@ SNAPPING THE QUIP

EAR BILL:—

Somebody's been reading our
mail. It makes me so sore, it gets
my dandruff up. I was batting
the breeze with the bunch in the
snack pit, the other evening,
when a “wooie” I used to know
at Woss came over and yanked
my shirt out. Said he wanted to
know if I wore yellow lace frills
around the bottom. Tom had to
be the goat-between,

When they set the furniture up
again, I found that he meant my
last letter to you. I had to spell
it out that all I meant was that
it is one thing to itch for some-
thing and another thing to
seratch for it.

How come they got me wrong.
I’m not going soft. I’m as ready
as the next guy for pulling the
pin on H. R. and his errand boys,
and don’t think that I don’t know
that a strike is the final answer.
What I want is good timing.

A strike is something you take
for butter or for worse. As for
me, I want butter today, and
more butter tomorrow, and to-
morrow is a better day for churn-
ing. :

Some of these big-mouthed
“swooie” finks, I wouldn’t trust
with a burnt match — whistle
punks with delusions of head
pushes, They can go push some-
one else around, not me.

These paragraph troopers for
the chairborne command don’t
know a guy-line from a by-line.
They're like the politicians who'll

Lechin' Areund

By “High Rigger”

“HI” BATS THE BREEZE;
SAYS BOYS DID RIGHT

stand for anything they think
other people will fall for—and all
wired for sound, nothing else but.

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WORM’S-EYE VIEW

§ I was saying, when you so

rudely interrupted me a few
weeks back, the betting was that
the IWA members would accept
the’ settlement worked out just
before the strike vote was due.

I hear that all the Locals have
now checked in, giving the new
contract the okay with a big ma-
jority. Most of the logging camps
that have voted have gone the
same way. Guess maybe the Dis-
triet Committee had a pretty
good idea the way the men were
thinking.

No one is apologizing, but don’t
think for a moment that anyone
is enthusiastic about the new
contract, especially in the mills.
At the meetings here, they fig-
ured out all the angles and de-
cided that a settlement now,
under the circumstances, made
common sense. ,

Anyway, the members had the
final word. The strike vote had
been held up and not cancelled.
If they didn’t like the interim
contract all they had to do was
say so. They had every chance to
demand a strike vote, and settle
the issue that way.

CO)
DEMOCRACY PLUS

GINCE they voted on this con-
tract in every Local, Sub-

Local and organized camp, there’s

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no use in squawking about any-
thing now. Everything was on
the up and up, and it was settled
in the most democratic way yet
seen in the IWA.

This screaming that some of
the “Wooies” are doing about
secret negotiations and a sell-
out is pure tommy-rot. Nothing
was done at any time except with
the okay of the entire District
Policy Committee. Look down the
list of the members of that com-
mittee, made up of men from
every Local, and you will find it
impossible to figure out how any-
body could get away with a sell-
out.

CO)
HOT TIMES

SOME of these membership

meetings were really hot, ’'m
telling you. The boys worked the
question over thoroughly before
they called for the vote. They
had lots of questions, and that
was a healthy sign.

Mostly they wanted to know
why the district committee had
not taken a strike vote before
talking over any proposition from
the bosses.

The committee members had an
answer and put it right over the
plate for my money. Seems that
when they were asking for a
proper strike vote, the Labor Re-
lations Board said they had a
better proposition from the em-
ployers, i

The officers couldn’t dodge the
issue because as you know the
Board has a lot of power, and
can even demand a vote on any
offer. So they said they would
call the Policy Committee into

Vancouver to hear the new terms.

The Committee remembered
that the membership had expect-
ed them to keep the door open
for any reasonable settlement, so
they listened. When the oper-
ators boosted the offer, they felt
they had to tell the members in
order to play square. Couldn’t
call a strike vote without telling
the membership what the new
terms were.

They also felt, having talked
to R. V. Stuart pretty frankly,
that bargaining wouldn’t get
them any further, so they took
a stand on a recommendation to
the members that the deal was
the best in sight. At the same
time they warned the Board that
they might yet need a strike
vote, if the membership turned
down the deal.

C)
PLIB UP NEXT

‘Tas one tickles me, because I
think the joke will be on R. V.
Stuart. His plans to hold the lid

down may yet be upset by the
men in the Lumber Inspectors’
Union. z

While we've been wrangling
over the new IWA contract, the
PLIB men went into conciliation,
fighting for an increase of wages,
union security, statutory holidays,
and a pension plan.

The majority on the Board
awarded them exactly nothing
and are they sore. They’re re-
jecting the award, and calling for
a strike vote, too. is

If they pull a strike, the in-
dustry will be tied up anyway
by only three hundred’ men. I
can’t imagine any IWA member
stepping into an inspection job
that’s now handled by the PLIB,
if it’s “hot”.

I can’t imagine the Longshore-
men handling any export lumber
that is labelled “hot” either.

The Lumber Inspectors have a
separate Union, although it is
affiliated with the CCL. If their
dispute results in IWA men be-
ing laid off, they will be entitled
to Unemployment Insurance, like

ithe Inspectors were in 1946.

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