VANCOUVER, B.C., MONDAY, JUNE 28, 1943

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ndustrial Timber Mills

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IWA Brief On Overtime Pay In
industry Is Being Considered

2 VANCOUVER.—Establishment of time-and-one-half for all work in excess of eight hours

in any one day or 48 hours in any one. week for the sawmill industry of this province ap-
peared likely this week after a delegation including District President Harold Pritchett, Dis-
trict Secretary Bert Melsness, Bill Bennett, secretary of Local 1-217, and Percy smith, busi-
ness agent of Local 1-357, appeared: before the B.C. Board of Industrial Relations. The lum-

bering and sawmill industries
are the only two in B.C. which
do not provide for-time-and-

_ YOUBOU, B.C. — Negotiations:
‘between IWA-CIO Local i-80 and
the Industrial Timber Mills of
-Youbou for
Union with a collective agreement
‘covering wages, hours and work-
‘ing conditions, commenced here
Jast Friday. Local 1-80 was rep-
resented by a Negotiating Commit-
tee composed of Business Agent
George Grafton, Lorne Atchison
from Camp 6, Alec Gammie from
Camp 8, Wilf Killeen from the
 Youbou Sawmill, and Nigel Mor-
gan, International Board Member.
_ Employees at both camps and the
mill are asking for a Union Agree-
ment. re
_ The company was represented
by Manager C. J. Culter, Office
_ Manager R. Culter, Logging Super-
intendent Tom fraser and Mill
Superintendent Jack Whittaker.
In negotiations which lasted: for
a hour and a half, the Company
gaye.the Union proposals a con-
siderate hearing and agreed to the
‘establishment of grievance, safety
and production committees in their
operations, and to bargain collec-
rely with representatives of Local
1-80, but stated they were not pre-
_ pared to enter inte an agreement.
representatives pointed to
new amendments to the ICA
PC-2685 and POC-10802, the ? » atta
‘Harper Queen Charlotte Island
Commission award, which all rec-

recognition of the

where from $150,000 to $250,000.

Stamp Out The U-Boats

A fairmile sub-chaser has just dropped a depth charge astern in Ca-
nadian coastal waters. The shattering explosion of one of these depth
charges, which cost $90, might write finis to an Axis sub costing any-

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and labor. The company repre-
‘sentatives insisted they would not
consider a contract at this time,
"The negotiating committee will re-
‘back to the Union member-
in the various operations, and
is believed application will prob-
be made shortly by the em-

Negotiations On QCI
Award To Start July 5

Implementation of the award of the Harper Commission in
Retin eamntiant“Avbiive the dispute between, IWA Local 1-71 and the Queen Charlotte
Island logging companies was discussed last Wednesday by In-

ternational Board Member Nigel Morgan and District President
Harold Pritchett, with R. V. Stuart representing the Queen

Charlotte Island companies and Mr. G. R. Curry, assistant
western representative of the fed-©-

that the QCI loggers can get on
eral department of labor. IWA Lo-| with the "a a Be wetine thik
cal 71 is asking that the arbitra-| spruce to win the war, Failing
tion board’s award, recommending| satisfactory settlement, the union
union recognition and the signing| 2% apply to the federal depart-
of an agreement between the union

ment of labor to conduct a’ strike
vote, atte
and the Queen Charlotts Island] tree’ to take action it tney- aesinn
Ree ga egteted eUel soother conference has been ar-
and the dispute, which has been in
existence now for practically two

one-half as a condition for the

granting of overtime permits.
The granting of overtime, an-

other big gain for B.C. lum-

berworkers, arises from a brief
presented to the Regional War
Labor Board last February by
Nigel Morgan on behalf of the
International, Harold Pritchett
on behalf of the District Coun-
cil and Percy Smith on behalf
of Local 357. The Regional War
Labor Board referred the mat-
ter to the Board of Industrial
Relations who, it is expected,
will adopt the provision before
the end of the week. The case
of loggers, shingle weavers and
plywood workers is also being
taken up by the IWA and no
stone will be left unturned by
the union in its efforts to see
established this principle,
which has long been in effect
in other unionized industries.
IWA officials estimate the over-
time provision will mean thou-
sands of additional dollars in
the pay envelope of British
Columbia’s thirty thousand

Death Toll
Reaches 31

The death toll in B.C. lumber
for 1943 rose to 31 this week with
the report of five more fatal log-
ging accidents reaching the dis-
trict office.

Ralph, Greenard, 47-year-old log-
ging truck operator, was instantly

killed on June 8

when he fell be-
neath the
wheels of a log-

Woodworken
laden trailer he have been
was hauling to | jcNeq in B.C’s
Port Alberni, lumber in-
Apparently his dustry since
truck went out | gan, 1, 1943

of control after
its axle broke while descending
a steep grade. Greenard jumped
but failed to get clear.

Joseph Pernul, who disappeared

lumberworkers.

See DEATHS — Page 4

this week in plans being made

Portland, Oregon, included:

tional organizers to be financed
by the International Organiza-
tional Fund to work in Victoria
and Vancouver sawmills and
Port Moody areas.

2, Arrangement for the Interna-
tional office to finance and assist
in the preparation and presen-
tation of a test case to establish
the right of B.C. woodworkers
to union contracts.

3, Agreement of the International
Union to assist in the financing
of a survey of the financial set-
up of a number of large B.
lumber concerns; a study of an-
nual transportation costs of B.C.
loggers; a study of research ma-
terial in favor of vacations “with
pay and night-shift differential
for B.C, millworkers,

ranged between the union repre-
years, brought to @ conclusion so See Q. C, I. — Page 5

Organizational and _ financial

1. The appointment of three addi-®

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International Officers

Visit BC Dist. Council

Conferences between International, District and Local of-
cers of the International Woodworkers of America resulted

for additional assistance from

the International in the obtaining of union contracts. Immedi-
ate steps announced by International President Worth Lowry
and Assistant Director of Organization George Brown from

problems of Canadian Locals of
the LW.A. were also discussed.

President Lowry praised the
rapid progress that is being made
in unionizing B.C. lumper, and
cited the following four major
gains since the District Convention
last January: _

(a) Successful campaign led by
the LW.A. for amendment of
the LC.A, Act.

(b) Big érganizational strides

. which have brought from four
to five thousand additional
members into the ranks of the
Union and resulted in the es-
tablishment of three new B.C.
locals.

(c) Obtaining of the first Union
agreement that has ever been

See OFFICERS — Page 6

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