B,C. LUMBER WORKER July 6, 1950 Union Security Procedure OCAL Union officials and shop stewards should study care- ‘ully the new Union security clause in the master agreement, the full text of which is published in this issue of the B.C. Lumber Worker. The procedure based on this clause is of the utmost importance and will require well planned and diplomatic enforcement. Many details | must be worked out with the rep- resentatives of © the company on the job, but the eneral proce- lure agreed upon is as follows. The company | bership in good standing as a condition of continued employ- ment, Company Responsibilities “The company will advise all new employees that membership in the IWA is recommended. The company will recognize the require a maintenance of i i membership with regard to Brey au ene f members transferring from other loyees that the IWA is recog-|operations. - iked ‘as the bargaining agent,| The companies have under- and that members of the IWA are|taken to assist the IWA in ob- required to maintain their mem- |taining and retaining members. —<___________— SPECIAL WEEKLY RATES 1221 GRANVILLE STREET * VANCOUVER, B.C. MArine 7235 Under New Management MARTIN HOTEL 1176 Granville Street Vancouver, B.C. "Where All Loggers Meet” Rates: $1.50 and up 9 * ¥% AT HOME nme 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 MANY HAPPY RETURNS... Our congratulations, boys, on your new contract, which reflects credit on both your leadership and the rank and file membership. 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Spencer | an Second Class Mall, Post Office Dept., Ottawa Internat WEYERHAEUSER BACKGROUND Many years ago when the I-| WA was first formed, negotia- tions were conducted on a local basis. Later we negotiated on a district basis and finally because most of the points in negotiations were referred to the War Labor Board for final determination, the employers were forced to band themselves together to save duplication. As early as December, 1949, we saw the Weyerhaeuser Timber Company, which employs some 10,000 men, including their pulp operations and two small opera- tions under contract with the A- FL, start to connive for 1950 ne- gotiations. They asked to meet with IWA officers and they offered (out of the bigness of their heart) a pension plan, which they claimed would cost the company 10 to°11 cents per hour. The IWA, being very practical and knowing little about pensions, conferred with top CIO people and their pension experts and found the plan to be “of little or no value to Weyer- haueser employees” and’ would probably not cost the company more than 2 or 3 cents an hour. Furthermore, the plan could have been cancelled by the com- pany at will, after one year. The joker in the plan also called for a closing out of all. matters for negotiations in 1950. Needless to say, the pension plan was _re- jected in favor of the IWA Health and Paid Holiday Program. It simply boils down to this, Weyerhaeuser offered the pension SEC’YS COLUMN—Cont'd Union Responsibiilties It may take time and patience to get this procedure working smoothly, Due allowance must be | must be closely watched. Shop stewards especially conditions laid down in the con- tract are observed, and to report any neglect to the Local Union officials. | The value of this Union secur- ity clause rests on the degree of © eration possible in this mat- This co-operation can be} worked out in a_ business-like | manner. It’s our responsibility now to give it a try during the | present contract yea Sun writers You'll Enjoy! VANCOUVER Phone MArine 1161 for Daily Home Delivery ) COPIES PRINTED IN THIS ISSUE Welfare Plan and |} made for this, but developments || should be on the alert to see that | _ to all its employees. Two small groups, Pulp & Sulphite Work- ers and Lumber and Sawmill Workers, both AFL unions, ac- cepted the plan, This amounted | to about 2,000 employees or 1/5 of Weyerhaecuser’s employees. The IWA ,representing 8,000 re- jected it. The pension won’t work for 1/5 of the employees and the company tried to ram it down the IWA members’ throats. It didn’t work, so several other phony offers were made both before and after the other 700 or 800 employers settled. The Weyerhaeuser employees have now been on strike for over five weeks. They are sincere Union men fighting the largest lumber baron in the U.S. We can- not, as fellow unionists, let them down. The Northwest Strike and | Fadling Outlines Strike History; Exposes Phony Propositions Lockout Fund has contributed over $20,000, but the fund is running low and cannot ‘last much longer. Some 2,000 or 3,000 families are- now bein; helped and naturally, as ng strike goes on, we will hay more people to help. Nothing will help the boss more than if the Union lets a man down. If his children get hungry or have to go barefoot, that man gets desperate. These boys fighting the al- mighty Weyerhaeuser are deserv- ing of your help. 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