Ly a le. 5 al Unorganized Camps Get Help at Last The Mary Beth, loggers’ navy of the IWA, continues its successful tour of camps and operations up the coast. Home, secretary- treasurer of the B. C. Federa- tion of Labor, this week re- ined Tony Gargrave and tan Brown, hardworking or- ganizers, doing staunch work to make IWA men see the true light about false “WIUC” propaganda. =, Since November 5, the Mary Beth has been at Westview, Hum- Hed and Toba Inlet. Visits have made to Salmon Bay and Kla- hoose Timber. Gargrove and Brown report that Klahoose is uncertified and unorga- nized, and that the men have re- ceived no retroactive pay in some cases no raises. The facts were reported to District leadership for immediate action. The old mob have obvi- ously done nothing for these peo- ple — until the last three weeks when they have been twice in the inlet. HARD WORK AHEAD The Mary Beth made a stop, too, at International Lumber, Humph- rey Creek, and the organizers forcefully presented the true facts of the case to a meeting of 60 men. At Forbes Bay Logging, the sea- going organizers found the camp unorganized and_ uncertified. “There is a lot of hard work to be done _hereabouts,” state Gargrave and Brown. Earlier in their tour, on Novem- ber 4, a successful meeting was held at Alaska Pine Logging, Has- Jam Lake, Powell River, a camp of about 80 men. Two former or- ganizers of the IWA, now rebels, were there, but a good meeting was held nevertheless. “Tt is evident,” cable the Mary Beth men, “that the real old timers and the solid men around the camps, well in the majority, are staying strictly IWA.” Fred Soon, IWA Chinese organ- izer, has been having a busy time, but getting results from the Chi- nese workers in the B.C, lumber industry. Brother Soon’s reports show clearly that majority of the Chi- nese workers are solid IWA men. The only ones showing hesitation are evidently sympathetic to the International union. VICTORIA e : wie! “Donations” to Mine, STEWART & HUDSON Retail Lumber and Building Supplies WE INVITE VANCOUVER ISLAND LUMBER WORKERS TO VISIT OUR YARDS and WAREHOUSES DUNCAN ry NEW ADDITION TO LOGGERS’ NAVY: IWA organizers, Bob Blake and Bill Dunlop, together with Captain Ryer, sailed this week ‘on the “Agassiz Pride” to continue the organizational drive among the loggers of Harrison and Pitt Lakes district. Membership KO‘s ‘WIUC’ In-’Title’ for Paper Never again will the so-called “WIUC” be able to publish a paper under the guise of the “B. C. Lum- ber Worker”. Chief Justice W. B. Farris granted to A. T. R. Campbell, IWA counsel, a permanent injunction forbidding the so-called “WIUC” from using the name or publishing the paper. The application by the IWA was unopposed, be- cause our opponents knew that they had no right whatever to continue using the name “B.C. Lum- ber Worker”. This is the B.C. LUMBER WORKER. Your paper. For you. About you. By men who intend to keep on fighting for the rights of the men in the camps and the mills. The order was granted against Harold Pritchett, Ernie Dalskog, H. Bergren, J. Forbes, Al Parkin, J. M. Clark, Union Printers Ltd., and George Pulling. Interior Operators Stall Again IWA Bluntly Refuses 544 cents Interior operators are still viciously stalling in wage nego- tiations for 2000 loggers and millworkers, which have been dragging on now for many months. At Monday’s hearing before the Labor Relations Board in Vancou- ver, called to bring the IWA repre- sentatives and the operators to- gether, the operators were still trying to put over the 544-cent of- fer. And the operators know, too, that the union big-stick of a strike is weakened by the sabotaging action of the so-called “WIUC” who this week openly admitted they had taken $134,000 of IWA e NANAIMO strike fund money. FOR GREATER VARIETY AT BETTER PRICES ORDER BY MAIL FROM VANCOUVER “YOUR WESTERN SHOPPING CENTER” ee A BLUNT “NO” This was bluntly unacceptable to provisional president J. S. Alsbury, and first vice-president Al Har- tung, who stubbornly and force fully pressed the case for the work- ers. The operators are doing all pos- sible to try and avoid paying the majority conciliation board award of nine percent, granted many weeks ago, and are pleading poverty! It was pointed out that the coast award was 13 cents or 11 percent, whichever is the greater, and that it was no good offering’ the IWA men in the Interior 5% cents, ‘A second meeting was arranged for later in the week in front of the Labor Relations Board again. Union negotiators are insist- ing that no more time be stalled by the operators, who are obyi- ously attempting to make finan- cial hay of the Pritchett-Dalskog attempt to ruin the IWA. B.C. LUMBER WORK@ Mill Soar to $31,500 $7,500 Taken from Funds — Of Locals 1-85 and 1-217; Cashed Cheques Recovered Total amount of IWA cash known to have been handed over by rebel officers to the Smelters’ Union has this week, from Local Vancouver. CCF Council States Position Provincial council of the CCF (B.C. and Yukon) unanimously decided Sun- day to give all possible support to the WA. < The trade union committee, report- ing recent developments in the IWA, recommended that “In our support of a free and democratic trade union movement, we should be prepared to give all support possible to the assist- ance and development of the 1WA, the legitimate and recognized union of the woodworkers.” The report was adopted unani- mously, Columbia River Pledges Aid Full support of the IWA Colum- bia River District Council has been thrown into the fight to help their brothers in B.C, smash the rebel ‘union. Council President Harvey Nel- son declared: “Not only are we go- ing to give our help to the fullest extent possible, but our actions are backed up by cold, hard cash. “The delegates voted to author- ize the officers to place the entire financial resources of the Council in the fight if they are needed.” “The Columbia River District Council was in the forefront of the fight to free the International from the domination of Pritchett and others who followed political philo- sophies foreign to honest trade union policies.” _Don’t forget 1-217’s monster so- cial to be held Dec. 18th. You'll be hearing more about it shortly. now soared to ishi itional disclosures have come Son AE Port Alberni, and Local 1-21 “custody” of the Mine, Mill and 31,500. J oe to light Certified cheque for $3,000.00 of IWA funds of Local 1-85 is dis- covered to haye been issued to the Mine, Mill union on October 4, one day after the breakaway. Local 1-217 suffered to the tune of $4,500, believed handed over to Mine, Mill a day or so before the split. Pithe other amounts handed over to the Mine, Mill, without any authority, from local funds, by the splitters were: Local 1-71, $9,000; Local 1-80, $14,541. IWA MEMBERS ANGRY ‘The Port Alberni certified cheque was traced through bank sources by loyal IWA officials, The local membership -there is very angry at this action, and maintain bluntly that the “dona- tion” was utterly illegal. ‘There were to all intents and purposes no funds in the local ac- counts when it was taken over by the loyal members. Harvey Murphy, leader of the Mine, Mill in B. C., and personally under a two-year ban from CCL activities for an “obscene” verbal attack on CCL officials, admitted in a letter to [WA first vice-presi- dent Al Hartung, that funds which were left with him were returned to the people he considered the “owners”. so “Dont let anybody kid them- selves,” said a top IWA official in B.C. when he heard about the latest “donation” of IWA funds to the Mine, Mill, “this business isn’t over yet. All monies right- fully belonging to the IWA membership will come back to us, sooner or later. Action is in hand.” : ACTION ON THE WAY Legal steps are on the go about the Port Alberni case, for the re- turn of all IWA assets, and for an accounting of all that has hap- pened since before the spit. We learn, too, that on October 7, 1948, the registration of ownership of the Eric Graf Hall at Alberni, was transferred to the name of the “Port Alberni Woodworkers Hold- ing Society”. This is a matter which is being investigated. 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