vin alll “DC LoezndiWonxen UNION BULLETIN Published Bi-Weekly by the B.C. District Council, 1. W.of A. Support the LW.A. It’s YOUR Union! The Boss Won't Build It, So It’s UP TO YOU! (es VANCOUVER, B.C., APRIL 17, 1940 OS No. 229 os A Several complaints have been recelved by the IWA from camps where deduc- tions were made on the recent Dominion Election Day for time off to vote. The Union after consulting its attorney has decided to take up these cases, see that the law is enforced and that any Com- pany which has violated the provision of the Election's Act in this regard is prosecuted, «Phe Dominion Elections Act states clearly and emphatically: SECTION 47: 1. Every employer shall, on polling day, allow to every elector in his employ at least two additional hours other than the noon hour, for voting, and no employer shall make any deduction from the pay of any such elector nor Impose upon or exact from him any penalty by reason of his absence during such hours, 2.This section shall extend to railway companies and their employees, -ex- cepting such employees as are act- ually engaged in the running of trains and to whom such time cannot be al- Jowed without interfering with the manning of the trains. Anyone haying information of viola- tions of this provision, or being a vic- tim of such a flagrant disregard of the Election’s Act, is urged to communicate immediately with Nigel Morgan, Sec'y B.C. District Council IWA, 504 Holden. Bldg., Vancouver, B.C. Please send in your name, address, the full and correct name of company guilty of the offense, hours deducted, rate of wages, together with any other explanations which may be helpful. This information will be treated with the utmost confidence, and if you so desire your name need not he e in connection with the case at all. Already one large operation and the smaller camps have been dis- and there probably are others. You, Mr, Woodworker, are entitled to rights and consideration under the of the land, why not sce that they | protected? The Union retains an » 60 any information or help you ty need will be gladly and freely given, (1938) IWA will be held in the U.M- !s Hall at Nanaimo on Thursday, SEATTLE, Wash. — The International Policy Committee of the IWA, meeting here last Monday, made its preparations to enter industry-wide negotiations with the executive board of the Lumbermen’s Industrial Re- lations Committee, Inc., representing nearly every major operation on the Pacific Coast, next Tuesday. Q.CI. loggers issued the folowing press? statement: “We are back in town after the first Spring run. Most of our time and efforts were spent on the Queen Charlotte Is- lands, which brought good results in the line of wage increases. We would have felt more satisfied with ourselves if we could have gotten working agreements, but I believe before the summer is over this can be accomplished. “There are more loggers employed. in the Island camps than there have been for years, with Ocean Falls starting a new camp at Queen Charlotte City. Some fallers went to this camp on the last boat. “Regarding camp conditions, Kelley Logging Company has the best accom- modation as the bunkhousese are kept cleaner and the beds are made, while at Allison's and Morgan's the men have to make their own beds, The reason for this is that Kelley's hire more help in the line of bullcooks. It is not that the bull- cooks in the other camps don't do their work, but there is not enough help to do the job properly at Morgan's and Allison's camps. “Now, there is a big district to cover and any crew who feel that we can be of assistance to them in boosting wages or improving camp conditions, if they will write the Local Seeretary we will get to possible to help. ond ‘Navy’ is for. S85 |€own, — ‘Loggers Navy’ Completes Successful Trip Up Coast | __ While in port, Skipper McCuish after recounting the successful drive just completed, which brought a 50c a day pay boost to more than 500 ISLAND LOGGING CAMPS ACTIVE COURTENAY, B.C.—Indefinite shut- down of the Comox Logging operations at Headquarters has had no effect on a number of smaller camps in this district, according to latest reports, Still known to be operating are: Woods, sub-contracting on sections of the Comox claim, with about fifty men employed; Baikie's, a small outfit dump- ing logs into Wolf Lake, also on the Comox, claim; and Carney and Larson. Parkin Bros, are also logging on con- tract for the MacLeod Lumber and Shingle Company, whose mill lies about midway between Courtenay and Comox. To the south of Courtenay, Tansky’s Camp ig still shut down, reportedly due to financial diffculties, At Fanny Bay, Camp 7 of the Victoria Lumber and Manufacturing Company is running full blast, with every indication that this operation will run until the fire season at least. The Campbell River area is also the scene of full operations, with ERT, Vanisle Logging and Bloedel's still dumping logs. Bloedel’s is reported to have put on an extra crew and a double shift, In the entire Upper Island district, the Comox operations at Headquarters is the only one now known to be shut > Following its meeting, the policy com- mittee announced that it had instructed the negotiating committee members to Propose that contracts now in effect be extended for a period of thirty days dur- ing negotiations in the interest of peace and harmony and the continous opera~ tion of the industry, pending the demon- stration by the employees that they are negotiating in good faith, FAVORABLE REPORTS. The policy committee, in its all-day session, discussed the question of indus- try-wide negotiations in detail and heard reports from the various district councils of the progress being made in negotia- tions throughout their respective terri- tories and sub-divisions, ? Karly Larsen, president of the North- ern Washington District Council, re- viewed for the committee members the favorable progress that has been made in negotiations by local unions through- out his district. For the Columbia River District Coun- cil, whose contract expired a month be- fore those of the other districts, Ed Mc- Sorley, International executive board member, reported that his district was still in negotiations. Ted Dokster, presidnt of the Grays- Willapa Harbors council, expressed the gratification of his membership that in- dustry-wide negotiations have been se- cured, MIDWEST CONTRACT. ‘The committee members also received interesting reports from Ilmar Koivunen, International executive board member from the Midwest District Council, who reviewed negotiations in his district which culminated in the signing of a contract covering nearly every operation in the state of Minnesota, bringing a wage increase of 12% percent to the TWA membership there, along with other con- tract improvements, & The first meeting with the employers’ committee will be held in the Winthrop Hotel in Tacoma, Wash., at 10:30 Tues- day morning, April 16. LOGGER DIES AT HARRISON LAKE : Two more B.C, woodsmen were killed this week, bringing the death toll in the lumbering industry up to twenty-four. Antti Heiska died at Harrison Lake as a result of injuries re- at the Consolidated Timber Co.'s claim 30 miles up the Lake, The other death re- Ported was that of Lloyd Bell, 21-year-old pole-camp worker who was drowned dur- ing a squall on Mud Lake, four miles from Blue River, B.C. ek MARCHES FORWARD! REAL GAINS OM INDUSTRY-WIDE NEGOTIATIONS .W.A. To Prosecute Elections Act Violations ceived in an accident .