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B.C. LUMBER WORKER

Page Three

VOTE

_ Record Vote

IWA District officials estimated,
June 5, that the vote cast by the IWA
members: was the largest on record,
and accounted for over 80 percent of
the entire membership.
__ District President Alsbury stated:
"We are intensely proud of the fighting

‘it and solidarity of the IWA. The
"District Policy Committee has now
been given a clear-cut mandate to
take strike action before June 15, if
no satisfactory settlement on the basis
of the Union demand is reached. We
will now demand a government-super-
vised strike vote, and are confident
that the results will uphold the demo-
cratic decision of the IWA members.
“The vote expresses the deeply
rooted resentment of the iamaber
workers over the unfair conditions at-
tached to the wage increase recom-
mended by the Conciliation Board and
as demanded by the operators.”

Local Union Returns

Returns from Local Unions with
scattered operations were incomplete
at press time, (June 5), but as fur-
ther returns are not expected to alter

Qi overall result, the following sum-
wary on the basis of percentages was

released.

* For Rejection of Award

Local 1-71, IWA, 92 percent,
Gneomplete), Local 1-80, WA,
92 percent (incomplete). Local
1-85, IWA, 89 percent (incom-
plete). Local 1-118, IWA, 79.87
percent (complete). Local 1-
217, IWA, 82.22 percent (com-
plete). Local 1-357, IWA
85.85 percent (complete), Local
1-363, IWA, 90.1 percent (com-
plete). Local 1-367, IWA, 83.1
percent (incomplete),

For Strike Action

Local 1-71, IWA, 90.1 percent

Gneomplete). Local 1-80, IWA,

90.89 percent (incomplete). Lo-

cal 1-85, IWA, 90 percent (in-

complete. Local 1-118, IWA,

80.33 percent (complete). Local

1-217, IWA, 81.72 ‘percent

(complete). Local 1-357, IWA,

83.36 percent (complete). Lo-

eal 1-363, IWA, 87.1 percent

(complete), Local 1-367, IWA,

79 percent (incomplete).

Jn the Vancouver and New West-
minster IWA Local Unions the vote
cast was the largest on record,

Local 1-217 IWA Vancouver re-
Ported that over ninety per cent of the

members cast their ballots. The vote

“YES’

for rejection was 3,294 to 712; for
strike action 3,291 to 736.

Local 1-357, New Westminster, re-
corded a vote for rejection of 3,387
to 558, and for strike action 3,295 to
658—a total ballot of over nincty per
cent of the dues-paying membership.

Victoria Local 1-118 reported a vote
of 754 to 190 for rejection and en-
dorsed strike action by a vote of 776
to 190.

‘The trend in votes cast and major-
ities was almost identical through all
Local Unions. ‘The average was 86.5
per cent for rejection and 85.3 per
cent for authorization of strike action.

Returns were considered at th
meeting of the IWA District Policy
Committee, June 6, and a warning
issued to all Local Unions to rush
completion of strike plans.

NINE MONTHS
FOR PICKETS

Nine long months on the
picket line outside Army sand
Navy Stores, New Westminster,
hasn’t weakened one tiny bit the
resolve of the determined women
striking employees of the Retail,
Wholesale, CIO.

Labor all across Canada has a
duty to these girls. That duty is
to continue the fine moral and
financial support already ac-
corded. =

Remember! These girls are
striking for a living wage; that’s
all, and have been through NINE
MONTHS of picketing in some
of the worst weather imagin-
able. Inside the picket line, the
store is staffed by scabs.

Strikers, weakened by their
long vigil and the intense strain
some of them have of keeping
whole families SOLELY ON
STRIKE PAY, have been sick
and hospitalized and come
straight back on the picket line.

One girl is in hospital now
with a serious lung condition,
attributable directly to picket-
ing.

Unions have responded nobly
with a total of $18,158, a proud
Percentage ($4,000) from the
IWA. More money is vital.

GIVE AND GIVE ALL YOU
CAN. These fine sisters in Ca-
nada’s fighting trade union
movement need help.

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BRITISH COLUMBIA

MAJORITY:

BS &W Conciliation Reports

MINORITY:

No Union
Shop, 9 cents

Majority report of the Conciliation
Board which heard the dispute be-
tween the IWA and Bloedel, Stewart
and Welch in Victoria is here quoted
in part. 5

“The points in dispute are as fol-
lows:

1. Union Shop.

2. General wage increase.

3. Hours of work.

4, Payment for Board and Lodging.
5, Bonding of employees.

“The three members of the Board
were able to agree on the following:

1. That the cost of Board and
Lodging remains at $2.25 per
lay.
Hours of Work. These were
mutually agreed to by the parties
to the hearing and are contained
in the stenographer's transcript
and the Board feels it is un-
necessary to set forth the same
in detail in this report.
3. Bonding Issue. That this request
of the company be not recom-
mended.

"The Board was unable to agree on
the issue of Union Shop and Wages
and the Chairman Philip Fleming and
member Knox Walkem submit the
following recommendations with re-
spect thereto:

UNION SHOP

“It appears from’ the evidence sub-
mitted by the Employees that a great
improvement in Union personnel has
taken place during the last year; also
that the Union appears (under present
conditions) to be able to get a healthy
increase in membership; also that -the
relations between the Company and
the Union and the employees are good
and that the Company is treating its
employees in a fair and equitable man.
ner. Under the circumstances, existing
as they are at the present time, we
feel that no change in the relations
between the Company and its employ-
es is needed and we therefore recom-
mend that no Union Shop be granted.

WAGES

“The union has requested 2 17
cents increase across the board. The
Company has offered a 5% increase,
We feel that an equitable adjustment
would be to allow, and we recom-
mend, a general wage increase of 9
cents’ per hour over the. prevailing
rates under the 1949 agreement, in-
cluding cooks and bakers, but exclud-
ing other cookhouse and bunkhouse
employees for whom we recommend
an increase of 5Y cents per hour over
wages received by them under the said
agreement.

“A number of minor changes in the
existing agreement were proposed and
discussed, but we do not think it is
necessary to make any recommenda-
tions with respect thereto, other than
to suggest that a committee from each
of the parties be set up to settle these
minor points, which we think can be
settled without difficulty,

“AIL of which is respectfully sub-
mitted.” :

nv

“Philip Fleming”,
Chairman,

“Knox Walkem”,
Member.

Rome conference of the Euro-
pean Recovery Program Trade
Union advisory committee took a
step towards a revitalized Eur-
ope recently, when they unanim-
ously set their future policy.

They want complete unity on
economic matters to speed recov-
ery, wipe out unemployment and
raise the standards of living.

Have you ever got stung on
one of those sensational cut-rate
bargains?

Haye you ever bought an off-
brand article at half the price
you usually pay and then found
that it was not half as good-look-
ing, half as long lasting, or half
as useful as the higher priced ar-
ticle? You didn’t really save
money, did you?

Saving time is like that, too.
The time pained is no real bar-
gain if you pay for it with reck-
less risks and questionable short

cuts. And you ma; stung bad
pene y get stung

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Union Shop
_ And 17 cents

Minority report of George Home,
Secretary of the B.C, Federation of
Labour, nominated by the IWA to
the Conciliation Board in the dispute
with Bloedel, Stewart and Welch,
stated:

“I am in agreement with the other
members of the Board that the matters
for our consideration were as follows:

1, UNION SHop.

2, Wace INcREASE.

3. Boarn Issuz.

4. Bonpine. te

5. Hours or Worx.

6. CONTRACT CHANGES.

“The points on which I find myself
in disagreement with the other mem-
bers of the Board are, namely (1)
Union Shop and (2) wage increases.

“In careful perusal of the evidence
I fail to find any justification on the
company’s part for their refusal to
grant the union’s request, while I find
the union presented a comprehensive
Brief containing sufficient information
and argument to support their case,

“Therefore I recommend that the
Union Shop clause requested by the
Union should become part of the
1950-51 Agreement,

“Regarding the requested wage in-
crease of 17c per hour, the union filed
sufficient material to prove their case,
while the company at no time claimed
inability to pay. I am of the opinion
that a wage increase of 17¢ per hour
is just and reasonable, and I so
recommend,

“Respectfully submitted,
“George Home”

American Newspaper Guild
(CIO), already certified and with
a contract in Toronto Star, is now
certified for all editorial employ-
ees of Press News, a subsidiary
of Canadian Press.

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FROM PAGE I

EDDY
STRIKE

Reports that the company is im-
porting carloads of matches from
their Eastern plants are being in-
vestigated by District Office officials
with a view to having them de-
clared “hot” by other trade unions.

Effort made by the IWA to raise
the wages of this lowest paid group
in the industry to prevailing levels
was rebuffed by a Conciliation
Board, which recommended a wage
increase of only four cents.

The award was rejected by the
employees and strike action author-
ized during a government-supervised
strike vote by 35-4.

Compensation
Variations

The Federal Department of La-
bor recently issued a pamphlet
entitled “Workmen’s Compensa-
tion in Canada”, which cites facts
and figures on various provincial
acts.

From this pamphlet we learn
that Newfoundland, Nova Scotia,
Prince Edward Island and Saskat- ,
chewan pay compensation for
frostbite suffered at work, but
British Columbia alone pays for
heat exhaustion.

Ontario shows flexibility in the
fact that this province pays com-
pensation for any disease peculiar
to any industrial process or oc-
cupation,

Compensation for carbon mon-
oxide poisoning is being paid in
B.C., Saskatchewan, Ontario,
Quebec, New Brunswick and New-
foundland.

All provinces provide compen-
sation for industrial. accidents,
but Newfoundland makes employ-
ers individually liable for injuries
to their workmen occurring dur-
ing the time of their employment.
Compensation in the other prov-
inces is based on the collective

liability type.

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