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ENGLEWOOD CREW STRIKE;

RETURN WHEN

Strike action loomed at Camp
“A” of the B.C. Forest Products
Hoe at Englewood until

IWA swung into action and
secured a settlement of the camp
grievance,

COOK MOVED

posting notices that cessation of
work would be followed by dis-
missals.

Mike Sekora, Acting District
Seeretary, accompanied by Jim’
McEwan, President Local 1-71,
and Fred Fieber, IWA organizer, |
flew to the camp. After consul-

The grievance originated with
the cook house crew, who claimed w t
that the cook had been inti tation with the cook house crew |
ing them in order to force|and the camp committee, they
to quit. secured an interview with the
The camp committee attempted | management.
settlement of the grievance but
was informed by the manage-
ment that no grievance existed,
and that no action could be}

the cook would be transferred to
another job, and the men return-
ed to work immediately.

|. Ata camp meeting which fol-
lowed, several WIUG members
turned in their “Wooie” badges
and joined, the IWA. A number
of additional applications were
made the following morning.

Rebuffed in this way, a camp
meeting was called, and a vote
of 95 to 18 declared in favor of |
strike action the following ge

The company retaliated by)

i
~ The promise was given that |

ONE HUNDRED PERCENT IWA say. eraployees of E.
Lumber Co. to Local 1-217, Vancouver.

ES,

Tailsawyer Sam

“THE MEMBERSHIP HAS
RIGHT ‘TO CRITICISE”

Well, I never thought that the day would come when I would
cross words with our former recording secretary, Ken Fletcher, but
his letter in the WIUC paper plus his admission that the letter is
controversial prompts me to reply.

First, regarding the ballots on
the International referendum; it

» must be borne in mind that if

‘ss 4 SNS

W. S. LYNCH, Financial Secre-,

tary

Local 1-417, Kamloops.

INTERIOR
PROBLEMS

We've been doing a little beef-
ing about the Interior to let you
fellows know that all is not well
here. We don’t say you got all
you are entitled fo, but we do
say that we have a lot less than
you have.

Bill Lynch, of Kamloops, has
his problems in regard to his
Local being scattered over such
a large area, and the same prob-
lem exists for Kelowna., It’s
nearly two hundred miles to

,Grand Forks, where there is a

L. Sauder

SICK LIST

General Hospital

Sister Jean MacKenzie reports
on the following sick and injured
brothers:

__ F. Ward, Universal Box—Head
injury. Coming along 0.K.

_Stan Quaye, Burns Lake Log-
ging — Brother Quaye has been
transferred from St. Pauls where
he has been since September due

ae broken back which is still

Robert Fullinger, Canadian
White Pine — Still taking treat-
ment, helping some,

Emrech Nemeth, Evans Pro-
ducts millwright. Admitted Feb-
Tuary 23, doing fine.

Manna Pouta, Port Hardy —
Knee getting along fine.

Edwin Mason, Minstrel Island
—Back coming along 0.K.
os on Hammond — Brother

rr’s broken leg is comin;
Rene 4 ig along

Alexander Ross, Mission—Leg
continuing to swell. ‘

Wm. Roberts, Roberts Creek—
Coming along fine. «

St. Paul's Hospital

Sisters Muriel BradleyHele:

Sim, Pat Fulljames, and’ Phoche
Olson report that’ they visited
St. Paul’s Hospital, distributing
sigarettes and The B.C. LUM.
BER WORKER to the followin;

J, Peterson—Leg injury, -
ing’ along fine See ce
J. Reilly, Kermedy Lake Log-
ging—Leg injury. Doing nicely.
S. Strike, Seaside Park—Doing
oS Wal
). Walton — Havii i
oni, aving operation
'y Griflin—Doing well,
Leystek—Expects to be going
W. Deviami
+ Deviaming, Ch inus —
Getting along fine, Tae
faa mstrong—Doing well,
mo Lahteneu, Local 1-7
WIUC—Doing well. Sanat

IWA QUASHES ©
FAKE COMPLAINT

An attempt by WIUC organ-
izers to fake a grievance in Hol-
berg’s Camp of the B.C. Pulp
and Paper Co. was promptly
quashed by the vigorous action
of IWA district officials recently.
‘There will be no repetition of the
Tron River episode, at that point.

Before the grievance of one
individual could be properly in-
vestigated by the recognized
grievance committee, John Mec-
Cuish, WIUC agent, was on the
ground to stir up trouble and at- |
tempt to discredit the TWA. He
vainly hoped to bolster up the
dwindling WIUC support in the
camp.

Brothers Mike Sekora, Jim Me-
Ewan, and Fred Fieber arrived
in time to attend John’s meeting.
By decision of the meeting, Mike
Sekora was given the floor to ex-
plain IWA policies.

McCuish confined himself
largely to a discourse on. the
Marshall Plan, and evaded all
questions regarding IWA funds
and the facts about the WIUC.

Eighty-five percent of the em-
ployees in this camp now belong
to the IWA.

mill with about 35 members. At
Midway and Greenwood, about

\one hundred and fifty miles from

Kelowna, mills are organized
there, too. It takes quite an effort
to get to a Local meeting from
so far out, and it’s a pretty tough
proposition to service the mem-
bershi,

Princeton is about a hundred

mills out there that are organ-
ized. The fellows out there need
a union just as much as you do,
so the interior has its little trou-
bles just the same as the Coast.
Conditions and wages in the In-
terior before the IWA came in
here were something to write
home about.

There is a good sub-local at
Lumby and Vernon. This is only

| about fifty miles out and the boys

can get in once in a while. You
fellows in New Westminster and
Vancouver beef about having to
take a bus or streetcar to a union
meeting and it takes you perhaps
a half an hour to get there. How
would you like to go anything up
to two hundred miles to a meet-
ing and get back to work by Mon-
day morning. It would be kind
of grim, wouldn’t it?

There are at least five hundred
woodworkers in the whole of Ke-
lowna Local that need your sup-
port in negotiations in the future
to get an agreement the same as

you have. They are paying the
same kind of- Canadian money
and the same amount as you in
dues, and are putting in much
effort to get the standard

ing that’s coming to them.

Be seeing you—Kelowna Joe.

From Page One

“Missing Page

Of Audit

Told Of $30,000 IWA Funds”’

IWA president Stewart Als-
bury had a comment to make to
the B.C. Lumber Worker on the
importance of the Mine, Mill
convention.

“Maybe now the rank and file
membership of Mine, Mill will|
understand,” he said, “that the/|
IWA has in no way been attack-
ing them. |

“We are attacking only some!
of their present leaders, men who
have given all the aid they could
to the enemies of a CCL affiliate, |
in other words, trying to help,
Pritehett and Co. to damage the
IWA.

“The events at this convention
prove to the hilt all we have said
about Murphy's actions. It is now |

|for the courts to decide if our

cause is legally right, too.”

The convention was closed to
the press for most of the time,
although “invited guests” such as
Communists Don Guise, of the
Civic Outside Workers, and Bill
White, Marine Workers and Boil-
ermakers’, were allowed to stay
behind the closed doors.

Another queer feature of the
convention was that people in
the visitors’ section were allowed
to join in debate and question
guest speakers,

Nils Thibault, from Sudbury,
and Chase Powers, Mine, Mill
District Seven board member
‘were two such speakers.

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MacGREGOR’S

MEN’S WEAR
For Everything @ Man Wears
WORK, SPORT or DRESS
We can afford to Sell the
: for LESS

MacDONALD'S PHARMACY
Prescriptions, Drug Sundries
First Aid Supplies
Registered Optometrist

Argyle St. Port Alberni

the disaffiliation move had been
successful the only ballots that
would have been returned to the
International would have been
from Locals where the officers
were loyal to that body, so the
net results would have been the
same.

Secondly, the officers of these
Locals have been called to task
for their apparent careless-
ness, and it is the right of the
membership to criticize. But
when an outsider who has fol-
Towed the lead of the former
officers who removed all union
records and left the office in a
chaotic condition, and who de-
liberately discouraged mem-
bers who were not of their own
political faith from taking a
real active part in the union,
slanders the new officers, it can
only be compared to a baseball
player who has left the team
and then -tries to umpire the
game through a knothole in

listen to him on “Town Meeting
of the Air”, and if that was a
sample of union busters, I say
give us more of them.

There is just one more thing
that our members who read the
WIUC organ should know—that
the signature, Ken Fletcher, Che-
mainus shop steward is mislead-
ing. So far I have seen only one
WIUC button in our mill. It is
worn by Ken Fletcher. I give
him credit for his, shall we call
it bravery or subborness? But
when he calls himself a shop
steward we would like to point
out that a shop steward repre-
sents the men in the plant, and
that is one thing that he cannot
lay claim to do.

| EAST END TAXI

| Union Drivers

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and twenty-five miles west of |]
Kelowna, and there are several||

the fence. Fully Insured

24-hour Service
613 E. Hastings S?.’

Vancouver, B.C.

One organization says, “don’t
knock, for every knock is a boost
for someone,” and I believe that’s
true. The ‘LPP has continued
knocking Bill Mahoney so’ long

that the other night I decided Oy) $a

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PAINTS — WALLBOARDS — ROOFINGS

STEWART & HUDSON LTD.

Branches at:
Victoria, Duncan, Ladysmith, Nanaimo, Port Alberni

L. S. MANNING
25 Years’ Service

I HAVE BEEN ON THE

PICKET LINE

AROUND THE

DAILY PROVINCE

FOR 33 MONTHS :

“Until 1 was foreed on the picket line by the Southam
Co, in June, 1946, I had worked in the composing room of
The Daily Province for 25 pears.

“I contributed my fair share to the building of The
Province, and I worked there long before the Southams of
Montreal moved into Vancouver with their millions and
bought the paper. There never was any trouble until the
Southams took over.

“Southams rewarded my lifetime of service with 32
months on the picket line, obtained a court injunction, sued
members of my union for damages in the Supreme Court
and imported individuals from all over Canada to take
my job.

“I am still on the picket line with my fellow I.T.U,
printers. We will be there until the Southam Co. will
abandon its union-wrecking policy and sit around the
conference table in good faith.”

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