B.

Cc.

LUMBER WORKER

IWA won a victory over
‘unemployment insurance for
the men at Iron River who

ference of an illegal picket

The men lost three weeks’
work. Payment of benefits was
denied them, until after the La-

bor Relations Board ruled that
there was no labor di

Successful, and the men affected |
recived their full benefits, |
Five members of the WIUC|
have now been dealt with by th
courts for their part in the vici- |
ous attack on President Stewart
Alsbury and other IWA officials.
Lang ™ ie, WIUC business
agent, was jailed for one month. |
He was also fined $20 and or-
dered to pay costs of $62.40 or
serve another 30 days in prison!
for his part in the fracas of De-
cember 8th, |
Otto MacDonald and Alex Ar-!
mella pleaded guilty to assaulting
aii, They were each fined |
Previously, Mike’ Farkas was
sentenced to four months in pri-

covts.
George Stevens was fined $20.

Board Rates
Parleys On

_ Negotiations are still continu-
ing with operators’ representa-
tives cver the questions of board
rates for workers,

‘The operators arbitrarily upped
the cost of living in camp from
$2.00 to $2.50 a day, shortly after
the master coast agreement was
Signed in the fall.

The raise followed a similar
50-cent inerease made in April.

Officers of the B.C. District
Council are continuing their fight
to ensure that no injustices are
suffered by union members, many
of whose pay increases were
wiped out by the extra deduc-
ae because of the board rate
hile,

STAN FIELDS *

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SISTERS VISIT |
PATIENTS

The Hospital Visiting Commit-
tee, Women’s Auxiliary, Local
1-217, reports on the following

eral Hospital.
Colyin Marshall. Doing fine.

Alex Mitts. B. C. Pulp & Paper.
Just admitted.

Robert. Fillinger. Canadian
White Pine. In hospital with
dropsy and treatments are help-
ing immensely.

Clarence Madele. Duncan.
Chest condition.
Williath Roberts. Roberts

Creek. Doing nicely.

Bob MacLeod. O.H.M. Saw-
mills. Woodpecker Bob has just
had a leg operation, and is doing
fine.

Alex Rose. Mission. Has a bad
osteomyolitis leg, and will be in
for a while.

Ben Orr. Boil on leg, expects to
be out soon.

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At press time, the effects of
the one-third cut in industrial
peer use had not crystallized,

ut it was obvious that many of

the more than 11,000 of IWA
workers in the Lower Mainland
were going to be seriously af-
fected.

Work loss of those affected
was scheduled to be 12 hours out
of 40, a considerable reduction in
take home pay. 8

Conferences of CCL unions,
however, stressed that the 40,000
CCL unionists in the area would
insist on a six-hour day, with
management to be responsible for
the lunch break period.

MacMillan Plywoods resumed |}

full scale operations on Monday
afternoon, and the same firm an-
nounced that their three Cana-
dian White Pine mills would be
able to carry on as normal.

Fraser Mills, too, was in the
same “operations as usual” po-
sition,

Figures Up

Despite protestations from of-
ficial quarters that the unemploy-
ment figures in B.C. were sea-
sonal and “normal”, the B.C.
Lumber Worker learned that un-
employed figures for December
1948 were very much higher than
for the same period in 1947.

While at December 30, 1948,
there were only 745 job vacancies
for men snd women in the
Greater Vancouver area, un-
placed applicants totalled ‘more
than 19,000. In 1947, the un-
placed applicants «totalled just
over 13,000,

Labor surplus figure was given
as 18,570, compared with 14,101
for the previous month, and 12,
432 for December 1947,

Benefits paid out in the month

of December, 1947, totalled $283,-;

000. One year later, the figure
soared to $473,000—and workers
are sure that the increase is cer-
tainly not accounted for by sheer
generosity on part of the Unem-
ployment’ Insurance Commission.

“This situation, both power and
unemployment, is critical,” com-
mented an IWA officer to the
B.C. Lumber Worker.

“Now is obviously the time for
a searching inquiry into the way
B.C. Electric has handled the
power situation.

“Even more so, this is the time
for the governments, both pro-
vincial and federal, to take heed
of the resolutions passed at the
District convention calling for the
fullest implementation ‘of public
works projects, as well as vast
increases in the scope and bene-
fits of unemployment insurance.”

WORKLESS TOTAL SOARS OVER 25,000

POWER SHORTAGE ADDS TO
UNEMPLOYMENT DANGERS

Power shortage with compulsory rationing, added to
the unemployed figure of 25,000 brought “out of work”
totals in B. C. to a dangerously high level this week.

SUDDEN DEATH
OF BOB HINDLE

Bro. Robert Hindle, a well-
known member of the IWA died
suddenly at Camp Woss, Engle-
wood, on January 19.

Upon return to camp on Jan!
ary 16, he complained of
health and collapsed sud
three days later.

Members of the IWA camp
committee made arrangements
for the removal of the body to
Alert Bay, to enable the neces-

sary funeral arrangements. ,

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KENNEDY LAKE
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At a meeting held at Kennedy
Lake Logging Camp on January
25th, 1949, the Sub-Local officers
and committees were elected for
1949,

Chairman: George Wood.
Brother Wood was elected by ac-
clamation. A. S. Bilbrough, Act-
ing Secretary, retired, and W.
Saxton was elected to the office of
Secretary.

Brother Louis Belzile was
elected to the Executive Board,
while the Camp Committee con-
sists of L. Belzile, M. Pohoda, M.
Antifaev, L. McDonald and Rolly
Barrett.

Job Stewards are: A, S, Bil-
brough, R. Sund, L. D. McDonald,
K. Hatton, R. Nixon, A. Trem-
blay, J. Black and George Ford.
Brother Ford lives in Ucluelet,
and will contact the members who
live there and work at Kennedy

ce.

Safety Committee men are: S.
Henderson, §. Howard, Jack
Cross, A. S. Bilbrough, Clair
Falk, W. Thomson, E. Malec, J.
M. Patterson, with K. D. Baird,
Manager, J. Westerholm, Fore-
man, aid J. A, Campbell, First
Aid Man, representing the man-
agement.

Kennedy Lake Logging Camp
is an IWA camp with nearly one
hundred men on the check-off.

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