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LETTERS
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Camp Comments

Reader a Correspondent”

Ladysmith Sub-Local
Holds Annual Meet

There was a large turnout of
members at the initial es of
the year of the Ladysmith Sub-
in See Hall

r J. Ulinder ae an

IWA Local 1-71 Signs
Best Agreement To Date

The latest agreement signed in the Lumbering Industry in
B.C. was completed last week between Wa Local fa i and the
“Doc! Se Inlet | i

wie ES iste ae pleasure er attending. Brother At-
rather "tnt was reported as eGR eur GU RER Ay FAVE
F Y brief ee as melee to the
being vi
same conventi
m. Hallinan reported

Grievance Com-

The ‘elections of the Safey First |P™

has obtained to date.

ie lower mainland ae
North Ee Camps this summ¢

of Local
1-71 stated: “It is undoubtedly the

J.
hrist, if Breae

ie meeting was bro ‘ought to a
ther ‘in|

Trainmen’s Conference fe
Eight-Hour Day, Pat ayy Boost

Dominion iaxd
df

sf : close with Bro Gilchrist givi Me na’ ar’ rs of the
pocprdanceswith Satety :First rules port on the standing of Sub-| District Council, eee 0! oo ee inmen, employed
and ations. He also urged} igcal 1-80. It was unanimously i i
in the logging camps, discussed ‘questions regarding wages,
members parotid ese eceal thatthe membre sehauld| peces araeoeeca ‘ 4 in ae a try dPrloe
Safety First meetings as it w: ; y vertime \for vtrainscrews. iy he nate ey aaa
ae ee ise kep their dues paid up and further] the amending of the Provincial Wage Order, traincrews wer
the cause of the organization juired to work a ten-hour day. Since the amendment, which
stressed the point that if the men JEEP. equired eveutene for every thing over eight hours, came ini
did not observe Safety First rules So pee eee oe eee the’ traincrews® ha’
no rig! complai working nine fines raat twenty ed lunch ne was insisted upon
against ihe sap seement regarding Twin J Miners minutes, with a twenty minute |it should at a spe
same, 150) ae med the mem- period to have lunch, and receive |time each ee and Pee the loco.
bors that Mr, A. MM, Whisker of Join IUMM& time and half over eight! motive should be shut down an
the Safe' ian h of the Depart- in a meeting tty night How. the operators |the fires killed for the period. ‘The
ment of Labor would attend the| .¢ miners at the Twin J Mine at|have sonlied ce Act in such a] Conference requ
ieee meeting. . Sieker, near epitaems ate to maintain the old|establishment of a ruling whereby
ttended by International Repre- wate schedule for the ten hour|eyery train up to thirty-five will
sentative Harvey Murphy, the en- e required to have two brakemen
9 tire crew then present at ihe mine patie of the Conference,|and that a third brakemai
Westwell Ss were signed up into the Union.) which have been submitted to all|supplied on all trains over thi
Organization was set up ani 1 Unions for their endorsa-|limit. The Conference also a:
Preparations made to bring the/tion were: (1) the request for the| that operators of gas locomotives
rest of the miners inte the union | establishment of an eight hour day | equipped with coupli nd
Stationer Tobacconist} | immediately. from Camp to Camp with a twenty|be classi! as a locomotive
Confectioner ee ete We peetiee minute h period taken be- ineer wit same wai
his trip to the Twin rother | tween the hours of 11:00 and 1:00|schedule and that the crew of (2
SODA FOUNTAIN Tommy MacDonald, ate eas no ti deducted for the|locomotive should consist one
‘loys China Organizer ae inch period. The Conference de-|engineer and a certified brake-
Fountain Pens Victoria Distri cided however, that if the deduct-| man.
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