INTERIOR WINS (2: &C Lue ua Nw ip bet PTET pee a ete Vol. XIX, No. 71 <>» Vancouver, B.C. Sept. 7, 1950 5c per copy GALA D DAY for ‘members of Local ig 217, IWA, and their families BEmbarine 1,500 persons, was the monster picnic at Confederation Park, Burnaby, Aug. 27. Varied program of sports and other attrac- tions proved popular with young and old. PAC CHIEF TO ADDRESS CONVENTION Carl Winn, Secretary-Treasurer of the IWA-CIO, announced this week that Jack Kroll, Director of the Na- tional CIO-1 PAC, had accepted an in- vitation to attend and address the coming convention of the Union at ‘Minneapolis, Minn., beginning Sep- tember 11, “With political action on the part of labor of such tremendous impor- tance this’ year," Winn said, “it is particularly fitting that Brother Kroll should come before the Woodworkers at Minneapolis and discuss the CIO program on politics.” Other speakers who have accepted invitations to apear at the IWA con- vention, which will be called to order at 1:00 p.m,," September 11, in the Ballroom of the Nicollet Hotel, in- clude Rodney C. Jacobsen, Secretary of the Minnesota State CIO Council; Fullerton Fulton, Minnesota CIO Re- gional Director; E. I. Kotok, Assistant Chief of the United States Forest Ser- vice and Raymond G. Garceau, Assis- tant Administrator of the Wage and Hour, Public Contracts Division, of the Department of Labor. Senator Hubert Humphrey has ten- tatively accepted an invitation to speak at the convention and will be present if at all possible. The Reverend Doc- tor E. J. Hjortland of the Central Lutheran Church will pronounce the invocation and the Honorable Mayor Eric G. Hoyer of Minneapolis will extend the welcome of the city to the delegates. Between 450 and 500 delegates and visitors are expected to attend -the week Jong sessions. Headquarters of the convention will be at the Nicollet Hotel. WHAT’S INSIDE “REPEAL ACT’ DEMANDS MASS PROTEST MEET. More than 1000 trade unionists congregated in the Pender Auditorium, August 31, roared a demand for im- mediate repeal of Federal Government legislation for com- pulsory arbitration in the recent railway strike. The meeting was jointly sponsored by the Vancouver Labor Council and the Vancouver and New Westminster Trades and Labor Council with Pen Baskin and Jack Ste- 1 =¢ Interim agreement won by the IWA District Negotiat- ing Committee will, when confirmed, bring to the lumber workers in the Northern and Southern Interior districts of B.C., a wage increase of 121% cents an hour across the board, and other benefits which parallel the gains made earlier in the Coast area. The proposed settlement of the dispute crystallized during conferences skillfully directed by Conciliation Offi- cer E. C. A. Baker, and was made imperative by the aroused sentiment of the workers effected which emerged from the vigorous organizational and publicity campaign of the IWA. When reported this week to ment was recommended for ac membership. Referendum ballot to accept TURNS IWA | Crew of Fleetwood Logging Co., Harrison Bay, who had formerly pinned their hopes on the WIUC, turned in a body last week to the IWA and at one stroke made the camp 100% IWA. Their decision to apply for IWA_ certification wiped out the Jast WIUC certifi- cation on the Lower Mainland. This action came with a dramatic suddenness after visits to the camp by Financial Secretary Neil Shaw, and Business Agent Franklin of Local 1- 367, assisted by IWA District Secre- tary George Mitchell. At a meeting attended by the IWA representatives, and which included the fallers and buckers, IWA policies were explained. When recalled to the meeting, the IWA officials were ad- | vised that the crew to a man were individually signing WIUC revokes and IWA membership. applications and check-off forms, and were paying their initiation fees. District Secretary George Mitchell, announcing IWA application for cer- tification stated, “We welcome to our organization this group of trade union- ists and propose to extend to them all the rights and privileges that they may enjoy through the IWA, I congratu- as co-chairmen. Speeches of Hugh Allison, gen- eral representative in B. C. of the the C.B. of R.E, and Jack O’Brien, publicity chairman of the Railway Brotherhoods Strike Committee, denounced the action of the Fed- eral Government in ringing lan- guage and were received with loud cheers and applause. Text of the resolution adopted by the mass protest meeting was as follows: WHEREAS this is a joint mass meeting, called by the officers of labor councils in Vancouver, New Westminster and district, to give support to the railroad workers and to review the proposed fed- eral legislation to end the strike, an WHEREAS the railroad work- ers have been forced to use the strike weapon in an effort to ob- tain relief from the drudgery of a 48-hour week, and to obtain a better standard of living, and WHEREAS negotiations for a new agreement were long drawn out and obstinately obstructed by top officials of the railroad com- panies, and WHEREAS the Federal Gov- ernment failed to effectively in- tervene to assist in the avoidance of a railway and shipping trans- portation shutdown, thereby giv- ing concealed support and encour- agement to industrial czars, and WHEREAS this same govern- ment again takes a one-sided stand by forcing the strikers back to work with a promise of four aot peanuts and pie in the sky, an WHEREAS the government further enforces compulsory ar- bitration upon the workers, such legislation being hostile, coercive and obnoxious to trade unionists and all fair-minded people; See RAIL STRIKE page 3 phenson presidents of these Councils, respectively, acting late the crew members on their wise | decision. NEW CONTRACT SPURS DRIVE Spurred by the prospects of an advantageous settlement of the 1950-51 contract terms, IWA representatives in the Interior are pressing their organizational drive with renewed vigor. Results in membership gains and new certifications surpass all previous records, and are rapidly bringing the Interior organize tion to the mark of a 3,000 membership set as a target for this autumn. Field staff on the drive has been temporarily augmented by Fin- ancial Secretary S, M. Hodgson, and Andy Good, of Local 1-217, IWA, through the joint support of Locals 1-217 and 1-80. the IWA District Policy Com- mittee by International Board Member Tom MacKenzie, spokes- man for the Negotiating Committee, the proposed interim agree- ceptance to the Interior IWA or reject the proposed settle- ment commences Sept. 8 and will conclude Sept. 13. | FLEETWOOD New contract terms for 1950-51 agreed upon include: 1, General wage increase of 12%% cents an hour for all ca- tegories, with basic rate of $1.10. Eight-hour day, 44-hour week, with rates at time and one half for work performed on Saturday afternoons and Sun- day xegardless of hours worked previously in the week, New Union security clause,, obligating employers to assist in obtaining and retaining members, and with under- standing that new policy will be directed to attention of old and new employees. Provision for annual revision of category rates. Upward revision of category rates, with additional new ca- tegories, providing additional increases ranging from 2% cents to 15 cents an hour. Rewritten and improved con- tract clauses with clarifitation of contract terms. Notable Improvement Commenting on the proposed agreement, International Board Member Tom MacKenzie declared it to mark the most notable im- provement in an IWA contract secured to date. “When the de- plorable conditions and wage standards which have prevailed in the Interior are taken into consideration, the interim con- tract will prove a great boon to Interior lumber workers,” he stated. He added, “Not only the gen- eral wage increase, but the es- tablishment of a wage schedule with recognition of categories for skilled workers, and elimination of abuses under the former hours See INTERIOR page 3 oF Ue ee 6. 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