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LUMBER WORKER

Interior Activities

Ontario Woodworkers
Start Health Campaign

A campaign for better conditions and wages among wood-
workers of Ontario is now in progress conducted by the Lumber
and Sawmill Workers Union. A press statement issued by Harry
Rakette, secretary and organizer for Local 2995, declares:

Marry Rakette, financial sec-
retary and organizer for Local

helped organize the Spruce

Falls Power and Paper Com-

pany Camps at Kapuskasing,

where certification has been
plied

“Investment of over $50 mil-
lion in added plants and equip-
ment of the highly trustified
pulp and paper industry and a
contemplated expenditure by the
Ontario Government on power
and road development to help
this expansion ought to be a
proper time also for the improve-
ment of health and sanitation in
camps where Canadian workmen

will have to live while producing
te raw material for these plants.”

There has been much talk of
camp improvements for Canadian
workmen. But outside a very few
camps, it has been left to talk
and blueprints.

“The medical fee of $1 per
month is deducted regularly as
time moves on and sometimes
when a worker moves from one
company to another he pays twice
in the same month. Only if a
worker is lucky enough to be
in a camp where the contract
physician. may take a notion to
appear in person will he get
some returns for his dollar a
month investment. The return
consists of a few pills left in
the office while the worker is
out in the bush working. If a
worker gets sick he may or may
not get free hospitalization, and
in any case, only after endless
red tape and difficulties.

“This shameful racket goes on
and on, year after year, as it
has now as long ‘as we can re-
member. The time for reform of
this business is here. We are

determined not to drop the issue | in, itutes ;. | Posal. i i
e . Ree quarters constitutes a seri-|° « heard stories of a mineral sub-
ua a ange iB sme re fime-|ous menace to health in our ae ayoeenl i ae Bc steinee sound only a coeb ate
s i rales oT a volcanic island, with am: P
va civilized country. It nuct| mer and pulpwood camps; | titude and have forced the union| | vovcanle, sland, ain (andelion

in a civilized country. It must
not be permitted to go on any
longer,” the statement concludes.

SANITATION pibaby In conclusion Dalskog stated,
A resolution sent to the On- oc. See uneadment “We are charging bad faith on| fy Zodsy, after tong sclentine research and

tario Department of Health u wp egisiation £0V-| the part of the Interior Lumber efficiency and antiphlogistic properties,

states: crning camps, amendments that) Manufacturers Association, and| ff {0's smo mubstauca te available to all.

WHEREAS health and sani-
tary facilities on Ontario tim-
ber camps have never been fully

like matters are still considered
amiong luxuries and not to be
provided as a general rule, and
Whereas neglect in providing

clean bedding and proper sleep

We Sell For Less

E. DALSKOG

Adopt Program
At Kelowna

Filling the Orange Hall to
capacity, members of Local 1-
423 Kelowna on Sunday, Febru-
ary 3, unanimously adopted the

program of IWA District No. 1
for 1946 negotiations.

The well-attended meeting at
which were representatives from
all sections of the.local includ-
ing Rutland, Vernon and Lum-
by heard a thorough discussion
of the ninth anual convention
program. The convention dele-
gates gave their report and Wil-
liam Langmead, International
Representative, outlined some
of the problems facing the in-
terior in respect to wages and
contracts:

Mike Sikora, International

Representative, from Kamloops,
also attended the meeting.

many of which are infested with
lice as a result of neglect, there-|j
fore be it

~ Resolved that this meeting re-

would strengthen said legisla-
tion and bring about uniform and
compulsory standards within the
province with stiffest possible

the proper supervision and ex-
tension of emdical care and hos-
pitalization, and further

That the Ontario Government
be asked to cooperate with other
piovinces and the Dominion in

federal responsibility for such
matters as Health Insurance and
Hospitalization in return for tax

to take the only other means

ciliation and arbitration.”

we are also charging the em-
ployers with the
for the deadlock.”

here now so there is not much
doing. We had a special meet-
ing of all our members to get
their vote on the 25¢ per hour
raise,
¢ i union shop and check-off, and
promotion of a policy of greater) the strike vote and strike fund.
It was adopted 100 percent. We
also voted on the District Offi-

FROM CRANBROOK, NELSON, PRINCETON, KELOWNA, KAMLOOPS AND PRINCE GEORGE

Interior Negotiations
Stalled At Pr. George

Negotiations between the. International Woodworkers
of America and representatives of the Interior Lumber Oper-
ators were broken off at Prince George at a meeting held on

February 8.

Prior meetings which had been held under

the chairmanship of the Provincial Department of Labor
had given rise to some hope that a way had been found te

settle Interior disputes.

The first indications that these
hopes wer ill-founded came when
the operators in the southern
part of the Interior announced
that they would have nothing to
do with any decision reached at
Prince George. .

International Board Member,
Ernie Dalskog, who represented
the District at the Prince George
meeting had this to.say upon
his return, “Negotiations for a
collective agreement had com-
menced on December 5, but at
this time no agreement had been
reached. However, it was agreed
that negotiations were to con-
tinue.

“On January 25, negotiations
were continued and an agrée-
ment was worked out on all
points but wages. Further nego-
tiations on wages were to take
place at Prince George on Feb-

ruary 7 and 8,

“The negotiations were re-

sumed on February 7, when the
employers
change the vacation clause in
the agreement.
resentatives
view of the fact that the Govern-
ment had lifted the ceiling on
some 800-odd items of consumer
goods, that the price of steel had
gone up over $4.00 per ton, and
also with the possibility of the
Legislature bringing down legi-
slation shortening the hours of
work, wage scales would have to
be left open for revision on 30
days’ notice by either party. The
employers turned down our pro-

made proposals to

The union rep-
proposed that in

eft at its disposal; that is, con-

responsibility

the 40-hour week, the

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organizing the last few unorgan-

ized camps. He says he is get-

ting 100 percent membership in

all cases. I guess that’s all for

this time, brothers. So long.
J. DUGDALE