B.C.

LUMBER WORKER

Geo. Mitchell Reports
THE UNION’S
BUS

A steady stream of reports
from IWA organizers and Locals
shows rage kag in our or-

As never before
the IWA in Brit-
ish Columbia is
now building up
solidly on the
bedrock of trade
union action.

Mill by mill,
camp by camp,
more lumber
workers are get-
ting in step with
the IWA., now
that they are as-
sured ‘that- the
IWA stands for
their interests.

The keynote of this activity
is the determination to put full
strength behind the 1949 IWA
negotiations now in sight.

The most satisfactory feature
of this new and stable growth is
the increased interest and activ-
ity of IWA members in their
union business, and in handling
their grievance and safety prob-
Jems on the job.

We're not building a big or-
ganization merely for the sake of
having a big organization to brag
about. We're building it to win
the IWA fight for ofr standards
of living and working—and in
1949, not 1959.

Good organization is simply
good teamwork. We can improve
our teamwork.

It is important that shop stew-
ards, especially those on outly-
ing operations should keep in
close touch with gthe officers of
their Locals.

_ Keep them posted on condi-
tions, so that the union can serv-
ice the demands of the members.

AFL RAIDING REPELLED, BY IWA 1-357;

SAFETY AWARD FOR THREE PLANTS.

LRB GIVES RULING

‘The Labor Relations Board has rejected the application of the
Engineers International Union (AFL) for the c
neers employed at Timber Preservers Litd., New
trict and Local officials, 1-357, successfully defended the bargaining
rights of the IWA, at a recent hearing.

ABSENTEE BALLOTS

Loggers are reminded by the
B.C. Federation of Labor that
under the Provincial Elections
Act they are entitled to vote by
absentee ballot on June 15, if
registered at their home address.

"Those intending to vote absen-
tee should make certain of the
names of the candidates in the
riding where they have estab-
lished residence for purpose of
registration.

Many loggers lost their votes
in the last general election be-
cause of uncertainty about the
boundaries of city ridings.

: NOTICE

The following three loggers
please contact B.C. District Offi-
cer, IWA at 426 Main St., Van-
couver, for information of value.

Joe Holmgren; S. Danielson,
faller, former address, 401 East
Hastings, Vancouver; and E.
Hulett.

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Tell them about the questions
which the men raise on the job.
Get the facts for them, and give
them the facts.

The facts soon explode any
wild rumours.

Because men are scattered and
isolated on lumbering opera-
tions this service to them and the
union is vital.

Shop stewards are key men in
developing the democratic unity
of purpose and action which will

win the IWA fight for better
wages and working conditions.

1. Hastings at Carrall

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Representing the Organized Loggers and Mill Workers of B.C.
Published Twice Monthly by the
: INTERNATIONAL WOODWORKERS
OF AMERICA (CIO-CCL)
B.C. DISTRICT COUNCIL, No. 1
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'~Treasurer._______George H. Mitchell

Board Member.

‘Tom G. MacKenzie

TRUSTEES,

James McEwan

‘J. S. Squire

Neil E. Shaw

Address all communications to

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Setcretary-Treasurer
ie PAcific 4151

ification of engi-
‘estminster. Dis-

This is the fourth occasion that
the IWA has been compelled to
offer emphatic objection to the
attempt by this AFL union to
project craft organization into
plants now organized ‘on an in-
dustrial union basis. District offi-
cials of the IWA stated that vi-
gorous measures will be taken to
prevent this practice, and pointed
to the neglect by the Engineers’

berni
Sawmill and logging divisions of
the Alberni Pacific Lumber Co.
Ltd., who received the National
Safety Council’s “distinguished
safety award”.

The IWA District Safety Coun-

cil congratulates the safety com- ging Co.

mittees and employees in three ton, the ae

MacMillan operations — the AY flogging group e
award.

Plywoods Ltd. and the

Employees of all three plants

were present when H. R. Mac-
Millan received the award from

Carl Lowe, Seattle manager of

the National Safety Council.

The, Alberni Pacific loggers

ith the White River Log-
sper Go. of Knumelaw, Washing-
honor of being the first
to win the

"The sawmill and plywood plants
set a record by winning the
award for the second time, the
first being in 1946.

“That a sawmill, a pl

ant and a logging oper:
Bical each win this award

ex
a single management and in the -
same year is a record unequalled
§n North America,” Mr. Lowe de-

clared.

Union of unorganized plants in
the vicinity.
TWA’s Rights

District Secretary Mitchell, de-
clared that the plants affected
had all been certified on the dis-
tinct understanding that the IWA
would exercise the bargaining
rights for all the employees. It
was not logica,l he stated, to cer-
tify a small handful of employ-
ees in a craft union under condi-
tions which would enable a few
employees to tie up an operation
employing from 200 to 1400 men.

He pointed to the advantages
of industrial organization in pro-
tecting wage scales and working
conditions, as already proven by
experience.

On a former occasion in Tim-
ber Preservers Ltd., a member of
the Engineers’ International
Union had been discharged. The
business agent of the union, with-
out any enquiry had agreed to
send a man to take his place, ac-
cepting the company statement
without question.

‘The Plant Committee of the|
IWA, learning of the particulars,
intervened on behalf of the dis-
charged man, and after a bitter
fight, succeeded in gaining his
reinstatement, with back pay.

Decision on other applications
now before the Board and pro-
posing raids on other IWA-certi-
fied plants are still pending.

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