‘ THE B.C..LUMBER WORKER Interior Activities CRANBROOK, NELSON, PRINCETON, KELOWNA, KAMLOOPS AND PRINCE GEORGE ‘Cranbrook IWA Wins Important Precedent For Interior Mill Women New Charter Is Installed For Prince George! At a well attended meeting held Saturday, July 28th in the Prinee George) Elks Hall, the charter for Local 1-424 was in- stalled by Ernie Dalskog, Vice- president IWA-CIO District Council No. 1. E. Dalskog in his remarks to the meeting in in- stalling the charter, stresged the union is formed for the workers by the workers, to guard their interests and promote their wel- fare by raising their standard of living, improve the working conditions and to work toward improvement of the conditions in the camps. He also pointed out that the organization must be- come part of the community, strengthen the bonds with all forward loking people for a bet- ter life for all the common peo- ple. The charter was turned .over to President-elect Harvey Brand- ner. The elected executive was installed in office by Exnie Dals- kog, as follows: President, Har- vey Brandner of Prince George, elected by acclamation; First Vice-President, H. Edblad of Giscome, elected by acclamation; Second Vice-President, Walter Muralt of Giscome; Secretary- Treasurer, Frank Petzinger; Re- cording Secretary, A. E. Papke, both from Prince George; War- den, Art Doherty and Henry Nelson, Conductor. Resolutions adopted at the} meeting were: 1. Support to the B.C. District Couneil’s [WA sub- mission to the Provincial Board of Industrial Relations for es- tablishment of an eight-hour day and a 48-hour week with a re- quest to the Regional War La- bor Board for time and one-half to he paid for all hours worked, iu excess thereof, for the In- terior of the Province. 2. Support of the Government of the Province taking over B.C. Electric and other power proj- eects as public utilities. 3, Requesting the Provincial Government to do road repair work in the northern interior of the Province. 4. Requesting the Internation- al union to amend the constitu- tion and withdraw the clause , that is now barring members of the Communist Party from be- ing members of the union. The executive was instructed to study draft by laws and sub- mit them to the membership for epproval, Distriet Vice-President Dals- kog reported that a total of 341 CRANBROOK— International representative Langmead reports that the Regional War Labor Board has handed down an im- portant decision in the case of boys and female workers in southern interior box factories. Boys and women workers must now be paid at the rate of 55c to 65c per hour, this being the rate for common labor. In many cases wage adjustments will have to be made by the company, and retroactive wages paid from De- cember 1, 1944. Approximately 60 employees will be effected by this ruling, and wages will be brought up from 32c and 42c per hour. The majority of the work- ers will receive approximately $208 in retroactive pay, at an overall expenditure by the com- pany of some $18,000. The decision which ‘settles a long-standing grievance, has Morgan Makes | Okanagan Tour | A series of successful meet-| ings were held last week at/ Princeton, Penticton, Kelowna, | Armstrong and Kamloops by | Nigel Morgan, International board member of the IWA. At Penticton a public meet-| ing was held in the Park under| the auspices of the Okanagan Labor Council of the CCL, while | in Armstrong a new sub-local was established in an operation | formerly organized by the CCL. Officers were installed and 25| new members obligated. Good/ organizational progress is being made throughout the interior, | with International Representa- tive Langmead reporting the es tablishment of a local office last | week at Nelson and the B.C. Dis-| trict Council announcing the ap-| pointment of Mike Freylinger as district organizer to assist Vice- President Ernie Dalskog in Prince George. Recommendations of the last District Council meeting were endorsed by all interior locals, calling for: (1) The. district negotiating | committee to negotiate on an in- dustry-wide basis for all interior locals, (2) Negotiations be based on the master contract in effect on the coast, (3) Individual wage scales to be negotiated by the local nego- tiating committees with assist- ance from the District Council in preparation of briefs and spe- cial cases, : (4) Negotiations to be post- pened until a ruling is obtained on the eight-hour day and the wage survey is completed; mak- ing possible application to the Regional War Labor Board. (5) A conference to he called gf international and district rep- vesentatives, together with two delegates from each interior local, in the early part of Sep- her, to unify wage demands arrangements for been appealed by the company. International Board member Nigel Morgan will represent the union at the appeal to be heard in Vancouver August 28rd. Penticton Millworkers Win Week’s Pay From Lier PENTICTON—As a result of action taken by the IWA: both in Vancouver and Pentict ton through National Selective Service, a ruling was obtained last week ordering the payment of one week's pay in lieu of notice for several girls laid off by Penticton Sawmills Limited, International Board member Nigel Morgan reported today. U.S. PUBLIC VOTES.ON WHAT 10 D0 WITH NAZI GERMANY Survey statistics based on Roper Poll for FORTUNE Magazine ABOLISH NAZI pae™ DEMOBILIZE GERMAN ARMY OCCUPY GEPMANY BREAK UP GERMANY RESTRICT GERMAN INDUSTRY REBUILD WITH GERMAK LABOR As published in March issue of FORTUNE Copyright 1945, Time, Inc, ait, | tions, PC 1003. The layoffs by |the manage- ment of Penticton Sawmills has also led to a charge against the company of violating Section 19 of the Wartime Labor regula- forwarded information in the 2: | form of signed affidavits to Hon. New Office At Nelson NELSON, B.C. — International Representative Bill Langmead reports that a new office has been opened in Nelson this week, and a charter application made for a new IWA local in the West Kootenay area. This office will be shared by the IWA and the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelterworkers. The district executive of the IWA are planning to call a delegate con- ference of representatives of .all interior locals in the near future, with the purpose of spéeding up the plans to conclude the organ- izational drive in the interior, and to assist the locals in obtain- ing their agreements. This as- sistance will. take the form of one district officer spending his full time assisting the locals in their work in the interio | . _| the assignment of one district cfficer to service interior locals, taking up their problems with the Labor Department, Selective Service, Workmen’s Compensa- tion, ete; and (6) The commencement in the “B.C. Lumber Worker” of a spe- cial page of interior news, LELELE LEE EL EEE ELE LE LEG - = = Sl = UZ % ... Compliments... + - + * # KINGe EDWARD = z : z Ba nlOapleice kg + a * z = z Enderby = + > : (Fully Licensed) = - SPELLED LL EDL TEED LE TBS LOGGERS For a Good, Reliable TAXI Phone VERNON 190 Kal Taxi (Bob Carswell) 21 Eighth St. Res. Phone 515 VERNON, B.C. George S. Pearson, Minister of Labor, charging the company with discrimination and intimi- dation in an effort to prevent the building of the IWA in the plant. A request has been made that the company be prosecuted. Nigel Morgan. stated: “That the owner of this plant, Mr. Lier, gave as the reason for his action, that he was running out of or- ders and would have to curtail | production. Later he stated that it was shortage of logs that was responsible.” The union is charg- ing further, that this company has 150 thousand feet of logs ready to load on the train at Princeton, and that no effort was being made to move them. “The acute shortage of box hooks is causing grave concern amongst the fruit growers of the Okan- agan and Mr. Lier should be foreed to operate his plant,” Morgan concluded. |BE A GOOD UNIONIST |—BECOME A CITIZEN. LUMBER WORKERS When in Vernon, make VERNON HOTEL (Chas. V. McNeill) YOUR HOME Phone 47 JOS. HARWOOD General Trucking VERNON Phone 40 Box 38 For a Real STEAK — it’s — TRAVELLS CAFE . (Nick Bush) PRINCETON, B.C. The Most Complete Store in the Interior For LUMBER WORKER'S to Outfit is W. D. MacKENZIE & SON (Bill MacKenzie) P.O. Box 158 VERNON, B.C. Phone 155 =——— LOGGERS ; The IWA has -