THE WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER

1-118 DEFEATS COMPANY ATTEMPT
TO INFLUENCE ARBITRATION CASE

Officers of Local 1-118 IWA
Victoria are viewing with
alarm the bare faced attempt

by a company to influence an-

arbitration case by requesting
the Labour Relations Board
to appoint a lawyer as chair-
man in a case dealing with job
seniority.

Local president Murray
Drew stated that the Union’s
nominee in the arbitration
case received a letter from
the Company nominee which
stated in part:

“In the meantime I have
been advised by my principals
that they feel that the Board
should be requested to ap-
point a lawyer as chairman
because the arbitration will
involve to a certain extent the
interpretation of a Collateral
Agreement between the
Union and the Company.”

Drew pointed out that this
was complete nonsence as the
case concerned job seniority
and did not require the serv-
ices of a lawyer to adjudicate.
He added that in his opinion

it was a shocking attempt to
gain special privilege for the
Company and if the move had
been successful it most cer-
tainly would have destroyed
the Local’s faith in future ar-
bitration appointments.

To counter-act the Com-
pany move, the Local Union
had its nominee on the Board
write the following letter to
the Hon. L. R. Peterson, Min-
ister of Labour:

“Dear Sir:
“Re: Victoria Plywood and
Local 1-118, IWA griev-
ance in respect to R. G.
Cleaver
“This is to request the
Board appoint a Chairman for
the above arbitration case. In
the past, I have made joint
application with the Com-
pany’s appointee, however,
find enclosed copy of letter
from the Company’s nominee
which we view with alarm.
“It would appear that For-
est Industrial Relations, on
behalf of the Company,
through their nominee is en-
deavouring to have the Board

appoint special people to spe-
cific arbitration cases. This is
very disturbing.

“We have and I am sure the
IWA has always in the past
accepted those people that the
Board has appointed without
exerting any pressure on the
Board as to who it should be.
We would therefore hope that
the Board, in their wisdom
would not pay any attention
to such letters and would
appoint as they see fit.

“This arbitration case,as I
understand is on a seniority
matter and most disputes are
of an interpretative nature
and I would suggest do not,
and I repeat do not require a
lawyer or member of the Bar
to adjudicate for it is a 3-man
board. What Mr. Cox is advo-
cating is that the chairman
makes the ruling which we do
not think is correct as it is a
3-man board as we have stated
above, and it is the duty of
the 3 men to adjudicate.

“Yours truly,
“Ernest Orchin,
“Union’s Nominee.”

LOCAL 1-118 president Murray Drew, upper photo right,
and Local Ist vice-president Joe Fowler, upper photo cen-
tre, meet with crew of Ted Shaw Logging which the offi-
cers recently organized. The meeting was held at Mom’s
Cafe in Sooke December 8, at which Drew gave a run-
down of the IWA constitution and by-laws to the new

members.

WILL THE REAL TIM CAREY PLEASE STAND UP OR BARK

This letter was printed in
the December 2nd issue of The
Province:
. “IT am a sawmill worker.
When working my average
wage is $27 a day I have a
wife and three school chil-
dren. After paying union dues
for 14 years I am supposed to
live on about $40 a week
Strike pay. I voted against the
strike. I would rather not go
to the coast for a $2 an hour
raise, and there are hundreds
like me.

“The NDP is going to lose
an awful lot of votes among
the mill workers. We had a
food offer from Mr. Munroe,
and it was refused by the
ones who live by the sweat
of the working man’s brow.

To me they are a bunch of
parasites,”

TIM CAREY
Lumby

This letter was never
printed in any issue of The
Province:

December 8, 1967
The Editor,
The Province,
2250 Granville Street,
Vancouver, B.C.
Dear Sir:

I have just been shown a
letter to the Editor which ap-
peared in the Province on
Saturday, December 2, 1967,
and signed “Tim Carey,”
Lumby, and I wish to set the
record straight.

There is only one Carey
who lives in Lumby and is on

For a Truly Fascinating Vacation

strike, myself, Dan Carey. I
am a member of the Union at
Lumby Timber Co., Lumby,
B.C., and have been a mem-
ber for nearly five years. At
present I am on strike at this
operation and am in receipt
of weekly strike pay from the
Union in the amount of $36
per week. I have no children
of school age.

I am on strike because I
believe our demand for par-
ity is just and reasonable. As
to the refusal of the Munroe
report and the decision to
strike; this was decided by a
majority of the workers in a
secret Government supervised
vote and, as befitting a demo-
cratic country, we are guided
by the majority and not by

the individual, as inferred in
the letter.

As stated above I am the
only Carey on strike in the
Lumby area. It is unfortun-
ate that your newspaper did
not check the authenticity of
the author of such a letter as
printed on December 2 in
your paper. If this had been
done you would have found
that the true “identity” of
Tim Carey would have proved
interesting. The only “Tim
Carey” in Lumby is my pet
dog, Tim, and his present posi-
tion and status as outlined in
the letter is definitely not as
stated in the letter. While I
think my dog Tim is very
bright and versatile, his ver-
Satility does not extend to

writing letters to newspapers.
(If he could write you can be
sure that the initials of the
Social Credit Party would
not come out NDP.)

If your newspaper is still in
doubt as to who is the real
“Tim Carey” I extend an in-
vitation to any of your repre-
sentatives to contact me at
the address or phone number
listed below.

I trust you will do me (and

my dog, Tim) the courtesy of -

publishing this rebuttal of the
erroneous letter of December
2, 1967, signed “Tim Carey.”

Yours truly,
DAN CAREY,
Park Ave.,
Lumby, B.C.

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