B.C. LUMBER WORKER

Page Three

~ amount of time resets me
paragrap! e
has varied so much that
no uniform application ean be
considered as prevailing in the
200 or more operations involved.
Under the circumstances the only
“tisfactory method would be to
ow two mt (2%) on the
ume worked, Where an
individual worker can demon-
strate that he was paid on a more
favorable basis in 1949 he is,
under the Act, entitled to an
adjustment.”
3, Employees with five years’ or
more service—ONE WEEK
AT PREVAILING RATES
OR 2% OF EARNINGS,
WHICHEVER IS THE
GREATER, PLUS ONE
REGULAR WEEK’S PAY.
4. Employees with five years’
but leaving employ of the
Company with less than one
years’ current vacation
eredits—41% of EARNINGS.
Cookhouse employees —less
than 6 months — 2% of
EARNINGS.
Cookhouse — 6 months to
one year — ONE WEEK’S
PAY FOR FIRST SIX
MONTHS—2% for the en-
tire period worked up to one
year.
Cookhouse — one to five
years’ service with current
years’ vacation credit estab-
lished — WILL RECEIVE
ONE WEEK FOR EACH 6
MONTHS PERIOD AND
2% FOR ANY TIME OVER
THIS PERIOD BUT LESS
THAN 6 MONTHS,
Cookhouse employees five
years’ or more but less than
6 months’ current vacation
credit — Illustration: Cook-
house employee has com-
pleted service eight years
and three months and had
taken vacation for preced-
ing year leaves employ of
Company with three months’
yacation credit for the cur-
rent year—will receive 4%
OF THREE MONTHS’
EARNINGS.
Five year employees with
over 6 months’ current vaca-
, tion credit — Illustration:

ae

es

8.

9.

Cookhouse employee has

completed. six years’ and
nine months’ service has re-
ceived vacation credits for
preceding year—will receive
for nine months’ current
vacation credit one week
plus 4% OF NINE
MONTHS’ EARNINGS.

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“Callous
Disregard”

signed by 360 persons, was for-
warded to the Postmaster-Gen-
eral. Invéstigation was promised,
with the results stated.

Finally the Post Office Depart-
ment advised that a Post Office
could be established if the Com-
pany were willing to provide
quarters, or permitted it to oper-
ate in camp confines.

The departmental communi-
cation stated, “In the case of
Camp 5, Bloedel, the’ Company
have indicated that they do not
desire to exercise any control
whatsoever, or provide postal
facilities as indicated. They
do not desire to have the Post
Office in the camp confines, and
therefore it will be necesary if
a Post Office is established to
locate premises outside their
lines where the work could be
carried on and which would be
accessible to the people both in
the Company’s limits and out-
side.”

As the Company’s property
extends almost to Campbell
River, the Company’s decision is
equivalent to saying that they
will permit no Post Office for
their employees.

Said the IWA District Officials,
“This Company has forgotten
that their employees are human
beings with family ties, and that
they desire to maintain commu-
nication with relatives and
friends as speedily as do other
human beings in Canada. We

have not discovered one valid,

reason for the Company’s atti-
tude. It only serves to lower
morale in the camp and provoke
discontent.”

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LOCAL UNIONS AND UNION MEMBERSHIP IN CANADA, 1911-1949

PROGRESS THROUGH THE YEARS

Mambersiiy oe Members aes
Percent. Percent.
change change
Year Locals | Number from Year Locals | Number from
a previous previous
year year
L741 | 183,182 | 2,809 322,449 + 09
1,883 | 160,120 2,772 310,544 — 3.7
2,017 | 175,799 2,710 | 288,096 — 88
2,003 166,163 2,687 285,720 + 0.9
1,883 143,343 2,720 281,274 — 16
1,842 160,407 2,717 280,648 — 0.2
1,974 204,630 2,860 822,746 +15.0
2,274 | 248,887 3,231 383,492 +19.0
2,847 | 878,047 8,280 381,645 — 0.5
2,918 373,842 8,267 858,967 — 59
2,668 | 313,320 . 3,221 362,223 + 0.9
2,512 | 276,621 1.7 3,318 | 461/681 427.5
2,487 | 278,092 + 0.5 3,426 578,380 +258
2,429 |. 260,643 — 63 3,735 664,533 414.9
2,494 | 271,064 + 4.0 4,128 124,188 + 9.0
2,615 | 274,604 + 18 4,329 11,117 —18
2,604 | 290,282 +37 4,635 831,697 +17.0
2,653 | 300,602 + 3.6 4,956 912,124 + 9.7
2,778 | 319,476 + 68 5,114 977,594 + 12
5,268 | 1,005,639 +29
*Including the province of Newfoundland for the first time.
UNION MEMBERSHIP AND LOCAL UNIONS IN CANADA
CLASSIFIED BY AFFILIATION, 1948 AND i949
5,268 LOCALS IN CANADA
No. of =
Affiliation Branches i Membership
1948 1949 1948 1949
‘Trades and Labor Congress of Canada .. : 2,779 2,865 439,029 459,068
AFL and TLO s 1,999 2,078 338,247 354,803
TLC only ... _ 780 ‘187 105,782 104,265
Canadian Congress o! : 1,187 1175 338,627 301,729
CIO and CCL .. “ 589 568 244,856 203,268
CCL only .. cs 598 607 93,771 98,461
International Unions not affiliated with a Cana-
dian congress:
AFL only zs 49 29 9,867 13,996
CIO only _ 20 53 3,777 27,475
International Railroad Brotherhoods i 376 382 41,126 41,368
Other independent international unions ........ lL 43 2,351 25,803
Confédération des Travailleurs Catholiques du
Canada, Ine. ... zs 428 424 93,370 80,089
National Council of Canadian Labor ro) 17 1,362 8,451
Canadian Federation of Labour 5 7 3,992 8,872
National and regional unions no’
Canadian congress : 211 212 40,247 82,620
Unaffiliated local unio: 39 61 4,346 16,673
5,l14 5,268 977,594 1,005,639

A race track official reprimanded |
two jockeys for the use of “im-
proper language” in an argument |
after a race,

He said: “In racing we should
be concerned with the ancestry

of horses and not dogs.”
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CONVENTION CALL

toria, B.C., commencing at 10:00
a.m., Friday, January 19th, 1951,
and continuing through Sunday,
the 21st of January, 1951.

Representation

Your Representation should be
based on Section 3, Article 5,
which reads as follows:

"Delegates to the District Con-
wention shall be elected by and from
each Local on the basis of two (2)
delegates for the first one hundred
(100) members or less, and one
(1) additional delegate for each
one hundred (100) members or
major fraction thereof up to five
bundred (500) members and one
(1) additional delegates for each
three hundred (300) members
thereafter or major fraction

Section 4:
“Representation shall be based
upon the membership of the Local,
computed from the preceding six
month period t0 the month in which
the Convention Call is issued.”

Union is entitled. All Credentials
must be signed by the President
and Secretary of the Local Union,
with the official Seal of the Local
Union affixed.

Duplicate Credentials are to be
brought to the Convention by the
Delegates to whom they are is-
sued. ORIGINAL CREDEN-
TIALS must be forwarded to
George H. Mitchell, Secretary,
International Woodworkers of
America, B.C. District, Council
Bes 1, 45 ‘Kingsway, Vancouver,

No Credential shall be accepted
later than one o'clock (1:00 p.m.)
on the first day of the Conven-
tion. All Delegates arriying later
will be seated by Convention
action,

Election of Delegates

Local Unions are to elect their
delegates to the Convention by
the following method:

Delegates to the Convention
must be elected at the official
meetings of Local Unions after
the Call for the Convention has
been received and has been read
to the Local Union. The Local
Recording Secretary shall give
notice to the membership at a
reasonable time in advance, stat-
ing that delegates are to be
elected at a meeting on a certain
date. Delegates receiving the

highest number of votes of the
members present at such meet-
other than

written and doubly spaced. Two
copies should be mailed to the
office of the District Secretary-
‘Treasurer ten days in advance of
the Convention so that copies will
be available for each delegate on
the first day of the Convention.
Resolutions should be as brief as
possible and deal with only one
subject. Resolutions must bear
the official Seal of the Local
Union and be signed by an
authorized officer of the Local
Union or delegate attending the
Convention.

Convention headquarters will
be in the Crystal Gardens, Vic-
toria, B.C. |

Delegates to the Convention
may register at the Crystal Gar- |
dens, on the day of the 18th from
12:00 noon to 9:30 p.m., and on
January 19th, commencing at;
8:00 a.m, in the main Convention |

All Local Unions sending dele-
gates to the Convention are re-
quested to make their own room
reservations immediately on the
receipt of the Convention Call.

The District Officers urge each
Local to be fully represented in
the Convention so that our
democratic processes will result
in greater benefits in wages,
hours, and working conditions for
our entire membership.

Fraternally yours,

District Officers, B.C. District
Council No. 1,

J. S. Alsbury, President

T. Bradley, Vice-President

J. Morris, Vice-President

R. Watters, Vice-President |

G. H. Mitchell, Secretary-Treas.

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