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Vol. XIX, No.64 <= May Il, 1950 5e per copy

Up For Fight

Vancouver, B.C.

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IWA DISTRICT POLICY COMMITTEE engaged in preparations for the Coast Conciliation Board
(eft, seated) George Mitchell, George Smythe, Tom Bradley, Fred Fieber, Tom McKenzie, J. Stew-

art Alsbury, W. R. Franklin, Lloyd Whalen, Lawrence Vandale. (Left, standing) Walter F. Allen,
Joe Morris, Roy Whittle and Jacob Holst.

BOARD REJECTS | “Independent” Talks Resumed
INDUSTRY-WIDE | _,,,Fuii resetting, committer of the District Council met in
STRIKE VOTE

ciliator R. T. McLaughlin, to continue contract talks with
Any government - supervised

Bloedel, Stewart & Welch.

At press time, no details were available of progress made.
strike vote in the lumber in-
dustry must be conducted on a
unit basis, was the ruling con-
veyed to the IWA District Pol-
iey Committee, May 8, by a
sub-committee which had pre-
viously interviewed the Labor

Relations Board, on the ques-

tion,

Basis of the ruling were the
provisions of the ICA Act, which
require a vote of the employees
in the unit affected, and which
refer to a unit as the bargaining
unit originally certified.

Committee members, Joe” Mor-
ris, Roy Whittle and Walter F.
Allen, had been delegated to at-
tend a meeting of the Labor Re-
lations Board and submit the IW-
A arguments in favor of an in-
dustry-wide strike vote, if such
should become necessary.

At a meeting of the Board,
May 5, the Union representatives
presented the view that only an
industry-wide vote, conducted
simultaneously in all operations,
and tabulated for the entire in-
dustry, would enable a satisfac-
tory decision for or against strike
action.

Chaos Threatened
It was pointed out that the

See VOTE page 3

WHAT'S
INSIDE

Traitors To Pay Up Another
$15,000; Forbes Out On Bail

Officers of Local 1-217, IWA,
have obtained a Supreme Court
order for recovery of $15,603.66
from renegade officers of the
union who mishandled the funds
in October, 1948,

More than $11,000 is illegally
in the hands of Gladys Hilland,
former secretary, who fied more
than a year ago, when a sheriff’s
warrant was obtained for her ar-
rest. She is still in hiding some-
where,

At the same time, too, it was
learned that Jack Forbes “na-
tional secretary” of the so-
called WIUG, got permission to
get out of Oakalla on bail,
pending his appeal against the
committal order jailing him for
contempt. Forbes tried to flout
the law and did not produce
$11,000 of IWA Local 1-80's
funds, which also vanished, in
October, 1948, as ordered by a

judge.
$5,000 Bond

Forbes got out of Oakalla, tem-
porarily, on a $5,000 bond last
Friday. Whether he will go back
in or not depends on the success
or failure of his appeal.

Meanwhile, too, the Supreme
Court registrar in Vancouver has
estimated ‘that the amount of
money missing from the Loggers’
Local 1-71, IWA, at the time of
the abortive split amounts to $18,-
188.61. An official court order
still has to be obtained before
legal steps can be taken to re-
caver the money,

CANADA'S TOP LABOR ECONOMIST
TO ACT FOR DISTRICT ON BOARD

Dr. Eugene Forsey, Research Director, Canadian Con-
gress of Labor, has been named as the IWA nominee on
the Conciliation Board, to hear the dispute between the
Union and the Coast lumber operators. 2

Action to secure Dr. Forsey’s consent, and present his
name, was taken by the IWA District Policy Committee
immediately after the recommendation of Conciliation
Officer R. G. Clements, that a Conciliation Board be ap-

pointed.

At the time of going to press,
no indication has been given of
the selection of the employers’
nominee. If the two representa-
tives named cannot agree on the
selection of a chairman, the ap-
pointment will be made by the

Labor Relations Board.

Leading Labor Economist

Members of the IWA District
Policy Committee expressed gra-
tification that Dr. Forsey’s tal-

_|ents had been placed at the serv-
jice of the Union.

He is recog-
nized as the top labor economist
in the Dominion, spokesman of
the committee stated, and brings
to the issues in dispute a wealth
of expert knowledge and experi-
ence in the field of labor-manage-
ment relations.

Dr. Forsey was a member of

i|the Department of Economics,

McGill University, prior to his
appointment on the staff of the
CCL, As a Canadian Rhodes
Scholar, he took an active interest
in labor affairs, during a brilliant
academic career, which finally led
to his direct association with the
trade union movement.

His preparation of submissions
to Parliamentary Committees and
Royal Commissions on behalf of
the CCL, established his reputa-
tion as a top-ranking and forth-
right economist.

LRB Orders Delay

Profound dissatisfaction was
registered by the IWA Policy
Committee over the rejection of
the applications by the Union and
the employers’ representatives
for the immediate appointment of
a Conciliation Board.

See FORSEY page 3

DR. EUGENE FORSEY, IWA
nominee on the Coast Conciliation
Board.

NORTH-WEST
OPERATORS
MAKE OFFER

Facing an IWA strike dead-
line of May 15, lumber opera-
tors of the five Pacific North-
west States this week produced
a two and a half cent wage in-
crease offer, plus a health and
life insurance program.

Newspaper reports of the offer
made by the Lumbermen’s Indus-
trial Relations Committee, gave
details as:

See OFFER page 3

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