“named,

Fede I Must Go!

‘On Monday evening, January

llth, 1960, the most

obvious attempt to balloon an employee, blew up in the

of MacMillan and Bloedel.
On the weekend of January 9th,
1960, Henry Fedje, of Fedje and
Gunderson, arrived in Kennedy
Lake and with his brother, Harold,
pseudo-bull bucker in Kennedy
Lake Division, went out to the
woods, and alleged to have check
scaled Jim Harkness, scaler super-
visor for MacMillan and Bloedel.
They returned to camp and
insisted that Harkness was scaling
30% over. As a result of their
jnsistance, Ken Baird, Camp
Supervisor, with Lacouvee, one-
time assistant bull bucker, again
went out to the woods with
Harold Fedje and again check
scaled Harkness, and continued to
insist that he was scaling 30%
over,

Harkness Fired

Quitting time Monday, Hark-
ness was discharged as scaler by
Baird, who apparently then re-
lented and offered Harkness a
checkerman’s job. Harkness re-
quested that he then be shown
where he was scaling 30% over
and his request was denied. The
fallers insisted that Harkness was
on scale and refused to lay any
more timber down in the quarters
until a check scale could be con-
ducted.

On Sunday, January 17th,
Allen, Local Union President, and
Ingram, Business Agent, together
with Sam Rogers, supervisor
sealer from Sproat Lake Division,
flew into Kennedy Lake Opera-
tion. The head office of Mac-
Millan and Bloedel was represen-
ted by G. Towill, Assistant
Manager of Personnel of Indust-
rial Relations Department, and J.
Addison, Head Office Special
Projects Forestry. In the meeting
at Kennedy Lake, the above-
together with Camp
Management, plus G. Slater and
R. Cooke of the Camp Committee,
reached agreement as to the man-
ner in which the check scale would
be conducted,

It was agreed that Rogers and
Addison would be conducting the
check scale and would keep one
scale card jointly. It was also
agreed that .any logs on which
they could not agree would not be
scaled and the corresponding log
on Harkness’ scale card which was
in question would be withdrawn
from. the tally. It was further
agreed that Harkness would go
with Addison and Roger~ to be

Printers of

THE B.C.
LUMBER WORKER

- faces of Camp Management in the Kennedy = Operation

sure it was the pokes in ques-
tion that were scaled, and that
Management would also send one
observer.

Scale Check

Addison and Rogers spent eight
hours on Monday, January 18th,
scaling 47 trees of the 60 which
were on Harkness’s scale card.
Addison and Rogers disagreed on
only two trees. The result of the
check scale was as follows:

Harkness tally of
the trees scaled.. 41,429 f.b.m.

Check Scale 41,131 f.b.m.
Variance in Scale -... .7 of 1%

In a meeting between Union
and Management following the
conducting of the check scale,
Management agreed to a complete
reinstatement of Harkness, as a
Supervisor Scaler, without loss of
pay for time spent at home be-
tween mornings of January 12th
and January 19th.

Haywire Show

Fedje and Gunderson have had
a contract in Kennedy Lake to
supply saws and falling and buck-
ing supervision for approximately
the past six months, and it has
been a haywire show ever since
they moved in. Arguments have
developed over the fallers not
being paid for snags, windfalls,
rigging cuts, and topping trees.
As a result, rigging crews have
moved into quarters and further
arguments developed because rig-

ging cuts, etc., have not been
made.
The Company contend that

but
admit that

Fedje is paid on bush scale,
On questioning they
certain checks and balances are
maintained between bush scale
and water scale, so that obviously
water scale is the governing
factor. Fallers’ earnings have
gone down, and check scales of
the type run on Harkness are be-
ing continuously conducted.

Own Crew

It is apparent that Fedje intends
placing his own scalers in these
operations where he has falling
and bucking contracts. In the case
of Kennedy Lake, he did hire a
workman who was completely
unfamiliar with scaling or falling
and bucking practices, and pro-
ceeded to train him “a la Fedje”
in .the methods of scaling timber.
This workman was maintained on
Fedje’s payroll while scaling
Kennedy Lake employees.

The Company has now agreed
that the workman must become
an employee of Kennedy Lake

, eS eek

LUMBER WORKER
apd

MALAYAN STUDENTS M. P. Gopal Rajah, Nuruddin Bin Maaroff, Ong Yoke Fong; and P. S. Maniam, study-

ing in Canada under the Colombo Plan, are seen here with Tom Gooderham, CLC Regional Director at the
4th Annual CLC Staff Conference and Winter School in Parksville, Vancouver Island.

Division Operation and seniority
will be dated, as to the time he
appeared at the Kennedy Lake
Operation.

Tahsis Camps
and Gunderson,
first employed as falling and
bucking contractors in Loca!
1-85, appeared in the Tahsis Log-
ging Camps up the coast. They
have now crept into Kennedy

Fedje when

Lake. Wherever they go, prob-
lems develop with falling and
bucking crews.

The big Companies long ago

developed highly efficient falling
and bucking departments and the
only way Fedje and Gunderson
could make a falling and bucking
contract operate to their financial
advantage, is on the basis of chisel,
and since the Companies are in a
position to protect themselves, the
fallers and buckers take the rap.
If the fallers at Kennedy
had allowed Harold and Henry
Fedje to balloon Harkness out of
camp, then it should be obvious,
they would be falling at a 30%
cut on their scale.

There is no room in this in-
dustry for shyster contractors to
be riding on the backs of wood-
workers. It is high time Fedje
and Gunderson were chased out

of the woods.
Submitted by Local 1-85, IWA

Symbol of Good Baking

FRESH

DAILY

at your favourite food store

!

Lake |“

‘Real “fancy dan”

Safety program

Camp Management of the
Franklin River Division of
MacMillan and Bloedel are cur-
rently ready to launch a real
“Fancy Dan” Safety Pro-
gramme. Included in the pro-
gramme is a notice board with
pretty coloured lights, inter-
views of workmen, induction of
workmen and re-interviews of
workrnen. Real Fancy.

The action of camp manage-
ment over the past several months,
however, clearly indicates that it
is a “talking”
in which they are interested. The

practicing” of safety is being
ignored.

Roads Icy

On Thursday, January 14th,

roads in Franklin River were icy.
The logging ‘truck, HO3, slid the
front end over the bank at Spur
6. A loaded gravel truck had to
spread gravel before it could be
used to pull the logging truck
back on the road. At Spur 5, the
H100 loaded with logs slipped its
trailer over a fill. The H123
loaded with logs was employed to
pull it back on the road after the
grayel truck again spread gravel.

The H47 loaded with logs came
down out of the same area, lost
its booster brakes, but the driver
succeeded in keeping it on the
road, and managed because of
adverse grade to get the load into

New Westminster

safety programme’

CREDIT UNION DIRECTORY

IWA Credit Unions and other Credit Unions
supported by IWA Local Unions in B.C.

Alberni District Credit Union, 209 Argyle Street, Port Alberni
IWA 1-217 Savings, Broadway & Quebec Streets, Vancouver 10
IWA (N.W.) Credit Union, Room 21, 774 Columbia Street,

Local 1-118, IWA (Victoria), 904 Gordon Street, Victoria
Chemainus & District Credit Union, Box 229, Chemainus
Lake Cowichan and District Credit Union, Lake Cowichan, B.C.
Courtenay Credit Union, Box 952, Courtenay

Duncan & District Credit Union, Box 1717, Duncan

Prince George & District, 1046 - 4th Avenue, Prince George
Nanaimo & District Credit Union, 499 Wallace St., Nanaimo
Ladysmith & District Credit Union, Box 154, Ladysmith,

camp. The booster brakes were
fixed and the H47 proceeded to
the log dump.

Driver Protested ;

On returning to camp, the,
driver of the H47 requested that
the clutch be checked, and the
truck foreman told him to take
the H22. The H22 is an old Mack
Truck, notorious for having a
tendency to bunk bind, The driver
in question protested at having to
take this truck out on icy roads,
and stated that rather than take
such a truck, in view of having
had one scare, he would rather

call it a day for that shift.
Shortly after, another driver
who is just completing trainee

driver programme was instructed
to take the H22. He protested,
but finally gave in, and because
he did not have an accident with
the H22, Management insists that
it was safe to be taken on icy
roads.
Driver Gone

The driver who would not take
the H22 on the icy roads, is no
longer an employee of Franklin
River through no choice of his
own. The Local. Union has failed
to convince Management that he
should be reinstated. This is the
second case of an employee losing

employment for “practicing”
safety’ while Franklin River '
Management “preaches.”

Submitted by Local 1-85, IWA

B.C,