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Bi-monthly Bulletin Published by ‘The B.C. District Council, International Woodworkers of America, Affiliated to Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) .

VANCOUVER, B.C., MONDAY, APRIL 3, 1944 Broadmay <> Printers Ltd. a (315)

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Death Toll
Now Up To 10

We regret to report two more
logging fatalities in the last week,
Which brings the death toll in B.C.
Tumber for 1944 up to a total of
10.

Stanley Miller was instantly
killed when a
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were not given Jan. 1, 1944

uest was held
Inquest was held March 23.

A brief message to provincial
police “headquarters from Port
Renfrew stated that A. Jakab, a
faller employed by the Malahat
Logging Company, had been killed

‘ by accident there on March 23.
The remains were forwarded to
Victoria where an inquest will be
held.

Also reported missing is Steven
Alexander Shaeffer, 18-year-old
employee of the Pacific Mills Lim-
ited at Ocean Falls, after he fell
from a log boom Wednesday,
March 29, Dragging operations so
far have been unsuccessful.

BS&W Wages Are
Negotiated

Negotiations were opened this
week for an agreement covering
the Franklin River and Great
Central Lake camps and the Al-
berni sawmill of Bloedel, Stewart
and Welch. Contracts are already
prepared on the basis of the Stan-
dard Form of Agreement already
covering some 13,000 lumber work-
ers in the industry, and wage ne-
gotiations are expected to be com-
pleted towards the latter part of
this week.

Signing of the agreement with
Bloedal, Stewart and Welch, which
will cover over 1100 employees,
marks another milestone in the his-
tory of Local 85 and the drive for
percent unionization of the im-
nt lumber centre of Alberni.
Certification has also been ap-
plied this week for Camp 8 at
Great Central Lake, for which ap-
tion has been made to be
d by the same contract.

TWA District Council Meeting Lays Plans
For Extended

Activities In Coming Months

IWA Local 71Invests
$1,000 War Bonds

Meeting last week in Vancouver, the executive of Local 1-71,
IWA, voted unanimously to invest $1,000.00 in the union’s
funds in Victory Bonds on the on the opening of the forth-
coming sixth campaign. It was reported at the meeting that
excellent organizational. gains have been made in the past two
months, with February the largest membership month yet on

Council Votes To Purchase $5,000 Current Victory Bonds,
Also Asks Full Production Through
Allocation Of Log Supply

NANAIMO.—Meeting here yesterday 54 officers and dele-
gates of the International Woodworkers of America, District
Council No. 1, in the first quarterly council meeting of 1944,
discussed problems and laid plans for the further carrying out
of the program adopted at the last district convention. Report-
ing on the gains made in the legislative field in the past year,
Nigel Morgan cited the successful campaign to amend P.C.
9384 (labor's straight jacket) and also to have P.C. 1003, the
new Labor Code, applied to all industries in B.C. Morgan qlso
stressed the need of stepping up the work of the union in this
field and the need of immediately extending the work of

the Political Action committees of the locals.

In reporting on the organiza-
tional gains in the period since
the annual convention, President
Pritchett informed the delegates
that the month cf February was
the highest membership’ month
in the history of the union in
this province, with partial reports

for the current month indicating |

still more significant gains.

Monthly conferences of all or-
ganizers in this district have prov-
en successful and have been a
considerable factor in carrying on
the good work that has been done,
Pritchett said. That- the Interna-
tional was considering the employ-
ing of a Chinese organizer was also

reported.

A comprehensive report and
good discussion was had on the
Union Hiring Hall and it was de-
cided that a broad program of
publicity should immediately be
instituted to assist in popularizing
union hiring.

The council voted to purchase
$5,000 in Victory Bonds in the
forthcoming Loan Campaign with
funds lying unused in the strike
funds.

The meeting, which was termed
most successful, also discussed
questions relative to negotiations
on wages and the terms of the
agreement which will be negotiat-
ed in the fall of this year.

Motion was passed instructing
the officers to make representa-
tions to the timber controller with
a view to implementing some sys-
tem which would allocate existing
log stocks so as to keep all mills
operating at full capacity.

Under the order of good and
welfare, delegates heard a com-
prehensive and detailed report of
the Teheran agreemnt dlivered by
President Pritchett who stressed
the importance to labor the world
over of the agreement being im-
plemented both in the prosecution
of the war and during the postwar

period.

record for this local.

CHANGED TIME

Wednesda:
6:45 p.m.

Station CJOR

for

REPORTER

Nigel Morgan SPONSOR

Dr. R. L. Douglas

“Green Gold’’

The Weekly Labor Newscast sponsored by Dr. R. Llewel-
lyn Douglas in cooperation with the International Wood-
workers of America (CIO). Please tell your friends of
the changed day and hour, necessitated by the fact CJOR
is going on the National Network of CBC.

“Four camps under the jurisdic-
tion of IWA Local 1-71 are at the
present time up for certification

with six more camps coming up
within the current month.

Good work is being done in sey-
eral camps with regard to educa-
tional facilities; with Pacifie Mills
Camp ‘A-$5-and Aero Timber Pro-
ducts Camp 1 leading the parade.

At Camp A-35 a Union Library
has been established and sub-
scriptions sent in to magazines
and papers which are popular in
the camp. Educational material is
also being obtained from the
Workers’ Educational Association.
At Aero Timber Products Camp
1 educational classes and discus-

Local 1-85 Election Results;
Re-elect Yates and Dewhurst

The membership of Local 1-85 by referendum ballot re-elect-
ed Walter Yates as president for the coming year. Walter, one
of the first to join the local union at the start of organization
in 1942, was elected president of the local the same year. Under
his leadership, all the APL operations in this district were
brought under union agreement and all the major Bloedel
operations were certified.

Alf. Dewhurst, re-elected as;ard in the APL mill. He is also
Secretary, brings a wealth of ex-| chairman of the union social com-
perience to the new execucive, | mittee.

having held executive positions
for a number of years in the local
union and before that serving as
a camp delegate in various camps
up and down the coast.

Mel Fulton, elected as the first
vice-president, is an active union

member, being the head job stew-

Brian Walker, elected as second
vice-president, holds the position
of chairman of the Bloedel Mill
sub-local and is also the head job
steward on the night shift in this
plant. -

See LOCAL 1-85—Page 4

sions are held each Sunday night.
Recommendation has gone out
from the local office that this
practice should be followed in all
camps.

Besides deciding to purchase
Victory Bonds the Local donated
$10.00 to the “5000 Homes Now”
Committee; $25.85 per capita to
the Industrial Rehabilitation and-
Social’ Development Council, and
$25.00 to the ‘Air Cadet League as
a token from the men who pro-
duce aeroplane spruce to assist in
training personnel to fly the bomb-
ers in the theatres of war.

OPERATORS WIN
PRICE BOOST

British Columbia logging oper-
ators won their case for a higher
price on open market logs, Timber
Controller Williamson last week
advanced by $1.50 per thousand.
The icrease is the result of a well
organized campaign led by the
Operators’ Association and con-
tains a valuable moral for working
people by showing what organiza-
tion can do. The logging opera-
tors’ union has rung the bell,
which provides a good reason why

we need a union and a strong one.

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