THE WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER AL BUSCH TONY VANDERHEIDE PLYWOOD SEMINAR A successful two-day Con- ference and Seminar on Ply- wood Evaluation was held in Kamloops on May 27-28, attended by Local Union of- ficers and plywood Plant Committee delegates from the four Interior Locals. The course was given by the two Regional Evaluators, Tony Wanderheide and Al Busch. The subjects included History of Evaluation, the Evaluation Manual, Admin- istration, contract clauses governing evaluation, and the responsibilities of the Plant Job Review Committee Mem- bers. The general discussion at the end of the seminar indi- tion in the plywood industry. QOUUYUUAUOUAYETAUEUTNOUAUOUAUEUAUEECGUEOAUEUEEAUEOOEEUEU AUGUSTO ~AUOUUVOUUVUOUUTOUUUOEALU ALTA B.C. AIR LINES NEW SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT In addition to points regularly served such as Tahsis, Zeballos, Ocean Falls and Bella Coola, B.C. Air Lines are pleased to announce expanded and new services to this part of their sys- tem. The new routes will provide fast convenient service fo the expanding industries in the areas concerned. EXPANDED SERVICE BETWEEN VANCOUVER - PORT ALBERNI TOFINO - VANCOUVER NEW SERVICES BETWEEN VANCOUVER - GOLD RIVER - VANCOUVER VANCOUVER - NAMU - OCEAN FALLS VANCOUVER (Serving the additional point of Namu) For full flight information contact your B.C.A. Agent bca® B.C. AIR LINES LIMITED The Right Sized Airline TOUUUULNOUUUUUUOUAUAUUAA ss “NO PEACHES AND CREAM" By ROD BEATON President, Local 1-288 During our negotiations, where the battle raged over leasing out of our Grade Stamps, the Company repre- sentatives, through F.IR,, said that by leasing out the stamps it would create more business and more work for the inspectors, everything would be peaches and cream, the inspectors had nothing to worry about. Well, so much for the peaches and cream, it is turn- ing out to be a bushel of sour grapes. It is now four months since the agreement was signed and they -had a free hand in the Interior, to lease out the stamps; as a result, we have lost six steady jobs, and every indication is we will lose more. The puzzling part of this, is that of the four operations where we were dropped, only one picked up the Licensed Grade Stamps of the P.L.1.B. The others reverted to Inter- ior Agencies. We wonder what questions the Board of Directors of the P.L.LB., who are mainly coast operators, are asking those people who sold them the bill of goods, that if they leased out the P.L.I.B. Stamps, they would have all the business they could handle. Yes, the Interior operators would be quick to take the P.LIB. Stamp without an Inspector; = 2 See SEE HIS WAR WON we wonder why they are not biting. Maybe they should look into the Hearings now taking place in Washington, D.C., over fraudulent lumber grad- ing practices on the Atlantic coast, in respect to BC. lumber. ROD BEATON The hearings have brought out that the Pacific Lumber Inspection Bureau is the only agency recognized by the American Lumber Standards Committee, Why haven't all the other agencies in B.C. been recognized, maybe it was because of the phoney set up of by-laws the Cana- dian Lumber Standards Com- mittee concocted which are Tom Kent, one of Mike Pearson’s brain trust, has been appointed chief of the federal government’s War on Poverty program. His salary is $25 thousand a year. Cracked Opposition Leader John Diefenbaker, “He cer- YA KNOW GUS... MOVIN’ FIRE PUMPS AIN’T NOTHIN’... IF A tainly won his war on poverty.” FELLA USES HIS HEAD! IWA not acceptable to their Ameri- — can counterpart. The Inspectors will con- tinue to fight to maintain In- dependent P.L.I.B. Inspec- tion, and are preparing to ad- vertise in Atlantic Coast Papers and Trade magazines, to get the buyers to demand P.LIB. Certificates on all shipments. They will ask the American Housing Authority to insist that all lumber be grade stamped at point of origin by Inspectors not in the employ of the mill pro- ducing the lumber. The Inspectors in the in- dustry have co-operated over the years and kept up with changes, but as the operators’ negotiators have said time and again, that the tail is not going to wag the dog; at the same time, as long as the tail wagged once in awhile no- body paid any attention to it;. if it failed to wag they would give it a kick to see if it had any life in it and then let it go its merry way. The result has been that they have listened to people who take the line of least re- sistance and have not the gumption to plan, or the fore- sight to make the P.LIB. into an efficient and flexible organization which would benefit the whole industry and maintain the reputation | the P.L.I.B. has had over the years and can continue to have with proper guidance. ELECTIONS WILLIAMS LAKE Sub- Local of Local 1-424 IWA elected the following officers at its Annual Meeting May 9: Chairman, Ed Baker; Al- ternate Chairman, George DeJonckheere; Warden, Ken Ducklow; Sergeant-At-Arms, Chester Qualey.