By ROD Bureau. During the past ten years in the Interior, licensed grade stamping organizations have been set up and failed. Today they are flourishing once again. They are nothing more than a group of operators get- ting together and agreeing on a common stamp for their lumber, then having those stamps approved by the Ca- nadian Lumber Standards As- sociation and a similar organ- ization in the United States. The mills are then licensed to use these stamps and are supposed to live up to the rules. The MacDonald and MacDonald Inspection Serv- ices is one of these private concerns. They have Supervisors who approve the mill grades who use these stamps. It is an hon- our system and if the graders had the power to maintain the standards it would work, but the mill operators put pres- sure on their graders who when they turn to the inspec- tion service supervisor do not get his support, and the mill operators do as they please. We had a good example of this in the Interior when Passmore Lumber Company fired two of its graders for grading too high. The Union took it to arbi- tration and the operators claimed they should have graded 5% low, because they were allowed this in the grad- ing rules. The 5% the operat- ors refer to is a 5% difference of opinion upon reinspection. July of this year saw the PLIB move into this field, not with a new set of stamps, but with the same stamps the PLIB Inspectors have used over the years. The PLIB maintained a high standard eee 3) LOCAL 1-424 DELEGATES RY AA Y Be fogs hea / LOCAL 1-118 DELEG ATES Rn. weap ee Se Le ee Going Back to the Old Country ? if so, YOU can SAVE by the GIRARDI Travel Plan JET TRAVEL ALL THE WAY ao AS ETM SEL Group Travel Available (25 persons or more) $564 . Per Adult Return ALL DOCUMENTS AT NO EXTRA COST 10% DOWN PAYMENT _ TRAVEL NOW ‘ PAY LATER LET HER SERVE YOU SPECIAL EXCURSIONS. 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South America [ | ~1 Telephone - MuUtual 2-2838 LOCAL 1-288 SCORES mS S- @ Suen Oe BEATON President Local 1-288, IWA _ “Licensed Grade Stamping” major issue with our employers, the Pacific Lumber Inspection today, has become a which is recognized by for- eign buyers of our products the world over. : The PLIB I been able to maintain these high standards because of the support and co-operation of the mill graders, who in turn had the support of the PLIB Inspector when the mill op- erator tried to put the pres- sure on. ors are independ- ent of the mill, is the best possible inspection service; but a few of the operators resent the authority and con- trol the inspector has over standard of grade. Today the PLIB are offer- ing any mill, for a fee, their grade stamps without a PLIB inspector. They have them in two unorganized mills and we are aware it is starting in a large mill on Vancouver Is- land which is not yet under IWA certification. They backed away after trying to place them in one of the larger operations in the lower mainland because they were told our fellow IWA graders would not touch the stamps without an inspector being present on the job. The members of our local will be taking direct action in the near future; they feel they must, as it is a direct breach of contract and is a deliberate breach of faith with the buy- ers of our products, who ac- cepted PLIB as being inde- pendent of the mill. We ask our fellow members to support us in this struggle so that the standard of our forest products shall be main- tained in world markets. Unemployment Shows Drop In Canada Canadian unemployed drop- ped by 23,000 in mid-August to 270,000—reflecting a back- to-school move by students. The jobless total is 3.8 percent of the labor force contrasted with 4.1 percent a year earlier and 4.8 percent two years earlier. 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