MEN REJECT PEACE PROPOSAL

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 175, 21 April 1937, Page 11

MEN REJECT PEACE PROPOSAL

Canadian Motor Strike RECOGNITION OF C. 1.0. NOT' PROVIDED By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. (Received April 20, 11.15 p.m.) New York, April 20. A message from Oshawa, Ontario, states that the General Motors Corporation strikers at a mass meeting rejected the new peace proposal. The men’s leader said the vote was almost unanimous, due to the failure to include recognition of the Committee of Industrial Organisation, which the president of the Automobile AVorkers’ Union, Air. Homer Alartin, and local leaders of the union urged. The representative of the company pleaded with the strikers to accept the proposals. They included a 44-hour week and increases in wages ranging from five to seven cents an hour. After the vote was announced, the company’s representative shouted: “You are being fooled, duped ami hoodwinked. You will regret this.” The Premier of Ontario, Air. Alitchell Hepburn, announced that he was studying a plan to license international labour unions as a means of driving the C. 1.0. from Canada. He said he was particularly anxious to prevent the C. 1.0. obtaining a foothold in the gold, nickel and mining regions in northern Ontario, where organisers had threatened to call a strike within 10 days. The presidents of two of the largest mines said they would be closed indefinitely if the C. 1.0. called strikes. They positively would not recognise the. union. REVOLT AGAINST C. 1.0. Miners of Oklahoma New York, April 19. A message from Miami, Oklahoma, states that 0000 lead and zinc miners defied the Committee for Industrial Organisation at a mass meeting and affiliated with the American Federation of Labour. They are smarting under the shooting at Galena recently, when 11 members of the district miners’ union, which is without national affiliation. were shot down while parading past the headquarters of the International Aline, Mill, and Smelter Workers’ Union, which is affiliated with the Committee for Industrial Organisation. Leaders proclaimed the action as the beginning of the downfall of Air. John L. Lewis and the Committee for Industrial Organisation. STRIKE IN QUEBEC Montreal, April 19. Fifty dress manufacturers have recognised the Committee for Industrial Organisation as the sole bargaining agency, and 2500 strikers are to return to work immediately. The situation is complicated by an announcement that the Roman Catholic Church is opposed to international unionism, due to its Communistic tendencies. Since the Church is overwhelmingly strong in Quebec, the result of the pronouncement is awaited with interest. NOVA SCOTIA’S ACTION Halifax, April 19. The Legislature passed a Bill authorising unions to compel employers to recognise them and bargain collectively. The Premier, Air. A. L. Alacdonald, said this wasTnore advanced that most United States labour legislation.