Provisions made for settlement of grievances by superintendent or by president of the company, or his representative, and president of the union, or his representative, or by an arbitration committee, for which, in case of a deadlock, the Provincial' Minister of

Labour shall select a third man.

FORT FRANCES, ONT.-FORT FRANCES PULP AND PAPER COMPANY, LIMITED, AND THE INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF PULP, SULPHITE AND PAPER MILL WORKERS. Agreement to be effective from May 16, 1922, to May 1, 1923, and for another year unless 30 days' notice of change is given.

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Union members to be given preference when new men are hired; new ployees to join union within fifteen days.

Ground wood and sulphite mill to operate six days a week and a longer period when necessary for the operation of the paper machines.

Hours per day: day workers, 8 hours, 6 days per week. Overtime, time and one half; tour workers (three tours per day), 8 hours. Tour work between 8 a.m. Sunday and 8 a.m. Monday, time and one half. Tour workers working overtime other than tour work, time and one half.

Necessary work done on Dominion Day (32 hours); Labour Day (24) hours); and Christmas Day (40 hours), to be paid at time and one half.

No strike or lockout to occur during life of this agreement.

Rules governing mill employees as issued by the company to be part of the agreement.

When an occupation ceases by reason of shut down, company to endeavour to retain employees at other occupations.

Provisions for installations of labour saving devices as in preceding agreement.

Provisions made for settlement of grievances by superintendent or by pre

sident of company, or his representatives, and president of organization, or his representative, or by joint arbitration committee.

Wages, per hour.-Wood room: night oiler, conveyor man, wood handling river conveyor, wood handling off cars, sawyers' helpers, cleaner, 32 cents; drum barkers, hand barkers, 36 cents; day oiler, slasher sawyer, 37 cents; night foreman, 45 cents. Ground wood room: sliver screens, 32 cents; wet machine men, truckers and scale men, 37 cents; screen men helpers, oilers, 38 cents; block handlers, 39 cents; grindermen and ground wood screens, wet machine, stock runners, rack men, 40 cents; repairmen, 54 cents; tour foremen, 59 cents. Boiler-house, hog fuel unloaders, ash handlers, 37 cents; firemen, 54 cents, head fireman, 61 cents; steam engineers, 63 cents. Beater-room, broke beater, 38 cents. Finishing room: checker, roll finshers, loaders, wrapper cutter, 40 cents; new men, minimum, 37

cents.

Storehouse: store labourers 32 cents. Core department: 1st coreman, 39 cents; 2nd coreman, 34 cents; labourer, 32 cents. Yard: labourers, teammechanics, minimum, 65 cents; helpers, sters, 32 cents. Mechanical Department: minimum, 54 cents; mason's helpers, 32

cents.

Company reserves right to install the apprentice system as provided under Joiners' Union. the by-laws of the Carpenters and

Minimum rate for new employees in the finishing and loading department to be 37 cents per hour.

Company to reserve the right to have any of the day employees work between. 7 a.m. and 6 p.m.; but company not to ask any of the day employees to work over eight consecutive hours, between 7 a.m. and 6 p.m. without paying time and one-half for such overtime; exception to be that in the wood-room, when on two tours, overtime rate will not apply until employee has worked his regular eight hours. Overtime rates to

be paid tour workers only after the vacancy has existed for two weeks, or when tour worker works overtime on day work.

IROQUOIS FALLS, ONT. - ABITIBI POWER AND PAPER COMPANY, LIMITED, AND THE INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOODS OF PAPER MAKERS, STATIONARY FIREMEN AND OILERS, CARPENTERS AND JOINERS AND ELECTRICAL WORKERS AND INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MACHINISTS. Agreement to be effective from May 1, 1922, until May 1, 1923, and for another year unless thirty days' notice of change be given.

When men are hired or laid off, preference to be given to union members. Employees whose rates are fixed for the term of this agreement to join the local within fifteen days.

Paper mill not to be operated more than six days a week, from 8 a.m. Monday to 8 a.m. Sunday. No employees to be required to work on paper machine between 8 a.m. Sunday and 8 a.m. Monday, except for certain spe cified work. Operating paper machines, etc. to be done only by members of Paper Makers' Union except when assistance is necessary from swipers, sweepers, and labourers.

Operation of ground wood and sulphite mills to be six to six and one-half days per week, when pulp is needed, or longer when mutually satisfactory. Hours of employment of day workers working outside the walls of the mill, 8 per day, 6 days per week. Over eight hours straight time up to and including the tenth hour; hours for day workers inside the mill, 8 hours, 6 days per week. Work over eight hours, time and one-half. Tour workers working between 8 a.m. Sunday and 8 a.m. Monday, time and one-half. Tour workers required to work overtime at other than tour work, time and one half. On following holidays no unnecessary work may be performed: Labour Day, 24 hours, Christmas Day, 40 hours, July

It also provides for an apprentice system in the mechanical trades, wage rates being the following percentages of the journeymen's minimum rate: 1st year, 25 per cent; 2nd year, 45 per cent; 3rd year, 65 per cent; and 4th year, 85 per cent; thereafter 100 per cent.

Wages, per hour.-Wood room foreman, 76 cents; assistant foreman and knife changer and drum operators 56 cents; sawyers and oilers, 40 cents,

others 37 cents. Grinder-room foreman 76 cents; assistant foreman and jiggerman, 58 cents; others, 40 cents. Sulphite mill, Cooks, 83 cents; acid makers, 77 cents; stock runners, 65 cents; cook's first helper, 59 cents; cook's second helper, 40 cents; riffler men, 54 cents; others, 37 and 40 cents. Wet room:

foreman, 76 cents; others, 37 and 40 cents. Electrical Department: operators, 63 to 73 cents; motormen, 65 cents; wheelmen, 54 cents; No. 5 machine men (day) 70 cents; shift, 59 cents; motormen, 59 cents. Finishing room: foreman and head coremaker, 65 cents; electric trucker, 62 cents; others 37-40 cents. Steam plant, head fireman, 76 cents; engineers, 65 cents and 72 cents; coal crusher, 64 cents; fireman, 59 cents; others, 40 and 57 cents. Sanitary Department and miscellaneous: Store

man, 59 cents; bull gang, 40 cents; broke hustlers, 37 cents. Yard: Engineers and conductors, 76 cents; locomotive firemen and brakemen, 64 cents; teamsters 39 cents. Mechanical Department: minimum for mechanics, 65 cents, for mechanics, helpers, 54 cents.

If the privilege is granted to other companies by the union of withdrawing foreman from the union, this company is to share in the privilege.

Manufacturing-Clothing.

TORONTO, ONT. ASSOCIATED CLOTHING MANUFACTURERS AND THE AMALGAMATED CLOTHING WORKERS OF AMERICA. Agreement to be effective from May 1, 1922, to May 1, 1925, with ninety days' notice of amendment, abrogation or wage adjustment prior to May 1 in each year.

The union may at the time of any wage discussion bring up the question of an unemployment fund. In case of emergency in the market warranting a discussion of the wage scale during the second half of the first year of the agreement, question may be opened by

either side.

No strike, lockout, or stoppage of work to take place.

Hours per week: forty-four, with the exception of one term, in which case the hours will be forty.

Overtime to be dispensed with as far as possible. Necessary overtime to be paid time and a half, with double time on Dominion holidays.

Provision for a board of arbitration to settle controversies and grievances, expenses being borne by both parties.

The employees' association agrees to operate preferential union shops, union to supply additional help when required, and failing which employers may secure workers.

Union to be open to receive non-union workers and employers to place no

obstacles in the way of union recruiting new members.

Union undertakes, in co-operation with the employers, to organize and conduct an efficient employment office, a joint committee to enquire into operation of the same.

Three weeks to be a probationary period for new members regularly employed in the trade; for others five weeks.

Full power of discharge and discipline to be with employer; power to be exercised with justice. Union may investigate cases of discharge without cause and bring same before board of arbitration.

Employees absent from work more than a day without giving reason to, forfeit position. Workers absent through sickness to be reinstated.

A market contract shop committee to be established with power to make rules and regulations governing contract shops and in so far as possible work to go to shops accredited by the committee.

Manufacturers to have the privilege of developing workers through the apprentice system on a basis to be determined jointly.

Equal division of work to be observed as far as practicable in slack season, scales of production to be observed.

It is not the intention of the agreement to restrict output but to encourage maximum production and minimum cost.

Wages: per hour, qualified electrician, 80 cents; first class wireman, 60 cents; first class helper, 50 cents. Overtime: until midnight, time and one-half; thereafter, and legal holidays and Sundays, double time.

Local to furnish competent union help when required, otherwise non-union men may be employed.

Violation of agreed rules to be taken up by a joint committee.

Manufacturing-Food, Drink, Etc. LETHBRIDGE, ALTA. THE LETHBRIDGE BREWERIES, LIMITED, AND THE INTERNATIONAL UNION OF BREWERY, FLOUR, CEREAL AND SOFT DRINK WORKERS OF AMERICA, NO. 354. Agreement to be in effect from June 1, 1922, to May 31, 1923.

Only good standing union members to be employed; union secretary to supply help when necessary, otherwise necessary, otherwise during busy season (April 1 to October 1) extra help may be employed on permit cards at minimum wage rates, this not to cause lay-off of union men.

No discrimination for upholding union principles.

Hours per week, 48, 812 per day, with 52 on Saturdays. Work after regular hours or on Sundays or legal holidays, time and one-half.

Minimum wages: per hour-operating engineers, 79 cents with 8-hour shifts.

In brewing and bottling department, $34.50 and $36 per week; new men, first six months, $27; thereafter excepting soft drink department, $30; beer drivers per month, $140; teamsters, $115; hours (exclusive of stable work) 48 per week. Soft drink department men to receive not less than $20.

Company may put in one apprentice in each department. Apprentices to serve two years. Minimum wages per week: first year $18, second year $21.

In lay-off, extra men to be laid off first, then union men according to seniority.

Provision for a board of arbitration to settle differences.

Transportation-Water

ST. JOHN, N.B.-CERTAIN FIRMS AND INTERNATIONAL LONGSHOREMEN'S AssoCIATION, LOCAL No. 272, ScOWMEN AND LUMBER HANDLERS. Agreement to be in effect from May 1, 1922, to December 1, 1922.

Wages: per hour, 45 cents.
Hours per day, 9.

Men having been ordered out to work and finding their services not required, to be paid a minimum of two hours, except when weather conditions prevent working.

When working on Sundays and holidays, double time from midnight. No work on Labour Day. Overtime after 5 p.m. and after 12 noon on Saturdays; during summer, double time, except when culling, stamping or handling for surveyors alongside of ships, when ordinary rates shall prevail.

When required to work through meal hours, double time until relieved.

Number of men in gang to be at discretion of the foreman and not to be reduced during the day.

MONTREAL, QUE.-HARBOUR COMMISMONTREAL. Agreement to be in effect SIONERS AND THE HARBOUR UNION OF from May 1, 1922, to May 1, 1923, for

shops, yard, and elevator system, and for other employees, until the close of navigation season of 1922.

Wages, per hour-Construction work: Crane engineers, machinists (cranes) blacksmiths, joiners, construction locomotive engineers, concrete mix engineers, 55 cents; pavers, 50 cents; small concrete mixer, concrete mix runner, 52 cents; pile driver engineer, air compressor engineer, 47 cents; painters, 40 cents; roofers, iron workers, 45 cents: firemen, 38 cents; diver, 75 cents; diver's helpers, trackmen, blacksmith's helper, concrete men, track pavers, con

crete mix handlers, handymen, 36 cents; wharf labourers, 33 cents; dumpmen, sweepers, 32 cents; carters, $4.24 per day; teamsters, $6.50 per day. Grain Elevator system: Elevator No. 1 chief weighman, millwright, 58 cents; weighmen, assistant millwright, distributors, 53 cents; feed tenders, marine leg men, main towermen, 48 cents; machinery men, 47 cents; labourers, 32 cents. Elevator No. 2, weighmen, auto scalemen, distributors, trippermen, 53 cents; feed tenders, towerman, 48 cents; carpenters, 47 cents; oilers, 4212 cents; labourers, 32 cents. Shovellers and baggers: shovellers, 46 cents, sewers and scalemen and baggers, 422 cents. Conveyor system: millwright, 58 cents; rope splicer, 53 cents; feed tenders, main towerman, 48 cents; conveyormen, 421⁄2 cents; labourers, 32 cents. Harbour yards-machinists, blacksmiths, joiner, 55 cents; assistant plumber, 45 cents; handymen, blacksmith's helper, 36 cents; labourers, 32 cents. Machine shop and shipyard: gang steamfitter, 58 cents; boilergang maker, 60 cents; patternmaker, 55 and 60 cents; steamfitters, 47 and 55 cents; machinists, first class, sawyer, blacksmith, first class, 55 cents; boilermaker, 55 and 42 cents; riggers, 50 cents, machinists, second class, planers, engineers, 47 cents; carpenters, 45 cents; handymen, 36 cents; setters and filers, 38 cents; labourers, 32 cents. Dredging Fleet: Engineers, 54 and 63 cents, and by the month; cranemen, 52 cents; assistant engineers, 44 and 48 cents, and by the month; firemen, 38 cents and by the month; deckhands, 34 cents, and

by the month; oiler, 38 cents; handymen, 36 cents; others by the month. Round house: Mechanics, 42, 55 and 60 cents; helpers, 36 cents; apprentices, 32 cents. Electrical Department: linemen, 50 cents; power-house operators and winder, 45 cents; machinists, powerhouse floormen, motor tenders, arc lamp trimmers, assistant assistant operators, operators, 4212 cents; wiremen, 42 cents; hoistmen, 40 cents; wiremen's helpers, 35 cents; labourers and groundmen, 33 cents.

In case of one or more shifts, all work over ten hours, time and one-half. This rate to apply also on Sundays and certain legal holidays in emergency work. Day and night watchmen not to be entitled to overtime for Sundays and holidays.

THE SAME.

Public Utilities

PUBLIC UTILITIES LONDON, ONT. COMMISSION AND LINE EMPLOYEES OF Agreement to be in effect from June 1, 1922, to June 1, 1923, with thirty days' notice of termination. Minimum wages, per hour, foremen, 74 cents; journeymen, 66 cents; others, 50 and 60 cents; labourers, 40 cents.

Hours per day: Nine. The first five hours (until 10 p.m.) overtime, time and one-half; thereafter double time, Sundays and public holidays, double time.

Manager to receive a grievance committee, when satisfaction cannot be obtained from the superintendent.

The commission not to discriminate

against union men.

Promotion to be by seniority, other qualifications being equal.