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Agreement Is Reached |I.W.A. Local 1-80 Takes Lead

At Eb Sawmill [Un Sixth Vi Loan Dri

The signing of the peaemen with the Eburne Sawmill C y

mp in the Sooke dis-| Ltd. long awaited by the members of the union in that plant r ond salesmen in the Cow. Hoey, district organizer
‘will apply for certification in | Will be reality in the near tine according to a Paibaea ae rane district, es the direc tion |, for see a aiee Newcastle, expressed
days. This operation | the office of Local 1-217. Si of the agreement was held |of Mr. ia Gua She Cow payroll or- | confide: in the rrange-
ized one hundred | UP pending the settlement of fhe question ot including Teaein Ee ae owen Lake {ments for the drive and that he felt
employees who work on a contract basi. agre BuTES ‘orce ON|sure that the Ruse in all opera-
onths, h : Monday. aie oth, es ae Sixth |tions would be reached id in

the boys there are looking} ™ent witl the operators covers ng their ae The union main-|Vyictory Loan drive got under way-|many cases amrecaeal
ing under agreement| tained the position that ther ing Local e
e. should be one contract covering iB b (Gi il S kc ° meet ican on Ap the
ith the organizing of Moore] all employees of the eration, a Or ouncl ee S J oint acca once a a ee yeas
factory, and the] however legal oie given to the Ac t To C Uu rb Co. U n i ns locals to co-operate with the dis-
trict loan committee. On Tuesday,
Perera ieee: was) fo) (the: effect, that AY ; O April 18, a meeting was held in the
be seven the contract ee could not be| Vancouver bor Council will) but under tis report as organizer}Lake Cowichan community hall
included under these circum | endeavor to achieve joint action|of the Mine, Mill and Smelter |of the salesmen of the surrounding
fees all legitimate labor organiza-| Workers, Ha Murphy stated /Subtocals for the purpose of re:
: tions fl the Aletict to offset the that dhe oplonions) exptessedl By ving » Weg uctlions jin thereat
tHe pio Beech avescoie aor mds. Representatives from the
i ; growth of company unionism, and Milla: ‘are not in accord |sub-locals w M. J. (Hill-
hei kiln pile io are the | to this ee instructed its execu- a those Ey site er CCL or AFL|crest woods), Ralph Godfrey,
contract workers agreed that they| tive to meet with the ti was recently Barry, mus eat eh Gordon
e va”? rickson, Gunnar Neilson leads
woulud not hold up proceedings | of the ae Trades nad La-| speaking to th in Ottawa. kk), Jack Struthers, Bert At-

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ree Was in al
appreciation was ex-!ent time an
y all with hearty ap- ment in this regard is ex
‘to be forthe coming. The agreement

ill be th

"The purehasing of bonds is

‘otest to the gi
against certification or such unions,
Two company or; izations were
Harold Pritehett, vice-
_ 8s ore in disfé

One of these,
ead coat a Eien had fees
of one dollar per year, a grou:
popurance plan, and the “inten-

_ encouraging and it is pred ‘hat
pee quota of $37,400 will be reach jment for s

as
is in Eburne Saw-

es forming Bie union.”
Brien, COU, ional dire
ee See that the, ‘resnaer of

favor | condemn:

“This is
anything sae and ie ere we

a man, not speaking for the|Wilson (Grossleg & Trusman).
labor body to which he belongs, |red, Daly and Tip Johnson (You-
but merely as a politician, who

was attended by

"He'd se the ee of this legis- ane had operated in Cam}
n Biinenwere a company eae id Camp 3 in -the past loans

ative Sei giving comfort
he en

as there are only a
Union | few employees a this company

now remaining outside the organ-
ation.

by_ th
Shingle, ice ‘With the

"Pulp Mill To Be
Built Im Alaska

ans for sale of 1,350,000.000 (B)

a a
Ss

est “Service said the|rard Inlet. In the past the Chi-
a a fe be established | nese employees of this c

se in sho short SUP, bs bat in Tongass ‘watt an ses with | had been receiving 4c per square

toes Sam y to be liess for both sawyers and packers
¢| Details of the timber sale and|'a" the white employees.

Rie were disclo: pros-| Jt is understood that since the

pectus which the Forest Service|IWA application was made, the

“| issued determine the extent of] Board has act on an applica-

interest of private capital in such
an enterprise.

2 bic’ feet of Alaska timber for | Lab ui
Seenishatat of a a ie mill in| tutin; Pie iorineisic. of equal
southeastern Alaska a: postwar i
ay fe 1 k
project were disclosed iaceeday by s es Shingl ie as Cave
— sareice: lano Shingle Co. Ltd. Mill on Bur-

a drive is}one such union had been charged emies of trade unions,” said |ation of the IWA me:
recruit the balance | with fraud in similar cctv, EE speaker.
f the employees there into the) A leter from C. H. Millard, Con-| On the lio kes William White,
injon‘and make it 100 percent in | gress vice-president, i council will ie Local 1-217
- his stand in the Ontario Lelgis-| again press _ ae mand for im- onates

oa Bee fee eet aldiionl = ferdteaet guinw into etfect it is|lature on the new federal labor mediate enactment of health in-| yc woes E s Blood
ae nae & epoca uurchased | expected that Ge will not be a| code, was filed without comment, | sura a ‘anada’s blood bank,

Soe task

Equal Pay

k an Sees was
IWA

tion of the employers and that

Capilano Asks)"

“Over the an for
Ly

slight increases have bee; ‘iven

cting on
the tana candice at its next
sitting.

immediately forms have heen] V
obtained an application will be
made for certification of Local
1-217 under ue new Federal Labor
Code PC Ii

ie Union Shop !

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