalin will then he master of all Europe.The Communist philosophy will then be dominant in the world and we, here in America, would find ourselves in a most uncomfortable position.“America would then he confronted with the choice of letting Stalin enslaves us, too, or else refusing to how and being forced to defend ourselves.In other words, the ultimate price of a refusal to put the Marshall Plan into effect could well he a war in which America would he practically alone.” 'Hie AFL leader asserted that the self-interest of every American worker is the basic reason for helping Europe to .recover economically, Realizing that adoption of the Marshall Plan means additional sacrifices on the part of American citizens, he said : “It is far better, far wiser, far more practical, in our judgment, to make moderate sacrifices today in order to avoid being compelled to make sacrifices a thousand times as great tomorrow.That is just plain common sense.” Mr.Meany said that the cost of the Marshall Plan, estimated at about $-1 billion a year for four years is only about 5 percent of what this nation spent on the recent fighting war.Annual cost of the plan, he declared “will he not more than what we willingly spent in just 16 days of war.” He quoted from the unanimously approved resolution passed by the AFL convention: “The cost to the American people will he small as compared to the alternative of an unaided Europe falling under totalitarian domination, with the ultimate possibilité of war.” DO YOU NEED MONEY?See the manager or accountant of your nearest Bof M.“Boy, what a check!" 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SWEET CAPORAL CIGARETTES “ The purest form in which tobacco can be smoked" Px A Fire Tyranny Couldn't Quench A great man’s grandson died this week in Canada.I lis passing moved some newspapers to recall a heroic struggle which, like the shot that launched the American Revolution, is still “heard ’round the world”.The man who died, at the ripe old age of 85, was Thomas A.Loveless, of London, Ontario.His grandfather was George Loveless, leader of the "Tolpuddle martyrs,” whose fame will live as long as workers have tree unions.A century and a half ago, in 1800, the rulers of Britain passed the “Combinations Acts”, which forbade workers to unite and strive for better wages and working conditions.“Under those laws” says an old history “workers were prosecuted with the utmost severity.One of the judges, for instance, earned himself Ihe nickname of ‘Bloody Black Jack’ by his savage sentences.” Unions were cruelly suppressed by British industrialists and landlords, their government and the courts, down to 1832.Then a group of six men led by Loveless took in their hands, and began to organize the downtrodden agricultural workers.The result was inevitable.The six were shipped off in chains to Australia.Like others before them, they were “transported” to a remote colony where they could no longer trouble their British masters.Loveless and his comrades, however, had started a fire which could not be quenched by tyranny.Other heroes and martyrs rose to take their place.The British labor movement grew, and now governs the country which crucified the forefathers of the workers of today.American w >rkcrs also owe much to the “Tolpuddle martyrs”, and to men like them who waged similar battles in our own country.As in England, unions here long were illegal “combinations and conspiracies”.Union organizers here were not “transported,” but they often suffered imprisonment and even death for their cause.Now, the shades of the Tolpuddle martyrs must be watching to see whether the Taft-Hartlcy Act succeeds in turning the clock back toward the bad old (lavs.DOllard 3465 6995 St-Laurent JOS.M.FREGEAU Vendeur autorisé de chars usagés Bonded Used Car Dealer 237 JEAN-TALON O.MONTREAL At THE LOWEST COST Y A MONTH FOR .A $100 LOAN TO A Million CAMDliri repayabto in 12 monthly Inihlmenlt (equal to 6% I Interest per annum) ' v • • Bank of Montreal working with Canadians in every * walk of life, si nee 1817 Accounting to Workers (From American Federationist) As peacetime production frets fully under way and market become more stable, business balance will depend upon a larger proportion of returns going into consumers' bands in the forms of lower prices and Itigber earnings for producing workers, Collective bargaining is tbe only machinery that will enable workers to get a fair share of returns, and the proper share should be determined by making production and financial records the basis for col- lective bargaining.Wage-earners arc just as much investors in business as stockholders and have a right to an accounting.Such an accounting is no invasion of the rights of stockholders or management.On the other hand, businessmen and investors cannot he blind to worldwide defeatists trends toward socialism and communism.If American business wants to retain free enterprise, it must justify its stewardship to its employes as well as to its patrons.Only such policies as tbe records justify will serve to maintain free enterprise, Tbe practice of accounting to workers is the first step in developing responsibility on both sides.PASTEURIZED MILK IS THE ONLY SAFE MILK— The importance of milk in the human diet cannot be overlooked, according to Dr.Gordon Bates, General Director ol the Health League ol Canada.“Milk is the world's linest allround lood," Dr.Bates said.“One quart contains all the calcium and riboflavin needed by a person in one day, half of the Vitamin A, half of the thiamin, more than half the protein requirement, and one-third of the needed calories.No other food is so complete.” He added, however, tliât milk, in its raw state, is a “Jekyll and Hyde.” While it is a splendid allround food it is, at the same time, a culture medium for disease germs.He remarked that Dr.John R.Frnser, while Dean of Medecine at McGill University, Montreal, had stated that “unsafe milk has been responsible in the past for more deaths and illness than all other food grouped together." Recent statistics.Dr.Bates said, show there were 26 officially reported milk-borne epidemics — 30 cases or more each—in Canada in the last 25 years.These outbreaks alone caused more than 700 deaths.“By unsafe milk, Fraser meant urpasteurized milk,” he said.“Public health officials and health educationists are in agreement that the only way to be sure a milk supply is safe is lo pasteurize it.Pasteurization is a heating process which, if properly carried out.Unemployment Insurance Coverage Extended Honourable Humphrey Mitchell, Minister of Labour, announced today that on and after January 1, 1948, every monthly rated employee (employe paid by tbe month) whose annual remuneration does not exceed $3,120 will be insured under tbe Unemployment Insurance Act, by authority of Order-in-Council l\C.4854, December 3, 1947.At tbe present time those employees paid by the month whose animal remuneration is $2,100 or less are insured under the Ari._ ._ The Minister pointed out that the change will not affect tbe coverage of all hourly, daily and piece-rated employees and those paid on a mileage basis, who will continue to he insured regardless of earnings.Weekly-rated employees whose earnings are not expected to he more than $3,120 will continue as well to he insured under the Act.Too Many Foolish Laws In Canada Ontario Attorney General Leslie Blackwell, a prominent Toronto lawyer, blunt}' told an audience here that there are too many laws on the statute hooks of Canada.“If we could get rid of half the laws we have, we could do a much better job”, Blackwell declared.He severely rapped the system under which the Dominion Parliament enacts all the laws under the ( riminal C ode, and each province is called upon to administer them.I here should he more consultation with the Provinces, he urged Because of the “foolish, illogical laws” enforcement officers have a hard time.“We hope to promote a conference between the provinces and the Federal government to see that only laws which can he enforced, and have public support, get on the statute hooks”, Blacwcll stated.“Bad laws, those that have no public support, have a tendency to drag public respect for the whole body of law enforcement”.What is “Occasional?” Blackwell sorted out among his examples the law on bingo playing, in which thousands of people pay a small admission to an auditorium, and the winners get prizes.Under the Federal Criminal Code, the renders milk safe for human con- | holding of bingo games is allowed sumption without altering any of1"1 :l conlmtlmty only if tlic-v :ilc its essential values or its taste.occasional".W liât the term '‘occasional'' means “In view of the facts concerning j in the Federal Criminal Code is an the value of the pasteurization pro-1 ®n'pn,a to '""L Blackwell declared., .It is a $64 question to the law ad- cedure it is amazirg that it is1 .1 , ., I ministering authorities in the va-not universally adopted.The Health j ri0HS provinces, and causes great League will continue to agitate in confusion as to when to prosecute or Canada for adoption of compulsory |1,01 to prosecute, pasteurization legislation as lomrl As 'ontf as I as one province is Ontario, Ion"! ,'5 lul|n as i am in office T ., j won't advise any 'government to pass w ,iou 1 j :l law just lo satisfy some pious at present, is the only group in the community," Backwcll.province with such a law.declared.( 022441067 wmm V; .H ¦ /**"*y-