#labour relations

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"LABOR DISPUTE SETTLED," Kingston Whig-Standard. August 19, 1913. Page 1. --- Halifax and S. W. Ry. Co Has Come to Terms With Its Employes. ---- Ottawa, Aug. 19. - The labor department was advised of the satisfactory settlement of the dispute over wages and rules between the Halifax and Southern Railway Company and its employes connected with the Canadian Brotherhood of Railway Employes, machinists, blacksmiths, car repairers, carpenters, boilermakers. wheel turners, pipe fitters and the helpers in each of these trades were affected.

Terms of the settlement are not given. The board of conciliation consisted of A. B. Crosby, Halifax, chair man; J. A. McDonald, Halifax, for the men, and W. E. Thompson, Halifax, for the company.

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"Mosher Advocates "Throwing Out" of Company Unions," Ottawa Citizen. March 3, 1943. Page 1. ---- TORONTO, March 3. - (C.P.) - A. R. Mosher, president of the Canadian Congress of Labor, today told the Ontario legislature committee inquiring into proposed collective bargaining legislation that "yellow dog" contracts should be abolished and that company unions should be "out the window."

First witness to appear before the committee on the second dayof its hearings, Mosher proposed that employers be required to sign collective bargaining contracts as soon as they were agreed on and also urged that the bill should eliminate any "spying" on unions by strike-breaking organizations.

He said that the Congress of Industrial Organizations could not be held responsible for Canadian labor troubles.

"To blame the C.I.O. for such trouble is like condemning the whole church because some minister walks away with the collection," he said.

He contended that immediate introduction of collective bargaining legislation would go a long way in settling labor troubles.

Condemning company unions, Mosher said that employes would rather have their employer tell them they could organize if they wished than provide insurance plans and recreation for them.

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"Minimum Wage Declared Handicap to Apprentices," Vancouver Sun. May 18, 1933. Page 9. --- SKILLED HELP PREFERRED --- MERCHANTS SUGGEST CHANGES IN PROVINCIAL ACT - NO SUGGESTION TO LOWER MINIMUM SALARIES ---- No suggestion that the minimum wage for women should be lowered was heard at the opening sessions Wednesday of an extensive inquiry being conducted by the Women's Minimum Wage Board.

It was urged, however, by representatives of the ladies' ready-to-wear section of the Retail Merchants' Association that the apprentice period should be extended from one year for girls over 18 years to four years with a lower wage to start.

Around this suggestion centred the discussion Wednesday evening, when the Board held its second session for the mercantile classification.

Adam Bell, of Victoria, is presiding over the sittings which will continue in Vancouver until June 7, as chairman of the Board and deputy Minister of Labor.

ACT ENFORCED The sittings of the Board are public.and written as well as verbal suggestions were invited by the chairman on the wage problems of employers and employees.

Desiring to dispel some of the misconceptions existing concerning the minimum wage, Mr. Bell referred particularly to the statement frequently heard that the Act is not being enforced.

"I know that in many instances the statement may be attributed to lack of knowledge," he said, "but on the other hand, much as I regret to say so, I find it hard to disbelieve that in some instances the statement is made with the sinister purpose of under-mining the whole structure of the minimum wage in this province.

"I hardly require to point out that there never was a time when conditions rendered enforcement more difficult than do the conditions existing today.And yet I say without fear of contradiction that there never has been a time since the Act was passed in 1918 when the Board and its officials have worked more earnestly and zealously to have the regulations observed."

COLLECTED $3581 In proof of this contention, Mr. Bell stated that in 1931, $3581 was collected for women and girls who were paid less than the legal wage; in 1932-$2840, and to date this year $1572.

Sitting with Mr. Bell are Mrs. Helen Gregory MacGill, Herbert Geddes and Miss Mabel Cameron, secretary.

Miss Helen Guttridge charged that the depression had caused many employees tacitly to agree to violation of the Minimum Wage Act and warned of an even more difficult time ahead in this regard if inflation invades Canada.

As a representative of the League of Women Voters, Mrs. E. M. Crosfield Women Voters, Mrs. E. M. Crosfield operating under city license, where girls are taken on in the guise of apprentices and worked without pay, she said, merely to learn to operate a pressing plant or a power machine.

HIRED BY THE HOUR In some instances, premiums had been charged for the knowledge gained in these "schools" which were in direct competition with factories, Mrs. Crossfield alleged.

This matter, Mr. Bell suggested, comes under the heading of manufacturing and Mrs. Crossfield promised to discuss it more fully at to-day's sitting.

A weak point in the Act, according to R. Skinner of the Vancouver Retail Employees' Association, and one that is being taken advantage of by employers, is that they may hire by the hour.

Consequently, he said, girls may be brought from near and far to work a few hours in the morning and a few hours late in the afternoon, getting perhaps $1 or $1.15 and having to stay downtown idle for several hours between the periods of work.

DEDUCTIONS ILLEGAL Mr. Skinner also contended the minimum wage is defeated in some cases by employers making deductions as high as one-third for clean clothing or for other reasons.

The chairman pointed out that deductions are not permitted under the statute; they may be made only in the case of public housekeeping employees for board and lodging.

Returning to his first point, Mr. Skinner urged that the board should fix a minimum number of hours for an employee engaged on the hourly basis.

"Is it not better," asked Mr. Bell, "to keep a girl busy for a few hours than lay her off altogether?"

Mrs. Susie Lane Clark, representing the Local Council of Women, called attention to the fact that in Manitoba boys have been brought within the provisions of the Minimum Wage Act, something which the women's council has been petitioning the B.C. Government to do for several years.

She contended that there should be more inspection with a view to more strict enforcement of the statute and Miss Theresa Hartney, speaking as an employee, urged that house- workers be included in the Act.

ALLEGES BLACKLISTING P. Floyd, from the Trades and Labor Council, suggested that the mercantile employers are so well organized that employees who inform against them for infractions of the Minimum Wage Act are blacklisted, but the chairman pointed out that it is impossible to successfully prosecute defaulters without first-hand evidence.

He called attention to the penalty provided for employers who penalize employees for informing.

A more equitable application of the Act would be possible, the Board was informed by George Matthews, secretary, Retail Merchants' Association, if it were subdivided. Regulations relating to apprentices, he said, are of paramount importance to the ladies' wear section of the association, who discussed the matter Tuesday evening.

He was supported by I. L. Kostman in his argument that a lengthening of the apprentice term and reduction in the wage for girls over 18 years of age would benefit both employers and employees.

More apprentices could be engaged and those who learn slowly could be given a longer time in which to make good.

INEXPERIENCED HELP At the present rate of $9 weekly with a quarterly increase until the minimum wage is reached, merchants cannot afford to hire inexperienced help and teach them, Mr. Kostmen contended.

The change sought, he declared.would not affect efficient employees.

He could get all the girls he could use at $12.75, the minimum wage./but he preferred those who are worth more, Mrs. MacGill observed it would be hard to convince some people that it takes four years - the time taken for the average university course to teach the work done in the mercantile trade.

Miss Betty Wilkinson, of Spencer's Ltd. declared that $12.75 is little enough to pay a girl of 18 years.

It takes just as much training to teach a girl to sell notions as ready-to-wear, she claimed.

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"7-DAY NOTICE OR JAIL BOSSES ARE WARNED," Toronto Star. October 2, 1942. Page 3. --- Ottawa, Oct. 2 - "Possibility of prosecution is being studied" as the result of investigation in several parts of the Dominion into reports of employers firing employees without giving the seven days' notice as required by selective service regulations. Convictions render employers liable to a fine of not more than $500, imprisonment up to 12 months with hard labor, or both fine and imprisonment. Two Hamilton employees were convicted recently because they left their jobs without giving the required notice. Selective service officials said that any workers dismissed without the required notice should place all details of the dismissal before their local selective service board.