THE WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER

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2nd Issue
July, 1966

1-424 NEGOTIATIONS

The Officers of Local 1-424
are presently in negotiations
with several companies and
following is a progress report:

NETHERLANDS
OVERSEAS,
Prince George —

The Local Union Officers
have had several meetings
with officials of this company
and reached agreement on all
points. A subsequent meeting
with the crew was held on
~ July 9, 1966 whereby they
voted in favour of accepting
the contract. This is a stan-
dard Northern Interior
Agreement with the following
amendments:

1. Any present employee who
is being paid a rate in ex-
cess of the category rate
specified in the wage sup-
plement will continue to
receive such rate.

2. Any employee who is trans-
ferred by the Company and
becomes an employee of
Netherlands Overseas Mills
Ltd. shall retain all benefits
accumulated under the
agreement in their former

_ operation with the excep-
tion of seniority, which will
be determined by their
actual hiring date at the
company’s new operation.

. The Company agrees to pro-
vide rubber pants and
gloves free of charge to em-
ployees who dip lumber or
are required to work with
solution for dipping lumber.
The contract will expire on

August 31, 1967 in line with

» the expiry date of the rest of

the agreements in the area.

The Company employs ap-

proximately 160 men.

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DEVER LOGGING,
Lac La Hache —

A Conciliation Board was
set up and met in Williams
Lake on June 20, 1966 in
order to try and settle this
dispute. The Local Union pre-
sented a comprehensive brief
to the Board, outlining the
Union’s position in regard to
certain disputed points. The
Conciliation Board’s report
contained some very good
wage adjustments and other
benefits, but the Local Union
was not successful in getting
a Union Shop clause, nor
were they successful in ob-
taining compulsory Medical,
Health and Welfare written
into the Board’s report.

A meeting of the crew was
held on July 5, 1966 and they
voted in favour of accepting
the contract.

The Company, which em-
ploys approximately 16 men,

as not yet indicated its
position one way or the other.

LAKELAND MILLS,
Sawmill Division,
Prince George —

The Company already oper-
ated a small planermill, em-
‘ploying approximately 10
men, which operation has
en under certification for

some time. It has now built
a stud mill at the same
location employing about 15
men. The Local Union recent-
ly received certification for
the stud mill and in a meeting
with the crew on July 9, 1966
the contract demands were
formulated and it is expected
that negotiations will start
shortly.

WELDWOOD OF CANADA,
Quesnel —

(Editor’s note: The full de-
mands for a new contract —
formulated at a meeting of
the four Weldwood - Quesnel
divisions on June 5, 1966 in
the Legion Hall in Quesnel—
were printed in the first issue
of July “Lumber Worker.’)

Contract negotiations start-
ed on June 29, 1966 and as a
result a Joint Union-Manage-
ment committee was struck
to look into the proposed cate-
gory revisions. This commit-
tee met on July 11, 1966 for
the purpose of preliminary
discussions.

Contract negotiations will
resume on July 20, 1966 fol-
lowing a scheduled meeting
with the plant committees
and job stewards.

ORGANIZATION

Local 1-424 has applied for
certification for Alexandra
Forest Industries Ltd. This is
the most modern sawmill in
Central British Columbia and
when in full production will
cut approximately 6 million
board feet a year. This onver-
ation is located 120 miles
north of Prince George and
presently employs about 25
men.

QUARTERLY MEETING

The July quarterly meeting
of Local 1-424 will be held on
Sunday, July 24, 1966 in the
IWA Hall, 909-5th Avenue,
Prince George, starting at
10:30 a.m.

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BROADWAY
PRINTERS

printers and lithographers
since 1911

115 EAST 8th AVENUE
VANCOUVER 10, B.C.

Telephone 876-2101

WALTER SIMCICH, Internation-

al Research Director — during
the mass meeting of Weldwood
(Quesnel) employees on June 5,
1966 in the Quesnel Legion Hall
— presented a detailed economic
report, while demonstrating with
graphs and statistics the Indus-
try’s productivity and profits. His
well-received report clearly out-
lined the company’s ability to
meet the Union’s demands for
“parity” based on the comparison
of prices, wages and cost of living
between the U.S. Northwest, the
British Columbia coastal area and

the B.C. Northern Interior. -

MONUMENT DEDICATED
TO DEAD WORKERS

KAPUSKASING—A little
more than three years after
the tragic event, a monument
was dedicated at Reesor Sid-
ing near here to commemor-
ate the deaths of three bush
workers who were shot down
on plage! duty in February

The ceremony was attended
by about 300 people who
drove to the siding in a 75-
car cavalcade, including dele-
gates to the 54th annual con-
vention of the Ontario Pro-
vincial Council of the Car-
penters Union. The address
of dedication was given by
R. E. Livingston, General Sec-
retary of the Carpenters’ Un-
ion, Washington, D.C.

OFL Secretary - Treasurer
D. F. Hamilton, a member of
the union, represented the
Ontario Federation of Labor.

e€ monument is a sculp-
ture showing a lumberman
with his axe, with his wife
and two children beside him,
standing on a substantial 30-
foot high concrete base.

Erected by the Lumber and
Sawmill Workers division of
the Carpenters’ Union, the
monument is dedicated to the
memory of Irenee Fortier,
Fernand Drouin and Joseph
Fortier.

The three men were killed
when a group of pickets were
attacked by non-union wood-
cutters, twenty of whom were
charged with _ non-capital
murder. Acquitted of the
charge, they were then fined
$100 each for possession of
offensive weapons.

On the other hand, 138
members of the Lumber and
Sawmill Workers Local 2995
were fined a total of $27,600
for unlawful assembly.

This was the case referred
to recently when the Peter-
borough trade unionists were
given jail sentences for mass
demonstrations against court
injunctions. Many labor mem-
bers remembered the small
fines levied against the Reesor
Siding gunmen in 1963.

OF

IDEAS

BRIGHT

IT WORKS
EVERY TIME!

THE WORLD
IS FULL

WE WISH WE'D BEEN BRIGHT ENOUGH TO HAVE HAD MORE THAN ONE. TO
MAKE THE BEST BOOTS IN THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD (AND STARTING RIGHT
IN B.C.). BUT THEN, WE’VE MANAGED TO DO ALL RIGHT WITH OURS.

PIERRE PARIS & SONS

51 West Hastings Street

Vancouver 3, B.C.

Family Teamwork in Craftsmanship since 1907