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Page Twelve

B.C. LUMBER WORKER

Geo. Mitchell Reports
THE UNION’S
BUSINESS

Tn_this issue the B.C.’ Lum-
ber Worker takes an important
step forward.

With increased
support from our
advertisers, the
size of the official
organ has been
expanded to
twelve pages. The
expansion became
necessary to pro-
vide a suitable
ratio of news and

- feature material
to advertising content. There are
good prospects that the enlarged
edition can be continued without
additional expense to the Union.

In this connection, I desire to
compliment the various Locals,
whose vigorous support in solici
ing advertisements has contrib-
uted largely to the success of the
paper.

This general co-operation has
enormously strengthened the fin-
ancial position of our publication,
and if continued will make poss-
ible more attractive features,

Members of the IWA will be
gratified that the B.C. Lumber
Worker has been established as a
satisfactory advertising medium
in the business world.

In a sense, it is acknowledg-
ment of the importance of the
purchasing power in the hands of
the lumber workers, It is also an
accurate appraisal of the wide-
spread circulation now! possible
through the well established facil-
ities of the Union.

COMMIE DEAL EXPOSED

Red-Controlled
Signs “Pathetic”

Woods Union
Contract

Details of the 1949 agreement recently signed by

the Communist-led Lumber

and Sawmill Workers Union

in Eastern Canada is now in possession of the IWA Dis-
trict Office, and has been characterized as one of the
worst examples of bargaining on record in the industry.

In a statement to the B.

C. Lumber Worker, District

President Alsbury said, “An examination of this docu-
ment should completely silence any criticism of the new
IWA contract in B.C. on the part of the WIUC. If this
is an example of LPP-Communist bargaining, it is the
most pathetic failure yet known to lumber workers.”

The Eastern organization dom-
inated by the “white-haired boy”
in Eastern LPP circles, Bruce
Magnusson, settled in the new
contract for no advance in wages,
and a ten-cent reduction in con-
tract loading and hauling rates.

The contract stipulates that
any time worked in excess of
eight hours per day or forty-
eight hours per week shall be
paid for at the regular rates of
pay.

A no-strike clause in the con-
tract includes all strikes ‘caused,
called, or supported by the Union
and its members.”

Under the grievance procedure
outlined, an employee must take
the first step ‘on his own initia-
tive, and no’ grievance will be
recognized unless this is done,
nor will the Shop Steward or
Grievance Committee be recog-
nized bythe foremen unless this
is done.

A bonus of 55 cents a cord,
for pulpwood cutting provided for

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OFFICE at 9 East Hastings Street, corner Carrall, hay-
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cordial invitation is extended to all old friends to come

Dr. R. Llewellyn Douglas

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President
Ist Vice-President
2nd Vice-Presiden

James McEwan

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Repretenting the Organized Loggers and Mill Workers of B.C.
, PUBLISHED TWICE MONTHLY BY
[BNTERNATIONAL WOODWORKERS OF AMERICA (CIO-CCL)
B.C. DISTRICT COUNCIL No. 1.

DISTRICT OFFICERS:

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3rd Vice-President_____________ Robert Watters

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International Board Member____'Tom G. MacKenzie

TRUSTEES:
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Address all communications to

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Tom Bradley
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George H. Mitchell

in the previous contract has been
eliminated from the 1949 con-
tract.

In clause after clause new ad-
vantages have been given to the
employers, and every slight and
distant concessions extended to
the Union.

“Any such contract, if written
by IWA officials would be con-
sidered an everlasting disgrace,”
continued District President Als-
bury. “It is incredible that at this
stage of trade union affairs any
responsible trade union official
should dare to sponsor such an
agreement or that his associates
in British Columbia should, with
this before them, offer a word of
criticism of recent IWA negotia-
tions. This Eastern agreement
represents the reverse of militant
union action.”

LOCAL 1-217

Okays Contract;
Elects Reps.

Following three hours of
lively debate, and close exam-
ination of members of the Dis-
trict Policy Committee, a mass
membership metting of. Local
1-217, IWA, Vancouver, voted
ninety-eight per cent for ac-
ceptance of the interim con-
tract, on September 11.

Spokesmen for the District
Committee on the occasion were,
District President J. Stewart Als-
bury, Vice-President Tom Brad-
ley} International Board Member
Tom MacKenzie, and Committee
}Member “Stu” Hodgson.

Keen interest was taken in the
balloting for delegates to the In-
ternational IWA Convention, Sep-
tember 26.

Delegates elected are: Fred
Soon, S. M. Hodgson, W. Blaney,
C. Mertz, A. Good, 'R.. Watters,
C. Clarkson, Tom MacKenzie, Al
Busch, John Busch, G. Fries, W.
Gray, 'Tom Bradley, Lloyd Wha-
len. ‘Alternates: A. Anderson, R.
Peebles, R. Carlson and A. Law.

CCL Convention Delegates

Bros. John Busch and W. Gray
will represent the Local at the
CCL Convention in Ottawa in
October, with Bros. H. Green and
C. Mertz as alternates. Numer-
ous resolutions for both conven-
tions were discussed.

Notable result of awakened in-
terest in IWA negotiations has
been a marked increase in mem-
bership. Canadian White Pine
and M. B, King plants both re-
ported twenty-five new members
during the past week.

Outstanding grievances settled
by IWA officials included an
agreement on more adequate san-
itary accommodation and im-
proved. lunch room at Yukon

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Lumber Co. Two men discharged
at Butler and Donard were rein-
stated after action by the griev-
ance committee. Seniority provis-
ions of the agreement were up-
held when the night shift at
North Shore Lumber was laid off.

Furniture Negotiations

Negotiations for the three main
furniture plants certified by the
IWA have reached the stage
where they will now be conducted
by a Conciliation Officer in hope
of satisfactory settlement. Em-
ployees at Hammond, Restmore,
and Skyline plants are pressing
jfor an adequate wage scale,

Loggers Name
Delegates

Voting for acceptance or rejec-
tion of the interim contract rec-
ommended by the District Policy
Committee has been submitted to
the members of Local 1-71, IWA,
by means of referendum ballot.
Officials report that the trend of
balloting to date indicates accept-
ance of the contract.

Nomination and election of del-
egates to the IWA International
Convention, September 26, con-
ducted throughout the logging
camps in four zones, resulted in
the election of Bros. Chris Vog-
nild, Sandspit; T, Plowright, Pio-
neer Timber; Don MacRea, Camp
Woss, Englewood, and Alf Olsen,
Rotter Log. This contingent dir-
ect from the camps will join the
other delegates previously elected
by the Local.

A New High

August payments of check-off
dues marked a new high for this
Local, evidently resulting from
confidence in the negotiations dir-
ected by the IWA.

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INTERIOR HOLDS
WAGE SCALE

An interim _ settlement,
representing gains for the
IWA, was reached by the
IWA Policy: Committee for
the Northern Interior of the
province in a conference
with the operators in Prince
George, September 17.

The operators’ proposed cut in
wages of 20% cents an hour was
successfully blocked. ‘The present
scale of wages will be mainta| i
in the new contract. Board vr
for logging camps will be fixed
with a maximum of $2.00 a day.

Concessions similar to those
now accepted for the Coast
agreement will be incorporated
in, the next contract for the
Northern Interior lumber work-
ers.

IWA negotiations were headed
by District Secretary-Treasurer
George Mitchell and District
Vice-President Tom Bradley.

Southern Interior

Bargaining talks for the South-
ern Interior were resumed in a
conference at Kelowna on Sep-
tember 21 with George Mitchell
in charge of IWA interests. At
time of going to press, results
were not known.

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