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FROM PAGE TWO

THE WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER

“1.71 DELEGATED MEETING"

to the Prime Minister, Mini-
ster of Finance and all sympa-

thetic M.P.’s after the federal
election.

Other resolutions dealt
with demanded:

© A government post office at
Port Hardy.

© Improved mail service to
camps.

° A complaint be made to
the provincial government
over the poor ferry service.

e That the logging roads on
Northern Vancouver Island
be opened to the public
twenty-four hours a day.

A. number of speakers in-
cluding officers Ben Thomp-
son, Bob Pickering and Walter
Kozij, spoke on the resolution
submitted by M. & M. Log
Sorting which called for the
Local Union to reiterate its
support for the NDP.

Pickering pointed out that
nearly all the resolutions sub-
mitted, to be implemented
needed legislative action, and
that under the present federal
and provincial governments
the chances of this occurring

without a fight seemed vastly
remote.

NDP ONLY PARTY

Both Thompson and Kozij
suggested that the only party
which would give any con-
sideration to labour was the
NDP and it was absolutely
necessary for labour to see
that they were given the
chance to govern.

A resolution submitted by

~ Rayonier-Mahatta demanding

the abolition of Bills 43 and
33 were unanimously approv-
ed following a lively discus-
sion by the delegates which
left little doubt what they
thought of the Bills and the
government that had imple-
mented them.

Recognizing the need for
a more adequate strike fund,
the delegates unanimously ap-
proved a resolution submitted
by Lamford Cedar which
called for a strike fund assess-
ment of five dollars per mem-
ber per month until the fund
was sufficiently large, “to pay
every member as a matter of
right” in time of strike need.

Other important resolutions
dealt with called for:

RR,

TWO VERY HARD WORKING MEMBERS of the Local’s
office staff Frances Saunders, left, and Myrna Grovestein

preparing vouchers for the delegates. Seated
rdon Davis, business agent and Bill

are shown

© Dental care to be included
in medical coverage.

e The Local to oppose the
practise of commanies forc-
ing injured workmen to do
“light duty.”

° The elimination of certain
combination jobs.

e A feasibility study of a job
training programme for po-
tential boat operators.

OFFICERS’ REPORT

The comprehensive Officers’
Report stated that the healthy
financial position of the Local
indicated that a high level of
coverage and service could be
given to the members.

It went on to say;

“During the past year the
Local Union encountered a
higher than normal number
of grievances, (particularly in
the areas of seniority and dis-
missal), and experienced a
good degree of success in re-
solving these disputes in
favour of our members. The
reinstatement of discharged
members at Rayonier’s Ma-
hatta River operation was re-
ported fully in the pages of
the “Lumber Worker” and
serves as an example of the

type of grievances referred to
above.

“The Local Union was also
forced to proceed to arbitra-
tion on three separate in-
stances in order to fully pro-
tect the rights of the member-
ship. We take pleasure in re-
porting that in each of these
three cases the majority
award of the Arbitration
Board was an award in favour
of the Union and resulted in
Weldwood, Skoglund Logging
and Twinriver Timber being
responsible for considerable
lost time wages to our mem-
bers who were involved in
these grievances.

“At the time this is being
written, the Local is proceed-
ing to arbitration on a fourth
case involving improper pay-
ment of wages to one of our
members employed by Twin-
river Timber Ltd. in Terrace.

RATE REVISIONS

“Throughout the year the
Local was involved in a num-
ber of Company-Union nego-
tiations, the most notable of
which were revisions of rates
for operating Train Crew ca-
tegories in Canadian Forest
Products Englewood Logging
Division and agreement on

Falling and Bucking proce-
dures for fallers employed by
the same Company. Both of
the above-named examples
were resolved satisfactorily,
but negotiations between the
Local and Twinriver Timber
Ltd. on rates of pay for em-
ployees bucking timber felled
by the newly-introduced cat-
mounted “Tree Shearer” and
rates of pay for Loaders,
whose working conditions
were changed, have to date
not produced satisfactory re-
sults.

MAJOR PROBLEMS

“One of the past major
problem areas for loggers has
been firefighting procedures,
selection of firefighting crews,
rates of pay for firefighting,
definition of fires “out of con-
trol” as opposed to escaped
slash fires, etc., etc., and last
year proved no exception to
the rule. We are pleased to
report, however, that disputes
between the Union and both
Weldwood and Canadian For-
est Products on firefighting
rates of pay for large numbers
ef our members employed. at
Squamish and Englewood
were successfully processed
and resulted in adjustments
in wages to the people in-
volved amounting to several
thousands of dollars.”

Dealing with duties of the
officers and business agents,
the Report stated that Eugene
Ollenberger had resigned as
business agent and had been
replaced by Curtis Munson,
who will work in the Terrace
area.

The Report continued;

“Brother Bob Pickering,
(who most of you know has
been Skipper-Business Agent
on the “Green Gold” for
several years), did not take
the boat out this spring but
instead has been covering the
Queen Charlotte Islands and
Bella Coola and more recent-
ly the Northern part of the
mainland boat area and Bella
Coola. The present unstable
condition on assignments for
servicing camps will continue
until after we have concluded
our survey on servicing the
mainland camps, until Brother
Davis is available to work out
of Vancouver and certainly
until after the conclusion of

Coast Industry Negotiations
releases Brother Freer from

his duties on the Negotiating
Committee. In the meantime,

we shall continue to provide

the best possible service con-
sistent with our financial re-

sources and staff available to
us.

OFFICE
ADMINISTRATION
“Office administration of

membership problems with
Health and Welfare benefits,
Workmen’s Compensation
Board and Unemployment In-
surance have been handled
almost entirely by Brother W.
H. Wilson, (Secretary-Treas-
urer), and Brother Ben
Thompson, (First Vice-Presi-
dent), who have shared this
workload between themselves
in addition to other office
duties and servicing camps.

See “1-71” Page 4

“REGIONAL PRESIDENT Jack
gers of Bill 33 in relation to the

Moore spoke on the dan-
current coast negotiations.

To Moore’s right are Walter Kozij and Bob Pickering, and

seated behind is Ben Thompson.

IN SESSION

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