“assessment ballot, you indicate B.C. LUMBER WORKER May 11, 1950 BALLOTS EXPLAINED I THIS issue of the B.C. Lumber Worker, we reproduce in full detail the ballots now being distributed to IWA members for the referendum votes on the $1.00 assessment for 1950 and the proposed amendments to the District By-Laws. The purpose is to permit all IW- _A members an opportunity to examine these ballots at their leisure and study the questions posed. Our District Convention au- . thorized submis- sion of the questions to referen- dum vote, in the belief that ap- proval of the assessment and the amendments would benefit our Union. When you vote “Yes” on the approval of the payment of an ad- ditional $1.00 by each dues-pay- ing member for 1950. It is not a monthly assessment. It will au- thorize the payment of $1.00, once only during the year. At the same time, you will ap- prove the division of the fund so yaised as to strengthen equally the Local Union and the District finances. These extra funds are needed to provide the expanding services demanded by the mem- bership at this time. On “Proposition 1” you are not asked to increase the salaries now paid to District Officers. No Salary Increases The salaries of the District Of- ficers were fixed under the old by- Jaw in 1946, and have been in- ereased only in ratio to the in- ereases in wages gained in the industry at large. Under the pro- posed by-law, they cannot be in- creased unless and until wage gains are made by the member- ship. B.C. Lumber Worker “Proposition 2” provides for administration of the B.C. Lum- ber Worker with wider repre- sentation in control of the policy of the publication. District Safety Council Approval of “Proposition 3” will give the District Safety Council a constitutional status which the importance of its work deserves. It also provides for representa- tion on the Council from all Lo- cal Unions, and the more efficient direction of its affairs. NEW POLICY PORTLAND — A new forest policy for the Pacific Northwest must be adopted soon, for the West Coast wood industry as it is known today will be a thing of the past, says Ellery Foster, former Research Director for the IWA. “The main elements of the needed new forest policy,” Fos- ter said, “are public logging roads; careful selection to take the ripest trees first throughout the remaining virgin stands, and frequent light thinning of second growth stands from the time the trees are large enough to pay their way until the final crop trees are really mature.” AT 5 s A PERSONALITY PARADE VANCOUVER’S OWN LOGGERS’ HOUSE THE WEST HOTEL and featuring some of the boys who have helped us to establish our HOME — noe WEST presented by reputation as Boys! This is YOUR space WHY NOT USE IT? Views? News? Jokes? Just dro) fit you in. us a line to the WEST HOTEL, marked "B,C, LUMBER WORKER", and we shall try to Greetings? Telephone PAcific 8374 444 Carrall Street Vancouver Fred Marchese MANAGER BC Luxsenorven Representing she Organized Loggert and Mill Workers of B.C. PUBLISHED TWICE MONTHLY BY ee INTERNATIONAL WOODWORKERS OF AMERICA (CI0-CCL) B.C, DISTRICT COUNCIL No, 1. DISTRICT OF FICK: Board Meniber, Address all communications to GEORGE H. MITCHELL, Secretary-Treasurer Sulte 7, 420 Main Street ~ Phone PActie 4151 ‘Vancouver, B.C. A Subscription Rates_____1.00 per annum Advertising Representative___G. A. Spencer Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Dept, Ottawa _--- 96,000 COPIES PRINTED IN THIS ISSUE me Bradl Qua Vice-President ee orci E> , Stewart Alsbury STEELWORKERS APPEAL LRB DECISION United Steelworkers of Am- erica is to appeal the ruling of the B.C. Labor Relations Board, which has rejected ap- plication for certification for em- ployees of Consolidated Mining & Smelting at Trail. * Despite the fact that Steel pre- sented incontrovertible evidence that they had 2,200 members of the 3,900-man bargaining unit signed, the Board ruled that they had failed to prove the employees were “in good standing”. It is believed that their deci- sion is based on the technicality that the Steelworkers had not collected dues or initiation in ad- vance. At the recent hearing in Vic toria, Steelworker officials gave clear evidence that the Interna- tional had waived payment of dues during the membership drive. Mass membership meetings were immediately held at’ Trail to talk over the situation, con- sidered by many to be caused by the Board adopting a stand on the sheerest of technicalities. It has been pointed out by Steelworkers’ officials that there are many precedents in B.C. la- bor relations, where bargaining units have been certified before dues have been collected. The Board have been asked by the applicant union for detailed reasons as to their decisions which, it is understood, also con- tain the objection that the 2,200 men signed up had not taken the oath of obligation to the union. It is known that a number of AFL unions wrote to the Labor Relations Board, protesting the certification of a CIO union at Trail. “We're just starting to fight this ridiculous ruling,” com- mented Organizer Bert Gargrave. “The majority of the workers in Trail have no wish to be in the “independent” Mine, Union. Their desire is to remain with the CIO and CCL.” PATCH WORK YOU'VE got to be thick- | skinned if you’re a camel patcher in Algiers, North Africa. A camel patcher’s job is, believe it or not, to stick patches on live camels, because the broken skin does not heal like other animals, and 123 of the experts are on strike right now for a pay boost of 10 cents a patch, : VANCOUVER SUN Phone MArine 1161 for Daily Home Delivery Mill |} “HONORS” SPLIT IN KUZYCH CASE Honors were divided in a legal decision handed down in Victoria recently over the fight of Myron Kuzych to be reinstated in the Boilermakers’ Union in Vancou- ver. Bill White and Bill Stewart, president and sécretary respec- tively of the union, won their ap- peal against committal to Oakalla Prison for contempt of court for not reinstating Kuzych in the union (as they had been previ- ously ordered to do by another court order). “They were, however, ohce more ordered to reinstate Kuzych as a member of their union. The Ap- peal Court, however, upheld the award of $5,000 damages to Ku- zych for his wrongful expulsion from the union. Original judgment was that Kuzych was illegally expelled be- cause the trial committee which heard his case was not properly constituted. The union had maintained that the majority of the members had agreed to expel Kuzych because he had held an unauthorized pub- lic meeting to discuss the in: ternal business of the union, -a1 had opposed established policic! of the Boilermakers’ Union. MArine 7235 1227 GRANVILLE STREET —EE————— SPECIAL WEEKLY RATES VANCOUVER, B.C. Under New Management HAND-CRAFTED WITH FINEST SWISS LEATHER ® OHNSON’S LOGGERS A. W. Johnson Ltd. 63 West Cordova St. Vancouver, B.C. © THE CANA- DIAN BANK OF COMMERCE offers a special mail-order banking service to British Columbia lumber workers. You are invited to use this service to deposit your per- sonal SAVINGS, purchase MONEY * ORDERS, make FOREIGN REMIT- TANCES, It is by return mail you will receive a special form which will explain just how easy it is to BANK BY MAIL. THE cath a BANK OF COMMERCE