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September 20, 1951

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1-217 SECURES PLYWOOD REVISIONS;
BOARD SET UP FOR RESTMORE

Indicating the’ growth of Lo-
cal 1-217, TW. , during the past
year, ae Ld oa tela s
meeting elect lelegates to
the IWA International Conven-
tion, and 13 to the CCL Con-
yention as compared to 15 and
10 respectively last year.

From page I

SLOAN

As reasons for the award
against the contentions of the
IWA, His Lordship stated:

_ “It is my view, after considera-

tion thereof, that an employee
hired on probation is a temporary
employee only during the period
of probation. The probationary
period is intended to permit the
employer to ascertain and deter-
mine whether or not the em-
ployee has the necessary qualifi-
cations to render him a satisfac-
tory addition to the payroll as a
regular employee,

If the employee, during his pro-
bationary (or temporary period
of employment) for any reason
does not measure up to the stan-
dard desired by the employer,
then, in my interpretation of the
Master Agreement and its inten-
tion, the employer may in his dis-
cretion refuse to continue his em-
ployment at any time during that
period.”

“The refusal of the employer
to engage a temporary employee
as a regular employee at the end
of the period of probation does
not, in my opinion, amount in re-
ality to a dismissal or discharge
of that employee but merely a
refusal to grant him a status to
which the employer decides he
has not shown himself suited.
Any other conclusion would ren-
der the probationary, period
meaningless.”

Elected as delegates to the
IWA Convention were:

Mel Andrews, Cleve Austin,
Harry Bardsley, Al Busch, T.
Clarke, W. Croy, Arthur Evans,
Bert Fulljames, A. J. Gargrave,
Mrs. M. Goddard, A. H. Good,
Wm. Gray, T. G. MacKenzie, D. J.
McDonald, Vie Mauro, H. Mey-
ers, C. P. Nealé, Les Roberts,
R. G. Watters, E. Colin Wood.

Alternates: T. Haggart, G.
Spratt, F. Wilson, F, Beazley,
Miss A. Hamilton.

Elected as delegates to the
CCL Convention were:

S. M. Hodgson, A. J. Gargrave,
John Busch, 0. Anderson, W.
Gray, T. G. MacKenzie, Tred
Soon, Cleve Austin, Cy McKellar,
L. Whalen, Emmett Holmes, Vic
Mauro, Wm. Croy.

Alternate delegates: (Mrs. M.
Goddard and Geo. Friess tied for
first alternate delegates), J.
Cummins, J. K. (Ian) McLellan,
P. Nichol.

In review of the past two
weeks’ activities, Financial Sec-
retary S. M. Hodgson reports:

A lot of interest this past week
has been shown in the District
Plywood revisions, affecting the
Vancouver Plywoods and the
Western Plywoods. Both opera-
tions, although not receiving
every revision they put in for,
did manage to get some yery out-
standing category disputes set-
tled.

Wage revisions have been go-
ing on at the Eburne Sawnills,
between the Local, represented
by L. Whalen, with the assistance
of the Plant Committee and the
management of Eburne Sawmills.

Conciliation

It is hoped that an acceptable
conciliation award will be handed
down by the Board set up to hear
the dispute between the Rest-

more Manufacturing Co. and the
IWA. The chairman was Percy
Gomery, and members, Bob Wat-
ters and Mr. J. B, Ewing. Pre-
senting the case for the Union
was Stu Hodgson and Harry
Bardsley. Z

An agreement was signed this
week between the Jones Tent &
Awning Co. and the Local Union,
granting upward revisions in all
categories to the employees.

Welcome CCL

Much attention has been fo-
cussed on the coming CCL con-
vention, and Local 1-217 Execu-
tive and members extend a hearty
welcome to all delegates attend-
ing the convention. We certainly
hope that they have an enjoy-
able stay in Vancouver. We have
been campaigning for years to
haye a convention come out here
to Vancouver, and will be only
too pleased to do everything in
our power to ensure a successful
convention.

Loggers Vote

In a recent vote conducted by
L. Whalen, the Goodwin-Johnson
Logging employees turned down
a request by the Company to
work overtime. The 100% IWA
membership at this operation ex-
pressed the view that as the 40-
hour week had taken a long time
to win, they were not going to do
anything that would jeopardize
this hard-fought-for working con-
dition,

Although the softball season is
over, the Local Union is going
to make good use of the softball
jackets. All delegates attending
the International convention will
be loaned a 1-217 softball jacket
to be worn at the convention.

DPLLQODRQN VLDL
ATTEND YOUR UNION

MEETINGS

Baike Wins

BCLW Trophy

BEAUDRY FASTEST
UP TALL TIMBER

Paul Bunyan Days, September 1-2-3, under the auspices of
Local 1-85, IWA, Port Alberni, attracted thousands of spectators
and proved to be an outstanding success. Main features were the
loggers’ sports, the concerts of the RCAF Band, and the pa-
geantry, typical of the lumber industry.

The kiddies’ swim sports prov-
ed to be the most popular at-
traction on September Ist as it
represented an effort by the Local
Union to develop local juvenile
talent. Assistance was rendered
by experts from the Victoria
YMCA. Olaf Hanson officiated as
director.

The Royal Life Saving Society
of Vancouver staged a swim gala
on the Sunday in which the Van-
couver stars, Gerry and Kay Mc-
Namee, were featured. The per-
formance was repeated twice
during the day, attracting ap-
proximately 1000 spectators each
time.

RCAF Band

The Band concert provided by
the RCAF Band, under the direc-
tion of Flying ‘Officer Leo Cor-
coran, proved one of the high-
lights of the weekend celebra-
tions, During the intermission of
the Sunday concert, the Labor
Queen, Miss Helen Bedeck, was
crowned by Miss Ruth Taylor,
well-known labor publicist. ‘This
ceremony was conducted against
a background of labor tableaux,
directed by George McKnight.
Runners-up in the Labor Queen
contest were Miss Florence Good-
esel, Miss Jean Lawson, and Miss
Maxine Sweeney.

The famous Paul Bunyan and
his blue ox was the centre of in-
terest in the monster Labor Day
Parade which preceded the log-
gers’ sports on Labor Day. The

various contests secured numer-
ous entries and provided amuse-
ment and thrills aplenty for the
spectators.

4 Loggers’ Sports

Winner of the log-birling con-
test and the B. C. Lumber Worker
Trophy was Ron Baike of Cour-
tenay. This was presented by;
International Board Member Tom
MacKenzie, who had officially
opened the Labor Day Sports on
behalf of International President
James E, Fadling, who was un-
avoidably absent.

Rene Beaudry won the tree
climbing contest with the fast
time of 1914 seconds. Dan Sailor
was a close second’ with 19.8 sec-
onds. The winner of this contest
was presented with the Dayton
Shoe Trophy and $100 by the
manager of the Dayton Shoe Co.,
Mr. Walford, an enthusiastic sup-
porter of loggers’ sports.

Champion E. Moen of Shelton,
Wash., won the hand-bucking and
hand “chopping contests easily,
although Alex Cox, from the
APL Camp, paced him nobly. The
women’s nail driving contest hon-
ors were carried off by Aggie
Osborne, a plywood worker.

. Further account of the contests
and pictures will be published in
the next issue.

$1250 was distributed in cash
prizes to the winners of the nu-
merous contests.

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