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B.C.» LUMBER WORKER

May 11, 1950

SHOP STEWARDS, McMILLAN INDUSTRIES LTD., Vancouver, meet to plan action in support ot

IWA contract negotiations.

M.LL. Shop

Stewards Plan Strategy

ONE QUESTION
at this time, especially

Apparently the
arguments for
the 0
as presented in
negotiations, are
better known
than the direct
advantages to be
gained under the
Union shop by
the individual
worker.

Basically, the advantages are
much the same as those to be
gained by active support of our
Union as the means to exercise

wages and working conditions.
Suppose

We can understand the advan-
tages more clearly if we suppose
that the IWA has already gained
Union shop conditions. Let us ex-
amine what this would mean to
the individual member.

It would mean that the Union
would be able at all times to em-
ploy the full and united strength

NEWS-HERALD DISTORTIONS

“Operators Can Boost Pay”

longer period of unemployment
later, in this highly seasonal in-
dustry. ’

IWA Counter-Proposal

I& your benevolent interest in
a higher income for the logger is
genuine, you will agree that the
basic consideration is a higher
wage rate to compensate him for
seasonal lay-offs.

The Union, when confronted |
with the employers’ demand,
made a counter-proposal, which,
if accepted, would have eliminated
difficulties which have arisen. Pay
at one and one-half times the
vegular rate is no concession. It |
has been the standard practice |
for years in the industry to pay
premium rates for overtime, |

If the operators are able to as-
sume the additional labor costs
of overtime rates for increased
production, they are well able to
increase the regular wage rate.

Loggers Opposed

You have under-estimated the
intelligence of the loggers. They
are not in favor of an extended
work week, as unanimous resolu-
tions from large mass meetings
of loggers in the big operations
have proven.

J. Stewart Alsbury,
President,

B.C. District Council,
IWA.

of the lumber workers to secure
adequate wages and improved
working conditions.

The numerical strength of the
Union would equal the number of
employed lumber workers. The
solidarity of action to be gained
through complete organization

“We will not rest unfil there is} would add tremendously to this
social security for all.” | strength.

Prime:Minister St. Laurent, |
Moncton, May 19, 1949.

NO REST FOR
ST. LAURENT

Before The Election

Security

| ‘fhe Union shop would give se
jurity to the Union in the lumber
|industry which would offset any

After The Election

| ployers to undermine i
“Social security is indefinable,| It is for these very reasons
immeasurable and dishonest.. . .| that the Union shop is so bitterly
In Canada it is an ill-fitting opposed by the employers. They
ment that hampers our de ‘ish to be entirely free to im-
ment and could strangle us.” conditions that suit their
2 -making aims.

L. A. Mutch, Liberal } With the Union shop, the sta-

for Winnipeg South, 2

i t tus of the Union as the bargain-
Parliamentary Assistant to’ jng gency for the workers would

the Minister of Veterans’ he firmly established. The ener-
Affairs, Toronto, |gies of the membership could be
Feb. 14, 1950. | devoted to the betterment of con-

Union shop |

our united strength to better our |

jattempt on the part of the em- |

PRESIDENT’S COLUMN ‘

Why We Want Union Shop

is raised more frequently than any other
f in shop steward meetings: ‘What

reasons do we giye to our fellow-workers why they should sup-
port the IWA fight for the Union shop?

hans instead of being partially

employed in organizing against
\the employer's opposition.

Under Union shop conditions,
every lumber worker would have
a voice in decisions affecting his
wages and working conditions.
Every lumber worker would also
pay his share of the expense of
maintaining Union activity, thus
distributing this burden fairly
and fully developing the financial
strength of the Union.

The Union shop would make it
possible for the Union to do a
first class job in promoting the
welfare of all the members.

LOCAL 1-85

BS &W Talks
Continue

Members of Local 1-85, IWA,
are taking an active inter-
est in the conciliation confer-
ences with Bloedel, Stewart &
Welch, which opened in Port
Alberni this week, under Con-
ciliation Officer R. T. McLaugh-
lin. General expectation is that
a wage offer will be made.
President Walter F. Allen is a
member of the IWA Negotiat-
ing Committee.

A recent special meeting of the
|Local Union heard a full report
on current negotiations, and gave
emphatic approval to the IWA
bargaining policy.
| The necessary steps are under
way to complete full coverage
with a strike organization.

Tahsis Organizing

Local Union officers have com-
‘pleted a trip through the Tahsis-
| Zeballos area to conduct the mem-
| bership referendum and report on
‘negotiations. The awakened in-
terest in the IWA contract fight

has brought an influx of old and
new members into the Local
Union.

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