THE B.C.

LUMBER WORKER

Page Three

Sawmill News

“Every Reader a Correspondent”

REPORTS

Committe
Secretary
Joins Army

Maurice Rush, prominent young

secretary of the Vancouver Com-
munist-Labor Total War Commit-
tee, this week announced his in-
tention to enlist in the armed forces
early in January when arrange-
ments had been made to release
him from the important work he
See

MAURICE RUSH

is now conducting through the
committee for the war effort, Rush

Fraser Mills
To Certify
Committee

NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C.—
Fraser Mills employees, it is ex-
pected, will leave the management
of Canadian Western Lumber Com-
pany no ground for disputing the
right of their elected committee to
represent them in negotiating a
union agreement when they meet
in Edison Theatre here this com-
ing Sunday to nominate and elect
a committee,

Right of the committee elected
from a mass meeting of Fraser
Mills employees a few weeks ago
to bargain for the workers was
questioned by the company, which
doubted that it was representative
of its employees. To eliminate any
ground for dispute, the Internation-
al Woodworkers of America, whose
local 1-357 includes nearly all Fras-
er Mills employees in its member-
ship, agreed to hold another. meet-
ing to elect a committee.

Sunday's meeting will hear Har-
old Winch, while ex-Ald, Mott, can-
}didate for mayor in the forthcom-

‘Jing Civic elections, has been asked

to attend in the capacity of ob-
server in view of Labor Minister
George Parson’s refusal to send
an official observer.

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because he felt that “every young
person who is able should take up
arms in defense of the freedom of

tated he was entering the army

our country and to defeat fascism.”

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on Friday, Nov.
‘mill laid off the night shift du

Boundary Road Mill
Closes For Repairs

Red Band Shingle Mill at Boundary

Road is closing down

27, for extensive repairs. Some time ago, this

ie to a shortage of timber. The

ill will resume operations just before Christmas. The crew

that it would have been better had the mill continued to

until just before Christmas and then shut

but, apparently, not mi

announced that regular

will be held each month
; Dee. 6 at 2 pm. in the
n Building. All members of
Mill Sub-local are ask-
d as there is much union
to be done and some offi-
elected. It is hoped that the
at Boundary Road Shingle
will all return after the tem-

have their case before
The shut-down comes
tune time, in view

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down for
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‘Executive of the Shingle Mil) ———H———____*_

of the fact that their dispute is
before the courfts, but it is hoped
that the case will be favorably
decided by the time the mill re-
opens,

A SECOND FRONT NOW
WILL SPEED VICTORY!

5c per Issue

MOHAWK MILLWORKERS VOTE
163 ‘YES’ FOR TWENTY CLAUSES

READ

“THE PEOPLE”

LABOR’S VOICE for VICTORY

Published at
104 Shelly Bldg. — Vancouver, B.C.

There was no abstainers when a
vote was taken among employees
of Mohawk Lumber Company here
recently on 20 clauses of an agree-
ment now being negotiated between
the International Woodworkers of
America and the Company through
Conciliation Commissioner James
‘Thompson.

Employees voted 161 for, and 5
against acceptance of the 20 clauses
on which agreement has already
been reached and 163 for, and 3
against continuation of negotiations
on the eight clauses of the agree-
ment still in dispute. There was
one spoiled in each case.

A production committee re-
cently established reports that pro-
duction is down 50,000 feet a day,
due to loss of skilled workers and
poor logs. Every effort will be
made, the committee asserts, to
bring production back to its for-
mer level.

The Company co-operated whole-
heartedly with the committee on
the taking of the ballot. The time
office was used and all employees
were given ample opportunity to
cast their ballot. Previous to the

BEST WOOD CREW
GET INCREASE

Last week the Regional War
Labor Board granted permission
to the Bestwood Cedar Shingle
Co. Limited at Barnett to in-
crease wages as follows: Saw-
yers from 29¢ to 30c and Pack-
ers from 17c to 18%c per square.
Block Pilers received an increase
of Se per hour from 55c¢ to 60c.
No increase was granted to the
balance of the crew, and the cost
of living bonus remains at 60c
per week, At a recent meeting
of the crew, who are all IWA
members, it was decided to pre-
sent a brief to the War Labor
Board. However, before the brief
could be completed by the union,
the company made application
and it was decided that the IWA
brief would be held off until re-
sults of the company’s request
were known.

balloting, President Pritchett ad-
dressed a mass meeting of the em-
ployers in the plant. It is expect-
ed that if settlernent cannot be
reached in conciliation, the dis-
pute will be referred to a board of
arbitration,

A novel way of combatting
has just come to the attention

each towards its solution. ¢

A drawing will be held every
month, each employee participating.
However, if the winner has not had
@ good attendance record for the
month, the money will go to the
company.

“We feel that in doing it this
way, the men would feel worse
than if the prize was drawn again
and given to someone who had not
been absent,” was the way the
Production Committee expressed
their views on the plan,

The winners each month will be
|Posted on the bulletin board and
if a member has forfeited his prize
because of absenteeism, this will
also be made public.

We wish to congratulate the
members of this committee on the
excellent job they are doing. These
are the kind of ideas that are help-
(ing to increase vital war produc-
.tion and to build labor-management

$2.00 a Year

Fights Absenteeism
APL Production Comm.

absenteeism in war production
of The B.C. Lumber Worker.

The Production Committee of the Alberni Pacific Lumber
Company, faced with the problem of solving this very serious
bottleneck in their plant, is offering ten prizes a month of $10

cooperation so sorely needed at this
time.
Keep up the good work, boys!

CHIPS and
SAWDUST

By GREEN-CHAIN PETE

Last week the IWA was pleased
to be.able to send an organizer
into the area surrounding Mission.
The Sawmill Locals on the main-
land are really spreading out and
will soon be competing with the
Island Locals at least in as far
as arear is concerned. The boys
at Mission are to be congratulated.

Some weeks ago I predicted
that the boys at Alaska Pine in
New Westminster would soon be
over the top and I was right. Or-
ganization in that mill has pro-
gressed steadily and now they are
all ready to adopt an agreement
and elect a committee to negoti-
ate, This is another major opera-
tion in New Westminster which is
organized and that fact is a credit
to the officers and membership of
Local 1-357 IWA. n

A short while ago, it appeared
that something was going to hap-
pen in the way of organization in
Sitka Spruce, but.so far nothing
has developed which would be of
major importance. Perhaps some
of the boys in Alberta Mills could
help things along here. Now that
the Queen Charlotte Island Camps
are definitely on the way to union
agreement, it is about time Sitka
Spruce employees became organized
as well. Let's go ahead and organ-
ize spruce production from the
“STUMP to the FINISHED PRO-
DUCT.

Another report from the New
Westminster area tells us that the
employees of the Mohawk Handle
Co. are also moving to negotiate
a union agreement. It looks like
Westminster is soon going to be
a 100 percent union town.

A report came in from Best Wood
Cedar Shingles that a raise has
been granted as of Monday, Nov.
30. Wildcat strike action was avert-
ed in this mill through the efforts
of Brother Bill Bennett, secretary-
organizer for Local 1.217, when he
ironed out what was, apparently,
a misunderstanding ou the part of
the Chinese Crew.

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