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THE B.C.

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LUMBER WORKER

October 18, 1943

LETTERS

Camp Comments

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REPORTS

nion Votes Acceptance Of Harman
ward In Lake Logging Operations

DUNCAN, B.C.—Acceptance of the Ewer of the “Harman”®

Arbitration Board with only four dissenting votes in all eight
operations of the Lake Logging Co. Ltd., was announced by
Sec’y. H. Valley of Local 1-80 this week following meetings of
each Sub-local. A report on the Arbitration Board’s proceedings
and award was given by International Board Member Nigel
Morgan, who represented the union before the Board which

was set up to investigate the dis-?,

pute under the provincial Indus-
trial Conciliation and Arbitration
Act.

The board award contained:

(1) Reinstatement of the former
agreement for another year with
the following amendments re-
quested by the Local:

(2) Defining the word “union”
for the purpose of the contract
and giving appropriate recogni-
tion of the chosen bargaining
agency of the employees.

(3) Changing the “Bargaining
Committee” and “Safety Commit-
tee” to make them union com-
mittees, so that the employees
will have the right to approach
the company through the union
rather than as a committee of in-
dividuals.

(4) Providing for the agreement
to be between the company and
its employees acting through
their legal bargaining agency, for
which IWA-CIO Local 1-80 has
ben officially certified by the
Minister of Labor. The agree-
ment would be signed by the
company. through its appropri-
ate officials, and for the employ-
ees by IWA-CIO Local 1-80 per
its president and secretary, etc.

(5) The agreement would be
the same for all operations of the
company except Honeymoon Bay
Mill, which is not included in the
Present dispute.

(6) The board also recommend-
ed that a Joint Management-
Labor Production Committee be
provided for in the new agree-
ment.

The former agreement already
provided for grievance and safety

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committees; hours ‘of work; the
highest standard of wages in the
industry; no discrimination; union
dues check-off; seniority; leave of
absence for sickness, injury or serv-
ice in the armed forces; all employ-
ees to be members of the union; ar-
bitration of disputes and termina-

{tion procedure. -

In view of the general attitude
of a number of operators in refus-
ing to accept arbitration awards
and in particular refusing to sign
agreements, the meetings placed
full authority in the hands of the
executive officers of Local 1-80 in
Duncan to take whatever action
necessary to enforce the award, and
if necessary to.declare a strike if
the company refuses to renew the
agreement with the amendments
awarded. The secret ballot author-
izing strike action was adopted with
only five opposing votes through-
out the eight camps.

The union-is seeking a meeting
with the management at the be-
ginning of this week and in view
of discussion with company repre-
sentatives, union officials are hope-
ful a satisfactory agreement can
be reached.

Continued

HOLIDAYS

ployee shall be taken at such time
after the date hereof as shall be
agreed upon between him and the
company and when the quantity
and regularity of production will
not be impaired by such vacation.

In order to guarantee regularity
of production, the company has
agreed to meet with the bargain-
ing agency and work out vacation
periods as near to the requirement

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Vancouver, B.C.

Fraser Valley Logging
Industry Shows Growth

By J. Greenall, IWA International Representative.
To anyone accustomed to thinking of the Fraser Valley in

terms of contented cows, hop yards, etc.,

the idea of sending

an organizer into this area for the IWA doesn’t make sense.
Similarly an old time logger was heard to remark of the Har-

rison, Chilliwack Hope District,

“that country is all logged out,

there is nothing left of any consequence and the operators are

all gypos.”

A visit up there now will convince@

any observant person that the
exact opposite is the case. Import-
ant capital driven from Europe and
given an opportunity in B.C. lum-
ber has settled in the Fraser Val-
ley.

New people bring new ideas and
these are being profitably put to
use. Timber that was not consid-
ered saleable a few years ago is

now being logged for use in saw-
mills that have been purchased

Fanny Bay
Member Dies

‘We regret to announce the death
of Brother Ernest Hastings, mem-
ber of the IWA Local 1-363, who
passed away October 3 in the Cum-
berland Hospital after a short ill-
ness. Brother Hastings was a for-

mer member of Local 1-80 and ay

charter member of Local 1-363 to
which he transferred when that
local was established. He leaves to
mourn his passing his wife Marie,
three daughters, Muriel, Betty and
Pauline and his son Bobby. His
parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Hast-
ings, of Fanny Bay, and four sis-
ters and three brothers residing in
the Cumberland,’ Union Bay Area.

IWA Local 1-363 wish to express
their heartfelt sympathies to Bro-
ther Hastings’ family in their be-
reavement,

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and adapted for milling a new
type of product. This capital is
here to stay as is evidenced by
the money that is being spent on
permanent and efficient equipment,
roads, etc. Timber limits have been
purchased and a permanent indus-
try is obviously being established.

Parallel with this development
is the growing conviction among
the loggers and millworkers that
if this industry is to remain and
become a real asset to the com-
munity then industrial democracy
must be established.

A visit to the camp of Pacific
Veneer Logging Co. at Harrison
Mills (Shehalis) and a talk with
John Monks and Rae McKamy,
chairman and secretary of the new
IWA sub-local there or any of the
many union conscious loggers in
that camp will convince an ob-
server that something new has been
added. One might call it a collec-
tive conscience with a sense of in-
telligent responsibility for the pre-
sent and the future. A keen in-
terest is displayed in the struggle
of the Q.C.I. loggers and a realiza-
tion of the need for solidarity. One
industry, one union, one fight.

This spirit is growing and be-
coming stronger in the sawmills
and camps around New Westmin-
ster, Hammond, Haney, Mission,
Dedney, Harrison, Chilliwack, Ved-
der Crossing, Jones Creek and
wherever else Woodworkers have
gathered together to harvest lum-
ber in B.C.

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CAMP ACTIVITY;

By ROVING REPORTER

Queen Charlotte Islands. All
camps of the J, R. Morgan Logging
Co., Pacifie Mills Ltd, and the
Kelley Logging Co. Ltd. are on
strike demanding the Harper Con-
ciliation Award of a union agree-
ment be carried out by the oper-
ators. This affects Huxley Island
main camp and fallers camp; Cum-
shewa Inlet Camps 1 and 2 of J. R.
Morgan; the main camp and boom
camp of Pacific Mills at Skidegate
Inlet; and Church Creek, Skedans
Bay and Beatty Anchorage Camps
of Kelley Log.

None of the camps of Aero Tim-
ber Products in the Queen Shar-
lottes are affected by the strike.
Crews at the camps on strike are
staying in camp until further de-
velopments, and Selective Service
officials have announced that any
man seeking to go to work in the
eight camps ‘involved will have
written in red ink across the face
of his permit the words: “Strike in
Progress.”

Nitinat Lake. It is reported this
camp is closing down in about two
weeks, after several years’ opera-
fion. It is rumored Bloedel’s have
taken the claim over.

Malahat Log. Manpower short-
ages have all but shut this opera-
tion down. Only one set of fallers
left, which, in view of the labor
troubles here two years ago, should
provide a lesson to any others that
“it doesn’t pay in the long run.”
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Quite a number of IWA members
have been going out through the
union’s District Hiring Hall at 204
Holden Building, Vancouver. The
manpower problem has been
slightly improved lately, but labor
shortages are still curtailing pro-
duction in a number of operations.
Union members are urged to reg-
ister at the IWA Hiring Hall, so that
the orders of those employers who
are prepared to do business with
the union can be promptly filled.
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