THE B.C.

LUMBER WORKER

Sawmill News

“Every Reader a Correspondent”

SHINGLE MILLS
It would be impossible to list

individual shingle mills in this
column. With very few exceptions
practically all mills are organized
or in the process of being organ-
ized. The organized strength of
the shingle mill industry as a
whole has become a real factor
in the IWA.
FRASER MILLS

When the Industry Wide Agree-
ment is signed and a grievance
committee established a great vic-
tory will have been completed. A
great deal of credit goes to those
brothers who with solidarity and
determination worked together,
month after month for the good
of all.
ALASKA PINE

Girls are leading the way to be-
ing closer to 100 percent organ-
ized. It takes a women to recog-
nize a real bargain.
CAMERON

Exceptional organizational gains
have been made, pointing the way
for a 100 percent membership by
the end of the year.
LEMON GONNASON

‘The conditions and wages at this
plant are certainly not what they
should be. With the coming elec-
tion of a good Grievance Commit-
tee most of the problems will be
solved. .
ROBERTSON & HACKETT

The majority of the employees
are in the union, but have to
comply with the ICA Act before
applying for certification.
.GREAT CENTRAL LAKE

Organization of this mill will be
well under way by the first of
the year.
CHEMAINUS

Before the signing of our agree-
ment, wages in certain categories
will have to be adjusted.
UNIVERSAL BOX

An outstanding organizational
committee is working at this mill
and progress there is exceptional.

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Local 1-357 Sponsors
Woodworkers’ Ball

Arrangements have now been completed by the Social Com-
mittee of Local 1-357 for the holding of the Woodworkers’ Ball
in the Queens Park Arenex on Wednesday, December 29. The
dance, which is being held in conjunction with the Loggers’
Ball to raise funds to help maintain the B.C. Lumber Worker,

will be held in the Queen's Park’ (4) $10.00 cash; (5) $7.50 cash; (6)

Hammond Cedar Crew
Asks Wage Adjustment

Certified bargaining representatives of Local 1-367 met with
the Hammond Cedar Company Limited, Tuesday, November
23, and again on Saturday, November 27, but were unable to
come to an agreement on the question of wages. Mr. Hartnell,
general manager, proposed, on behalf of th ecompany, that
special consideration be given by the union committee to re-

Arenex and music will be sup-
plied by the Rock Valley Rangers
Orchestra. Dancing will commence
at
1:00 with a drawing for prizes at
11:00.

The good list of prizes are as
follows: (1) $50.00 cash; (2) $25.00
cash; (3) $15.00 credit note at
Forts Limited, 410 Columbia St;

00 p.m. and continue’ until >

$7.50 cash; (7) $5.00 cash, donated
by Douglas Radio Service. Phone
1348-R-2.

Everyone attending can be as-
sured of plenty of fun as the Lo-
eal’s Social Committee has an ex-
cellent record for really doing a
job on these affairs, Put this func-
tion as a “MUST” on your Christ-
mas celebration list. ~

At the regular meeting of I

ing year:

Continued

CCL

Re-entry of the IWA into the
Canadian Congress of Labor (from
which they were suspended last
January in connection with the
Congress dispute with the Boiler-
makers’ Union), follows adoption
of a recommendation of District
and International leadership, bas-
ed on a conference between of-
ficers of the Canadian Congress
of Labor, the CIO and the IWA
at the CIO Convention in Phila-
delphia Jast month.

IWA Locals 1-71, 1-217, 1-357 and
1-367 will affiliate to the Vancou-
ver Labor Council (CCL). Locals
1-80, 1-85 and 1-363 will affiliate
to the Upper Island Labor Coun-
cil (CCL) of Nanaimo and Local
1-118 will affiliate to the Victoria
Labor Council (CCL).

Members of the Boilermakers
and Iron Shipbuilders Union,
Local No. 1, of Vancouver also
decided to reaffiliate last week to
the Canadian Congress by a vote
of two to one, thereby ending
the dispute which has existed
since last January when the
Boilermakers were suspended by
the Canadian Congress. Terms of
reaffiliation for the shipyard un-
ion provide for the formation on
January ist of a Federation of
Shipyard Workers on a “National

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Local 1-367 Elects Officers
For The Coming Year

December 8, the following officers were elected for the com-

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‘WA Local 1-367, held here on

President, R. Stackhouse; Re-
cording Sec., Y. Hadrick; Financial
Sec. A. Hill; 1st Vice-pres. A.
Van Kleek; 2nd Vice-pres., H.
Hunt; Warden, A. Nicklin; Con-
ductor, A. Montpellier; Ist Year
Trustee, G. Ansell; 2nd Year Trus-
tee, F. Romas; 3rd Year Trustee,
L. Brooks.

Further business conducted by
the Local was the electing of dele-
gates to the forthcoming District
Convention in New Westminster
on January 2 and 3. The Local also
voted unanimously to affiliate to
the Canadian Congress of Labor.

APL Mill Crew
Win Certification

The latest victory for Port Al-
berni Local 1-85 is the certification
of the APL mill and shingle mill.
This certification follows the re-
cent similar development at Camp
1 of the same company.

Recent weeks have ‘seen a tre-
mendous upsurge in organization-
al activity in this area with an
overwhelming majority of the
woodworkers in the Port district
now members of the union.

Union” status, as an affiliate in-
stead of being directly chartered
by the Congress. It is expected
all CCL shipyard unions in B. C.
will join in the new federation,
including Vancouver, Victoria and
Prince Rupert.

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Back the- union by join-}

duced wages in their Hammo:

cedar mill. The committee point-
ed out that rent, light, groceries,
clothing and taxes have to be met
by the warkers, regardless of
whether they work in a cedar mill
or a fir mill and that the average
profit procured from cedar lumber
is at a par with that of fir, pine,
spruce, etc.

The Committee has therefore
presented a brief to the Regional
War Labor Board establishing
what they feel would be a reason-
able wage minimum and job cate-
gories in comparison with other
mills of equal size. The Hammond
Cedar mill has been operating on
a five day week and is now shut
down for repairs and on account
of shortage of logs.

fact that they are operating a@—

md operation, in view of the

It is hoped that the wage ad-
justments required will be forth-
coming by order of the Regional
War Labor Board this month and
that the master agreement will
be signed by the company and
steps taken to reopen after the
New Year holidays.

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