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ig Bulletin Published by The B.C. District Council, Internationa 1 Woodworkers of America, (CIO), Affiliated with Canadian Conexens of Labor

VANCOUVER, B.C., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1942

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Court proceedings in the case of
Canadian Western Lumber Com-
pany Ltd. versus employees opened
in Magistrate McQueen’s Courtroom
on Thursday, Oct. 8, with John Stan-
ton, employees’ counsel, asking for
one week’s adjournment, necessary
for the procuring of witnesses.
Walter Owen, counsel for the com-
pany, objected and as usual launched
a very premature and uncalled-for

attack on the union.
‘The court action arises out of the re-

.fusal of the company to bargain with a
committee elected by their employees. On
Sunday, Aug. 23, in an- employees’ meet-
ing in the Arenex, a majority of employ-
ees elected H. J. Pritchett, IWA District
President; Percy Smith, IWA Sub-Local
Chairman; Sid Stephens; E. Meyers; Levi
Farnsworth, and J, Greenall, TWA Inter-
national Organizer, as their negotiating
committee. Results of the ballot’ were
870 for and 4 against. There are approxi-
mately 1500 employees affected.

Harold Pritchett, who was made chair-
man of the committee, proceeded to con-
tact the company with a view to opening
negotiations, The company refused, claim-
ing that they were apprehensive as to the
legality of the committee, The employees,
of whom over 1300 are members of IWA
Local 1-217, through their committee
agreed to a ballot of certification being
taken at the plant gate, The company,
through their attorney, Walter Owen, de-
manded a new call for nominations. This
in the opinion of the IWA officers and the
employees is nothing less than a refusal
to bargain and they, therefore, felt that
they had no alternative’ but to apply the
powers of the ICA Act and instructed
John Stanton, IWA attorney, to proceed
with prosecution, The case will be re-
sumed in the Vancouver Police Court on
Tuesday, Oct. 18,

Death Toll
Reaches 44

‘The belated report of the death of
Brkard Oscar Lund was received this
week by the IWA. Lund, 44-year-old

logger employed at In-

dustrial Timber Mills’
Camp 6, Lake Cow-

ichan, was drowned | woodworkers
Aug. 28 when he fell have been
overboard from a tug. | kdiled in B.C’s
‘He leaves 2 wife in| umber in-
Vancouver to mourn | dustry since
his loss. Jan, 1, 1942

‘Thos, Henry Rock,
"46, an employee of the Hammond Cedar
ipany, was killed Oct. 2 when he fell
d into the slasher, Rock was a
man and had worked for the
about four years,

Jes Larmer, 31-year-old logger, was
injured Wednesday afternoon,
80, at Camp 6, Industrial Timber
Lake Cowichan, The head loader,
working the levers on a duplex
when a log fell and hit him on
"He died in the Duncan Hos-
hours later.” He leaves a wife

TWA CALLS FOR DELEGATES
.T0 EMERGENCY CONFERENCE

Arising out of a unanimous decision of B.C. District No. 1, International Woodworkers of America dele-
gates from the entire woodworking industry will meet in the city of Nanaimo in the Eagles’ Hall.on Sunday,

November Ist, at 10 am.

The need for stepping up Canada’s war effort and especially our section, the lumbering industry, and
the importance of collective bargaining to obtain the best possible results will be the only points for discus-
sion in this Emergency Conference. Provincial Minister of Labor George Pearson and other important pro-
vincial and federal government representatives are being invited to attend.

CCL Conv. Re-elects
President Mosher

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In the election of officers at the CCL’'s
recent Ottawa Convention, President A.
R. Mosher and Secretary Pat Conroy
were re-elected by acclamation. Others
elected included Vice-President McAus-
lane, Vice-President Saul Spivak, Execu-
tive Committee Members T, Prezeau, J.
EB, McGuire, C. H. Millard, Silby Barrett
and T. T. Johnson. Nigel Morgan was
elected to the National Executive Council
of the CCL to represent the woodworers.

Bloedel Shingle
Board On Tues.

Word has been received that the open-
ing session of the Arbitration Board in-
quiry into the dispute between Bloedel,
Stewart & Welsh Red Band Shingle Co.
and their employees will be held on Tues-
day, Oct. 13, 11 o'clock a.m. in the Van-
couver Court House. The Board will sit
under the chairmanship of Mr. Justice
(Robertson; other members being Bert
Gargrave, CUF MLA, the employees’ rep-
resentative; and R. V, Stuart, company
representative. Harold Pritchett, IWA
District president, will present the case
for the employees,

The main question before the Board is
recognition of the IWA as the bargaining
agency for the employees, who are al-
most 100 per cent members of the union,
The committee was able in negotiations
to settle some minor grievances, such as
sanitation and Saturday afternoon off.
‘The wage question has also been rectified
with raises of 6% and 7% cents per hour.

It is expected that the case will not take
more than three days to complete and the
IWA feels that the employees should re-
ceive a favorable award from the Board
in view of the strong organization which

they have in this mill,

Representation in this important con-¢
ference will be based on two delegates
from every sawmill and logging camp in
the province of British Columbia whether
fully organized, ‘partially organized or in
the process of organization,

With Canada involved in a just global
war against fascism, production of the
sitiews of war becomes the vital task of
every Canadian citizen and woodworkers
everywhere will not be found wanting in
their duty to this cause, Logs, lumber,
plywood, shingles and other wood prod-
ucts are necessary to Canada’s war effort
and the maximum production of these de-
pends upon the fullest cooperation on the
part of labor, management and govern-
ment.

It is felt that the conference can be
the means of acquainting greater num-
bers of workers with our all-out’ war pro-
gram and at the same tithe bring to the
attention of the -employers and govern~
ment the need for full yar partnership
and sound collective bargaining policies
which will make towards the desired
maximum production in this basic
dustry.

Woodworkers employed in all camps
and sawmills are urged to meet immedi-
ately and send their elected representa-
tives to this conference so that we can
be in a stronger position to assist our
government and cooperation with man-
agement in providing the materials of
war to open the second front as speedily
as possible and remove the menace of
Hitlerism forever from the face of the
earth,

IWA Urges
Rejection

In an attempt to bring about an amic-
able settlement of the plywood dispute,
District Pres. H. J. Pritchett this week
interviewed Labor Minister Pearson. Mr.
Pearson agreed that the Department of
Labor would, under provisions in the Act,
take a ballot on the company premises
as to whether the employees wish to ac-
cept or reject the award. No date has yet
been set for the taking of the ballot. Mr.
Pearson also said that copies of the
award would be distributed to all em-
ployees so that they might consider it
before voting. The IWA is urging all
employees to reject the award, because
its acceptance will mean a shut-out to
collective bargaining through a legiti-
mate trade union of the plywood workers
and adoption of the company-inspired
and company-controlled Employees’ Con-
ference Committee. Plywood workers
want a legitimate trade union and their
struggle for this can be strengthened by
rejection of the Arbitration Board's
award and thereby joining with Fraser
Mills, the ten camps and mills on Van-
couver Island and the sawmills of Port
Alberni in a campaign to press the Pro-
vineial Government for legislation which
will make collective bargaining with a
union representing the majority of the

in-

employees compulsory.

SUB-DISTRICT
NEGOTIATIONS
COMM. ELECTED

NANAIMO, B.C. — An announcement
was made this week by IWA-CIO Local
1-80, The election by an overwhelming
vote of the Sub-District Negotiating Com-
mittee recommended by the Sub-District
Negotiations Conference on August 30.
‘The committee which received a substan-
tial majority of votes from all camps
and mills affected, included John Parkin-
son from Chemainus Mill, John Starling
from Copper Canyon Camp, Burris Boley
from Fanny Bay, Camp 7, Carl Mont-
gomery from Camp 9, Youbou, Cecil Carr
from Hillcrest Mill, George Parlee from
Hillerest Camp, Wilf Killeen from You-
bou Sawmill, Art Gammie from Camp 3,
Youbou, Lorne Atchison from Camp 6,
Youbou, Albert Kidd from Mayo, and In-
ternational Executive Board Member
Nigel Morgan,

In meetings in each operation, the pro-
posed draft agreement was endorsed in
total with one exception. Namely, saw-
mill operations recommended the cheng-
ing of the hours clause to continue the
present arrangements of five: nine-hour
days with 3 hours on Saturday, instead
of six eight-hour days. The total hours
is the same in each case, but the mill
workers prefer an extra hour during the

week, which gives them a longer week-

end.

A meeting of the Negotiating Commit-
tee has been called for Sunday, October
18 in the Nanaimo Miners’ Hall (the same
day as Local 1-80's Annual Meeting).
There, reports will be given from each
operation and plans laid for approaching
the management concerned with a view
to getting negotiations under way as
quickly as possible.

Several operations have already elected
Production Committees ‘to co-operate
with their management in fulfilling the
Government’s urgent lumber require-
ments arid those that have not yet acted
on this proposal are urged to do so with-
out delay.

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