changes.

his fellow workers and mem-

bers of his organization.

In working with the Director
of the Parksville School, your
Regional Officers and Interna-
tional educational staff thought
it would be very worthwhile to
have a week-long school solely
directed to our own IWA mem-
bership. We would be looking
at the needs of our own organ-
ization.

There is going to be a four-
week program in 1976, starting
Feb. 15-20, 22-27, 29-5 March,
and March 7-12, 1976. ;

As you can see, there will be
four separate week-long edu-
cational programs. Each week
there will be different courses
dealing with various subjects

Sunday, March 7

FROM PAGE ONE
“EDITORIAL”

pointment to labour minister. Labour had its
fill with lawyers and the courts under the old
Socred administration.

Barrett’s NDP government recognized this
when it revamped the Labour Code. Less
emphasis was made of the courts and lawyers
and more responsibility given to the Lab-
our Board. While the Code is still not per-
fect, it has_.given labour and management
for the first time, sound guidelines to strive for
a better industrial climate. We trust Mr.
Williams will refrain from making any drastic

To do so would destroy any credibility the
government may have with labour and would
almost certainly pave the way for industrial
chaos in the province.

THE WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER

of interest. Brochures will be
sent out by the CLC describing
the various courses, schedules,
etc. These courses are open to
our members, and registra-
tions may be made through the
office of the CLC in Vancouver.

Registration Fee and details
of accommodation, etc. will be
made available to the various
Local offices.

On the week of March 7-12 we
have, as previously indicated,
set up our own IWA Leadership
School styled to the needs of
our own members. As you can
see by the proposed schedule,
we are attempting to cover
those items in which there
seems to be much more in-
terest by our members. It is a
program stylized to our own

PLANT
ADMITS

DEATH BLAME

Canadian Copper Refinets
Ltd. of Montreal East has
blamed its plant’s ventilation
system for arsine gas poison-
ing deaths of two workers.

The company said its ven-
filation system had redirected
exhaust gases containing the
deadly copper refining bypro-
duct back into the factory air
supply.

The general manager of the
plant which employs 1,600
men, said the company
“blames itself for not relating
the. two apparently isolated
arsine gas incidents earlier in
1974’’ which might have
identified the potential hazard

- that caused the recent deaths.

AINAR”

particular needs, and should be
of interest to our leadership
and potential leaders. It is
hoped that we would be able to
look after 40-50 people, so with
that in mind, we propose to
split them into two groups of
20-25° people for each of the
sessions. I have been very for-
tunate in having the assistance
of the International Staff and
Regional Staff in developing
this week-long school. We think
it will provide us all with a very
worthwhile experience. An ex-
perience that will prove of
great benefit to ourselves in
the development of our educa-
tion, the results of which we
hope will be used to the benefit
of our members and our organ-
ization and community.

IWA LEADERSHIP SCHOOL

6:00 - 7:30 p.m. — Registration

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7:30 - 9:30 p.m. — General Session: Know Your IWA

Monday, March 8
9:00 - 12:00 a.m. — Parliamentary Procedure & Public Speaking
Instructor: Frank Wall, Region I Education Director
1:30 - 5:00 p.m. — Parliamentary Procedure & Public Speaking (continued)
7:30 - 9:30 p.m. — General Session: The B.C. Federation of Labour

Tuesday, March 9
9:00 - 12:00 p.m. — Group 1: Pensions
Instructors: Jack Washburn, Region I Pension Director
Denny Scott, International Research Economist
Group 2: Economics of the Forest Products Industry
Instructor: Doug Smyth, Int’]. Research & Education Assoc.
1:30 - 5:00p.m. — Group 1: Economics of the Forest Products Industry
Group 2: Pensions
7:30 - 9:30 p.m. — General Session: The Canadian Labour Congress

Wednesday, March 10
9:00 - 12:00 a.m. — Group 1: Occupational Safety & Health

Instructors: Max Salter, Region I Safety Director

Denny Scott, International Research Economist
Group 2: Economics of Collective Bargaining
Instructor: Roy Ockert, Int’l. R. & E. Coordinator
1:30 - 5:00 p.m. — Group 1: Economics of Collective Bargaining
Group 2: Occupational Safety & Health
7:30 - 9:30 p.m. — General Session: International Affairs and Citizenship

Thursday, March 11
9:00 - 12:00 a.m. — Group 1: Arbitration & Contract Analysis

Instructor: Dick Spohn, Int’]. R. & E. Ass’t. Coordinator
Group 2: Job Evaluation & Rate Determination
Instructor: , Region I Job Evaluator
1:30 - 5:00 p.m. — Group 1: Job Evaluation & Rate Determination
Group 2: Arbitration & Contract Analysis
7:30 - ?? p.m. — Social Evening
Friday, March 12 : ;
9:00 - 12:00a.m. — Making a Press Release: Public Relations & the Media
: Instructors: Pat Kerr, Editor, the Lumber Worker
Tom Fawkes, Region I Public Relations Director
12:00 - 12:30 p.m. — General Session: Closing Events

Millions of working Canadians.

DEC. 1975 - JAN. 1976

The above poster has been published by the Canadian Labour
Congress as part of its campaign of protest over the federal gov-
ernment’s legislation to impose a three-year control on wages.
The CLC is highly critical of the legislation which it charges will
only hurt the wage earner and people on low incomes.

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“UNIONS IN CANADA”
| TOP RATE READING

By ROY LaBERGE

The Story of Unions in
Canada, by Jack Williams,
Toronto, Dent, 1975, 252 pp.,
$4.50 paperback

When Jack Williams retired
as director of public relations
for the Canadian Labour Con-
gress in 1972, he promised to
write a history of Canadian
labour. He has kept that
promise and, through The
Story of Unions in Canada, is
continuing to interpret organ-
ized labour to the public, a task
he first took on in 1946 when he
became director of public rela-
tions for the old Canadian Con-
gress of Labour.

He has written a history that
veteran trade unionists will
enjoy reading, for it tells
abour’s story accurately and
well. But it is also excellent
reading for people not in the
union movement. For
Williams, good journalist that
he is, has defined his terms for
the person who does not under-
stand the complicated world of
industrial relations.

While his chapters on early
union history are informative
and interesting, Williams is at
his best when he relates history
of which he himself was a part:
labour’s struggles with the
Communist Party of Canada
(under a variety of names) in
the 1940s, the founding of the
CLC, and the founding of the
New Democratic Party. His is
an insider’s view, and is much
less simplistic than that of
many other writers who have

tried to describe these develop-
ments.

Williams’ critics may make
much of his near-neglect of the
Confederation of National
Trade Unions, which is men-
tioned in only a few sentences,
although he is much more
generous to its predecessor,
the Canadian and Catholic
Confederation of Labour. He
will also likely be criticized by
some for devoting only one
paragraph to the contempor-
ary question of Canadian
autonomy in international
unions — an issue that aroused
a storm of controversy at the
1974 CLC convention. However,
he may merely be recognizing
that the convention debate was
vastly disproportionate to the
extent of the problem.

Understanding of what
unions are all about would
increase if this informative
work were read by the many
Canadians who have been
victims of some of the naive
polemics that have been
passed off on the public as des-
criptions of the Canadian
labour movement.

REVIEW RULES

No matter how long you’ve
been on the job a periodic
review of the safety rules won’t
hurt anything — in fact, it
might even keep you from get-
ting hurt. 3

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