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Bi-weekly Bulletin Published by The B.C. District Council, International Woodworkers of America, Affiliated to Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)

VOL. XI. No. 5

VANCOUVER, B.C., MONDAY, MARCH 8, 1943

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Woodworkers of America (CIO)

gotiations

Prove Highly Successful

Negotiations between the managements of the Victoria
Lumber Manufacturing Company Limited, the Lake Logging
Company Ltd., and representatives of their employees, 90 per
cent of whom are members of Local 1-80 of the International

» got under way this weekend.

The meeting with the first company took place in the Che-

mainus office of the VL &M Company, with Manager John

Humbird, Mill Superintendent Har-?

old Evans, and Logging Superin-
tendent Thor Christianson repre-
senting the management, and John
Parkinson, Burris Boley, John
Starling, Cecil Carr, George Parlee,
Lorne Atchison, Alex Gammie, Wilf
Kileen and Nigel Morgan ‘repre-
senting the employees.

The meeting with the Lake Log-
ging Company was held in the
head office of Local 1-80 in Duncan.
Manager H. W. Hunter, Mr. Ken-
neth Rounds and mill manager
Haskill represented the company,
and Albert Kidd, A. McArthur,
Cecil Carr, George Parlee, John
‘Parkinson, Lorne Atchison, Alex
Gammie, Wilf CKileen, George
Grafton and Nigel Morgan, the
employees. In addition to the
question of a’ union agreement, the
Committee also took up the matter
of wages, which it was agreed
would be referred to a Committee

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Death Toll In
Industry Up

The toll of death in B.C's lum-
bering industry for the year 1943
rose to nine this week with the
veports of six more logging fatali-
ties.

Carl Higgins,
60-year-old vet- 1 0

Woodworken
have been

eran logger,
died on Feb. 24
in the Nelson
hospital from
injuries received
when he slipped
from a skidway
and fell about 12
fect. He landed on his head on

_ hard-packed ‘snow.

"A brief report to Provincial Pol-
Feb, 19, said Albert Gertmeyer
was fatally injured at Oliver, B.C.
‘He was crushed when a log rolled
him, Further details were not

dustry since
Jan. 1, 1943

See DEATH TOLL
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PROPOSED I.C.A. ACT AMENDMENT

Highlight of the past week was the long expected introduction last Friday of the bill to

amend the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act of British Columbia. The changes
in the Act, introduced by Minister of Labor George Pearson, contain several very important
steps forward, including the guarantee by law that where the majority of the employees are
members of a trade union, that union shall have the right to bargain for all employees af-
fected. This amendment clarifies the status of unions as bargaining agencies—a point which
has been the subject of considerable controversy in recent months and the direct cause of
more than two-thirds of our industrial disputes.

The original act legalized the right of employees and employers to organize for any lawful
purpose, but didn’t define the bargaining powers of trade unions as set forth in the amendment,

The new amendment dealing with bargaining status states:
(1) It shall be lawful for employees to bargain collectively with their employer.
(2)Collective bargaining shall be conducted on behalf of employees by bargaining repre-

sentatives.

Newly Elected District Officers

Installed At Board Meeting

Mar. 3

Left to right, seated: Mark Mosher, third vice-president, Loggers’ Local 1-85; Ernie Dalskog, second
vice-president, Loggers’. Local 1-71; Winnie Williams, stenographer; Bert Melsness, secretary-treasurer,
Plywood Local 1-217; Harold Pritchett, president, Sawmill Local 1-217; Hjalmar Bergren, first vice-
president, Loggers’ Local 1-80; Jack Lindsay, three-year trustee, Sawmill Local 1-357; Perey Smith, ex-
ecutive committee member from Local 1-357. Standing: Darshan Singh Sangha, two-year trustee, Saw-
mill Local 1-118; Nigel Morgan, International Executive Board Member, District No. 1, Loggers’ Local
171. Absent: Heman Valley, one-year trustee, Loggers’ Local 1-80; and Frank Carlson, Executive
Committee Member from Local 1-71.

The first meeting of the newly elected Executive Board of
IWA-CIO District Council No. 1 was held on March 3 at Dis-
trict Headquarters, 504 Holden Building, Vancouver. Nigel
Morgan, International Executive Board member, installed the

newly elected officers, who then proceeded to discuss the busi-.

ness of the union.

The most important matter was
the proposed changes to the Indus-
trial Conciliation’ and Arbitration
Act. Members of the board were
of the opinion that the ICA Act
was a tremendous step forward in
labor legislation, The board in-
structed Nigel Morgan to proceed
Delegation where points such as
to Victoria with the Joint Labor
(1) the elimination of all reference

to employees’ organizations, (2) the
inclusion of a clause insuring the
signing of a joint agreement be-
tween the management and the
union on the completion of nego-
tiations, and (3) elimination of the

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Important Notice

Due to office expansion, it has
been necessary to change our
telephone number. When calling
the District Office in the future,
please call PAcific 4151

‘The question of time-and-a-half
premium overtime pay in the lum-
bering industry was thoroughly dis-
cussed. The executive was instruct-

clause permitting changing of the ed to proceed with the preparation

bargaining agency after a
months’ period, will be discussed
with the Minister of Labor and the
government,

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six, and presentation of a brief to the

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(3) Employees may elect bar-
gaining representatives by ma-
jority vote, but if a majority of
employees affected are members
of one trade union, that union
shall have the right to conduct
bargaining. In that case, union
officers or such persons as the
union may elect shall be bar-
gaiinng representatives whether
union members or not.

(4) Notification shall be given
the Labor Minister of the election
of bargaining representatives,
whether elected by the employees
or through a trade union,

(5) The minister may satisfy
himself by such steps as he thinks
Proper that the election was reg-
ularly and properly conducted and,
in the case of union claiming bar-
gaining rights, that a majority of
the employees affected are mem-
bers of the union.

(6) If the minister is not satis-
fied, he may require a new election.

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Courtenay To
Have Charter

Loggers in the Courtenay-Camp-
bell River-Fanny Bay area made
application to the International Of-
fice of the IWA-CIO last week for
a new Local Charter, which would
take in all loggers and millworkers
on the East Coast of Vancouver
Island from Qualicum north as far
as Menzies Bay. The. increased
membership and consolidation of
the organization which was form-
rely a part of Local 1-80 as well as
new transportation difficulties lead
to the application for another local.
The application has the official
endorsement of Local 1-80 as well
as the District Council. The grant-
ing of this new Charter will bring
IWA Locals in B.C. up to a.total of

seven with forty-two functioning
Sub-Locals,

The head office of Local 1-80,
formerly at the foot of Cowichan
Lake and for the last year located
in Nanaimo, has been transferred
to Duncan, which is the most

See NEW CHARTER.
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