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

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VOL, XIII, No, 14.

VANCOUVER, B.C., MONDAY, JULY 10, 1944

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NEW ORGANIZER
FRASER VALLEY

The transfer of Organizer Mike
Freylinger to work in the Harri-
son Lake-Mission-Hammond area

: was announced by Secretary Ernie
Dalskog of Local 1-71 at the recent
Mission Organizational Confer-
ence, With a considerable number
of smaller camps in that area to

-—be organized, and a great deal of
consolidation work to be done,
Brother Freylinger’s assignment
signalizes the commencement of a
drive to bring 100 percent organi-
zation of the district.

Brother Frelinger, who was one
of the leaders of the Queen Char-
lotte struggle for recognition last
year, has been recommended to
International Director of Organiz-
ation George Brown for place-
ment on the Organizational Staff
to bring together all camp and mill
workers in the area under the
banner of one local, namely 1-367.
At present millworkers belong to
Loeal 1-367, while the loggers be-
long to Local 1-71, Both locals
have agreed that consolidation in
the one local will provide greater
efficiency.

DISTRICT COUNCIL

MEETING JULY 16

The regular quarterly meeting
of B.C. District Council No, 1,
IWA-CIO, will be held on July
16, at the Boilermakers Hall, 339
W. Pender St., Vancouver.

The meeting will convene at
10:30 am., and will be over in
time for Island delegates to catch
the evening boat home.

All delegates expecting to stay
overnight in Vancouver are urged
to arrange in advance for accom-

ER. WOODWO

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LOCAL 1-71 LARGEST LOCAL IN ENTIRE
RKERS OF AMERICA

Semi - Annual Meeting Adopts Resolution Favoring
Unemployment Insurance for Loggers
and for National Nealth Plan

Local 1-71 held its semi-annual meeti:

ing Tuesday, July 4th, at 7 p.m. in the Auditorium,

Fifth Floor, Holden Building, The meeting voted to spend $150 to send members of the
Local. to the Workers Educational Association summer school to be held at Ocean Park
from September 2nd to September 10th. This is a summer school for trade unionists, and
candidates will be chosen by the executive for the school, depending:on their availability at

the time, and their activity in

the trade union movement.

A donation of $20,00 was made to help the work of the National Council for Canadian
Soviet Friendship, B.C. Section, which has adopted the City of Odesso.
A donation of $25.00 was also voted to help in the construction of an annex to the

Crippled Children’s Hospital. ~

The Meeting passed the following resolutions:
1. Resolved: “that this semi-annual meeting of the IWA Local 1-71 call upon its member-

ship and all the people of Canada to strengthen National unity and to maintain full produc-
tion for the battles ahead, towards the complete destruction of fascism and victory for the
people in the shortest possible time with the least possible Idss of life and resources.”

2. Resolved: That Local 71, IWA4
favors the setting up of a joint
negotiating committee to deal with
the renewal of agreements, and
that we strive for the inclusion of
clauses containing the union shop,
check-off of union dues, standard-
ized wage scales, and an upward
revision of wages and union hiring.
* 3, Resolved: That IWA-CIO Lo-
cal 1-71, with a membership of

favoring the inclusion of loggers

under the unemployment insur-
ance scheme, and that we urge
the Parliamentary Committee to
give consideration for the inclu-
sion of loggers, and that copies of
this Resolution be sent to the ap-
propriate persons, and to the Dis-
trict Council.

4. A resolution was passed en-

3,270 members, go on record as

Maritime Union

modation.

Leaves the CCF

HALIFAX, N.S.—In a statement
issued here last week, James Moir,
secretary-treasurer of the Indus-
trial Union of Marine and Ship-
building Workers, Local No. 1,
announced that the union had
withdrawn its affiliation with the
CCF because “undemocratic con-
ditions under which trade unions
are accepted” for affiliation with
the party. The union has 2,000
members .

dorsing sheltered employment for
under-privileged and disable peo-
ple, to avoid pitting them against
able-bodied workers in industry,
and urging the Dominion and Pro-

vineial Governments to make pro-|!
visions for research into the num- |;

ber of handicapped and their vari-
ous classifications, towards voca-
tional rehabilitation and vocational
training.

5, A resolution was also passed
endorsing the principle of the
National Health Insurance Scheme,

with various changes.

IWA STARTS ORGANIZING
DRIVE IN CRANBROOK AREA

VANCOUVER, B.C. — Announce-
ment of-the appointment of Wil-
liam Langmead, secretary of the
Youbou Sub-local 1-80, as inter-
national representative to conduct
an organizational drive in the
Cranbrook-Nelson area in the in-
terior of British Columbia, was
made by Nigel Morgan, interna-
tion board member, IWA-CIO.
Brother Langmead’s appointment,
made by Director of Organization
George Brown, will become effec-
tive immediately upon completion
of seven days’ notice to Industrial
Timber Mills, where he has been
employed” as a carpenter-mill-
wright for several years. He will
establish headquarters in Cran-
brook, from where numerous ap-
peals for organizational assistance

have been received by the IWA-

CIO in recent months.
With organization of the B.C.

coast region progressing very rap-
idly, it is anticipated the IWA
will appoint a number of addition-
al organizers for other interior
Points before next spring, when a
well-planned drive will be launched

to unionize interior lumber camps,

mills, tie and pole operations to
bring the remainder of the 38
thousand woodworkers in B.C. into
the ranks of the IWA-CIO.

A recommendation was also for-
warded to international headquart-
ers this week for the appointment
of Brother Mike Freylinger as in-
ternational representative for the
Hammond-Harrison Lake districts
on the Upper Fraser,

Gen. Hisenhower
Greets Local 71

In response to a telegram sent
from the IWA conference held in
Mission on June 18, a/ telegram
was read at the semi-annual meet-
ing of Local 1-71, from General
Dwight D. Eisenhower, command-

er-in-chief of the allied invasion,
as follows:

“Your sincere pledge of fullest
support on the production front
is greeted by all ranks of the
allied expeditionary forces with
gratitude. We are sincerely ap-
preciating your efforts on our
home front.”

Also from the commander-in-
chief of the first Canadian Army
Overseas, Lieut-General H. D. G.
Crerar, C.B.,DSO:

~ “Your message much appreci-
ated.”

GREEN GOLD
CONTRACT IS
RENEWED AGAIN

Renewal of the contract until
June, 1945, of the popular four-
year-old Jabor newscast, “Green
Gold,” was announced by Nigel .
Morgan last week. The weekly
broadcast, over Station CJOR at
6:45 every Wednesday, is spon-
sored by the In-
ternational
‘Woodworkers of

Doctor R. Llew-
ellyn Douglas
of 470 W. Hast- -
ings St, Van-
couver. Dr.
Douglas, whose
Popular and colorful calendars are
to be seen in almost every bunk-

known for his oustanding coritri-
bution in support of B.C. labor and
the IWA in particular.

Join “Green Gold’s” estimated
25,000 listeners, and don’t forget
to express your appreciation of
Dr. Douglas’ generosity through a
letter, either directly to the above
address or care of “Green Gold,”
Radio Station CJOR, Vancouver,
B.C. News items and announce-
ments will also be appreciated for

@2|the program.

LUMBER DEATHS
RISEN TO 28

Four more logging fatalities
these past two weeks brought the
death foll in
2 8 B.C. Lumber
up to a total

Woodworkers | of 28.
have been George Lee,
killed in B.C.’s | an employee
lumber in- of Alberni Pa-
dustry since cific Lumber
Jan. 1, 1944 Company Ltd.

was killed
June 23 when a Ross carrier he
was driving toppled over, pinning
him underneath. He was moving
a load of lumber over a straight
runway and no reason has been
found that may have caused the
carrier to swerve. The plant was
shut down after the accident,
Eugene Kennedy, 28, died at
Cranbrook Hospital July 5 a few
hours after an accident with the
saw he was working on a logging
project on the St. Mary's River.

See DEATHS — Page 6

house on the B.C. coast, is well _ S