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LUMBER WORKER

Page Three

Sawmill News

“Every Reader a Correspondent”

REPORTS

WHITE PINE CREW
REJECT CO. UNION

A move to shut out the IWA at the
MacMillan-owned Canadian White Pine
and Dominion Mills last week, failed
: when the 700-odd employees voted over-

whelmingly against the establishment of
@ company-sponosored Employees’ Asso-

‘ ciation,
A mimeographed leaflet issued on the
: advice of the company, over the signa-
ture of William Hall and J. 8, Chambers
of the company's “Employees’ Commit-
tee,” stated: “The management of this
company (Canadian White Pine and Do-
minion Mills) has advised your committee
that while the committee system of rep-
resentation has been very satisfactory in
the past, it is their desire to improve
the relationship between the company

‘ and its employees, and feels that this
can best be done by the formation of an
association amongst the employees of the
company. 4

“Tt is felt that an association chartered
with the provincial government would
obtain greater recognition from the vari-
ous government departments, and by
having a working agreement with the
company would create a better under-
standing for all concerned.

“Your committee has come to a mutual
understanding with the company whereby
the management is prepared to enter
into negotiations and sign an agreement
with ITS OWN employees. A tentative
agreement has been drawn up including
such items as: (1) Recognition of an
Employees Association as the bargaining
yA agency; (2) Holidays with pay; (3) Seni-
ority provisions; (4) Call and stand-by
time; (5) Settlement of grievances, etc.

“Such an agreement is acceptable to
: the company if sponsored by an associa-
E tion of its own employees, and would

keep the control of the employees’ af~
fairs amongst your own fellow workmen’

‘The company’s flowery proposals, put
on a company-mimeographed leaflet, did
not confuse the millworkers at White
Pine and Dominion Mills, for they voted
down the company’s “suggestions” with
strong NO vote, and are now moving to
establish a genuine trade union local af-
filiated to IWA Local 1-217.
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Crew At Boundary Road Shingle
Mill Will Elect Bargaining Comm.

In compliance with the Industrial
Conciliation and Arbitration Act, a
notice was posted by the Mill Com-
mittee of the Boundary Road Shingle
Mill calling all’employees to a meet-
ing last Sunday evening to discuss a
working agreement with the com-
pany and election of a Bargaining
Committee.

This mill, one of the largest operations |
in Canada, is owned by the Bloedel,
Stewart & Welch Company. With the
exception of 53 Chinese, the union is
organized 100 per cent in the plant. The
Chinese workers are reluctant to join
because of the Chinese contractor, known
as. “War Jack,” who works hand in hand
with the company to keep the Chinese
under its influence.

The meeting was very enthusiastic,
electing Floyd Hamilton chairman, Alex
Pinton secretary. IWA District President
Harold Pritchett outlined the procedure
to follow under the ICA Act.

Unanimous ‘in its desire to obtain an
agreement with the company, the meet-
ing set aside the following Sunday, June
28, for an all-out meeting to adopt the
contract and set up a Bargaining Com-
mittee.

Notices are now posted to that effect,
with Superintendent Randall reluctant

to tear them down in defiance of the
Act, as he did last week.

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A spectacular two-alarm fire burned
to the ground the mill of Sterling Lum-
ber Co., foot of Victoria Drive, on Sun-
day night.

The fire, which apparently started on
the roof, was discovered by occupants
of a prowler car, who saw flames licking
the roof of the power house.

The blaze destroyed the boiler house,
sawmill, and the shingle mill; two re-
cently installed boilers and two thousand
dollars’ worth of electrical machinery.

Damage is estimated by company offi-
cials at $100,000. Flames were not brought
under control until an hour after the
alarm was given.

Three or four men were working in

the mill at the time, but no one was in-
jured.

Stam Levy Thanks
Victoria Millworkers

To the Editor:

On behalf of my wife, son and myself
I wish to express our thanks to all the
boys at McCarter’s and Horton’s Shingle
Mills in Victoria for the very generous
gift which I received through Louis
Zeigler and Red Hemion.

We were greatly touched by the kind-
ness and thoughtfulness and trust you
will let the boys know how we feel
about it, Yours fraternally,

907 Market St. Victoria, STAN LEVY.

with the girls!

PAc. 8456

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$100,000 Blaze Destroys
Sterling Mill And Equipment

Courtenay Boys
Greet Red Army

COURTENAY, B.C.—The fol-
lowing wire was sent this week
by the Secretary of the Courtenay
Sub-Local congratulating the So-
viet forces on their heroic resist-
ance to Nazi aggression;

To J. Stalin,
Supreme Commander,
Armed Forces, Moscow, USSR:

“Allow our organization to con-
vey deepest gratitude for the gal-
lant stand Soviet people, Red
Army, air forces avy and
guerrilla fighters have made this
past year against our common
enemy. We pledge our full sup-
port to make 1942 the year of
victory for the United Nations
by supporting the opening of a
Second European Land Front.”

(Signed): E, F. Anderson, Sec.,
Courtenay Sub-Local,
IWA-CIO Local 1-80,

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