_ Bi-weekly Bulletin Published by The B.C. District Council, International Woodworkers of America, Affiliated to Congress of Industrial Org:

anizations (CIO)

VOL. XII. No. 3
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VANCOUVER, B.C., MONDAY; FEBRUARY 8, 1943

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A “Union Hiring Permit’ Under

DISTRICT COUNCIL MEET UNANIMOUSLY
“BACKS ITS OFFICERS IN GCL DISPUTE

Delegates Back Appeal
Against Commission Act

NANAIMO. — Sixty-five

delegates attending a special

meeting of the IWA-CIO B.C. District Council here Sund:
Cy ay
heard a full report from the District officers on develo
leading up to suspension of affiliation by the two-man com-
mission appointed by the executive council of the Canadian

Congress of Labor to investigate

_ Selective Service Regulations

_ Permit for Union Camp
Can be Had by Union
Members at IWA Office

Acceptance of the application
of LW.A,-C.L0., District Council
No. 1 for a Hiring Permit from
National Selective Service was
announced this week by Nigel
Morgan, LW.A, District Secre-
tary. In the letter from Arthur
MacNamara, Associte Deputy
Minister of Labour and Director
of National Selective Service, au-
thority for the I.W.A. to continue -
to net as dn intermediary between
the employers and members of
the union was granted, subject,‘
of course, to the standard regu-
lations of Selective Service in con-

~ nection with union hiring. These
regulations include:

1. The Union shall communicate
} with the Local Office, before re-
. ferring a members or members to

a job, to determine whether or
not there is any essential work
to which the member or members
should be sent;

2, A member may not be referred
to a particular job by the Union
if the National Selective Service
Officer wishes to have him re-

. ferred to any other job;

3. When referring 2 member to a
job, the Union shall issue a per-
mit (NSS 122) which has been
previously signed in blank by
the National Selective Service
Officer;

4, The Union shall deliver or mail
to the Local Office, not later than
noon of each day, the Local Of-
fice copy of each permit issued
on the preceding day; %

5. Any permit granted by your Un-

jon on behalf of a Local Office
may be revoked at any time by

the National Selective Service

— Officer; %

If a Union member serves notice

of termination of employment on

his employer or reeives his em-

_ ployer notice of separation, he
| may deliver his copy of the no-
tice either to the Union agent
to the Local Office;
en a Union agent refers a
aber to a job, he shall for-

to the Local Office, with the
eal Office copy of the permit,

employee's copy of notice of
tion from previous em-

Lake Logging Co.
Giwes Prizes To
Aid Production

Four valuable cash prizes were
donated recently by the Lake
Logging Company to the Joint
Management Labour Committee
in their Rounds Camp. The Com-
mittee, composed of six repre-
sentatives selected by the LW.A.
Sub-local at Rounds, arranged a
drawing as a means of getting
co-operation with the crew in re-

eturaing (3 the job promptly after_!

the Christmas shut-down. Names~
of all employees, who stayed in

camp till the last day, were taken

and placed in a container. The

day after camp re-opened, Janu-

ary 11, names were drawn and

if the winner had not been in

camp the day it re-opened, then

he was ineligible for the prize

and another drawing took place.

Brother Krawchuk, camp Fire-

man, and 3 member of the Union,

who was unable to get to camp in

time to compete, conducted the

drawing, which resulted in the

following winning prize:
Joe Stoffko, Truck Roadman—$100.
Chris Henell, Head Brakey — $50.
Joe Gosky, Section Man — $25.
Stan Pearson, Donkey-puncher—$25.

‘Unfortunately, snow conditions

have since closed the operation

again, but, in view of the Com-

pany’s co-operation, both in the

field of increasing vital war pro-

duction as well as in the matter

of industrial relations, the Union

is urging all members of the crew

that possibly can to return when

the camp opens, Lake Log is one

of the few camps in B.C. where

the men are working under an

agreement embracing (a) Senior-
ity rights, (2) That all employees

must be LW.A. members, and

(8) Recognized Grievance and
Safety Committees,

ployment, if the copy has not

been deposited at the Local Of-

fice.

‘The LW.A. is urging members of
the Union to report to the District
Office where hiring facilities are
being provided. Close co-operation

(Continued on Page 8)

See HIRING PERMIT

NEW “'LOGGERS’

Industry of this Province.”

That it will go a long way to-
wards doing so is the opinion of
the District Officers of the Inter-
national Woodworkers of America.
“We heartily welcome the estab-
lUshment of this new Hiring Hall,”
stated Nigel Morgan, “because it
will solve a justifiable grievance
which loggers had before Selective
Service could make arrangements
for the extension when they had
a small room in the basement.”’

“The IWA in its District Coun-
cil meeting on Sunday, urged all
members to hire out directly
through the new Selective Service

SELECTIVE SERVICE SETS UP
HIRING HALL”

WITH IMPROVED AC

COMMODATIO

Pictured above from left to right are District President Harold
Pritchett, Assistant Regional Superintendent of Unemployment Insur-
ance Wm. McKinstry and District Secretary Nigel Morgan in the new
Hiring Hall established this week by Selective Service in Vancouver.
The spacious office, which takes in practically the entire second floor
of the Odd Fellows’ Building at the corner of Hamilton and Pender
Streets (just above Victory Square). It is well lighted and, in fact,
one of the finest Hiring Halls of its kind in Canada. H. C. Hearns,
who is in charge of the office, has, at present, a staff of seven,
which will be increased as needs require.

“We are proud of this new Hall,” said Mr. McKinstry, “because
we shall be able to take 500 applications a day without causing any
hardship to anybody. “We hope this new Hiring Hall will provide a
solution to employment problemg in the vital Logging and Sawmill

Hall because we believe this agency
will solve a lot of our hiring prob-
lems and thereby help the produc-
tion of lumber in Canada’s war
effort,” he stated. “It will certain-
ly completely eliminate the Black
List under which many union log-
gers have suffered loss of employ-
ment for years past simply because
they were union members and it
will also do away with a lot of
chiseling and fee charging for jobs
which have been a grievance of
men going through certain private

(Continued on Page Two)
See LOGGERS’ HALL

the dispute in the Boilermakers

‘@2nd Iron Shipbuilders’ Union of

Vancouver, the Vancouver Iabor
[Council and affiliated unions, in-
pouaing the IWA. After a full dis-
fussion of the action taken by the
Canadian Congress, delegates voted
unanimously (1) to endorse their
officers and condemh the Com-
mission's. action as unwarranted
and-a violation of the Congress
Constitution. (2) Voted in favor
of instructing officers to appeal
the suspension.

Delegates heard a report on the
Joint Labor Delegation, which had
‘interviewed the Provincial Cabinet
in connection with amendments of
the ICA Act, the Workmen’s Com-
pensation Act, and other legislative
matters, urged by the IWA in its
Six Annual Convention in Van-
couver in January, The executive
reported representations had been
made in connection with these
matters and an attentive hearing
given the delegation. The Council
meeting later endorsed the memor-
andum submitted by the Joint
Labor Delegation and instructed
Pres. H. Pritchett and Secretary
Nigel Morgan to appear with the
Joint Union Delegation before the
House Labor Committee and to in-
terview members of the Provincial
Legislature with a view to get-
ting favorable action on the IWA’s
program,

Lumber Toll
Reaches Three

The toll of death in B.C’s lum-
bering industry for the year 1943,

last week rose

to three with the
death of Thomas

George Elliott, | Wooaworken
who died in the} rave been
Nanaimo Gener- | yilled in B.C.’s
al Hospital, lumber in-
where he was dustry since
admitted several] Jan, 1, 1948

weeks ago fol-
lowing injuries sustained while at
work in an Island sawmill.

Also reported was the death of
John Sarnoveki who was killed at
C, & A. Camp, Port McNeill, by a
falling snag. Sarnoveki is a native
of Czechoslovakia and it is not
known if he has relations in Can-

ada.