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THE WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER

NEW GREEN GOLD V now being built for Local 1-71 (the
loggers’ Local) to service the membership in the logging
camps of the Jervis Inlet — Seymour Inlet areas. The new
vessel is replacing Green Gold IV which is no longer sea
worthy. The phofo shows the Green Gold under construction
August 1. It is expected to be in service October 15.

Officers of Local 1-71 have
announced that as a result of
the new improved dues
structure approved by the
membership in the recent

referendum ballot, the Local -

Union now has sufficient funds
to replace the present Green
Gold boat.

The Green Gold has plied the
coastal waters of Jervis Inlet
to Seymour Inlet for years
servicing the members of
Local 1-71. Each trip would
take four weeks to complete in
covering over twenty-two
hundred water miles between
the approximately forty IWA -
logging camps in the area.

The new Green Gold V
commissioned by the Local is

a Tri-Cabin cruiser con-
structed of fiber glass. Its
length is 33 feet with a ten foot
beam, and a displacement hull.
It will be powered by a 140 H.P.
Penta Diesel engine which will
give it a top speed of ten knots

Its skipper, Bill Hutchison
from Twin River Timber in
Terrace, states that for the
first time the officers of the
Local Union have been in a
financial position to order a
vessel with the specifications
necessary to sail the rugged
and rough coastal waters.

Green Gold V is expected to
be ready for use by October 15
and will cover the same camps
as its predecessor Green Gold
IV.

GUILD PRESIDENT

MOVED FROM LABOUR BEAT

TORONTO (CPA) — The
Toronto Telegram’s labor
reporter, Marc Zwelling, has
been removed from his
assignment because he is also

resident of the Toronto

ewspaper Guild. He had the
beat 2% years.

Telegram publisher John
Bassett ordered the change
and said it was ‘‘un-
professional” for Zwelling to
cover the beat while president
of the 2,000-member Guild. The
union represents editorial,
commercial and_ blue-collar
workers at the three major
Toronto dailies.

A petition signed by 67
editorial employees calling on
Bassett to reverse his decision
was rejected. In a
memorandum to the staff
Bassett made it plain he was
singling out Zwelling only for
his union activities. Bias was

quality of his work never has
been in question.”

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Zwelling said Bassett told
him he could not reverse his
decision in the face of the
staff’s petition. “The joint’s not
run on petitions,’ Zwelling
says Bassett told him.

The union was planning to
take the case to binding ar-
bitration to get Zwelling back
on the beat. Zwelling said the
removal appeared to him to be
a reprisal.

Bassett has demanded his
union employees take a wage
freeze for 1971 because the
paper is losing money. In a
recent issue of the local’s
newspaper, Zwelling was
quoted as saying Bassett
should sell the paper if he and
his present management can’t
make a profit. Although
Zwelling was elected in March,
Bassett claimed he was
unaware of it until the middle
of July.

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that’s going steady.

BRITISH COLUMBIA

Lloyd’s through his firm.

CAR INS. AIDS LABOUR PARTY |

British Labor Party funds may benefit by up to $500,000 a year from car insurance
under a new scheme now approved by the National Executive Committee.

A Socialist, who is the head of a firm of insurance brokers, has offered to pay 10 per
cent of the premiums to Labor Party headquarters if members insure private cars with

The National Executive considers the scheme to be “‘copper bottomed”’ as the brokers
accept all liabilities and the Labor Party will pay nothing. The policies will be restricted
to owner-driven cars used for pleasure. Some of the 10 per cent bonus will be given to those
constituency parties whose members have bought or sold the insurance.

IN TEST CASE

SAME WASHROOM FACILITIES
WIN CERTIFICATION FOR UNION

_For the first time, the On-
tario Labor Relations Board
has lumped together as one
employer for bargaining
purposes a group of cor-
porations.

Local 12-L of the
Lithographers and _ Photo-
engravers’ International Union
was certified last month to
represent more than 60
workers at six Toronto printing
concerns.

All six operate from the
same building under a com-
mon name but are distinct
companies. Until the Labor
Relations Act was changed
earlier this year, unions would
have to prove they represent a
majority of the employees in
each company to get
bargaining rights.

The new act makes it easier.
In the Photoengravers’ case,
the union did not have a
majority signed up in each
separate company. But
collectively it had more than
the mandatory 65 percent and
got certified without a vote.
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The labor board can treat a
group of companies as one
bargaining unit if the com-
panies carry on business
“under common direction and
control.”

The test case spelled out the
criteria that will be used in
future cases. A fact as mun-
dane as the employees using
the same washroom facilities

LOCAL 1-367
DELEGATES

Delegates elected at the July
24 General Meeting of Local 1-
367 IWA, Haney, to attend the
International and Regional
Conventions are as follows:

International Convention —
C. Godfrey and R. A. Stark.
Alternate — F. Cotton.

Regional Convention — C.
Godfrey, E. Wood, B.
Blackhall, J. Ross, F. Cotton.
Alternates — G. Claypool, E.
Clark.

The Canadian Railway
Labor Association, in a July 21
brief to the Canadian Tran-
sportation Commission, made
a strong case for maintaining
Canada’s two transcontinental
mail passenger services.

The brief strongly suggests
that proposed integration of
the two would result in little
more than a token service,
inaccessible to a large part of
the population.

The brief points out that the

routes of each service pass
through separate regions and it
is essential that the com-
munities in these regions
continue to be served. The only
way to provide this service was
to continue the daily runs by
the two transcontinental
trains.

The CRLA argues that any
financial losses on the two
services must be accepted as a
necessary cost to meet the
country’s need of
passenger service.

rail

played a part in determining
all six companies constitute
one employer for bargaining
purposes.

The owner was described by
the board in its written
decision as ‘the dominant
‘father’ figure’. Four com-
panies are family enterprises.
The same individual owns one-
half of a fifth company and
one-third of the sixth. The
employees are listed on
separate payrolls but all paid
by cheques in the name
“Graphic Centre’ — the name
of the building that houses all
six printing firms.

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