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LUMBER WORKER

Geo, Mitchell Reports
THE UNION’S
BUSINESS

HAROLD Pritchett and his
union wreckers have tried to
balloon a few certifications in
small mills and logging camps to

give the impression that the
whole industry is going WIUC.

The facts
are, that in
spite of fren-
zied antics,
they have se-
cured certifica~
tions for less
than % of 1%
of the total
number -em-
ployed on cer-
tified opera-
=H tions.

The operations in which they
have secured majority votes em-
ploy from one to a maximum of
fifty workers, and mostly were
not included in previous collec-
tive agreements.

The IWA intends to overcome
the former neglect of small‘ op-
erations. They must be organized.

All the WIUC saboteurs have/

done is to organize them out of
the negotiations in which the
IWA speaks for the majority of
workers in the industry,

And now a word of caution to
lumber workers accepting jobs in
camps and mills.

Before signing on they should
first make certain of the classifi-
cation for whieh they are hired
and the wage specified in the
agreement for the particular job
for which they are engaged.

Local union officials are always |

ready to explain the wage sche-
dule. Without this information
many men have been placed at
work on jobs which should pay a
higher rate than set out in their
hiritig’ agreement.

was charged this week by District

Evidence secured as a result of
his personal investigation ef com-
plaints made during a recent visit
to camps on Vancouver Island,
was submitted to the Labor Re-
ations Board. ‘Local union offi-
cials were alerted to take steps
to counteract such vicious prac-
tices.

‘Accompanied by Secretary J.
Holst, Local 1-863, who speaks
fluent German, District President
Alsbury heard translated state-
ments of D.P.’s, and other mem-
bers of foreign language groups.

They had been informed, by
WIUC organizers, they said, that
unless they joined an all-Cana-
dian union such as the WIUC,
they would lose their jobs. They
had been warned against joining
any international union as likely
to bring them under suspicion for
subversive activities in Canada.

When the true facts were con-
veyed to them in thei own lan-
guage, they immediately tore off
| the WIUC buttons and joined the
\IWA,

“Such unprincipled methods of
dealing with newcomers to Ca~
nada strike a new and unsavoury
Now, even for the WIUG,” said
Alsbury. “It exposes their prat-
ing of a free trade unionism as
pure sham.”

|_ Figures for 1948 show huge
success of B.C. Fishermen Co-
operative Marine Insurance Com-
pany. The Co-op, starting in 1945
with 12 men, “mostly fishermen”,
and with a capital of $120, now
has $2,000,000 of insurance in
force, and close to 400 fishing
vessels protected under its poli-
cies,

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‘Alsbury Exposes ‘WIUC’
Intimidation Of D.P.’s .

Gross intimidation of D.P.’s and other persons unfamiliar with
the English language, and Canadian customs, by WIUC organizers

President Alsbury.

PROSECUTIONS
PLANNED

LOCAL 1-118

Brother Bernard Macham re-
ports: “4

Each time on two previous oc-
casions when the IWA have tried
to organize Green Lumber Co.,
R. A. Green has used intimidat-
ing action and fired a man thus
being. able to keep a union out.

During the first week of May,
just as organization was com-
pleted for a third time, and col-
lective bargaining commenced,
Green fired three more men,
claiming lack of work.

This time he’s not going to
make it stick. The local executive
are determined to see it through
to the end, even if it means pros-
ecution.

Bros, Whittle and Fred Soon
visited the Sooke Lake Lumber
crew at-Leechtown where Bro.
Soon reorganized all the Chinese
Bros. in the camp.

1-217 Auxiliary
Sets Meeting

In the future, the TWA Wom-
en’s Auxiliary, 1-217, will hold
its regular monthly business
meeting in the IWA District Of-
fice, 426 Main Street. Business
meetings will still be the first

p.m, unless otherwise notified.
‘Any prospective member may
have further information by
phoning the Secretary,
Muriel Bradley at HA. 5457-L.

Who Gets Raise ?

The Editor: :

We are told that it’s the in-
crease in wages that ups: the
prices of everything else. Here’s
a true story of what happened to
a friend of mine who took a room
in a small town.

He visits that town regularly
on business and always puts up
at the same hotel. This time, how-
ever, he noticed that his room
was ‘costing 50 cents a day more
than on previous visits.

‘Asking the owner for a reason,
he was told the staff had orga-
nized since his last stay. Being
a union man himself he was will-
ing to pay the extra. Later, how-
ever, he got wondering how much
raise the staff had got, and on
making enquiry found that two
chambermaids had got $7.50 a
month each, a total of $15. Then
he checked’ on the number of
rooms in the hotel, and found
that the landlord had raised the
rent of each, 50 cents to $1 a day,
totalling $140 a month. So the
staff organized, but the boss
cleared $125 a month off the deal.
You can’t beat them!

Another Worker for Wages.

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_ Representing the Organized Loggers and Mill Workers of B.C.
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Members of the IWA not in receipt of their copies of
the B.C. LUMBER WORKER regularly, or who haye
changed their addresses, are requested to communicate
with the District Secretary, 426 Main Street, Vancouver.

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