7 F a yo |. LOGGERS ON S EPT. 27 —See PAGE 4 yo wes aes Bi-weekly Bulletin Published by The B.C. District Council, International Woodworkers of America, Affiliated to Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) mg 3 VOL. XM. No. 19. A VANCOUVER, B.C., MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1943 Sy Se (301) Hearin Geo. Pulling International Representative Monday of last week Brother George Pulling began his duties as International Representative in the Vancouver area. . made with IWA Local 1-80 or apart from the union. side of the case proving that Sawmill agreement.” Brother Pulling is replacing Logging Company, told the three- Bro. Bill Ben- | man arbitration board that em- nett, who re- ployees would have much greater cently left to confidence in their safety com- - join the RCAF. mittee when it.is run by the union George was instead of the company. r formerly em- ployed by the Alaska Pine Co.” at New West- minster and “We figure we want a union contract,” Dickie replied. “We held meetings and in fact that’s why we formed our union.” Cross-examining R. E. Scott a fireman with the company since 1929, Senator J. W. deB. Farris asked what would be his solution Geo. Pulling much of the organizational gain made in the Alaska Pine was due directly to his effort. Brother Pulling has a big job on his hands with several mills swing- ing right into line with the IWA. The experience which he has gained in the Alaska Pine will be of tremendous value to him now and it is expected that in the near future Vancouver will be well on its way to the 100 percent organ- to.the case of a man returning from overseas, who might refuse to join the union under a closed shop contract. “He wouldn't get the job, if he was foolish enonugh to refuse to join the union,” said the wit- ness. Mr. Farris didn’t explain what the attitude of his “lawyers’ union” (which has an initiation ized mark. ptember 27 Named | Support Day At the last meeting of the District Council Executive Com- ‘ on Wednesday, Monday, September 27th was declared to be Queen Charlotte Is. Support Day. That day all Loggers and ers will be requested to donate one day’s wages to the 2 Charlotte Island Special Fund, which has been estab-. ed to be used should any emergency arise. The action taken on the recommendation of Local 1-80 at Duncan ‘the sum which will be collected is expected to run into y thousands of dollars, The Secretary of the Council was ted to mail immediately this information to all Locals als requesting that they call special meetings to the proposal. © executive committee unani-} Mr. Cohen. Date of the third quarterly Dis- trict Council meeting was set for October 3 and will be held in the Auditorium of the Holden Build- ing. The date for the Annual Log- gers Ball was also set for Decem- ber 29 and the secretary instructed to proceed immediately with the arrangement so that a successful fee of several hundred dollars) dance this year will be assured, with an employees’ committee Nigel Morgan, International Board Member of the IWA, appearing for Local 1-80, called witnesses to present the union the vast majority of the em- ployees, most of whom were in the union, wanted a “union Jim Dickie, employée of the Hil©—W_—___ would be in such an instance. L. H. Edwards, signalman in the Mead’s Creek camp, testified that 93 percent of the men in that camp were members of the union. “It is far better for both parties if the union deals with the em- ployers and signs the agreement for the employees,” stated Harry Anderson, Crofton Sub-Local Chairman of the Union. Asked by Howard Harmon, chair- man of the arbitration board, if “an agreement signed by company employees only, for IWA Local 1- 80 with the name of the union on the agreement, would be accept- able to the IWA and employees,” Alex MacArthur, union witness, stated that it would. “What we want is a union contract and rec- ognition of our collective bargain- ing agency. - “1 ask the question,” explained Mr. Harman, “because it may be a point on which I can get Mr. Plant and Mr. Barnard (other board members for company and union respectively) to agree.” The manager, H. W. Hunter, was the last witness heard. Arguments in VANCOUVER ~ WOODWORKERS LEGION HALL 49th Ave. at Fraser SUNDAY, SEPT. 26 8 P.M. SPEAKERS: SAM GUTHRIE, CCF, MLA{ and others. e are invited by IWA Local 1 - 217 i Lake Log Arbitration Board g Proceeds Favorably Following round-table discussion between Chairman How- ard Harman, Senator J. W. deB. Farris and Nigel Morgan, it was agreed that the point at issue in the Lake Log Arbitration which opened in Vancouver, Sept. 15, be narrowed down to whether or not an agreement with the Lake Log Co. should be [W.A. RESTLESS OVER REFUSAL OF OPERATORS 10 SIGN AGREEMENT No action has yet been taken by the government or oper- ators in the Queen Charlottle Islands dispute, officials of the International Woodworkers of America stated Friday. Giving a resume of events to date, Nigel Morgan, IWA In- ternational Board Member, stated that two years have passed since negotiations started with the companies for a union agreement. “In June of this year a govern-® ment-appointed arbitration board recommended that the companies ago,” Morgan added. “A compromise agreement was sign an agreement with our union for one year,” he said. “The operators refused to ac- cept this award so, in accordance with the act, we made formal ap- plication for a strike vote. “Government sources informed us they would conduct such a vote, but first desired to explore every possible avenue of settlement and to this we agreed, over a month presented by a department of la- bor official to the parties on Sept. 2, which, although far from our desires, and the absolute minimum. as far as we were concerned, we nevertheless agreed to, “But it was not accepted by the operators who, inspite of the ar- bitration award, refused to sign anay agreement with the union,” claimed Morgan. Pres. Pritchett Presents IWA Case Before CCL MONTREAL, Quebec.—The appeal for lifting .of the sus- pension on the International Woodworkers of America’s affilia- tion with the Canadian Congress of Labor, was withdrawn last Lake Logging Company |} week by District President Harold Pritchett, who is attending the CCL Convention to present the IWA’s case. ‘The IWA appeal was withdrawn,” Pritchett stated, “after consultation with IWA International President Worth Lowery and CIO Vice-© President Allan Haywood, and an agreement had been reached with CCL President Mosher that an application for reaffiliation to the Executive Council of the H, Pritchett Congress would be accepted.” Word of the latest developments in the case of the Boilermakers’ Union, Local No. 1, and contained in a telegram Thursday to Tom MacKenzie, Vancouver secretary- treasurer, According to Mr, Stewart's wire, the Boilermakers’ Union member- ship may return to the CCL on a federation basis if they desire. This proposed federation would be in the form of a national union of all boilermakers’ locals. Under re- vised CCL rules any five locally chartered: unions may obtain a na- tional charter. Mr. Stewart said there was the possibility of two federations, one for B.C. locals, another for those in eastern Canada. He assured his Vancouver of- fice that, though the Boilermakers’ Union here was not.yet back in the CCL, the way was now open, and he would meet the CCL exec- utive council in Ottawa to plan the details of its return and the form it would take. (Thursday Congress President A. R. Mosher announced in Mon- treal that satisfactory disposition of the Boilermakers’ case had been arrived at.) On the way to the Montreal con- vention, President Pritchett ‘stopped off in Ottawa where he met with Deputy Minister of Labor rthur MacNamara, as well as with a number of Department of Labor Officials in connection with the Queen Charlotte Island dispute.