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

enanors (CIO)

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_ VOL. XII. No. 17

VANCOUVER, B.C., MONDAY, AUGUST 23, 1943

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Cedar Company Lid.

Bert Hill, financial secretary and
newly elected business agent, and,
Harold Pritchett IWA district
president.

With the work of the local be-
coming stronger, the executive is
planning to open an office in
Haney. Plans for inclusion of other
local logging camps and sawmills
have been laid. Members of But-
ler Mill at Ruskin have decided to
transfer the membership of Local
1-217, Vancouver, to Local 1-367,
Hammond.

vention at Sacramento, California,
as elected delegates.

Brother Bert Hill was recently
laid off by the company with no
reasonable excuse and is now a
full-time business agent. Brother
Hill was employed by the company
for one year as a shingle ‘sawyer,
with ten years’ experience in the
industry. He was born in Gloucest-
ershire, England, is married, with

R. Stackhouse and D. Blaylock |-
attended the International Con-|

Now Certified Agent

NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C.—Hammond I.W.A. Local 1-367
has now been certified by the provincial Department of Labor

as the sole bargaining agency for employees of Hammond

Bargaining representatives will be R. Stackhouse, president,
D. Blaylock, secretary-treasurer, lls nianitinnnniinntnit

BERT HILL

. . newly elected Business
Agent and Financial Secretary
of Hammond IWA Local 1-357.

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three children, and has many years*
experience in the old Shingle Mill
Weavers Union now defunct.

California, with a full program

entry on a 29-day border crossing®
card to participate in the conven-
tion. President Harold Pritchett
and Vice-President Ernie Dalskog
were refused entry on the grounds
that their presence in the United
States may be “contrary to public

safety.”

President Yates of Local 1-85,
holding a military category “E,”
card, was denied entrance until
late Wednesday, when Judge Man-
son, chairman of the mobilization
board, suddenly released his per-
mit and allowed him to fly down
to attend the final sessions of the
convention. Yates had been reject-
ed by the medical board for the
Canadian armed forces, has two
brothers in service overseas and a
third brother killed in the North
African campaign with the RCAF.
Judge Manson's reasons for refus-
ing him entrance at first have yet
to be clarified to the satisfaction
of the District officers, who bom-
barded Ottawa and Washington
with wires demanding that he, and
others, be allowed across the bor-
der.

Brother Mulligan was denied en-
try as a delegate from Local 1-71,
Queen Charlotte Islands, on the
grounds that he is now on the de-

‘Thirty-five delegates, represent-
_ ing 23 Vancouver trade unions, met
_ Sunday, August 15th, at the Victory
_ Mall to consider participating in
affairs, to stimulate interest
civie issues and generally im-
on labor its responsibility
the civie field,
_ permanent executive commit-
was elected and the name of
ide Union Civic Participation
t was agreed upon.
Gerrard, Vice-President of
couver-New Westminster
and Labor Council, repre-
the Projectionists’ Union,
1 chairman of the Com-
William Stewart, president

were Walter Scribbins,
loyees; Lawrence Ander-

~ Shipwrights,

United Trade Union Committee
Elected To Study Civic Program

Carpenters and Joiners; Cecil Hag-
man, Firefighters; Samuel Shearer,
Brotherhood of Railway Carmen,
and Harold Pritchett, President,
District No. 1, International Wood-
workers of America.

In an official public statement
issued on behalf of the Committee,
Chairman Gerrard declared: “It is
labor's desire to elect a city coun-
cil that will adequately represent
labor and the people, tackling such
problems as fuel supply, housing
and transportation, We intend to
embark on a campaign to elect
members to the city council who
will pay some attention to these
problems which are of vital in-
terest to the people of the city of
Vancouver, of which labor consti-
tutes a majority.”

The CCF Provincial Executive
Committee will be asked to meet

Unions Civic Participation Com-
mittee in order to work out a
policy whereby labor's vote will
not be split at the forthcoming
civic elections; and the secretary
was instructed to make the nec-
essary arrangements for a joint
meeting of the two executives.

One of the functions of the
Committee will be to scan the
list of candidates for office with
view to endorsing only those who
are able to qualify for labor’s
support, on basis of past activi-
ties in the labor movement, who
have the confidence of the work-
ers and can be depended upon
to give progressive and demo-
cratic leadership to our city.

It was further decided to issue
posters and stickers advising the
workers to gét on the voters’ list
by September 15th, the last day

With one hundred and ninety-one delegates registered, the
Seventh International Convention of the International Wood-
workers of America got under way last Tuesday at Sacramento,

Wide support was received in the campaign of the B.C. dele-
gation to demand that Canadian elected delegates be permitted

Seventh International Convention

of business to be discussed.

ferred list. Delegates Mr. and Mrs.
Smith ran into difficulties with the
foreign exchange control.

International Board Member Ni-
gel Morgan was allowed to attend
the convention at the last minute
by telegraphic instructions from
the United States Immigration.

In a wire to the District office
immediately upon his arrival in
Sacramento by plane, Morgan de-
clared that the convention was
working on the CIO program for
total war, maximum lumber” pro-
duction, wage stabilization, price
roll-back, international unity and

Lake Log
Board Open

Session

Preliminary meeting of the
arbitration board to hear a
dispute between Lake Logging
company and its employees
was held last Monday in prov-

incial labor department head-
quarters, Hall Building, under the

chairmanship of J. Howard Harmon
of Victoria. =

Tom Barnard, president of the
Provincial Command of the Cana-
dian Legion is the representative
for Local 1-80 International Wood-
workers of America, and Ralph S.
Plant is employers’ representative
on the board.

concurrence in the no-strike pledge.

Fifteen delegates were present |
at the convention from British Co-
lumbia and they undoubtedly will
play an important role with those
from eleven other districts in ham-|
mering out a real all-out war pro-
gram for the IWA.

Westminster
Plans Big Rally

NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C.
—A meeting of representatives
from sixteen New Westminster
unions took place August 14 in
LW.A. headquarters to org-

anize a mass rally on Labor
Day, September 6, one of the main

purposes of which will be publi-
cize the demand for signed union
agreements in lumbering and oth-
er industries,

Forty ‘delegates attended and
committees were formed to arrange
details for the day's events. It was
planned to start with a parade to
Queen’s Park with speakers and
sports in the afternoon. A basket
Picnic, followed by a dance, is
planned for the eyening.

New Westminster now has a
greater number of workers in trade
unions than at any other time in
its history, and indications point to
a very successful gathering. All or-
ganizations of a democratic nature
are cordially invited to participate.

Delegates at the meeting ex-
pressed the hope that this would
be only the beginning of trade
union cooperation in New Westmin-
ster and that a permanent Trade
Union Welfare Council be estab-
lished after the Labor Day rally.

Dave Anderson from Fraser
Mills was elected chairman of
the rally committee, and Rae Eddie,
also from Fraser Miils, secretary.

It was agreed that the first ses-
sion dealing with the main prob-
Jems of union recognition and
signed union agreements would get

{under way Wednesday, September

15, in the Vancouver Court House.
While it will determine a very
important issue, all members of
the board agreed that the arbitra-
tion will not take a great amount
of time.

Lumber Industry
Deaths Total 39

Death of Albert Hendrick-
son, old time member of the
IWA, at Camp B, Franklin
River Wednesday, August 11th,
brought the death toll in the
B.C. lumber industry to thirty-

nine this week.
Hendrickson was well known

around Cowichan Lake and he had
worked at Camp
6, Youbou, for
39.4

Woodworken | years before
have been coming to Port
killed in B.0’s| Alberni. He
Tumber in- leaves a wife
dustry since and a three-
Jan. 1, 1943 year-old child,

as well as three
brothers and a sister at Youbou.
After an inquest at Port Albernia
on Friday, August 13, Hendrick-
son was buried in Duncan last Sun-
day.

Martin Horvath, lumber stacker,
was instantly killed Friday, August
9, at Alaska Pine Company in New
Westminster, when he accidentally
came in contact with high tension
wires while moving a stack of lum-
ber. Working with him, Al Siemens,
H. Mosteum and Bertram Nord.
strand were also injured, -though
not seriously.

with the Executive of the Trade

of registration.