* we have been required to print
ad

direct mailing
to those Locals
me, was adopted.

In view of these
decisions, which
will no doubt be
discussed* in the
Locals, I wish to
bring certain
facts to the at-
tention of the
membership.

During Novem-
ber and Decem-
ber, 1948, the pa-
per was published

ae under great diffi-
spe due to the disruption of IW
A irs. No advertising revenue
could be secured, and extra ‘costs
‘were incurred to meet the situa-
tion caused by the October break-
aways

Since the beginning of the year,

many thousands of tional
copies to meet organization de-
mands. This has constituted a
drain on the per capita account
for the purpose.

All addtessograph plates were
lost in the “revolution”. At the
request of several large Locals
We placed their members on a
direct mailing list, so that copies
of our official organ might be re-
ceived in their homes. This in-
volved the cost of new plates, re-
placements for changes of ad-
dress, addressing, and additional
postage at a cent per copy. This

apply business-like methods.

lable precaution must, therefore,

B.C.

LUMBER WORKER

Federation

Board Interference

A summons will be issued by the B.C, Federation of
Labor, gaitine for a cenference of representatives of all
trade unions to consider action in protest against

recent unprecedented rulings of the Labor Relations Board.

affilia

At issue is the right of the
Board to determine questions pf
jurisdiction and to set aside the
preference of the members of a
bargaining unit for affiliation
with a union of their own choice.

The Executive Board of the
B.C. Federation of Labor at a
meeting on July 9 heard a com-
plaint of the Amalgamated Build-
ing and Construction Workers.

From Col. I

cost has risen rapidly above the;
cost of mailing or delivering the
paper to the Locals in bundles.

It is this cost, which we expect
will now be assumed by the Lo-
cals interested. At the’ present
time we print 30,000 copies, mail-
ing over 10,000 by direct mail,
and the balance in bundles,

The above items are largely re-
sponsible for increasing the cost
per copy from the original esti-
mate of 2.73 cents to the present
cost of 4.3 cents per copy.

.We have now reached the stage
where we can and must place the
paper.on a self-sustaining basis.
The committee appointed for the
purpose will recommerid the nec-
essary economies. We have the
means to provide our members
with*a first-class paper, if we

All Locals can help us achieve
this end, by careful ordering and
distribution and by care in the
compilation of mailing lists.

Our official organ is a vital in-
strument for the success of our
Union at this time. Every reason-

be taken to keep it on a safe fin-
ancial footing.

W

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Protests.

An application by this union for
certification of employees of the
¢ookhouse unit, B.@. Bridge and
Dredging Co., contractors for the
Nanaimo Pulp Mill had been set
aside by the Board.on the ground
that the ABCWC was not the ap-
propriate union for these employ-
ees, This decision was enforced,
notwithstanding the fact that the
cookhonse had’ been organized by
the Amalgamted, and the major-
ity signed up with that union.

Smash Tactics

A still more flagrant case was
reported. recently in which the
employees of Scott-Bathgate Co.
Ltd., Vancouver, were organized
by the Bakery and Confectionory
Workers Union, assisted by a
TLC organizer.

In this instance, also the LRB
informed the union that it had
no jurisdiction but refused to in-
dicate the appropriate union.

Immediately the company acted
to fire twenty-five employees. The
circumstances deprived the Bak-
ery Workers Union of any oppor-
tunity to defend their interests
effectively. All organization which
had been slowly and painfully
built up in the plant was tem-
porarily smashed.

Showler Queried

Speculation is rife in trade
union circles as to the purposes
of the Labor Relations Board, es-
pecially as since the incident, the
Teamsters Union has moved into
that plant, apparently with the
approval of the Board. It is freely
predicted that the President af
the Teamsters and the TLC will
be called upon to account for his
actions at the next meeting of
the Vancouver Trades and Labor
Council.

Trade union spokesmen are bit-
ter in their deunciation of the
Board’s rulings, claiming that the
decisions complained of set pre-
cedents which threaten the estab-
lished rights of trade union or-
ganization.

VIC Supports
IWA Action

The Vancouver Labor
Council at the July 12 meet-
ing approved a protest made
by George Mitchell, Secre-
tary-Treasurer of the B.C.
District IWA and Vice
Chairman of the Labor
Council, against recent deci-
sions of the Industrial Rela-
tions Board exempting com-
panies from the provisions
of the Hours of Work Act.

The practice was unwarrented,
claimed the speaker, and was be-
ing used to undermine the agree-
ment for observance of a forty-
hhour week in the lumber indus-
try. He contended that no such
permit should be issued except
with the consent of the union
concerned.

Grave Abuses

This position was supported by
Wm. Symington, International;
representative of the United
Packinghouse Workers, who cited
instances in canneries, where such
exemptions had led to. grave
abuses and exposed cannery
workers to vicious exploitation,

The delegates accepted a res-
olution demanding that such pro-
posed exemptions be first re-
ported to the unions affected.

couver and Nanaimo was tabled,
revealed a deficit of $276.

From Page 5

Every proposition made by the
District or International officers
was looked over carefully, and
the delegates made their own de-
cisions. Not that they were sus-
Ppicious, but they were interested

the way the officers wanted it.

Every dollar spent had to be
accounted for. Every important
step by the officers had to get
their 0.K. They're going to set
up their own trustees for the
Srike Fund. A

They appointed their own com-
mittee to run the B.C. LUMBER
WORKER. If they thought any-
thing was wrong they squawked
as loud as they pleased and no
one shut them up until they got

in their own business and that’s| w)

NO “BOSS” RULE

answers that snited them.

They didn't sit and listen to
speeches from their “leaders”. They
made thesr officers sit and listen to
them. Can you imagine business be-
ing done in that democratic way,
en. Pritchett or Dalskog were in

the chair.
‘And no one was quarrelsome or

dirty. There was nothing to h,
like a year ago. Everybody was
terested in one thing only, and
was the good of the union. Every-
body was entitled to state his opin-
ion and. the results added up to plain
common sense. They didn't put on |
a show like the Commies} they did.
an honest job of work.

That’s why we ean put
‘money on the IWA to win.

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