April 17, 1952

e. c. LUMBER Gone. ; 3

“More Butter On Our Bread” —-Eddie

ORTHRIGHT and direct appeal directed at IWA mem- ay

bers to realize and present to their fellow-workers the
substantial advantages-to them personally in the proposed
contract demands of the Union was made by Business
Agent Rae Eddie, Local 1-357, IWA, speaking over the

“Green Gold” radio program, April 10.

As a member of the District
Negotiating Committee, who had
gained familiarity with the
reasons for the demands, the
speaker declared in part:

“J would like to speak plainly
and directly to the average lum-
ber worker, Joe Woodworker,
himself. I want the individual
woodworker to understand what
our Negotiating Committee is do-
a zt his request and on his

ehalf,

Wage Increase

“First, we want to raise your
wages because we both believe
that your annual earnings are
too low. It’s the take-home pay
throughout the year that fixes
the living standards for you and
your family. We both know how
the work-year is broken by shut-
downs for various reasons, usual-
ly caused by unfavorable weather
conditions,

“To get the general level of
your earnings to the point
where you might be assured of
a satisfactory income for the
year, our Union decided that
you should get a base rate of
$1,782. This rate is determin-
ed by adding the 14-cent cost-
of-living bonus to the present
base rate of $1.29%;, and then
adding to this rate of $143%
another 35 cents across the
board. This has been calculated
that your average earnings
may reach a level throughout
the year that makes satisfac-
tory provision for the needs of
your family at present high
prices,

Wages ys. Prices

_ “We got the present cost-of-
living bonus because the costs of
living have risen sharply. Prices
rose before we ever received any
wage increases or bonus, and our
wages have never caught up with
prices. The bonus, for instance,
was spent on food before we re-
ceived it,

“Although there has been a
great deal of talk about price in-
flation having been stopped, noth-
ing has been done to put any
ceiling on prices, All that the
authorities even pretend to be
doing is to level prices off at the
present high level. They will
likely stay up, and probably rise
still further, with little likelihood
that they will take any substan-
tial drop,

“The sensible thing to do,
therefore, is to get a more per-
manent increase i wages to level
them off at the high price pla-
teau. I suggest that you remem-
ber this reason for our action,
when the employers try to scare

you off with their propaganda
that the trade unions musn’t
“rock the boat” by asking for

more wages.

Profits High

“Qur employers have done well
out of the increase in lumber
prices and an expanding market.
They’ve done better than they
Their
profits have been so high that we
can see no reason why they
should grumble at giving us a
little more butter on our bread.
Don’t be fooled by what the em-
ployers may try to say about bad
times ahead. The fact is that they
are drooling over the still bigger
profits they can make out of the
market, if they can fool us into
taking less than we deserve, and

ever dreamed of doing.

need,

All Statutory Holidays

“We want to get you pay for
all statutory holidays. Name one
good reason why you should not
have this pay in your pocket, the
same as monthly-rated workers,
We believe that the intention be-
hind the law which provides for
holidays is that every worker and
his family should be free to en-

joy each public holiday.

“Ts good for all of us to get
away from the job occasionally
and join our neighbors in healthy
m. You don’t do it with
any enjoyment when a holiday is
just another day’s lay-off without
pay. I think you and your family
will appreciate pay for all pub-
lic holidays so much that you
will back up your Union in this

recre:

important demand.

Health and Welfare Plan

“You don’t need to be remind-
ed show you sonietimes worry
about what may happen to you
and your family if you meet with
a serious illness or injury for
which no provision is made under
the Workmen’s Compensation
Act or your Hospital Insurance
premiums. You know as well as
I do what the work in lumber
production has done to many of
our fellow-workers because it is
tough and risky.

“You and your family will be
glad of the extra protection that
can be provided when the Union
wins the demand for a health and
welfare plan. It won’t hurt~thé
employers, for many of them
have already laid the basis for
such a plan, It’s good business
for them, as it is for us, that
workers in the industry should
have every opportunity to pro-
tect their health, When we get
the health and welfare plan, the
employers will be much more in-
terested in protecting the health

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Trayel Time

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mention travel time. If you are
working in some of the opera-
tions now, you may spend two
hours travelling to the job from
the assembly point at which you
report, and two hours after the
day’s job back to the same point.
Once you are on the employer’s
operation, your eight-hour day
should start from the time you
leave that assembly point -and
end when you return to that
point.

“Why should you be expected
to take four hours of your own
time to travel from one point in
the operation to the point where
you do your work, and then put
in an eight-hour day. You'll be
much better off if you get a
square deal on this point, with
your, eight-hour day so fixed as
to include both travel and work-
ing time. Why should we fall for
the idea that loggers should get
up earlier and go to bed later,
because, through no fault of
theirs, the job is 10 or 16 miles
away from the equivalent of the
time clock in a mill?

Union Shop

“You may or may not be in the
Union. If you aren’t, you should
be, because the Union is bargain-
ing to get you proper wages and
conditions. If the Union hadn't
fought for you and wasn’t still
fighting for you, you’d probably
be working for 90 cents an hour
and taking it on the chin. That’s
about the rate that the unorgan-
ized workers usually get. A ma-
jority vote of the workers in your
operation gave the union the
legal right to bargain for you,
whether you belong to the Union
or not,

“The whole point is that since
the Union bargains for you, your
place is inside the Union where
you can have a voice in all de-
cisions that affect your working
conditions. You can’t bargain

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