THE WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER

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THE WINNER

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operation. Other winners were: B. Jarvis ($25.00) for the second
biggest fish; Mrs. Hall ($50.00) for most fish caught and L. Gaudette ($25.00) as
runner-up for most fish caught. B. Smith, L. Helgerson, Mrs. J. Ford and W. Castle
respectively were the lucky winners in the draw of $20.00, $10.00, $5.00 and $5.00.

ALEX SMITH
President, Local 1-184

GLENN THOMPSON
Retiring President, Local 1-184

DOMTAR EVALUATION
PROTESTED BY UNION

Installation of a unilateral
evaluation’ plan by Domtar
Construction Materials Ltd.
for its fibre products plant
in Saskatoon was postponed
indefinitely following objec-
tions by Glenn'Thompson, re-
tiring president and Alec
Smith, president-elect of Lo-
cal 1-184, IWA.

The company’s plan, sup-
posedly based upon the evalu-
ation manual presently in ef-
fect in the B.C. plywood in-
dustry, came under close
scrutiny of Regional staff rep-
resentative Tony Vanderheide
and was subsequently re-
jected by the Union.

The refusal of the company
to produce rating records for
each evaluated category was
a contributing factor.
Under the terms of the
present agreement, the com-

pany is obligated to apply
$2.40 per hour to the wage
curve, effective September 1,
1967, and to apply the further
cost of an evaluation plan to
the wage curve, effective the
expiry date of the contract,
August 31, 1968.

The union’s proposals to
break the present stalemate
were accepted by Local plant
officials and referred to their
head office in Montreal. Ne-
gotiations are expected to re-
sume shortly.

Unilateral evaluation by a .

company means that company
would have the sole right to
determine category rates
without collective bargaining.
As such, it becomes totally
unacceptable to the IWA and
in the opinion of the IWA
becomes a circumvention - of
the related provincial law.

WORK WEEK DISPUTE

The maintenance crew at
the Kent Division of Weld-
wood of Canada Ltd. in Van-
couver walked off the job on
Thursday, Nov. 16, when the
company tried to schedule a
Saturday afternoon shift.

Local 1-217 president Syd
Thompson said the company
placed two people on a Tues-
day to Saturday work week
and told- them they would be
expected to work Saturday
afternoon to complete their
five-day schedule. :

In the agreement, mainten-
ance employees can wor k

Monday to Friday or Tues-
day to Saturday. “But,” said
Thompson, “nowhere do we
have employees on afternoon
shift where they have to work
on Saturday afternoon.

“The entire maintenance
crew objected to this. No
satisfactory solution to this
problem was reached and
they walked off the job.”

However, at last report,
Thompson was in touch with
the company trying to iron it
out.

NIGHT SCHOOL FORESTRY COURSE

Night school courses in con-
servation and forestry for the
layman are being offered by
the Canadian Forestry Asso-
ciation of B.C., in co-opera-

tion with the Vancouver
Night Schools.

The classes are being held
at John Oliver Secondary

School, 41st and Fraser—con-
servation on Tuesday eve-
nings and forestry on Thurs-
day evenings.

Conservation subjects in-
clude wildlife management,
water resources, forest man-
agement, silviculture, forest
protection, fisheries, dendrol-
ogy and pathology.

Forestry curriculum in-
cludes dendrology, forest en-
gineering, silviculture, plant

pathology, survey timber
cruising, etc.

The 20-session courses in-
clude guest lecturers, slides

and films, augmented by field
trips.

The Working Man's
3 Best Friends:

(1) A cool head

(2) Steady hands

and

(3) Well-shod feet
(DAYTON'S of course)

NO BETTER BOOT
AT ANY PRICE

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