< THE WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER | THE WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER 38,000 copies printed in this issue, Published twice monthly as the official publication of the INTERNATIONAL WOQDWORKERS OF AMERICA Western Canadian Regional Council No. 1 Affiliated with AFL-CIO-CLC 2859 Commercial Drive, Vancouver, B.C. Phone 874-5261 Editor — Pat Kerr Business Manager — Fred Fieber ‘Advertising Representatives — Elizabeth Spencer Associates Forwarded to every member of the IWA in Western Canada in accordance with convention decisions. Subscription rate for non-members $2.00 per year. Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post.Office Department, and for payment of postage in cash. eae 2 EDITORIAL NOT WORTH THE GAMBLE Scveume during the weekend of July 6th, the IWA Negotiating Com- mittee wrested from Forest Industrial Relations Lid. a substantial offer that in- cluded a 36 cent wage increase over two years and several important fringe benefits. The offer did not completely satisfy the Committee — no offer and no settle- ment ever does. So the Committee did what they had to do. They secured the benefits already won in weeks of tough negotiations, and. tried to get more. The time left for them to improve the offer was limited by the strike dead- line of 4:00 p.m. Wednesday, July 10th. Had no agreement been reached by that time, Local 1-71 members would have. struck, and thousands of workers throughout the industry, impatient at the long delay in reaching a_ settlement, would have followed them. Thus the Committee faced the pros- pect of a widespread. strike over one week’s holiday for a small percentage of its members. Having won already one of the best wage increases in the history of the IWA, and having settled every other matter before them, the Committee rightly de- cided that a widespread strike over that issue would have been intolerable. The IWA is not accustomed to settling their own disputes — in fact, given mem- bership approval, this will be the first set of Coast negotiations ever settled without a third party. Settlements are never completely sat- isfactory. Some discontent is an essential ingredient for a healthy union. Since we managed this time to go it alone, we don’t have government officials WHICH ONE OF YOU GUYS IS FOREMAN? ON THE LIGHTER SIDE or judges to blame for that discontent, and we have to blame one another. But we must all realize that had the Overheard in a traffic jam: The most fascinating thing about the auto industry is where do they find those When you're out to paint the town — don’t live it up so much that you have to live it down. sought-for improvements in_ holidays been achieved, the same criticism would be made for not achieving even more. Critics of the settlement, whether in- side or outside the union, have this fact to account for — if the gains of the pro- posal are secured by membership ap- proval, Coast Locals of the IWA will have the highest base rate of any woodwork- ers in the world. If ‘so called’ mistakes made at the bargaining table can account for that, then we should have more such mistakes. * cials on. empty roads to film commer- A Oya a ee ke Chokerman Charlie says if Kamloops Katie says that you want to know how your most girls don’t mind sharing girl will treat you after mar- a man’s lot. The problem is_ riage, just listen to her talk- finding a guy who’s got a lot. ing to her little brother. This ady ent is not published or displayed by the Liquor Control Board or by the Government of British Columbia. | Naha aoe beer $20,000,000 STRIKE CREDIT FOR PILOTS Air Canada pilots have est- ablished $3,500,000 credit with a Chicago bank for use as a strike fund in negotia- tions with the national airline. Besides the possibility of a strike by the 1,100 pilots this summer, air transport also faces the threat that 1,000 air DON DUNPHY LONG-TIME Steel representative Don Dunphy has been appointed B.C. and Yukon area supervisor for his union to replace the for- mer area supervisor Ben Baskin, who resigned to accept the $40,000 a year mediation job with the B.C. government. traffic controllers will walk out by the end of August. Cleve Kidd, executive vice- president of the Canadian Air Line Pilots Association, said the credit established with La Salle National Bank is bol- stered by additional lines of credit of up to $20,000,000. La Salle National Bank .in ; 1966 extended credit to Unit- ed Air Lines pilots in the United States. The Air Canada pilots are seeking parity with U.S. pilots. They say they average less than 80 per cent of U.S. salaries. Moreover, the Cana- dians have contracts for 85 hours’ flying a month while some U.S. lines work on a 75- hour month. Mr. Kidd said the average wage for Air Canada pilots with three or more years’ ser- vice is $17,000 a year. How- ever, there are 400 pilots re- ceiving between $600 and $700 a month. They include second officers on DC-8 jet- liners receiving $650 to $700. U.S. second officers in the same type of plane get two to three times as much, he said. The union is also seeking improvements in the time al- lowed for crews to rest. It wants the present 14 hours’ maximum duty time to in- clude time spent on necessary duties at the airport after landing. Some pilots have only five or six hours to sleep, although government regula- tions require rest of nine and a quarter hours. A strike by the Canadian Air Traffic Control Associa- tion, would stop all airline flights in Canada and also cripple military air traffic and flights over the North Atlan- tic between the U.S. and Europe. CATCA also thinks its members are overworked in their demanding and tense jobs. It seeks reduction of the work week from 40 to 37% hours and strict limitation of overtime. The controllers want a 20 per cent wage increase from the Department of Transport. Senior controllers get a top wage of $11,000, while train- ees receive $3,600. CATCA president John David Lyon accused the Treasury Board of not being “seriously interested in work- ing toward a solution.” He said talks had gone on since January but management had given no serious discussion to the money questions. CATCA applied to the Pub- lic Service Staff Relations Board for appointment of a conciliation board in the dis- pute. . this popular...