®8chinese Now 100% IWA At Youbou B.C. LUMBER WORKER Page Three Local 1-357 Holiday Pay Arrears Won At Royal City Legal action launched by Lo- eal 1-357 against the former owners of Elsona Shingle Mills secured for the employees af- fected arrears of holiday pay owing when ownership was transferred. The average amount recovered approxi- ¢"" $300. Business Agent Decision was reached at the last membership meeting to ap-| point an additional business agent. Applications are now be- ing called for, and choice will be made at the next Executive Board meeting. The decision fol- lowed consideration of reports in- dieating rapidly increasing vol- ume of Union business, Sub-Locals Balloting for officers for the ensuing year is under way in the Sub-Locals at Thurston-Flavelle, Alaska Pine and Mohawk Han- dle No. 2. A gratifying interest is being shown by the members of each unit. | Nominations for officers of Lo- eal 1-357 have been opened and will close at the regular January meeting, Not Forgotten The Local Union officers, under instructions from the member- ship spent the four days preced- jing Christmas in making the |xounds among brothers reported sick or injured. They carried welcome and practical gifts as’ tokens of re- membrance from the Local, which earned warm appreciation. Convention Delegates Elected as delegates to the Dis- trict Convention at the last mem- bership meeting were: J. Stewart Alsbury, George Mitchell, Rae Eddie, Joe Madden, Lawrence Vandale, Andy Smith, Pat Powers, Fred Hockey, Chas. Spooner, Otto Eckman, Jas. Abrams, Doug Ferg, Dick Thomp- son, Jack Thompson, Sandy Tay- lor, Rae Pigeau, Henry Switzer, Rocky Pearson and Les Smith. Local 1-80 Negotiations conducted by officials of Local 1-80, IWA, with regard to all certified op- erations in the area, have re- sulted in increases for all ca- tegories previously below the rate established in the district. Chinese Workers A visit from Fred Soon, Chi- nese organizer, to camps and mills in the Duncan Local has re- | » sulted in increased support from Chinese brothers. All Chinese workers at the Youbou Mill are now signed up 100 percent in the IWA. Ladysmith and Nanaimo Sub-Locals recently undertook to raise funds in aid of two sick members, with the result that a total of $698.50 was col- lected. Each received 50 percent of this amount, in a time of great need. : as we! TONY POJE—Business Agent, Local 1-80, IWA, actively assisted in convention arrangements, Local 1-85 Truck Drivers Get $1.52 Rate Rate of $1.52 an hour for truck drivers at Bloedel, Stew- art & Welch, as compared to the rate of $1.27 formerly paid by the sub-contractor, was re- cently negotiated by Local 1- When the company undertook their own hauling, the rate was fixed at $143, but a survey made by the Local Union offi- eials disclosed that this was be- low the standard rate for truck logging. A trip to Franklin River by Lo- eal; Union officers secured final FI LOWER MAINLAND DISTRIBUTORS At B.S.&W. settlement of back wages owing cookhouse employees under the rates restored for them by the recent decision secured for them before the Labor Relations Board by the IWA. “Delegates elected to the Dis- trict Convention are: N. W. Shaw, R. Faint, A. Mannix, R. F. Can- nell, A. G. Ingram, R. Bondue, W. |F. Allen, H. Jonsson and J. Squire. ‘Under provision made to accord representation to members in the new jurisdiction of Tahsis, Oscar Berry was elected at a meeting ‘Jare: W. S. Lynch, Kamloops; A. | Bittle, Monte Lake. ++ |the CCF Trade Union convention | H.C. Hickling. Local 1-417 LYNCH GETS NEW CONTRACTS Four moré contracts haye come in to be signed (writes Execu- tive Board Member W. S. Lynch). They are from Nicola Valley Sawmills, Portable Saw- mills, Thomspon Valley Lum- ber and B, C. Interior Sawmills, Ltd. ; At a Local meeting recently, | © out-of-town members turned up from these ‘and other plants, among them Fred Cuthbertson, Glearwater Planing Mill, and two brothers from the upper camp at Clearwater, who came 85 miles to the meeting. Also there were E. R. Le Moine, and. Len Rosvold from Saskatchewan Federated Co-op., a union shop plant, 65 miles from ere. Brother Rosvold is a watchman at the plant. He was injured at work on Jan. 18, 1947. At present, he has to wear a special belt for support, but the Compensation Board is trying to cut him off, despite the fact that four doctors have told him that his injury is permanent. A. Rowbottom came 70 miles to the meeting from Merritt, and also attending were H. L. Evans, Salmon Arm and Vernon Bittle, Monte Lake. Delegates to the district con- vention, elected at this meeting Rowbottom, Merritt, and Vernon Two delegates were named to to be held in Kamloops on Jan. 15. The are Brothers Bittle and Officers for 1950 are: H, C. Hickling, President; D. Secreta, First Vice-President; Sid Ferguson, Second Vice- President; H. Yollop, Record- ing Secretary; W. S. Lynch, Financial Secretary; W. Har- ris, Conductor; R. K. Edmonds, Conductor, and Executive Board Member W. S. Lynch. DAFT DAYS In Scotland the days from Christmas Eve to New Year's Day are known as the “Daft Days”. And daft enough they have been round round these parts. But in Scotland they have a custom which seems good to us. Christmas is the children’s time, and drinking and grown-up par- tying generally, is confined more or less to New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day. On New Year’s Eve merry groups, armed with cake and a bottle go “first-footing”. They are even more welcome if’ they also carry a small piece of coal or wood ... these with a hearty hand-shake, are to. wish the householders visited, “food; warmth and good fellowship” in held at Tahsis Mill, Tahsis. RST IN THE F the year ahead. IELD . .. IRA B NANAIMO, B.C. INTERNATIONAL PRESIDENT FADLING (top), who with Vice- President Al Hartung (left), and Secretary-Treasurer Carl Winn will appear at B.C. District Con- vention. el = ' Dying Member Receives Cheque H. R. Beech, [WA member | Local 1-80, received an injury | on April 26, 1949, while em- ployed in a small logging op- eration near Lake Cowichan. His claim was not, however, im~- mediately recognized by the Workmen’s Compensation Board. The officials of Local 1-80, I- WA, took up his case on his_be- half, After much effort in bring- ing all the fact of the case be- fore the Workmen’s Compensa- tion Board, IWA Local 1-80 fin- ally suéceeded in getting his claim recognized. It is with deep regret that Local 1-80, IWA, reports that Brother Beech passed away on Dec. 24, 1949, but just previous to his death, he received a cheque for more than $500.00 from the Workmen’s Compen- sation Board as partial pay- ment of his claim. The sympathy of all will go to Mrs. Beech and children, in their sad bereavement. The many wreaths sent to the fu- neral from the various IWA Sub-Locals and the Local, tes- tify to the esteem in which Brother Beech was held by his fellow workers. . \ J. Morris, President, i Local 1-80, IWA, Duncan. “KAMLOOPS B ROY CUMMINGS YOUR FAMILY CLOTHING STORE “Union-Made” 318 Victoria KAMLOOPS, B. C. USINESS GUIDE We Suggest FOR A TEST - TRY THE BEST 3 at GRAY’S APPAREL Ladies’ Wearing Apparel KAMLOOPS, B.C. 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