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 if 1S 0% w | stat 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