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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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. Mac-
Kenzie and George Home, it is
announced that the policies of the
CIO and the CCL with regard to
the Communist-controlled trade
unions within these organizations
has had an important effect on
trade union developments in
British Columbia.

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