=== BC Lunsealifons UNION BULLETIN Published Bi-Weekly by the B.C. Coast District Council, LW.of A. ———————————— VOL. I, No. 13 =) VANCOUVER, B.C., OCTOBER 31, 1939 OS No, 219 IWA WINS BIG PAY INCREASE IN YOUBOU CAMPS Crews Preparing to Meet With Company on Work- Sg ing Agreement. LAKE COWICHAN, BC—With a ten Percent increase in wages already grant- ed as a result of intensive organizational work carried on in Camp 3 and Camp 6 of Industrial Timber Mills Ltd., mem- bers of both crews ate now preparing to enter negotiations with the company for an agreement covering collective bargaining rights, preferential hiring and safety committees. With the boost in wages, which comes into effect on November 1, the basic minimum in the Youbou camps is now:the highest of any camp on the Coast, Chokermen will now be paid $5.10 per day, rigging slingers $6.15, and a proportionate increase in other departments, IWA Local No. 80 has been conduct- ing an organizational campaign in these two camps for some time under the dir- . ection of District Council President H. Bergren, the drive reaching a climax this month with mass meetings in each camp, both meetings attended by almost the entire crews. The first meeting was ealled for Camp 6 on October 6, where a camp committee of nine was elected and two delegates for the joint negotiating committee. On October 13 another meet- ing was held in Camp 8 Where a camp committee was elected and three dele- gates chosen for the negotiating commit- tee, First meeting of thé joint negotiating committee was held Monday, October 30, where terms of a proposed employee agreement were worked out for later ae submission to the crews of both camps for endorsation. , ‘When terms of the agreement are rati- fied by both crews, the committee will geek an appointment with company offi- eials with the purpose of entering direct negotiations. Progress of the union in the Youbou camps, which now have 2, big majority ‘of members in the IWA, has consider~ ably strenthened the organization in the entire district and has been greeted en- ‘thusiastically by the crew at Lake Log- ‘ging, which is 100 percent unionized. _ The inerease in wages is seen as par ticularly encouraging, indicating in con- fashion the benefits resulting from on organization and the possibilities Saal results in other Association the crews take action. IWA PARLEY COUNTERS HIGHER COST OF LIVING WITH PAY BOOST DEMAND throughout Canada and U within the next five years.”’ ? This was the unanimous decision of delegates attending the third an- nual International Woodworkers of America convention as they served notice on open shop employers ev- erywhere that Canadian and Ameri- can woodworkers will accept no re- duction in living standards because of war conditions and will intensify their fight to bring union wages and conditions into every operation on the continent. Putting teeth in this flat challenge to the overlords of lumber, the 250- odd voting delegates- attending the five-day meeting at Klamath Falls, Oxegon, unanimously endorsed a sweeping 8-point organizing program which is confidently expected to bring a trebled membership within the next 12 months. Coupled with this, the gath- ering hammered out a number of pro- posed constitutional changes calculated to bring gieater efficiency in the work of the IWA and successfully worked out a plan for unity within the international union which was unanimously receiveé in the closing hours of the conclave. Adding strength to the current cam- paign by the B.C. District Council for an increase in wages to offset the in- creased cost of living, delegates ap- proved a general slogan for a dollar 2 day pay boost to CIO woodworkers in the industry, and sharply scored profit eering in commodities which has, in ef- fect, brought a general wage reduction te all workers. Such profiteering will undoubtedly continue unless checked by determined governmental action,” the convention af- firmed, demanding of the federal gov- ernments of both Canada and United States “to take appropriate legislative (Continued on Page 4) ClO RECOGNIZED IN ZEBALLOS MINE ZEBALLOS, BC.—Full recognition of the CIO International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers was granted here last week by officials of the famous Privateer Mine. Recognition of the CIO union in a signed agreement came after 2 week's dispute between the union members and the company over discrimination. The discharged employee was rehired and - By AL PARKIN ‘Organize The Unorganized’ Is Keynote Of Annual Convention British Columbia’s lumber industry, toge ther with all unorganized lumbering districts ‘ed States, will b ecome the center of a powerful drive to ‘‘or- ganize the unorganized’’ as part of the gen eral ClO objective of “ten million members SUCCESSFUL YEAR IWA President H. J. Pritchett, with another successful year behind him, is again running for election as leader of the international union. Woods Deaths Near 1938 Toll With the death on Sunday of James Quinn, 24-year-old employee of the Thurston-Flavelle Lumber Company, the death toll from accidents in B.C.’s lum- ber industry jumped to 56 this week, two of these taking place in sawmills. The following woodworkers paid with their lives: Everett Martin, fall- er, killed at Sinclair 56 Spruce Mills when struck by a ena Workers have Joseph Schneider, | heen idlled in pinned beneath a load | logging accl- of logs at Lumby, | dents in B.C. BC. since January ‘ Ist, 1939, W. Gustavsen, em- ployed at the Malahat Log Company, killed Saturday, Oct. 14. Duncan Nicholson, chaser employed by Zoney Logging Company, Seymour Inlet, Reported on Page Two. John Sapotichny, employed by the Boardman Logging Company, killed by a snag. Mah Look, aged 58, killed when struck by a broken flywheel at the MacLeod Lumber Mill, Courtenay. Hara Arima, drowned when he fell ether concessions granted under the union agreement. from the boom at the B.C. Box Com- pany plant, = ? i. TEN MILLION C10 MEMBERS, AIM OF LEWIS UES; (ee to Be Scene Of Gigantic Organizing Campaign. __ -By NIGEL MORGAN SAN FRANCISCO, Calit — Highlight of the recently concluded convention of the CIO was the call of President Lewis for an organizational campaign that will bring another, five million members into the Canadian and American labor move- ment during the next five years, Following closely on the recent Trades Congress Convention, which upheld the suspension of CIO affiliates, the CIO leaders’ special emphasis on the grave problems of the Canadian labor move- ment was of particular interest. Lash- ing out sharply against the disruptive activities of a certain reactionary clique in Canada who followed the dictates of their American overlords, the Greens, Hutchinsons, Freys and Homer Martics, the CIO chief made provision for in- creased coordination of the CIO affili- ates in Canada. A special committee was elected with Silby Barrett as chair- man, to take such’steps as may be neces- sary to consolidate CIO gains in Canada, and to more effectively bring the gains of industrial organization to the work- ers in Canada’s basic industries. Moving in streamlined style, the reso- lutions and speeches throughout the four (Continued on Page 6) LAKE LOG CREW OPENS NEGOTIATIONS Nigel Morgan, secretary of the TWA District Council, left for Cowichan Lake Wednesday morning where he id schedu- led to assist officers of Local 1-80 in ne- gotiating a request for a 20 percent wage inerease covering all employees of the Lake Logging Company. Officals of the company will be present at the meeting Wednesday night, Morgan will later go to Camp 3 and Camp 6 Youbou to aid in opening ne- gotlations for a working agreement be- tween employees and the company.