7 j | B.C. LUMBER WORKER Page 3 From page | _ ‘PLYWOOD’ The majority report of a Con- ciliation Board which heard the dispute, recommended a 9-cent an hour interim increase Jae agreement on a wage scal for the Northern Interior. In the opinion of the majority of the Board, all contract terms should conform to the Interior master agreement. The minority report submitted tape President J, Stewart bury, Union nominee on the Board, pointed to the justice of establishing coast rates and con- ditions for output in direct com- petition with Coast production. The majority award was re- jected by the employees and the minority report accepted. IWA negotiators contended that undue bias had been shown ‘by the majority of the Board and company officials against the Union’s demands by reason of the existence of an agreement between all Northern Interior operators, DuPont family in the U.S. gave $98,000 in 1950 to Republican party campaign funds. The Rock- fellers gave $23,000 and the Mel- Jons gave $42,500, Back Seat Dri REMEMBERS VL. WHERE YS 280 an WHERE YOU CAN'T? C.0.L. BONUS ADJUSTED SOON The cost-of-living bonus adjustment for lumber workers will be made early this month. It is expected that the index figure for July 1 will released during the present week. This cost-of-living figure will cover the period ending June 30. On this June 30 figure, the wage scale will be adjusted on the basis laid down in the master contract, one cent increase for every 1.3 rise in the index since January 1. ‘The cost-of-living index figure for January 1 stood at 172.5. At June 1 it had risen to 184.1. Any adjustment will be retro- active to July 1. 1-357 EXPANDS AGAIN WITH LOT PURCHASE Purchase of a portion of a lot adjoining the property of Local 1-357 IWA, New West- minster, was authorized at a recent special meeting of the IWA Building Society. Plans now being prepared contem- plate the erection of an office building to house the Local Union and Credit union activi- ties, with provision for the completion of an auditorium at a later date, and an entrance on Carnarvon Street. Officers of the Local Union consider it necessary to warn all IWA members that the mainten- ance of membership clause in the contract is enfofced in all New Westminster Plants within IWA jurisdiction. Once membership obligations are assumed, these must be maintained, it is stated. The Local Union records auto- matically disclose all facts re- garding a member’s employment. Confusion and embarrassment would be obviated if each mem- ber reporting for new employ- ment would also report his or her membership, Production Slack Prospect of a serious log shortage is given as the reason for shut-downs or curtailed op- erations in a number of local mills, Alaska Pine has cut em- ployment back to three days a week. Mohawk Handle No. 2 has shut down the night shift. New Certifications Brooks Woodworking Co. Ltd. has now been certified by the IWA. The employees in this plant had previously elected to change their_former certification under the B.C. Woodworking Union, | PILE UP ‘Ge Your MONEY | FASTER go Sauk by Mail Your savings grow best when you add to them every payday. .. and keep them from temptation. And, even when you're far away, you can save regularly in your Bank of Montreal branch. You can even open your account without waiting to drop in personally. Any one of the 74 B of M offices in British Columbia will be glad t to help you. For the location of your most con- venient branch, and for our folder on “How to Bank by Mail”, write: Bank of Montreal, Main Office, Vancouver. Do it today. : Bank or MonrTrREAL Canada's First Bak WORKING WITH CANADIANS IN EVERY WALK OF LIFE SINCE 1817 Jand secured CCL official ap- proval for this course. Negotia- tions have been opened for an agreement on the basis of the IWA master contract terms. Certification has been applied for on behalf of the employees of Tidewater Forest Products, Port Kells. a Majority Rule Two IWA members ignored the decision made by the Union, and returned from their two weeks’ annual vacation one day earlier than was agreed upon. By doing so they failed to uphold the ma- jority decision to claim extension of the vacation required by rea- son of a statutory holiday. De- fiance of the request made by the shop steward has confronted these members with the possi- bility of charges before the local Union. Brotherly Aid The distressing circumstances under which the little daughter of Bro, Fred Seabrooke required special operative treatment at Mayo Bros. Clinic, Rochester, aroused the sympathy of his fel- low-workers in Fraser Mills. The plant committee sponsored a col- lection which netted a consider- able sum to assist in the grave emergency. The drive, sponsored by the Local Union in the woodworking plants in aid of the fund for ar- thritics, has met with outstand- ing success. neg Annual Picnic Annual Picnic of the Local Union will be held in Queens Park, August 19, commencing at 12:80 p.m. An attractive program of sports and novelty events, with refreshments is being ar- yanged. The special meeting to elect delegates to the Annual Con- vention and the IWA Interna- tional Convention will be held August 19. From page I 6 > PHONY struction work involyed in the expansion of any IWA-certified plant. Any attempt to force [WA members off any such construc- tion job, where contractors hap- pen to employ some AFL work- ers can only be construed as an unwarranted attack upon indus- trial unionism as upheld by the IWA. “The IWA in Victoria has not violated any established trade union principle. The issues do not justify a picket line against an IWA-certified plant. We regard this picket line as an abuse of a trade union weapon simply to weaken the position of the IWA, and force a return to craft union- ism. “As experience has shown, it is the thin edge of the wedge for a raid on an IWA jurisdiction. It is evident that if AFL construc- tion workers are allowed to claim exclusive jurisdiction in plant construction, they will attempt as they have before, to claim the jurisdiction in the plant when operating as a woodworking plant, “We cannot, therefore, recog- nize the AFL picket line in Vic- toria as a legitimate picket line, and we will maintain our position on the basis of our lawful and established rights, “We regret that a large and influential AFL union has so im- properly attempted to set up a picket line against another trade union, for no other purpose than to attempt to seize a jurisdic- tional advantage, We will remain steadfast in our defence of in- dustrial unionism as we have in the past.” From Page 1 ‘DEADLOCK’ IWA Negotiating Committee, speaking on the Green Gold radio program, July 26, characterized the attitude of the employers as questionable and high-handed, He predicted that August would bring a showdown in the Interior. He stated that the action taken by the employers in rejecting standard contract clauses, as well as new demands, indicated a bel- ligerent attitude toward the IWA, which could only invite in- dustrial strife. Refusal to ad- vance any counter-proposals could only be interpreted, he con- tended, as opposition to any bet- terment of conditions for their employees. Preparations are going for- ward for presentation of the Union’s case to the Conciliation Board, Interior Aroused Immediate reaction, reported by IWA organizers in the Inter- jor, was a marked acceleration in applications for new certifica- tions and membership in the Local Unions, r Negotiators IWA District Negotiating Committee on the occasion was comprised as follows: District President J, S. Alsbury, District 1st Vice-President Joe Morris; District Secretary - Treasurer, George Mitchell; International Board Member Tom MacKenzie; F. Lieberg, Local 1-405, —Cran- brook; W. 8. Lynch, Local 1-417, Kamloops; R. Bourcet, Local 4-498, Kelowna, and C. H. Webb, Local 1-424, Prince George. No Forced Overtime Rules Labor Council CCL trade unionists took a’ determined stand: against any compulsion in the mattér of working overtime at the last meeting of the “Greater Van- couver and Lower Mainland Labor Council. Policy decisions on the question, however, were delegated to the individual unions concerned. Discussion arose when dele- gates from the Marine Workers and Boilermakers Industrial Union, Local 1, reported that re- fusal to work overtime had been questioned by the Labor Rela- tions Board. The union’s contract provided for a 40-hour week, but pressure had been exercised by the em- ployers in the wooden shipyards for overtime, The workers in- volved decided against working overtime. Complaint was lodged by the employer with the Labor Rela- tions Board, and the Union was requested to appear before the Board to show cause why it should not be de-certified. | Resolution of the Council was “that all overtime is voluntary in principle and that each affili- ated union has the right to make policy on overtime.” CCL SCHOOLS Some 150 members of Cana- dian Congress of Labor: unions graduated from two one-week schools held by the CCL at the FDR-CIO permanent camp at Port Huron, Michigan. Schools were held July 8-13 and July 15-20 with Howard Conquergood, CCL educational director, as director of the Canadian school, and William MacDonald, UAWA educational director, as co-direc- tor. Courses taken by the Canadian students included CCL-CIO poli- cies, public speaking, the job of a steward, basic and advanced time study, co-operatives and credits unions, radio, PAC, union educational techniques, and hand-, ling of grievances. -LECKIE’S- > UNION MADE THE LECKIE LOGGER is manufactured in B.C. and is Union Made. Built of leather specially tanned in our Union Tannery in New West- ~ minster—this de luxe boot is highly water resistant. It is comfortable and long-wearing. At better retail storesand commissaries everywhere. direct for the name of your nearest distributor. Write us QUALITY WORK BOOTS 5106-B