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B.C. SHINGLES “FAIR”

Order of the National Labor
Relations Board in the United
States has set aside the claim
of the AFL Shingle Weavers’
Union in Oregon that B.C.
shingles are produced under
“unfair” conditions..

Strike at the Sound Shingle Co.
at Marysville, Ore., caused by
the importation of a carload of
shingles from the North Shore

ended when the shingles were

shown to have been produced by

unionized labor,

This verdict was declared by
IWA District Officials to be a
victory, as former boycotts
levelled against shingles produc-
ed in B.C. were based on false
propaganda, prompted by preju-
diee against a CIO union.

Shingle Co, North Vancouver,

1-363

40-HOUR WEEK ‘UPHELD

Satisfactory settlement was
recently reached between Local
1-363, IWA, and the Tyee Pole
Co., over a grievance in the
price of cutting poles, winning
for the cutters increases of 4e’
per lineal foot up to 50 feet.

The grievance reached the
stage where all cutters involved
brought in their tools. Settlement
was reached with the Company
increasing the price to 4c per
lineal foot for all length of poles
up to 50 feet effective May ist,
plus a 10 percent bonus from
March 1st to the end of April.

A further grievance is being
processed by the Local concerning
Bullpen Boatmen employed at Co-
mox logging. Meetings haye been
held with Company officials to
bring about an amicable settle-
ment.

Interesting development is. des-
cribed in the official bulletin of
Local 1-363 in the following
terms:

“Last week it was brought to
the attention of the Local that a
certain operator had notified his
employees to work on Saturday,
needless to say no production
work was done, when Union Of-
ficials advised the operator there
would be trouble.

Strange as it may seem, the
operators are crying inability to
pay but at the same time at-
tempting to get men to work on
Saturday.

MacMillan & Bloedel Camp 5
also requested an overtime per-
mit from the Union for the con-
struction of a truck road. The
Executive has informed the Of-
ficials of the Company, we feel
more men can be employeil on

Rieve Won

CLEVELAND (LPA) — The
two-year fight over leadership of
the CIO Textile Workers’ Union
ended May 1 with the re-election
of President Emil. Rieve over
George Baldanzi and defeat of
all candidates supporting the
former executive vice-president.

this project on a two or more
shift basis thus giving work to
some of the loggers unable to find
same at the present time.

We wish again to bring to the
attention of our membership the
recommendation adopted at the
Annual Meeting of the Local that
all members adhere strictly to
the 40-hour week.”

1-423

EXPANSION
PLANNED

Membership meeting of Lo-
cal 1-423, May 18, sounded an
emphatic call for support of the
recommended increase in per
capita tax for the District
Council, on the grounds that
aid already extended to In-
terior Local Unions had giyen
important impetus to organiza-
tion expansion,

The Local Union members also
authorized a referendum ballot
proposing an increase of member-
ship dues from $2.00 to $2.50 a
month.

Reasons given for the action
were that 4 rapidly expanding
membership now required im-
proved facilities for servicing the
needs of the membership within
the. Local Union’s jurisdiction.
The past year has seen a record-
breaking growth which, it was
claimed, must now be fostered in
order that an effective fight may
be waged during the approaching
contract battle.

- The meeting was addressed by

‘| District Sec.-Treasurer George

Mitchell, who complimented the
officers and members on progress
made, He gave warm support to
the decision to strengthen the
financial position of the Local
Union and thus make prepara-
tions for a renewed fight for
higher standards of wages and

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IWA organization in Coast
logging camps is now ready for
any emergency that may result
from present negotiations, stat-
ed Financial Secretary Fred
Fieber, Local 1-71, IWA, upon
a recent tour of the larger
camps. Base for strike opera-
tions will be established at -
Alert Bay, it has been decided.

The IWA loggers’ organiza-
tion has now reached the highest
point in its history for efficiency
and membership strength, a re-
view of the season’s activities
disclosed.

Organizer Appointed

To keep pace with growing de-
mands for organization, the ap-
pointment of Jim MacFarlane
was recently made, to assist the
present staff of organizers. The
new organizer, after 30 years’
experience in logging is well and
favorably known in Goast camps,
especially as he was one of the
former victims of the employers’
blacklist for union activity. He

LOGGERS PLAN BATTL

was more recently employed at
Apes ‘Timber Camp, Homfray
reek.

Financial Secretary Fieber re-

ported on the progress of nego-
tiations at camps in the Engle-
wood, Beaver Cover and Pioneer
areas. Unqualified support of the
IWA negotiating strategy was
evinced, and all camps have
swung into preparations for
strike action with marked enthu-
siasm.
._ Performance of the committees
in the Englewood camps in this
respect has been outstanding,
with unwavering support for the
contract demands.

Kitimat

Active Committees and regular
Sub-local meetings have been ar-
ranged in the Kitimat camp by
organizer Tom MacKenzie on a
visit there, These meetings will
be held on the third Thursday of
each month. The Safety Commit-
tee meetings will be held every
third Friday.

Committee members
were:

Chairman, J. M H
tay, WB Lords Camp
tee, Pete Chuba, .J.

and Brother Winkler. Job Stew-
ards, Pete Chuba, J. J

McConnell, F. Liang,
Sand, Abe Dyck.
Safety Committee: Slim

W. Realff, C. gen Brother
McCauley, Menzie, and F, Liang.

‘The substantial membership
gains made by Northern Pulp-
wood Camp, Beaver Cove, is due
largely to the fine job of organ-
izing by the boys of the Loggers!
Navy, reports the Camp Secre-
taty, Wm. V. Upton.

Letters and check-off slips re-
ceived from him reveal that the
camp is now 99% IWA. With
progress in the last months ex-
ceeding their expectations, the
Committees feel justified in pre-
dicting that they will have the

The aims of the trade union
movement are not selfish, de-
clared District President J.
Stewart Alsbury in a recent ad-
dress before the Kiwanis Club
of New Westminster. His
statement was substantiated by
evidence from the experience of
the Union which he heads.

The District President outlined
for the assembled business men
the principles of collective bar-
gaining, which, in his opinion,
would lead to industrial harmony.

He then proceeded to demon-
strate the manner in which or-
ganized labor has contributed to
the wealth and progress of the
community. The ideals which
have made the trade union move-
ment great, he stated, are those
of democracy and service.

In his references to the inter-
national outlook he’ stated:

Communism Opposed

“Labor is unalterably opposed
to Communism and to all forms
of dictatorship. Labor believes in
and fights for democracy. Labor
knows that where. Communists
get control of a union, rights of
the individual member go out the
window.

Labor rejects the Marxian view
that it has nothing to lose but its
chains, Labor has a stake in the
community and our productive
system. Labor has put too much
into the struggle for freedom, to
let it go by default. Labor knows
that its own survival is tied up
with the survival of democracy.

“Labor knows from bitter ex-
perience in the last 25 years, that
where dictatorship comes in,
trade unions go out.

Labor and Peace *

“Labor works not only for im-
proved conditions, it works for
permanent peace abroad. Two
years ago, 50 million trade union-
ists in the Free Western Coun-
tries set up their free interna-

NEW JOB |
FOR BURTZ

Virgil Burtz, IWA Research
Director since January, 1949, re-
ported at Washington, D.C., May
15, for training as a commission-
erin the federal mediation and
conciliation service.
> He leaves the IWA after being
with it since 1935. He is a mem-
ber of IWA Local 8-48, Bucoda,
Wash., where he entered the IWA.
as_a mill crane operator.

He was Recording Secretary
from 1985 to 1940, Financial Sec-
retary in 1940, International Or-
ganizer from 1940 to 1942, CIO
Field Representative from 1942
to 1945, filled unexpired term as
IWA Vice-president following the
death of ‘Worth Lowry in 1945
and a year later joined the re-
search department, assisting El-

lery Foster who left in 1949,

ALSBURY TELLS KIWANIS
UNIONS’ AIMS UNSELFISH

tional trade union movement—
the International Confederation
of the Free Trade Unions, repre-
sented by all the free countries,

They left the Communist-domi-
nated World Federation of Trade
Unions, which had fallen under
the control of the Communists
from the countries behind the
Tron Curtain. e

“This new international of free
trade unions is pledged and is
working to assist working peo.
ple in backward countries — in
Asia, India, Africa and elsewhere.

“Its slogan, as set forth in its
Manifestd; is now the slogan of
all labor movements. It is this:
‘Bread, Peace, and Freedom, for

-all the people throughout the

world’.”

1-80

YOUBOU
CAMPS

Warm praise for Sub-Local Of-
ficers and Job Stewards for their
success in organizing Camps 3
and 6, Youbou, and Gordon River,
was given by Local Union Officers
of 1-80, IWA, after a visit there.

When addressing these camps,
Business Agent Ernest Boulet,
and Financial Secretary Ed Lin-
der of Local 1-80, IWA, reported
on present negotiations at over-
flow meetings to keenly interest-
ed audiences. Fin. Sec. Linder
also spoke on the proposed Dis-
trict per capita increase and
recommended to members that a
“yes” vote would be to the best
interest of all concerned.

._ One hundred percent organiza-
tion was reported by the Job
Stewards, for most of the camps,
as proof of the excellent work of
the various committees,

John: Epoch, well known camp
secretary of Youbou Camp 8, has
resigned as he is leaving the
camp. The position so vacated
has been filled by Brother J.
Clarke.

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STRIKE

ward by the Union whether they
are members of the Union or nol.
Tt is agreed that this shall not
interfere with the right of the
employee to join the Union at any
time. The said clause shall be a
condition of employment.

District officials claimed that
the inclusion of this clause in an
IWA contract sets a new record
in IWA bargaining. .

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