The United Worker

August & September 1948

August 1948 Page 2

Breach of Contract

What constitutes a breach of contract?
In June our representatives met with representatives of Pacific Mills Ltd. and negotiated a contract for the year May 1st, 1948 to April 30th , 1949. We received a few cents per hour more and some of us had visions of a trip to the "outside", but before the dream had ended the company learned the line for an all out drive to grab back those few cents and even more.

Store prices rose overnight and again at noon and nearly every night and noon. Rents which had been a topic of interest in the winter had nearly been forgotten. Soon after the new contract was negotiated the rents were headline news again and we all received notices of adjustment. Then came the news of the electricity price boost and now we have a boost in bunkhouse rents.

Since our economy is so closely related with everything on this side of the bridge, and the company has sole control over it all, it seems the policy of PML to neutralize with record speed any increase in our income. This is in fact even if not legally a breach of contract.

September 1948 Page 8

Stork Club

Stork Club's results were not published in the August issue, therefore we
now publish the births for July and August.

July 4 - girl - Mr. & Mrs. R. Roberts
July 6 - girl - Mr. & Mrs. R.J. Killen
July 12 - girl - Mrs. & Mrs. S. Young
July 14 - girl - girl - Mr. & Mrs. H. Wrench
July 14 - girl - Mr. & Mrs. E. Schneider
July 22 - boy - Mr. & Mrs. L.P. Bundy
July 24 - girl - Mr. & Mrs. E.J. Denno
July 29 - girl - Mr. & Mrs. S. Perinsie
Aug 3 - boy - Mr. & Mrs. M. Kent
Aug 3 - boy - Mr. & Mrs. W.R. White
Aug 6 - boy - Mr. & Mrs. K.R. Duval
Aug 8 - girl - Mr. & Mrs. R.H. Green
Aug 10 - boy - Mr. & Mrs. Lorne Chase
Aug 12 - boy - Mr. & Mrs. P.M. Gibalt
Aug 14 - boy - Mr. & Mrs H. Foley
Aug 25 - girl - Mr. & Mrs. E.C. Wilcox
Aug 26 - boy - Mr. & Mrs. J. Mc Gillawee


World in Your Garden by James W. Haworth

The summer in Ocean Falls this year has been markedly dry and warm and many flowers have bloomed for us which failed to show up in previous years

Almost every garden around town has a clump of Tritonias growing in it. These Africaners have adapted themselves to conditions far removed from their native habitat, and we have admired daily the splendid showing in the garden of house 540. Here, their rich warm colors blend delightfully with the tones of their near relatives the Gladioli. Quite a gay African colony the Kinnairds have in their garden.

On the same corner we turn to house 538 and admire the many colored Phlox growing in the garden. On the veranda of this same house, the home of the Andersons, is a most gorgeous display of Begonias, a native of South America, India, Malay and the East Indies.