Page Eight

B.C.

LUMBER WORKER

Operators Are Not IWA’s Only Enemies

UNIONS LOSE RIGHTS UNDER ICA ACT

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So much is heard these days
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sequent import restrictions in
sterling countries that it is en-
couraging to hear of at least one
B.C. manufacturer doing some
overseas business.

Tn the face of competition from
sterling area industriés and a
growing home: industrial expan-
sion in Australia, Industrial En-
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000 ‘shipment of power chain
saws on its way across the Pa-
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It is wiser to read your fire
hazard potential chart today than
to read of your operation fire in
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ON THE AIR...

By GEORGE H. MITCHELL,
District Secretary-Treasurer

Under the smokescreen of the ICA Act, the Labor Re-

lations Board in B.C. is trying new tactics to smash trade
unionism.

My solemn interpretation of four recent Board deci-

sions, principally dealing with certification, are set out
herewith:

The Board is taking away the rights of working
men to join the union of, their choice. 3

It is deciding jurisdiction as between AFL and
CIO union organizations.

It is interpreting, and misinterpreting, the consti-
tutions of trade unions in order to support its weak
decisions. y

Its rulings mean that-a CIO union cannot even
start to organize the unorganized section of an indus-
try without the Board’s okay.

It is ignoring established precedent in B.C. pro-
vincial labor regulations, and making new precedents
to suit itself.

It has issued the most garbled, arid self-contradic-
tory reasoning in one specific case to attempt to jus-
tify its actions.

Let me deal with four cases in order. Amalgamated

good standing”. Certification was
sought from the Board.

On June 21, the application
was turned down on the grounds
that the Board was “not satisfied
that a majority of the employees
were in good standing of the
Bakers’ Union” because the ba-
kers had failed to “show its jur-
isdiction”.

But, and this is a vicious but,

_|in the meantime, 25 of the peo-

ple who had signed up in the
Bakers were laid off for short-
age of material, and the AFL
Teamsters, Local 31 (Teamsters’
Boss here is Non-partisan Alder-
man George Birt Showler, chair-
man of the TLC) moved into the
plant and started organizing the
inside workers.

‘And while the Teamsters, an
AFL union, were signing up
those not fired, the Bakers,
another AFL union, were pay-
ing $20 weekly strike money to
those fired. Mel Kemmis says
that the Teamsters have re-
fused to make a deal, and take
over ‘the strike pay’ of those

junction to prevent the Team-
sters for being certified in the

Schofield and Malpas transit
on the Island.

The CBRE holds now a union
shop contract and irrevocable
check-off agreeemnt with th
company which does not expi
until October 1. About 16 men
are involved.

In.June, the CBRE heard that
the Teamsters were applying for
‘certification. They protested, but
never got an invitation to any
hearing. Nor was there ever a
vote, as precedent demands in a
contested certification.

The CBRE lawsuit demands
cancellation of the certification.
They maintain that the AFL
Teamsters have never collected
any dues from the men supposed
to be signed up. The men are
still being deducted dues for the
CBRE, while the AFL Team-
sters are raiding and being cer-
tified. x

It looks like an attempt to

VANCOUVER Building and Construction Workers of Canada (CCL): | fired, organizing the whole

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Organizer Jack Lucas moved
into an untouched field recently.
It was a 30-man cookhouse unit
of the B.C. Bridge & Dredge,
Nanaimo, completely unorga-
nized.

He signed up more than 50%
of the men. He applied for certi-
fication, This is what happened.
Although his application was
completely in order under the
IGA Act, it was turned down on
the grounds that the ABCW

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“could never by any stretch of
the imagination fulfil its real
purpose as an industrial union,
and it would be improper to cer-
tify it for a cookhouse staff
only.”

In other words, only a craft
union could properly be certified,
in the Board’s opinion, for the
unorganized section of any in-
dustry. Nonsense.

In the wordy, lengthy and ob-
viously self-conscious explanation
issued by the Board after the
story had appeared in the Van-
couver Sun, there are several
contradictions.

LEGAL EVASIONS

It admits that in Section 12
(2) of the Act, the Board “shall
certify an organization if the
application covers a unit appro-
priate for collective bargaining,
and the board is satisfied that the
majority of the employees are
members in good standing.”

In this case the Board is using
the quibble of “in good standing”
to talk away the majority, be-
cause the release later states,
“when the Act says that a ‘trade
union must be certified’ it is ob-
vious that the appropriate trade
union must be certified.”

In other words, no union
dare start organizing a new
field in B.C, unless it first gets
the okay from the Board, be-
cause even if it has 100 per
cent signed up, none of them
need be in “good standing” if
the Board thinks otherwise.
AFL Bakers and Confectioners

“Workers’ Union

Unorganized workers in the
inside section of the Scott Bath-
gate plant approached the TLC
Organizing Committee in Van-
couver. The TLC committee told
the Bakers to go in there. They
did. On June 7, at least 40 or 50
employees were members “in

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The Bakers have got a’ tem-
porary court injunction against
the Board preventing them from
certifying the Teamsters in that
operation.

UNION SHOP MENACED
CBRE and OTW: Another law

suit is pending in this case. The |

CBRE have applied for an in-

smash a union shop contract.
In this connection, the eo
incident, concerning the C
Machinists on the Island is in-
teresting. When they applied for
|certification in a former AFL

| operation recently it was refused
{on the grounds that the men in
the unit had not been initiated

into the union.

Yet in the Schofield and Mal-
|pas case, the reverse applies.

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