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Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana
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Labour Minister Lyle Wicks appointed four part-time members to British Columbia's reconstructed Labour Relations Board: George Home and Jim Barton representing labour, Fred W. Smelts and Maj.-Gen. C. A. P. Murison for employers. D'Arcy Baldwin is permanent chairman. Unions and employers urge full-time board to prevent strikes.
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Labour Minister Lyle Wicks has named the four part-time members of British Columbia's reconstructed Labour Relations Board.
They are: George Home, secretary-treasurer of British Columbia Federation of Labour (CCL) and Jim Barton, president of British Columbia Trade Union Congress (TLC), representing Labour, and Fred W. Smelts and Maj.-Gen. C. A. P. Murison, representing employer associations.
Permanent chairman of the board is D'Arcy Baldwin.
Both labour unions and employer associations in the province have urged that the Board be continued on a full-time basis.
In a brief presented recently to the provincial government, five groups of British Columbia employers, representing 75 per cent of all industry in the province, said the part-time Labour Relations Board would not work and that the full-time board was cheap insurance against vast sums lost in strikes.
"It is our view," the brief stated, "that it is all the more imperative there should immediately be available at all times a strong and impartial board to administer the ICA Act."
In its annual brief to the provincial government at the end of last year, the Trades and Labour Congress emphasized its desire for retention of a full-time Board and urged that no change be made in it.
The British Columbia Federation of Labour (CCL) took a similar stand at its convention in January.
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appointment of four part-time members despite urgings from labour unions and employer associations for a full-time board to administer the ica act and prevent strikes.
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Labour Minister Lyle Wicks named George Home and Jim Barton representing labour, and Fred W. Smelts and Maj.-Gen. C. A. P. Murison representing employers, to the reconstructed part-time Labour Relations Board, with D'Arcy Baldwin as permanent chairman. Employer groups recently briefed the government that a part-time board would not work, advocating for full-time to avoid strike losses. Trades and Labour Congress in annual brief at end of last year and British Columbia Federation of Labour (CCL) in January convention urged retention of full-time board.