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? B.C. LUMBER WORKER

From page I

FUND

his personal participation in the

fight to preserve the rights of un-

jons—rights which the Labor Rela-

tions Board so callously disregard.
“Make all cheques payable to:
THE B,C. FEDERATION OF

LABOUR, CCL,
617 Ford Building, 193 E. Hastings,
Street, Vancouver 4, B.C.

and earmark the cheque “Defend
the 40-hour Week Fund,”

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BEER STRIKE

to gloss over the fact that the
majority of the workers in the
bottling departments get only
seasonal employment, These
constitute 90% of the total.

We believe that the wage
rates should be so adjusted
that their annual earnings may
be adequate for decent living
standards. We also believe that
the living standards of brew-
ery workers should be pro-
gressively raised, especially as
productivity has been increased
and the breweries have en-
joyed exceptional profits.”

Unfair

Brands placed on the “We do
not patronize” list by action of
the Greater Vancouver and Low-
er Mainland Labor Council are:

Old Style, Rainier, Lucky La-
ger, Britannia, Pilsener, P.B.C.
Bohemian, Cascade, Burton Type
‘Ale, Old’ Country Ale, Silver
Spring, and Victoria Phoenix.

Jobless In
Ontario

OTTAWA (CPA) —Ontatio lay-
offs reached new peaks in September,
it was revealed by employment. sta-
tistics released here recently. There
swere 47,500 people unemployed in
the province by October 4, the figures
showed.

Fadling, International President.

CANDIDATES for office of International President, A. F. “Al”
Hartung (left), International Ist Vice-President, and J. E. “Red”

DATA OTHER CA

A. F. HARTUNG

A. F. Hartung, candidate for
the office of International Presi-
dent, was born on a Wisconsin
farm. At an early Age he migrat-
ed to the Pacific Coast, and ob-
tained employment as a logger,
an occupation which he has fol-
lowed since that time.

He joined the Union, which
later became the IWA, in 1933
at Veronia, Ore., and was elected
President of his Local in 1936.
In the same year, he was elevat-
ed to the post of President -of
the Columbia River District
Council, No. 6.

In 1941, he resigned this office
to become Assistant Director of
Organization to Director Adolph
Germer, then in charge of the
Organization Department of the
IWA, In the following: year he
was appointed CIO Regional Di-
rector for the State of Oregon.

Upon the recommendation of
the IWA, he was appointed to
the West Coast Lumber Division
of the War Labor Board in 1944,
and played an important part in
handling all the lumber. cases in
the Pacific Northwest. Simultan-
eously, he carried on his duties
as CIO Director. :

The National CIO selected him

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as one of the representatives to
attend the International Timber
Conference under the auspices of
the Food and Agriculture Orga-
nization of the UN in Czechoslo-
vakia, 1947.

“Al Hartung was elected In-
ternational Ist Vice-President of
the IWA in 1947, Upon assum-
ing the duties of this post, he
resigned as CIO Regional Direc-
tor, and was again named as As-
sistant Director of Organization
in association with Director
Adolph Germer.

J. E. DICEY

J. E, Dicey was born in Hat-
tiesburg, Miss., on February 6,
1905, is married and the father
of three children, one of whom
is a school teacher. His oldest
son is in the Air Corps, and the
other is a Freshman in school.

Since 1940 Dicey has served
as a representative of his depart-
ment, Chairman of the Plant
Committee, and as a member of
the Negotiating Committee.

Since 1946 he has been the
full-time Business Agent. of Lo-
cal 4-443, IWA-CIO. In such ca-
pacity, he automatically serves
as Chairman of the Negotiating
Committee of all plants that are
in the amalgamation of this Lo-
cal Union.

Dicey has served one hitch in
the United States Navy, and in
his younger days in the early
Twenties he worked in lumber
plants, oil refineries, heavy con-
struction work, highways, etc.;
and for several years was con-
nected with the Times-Picayune
newspaper in New Orleans, La.

In addition to being Business
Agent of the Local Union, Dicey
has worked with many other CIO
Internationals in the State of
Mississippi in an attempt to or-
ganize the unorganized in plants
scattered throughout the Sate.

He also serves at the present
time as Vice-Chairman of the
Mississippi Political Action and
Legislative Committee. Through
his efforts and the efforts of
other persons of like mind from
other labor organizations, in 1950
for the first time in history they
were able to kill anti-labor legis-
lation in the lower house of the

|| State Legislature.

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RAE EDDIE

Rae Eddie, candidate for re-
election as International Trustee,
found employment in the lumber
industry in 1922. He worked at
various jobs in sawmills, and was
employed as automatic trimmer-
man, Fraser Mills, when he join-
ed the staff of Local 1-357, New
Westminster.

Originally he was a member
of the Lumber Workers Union,
but joined the IWA in 1937.
Later he was a charter member
of Local 1-357, when the Local
Union charter was issued in 1942.

He was elected Warden, and
later Recording Secretary, a post
which he has ‘held continuously
to this date, with the exception
of one term.

LECKIE
LOGGER

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NDIDATES

1

Steward, and Sub-Local Secre-
tary, led to his appointment as
Business Agent of the Local
Union in 1947, a position which
he still holds.

His appointment as Interna-

| tional Trustee was made in 1948,
at which time he was named to
complete the term of Jack Green-
all, resigned.
As a resident of New West-
| minster, married with four chil-
dren, he has been active in com-
munity service work, and has
served as a Director on various
community organizations.

Rae Eddie, together with his
fellow officers of Local 1-357, was
largely instrumental in precipi-
tating the investigation of IWA
finances, which led to the down-
fall of the Pritchett-Dalskog re-
gime in B.C.

As International Trustee he
has advocated rigid supervision
of the expenditure of the Union’s
funds by means of a voucher sys-
tem, and control of the Union’s
investments by the Board of
Trustees. .

WALTER BELKA

Walter Belka, candidate for
election as International Trus-
tee, is Secretary-Treasurer of
the’ Northern .Washington Dis-
trict Council with headquarters
at Seattle, Wash.

He has served in that office
since February 17, 1947, when he
was appointed to the position to
fill out an unexpired term. Prior
to that he had served as an In-
ternational Organizer under
Adolph Germer.

Belka first joined the union as
a member of the Lumber and
Sawmill Workers, C&J, AFL, in
1935 while employed at Port
Ludlow, Wash.

He became a charter member
of the IWA-CIO when it was
established in Bellingham where
he was employed by the Bloedel
Donovan Lumber Mills of that
city.

He was later employed as a
chainman and kiln piler at the
Mumby Lumber and Shingle Co’s
operation at Malone, Wash.

In 1929 Belka entered the em-
ployment of the Charles R. Mc-
mick Lumber Co. (now Pope &
Talbot), at Port Gamble, Wash.,
as a green chain foreman.

In 1938 and 1939 he served as
Secretary-treasurer of the Bel-
lingham Industrial Union: Coun-
cil and as an Executive Board
member of the Northern Wash-
ington District Council.

His experience gained as Shop | -

CLAUDE BALLARD

Claude Ballard, candidate for
the office of Second Vice-Presi-
dent, started to work in the lum-
ber. industry in 1928, working P
during his school vacations.

After finishing school he work-
ed at different rigging jobs in
many logging camps along the
Pacific Coast.

He joined the union as a mem.

ber of the Lumber and Sawmill a
Workers in 1935 and after the F
strike became an officer of his ,
local union.

Born at Forest Grove, Oregon,
on August 22, 1906, Ballard has
had a long and active career in
the lumber industry and in the
forming of the IWA-CIO. He
joined the IWA in 1937.

He served as an officer of his
Local Union, being a committee-
man until 1941 when he was
elected Business Agent of the
Jewell, Oregon, Local, in which
he served until 1943,

He also served two terms as
Vice-president of the Columbia
River District Council.

In 1948 Ballard was elected
Second Vice-president of the In-
ternational Union, During his
term of office he succeeded to the
office of First Vice-president and
then served as President of the
Union after the death of Presi-
dent Worth Lowery.

In February of 1946 he became
Assistant Director of Organiza-
tion, working under Director of
Organization George Brown, and
served in that office until Novem-
ber of 1949 when he resigned and
returned to work in the industry.

In 1950 he was elected to the
Executive Board of the Columbia
River District Council and has
worked as an organizer for the
District since August of that
year. °

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