DC Lensen@Wornen
BULLETIN

Lumber Profits

Are Up;
Living Costs Also

How About

No. 12

OS

Wages?

No. 235

Be? VOL. 9,

WEDNESDAY, JULY 24, 1940

a IWA Delegate
At Montreal
Youth Cong.

Rejecting a minority opposition
amendment to the preamble of the re-
port on Democracy and Civil Liberty
by a vote of 115 to 25, and cheering
rank-and-file speeches denouncing a
small dissidient group who withdrew at
the last moment, the Canadian Youth
Congress early this month, concluded its
fifth and most successful Convention
in an atmosphere that augurs well for
the future of Canada and the cherished
democratic institutions of the people.

Attending the Montreal Congress as
@ delegate from the IWA, along with
48 other delegates from student, cultural,
national and recreational and religious
organizations in B.C., Nigel Morgan, re-
cently elected Vice-President of the Van-
couver Youth Council was named the
Trade Union reprsentative on the Na-
tional Committee. Of the 274 delegates
representing 193 organizations from
Cape Breton to Vancouver Island, 76
delegates were French-speaking and
about 50 representing Trade Unions.

Pies between organized labor and or-
ganized youth were further, strengthened
at the Congress, where preservation of-|
‘ labor rights and civil liberties keynoted
speeches and resolutions discussed.
Pledging itself to defend Canada against
any attack of the enemy without, the
Congress also discussed the dangers of
a betrayal from within. The Congress
declared that labor's rights to -organ-
ize and bargain collectively, and to ex-
ercise freedom of speech and assembly
must not be interfered with, and also
eriticised sharply the Government’s ac-
tion in arresting a number of prominent
Trade Union leaders, from both AFL
and CIO unions, and holding them in
“communicado” without even a trial,

‘The Fifth Canadian Youth Congress
was a demonstration not only of the in-
creased unity of youth, but a démonstr:

tion of increasing awareness of the young
people and the trade unions of their
common problems and needs. Delegates
pledged themselves to fight for demo-
eratie rights, fair labor laws and stand-
“ards, greater educational opportunities,
fairer distribution of the tax burden, ex-
tension of Youth Training facilities, ade-
quate unemployment provisions, health
‘insurance, yocational rehabilitation of
permanently disabled, and to oppose
entation, loss of civil liberties such
has taken place under the War Meas-
Act and Defence Regulations, ex-
ss profits, and use of the Mobilization
to suppress labor organization and
peby reduce living standards.

B.C. Woodworker Seeks
U.S. Entry Permit To
Continue Leading 1.W.A.

Harold Pritchett
Resident-

President Pritchett is in Vancouver
this week awaiting arrival of a passport
on which to regain entry to the U.S, to
carry on his duties as leader of one of

B.C. Wage Conference Charts
Organizational Campaign For

Agreements And Union Wages

Camp Delegates Draft Master Contract and Minimum
Wage Scale With 62}c Basic Minimum Rate

Prize Winners

Winners of the lucky tickets at the
Woodworkers Dance on July 4th
were: Trip to San Francisco World
Fair and $25 Cash: S. T. (Ticket 3302)
Port Alberni.. 2nd, Hamilton Rail-
road Watch: L, W. (Ticket 373) Van-
couver. 3rd, Gent's $35 Suit: Sam Al-
cock (Ticket 1628) Carstairs Camp,
Wadhams. 4th, Shavemaster Electric
Shaver: Tage Carlson (Ticket 111)
Stratford Hotel. 5th, Gent’s Hat:
Linus Bergren (Ticket 508) 159 E.
Hastings St. Vancouver.

The seller of the ticket winning 1st

prize was L. Norris, B.C. Lumber
Worker distributor at Port Alberni,

who received $15.00 Cash,

CIO's largest affiliates—a position which
he has held since 1936, Pritchett, who is
a former B.C. shingle-weaver, has the
honor of being the only Canadian Pres-
ident of an International Union,

Forest Branch permits on such logs.

LOG SHORTAGE BRINGS EXPORT BAN

FIR SAWLOG EXPORTS BANNED
(Timber Control Order)

Under the authority of the Timber Controller the export of all fir sawlogs
from British Columbia to non-British Empire destinations is hereby prohibited
for 2 period of three months commencing midnight, July 10, 1940.

The foregoing automatically cancels, as from that date, any outstanding

shortage of fir needed by our mills for essential war orders which they must
fill without delay. It is felt that under such circumstances every one will
extend his utmost cooperation in complying with this order.

E. C. MANNING,

July 6, 1940.

This order is made necessary by the

Ass’t to Timber Controller.

‘The campaign for wage hoists
launched by the B.C. District of the
I.W.A. in Convention last January is
heginning to become a reality today.
After consistent hammering from the
Union, employers one by one are kick-
ing through, in many cases beating a
hasty retreat in a last attempt to stave
off organization of their employees.
Additional increases will be won as
the union grows, thereby consolidat-
ing the bargaining strength of the
workers.

Increases reported to date include:
Camp 2 and 6 Industrial Timber Co,
10%; Sproat Lake Sawmills, approx. 20¢
per day; Morgan's, Kelly's and Allison

50c per day; Spicher Log at
Bay, 25¢ per day; Ashleys Camp

IWA-Led Boost Wages Drive
Bringing Workers Dividends

rates under $5 per day and 10% for all
over $5, with 5c per M. for fallers; Bloe-
dels (Mill), 5c per hour for lower brack-
ets, 7e for next bracks, and 10c for high-
est bracket; Lake Log at Cowichan, 40c
per day; Comox Log at Ladysmith and
Courtenay, 10%; Victoria Lumber Manu-
facturing Co., 10%; Vancouver Creosote
Co. 10%; Fraser Mills, 10%; Alaska
Pine, 2c per hour general, with 5¢ for
the boiler room; B.C. Manufacturing
Mill and New Westminster Box & Shook,
2c per hour; B.C, Plywoods, 4c to 6%e

per hour; Thurston Flavelle, 2c per
hour; H & R, Harrison Lake, 109%;

Lemon Gonnasons Mill, Victoria, 2%
per hour; Island Log at Jordon River
hhag just granted a general increase with
chokermen getting 70c per day hoist and
fallers and buckers 5¢ per M.

(Highest increases in every case are

VANCOUVER, B.C.—The Inter-
national Woodworkers of America
sponsored “B.C. Wage Conference,”
held recently at Union Headquarters
adopted a minimum basic rate of
62¥2c per hour. After endorsing
the “Boost Pay a Buck a Day” cam-
paign now in full swing, and taking
steps to intensify the Drive, a “Min-
imum Union Wage Scale” was
adopted in the first step to standard-
izing wage rates in the B.C. District.

Delegates who were present from all
IWA locals in the Province, representing
practically every major camp from Vic-
toria to the Queen Charlotte Islands, also
drafted a new “Master Contract” as a
basis for negoiations for “working agree-
ments” with employers. The importance
of agreements was stressed in the stabili-
zation of the industry and gaining of
| greater job security. Main provisions of
the draft agreement include:

1. Collective bargaining through a com-
mittee of the-employees and provision

for peaceful settlement of disputes
through arbitration.
2. Seniority.

3, Elimination of strikes and lockouts
for the duration of the agreement,

4. Provision for observance of regular
holidays ,time and a half for overtime
and double time for working on holidays.

5. Recognition of Safety Committee
elected by th employees to help reduce
accidents.

6. Provision for the check-off and em-
ployee-representation in hiring arrange-
ments,

7. Provision of board and commissary
at cost instead of on present profit-basis.
8. Arrangement for leave of absense.

Considerable discussion took place on
the wage scale particularly in regard to
the adoption of a rate for fallers and
buckers. It was considered by most
delegates impossible, until B.C. becomes
better organized, to abolish “bushelling”
and due to the differences in various
stands of timber even sometimes on the
same claim, the setting of a rate per
thousand board feet was also considered
impractical. The vast majority of dele-
gates considered the setting of a mini-
mum daily guarantee which members
would be prepared to go out and fight
for was-the best arrangement, and the
conference finally settled on demanding a
minimum of $6.00 per day. Delegates
decided, however, to make it clear that
this was not to be considered the Union
Scale, but a Minimum on which to elim-
inate some of the worst offenders who
are paying as low as $2.25 and $3.00 in
some cases.

Another important question taken up
by the Conference was the unfair use
of the “cheat-stick” and cases of under-
sealing. IWA Attorney, John Stanton
was instructed to prepare an outline of
the legal provision for checking this
“chisselling” and making a ‘public ex-
ample’ ‘of some of the operations which
are using this pernicious system of re-
ducing fallers and buckers wages.

Copies of this outline and as well as
copies of the Conference Report, em-
bodying the new Wage Scale and Draft-
agreement are coming off the press this
week and will be available free of charge
to all Camp Delegates. If you would like

one, write IWA Hearquarters, 504 Hol-
den Building, Vancouver. ; *