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

VOL. XI. No. 14.
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VANCOUVER, B.C., MONDAY, JULY 12,

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1943

Youbou Union
Gets Equal Pay
For Equal Work

That no discrimination between
white and oriental workers must
be shown in applying wage awards
of the Regional War Labor Board,
was demonstrated in a recent de-

cision of the board affecting an |.

island firm,

The Regional War Labor Board
Jast fall set a minimum wage of
65 cents an hour for workers at
Industrial Timber Mills, Youbou,
Nigel Morgan, IWA International
Board Member, stated Wednesday.

But the company failed to grant
the increase to the Chinese and
East Indian workers, of whom
there are about 150 in the plant,
he charged. He said the company
continued to pay them as low as
55¢ an hour.”

At the request of the union at
Youbou, IWA Local 1-80, of Dun-
can took the matter up with the
Regional Board.

The ruling from the Board re-

ceived Wednesday ordered a min-’

imum of 65 cents an hour retro-
active to October 1, 1942, be paid
to all workers.

In some cases back-pay will
amount to as much as $115 Morgan
said, and increases of 2%c to 10c
an hour will be coming to all
Chinese and East Indian workers
at the mill, who have been dis-
criminated against. “The IWA-CIO
is wnalterably opposed to discrim-
inavion against anyone because of
race, color, nationality, religion or
political beliefs. The union is fight-
ing for equal pay for equal work,
for a piece of lumber weighs just
as much in the hands of an oriental,
female or young worker — it is
worth just as much when sold, so
there is no argument against this

principle.

‘Green Gold’

Recently the four - hundredth
broadcast of the IWA’s popular
“Green - Gold”
Newscast was”
announced. The ,

the industry, ~
accidents, camp ~
and mill re-
ports, interna
tional and Can-
adian labor
news to lumber-
workers all Dr. R.L. Douglas
along the miles

of rugged B.C.coast, is sponsored
by Dr. R. Llewellyn Douglas, well
m ancouver dentist. The pro-
n is heard every Tuesday at
pm. over Vancouver Station

IWA-CIO District Conference

Records Big Gains And Charts

Dance Prize Winners

The lucky winners at the Sixth Annual Midsummer Woodwork-
ers’ Ball were as follows:

First Prize—Ticket No. 2945, G. Gardie, 116 Sandell Road, New
Westminster, B.C.

Second Prize—Ticket No. 1886, J. Webley, 157 West 2nd Avenue,
Vancouver, B.C.

Third Prize—Ticket No. 5764 (first choice). Ticket No. 3168,
Michael Kucy, New Westminster, B.C. (second choice).

Fourth Prize—Ticket No. 2231, Rose Meyers, 406 Amess. Street,
New Westminster, B.C.

Fifth Prize—Ticket No. 3445, N. J. Bereska, Fraser Arm, Bur-

naby, B.C,
Sixth Prize—No. 5231, M. Town, 755 East 33rd Avenue, Van-

couver, B.C. (received).

Regarding the third prize, if the holder of Ticket No. 5764
(whom we have been unable to locate) does not claim the prize
within two weeks from this date, the prize will go to the second”

Course For 100% Unionization

Rationing, Hiring, Wage Stabilization, Production, Man-
power and Collective Bargaining Discussed

NANAIMO, B.C.—One hundred and twenty-four delegates
representing the membership of the International Woodwork-
ers of America (CIO) in District Council No. One, in their
seventh wartime conference here on July 4, discussed plans
for completing organization of the woodworking industry in
British Columbia this year. The Officers’ Report (see Page 9),
presented by Bert Melsness, secretary of District Council No. 1,
and unanimously endorsed by the conference, stressed the im-
portance of stepping up vital war production through the estab-
lishment of Joint Management-Labor Production Committees
so that the defeat of fascism could be realized in the shortest
possible time with the least possible loss of life. President
Pritchett outlined in detail the methods to be used in organ-
izing, and the functions of, such Production Committees. (See
Page 8). The conference enthusiastically
applauded the unanimous adoption
of a resolution calling for the res-

choice, Mr. Michael Kucy, ticket No. 3168.

$3,200,000 Wage
Hike Won By ACA;

NEW YORK.—A renewed collec-
tive bargaining contract providing
for more than $3,200,000 in wage
inereases recently ordered by the
War Labor Board was signed to-
day between officials of the Postal
Telegraph Cable Co. and the Am-
erican Communications Associa-
tion. The union represents practi-
cally all of the company’s em-
ployees throughout the nation.

Funds to pay the wage increases
will be obtained by the company
from the Reconstruction Finance
Corp. The new pay rates will be
effective for the payroll period be-
ginning June 20, 1943. Retroactive
pay to October 1, 1942, amounting
to $2,200,000 will be distributed as
soon as computations can be com-
pleted.

Joseph Stalin
World’s Best Seller

NEW YORK, N.Y.—Joseph Sta-
lin has set a world record in the
publishing business. Five million
copies of the third edition of his
wartime speeches have just rolled
off the presses of the State Pub-
lishing House in Moscow. Until
then, Wendell Willkie held the 1943
record for speedy sale of 1,000,000

copies of his “One World.”

Claude Ballard
International

Vice-President

PORTLAND, Ore. — Announce-
ment was made from Internation-
al Headquarters of the Internation-
al Woodworkers of America (CIO)
this week of the appointment of
Brother Claude Ballard to fill the
unexpired term of office of former
vice-president Carl Winn. The vice-
presidential vacancy was created
by the induction of Brother Winn
into the United States Navy.

‘The new vice-president has been
an active member of the wood-
workers union since 1935, and has
held a number of positions with
the Columbia River District Coun-
cil as well as business agent of his
local union. Brother Ballards pop-
ularity and experience will stand
him in good stead in the import-
ant position he has been selected
to fill on behalf of the entire mem-
bership of the international.

The sixth constitutional conven-
tion of the IWA-CIO will be held
commencing August 17 next, in
Sacramento, California. Delegates
are now being elected from B.C.
locals, as well as from locals in
other districts to attend this im-
portant annual gathering,

Mrs. Nielsen Urges
‘No Strike’ Policy

Brantford, Ont. — Mrs. Dorise
Nielsen, M.P., told a crowd here
Sunday that the “no strike” policy
adopted and carried through by the
trade unions of Canada was dictat-
ed by urgent wartime necessity
and that no matter how difficult
it may be to carry through within
‘present unsatisfactory government
labor policy, “no strikes” is the
very essence of labor's attitude to
the present people’s war.

Lumber Takes
2 More Lives

The toll of =
death in the
woodworking in- 33 :
dustry in B.C. | yyooaworken
this week rose | have been
to thirty-three | killed in B.O’s
with two more lumber in-
fatalities report- | dustry since
ed. Jan. 1, 1948
Peter Roll-
hieser, 18, was drowned while

working as a boom man at the
Collins Macken mill near Chilli-
wack Mountain on Monday, June
28. A coroner’s jury investigating
the accident returned a verdict of
accidental death.

From Port Alberni it is reported
that John Buker who was injured
at the Sproat Lake mill on Fri-
day, July 2, died Monday in the
West Coast Hospital as a result of

the accident.

ignation of Federal Labor Minister
Humphrey Mitchell. The resolution
likened the labor minister's pro-
posals for appointing “controllers
for trade unions” to Dr. Ley’s
Fascist Labor Front in Germany.
The resolution also stated that
Humphrey Mitchell, through his
actions, had shown himself abso-
lutely incapable of handling the
important position of labor minis-
ter in a wartime cabinet.

On the question of time and one-
half for premium overtime, the
conference instructed the execu-
tive officers of the council to con-
tinue negotiations with the Board
of Industrial Relations with a view
to instituting overtime orders for
logging camps, shingle mills, ply-
wood and sash and door plants
similar to that recently established
for B.C. sawmills.

A resolution, submitted by IWA
Local 1-71 in connection with the
Queen Charlotte Arbitration
Award, asked the conference to
endorse the taking of a strike vote
in the Queen Charlotte Islands
provided immediate implementa-
tion of the award was not ob-
tained in negotiations with the
employers. The resolution was
unanimously endorsed by the con-
ference and support pledged to the
QCI loggers whose dispute has
been in existence for two years,

Other resolutions passed were,
one which requested that rationing
be placed on a more equitable
basis; another that the Internation-
al Constitution be amended at the
next convention by deleting Sec-

See CONFERENCE—Page 8