B.C. LUMBER WORKER

Negotiations

SINESS
Top Priority

From now until June 15, preparation for and organization
of the 1950 negotiations will take precedence over all other items

business Union’s agenda.
a The TWA members have made it unmistakably clear that the
full resources of the Union must be employed to secure tho

Union shop with a 17-cent an
board.

The period of negotiations is a

iod when we must be not only
Fay’ active, but also especially
vigilant.

We have had experiefice with
the ways of the employers. We
may anticipate that they will
resort to all manner of devices
to break down the morale of the
IWA membership and confuse
and divide us.

The solid front achieved in the
formulation of our demands
must be maintained throughout
our organization and must be de-
veloped to include those who are
now attracted to the IWA.

+ Police the Contract

We iritend to hold what we
have and to bargain aggressively
for more. It is, therefore, impor-
tant that at this stage we should
carefully guard what we have, in
the existing contract.

The employers will settle for
no more than they feel they must
concede to keep the industry run-
ning. They may be expected to
probe every weak spot to drive a
wedge into our solidarity.

In various ways they may at-
tempt to apply pressure to im-
prove their bargaining position.
‘They will desire to pile up inven-
tories, even if at the expense of
overtime. They will try to break
down the advantages of the pres-

_ ent contract, as precedents to

make it appear that we are un-

hour wage increase across the *

reasonable.

The answer to this is the vigi-
lant policing of all clauses in our
master agreement.

Hours of Work

We have settled on the hours
of work. Let’s keep to the letter
of the agreement. Overtime, ex-
cept in grave emergency, should
not be sanctioned by the Union.
We are pledged to keep employ-
ment levels up by an equitable
spreading of the available work.

If we are scrupulous to insist
on the observance of the contract,
‘we can, on every job, make known
to the operators that we know our
business and mean business.

We will not retreat on any
point. We are preparing to march
forward.

Memories

The English barmaid was a
flirtatious piece, and the tall, sun-
burned Texan private was right
down her alley.

The MP had left the bar for a
moment, and the barmaid cud-
dled up to the Texan whispering,
“Now's your chance, Big Boy.”

“You said it,” grinned the pri-
vate enthusiastically, and drank
the MP’s beer.

A man wrapped up in himself

makes a yery small package.

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and featuring some of the boys who
have helped us to establish our

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os WEST

PERSONALITY PARADE
presented by
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reputation as

Harry Ia Bonte
G. J. Johnson

At the beginning of what all of us at the West Hotel
hope will be a prosperous and happy season in the
woods, we salute some of our oldest friends, who have
honored us with their patronage:

Patrick McDonald

Good Luck to you, Boys, this coming season!

The Old-Timers’ Roll Call continues in further issues.

Pete Forslund
Norman Nystad
Slim Erikson

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Fred Marchese
MANAGER

DISTRICT
President

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Steel Union
Applies or
Certification

As Local 4281, United Steel-
workers of America (CIO-CC-
L), applied formally for certi-
fication in Trail, B.C., Vancou-
yer Labor Council and B.C.
Federation of Labor both gave
their support to the move to
keep the smeltermen within the
CIO-CCL.

By resolution, too, the Quar-
terly District Council meeting of
the IWA, tendered their unani-
mous support to the smelterwork-
ers in their “repudiation of Com-
munist intrigue to betray the
trade union democracy of the C-
I0-CCL”.

K. A. Smith Rejected

Ken Smith, president of the
Mine, Mill in B.C. was not al-
lowed to address Vancouver La-
bor Council-at its last meeting
because, Acting President
George Mitchell, IWA secretary,
ruled that his Union had been
ousted from both the Council and
the Canadian Congress of Labor.

Mitchell’s ruling was chal-
lenged from the floor, but the
chair was sustained by a vote of
43 to 26. It was a noisy meet-
ing, with President J. Stewart
Alsbury in the forefront of the
battle, charging LPP interfer-
ence in IWA affairs in New West-
minster in 1948,

2,200 Signed Up

Meanwhile, in Trail, Local 42-
81 has signed up more than 2,-
200 members, and-has applied
formally for certification at Tad-
anac and Warfield.

Mr. Justice Whittaker threw
out a Mine, Mill application for
an injunction and also dismissed
a claim for damages against the
CIO-CCL Local.

IWA Message

Here is the full text of the
message sent by the IWA Dis-
trict Quarterly Council meeting:

The B.C, District Council of
the International Woodworkers
of America in quarterly meeting
assembled, unanimously author-
jzed this fraternal message to
our brothers in Trail and else-
where, who are asking re-affilia-
tion with the International trade
union movement of the CIO-CCL.

The IWA warmly supports

your repudiation of Communist
intrigue to betray the trade
pinion democracy of the CIO-CC-
We know that the United Steel-
workers have proven their loyalty
to the interests of the workers
in a great contribution to the ad-
vancement of their living stand-
ards and can restore rights, privi-
leges and benefits endangered by
the false isolationism sought by
leaders whose sole allegiance to
Communist policies, raided Mine,
Mill members out of the CIO-
CCL.
_ The same group of disruption-
ists attempted to betray the
members of the IWA, and even
seized our funds and properties
with the collaboration of certain
Mine, Mill officers for their own
purposes.

In the IWA, we repudiated
Communist domination and thus
regained for our members full
democratic strength for action on
trade union principles.

We welcome affiliation through
the Steelworkers and the CCL,
with a free union of the workers
in the mines, mills and smelters.

OFFICERS:

. Stewart Alsbury
‘Tom Bradley
Joe Morrin
Robert Watters
corge TH. Mitchell
Tom G, Mackenzie

Saturday work was vetoed
last week by the employees of
Stave Lake Cedar Co., after a
vote which sustained FWA pol-
icy by 60 to 11. District Presi-
dent Stewart Alsbury was on
hand to explain the policy of
the IWA, and to insist that the
Union’s rights under the con-
tract be observed.

Vote was take at the insistence
of the management, who at-
tempted to by-pass the IWA as
the certified bargaining agent on

SATURDAY WORK IS VETOED
AT STAVE LAKE CEDAR

the operation.

Representations were made by
District President Alsbury, who
had been hurriedly summoned to
the scene, to gain recognition of
the rights of the Union as set
forth in the contract.

The vote of the men taken be-
fore the Union intervened “on
their behalf, decided the issue
temporarily, but the matter may
be further discussed with For,
est Industrial Relations Ltd.

B. C. District Council has wired

pine Mine Workers’ Union (CC-
L), Timmins, Ont. in their fight
against mine owners.

‘Here is the text of the wire:

“The 25,000 members of the
B.C. District, IWA (CIO-CCL),
extend fraternal greetings to our
fellow-workers, the miners of
Timmins, assembled on Mar. 19
for trade union-action to secure
their just rights.

“We deplore the unjustifiable
refusal of the mine owners to
concede the reasonable recom-

full support to Local 100, Poreu-!

District Backs Timmins Miners

mendations of the Conciliation
Board.

“We support you in your law-
ful demands and in any appropri-
ate action you may consider nec-
essary to gain a fair settlement.

“In the lumber industry in Brit-
ish Columbia we have learned the
vital importance of trade union
solidarity and militancy, and so
congratulate you on your firm
determination to fight.

“Your fight is our fight and
we stand behind you all the way.”
...J. Stewart Alsbury, Pres.,

B. C. District Council No. 1.

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