B.C. LUMBER WORKER

July 20, 1950

SINESS

Study The Contract

‘The new master agreement requires the careful scrutiny of
all [WA members, that it may be properly enforced. Copies are
now being printed and will be widely distributed. The important
changes should be carefully noted, and their application studied.

‘The 1950-51 agreement differs from
the old agreement in certain respects
that require all of us regain familiarity
with its various clauses.

Th addition of
new clauses, for in-
stance, required a
re-numbering of old
sections. Every IWA |
official should be
able to refer to the
various Articles in
the Agreement by
number, or at least
be able to find them
quickly for refer-
ence.

The wage clause, as phrased, should
be noted, in the event that difficulty
should arise in dealing with various
categories, to make certain that the in-
crease is applied in all instances.

The hours of work clause should
be clearly understood in its application
to conditions in each operation. Many
details are Jeft for Local Union offi-
cials to hammer out. The intent of
this section has been made clear, it
would be wise to take no chances in
plant application.

The union security clause provides
alert camp and plant committees with
every opportunity to establish a work-

ing arrangement that may achieve an
approximation of the Union Shop. To
lo this, every official should know the
phraseology of the union security
clause, and be able to discuss the

newly defined responsibilities of man-
agement intelligently.

The agreement is as good as we
make it. We can take advantage of
all its possibilities if we acquire a
sound working knowledge of its pro-
visions.

1-217 Asséssment
Reminder

Members of Local 1-217, I-
WA, are reminded that the de-
duction of $1.00 as authorized
by the referendum vote, will be
made in the month of July.
Funds obtained by this assess-
ment will be divided equally
for purposes of the Local Union
and the B.C. District Council.

S. M. Hodgson,
Financial Secretary.

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Fred Marchese

haeuser Timber Company.

Kotin, while reiterating willingness
of the Department to call meetings at
the request of either or both parties
or to call a meeting at any time it
looked like something might be gained,
suggested that a recess be called until
such time as both parties “could re-
evaluate their positions in regard to
the strike and the negotiations.”

Meeting at the Benson Hotel under
auspices of the Conciliation Service,
the Union Committee, headed by
President J. E. Fadling of the IWA-
CIO, discussed various features of the
insurance programs of both the Wey-
erhaeuser Company and of the Union
with a group of Weyerhaeuser officials
which included Roy Dingman, Labor
Relations Executive of the firm.

Fadling charged the Company with
offering a completely “company-dom-
inated” plan under which the employee
would have nothing to say concerning
the coverage nor the administration of
the plan for which he was paying and
which would not give the protection
provided in the plan negotiated by the
Union for the balance of the industry.
in the Pacific Northwest.

Both parties agreed that the dispute
regarding the health and welfare de-
mands of the IWA Jumber workers
had boiled down to whether or not
the Company was to have complete
control of the insurance program.

Company officials admitted that the
insurance program the IWA is placing
in effect with the John Hancock In-
surance Company is 2 sound and work-
able plan:

Before recessing the negotiations, in
progress here for the past two days,
the Union reiterated its willingness to
arbitrate the union shop question.
Company officials announced that their
position is unchanged. They refused
to arbitrate the question and offered
only the continuation the “‘main-
tenance of membership” contract th
union officials have declared et
unsatisfactory.

Representatives of the local unions
involved pointed out that in very
operation now on strike, union shop
authorization elections have been voted
by the workers with overwhelming
majorities: in some instances by almost
undhimous votes.

The union committee, representing
some 9,000 workers, charged that the
Company is making no sincere effort
to affect a settlement at the bargain-
ing table.

“There are too many efforts being
k’ move-
declared

made to mobilize ‘back to
ments by company official

SICK LIST

Lourdes Hospital

Sister Lidberg of the W.A. to
Local 1-863, IWA, visited Lourdes
Hospital at Campbell River, July
18, distributing cigarettes and
magazines to the following:

C. Fraser, Emerald Timber Co.—
Carbuncle on his neck. Feeling

fine.
A. MacDonald, Kelsey Bay—Fell

‘off trestle working on pile-
driver. Not too well.

Logger from Rock Bay—Broken

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leg. Asleep.
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‘opment.Co.—Broken vertebrae.

Coming along fine.

AL Hartung, vice-president of the
IWA. He added that the union stands
ready to meet dnd continue these nego-
tiations now and from now on until
the strike is settled. “Tactics being
used in the field by the Weyerhacuser
officials, in their attempts to entice the
workers into a ‘back to work’ move-
ment, amount to setious violations of
the National Labor Relations Act,”
Hartung said.

“Employees are being contacted by
foremen and other company officials,
(by-passing the legitimate collective
bargaining agent for the workers), of-
fers and rumors of offers are being
circulated, threats of losing employ-
ment rights are being made, and other
violations of the collective bargaining
rights of the workers are being per-
petrated by the Company in its attempt
to’ defeat the strike.”

The International Union's Executive
Board, at a meeting held here June
28th, pledged the “full resources of
the union and its 90,000 membership”
to the winning of this strike, against
Weyerhacuser. x

IWA BEATS N. W. STRIKEBREAKERS
AS TALKS COLLAPSE

Negotiations for a settlement of the nine-week-old
strike of some 9,000 IWA members of the operations of

the Weyerhaeuser Timber Company, blew up as Leo Kotin,
of the United States Conciliation Service, threw up his
hands in the face of the unchanged position of the Weyer-

FRIENDS SEEK
HAROLD YATES

Any person knowing the
present whereahouts of Harold
Yates, who formerly worked as
a cat driver at Quathiaski
Cove, please advise the District
Office of the IWA, that en-

quiries from friends may “eo

answered.

PGE WAGES
PROTESTED

Delegates at the July 11
meeting of the Vancouver La-
bor Council, heard George Mit-
chell, IWA Vice-Chairman of
the Council voice a vigorous
protest against the low wage
policy of the P.G.E,

__ He reported that the prov-
incially-owned railway was hir-
ing men for a 10-hour day and
6-day week at 65 cents an hour,
with board rates at $1.25 a day.

The Council endorsed his pro-
test, on the ground that any
wage policy within the control
of the Provincial Goyernment
should not undermine th
standards established for the’
province by B.C. trade unions.
It. was regarded as a vicious
exploitation of unorganized
workers, and a distinct threat
to the organized.

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