B.C. LUMBER WORKER Page Three AGE 1 “Court Order To Protect Records Ignored” - Say IWA (while the Loggers’ Navy was in custody of the Court Re- ceiver) -. $8,000 | Charter fees for March and April, 1949, for the “Elizabeth $520 * Total .. $3,520 An additional $1,200 is claimed on the basis of $200 a month | from October 4, 1948, to March, 1949, in respect of non-use of the | Loggers’ Navy, causing necessary | charters of boat, plane and bus! for that period. The net claim on accounting | of $32,332.10 plus the total) $4,720 claim for damages brings the complete total claim “on ac- counting and for damages” to $37,052.10. Hearings were conducted - be- fore the District Registrar on Jan. 12, 19, and 26. Mr. Dalskog ‘was put through the hoop by the Loggers’ Local counsel. It was pointed out that the re- eeipts or vouchers so far sub- mitted by Dalskog, for the men sued, were mainly “internal re- ceipts” given between individuals “Inown to have been in the employ or service of the party defendants and now members of the WIUC”. The Loggers’ Local claims that no steps were taken at all by the defendants, to protect the books and receipts of the Local, al- though they were legally bound to do so under terms of a court jorder, Local Had $20,000 In Cash In the absence of the books { and records, they “must be held countable for all money jown to be in the hands of the ¢ al or the defendants as at ptember 30, other than those which they can prove strictly were properly spent.” In its positive claim, the IWA ints to the audit of the Local’s *books by the Trade Union Re- seare Bureau, as at August 31, 1948, which balance sheet showed total cash assets of $21,221.20. The statement submitted on be- half of McCuish, Madsen, etc., shows a bank balance at Sept. 30, 1948, of $26,653, less outstanding cheques, with a net balance of $19,920.27 In its genuine and honest en- deavor to arrive at fair and just figures (in the absence of any ob- former officials to produce docu- ments), the Loggers’ Local, with the assistance of Barrister Camp- bell, worked out the following av- erage income and expenditure of the Local. Average dues’ income for Sep- tember, 1948, was estimated at $10,000, with’ expenditures aver- aging $8,455.00 (according to the yearly totals previously), and in view of the fact that. the differ- ence is $2,000 over that given in defendant’s statement, the IWA leaned over backwards and stated it would accept the figure of $19,- 920.27 as the net, accountable cash of the Local. Dalskog’s $1305 Loan The balance sheet prepared by the Trade Union Research Bu- reau shows, under Current As- sets, items amounting to $12,- 682.02, including an item of just under $7,000 for loans receivable. Demand was made that full de- tails of this entry must be fur- nished, suggesting that if the former officials can’t produce their own records, then the Trade Union Research Bureau might have the details. More than $6,500 of another entry in the same audit (this time for $12,584.64 in liabilities) is questioned, too, Total value of furniture and fixtures in the former offices of the Local were shown in the bal- ance sheet to be valued at $3,873, “This total item is account- able,” says the IWA claim, “and z particulars have been sub- One of the major claims con- erns an item of $11,171.09 added to the bank balance under re. ceipts of Oct. 1 to Oct. 20, 1948, It is submitted that as the main revenue of the organiza- tion came from check-off pay- ments from logging operations, this income should properly have me, not to the then we ormed WIUC, but to the Fl LOWER MAINLAND DISTRIBUTORS We Tt is stressed that the sundry vouchers, etc,, submitted by the people sued “are not acceptable as proof in their present form, and in the absence of verification by record, the following com- ments are submitted”: (a) A deduction is shown of $1,805 in respect of the debit made by the bank on the personal note of Ernie Dalskog (which was guaranteed by the Local officers. “While proceedings have been taken against Dalskog by the Lo- eal for recovery of that money, and judgment entered, the de- fendants cannot claim this is a credit in the absence of being able to show authority for the de- duction. ¥ () A claim for credit of $61 is allowed for two NSF (not suf- ficient funds) cheques. Both cheques were from small logging companies and were dated Oct. 16 and Oct, 21, and were in respect of Union dues check-off, (c) The IWA legal advice in regard to a total of $20,753.71 in cheques claimed by Dalskog as “allowable”, is that more than $12,000 is definitely suspect. Of the balance of $8,000 classed as “allowable”, more than $7,500 has, in fact, already been recov- ered from the LPP-Communists RST PURVES E. RITCHIE & SON LTD. VANCOUVER, B.C. at unufactured by vious co-operation on the part of |” and $5,000 from Union Printers.) The following cheques (pro- duced as part of the defendants’ accounting, are rejected by the IWA: Madsen $ 1,140.00 Madsen 358.59 Madsen 58.76 100.00 400.00 58.76 100.48 TAT 9,000.00 McCuish 58.76 Bergren 71.58 Cash 100.00 McCuish 100.48 Madsen 310.00 Total ... $12,541.06 The following cheques, how- ever, were accepted as proof of proper expenditure: Mrs, Leary (salary) ..$ 66.78 John Stanton (reco ered) 2,500.00 Union Printers (recoy- ered .. .. 5,000.00 Mrs. Stevens (salary. 74.28 Strike fund (recoy- ered) .... 57119 Total to be allowed as credit $8,212.65 (d) Another part of the state- ment by the renegade officials shows claims for cash expenses paid of $3,260. A total of $1,178.96 is named as acceptable to the Local, but puted for the following reasons: Confusion Holiday and retroactive pay claimed by McCuish, Madsen and Fraser. On one schedule, there is an item of $58.76 paid to Mad- sen, which in the opinion of IWA counsel, might be a duplicate of another item on another sched- ule, The same could apply to Fraser, comparing cheque No. 4356 on one schedule, and the eighth item on another schedule. “Obviously with such dupli- the Loggers’ Local, “no allow- ance can be made in respect of any of these items without au- thenticated explanation.” “Organization expense to Nord- lund, Stafford, Fraser and Mc- Cuish,” continues the IWA claim, “must be disallowed, as such ex- penses would have been in respect of organization, not for Local 1- 71, IWA, but for the defendants in connection with the WIUC. “This is clearly shown from the circumstances that the receipt submitted by Nordlund for his $200 reads as follows: ‘for organ- izational advances’, Convention Expenses “Convention expenses to Staf- ford ($122.50); Job, ($190.50), Nordlund ($200); Carlson, $177.88, are not acceptable for the reason that these persons as is shown by the defendants’ state- ment itself were in the service of their own group, and the con- ventions themselves were held after the disaffiliation, and the in- dividuals did not in fact attend on behalf of the Loggers’ Local in such convention. “While the dates shown on IN THE FIELD Ht Pioneer T WWE one & TWo MAN Power CHAIN SAW IRA BECKER & SON VYANcouver NANAIMO, B.C. some of the purported vouchers. STI a NDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA the balance of the money is dis- | cation and confusion,” claims | |that by their action these mem- bers of the WIUC are stopped from claiming these payments, and the defendants had no au- thority to make such payments.” The Local 1-71 submission to the registrar of the Supreme Court turns next to the Trade Union Research Bureau, and men- tions the sum of $100 as being “subject to question”. Audit Charges Audit charges for the nine- month period from Dec. 1, 1947, to Aug. 1, 1948, it was pointed out, were shown at $255.00, Referring to the $100 payment, it is noted, “there is no charge whatever shown for accounting assistance, and the whole item is; therefore, suspect.” Librarian Fees Claimed as “obviously not ale lowable” is a payment of $75 to W. Morrice for Aero Librarian fee, on Nov. 30, 1948. Hiring Hall fares of $172.37 are also questioned, as is a payment of $28.12 to one David McKay, as “this person became disafiliated, and his purported expense was |for the convention which was to |have been held on Oct, 11.” On the Dalskog wage claim, the IWA submission states: “The wage claim of E. Dalskog for $3,650 is disallowed in the absence of any proof as to the propriety of the same, or the authority for its payment, and | such proof as has been tend- ered, it is submitted, is far from acceptable.” Documents were produced in court, purporting to show a total wage claim for back. wages by Dalskog when he was secretary of Loggers’ Local for something over $6,000, but in that. official audit for Aug. 1948, nothing was shown as a liability of wages ow- ing to Dalskog. clique ($2,500 from John Stanton, | are prior to Oct. 4, it is submitted | FROM PAGE 1 Sloan Brief Prepared reported on the preparation of a bref for presentation to the Sloan Commission on Workmen’s Compensation, .. * He. also. announced that the District Officers would meet with Forest Industrial Relations Ltd., on Feb. 2 to discuss the right to negotiate contract prices for fallers and buckers. At this conference, he stated, the position of the IWA regard- ing the work-week for plywood workers would be stated. Forty hours pay for forty hours work, with elimination of all unneces- sary overtime on Saturdays, will be the objective of the negotia- tions, he informed the Board. WHY DANNY — O'BRIEN QUIT Echoes of the abortive “Oc- tober, 1948 Revolution” in the IWA, will be heard in the con- yention of the B.C. Federation of Labor, Feb. 4-5, when the officers report on the reasons for the resignation of “Danny” O’Brien. The report recites the events which led up to a meeting of the Federation Executive Board, Nov. 6, 1948, when as a result mainly of O’Brien’s open support of the WIUG, his resignation was forth- coming. Over the signatures of Wm. Stewart, J. S, Alsbury, S. R. 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