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ED BAND SHINGLE AWARD WILL HELP

GET AMENDMENT OF B.C. LABOR ACT

Lake Log Production
_ Com‘ttee To Give Prizes

ROUNDS, «B.C.—There will be:

few, if any, men absent when the
Lake Log camp here opens on
January 5 after the Xmas holiday
shutdown, according to a pledge
taken by the crew at the request
of the joint management-union
production committee last week.
Manager H. W. Hunter has donat-
ed a $100 Victory Bond, a $50 Vic-
tory Bond and two $25 Bonds, to
be drawn for the first day camp re-
opens. All names of the crew at
the time of the closure will be put
in a barrel by the Production Com-
mittee and kept until the drawing
the day camp opens when the
drawing will take place. The first
name drawn who is in camp that
evening will get the prize.

A number of meetings of the

_ Joint Committee have now been

jor

the greatly increased membership

held and the job of getting maxl-
mum production for the war effort
is receiving serious consideration
of all. A number of new ideas,
short -cuts for getting more lum-
ber quicker to help luick Hitler,

have already ben submitted, and /4

the Company is offermg a $20.00
cash prize every month for the
best suggestion submitted,

At last week's meeting, Interna-
tional Executive Board Member
Nigel Morgan, who with Manager
H. W. Hunter has a standing in-
vitation to attend any meeting of
the Production Committee, ad-
dressed the crew with the Com-
pany's superintendent, Earl Olts.
"Tn a war industry where the anti-
labor attitude of many employers
constitutes an obstacle to produc-
tion (in the Queen Charlotte Is-
Jands operators for the past year
have been refusing the union's
claim for recognition) good rela~
tions between the management and
the IWA at Lake Log afford a
striking instance,” Morgan said,
“of what can be achieved when
labor is given an equal share and
responsibility in production.”

See’y Benidict
Visits Canada

BE. BE. Benedict, secretary treas-
urer of the Intertnational Wood-
workers of America CIO, was a
visitor to British Columbia this

week. Coming from Portland,
Oregon, to confer with district
officers, he expressed the hope that

of the IWA in district one, which
takes in all Canadian locals, will
‘result in negotiation of union con-|
tracts, from which greater stability
and inereased production would re-

number of administration
yblems were discussed at the
ti with the district officers,
arrangements made for the
of supplies in Vancouver
locals to speed up serv-

n the international office.
ent of additional field

for B.C. was also dis-

Victoria Mill Girls
Ask Wage Increase

Girls employed by Lemon Gon-
nason’s Sawmill in Victoria paid
at $2c per hour appealed to IWA
local 1-118 to take up their case
with the Regional War Labor
Board. Local officers in co-opera-
tion with the District Council and
the Pacific Coast Labor Bureau
have presented a brief to the Re-
gional War Labor Bureau through

which it is hoped the wages for
girls employed in this mill will be
brought up to the standard of
other plants in B.C. A petition cir-
culated by the girls and letter pre-
sented to the management brought
a flat refusal to increase the scale.

Mayor to Open
IWA Convention

MAYOR CORNETT

Acceptance of the invitation to
officially open the Sixth Annual

Convention of IWA-CIO District
Council No. 4 was received from

SEASON’S GREETINGS

IN THE threshold of the most critical
year in world history, the Interna-

war industry.

VANCOUVER, B.C.— Another award from a provincial
government Arbitration Board, which drew sharp. criticism
from labor and progressive circles, was brought down last week
in the Bloedel “Red Band” Shingle Mill dispute. The award,
which clearly showed the urgent need for amendment of the
Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, recommended an
employees’ agreement for the Bloedel crew, which is 90 per
cent IWA. The majority award against the union was signed
by Mr. Justice Robertson and R. V. Stuart.

Herbert Gargrave, MLA, third member of the Board, took
exception to the Robertson-Stuart finding. Mr. Gargrave said
that “The attitude of the only witness of the company, Mr. Sid-
ney Smith, vice-president, is astounding in this period of in-
dustrial progress. In matters affecting labor relationship we

His Worship Mayor Cornett of
Vancouver this week. Invitations
to the Convention, which will com-
mence at 10 am. on January 2,
have also been sent to Interna-
tional President Worth Lowery;
CCL Secretary Pat Conroy; Minis-
ter of Labor George Pearson; CCF
Leader Harold Winch; IWA At-
torney John Stanton; Pacific Coast
Labor Bureau Director Bert. Mar-
cuse; Timber Controller A. L.. Wil-
liamson, as well as to the repre-
sentatives of Selective Service and
the armed forces.

‘A Convention Banquet has also
been arranged for Saturday night,

stability in this great thirty-thousand man

January 2, in Chris, Grill, 872
Granville St., Vancouver, B.C.

tional Woodworkers of America extends
best wishes for a successful and construc-
tive New Year to all.

We pledge our united efforts with all
of labor to intensify our program to or-
ganize the unorganized, to achieve and
maintain union security, to defend Ca-
nadian living standards against profiteer-
ing, against inflationary price increases
and against everything else that threat-
ens to lower morale and hamper labor
from making the all-important contribu-
tion it is eager to make, to win victory for
freedom and democracy and to build a
better post-war world.

The one hundred percent increase in
IWA membership in District No. 1 during
the last year clearly demonstrates the de-
termination with which B.C. woodwork-
ers are closing their ranks to play a de-
cisive role with the CCL in winning this
war against Jabor’s. greatest enemy,
Nazism, and to thus ensure the winning
of the peace that must inevitably follow.
_ With unprecedented economic gains to
its credit, which in turn have done much
to improve worker-morale and thereby
increase vital war production, the Inter-
national Woodworkers of America has
now grown to a point where it can be
instrumental in the establishment of
sound industrial relations, harmony and

nual aggregate wage hoists won last year,
and negotiations proceeding today in 23
logging camps and sawmills in this prov-
ince, IWA members are leaving no stone
unturned to protect democracy at home
while working with maximum energy to
provide “aeroplane” spruce and urgently
needed lumber materials for an immedi-
ate second European land front in’ the
fight for democracy and a better world
abroad.

the battle for production, we are pressing
for just collective bargaining rights and
full partnership for labor in the councils
of our nation, for the speedy destruction
of Nazism.

and in the performance march forward
to victory for Canada and the working
people of every land. In achieving this
goal a united labor movement has an im-
portant role to play. A defeat for one is
a defeat for all—and a gain for one is a
gain for all. In the new year, let us unite
our ranks as never before; let us cement
the solidarity of our great union in
unified action, in intensified effort, for a
sound and purposeful program in this
critical hour of our nation’s history. Vic-
tory means our freedom and our right
to live as human beings! Defeat means
slavery and death!

With over half a million dollars in an-

In the interests of a total war effort in

This job we are determined to perform,

Ycannot afford to take the narrow

legalistic interpretation as it seems
to me to be taken by the other
members of the Board. The Com-
pany recognizes the right of the
employees to join a union but re-
fuses to recognize the logical con-
summation of such an act, that is,
an agreement between the union
and the company.”

The decision of the majority of
the Arbitration Board is based on
Section 5 of the ICA Act which
requires the company-to-enter into
an agreement with its employees
but does not compell them to enter
into an agreement with the union
chosen by its employees.

Labor Minister George S. Pear-
son, when contacted, explained
that the Act provides only for col-
lective bargaining between an em-
ployer and the majority of his em-
ployees, The Act lays no compul-
sion on the employer to enter into
an agreement with his employees
as a result of bargaining or ne-
gotiating.

The weakness of the Act is again

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One Sub-Local

At Duncan Now

DUNCAN, B.C—Four IWA sub-
locals in the Cowichan district,
namely Hillcrest( Mayo, Wellburn
and Shawnigan Lake united to
form one sub-local last week.
last week. George Parlee of the
former Hillcrest sub-local was elect-
ed president, and George Maynard
of the former Wellburn sub-local
was elected secretary. Hjalmer Ber-
gren, district vice-president, ad~ ©
dressed the meeting reporting on
progress and organization of wood-
workers in the Alberni area.

Last week sub-local offices were
established for the Duncan area in
the Patterson Block above the Is-
land Drug Store at the corner of
Craig and Station Streets, oppos-
ite the Cowichan Merchant. Broth-
er George Grafton who is acting as
business agent for the Youbou-
Cowichan Lake-Duncan area will
make the new office his head-
quarters. Said Brother Grafton,
“The new sub-local will greatly
strengthen the IWA in this dis-
trict and make concerted action
for agreements to consolidate our
organization more feasible. It will
also, cut out an unnecessary dupli-
cation of work on the part of the

union and sub-local officers.”