B.C.

LUMBER WORKER

June 8, 1950

Sound Business

The revenue derived from commercial advertising in the B. C.
Lumber Worker enables the B.C, District Council to produce a

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is now established | patronize those who patronize their
as-an excellent ad- | publication.
vertising medium. It} We now ask that IWA members
reaches more than! make known to the advertisers that
22,000 Jumber) the advertisements inserted in this
workers who spend | publication have interested them.

the largest payroll| When you patronize one of our
in the province. The | advertisers be sure and say that you
advertising in our) saw h advertisement in the B.C.
official organ serves | Lumber Worker.

: ws auide to them,
if they want to know the merchants |

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who have taken a friendly interest in
the development of the Union journal.

The advertiser has a right to know
whether his investment brings any re-

IWA P-NW STRIKERS

The once-mighty Weyerhaeuser Timber plants, spread
through the U.S, Northwest, are silent and empty, as 8,500 IWA
men continue their battle for conditions recently won from em-
ployers of 30,000 other men in the area.

The Union negotiators spurned
a 10%4-cent hourly wage boost of-
fered instead of the Union-con-
trolled health and welfare plan,
(plus three paid holidays), won
throught the rest of the industry
by tough, determined bargaining.

“Unlike the AFL Carpenters
and Joiners,” said President Fad-
ling, “we won’t fall into an em-
ployers’ trap like that. We’re not
selling out a health and welfare
program and paid holidays for a
wage increase.

_ “It has always been their pol-
icy to offer pay increases instead
of social benefits.”

Response from the men who hit
the bricks has been tremendous.
Confident and determined, their
action has silenced one of the big-

turn, The only way in which he can
Bet information is from his cus-
tomers. y
We know that our advertisers are
patronized by the lumber workers.
The advertiser may mot be so sure. |
There is only one way jin which he |
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can be sure, and that is the statement
; of the customer that the advertisement
was seen in the B.C. LUMBER
WORKER.

" Patronize Our Advertisers
All other things being equal, it may |

Local 1-80 IWA offers concrete
proof this week that the IWA
contract battle is receiving full
support of the lumber workers
within the Local's jurisdiction.

Operations at Meade Creek, Hill-
crest Logging, Hillcrest Sawmill
and Youbou Mill are now re-
ported 100% IWA.

All Sub-Local meetings to dis-
cuss the Conciliation Bourd award
were exceptionally well attended
and returned a substantial vote for

rejection and for strike action.

be expected that IWA members will |

MARTIN HOTEL

‘ 1176 Granville Street

; Vancouver, B.C.

4 "Where All Loggers Meet”

5 % = Rates: $1.50 and up

AT HOME

ne WEST

A PERSONALITY PARADE
presented by
THE WEST HOTEL

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

VANCOUVER’S OWN LOGGERS’ HOUSE

“Overheard one of the boys telling a joke the
other day, something about a rookie in the
Struck us kind of

funny, but the Editor wouldn't let us print ic!

woods, and a barrel.

How about you, boys? Know anythin funny

and printable? We may even get around to

offering a prize one of these days.

Fred Marchese
MANAGER |

Telephone PAcific 8374
444 Carrall Street Vancouver

INTERNATIONAL WOODWORKERS OF AMERICA (CIO-CCL)
Tom Bradley
‘Tou G. Mackenzie
‘ancouver,

BCLonsent/Worver
stad sean
Subseripiton Raten___._81.00 per annum

Representing she Organized Loggers end Mill Workers of B.C.
PUBLISHED TWICE MONTHLY BY
DISTRICT OFFICERS: s
|, Stewart Alsbury
Robert Watters
eorge I. Mitchell
GEORGE H. MITCHELL, Seeretary-Treasurer
Sulte 7, 426 Main Street - Phone PAcific 4151
vi B.C,
| Advertining Representative______.G, A. Spencer

|it PAC — Palestine Automobile |

gest timber empires in the world,
Northwest Regional Negotiating
Committee has been considering
a proposal of a $1 a day assess-
ment on all working IWA men in
the Pacific Northwest to help fin-
ance the strike and carry it to a
quick and successful conclusion.

The other employers settled a
few hours before strike deadline
of May 15. President Fadling,
describing the gains said:

“Insurance experts say that the
7% cent an hour payment to be
made to the IWA insurance car- |
rier by the employers will more
than cover the health and welfare
benefits on which we opened nego-

Loggers, Too

Amazing achievement was the
organization of the voting on the
IWA ballots throughout the Coast
logging camps, Local 1-71.

Four organizers using plane,
steamship and the Union's Loggers
Navy managed to visit the major-
ity of the certified camps before
the deadline.

Sentiment among the loggers is
indicated b~ the vote reported up
105 p.m. June 5... for rejection
1,049 to 89, and for strike action
961 to 97.

The Queen Charlotte Islands
camps, which all cast their bal-
lots, went 94% for rejection and

10% CENT “BRIBE” SPURNED BY

CCL’s BILL
OF RIGHTS

CCL brief to the Senate on a
Bill of Rights for Canada, sug-
gests that sections 8 to 14 of the
Saskatchewan Bill of Rights be
adopted in the Act.

The 3,000 word brief set forth
in detail cases of discrimination,
in the sale of property, omplox
ment, and in public accommod
tions, hotels, restaurants, etc.,
which have occurred in Canada.

It recommended, too, that the
rights asserted for all Canadians
be especially granted to Native
Indians,

Canadian Labor Reports states
that some organizations presented
briefs with their tongues in their
cheeks. Those were the Commun-
ist dominated or front organiza-
tions.

“It is to be hoped,” says CLR,
“that the Senate will not be in-
fluenced by this, and refuse to
recommend that a Bill of Rights

authorization of strike action. be enacted.”

Insurance Act Changes

July 3, 1950, has been set as the date on which changes in
the Unemployment Insurance Act go into effect.

The changes include new rates for contributions by employ-
ers and workmen, and new weekly rates of benefits, Ceiling for
salaried workers goes up from $3,120 to $4,800.

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tiations.

“The IWA has control of its |
own insurance, and off-the-job |
health and accident coverage can |
bring all members of the Union |
much greater benefits than can be |
measured in dollars and cents.

“We won't settle with Weyer- |
haeuser for less than the other
operators agreed to. The mem-
bership has already rejected the
phoney Weyerhaeuser pensions
scheme, and is insisting on its
own plan, plus the Union shop in |
operations where we didn’t al- |
ready have such contracts.”

In Tel Aviv, Israel, the Ford |
Motor Co, set up a new company
and by a horrible ‘oversight named |

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