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September 7, 1951_

B.C. LUMBER

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11TH ANNUAL
CONVENTION

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Canadim Congress
of Lobo

VANCOUVER, B. C.
SEPT. 17TH TO 21ST, 1951

Fe tA pt

to receive a complimentary mem-
bership card in the Club for con-
vention week.

Tuesday night a banquet, fol-
lowed by 40 rhinutes of entertain-
ment and a dance, will be held
in the Commodore Cabaret. Wed-
nesday afternoon will be devoted
to a complete tour of the city,
covering about 180 miles. Thurs-
day night is being left free for
the various unions to entertain
their own delegates.

Wives Not Neglected

Wives of visiting delegates
have not been neglected in con-
vention plans. If it can be ar-
ranged, there will be a boat trip
up the North Arm for them on
Monday afternoon. Tuesday af-
ternoon the Hudson’s Bay Com-
pany is holding a fashion show
and tea in their honor, Thursday
they will be guests of the B.C.
Sugar Refinery. Their tour of
the plant will be followed by tea
and each lady will receive a small
tin of Rogers’ Golden Syrup.

Education Committee

The Education Committee is
planning activity in two fields.
First, there will be a large dis-
play in the lobby which will illus-
trate the work the Committee has
been doing and intends to do.
Secondly, there will be a show-
ing of films and film strips from
1:30 to 2 p.m. on Thursday and

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Friday of convention week. Some
of these films have been borrow-
ed from the Tourist Bureau and
record pictorially a number of
beauty spots in B.C.

Year Book

The regular Souvenir Program
which is issued at each conven-
tion has been prepared this year
under the direction of J. Bury,
Secretary of the Council, with
Lamoureux Publications in
charge of sales. In previous
years, according to estimates, the
advertising content never exceed-
ed $6,000. This year it has al-
ready passed the $13,000 mark.

Previously it averaged about 80 | -

pages. This year it will run to
approximately 135 pages.

There are other differences.
Photographs of B.C. industry
and scenery are prominently fea-
tured in the advertising pages.
In addition to the regular contri-
butions from the CCL President
and Secretary and other unions
and officials, the Year Book will
contain lively articles on the his-
tory of the IWA, the work of
the Community Arts Council of
Vancouver, the value of the co-
operative movement, etc. and a
sparkling contribution by Barry
Mather,

Printing is in the hands of
J. W. Bow & Company, who put
out the B.C. Lumber Worker.

Mitchell First Speaker

‘When the convention opens at
9:30 a.m, on Monday, Sept 17,
first speaker on the agenda will
be George H. Mitchell, Secretary-
treasurer of IWA District Coun-
cil No. 1. In-his official capacity
as President of the Greater Van-
couver and Lower Mainland La-
bor Council (CCL), he will ex-
tend a welcome to the visiting
delegates and introduce President
R. Mosher.

It is only fitting that members
of the IWA, the largest union in
B.C., should play a leading role
in the arrangements for the first
CCL convention to be held west
of Winnipeg. It is to be hoped
that the- work they have done
will bear fruit — that the dele-
gates will acelaim the 1951 con-
vention of the CCL, held in Van-
couver, as the most successful in
their history.

SANDWICH
WHITE BREAD

“Listen to Jimmy Allen—CKWX—5:30 p.m. Mon. Thru Fri,”

Holiday. Slash Eo

Wace increase of 12% cents an hour, negotiated earlier in the year by the IWA Pacific North-

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west Regional Committee was approved August 10 by the U.S. Wage Stabilization Board. The
mal three paid statutory holidays included in the new contract terms were denied under the

application of the 10% formula. Protest will be lodged with the Board on the latter point, The ad-
justment affects upwards of 75,000 lumber workers in six States, according to the Board.

Denial of -the additional three
paid holidays was leid directly to
the door of the AFL’s Carpenter
& Join’y satellite Lumber Work-
ers by IWA-CIO officials,

They charged the AFL case
Was so weak that it jeopardized
the approval of both the full
amount of the wage increase
that had been negotiated with
the operators and the added
holidays as well.

“The AFL's retreat from its
pension and welfare demands and
its weak acceptanceyof a wage
increase in lieu therof,? said
President J. H. Fadling, “resulted
in their wage proposals exceeding
the ten percent formula to such
an extent that no more than two
or three cents per hour could
have been approved had it not
been for the IWA-CIO case.”

$100 Back Pay

This regulation allows general
wage adjustments of 10 percent
over the level of January 1950.

The $1.00 per day wage boost
is effective as of April 1, 1951,
and to those workers who have
been with their present em-
ployer since that date it will
mean back pay of about $100
each.

The Board’s action was taken

on an eight to four vote, with
the labor members dissenting be-

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cause of the’denial of the holiday
pay.

This opposition of the employer
members was encountered despite
the fact that the Pacific North-
west’s lumber industry operators
had joined with the IWA-CIO in
petitioning the Board for the ap-
proval of the increases and the

holidays.
AFL Also

“The AFL lumber workers are
also covered by the order,” said
Fadling, “even though in approv-
ing their wage increase the Wage
Stabilization Board exceeded the
ten percent formula by about
10% cents per hour.”

“If the Board can exceed the
formula in order to prevent an
inequity between wages paid to
IWA members and the rates paid
AFL members,” he added, “then
it can surely approve the IWA’s
three paid holidays under either
the formula or Regulation No. 13
that was issued recently.”

In the AFL case, the Board
approved an increase of 7%4 cents
per hour effective March 1, 1951,
and 5 cents of an eight-cent-an-
hour adjustment effective May 1
or June 1, 1951, in ‘accordance

Three cents of the eight cents
was not approved.

With the IWA-CIO’s covered
membership of approximately

with the terms of the contracts. |"

50,000 in the fir belt with another
10,000 in the pine areas, these
official figures leave the AFL’s
Lumber and Sawmill Workers
vaunted 60,000 members in the
Northwest at something not bet-
ter than 15,000 at the most, IWA
officials pointed out,

A man in Detroit, Mich., was
fined for disturbing a picket line,
The judge. sentenced one Thomap
Jerome $15 or 15 days in jail.

The Amalgamated: Clothing
Workers were picketing the Rich-
man Brothers store as part of
the union label drive. Jerome
yelled at the pickets, questioning
why the union was “letting Nig-
gers picket”.

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