4 : B.C. LUMBER WORKER WALS Agreement has been nego- tiated by the officers of the ¢ al 1-217 IWA with Walsh Lumber Co. Ltd. which in- creases the rates of the em- (deed from 10e to 27¢ an jour, thus bringing their wages in line with those paid in other operations within the Local Union’s jurisdiction. After lengthy negotiations with a Conciliation Board, the Local Union has arrived at a settlement with the Sweeney Cooperage Co. Ltd. The IWA members, at a specially called meeting, voted to accept an offer of 9%¢ across-the-board to all employees and the company is to pay half the cost of M.S.A. Jones Tent & Awning Negotiations will commence for Jones Tent & Awning Company ou. the next few days. The ployees’ main demand will be across-the-board wage increase and the Health and Welfare scheme. The Union has a Union shop with this company and pay for all statutory holidays. A long standing grievance in the Power House at J. & M. Shingle Mills has been settled, with the engineers receiving 2c increase retroactive to January Ast; 1950. Union Committee at Kashmir Lumber, with the assistance of Local Officers, have finally been successful in compelling this company to have installed proper sanitary facilities, Vancouver Plywoods Vic. Mauro, Plant Cliairman at’ tiating Committee. LOCAL 1-217 H LUMBER TOES LINE organization up to 100%. Vancouver Plywoods, reports that an energetic organizational drive is being put on by the Committee and Shop Stewards to bring the W. Blaney, Plant Chairman at Eburne Sawmills, with the assist- ance of the Committee members and job stewards, has signed up some fifty new members during March, The newly elected Plant Committee, under his chairman- ship, have been conducting the fight on seniority, and have every reason to believe that a better arrangement on seniority will be worked out with this company. Softball Once again Local 1-217 has en- tered a team in the Major Men’s Softball League. This year Paddy Neal and Vic, Mauro are on the Softball Committee looking after the team. Bob Byford, IWA member at Vancouver Plywoods, is Manager. As soon as schedules are obtainable, they will be cir- culated throughout the Mills, The Committee has gone to a great deal of time and energy in lining up the team, and the Man- ager—Bob Byford—with his able assistants, has left no stone un- turned. “Let’s have the member- ship turn out to support the team,” say the officers. Meetings have been held in all the major plants and a good many of the other operations throughout the Local at which the officials gave an outline of the contract demands and the ex- periences to date of the Nego- Ballard Tells 1-80: U.S. Operators Pled Poverty | But Settled For 71, Cents~ Misleading propaganda of the lumber operators would be exposed in British Columbia as it has been in the United States, predicted International 2nd Vice-President Claude Ballard, addressing the members of Lo- cal 1-80, IWA, in the Odeon Theatre, Duncan, April 27th, upon the occasion of his instal- lation of the newly-elected of- ficers. Declared elected to office for the ensuing year were: President—Joseph Morris. 1st Vice-President — Tony Poje. 2nd Vice-President — George Smythe. 7 SOCIAL SECURITY A notice of motion calling for an over-all program of social security was filed in the House of Commons, April 9, by Stanley Knowles (CCF-Winnipeg North Centre). The Knowles motion urges that consideration be given to the ad- visability of expanding the social security legislation now on the statutes of Canada into an all- inclusive program. In particular, it calls for: (1) A nation-wide program of health insurance with provision for provincial participation. (2) Pensions for incapacitated persons to be provided jointly by the federal and the provincial governments, (8) An increase in old-age pen- sions to an amount commensurate with today’s cost of living. STRIKE PLANS MADE Action has been taken by Local 1-357, IWA, New West- minster, to organize strike committees immediately in ev- ery operation, These prepara- tions followed advice from the District Negotiating Commit- tee that a deadlock had been reached in negotiations, and that the operators were deter- mined to enforce a wage-cut. Satisfactory rehabilitation of IWA members who are veterans of the Korean campaign became a subject for discussion recently with a number of employers. Po- sition maintained by the Local Union was that upon return from service they should be re-employ- ed with all advantages that would have accrued had they not been on active service, Timbersteel Timbersteel Structures Lid., a firm occupying part of the space in Northern Wood Products, re- cently found objection to certain features of the IWA contract, such as the union rates and the: expanding market. LOCAL 1-357 check-off. Discussions with the Local Union’s officers succeeded in establishing the standard con- tract terms for the area. Supreme Shingle Through the intervention of President Andy Smith, engineer and fireman dismissed at Su- preme Shingle Ltd. were rein- stated. It was proven that the owner had interfered to issue or- ders regarding the blower, with the result that steam pressure dropped. Reinstatement brought acknowledgment that the engin- eer in charge should determine technical supervision. The lay-off of 120 men at Pa- cific Veneer has been shown to be due to the strike situation in the American plant of the com- pany. No shipments are at pres- ent being made to the U.S. plant. Mohawk Handle has installed a new lath mill at Timberland Ltd., a fact which is pointed to by the Local Union officers as proof that the owners expect an In 1952 aes G KNW ‘That You May Know’ Wednesdays 10:10 p.m, CARIBBEAN CONFERENCE LONDON (CPA) — Trade unionists from all parts of the Caribbean area will soon gather in the island of Barbados, British | West Indies, for a 3-month course | in the whys and hows of labor |} IIS THE ANSWER organization. Providing them with bursaries and other financial support will be Britain’s Trade Union Congress. f The Barbados school is only one of five such training projects planned for trade unionists it areas still under British colonial | control, Others will be held in Singaporepy Malaya and in West and Hast Africa. In addition, ; other programs like those of Ni-| geria’s two trade union education committees, will be continued with T.U.C. support. Co-operating with British and colonial trade unionists and the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions in the effort to develop constructive but inde- pendent trade unionism in these underdeveloped areas will be new educational institutions like the Gold Coast University and offi- cials of the United Kingdom’s Colonial Office. » Officials compare the programs designed to as- sist potential leaders of budding trade union movements with those established in Great Britain itself to train officials and rank and file leaders for the U.K. Labor movement. SUPPORT OUR - ADVERTISERS 8rd_Vice-President — Frank Telford. District Board Member—Gil- bert Schofield. Financial Secretary — Edwin Linder. Recording Secretary — Law- rence Jones. Warden—James Bailey. Conductor—A. L. Smith, Trustees: Peter MacDonald J. M. Milmore J. F. Colwell (unable to attend). Vice-president Ballard reported that, despite the pessimistic claims of the operators, a settle-1| ment had been reached with the Weyerhaueser Timber Co., which had given the workers a 744c-an- hour increase with other substan- tial benefits. He complimented the Local Union on the progress made in recent years, and warned that other serious problems loomed on the horizon. He said that members of the IWA could not ignore national and international questions which affected the wel- fare of the workers. FOR STANLEY HOME PRODUCTS Phone N.W. 6200-R PARTIES ARRANGED s FOR Fire - Auto Insurance Seo BOB DEY Room I, B.C. Electrle Bldg., Ropresenting CHRISTIE AGENCIES LTD. oneering THE L.E.L. SUPER PIONEER TODAY! TESTED IN ACTION PROVEN BY DEEDS L.E.L. pioneered the one-man chain - sow field . . . 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