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THE B.C.

LUMBER WORKER

Page Three

Sawmill News

“Every Reader a Correspondent”

REPORTS

Plywood Arbitration Proceed

Arbitration proceedings got under
way this week before a board in-
vestigating the dispute between
MacMillan Industries Ltd, Ply-
woods Division, and its employees,
members of Local 1-217, Interna-

tional Woodworkers of America.
First witness called was International

Executive Board Member Nigel Morgan,
who, in the course of examination, es-
tablished purposes, aims and principles
of the International Woodworkers of
America.

Attorney Walter S, Owen, who will be
remembered for his anti-labor sentiments
during the American Can strike, cross-
examined Morgan and attempted to prove
that the IWA had no united policy. Mor-
gan brought out the fact that the IWA,
an organization representing 100,000
members, was completely unified behind
the excellent program adopted in con-
vention, that Canadian and American
membership were whole-heartedly pledg-
ed to all-out support of both govern-
ments for the defeat of Hitler.

Judge Boyd is presiding at the Arbitra-
tion Board, with Arthur Turner, CCF,
MLA, representing the employees, and
R, H. Tupper representing the employ-
ers. IWA District President Harold J.
Pritchett and IWA Local 1-217 President
Bert Melsness, assisted by Bert Marcuse,
director of the Pacific Coast Labor
Bureau, are presenting the employees’
case. It is expected that the proceedings
will take sometime because of the im-
portant bearing the case has on the
whole sawmill industry,

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Seek Information

Kustaa Helkii Luoma, 80-year-old
Finnish logger, was accidentally killed
by a B.C, Electric Interurban at Hast-
ings and Carrall Streets last week. He
was living at the London Hotel in
Vancouver and is survived by his wife
and four children in Finland, as well
as two brothers in Canada,

A request has been made to the IWA
by the police to assist in locating his
two brothers: Emil Luoma, who was
last heard of about a year ago at
Salmon Kiver, &.U. and Msko W.
Luoma, who was working at Hardy
Say last January for the General
Construction Company.

Anyone with information which
might assist in locating either of
these men is requested to communi-
cate with Nigel Morgan, Secretary,
IWA B.C, District Council, 504 Holden

Building, Vancouver, B.C.

Daines Brothers
Get Clearance

After formally recognizing a mistake
made during the 1934 loggers’ strike and
pledging loyalty to trade union principles
in future, Art and Sam Daines appeared
before officers of the IWA to apply for
membership and to request their names
be stricken from the IWA “Scab List.”

At a meeting of IWA Local 1-80 on
July 19, 1942, their cases were carefully
reviewed by the membership, and in
consideration of their pledges, a recom-
mendation that they be granted clear-
ance and admitted to membership was
adopted.

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Send 7 Delegates
To CCL Convention

In order to send seven IWA delegates
to the Third Annual Canadian Congress
of Labor Convention, to be held in Otta-
wa on September 14, the IWA has launch-

ed a monster campaign, with prizes to
be drawn at the IWA Labor Day Dance,
at Chemainus Community Hall, on Sat-
urday, August 22.

Delegates to this convention, which
might well be historic, meeting as it does
at a very~eritical period in democracy's
history, will fight for a Canadian “Wag-
ner Act” to guarantee union collective
bargaining, establishment of manage-
ment-labor production committees and
the opening of a Second Front in 1942
for speedier victory over Hitler, the re-
lease of all anti-fascists, Canadian labor
unity and international trade union
solidarity. ‘They will also ask for a
fairer arrangement for job and wage
control, lower taxes on the small income
bracket and placing of the tax burden
on those better able to pay.

Prizes in the draw are: First prize,
$50.00 cash; Second prize, Lady's or
Gent’s $35.00 suit; Third prize, Lady’s
or Gent’s $35.00 watch; Fourth prize,
Waterman’s pen and pencil set; Fifth
prize, Lady’s or Gent’s signet ring,
bearing IWA union emblem; Sixth
prize, “Something Scotch.”

Tickets can be obtained from all IWA
camp delegates and shop stewards, or
from the union office, 504 Holden Build-
ing.

Labor Day Danee
At Union Bay

A loggers’ dance will be held in the
Union Bay Hall, at Union Bay near
Courtenay on Saturday, August 22, un-
der the auspices of the International
Woodworkers of America, Courtenay
Sub-Local 1-80. The Top Hatters! six-
piece orchestra will provide the musi

Proceeds of the dance will go to the
IWA Convention Fund to-help send
seven IWA delegates from B.C. to the
First Annual Convention of the Canadian
Congress of Labor in Ottawa, September
14. District Vice-President Bergren was
elected at the last meeting of Local
1-80 to represent that local.

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IWA NEW OFFICE
AT WESTMINSTER

NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. — An-
nouncement was made last week of the
opening of headquarters here for the
International Woodworkers of America,
Local 1-217, with IWA OrganizerdJack
Greenall in charge, assisted by members
of the Provisional Committee from Fraser
Mills émployees. °

The new office is in the Ellis Block,
upstairs, on the corner of Columbia and
6th Street, opposite the Post Office, and
the telephone number is New Westmin-
ster 3187.

Members of the New Westminster
Trade Union Committee, representatives
of nearly all trade unions and working
class organizers in this city, recently
held a Klondyke Night and raised the
sum of $130.00 for the purpose of trade
union organization in this district,

In view of the fact that there are
practically 10,000 millworkers in the city
and district, the committee decided to
donate $100 to the International Wood-
workers of America for organizational
work in the lumber industry in that
district,

This generous contribution greatly
contributed to the possibility of opening
the new office in New Westminster,
which has long been needed. Already
millworkers from Fraser Mills and other
mills nearby have been flocking to the
office to join up and pay their dues.

Tf you haven't already joined the
union, drop into the office and do so
now.

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