B.C. LUMBER WORKER

Page Nine

TWA TO OPEN
KELOWNA OFFICE

Coast Locals of the IWA will
be asked to assist in the estab-
lishment of a sub-district office in
Kelowna, as a result of the deci-
Sion of the quarterly meeting of
the District Council, Oct. 16. A
voluntary assessment of one
cent per dues month was pro-
posed, for the ensuing three
months.

In a report to the Council, In-
ternational Board member Tom
MacKenzie stated that the pay-
ment of additional per capita tax
for the purpose would create a
hardship on the Interior Locals at

> e present time.
r) At the end of a three-month

feriod, the situation would be
reviewed by the three Locals con-
cerned, and the possibility of in-
creasing their per capita tax pay-
ments for the purpose by twenty
cents wauld be considered.

The sub-district office, to be
located in Kelowna will serve as
an administrative and organizing
centre for the Interior of the
Province,

UNIONS NEAR
MILLION MARK

Trade union membership in Ca-
nada increased by over seven per
cent during 1948 to reach the
level of 977,594. This result was
shown by the Federal Depart-
ment of Labour after a survey of
Wage and salary earners in in-
dustry. £

This membership figure is al-
most three times as large as the
one reported for 1939, but the
labor force has increased 70%
to a total of 3,331,000.

Sixty-five per cent of the total
trade union membership is con-
eentrated in Ontario and Quebec.
British Columbia reports a total
of 106,668 union members, 2 fig-
ure slightly lower than for 1947.

Another Vote
For Irvine

‘The Editor: at

With your kind permission, I
would like to make a few com-
ments and fisk, via your letter
column, a few questions of two
of the candidates standing for
election in the forthcoming New
Westminster by-election. —

By what method of reasoning
do you, Mr. Philpott, arrive at the
conclusion that you, as it were,
are a man chosen by destiny to
solve what is admittedly the seri-
ous problem of Canadian export-
import trade with Britain?

Also your one-man mission of
reorganizing the United Nations
Council, along lines calculated to
further the cause of peace rather
than the cause of war, and your
advocacy of a pension plan based
on the proposition of sixty dollars
at age sixty,

‘All worthy ideas, we grant, but
it seems to me that you are
guilty of,plagarism, maybe un-
consciously, but inasmuch as your
much publicized platform has
been lifted from the CCF pro-
gram, the least that can be said
is that you are not very original
in_your ideas.

In addition, our CCF members
are independent in the truest
sense of the word, as they are
not beholden to the various fin-
ancial and industrial institutions
which really rule Canada through
a government composed of men
subservient to their interest. Bear
in mind that in government as in
other things, “they who pay the
shot call the tune”, and what a
shot the big boys payed out a
few months ago.

F. Courneyeur.

If fifty men did all the work,
‘And gave the price to five,
And let the five make all the
rules—
You’d say the fifty men were
fools,
Unfit to be alive.
—Charlotte P.. S. Gilman.

South of
the Border

by Portland Pete

Sa result of an IWA charge filed

im February, a U.S. trial examin-
er's report has recommended to the
National Labor Relations Board that
Potlach Forests Inc. be forced to post
for 60 days a notice guaranteeing that
there will be no discrimination what-
ever against IWA men in Local 10-
364.

* # *

ANOTHER SLAP in the face to
craft unions came at Springfield, Ore.,
when the men of Weyerhauser Timber
turned down the AFL Teamsters and
stuck to the IWA.

ries

PAC will be handled in a big way
in a new drive by Oregon State In-
dustrial Council.

Sa ty :

THREE YEARS is a long time for
a fight, but Local 422, Montgomery,
Alabama, is proud of their victory
after that time. Order has been given
for reinstatement with payment for the
time lost since October, 1946, for 16
men,

* se

BILL SPEER heads the new officers
for Local 6-221, Bute Falls.

aa ken

HAVE A LAUGH on the cost of
living index. In the U.S. it's down a
fraction, the headlines scream, and the
effect is that you save about a nickel
a week,

isles

NON - ATTENDANCE at union
meetings costs the men of Local 10-
340 down in Deer Park, Wash., half
a buck. The revenue goes to members
in need of help.

Local 1-71

SANDSPIT GRIEVANCE FIXED

| The “Lady Alice” with Local
1-71 organizers on board, is now
in the vicinity of Jervis Inlet.
Present plans contemplate visits
to all the logging camps in the
area. Every such visit results in
new and renewed IWA member-
ships, indicating that there are
few loggers but that accept the
IWA as the “Loggers’ Union”.
The membership files of Local
1-71 have now been completely
restored, and disclose a bright
picture of the re-organized Local.
The total number of members
that have remained with or re-
turned to the IWA as of Janu-
ary Ist, 1949 are 2500. Of this
number 249 are cash members,
and 2,341 are on the check-off.
A long-standing grievance at
Northern Pulpwood, Sandspit,
was settled recently, when the

Cat mechanic received a 62 cents
a day upward adjustment, retro-
active to February. The Ie
Union office is ready at all times
to give attention to legitimate
grievances that cannot be settled
in camp.

High Stakes

On Oct. 24th, the courts will
hear evidence in the suit launched
by Local 1-71 for recovery of
funds and assets from the former
officers.

In this connection it is interest-
ing to note the financial state-
ment of the Local for July, 1948:

Cash*in Bank $25,554.61

Personal Loans ___ 7,046.01

Fixed Assets

Boat and Office
Equipment

13,065.15

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BILL MOTT

Bill Mott, both as a helper and journeyman was
a member of the International Brotherhood of Elec-

tric Workers. Since organizing his own business he
has maintained and does maintain a Union Shop.

As Alderman and Mayor of the City of New
Westminster for eleven years, as President of B. C.
Municipalities, and in many other civic and com-

munity activi

ies he has been well trained to under-

stand the needs and people of the community and
to present them in the larger field of Dominion

representation.

NEW WESTMINSTER

BY-ELECTION - OCTOBER 24 - VOTE MOTT

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