ote has been forwarded to Ottawa,
nd balloting among the 1,000 log-
ers affected will get under way
> soon as possible.

“The operators’ flat refusal to
Miplement the Dominion govern-
ents arbitration board award by
neluding an agreement with TWA
socal 1-71 leaves no alternative but
é next legal step to apply to
e department of labor to con-
ict a strike yote, members of the
gotlating committee declared in
|statement issued following break-
» wo of negotiations.

»the latest development brought
new crisis in the dispute that
gan two years ago when Local
/1 first applied for collective
)rgaining on behalf of its mem-
‘rship in the camps. Last year
| arbitration board was set up
' der the Industrial Disputes In-
istigation Act, and less than a
dnth ago this board handed down
‘decision declaring that “the em-
/oyers should enter into an agree—
(2nt° with the local union 1-71,
"A, for a period of one year.”
©» The day the award was an-
ounced the operators gave some
“idication of their attitude by de-
Paring they would “meet with
Fie union but would not sign any
greement.” This attitude was
Sarried into the series of dis-
assion meetings with the union
‘vat terminated this week.

[he full statement issued by the
Botiating committee, and signed
| E. Dalskog, secretary Local 1-71,
}imi Parta and Joe Rocchio, rep-
senting the Q@CI sub-local of the
fion, District Council President
J. Pritchett, and Board Mem-
t Nigel Morgan, declares:

‘For two years the officers and

amed By Union

fom Barnard, president of BC
mmand of the Canadian Legion
1 a member of the Government
Sional Mobilization Board, was
med as union representative in
* pending Lake Log Arbitration
ween International Woodwork-
; of America and Rounds and
mter. :

an application was filed this
ek with the Department of La-
= in Victoria asking for constitu-
n of the Board to deal with the
estion of recognition of the union
d completion of a union agree-
tit between the company and
cal 1-80.

Ask Strike Vote
In OCI Camps

Refusal by the operators of three Queen Charlotte Islands
»gging camps to sign a collective bargaining agreement with the
iternational Woodworkers of America Has left the union no
/noice but to apply for a strike vote in the camps, IWA of-
veers reported this week after negotiations with the employers
"roke down on Wednesday. Application for the taking of the

membership of International Wood-
workers of America, Local 1-71,
have worked untiringly to amicably
adjust labor relations in the Queen
Charlotte Island spruce camps
with a view to the conclusion of a
collective agreement which will
Stabilize relations and thereby in-
crease production. During this two-
year period we have explored
€very avenue for an amicable set-
tlement. Not one day, not one hour
has been lost, which should be
Sufficient evidence of the reason-
able, responsible attitude of the
Queen Charlotte Island loggers and
their leaders to maintain and
boost spruce production.

“Since announcement of the govy-
ernment conciliation award, the
IWA, recognizing the grave im-
portance of maintaining spruce
production, has sincerely tried for
five weeks to negotiate a peaceful
adjustment. To this end, under the
chairmanship of G. R. Currie, In-
dustrial Relations Officer of the
federal department of labor, three
meetings have been held with the
operators. In spite of the fact that
general agreement on the individu-
al clauses of the contract has been
reached, the operaors still refuse
to sign jointly a written agreement,
thereby completely annulling the
long-established, universally rec-
ognized collective bargaining prac-
tices.

“The federal government as
long ago as June, 1940, recom-
mended in Order-in-Council P.C.
2685 ‘that employees, through the
officers of their trade union or
other representatives chosen by
them, should be free to negotiate
with employers or the represen-
tatives of employers’ associations
concerning rates of pay, hours of
labor and other working condi-
tions, with a view to the con-
clusion of a collective agree-
ment”

“The operators claim they will
recognize the union, but it is im-
Possible to believe they are acting
in good faith when they refuse to
back it up with a joint agreement,
as is being done by thousands of
companies in dozens of other in-
dustries throughout Canada.”

Lumber is virtually the only ma-
jor industry in this province where
collective agreements dealing with
Wages, Hours and working condi-
tions are not being adopted as a
basis for improved understanding
and greater cooperation so essen-
tial today for increased war pro-

duction.”

Joilermakers Press
‘ight To Closed Shop

5

Representatives of the Boilermakers and Iron Shipbuilders
nion, Iuocal No. 1, met this week with the management of
inion Bridge Company to continue negotiations toward a
sed shop contract. No agreement, however, has yet been

ached. The company offers
ion reeognition and the right to
Wective bargaining, but refused
rant the closed shop. Union of-
jals are demanding that the
sed shop clause be written into
¥ contract signed by the union,
conformation with their poli-
‘S in Hamilton Bridge and West
ast shipyards, where an arbitra-
m board has been set up.
Arbitration in Hamilton Bridge
d West Coast will begin the first
ek in August. The proposed

agreement will affect approximate-
ly 5,000 workers.

Where work has been sub-con-
tracted out from shipyards, in
smaller shops such as Vancouver
Engineering Works, Vancouver
Iron Works and Ross and Howard,
Ltd., union organization has been
going on, and companies have
agreed to submit a joint applica-
tion to the Regional War Labor
Board asking for approval on holi-
days with pay, and bonus hours for
second and third shifts.

Coast Guard Rescues Marooned Plane Crew

SSS SSoes

Forced to make a crash landing on a barren coast in Greenland, the crew of a US

bomber was rescued by a coast guard cutter (circle) after spending four days in a snow hut

built under one wing of their craft.

Mitchell Says He Didn't

Say What He Did Say

Delegates to Vancouver Labor Council Tuesday night were
read a letter signed by Humphrey Mitchell, in which the federal

labor minister both apologized

for making his statement that

controllers should be placed in charge of unions and denied that
he made any such statement in the first place.

Answering sharp rebukes from
trade unionists all over the coun-
try, Mitchell said he realized that
his statement might be miscon-
strued. He imsisted that he had
only referred to unions with “ir-
responsible” leadership, and even
then had meant that any controls
should be set up by their govern-
“Sing bodies.

“The minister indicates that he
didn’t want to say what he actu-
ally did say,” commented Charles
Saunders, Dock and Shipyard
Workers Union president.” “But
his alternate suggestion that con-
trollers should be appointed by
governing bodies is equally ab-
horent to real trade unionists.
Trade unions are democratic
bodies and the rank and file be-
lieve in electing their own lead-
ers.”

On recommendation of the ex-
ecutive the correspondence on the
question will be referred to dele-
gates attending the Congress con-
yventicn.

The council spent a large por-
tion of the meeting in discussion
on the problem of part-time em-
ployment to relieve the serious
manpower crisis. Delegates were
informed that unskilled labor had
been the hardest hit in the short-
age, and that white-collar workers
from stores and businesses might

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recommendations were drawn up

delegates Tuesday. They were:

1. Part-time workers to be paid
not less for the work they are
asked to do than the wage rates
prevailing in the plant in which
they are employed and that over-
time and double-time rates be
Paid whenever such rates are
earned, according to the union
contract in force.

2. No part-time worker be em-
ployed in any plant where regular
employees are willing and able to

by the council and accepted by.

undertake in reasonable overtime
the extra work required to be
done.

3. Adequate rates of workmen’s
compensation.on special terms be
guaranteed.

4. Part-time workers in all union
closed shop plants be requested to
secure permit to work from the
union affected and that union dues
be at a rate not less than those
paid by regular workers.

6. Union card holders in non-
war plants shall be permitted as
a War measure only to engage in
part-time work in any other shop.

7. Union card holders undertak-
ing part-time work in war indus-
tries where a union is organized
but where open shop conditions
exist shall be governed in all em-
ployee-employer relations by the

union authorities in each plant.

The overtime question rose out
of a brief presented last March to
the Regional War Labor Board by
the IWA asking that overtime be
adopted. The Regional Board re-
ferred the matter to the Board of
Industrial Relations.

At the meeting with the Board
last week the IWA_ delegation,
composed of MJDistrict President
Harold Pritchett, District Vice-
Presidents Mark Mosher and Ernie
Dalskog, District Secretary Bert
Melsness and International Board
Member Nigel Morgan, urged the
Board to proceed with its proposal
of implementing overtime pay in
the logging industry, shingle mills
and woodworking plants. Special
representations were made in re-
gard to the problem of logging
railroad crews and cookhouse
staffs. Mosher stressed the injus-
tices of the present 10-hour day
in the logging camps and urged the
Board to establish the 8-hour day

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IW A Seeks Extension
Of Overtime Wage

Hearings were held last week by the Board of Industrial
Relations to consider extension of the overtime premium pay.
recently granted to BC sawmills to cover logging camps, shingle
mills, box factories and woodworking plants. :

with time and a half for overtime.
He alse pointed out the hazards
and responsibility involved in this
work, and compared railroad
Wages with others in the camps.
Long hours worked by coolkhouse
employees were also taken up and
Specific recommendations made re-
Garding overtime compensation.

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