B.C. LUMBER WORKER Page Three District Elections RULES AND PROCEDURE FOR LOCALS’ BALLOTING Get Out and Vote! 1. Return transmittal sheet, retaining one copy for your files. If not sufficient ballots order the additional amount needed when returning the transmittal sheet, 2. To be eligible to vote members must be in good standing (October dues paid). Members checked either by dues book or by a list prepared Srom the local files. 3. Members must sign their name on registration sheet, oppo- site the number of his stub. Stub must then be detached | and placed in stub box. 4, In the event a member is working in the jurisdiction of a local other than his own, and he desires to vote, the balloting committee shall, upon the member’s presenting his book, in good standing, allow him to vote; his name, local book num- ber, stub number shall be added to the register. 5. Each local union shall tabulate its votes, and certify the same and return to the District balloting committee. ALL USED BALLOTS, registration sheets and certification of election must be returned to the District balloting com- mittee, Room 7, 426 Main Street, Vancouver, B.C., post- marked not later than March 10th, 1949, by FIRST CLASS REGISTERED MAIL. Any used ballots, Registration sheets, and certification of election mailed anywhere else but to the District Balloting Committee, will automatically be disqualified. UNUSED BALLOTS must be returned by March 10th, but may be sent by second class mail. 6, The District balloting committee shall be charged with the duty of conducting a true and complete check of registrations and certification sheets, by local unions; and if, in their opinion a differentiation exists between the local union tabu- lation, total on certification sheet and the marked ballots sent to the District balloting committee, they shall have the right to count the ballots (sent to the balloting committee) gf the local union in question and their count shall be final and binding. 7. Local unions must have their reports in per capita tax and assessments paid for the month of October 1949, to be eligible to receive ballots. 8, No local union balloting committee shall tabulate the ballots until the close of the election time set by the local union. No ballots shall be received by the local balloting committee after that time, All ballot boxes shall be closed, sealed and locked until the committee representing the local union is ready to begin counting the ballots, All balloting as set forth in Article VII of the International Constitution. Signed—District Balloting Committee, STU HODGSON, Chairman. LEO YOUNG and C. SPOONER, Members. J. STEWART ALSBURY TOM BRADLEY, Li = Local 1-357 tire eae Candidate for 1st Vice-President Candidate for District President Bro. J. Stewart Alsbury gained his first trade union experience early in life through the Team- sters’ and Chauffers’ Union, A.F. of L., in 1918, He joined the Lum- ber Workers’ Industrial Union in 1981, and later, the Lumber and ge Union, A.F. of L. in In August 1942, he joined the IWA, and actively assisted in the ization of the New West- ster Local 1-357. Upon for- mation of this local, he was to the office of 2nd Vice- it in the peer chartered Nov. 1942, served in that capacity for two years, of. with a three-to-one major- ree n move’ of October Bro, Tom Bradley has had over twenty-five years of experience in the trade union movement. He started with the United Mine Workers of America in Alberta, and moved on to the Lumber- workers’ Industrial Union in B.C. During that time he took a prominent part in the building of the union, including the setting up of the Federation of Wood- workers which led to the forma- tion of the IWA in 1937, when he held the position of District Sec- retary. Brother Bradley was general organizer for the Canadian Con- gress of Labor for three years. At present he is on the Inter- national Organizing Staff of the IWA, and is actively engaged in assisting locals on Vancou Island. C. A. COX, LOCAL 1-85 Candidate for Ist Vice-President Brother C, A. Cox started log- ging in the interior of B.C. when he was fourteen years old. Later he came to the Coast, and joined Local 1-80, IWA, at Nanaimo in 1939, and became organizer in 1941. This, he says, is when he first discovered that the IWA was being used for political purposes. After his refusal to join the Com- munist Party, his organizer’s card was not renewed. In August, 1942, he was forced to retire from the industry on account of ill health. But he re- turned to logging and the IWA in 1946. At this point, he was again approached by the LPP, and classed as a “white blocker” be- cause he objected to LPP policy in the Union. FRED FIEBER Local 1-357 Candidate for International Board Member Bro. Fred Fieber, upon secur- ing employment with the Alaska Pine Co, in 1942 as a welder, im- mediately joined the IWA, Local 1-357, New Westminster, He became active in buildin: up the newly chartered Local, and served as Shop Steward, and Board member for the Alaska Pine sub-Local. He was associa- ted with those who restored democratic control of the Union’s affairs. In 1948, he was offered the ap- pointment of International Orga- nizer and undertook organization work in the Kamloops and Ke- lowna areas. Following the WIUC attempt to split the union, he was as- signed to Port Alberni and assisted in the maintenance of the IWA Local at that point. Subsequently, he performed simi- ‘lar duties in Cranbrook and is inow engaged in organizational work in the Kamloops area, where he is stationed. TOM MacKENZIE Local 1-217 Candidate for International Board Member Brother Tom MacKenzie’s trade union experience dates back to 1933, when he joined the union of “Shingle Weavers, AF of L” In 1934, he joined the Brother- hood of Carpenters and Joiners, Lumber and Sawmill Workers, Local 1617 and Shingle Weavers Local 2772. In the strike of 1936, he served as chairman of the Provincial Relief Committee. He joined the IWA in 1938. In 1943-44 he served as See- retary-treasurer of the Boiler- makers and Iron Shipbuilders, Local No. 1, and later was ap- pointed Secretary of the Joint Shipyard Conference. He rejoined the IWA Local 1-367 in 1944 and was elected First Vice-president. During 1945 he was suspended and reintsated several times for his criticism of Harold Pritchett. Finally he transferred to Local 1-217, IWA. His present position is that of Recording Secretary of Local 1-217, IWA. Previously he was employed in the industry as a shingle saw filer. z JAMES L. McEWAN, Local 1-71 Candidate for Six-year Trustee Brother Jim McEwan originally joined the Scottish Union of Dock Laborers, (T.U.C.). He was fi- nally elected to the office of Vice- president and served in that ca- pacity 1912-13-14, Upon securing employment in Canada, he joined the Marine Engineers, AFL, and retained his membership until joining the IWA in 1987. As a_boom-man at Morgan’s' 0) Camp, Cumshawa Inlet Q.C.L, he was elected chairman of the [WA camp committee and of the Safety and First Aid Committees as well. He was appointed provisional President of Local 1-71 on No- vember Ist, 1948, and was con- firmed in that post at the annual seston, of the Local, Dec. 27th, CANDIDATES’ BIOGRAPHIES Brief Histories of the Men Whose Names Appear on Ballot GEORGE H. MITCHELL Local 1-357 Candidate for Secretary- Treasurer, B.C. District No. 1 Bro, George H. Mitchell en- tered the trade union movement through the Hod Carriers and Helpers Union, 23 years ago. Upon change of occupation, he joined the Shoemakers’ Guild, and retained his membership for 11 years. In 1989, he secured employ ment with the Can, Western Lumber Co, in Fraser Mills. Im- mediately he became associated with the early attempts to orga- nize the woodworkers in the dis- trict, which resulted in their affi- |liation with the IWA. Originally, he joined Local 1-217, Vancouver, but subse- quently: was ~ delegate -by~ the New Westminster members to apply for a Local Charter. He | served as an officer on the origi- nal Executive Committee, and continuously since. For two years he has filled the post of Financial Secretary. In 1944 he was appointed to the organizing staff of the Interna- | tional and despite opposition '|from the Pritchett-Smith clique, '| played an active part in the orga- nizing of the New Westminster area, which finally brought - | almost every mill under union contract. He has served as District Board member for New Westmin- ster for five years, and was re- cently re-elected for his second term as Vice-president of the Vancouver Labor Council. NO PICTURE AVAILABLE NEIL E. SHAW Local 1-367 Candidate for two-year Trustee Bro. Neil Shaw, upon discharge from the RCAF in 1946, secured employment with the William Harvey Furniture Co, New Westminster. He joined the TWA when the ‘plant was organized, and was chairman of the sub- local during the furniture strike of 1947. Bro. Shaw continued to act as Chairman until the firm ceased erations. He was appointed to the organizing staff of the Inter- national Union in June 1948, and was assigned to the Mission area. On October 4th, he was ap- pointed businesg agent, provision- ally, for the Mission Local 1-367, after the former officers bolted to the WIUC. He was elected as Fi- nancial Secretary of the Local on i Dec. 5, 1948. es