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

VOL, XII. No. 15.

VANCOUVER, B.C., MONODAY, JULY 26, 1943

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QCI Operators Condemned
For Defying Gov’t Award

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Unions Nominate Morgan
For Comox-Alberni Seat.

COURTENAY, B.C.—Loggers, miners and fishermen in the
Federal riding of Comox-Alberni, one of the major centers in
the province for these industries, will have a labor standard-
bearer in the next federal election following the nomination
Sunday of Nigel Morgan, International Board Member of the
International Woodworkers of America.

The IWA leader was the unani-@
mous choice of the 30-odd delegates
in attendance at a conference rep-
resenting all trade union locals in
the area ,including IWA Local 1-363
of Courtenay and Local 1-85 of Port
Alberni; United Mine Workers of
America, Cumberland Local; United

ployed as head faller, was struck

Fishermen's Federal Union; United
Brotherhood of Carpenters and
Joiners, Courtenay Local; Hotel and
Restaurant Workers’ Union, Port
Alberni Local; and IWA Ladies’
Auxiliaries from Port Alberni,
Courtenay and Campbell River.
-~Announcing his acceptance of the
nomination, Morgan stated:

“1 feel greatly honored at-being
chosen as Labor candidate in the
Comox-Alberni riding. 1 pledge
my utmost to represent the work-
ing people of this riding, and if
elected will devote my energies to
voicing their needs in the Federal
House.

“| shall continue to devote my
energies to developing an all-out
war program and genuine govern-
ment-labor-management coopera-
tion. In obtaining this the adop-
tion of national labor legislation,
including a Canadian ‘Wagner
Act? embodying sound collective
bargaining legislation, will play
an important part. Improved
social legislation is also urgently
needed.

“Our next parliament will have
to solve Canadian post-war prob-
lems. The welfare of the armed

B.C. Death Toll
Now Thirty-Four

We regret to report that the
death toll in B.C. woods rose to

34 this past week

when Steve An-

tonazzan died 3 4
from injuries | woogworken
sustained while | pave been
falling timber at | ited in B.O’s
Canadian For- lumber in-
est Products, dustry since
Camp A, Engle- | Jan. 1, 1943
wood.

Steve Antonazzan, who was em-

“by a falling snag on June 21 and
was taken to hospital in Vancouver
where he died nine days after the

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NIGEL MORGAN

forces and the working people
must be placed above all else. As
a trade union representative in
parliament | feel an” important
contribution can be made to the
future welfare and security of the
Canadian people, and to this end

I stand prepared to give my best.

“Our trade union movement is
making a tremendous contribu-
tion on the production <front to
win this war. When victory has
been achieved as similarly great
contribution will be required to
secure the peace.”

Sunday’s conference followed a
similar conference of trade union
representatives held several weeks
ago in Port Alberni, when it became
known that A. W. Neill, Indepen-
dent MP for the riding at present,
would not contest the next election.
Neill has been a member for Co-
mox-Alberni for 22 years, and his
services during that time have
earned the respect of many union-
ists,

Delegates also elected a continua-
tions committee, charged with pre-
paring a platform and mobilizing
the entire trade union membership
in the riding behind Morgan's elec-
tion. Secretary of the United Labor
Election Conference is Mrs. Olga
Axelson.

Choice of Nigel Morgan, who is
well known to loggers and fisher-

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THREE INTERNATIONAL

ORGANIZERS APPOINTED
VANCOUVER, B.C.— Announce-
ment of the appointment of three
additional International Organizers
for B.C. was contained in word re-
ceived from Adolph Germer, IWA-
CIO Director of Organization.
Tommy MacDonald, chief job
steward at the Chemainus Mill has
been named to work in the Victoria
sawmill area. William Bennett,
former ‘secretary of IWA Local

William Bennett Floyd Hamilton

1-217, being named for the
Lower Fraser-Vancouver area,
and Floyd Hamilton, labor member
of the Surrey Board of Education
and Chief Job Steward at Bloedel’s
Red Band Shingle Mill, has been
named to assist shingle workers in
the Vancouver-New Westminster
Port Moody area. All three organ-
izers will commence their new

AFL, CCL, And Independent Unions Support IWA And
Demand Operators Stop Undermining Production
By Amti-Labor Stand

The attitude of some lumber operators in this prov-
ince towards labor relations, and the reason for the seri-
ous unrest which exists today in this, B.C.’s most important
war industry, was clearly indicated in the operators’ state-
ment addressed to the Federal Minister of Labor, Hon.
Humphrey Mitchell last week.

The joint statement endorsed by 42 large lumber operators
representing the most powerful monopoly group in B.C., stated
they stood behind the Queen Charlotte Island operators’ re-
fusal to enter into an agreement with IWA Local 1-71. This,
in spite of the fact that a Government Conciliation Board has
just brought down a ruling that an agreement should be signed
between the companies and the union, which represents the

overwhelming majority of their employees.

The lumber operators’ statement
is typical of the two years of stalling
and evasion which the union has

faced in its endeavor to reach an
| understanding

through negotia-
tions. The statemznt declared -ia
fact, that while they were “willing”
to sign bargaining agreements with
“single unions representative of the
men” they would not sign with in-
ternational unions. This was inter-
preted in labor circles to mean
their approval of company “unions”
and complete opposition to bona
fide organizations.

The statement was seen by labor
leaders of all affiliations as being
a challenge to both the entire trade
union movement and the labor laws
of the Province and Dominion.

duties immediately.

That the challenge would be accept-
ed by organized labor and the peo-

Train Crew

ruling known as Order No. 1

will benefit from the ruling.
Of particular significance is
donkey operators. For years it

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Logging Industry Wins
Overtime; Bia Gain For

Climaxing a long-persistent campaign by the Interna-
tional Woodworkers of America, the Board of Industrial
Relations of British Columbia last week announced a

rates of pay for all hours worked in excess of the regular
8-hour day. The only exceptions to the ruling are persons
holding positions of management and supervision, time-
keepers, office employees, store keepers, caretakers, first-
aid attendants, watchmen, cook and bunkhouse employees
and those “engaged exclusively in the transportation of
men and supplies.” Between 8 and 12 thousand loggers

that these categories work a 10-hour day at straight time, and in
many cases the working day stretched to as long as 12 and
14 hours. Removal of this discriminatory practice was stressed
recently by IWA Vice-President Mark Mosher when he appeared

s, Engineers

(1943), establishing overtime

the inclusion of trainmen and
has been the accepted practice

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ple of B.C. was to be seen in the
following press statements issued
by various trade union leaders,
which are being backed up by reso-
lutions to the Government - and
pledges of support to the Queén-~
Charlotte Island loggers from the
thousands of members of organized
labor these leaders represent.

BIRT SHOWLER, president, Van-
couver Trades and Labor Council,
AFL: “The employers are being
very foolish. They have their own
international organizations, yet they
are trying to stop their employees
from enjoying the same privilege.
I think the ICA Act will give the
men their rights. It is obvious that
employers like these are a detri-
ment to the well-being of the entire
province.”

E. E. LEARY, president, Vancou-
ver Labor Council, CCL: “The log-
gers’ and lumbermen’s associations
are only evading the question when
they claim they will sign agree-~
mnets with ‘single unions’ but not
with international union representa-
tives. If the union of the men’s
choice happens to be an interna-
tional union and happens to have
affiliations with trade unions of our
great ally, the United States, then
their position is very ambiguous.
It looks to me as though the em-
ployers favor company ‘unions.’

“All B.C. unions should stand on

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United Nations
Pienie Aug. Ist

A varied sports program has been
arranged for the United Nations
Picnic, Sunday, August 1, at Con-
federation Park, North Burnaby.

Races for young and old includ-
ing novelty features such as wheel-
barrow races and obstacle races.
Teams from the shipyards will com-
pete in friendly contest in a thrill-
ing tug-of-war, On the diamond, a
softball tournament will be the cen-
ter of attraction. An Indian inter-
tribal lacrosse game, with all its
thrills and excitement, will give the

fans something to cheer about.