NOVEMBER, 1970

These advertisements ap-
peared in the Interior papers
while Moore was heading up
negotiations in the Northern
Interior, and caused violent
resentment among the Inter-
ior members resulting in their
supporting Moore almost one
hundred percent.

The anti - administration
group, bitter over Moore’s re-
election, still refuse to accept

THE WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER

the fact that the majority of
the members in Regional
Council No. 1 consider him
the best man for president.

They are now waging a
propaganda campaign against
the Interior Local Unions
claiming their ignorance re-
elected Moore and that per-
haps the Interior members are
being misguided ‘by incompe-
tent Local officers.

What they fail to realize is
that the Regional Council is
made up of seventeen Local
Unions, each of which is as
important as the other and to
fight this kind of battle by at-
tempting to create a rift bet-
ween the Coast and Interior

members is doing immeasur- |

able harm to the Union and
could result in fragmenting
the organization.

SN aS Ed

WYMAN TRINEER
RE-ELECTED

TO COUNCIL

Wyman Trineer, the new 1st
Vice-President of the Regional
Council, was re-elected
president of the New West-
minster Labour Council Oc-
tober 28.

The ist Vice-President of
Local 1-357 John Hachey was
elected Council Secretary.
Others elected were Don
Garcia, Wayne Brazeau and
Frank Walden.

NEW DUES
STRUCTURE

Officers of Local 1-80 Dun-
can were re-elected by ac-
clamation at the Local’s An-
nual Meeting October 24. Of-
ficers re-elected were:

Weldon Jubenville, Presi-
dent; Fernie Viala, 1st Vice-
President; Jack Mumm, 2nd
Vice-President; Hugh Robin-
son, 3rd Vice-President; Ed-
win Linder, Financial Secre-
tary; Carl Stevens, Recording
Secretary; Louis Zuccolini,
Warden; William Komo, Con-
ductor.

Jagir Gill was elected the
Six-Year Trustee.

At the meeting the officers
reported that the formula put
out to a referendum ballot on
changing the dues structure,
was approved by a 64.9%
majority,

The formula ties the month-
ly dues to the industry’s ba-
sie wage. As the base rate is
negotiated upward each year,
the dues will stay at two
hours a month at each new
base rate.

President Jubenville in an-
nouncing the result of the

vote stated, “In my opinion
this is a realistic method of
financing our Union from
year to year and will elimin-
ate, once and for all, the ne-
cessity of costly balloting to
increase the ie: ,

ONE MILLION JOBLESS

One million Canadian
workers face the bleak
prospect of being jobless by
February, 1971, if the
predictions of the Canadian
Labour Congress are borne
out.

CLC President Donald
Macdonald told delegates to
the B.C. Federation of Labour
Convention in Vancouver, that
nine percent of the Canadian
labour force could be unem-

CLC UMPIRE
BACKS IWA

IN DISPUTE

H. Carl Goldenberg, the
impartial umpire for the
Canadian Labour Congress has
ruled that the Laborers In-
ternational Union violated the
CLC’s Constitution in at-
tempting to take over IWA
operations in Saskatchewan.

IWA International Assistant
Director of Organization Bob
Schlosser and Regional 2nd
Vice-President Jack Munro
presented the raiding charges
at a hearing held in Montreal.

In upholding the IWA
position, Goldenberg stated he
found the LIU “knowingly
violated’? the CLC _ con-
stitutional provision ‘which
protects the established
collective bargaining
relationships of CLC af-
filiates.” (The IWA and LIU
are both CLC affiliates.)

Operations involved in the
dispute are the Northern Wood
Preservers in Prince Albert
and the timber board division
of Saskatchewan Forest
Products in Meadow Lake,
affecting a total of 54 workers.

Local 1-184 has_ held
bargaining rights at these two
operations since 1953. The
Laborers last summer at-
tempted to raid the two
operations and representation
elections were held by the
Saskatchewan Labour
Relations Board, resulting in
the IWA winning by a wide
margin.

Bob Schlosser, in reporting
on Goldenberg’s decision,
pointed out that few workers in
Saskatchewan are organized,
especially in the Laborer’s
field, and that that Union
would be better to concentrate
on organizing the unorganized
instead of raiding other af-
filiates.

PREDICTED FOR CANADA

ployed by next February and
that some observers believed it
could be as high as 11 percent.

The Dominion Bureau of
Statistics. reported that
unemployment in British
Columbia alone increased
11,000 in October from Sep-
tember. Labour experts point
out that many more thousands
will be added to this list after
Christmas when  unem-
ployment always skyrockets.

In attempting to alleviate
this serious problem, the CLC
in its brief to the Senate
Committee on Poverty, stated
that solving the unemployment
problem was essential to
relieving poverty.

The -brief charged that
Canada’s high unemployment
rates of the last few years
created an environment which
not only breeds poverty but
renders comparatively inef-
fective those measures
designed to equip the poten-
tially unemployable with the
skills and education necessary
to succeed in the labour

~~market.

“It makes little sense to
improve the skills of the un-
skilled or to upgrade the
education of the uneducated, if
they are only to be confronted
with the lack of job  op-
portunities,” the brief stated.

Congress in its brief called
on the Committee to set up
highly specialized manpower
programmes with much better
information on employment
opportunities and more ef-
fective counselling as well as
improved training facilities
and mobility measures.

WA 2
THS OPERATION

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LOCAL 1-367 MEMBERS employed at the Malakwa Cedar
Products mill at Ruskin, are shown here picketing the
plant after the owner refused to honour the terms nego-
tiated in the Coast Master Agreement. Group left, Art
Stark, Local 1-367 First Vice-President; Nelson Whatley,

Philip Stephenson, Ken Hinch, Frank -Sprieszl,

Sprieszl, Arvid Merriman.

Friggos

IWA MEMBERS STRIKE
OVER RETROACTIVE PAY

IWA members employed at
the Malakwa Cedar Products
mill at Ruskin, struck the op-
eration October 20, following
refusal of the owner to pay
the retroactive money nego-
tiated in the Coast Master
Agreement.

The company, which is not
a member of Forest Industrial
Relations, has agreed to ful-
fill the contract agreement to
employees hired on an hourly
basis but has refused to hon-

our the terms of the agree-
ment as far as piece workers
are concerned.

Included among the twenty-
one employees of the mill are
shingle sawyers, resaw saw-
yers and packers, all . piece

’ workers.

Local 1-367 President Mor-
ris Nordblad, whose Local
holds certification for the mill,
states that the crew is deter-
mined to keep the plant down
until the owner lives up to
the terms of the Agreement.

LEED SESE Sh SEMEN RECT IG ERE EES,

UNEMPLOYED STAGE

Unemployed unionists forced
Premier Bennett to abandon
plans to open the new Douglas
College in New Westminster,
November 19, by staging a
protest on unemployment at
the College site.

The protest demonstration
was proposed by the delegates
of the Vancouver Labour

Council November 18,
following discussion on
Canada’s critical unem-

ployment problem.

The Council also endorsed
the sending of a telegram to
Prime Minister Trudeau
calling for immediate action to
alleviate the problem.

- programs,

MARCH ON COLLEGE

Following is the text of the
telegram:

“Unemployment in B.C. is
becoming extremely serious as
it.is in the rest of Canada.

“The Vancouver Labour
Council insists the federal
government, in co-operation
with provincial and municipal
governments, immediately
implement a crash program to
get the economy moving.”

The Council also called for a
winter works program, a quick
start of all federal building
the reduction of
interest rates and taxes and an
increase in the old age pen-
sions.

Savings

CANADIAN ae Pe OF COMMERCE