COAST CONTRACT WON W \ 7 NT WA IV WY NA \ Ny N Vol. XIX, No. 89 Vancouver, B.C. Prepared For T STRIKE COMMITTEE ELECTED by Columbia Cellulose Co. logging crews at Ter meets with job stewards.to discuss action in the event that the company should reject.the majority award of the Conciliation Board. (Left, standing), A. Jordon, A. Kuzich, Lee Lewellyn, E.-Christensen, P. Whalen, W. McConnell, Gene Lewellyn. pare for any eventuali Matt Kawinsky, Frank Green, E. <=>" June 7, 1951 5e per copy ee Vaughan, Bill Lord, Bill Gigger, J he Worst Ss! ce, B.C, to pre- Left, kneeling), L. Burt, Pierreroy. HILLAND, CARLYLE FACE COURTS Two former officials of IWA Local 1-217, who turned rene- gade in October, 1948, have been charged jointly with the theft of $7,000 from the Local’s funds. They are Vern Carlyle, for- mer president, and Gladys Hil- land, former financial secretary. Carlyle has been free on $2,000 bail and Hilland on $20,000 bail pending disposal of the case be- fore the courts in Vancouver. They were scheduled to ap- pear again on June 6. Hilland, sought for two years, was arrested by RCMP. in North Vancouver. Alsbury Named IWA District President J. Stewart Alsbury has been named to represent the [WA on the Conciliation Board which will hear the dispute between Western Plywoods Ltd., Ques- nel, and Local 1-424, IWA, Proceedings of-the Board are expected to commence at an early date. WHAT’S INSIDE IWA, in the dispute with Lama was George E. Street. When given effect, the base rates for both male and female workers will be set at $1.2944 per hour. Rates awarded the 17 classifications established by the award range as high as $1.66 an hour. Former base rate was 80 cents for female and $1.00 for male workers. : The majority award held the company to a promise made in 1949. At that time the company undertook to increase the wages 10 cents an hour and upon the installation of a new lathe to pay the prevailing rates in the indus- try. It was then expected that the new machinery would be in- stalled within three weeks. Investigation by the Board re- vealed the lathe is now being in- stalled and will shortly be in operation. For this reason it was felt that an adjustment to the standard rates was obligatory. The new rates will be made‘re- troactive to April 15, 1951, ‘and BS&W STARTS THIRD SHIFT Port Alberni IWA, has been advised by the firm of Bloedel, Stewart and Welch of the company’s inten- tion to start a third shift in the local sawmill, It is assumed by IWA officials that the reason for this plan to expand production is due to re- ‘| cent U.K. orders. ii LAMA WOOD CO. TOLD - “REEP WAGE PROMISE” Majority Conciliation Board award secured by Local 1-217, recommends that the employees receive the wage rates now prevailing in the plywood industry. ciliation Board was President Lloyd Whalen. Local Union, Wood Products Ltd., Vancouver, Union nominee on the Con- Board chairman the agreement will extend to June 14, 1952. BASIC RATE FROM $1.10 FOR CELLULOSE CREWS — INCREASED TO $1.29% Coast wage scale and contract terms for all logging operations of the Columbia Cellulose Co. Ltd. in the Ter- race area is the majority recommendation of the Concilia- tion Board which recently heard the dispute between the company and Local 1-71, IWA. The award was signed by Chairman Paul Payne and the Union’s nominee, District 1st Vice-President Joe Morris. The award applies to all opera- | tions of the company within a| 300 mile radius of Prince Rupert. When accepted by the company it will raise the base rate in its operations East of the Cascades from $1.10 to $1.29%2. “Competitive The company contended before the Board that the line of the Cascade Mountains by custom divided the area covered by its Forest Management License into two separate regions. For log- ging operations west of this line, as at Columbia Camp, the Coast contract terms were found to be acceptable. For those operations based on Terrace, it was eontend- ed that the agreement negotiated through the Interior Lumber | Manufacturers Association should apply. In operations East of Terrace, the company was unwilling to Evidence and argument on be- half of the Union were presented to the Board by Financial Secre- tary Fred Fieber, President Frank Howard, Local 1-71, IWA, and District Secretary-Treasurer George Mitchell. Disadvantage” place itself on a different basis than other operators in the area, as it might place the Interior operators at a competitive dis- advantage. The attempt was made to show that the more easterly operations employed distinctly different | methods of logging than in the main camps closer to Prince Rupert. Nevertheless it was ad- mitted that in any wage scale for operations East of Terrace it |would be necessary to introduce |new classifications with rates | equivalent to those paid at the ! Coast. Separate Scales “Absurd” The admission was also made that crews based on Terrace would sometimes be required to log West of the Cascades, and that it would not be feasible to have two sets of working eondi- tions'for men living in the same bunkhouse. Forest Industrial Relations, acting on behalf of the company produced a signed contract be- tween Local 1-424, and Little, Houghland and Kerr, Terrace, based on the Northern Interior master agreement. This had pre- viously been shown by the Union to be an obvious error, as the operation was certified by Local 1-71. * IWA spokesmen submitted evi- dence in support of their conten- tion that the. logging methods employed by the company on both sides of the line were identi- cal. Ten ton “Mack” trucks normally prohibited in the In- terior, were being used East of Terrace. “Heel boom” loading equipment with air tongs similar to those used in Coast logging camps, were in use. At Shaimes, a spar tree with heel. boom load- ing equipment, identical to that in use on the Queen Charlotte Islands had been:set up. The topography of valleys, with steep hills Bast of the Cas- cades would ‘require high-lead logging methods, the Union demonstrated. The absurdity of attempting to maintain two separate wage scales for men working on both sides of an imaginary line was emphasized by the Union repre- sentatives. 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