B.C. LUMBER WORKER

IWA GETS “GREEN

LIGHT”

IN PULP, PAPER INDUSTRY

By STUART M. HODGSON
Possibly the highlight of the recent Executive Council
meeting of the Canadian Congress of Labor was the grant-
ing of the jurisdiction of the Pulp and Sulphite Industry

to the IWA.
It is possible that while

nothing much can be gained

on the Coast by this move, a great deal of progress may

be made in Eastern Canada.

On November 11, the Executive
Council of the CCL held its first
Session since the recent Conven-
tion concluded in Toronto. There
were many interesting points
that were brought to the atten-
tion of the Council members and
for the benefit of the general
membership. I am going to try
to give a detailed but concise
report,

Per Capita

It appears there was some dis-
satisfaction or some misunder-
standing by Brother James B,
Carey, Secretary of the CIO, re-
garding the change in per capita
payment structure, all members
attending the Convention recall
the per capita payments were

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hiked from 5 cents to 10 cents.

There were several jurisdiction
problems that came up for con-
sideration and a Jurisdictional
Committee was set up to adjudi-
cate whether the retail-wholesale
jor the United Packinghouse
| workers should get a biscuit fac-
tory back East.

For a number of months there
has been a great deal of trouble
in Saskatchewan over the Oil-
workers taking over seven locally
chartered unions of the Congress.
It was decided that the Oilwork-
ers were violating Congress pol-
icy and should be charged 50c
per member for six months.

$50,000 PLEDGED

Lloyd Fell, on behalf of the
National PAC Committees pre-
sented a number of resolutions
dealing with National PAC policy
along with a proposed budget for
the year, The budget was re-
ferred to D. McDonald, Secretary-
Treasurer of the Congress, and
the resolutions were adopted.

East Asia Fund

It was pointed out that the
CCL was far short of the $50,-
000 it had pledged to the
ICFTU East Asia Fund. Twen-
ty thousand dollars has so far
-been given and of this about
90 percent has been given from
the United Steelworkers.

At the present time, incident-
ally, our International Union has
called on all Local Unions to
make a contribution to the
ICFTU East Asia Fund. If every-
one stops to figure the terrific job
that has to be done in far East
Asia and what in the final analy-
sis it means to the world trade
union, there could be no hestita-
tion in all Local Unions giving
a substantial donation,

tion referred from the Conven-
tion, a Committee was set up to
look after organization. The fol-
lowing were named and elected to
this committee:

H. Landon Ladd, IWA.

Freeman Jenkins, United
Mineworkers.

D. MacDonald, United Mine-
workers.

Sylbie Barrett, United Mine-
workers,

A. R. Mosher, C.B. of R.E.

Alee McCausland, Oilwork-
ers. }

Sam Hughes, Packinghouse
Workers.

Bill Mahoney, Steelworkers.
Larry Sefton, Steelworkers.
There were many resolutions
referred from the Convention to
be considered by the Executive
Council: It was decided that a
committee of Larry Sefton, Jock
Taylor and Tom Clarke should
be set up to work with H. Chap-
man, N. Dowd and D. McDonald
to review the many resolutions
that had been referred to the Ex-
ecutive Council and make recom-

In line with the recommenda-

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mendations for consideration at
the next meeting.

B.C. Woodworkers

As instructed by the District
Executive Board, I raised the
question of the B.C. Wood-
workers being brought under
the banner of the IWA. To
those who are familiar with the
B,C. Woodworkers, it must be
remembered that since 1944 at-
temps have been made to bring
this chartered local of the Con-
gress into the IWA. It was
decided that a letter be written
to the B.C. Woodworkers ad-
vising them that they should
go into the IWA.

At the request of Ranjit Singh,
Victoria, I asked that a letter be
written to the ICFTU to find out
why Lester Pearson, Canada’s
representative on the United Na-
tions, refrained from voting on
the Milan segregation policy. A
further report on this will be
given at the next Council meet-
ing. z

It is my hope that as time

goes on, more IWA members
will take an active interest in
the affairs of the Canadian
Congress of Labor.

We sometimes tend to forget
that the labor movement is a
world movement and that when
joining a union you automatic-
ally become a member of that
movement and there are many
more things that trade union-
ists have to concern themselves
with other than wages, hours
and working conditions of their
own,

LOW INCOME;
POOR HEALTH

CHICAGO (CPA) — The re-
search Council for Economic Se-
curity, a Chicago organization,
has published a report which
shows that the more you earn,
the better your health,

The Council, carrying out a
survey of the health of U.S. in-
dustrial workers, reported on re-
sults covering 40,000 workers. No
workers getting $7,500 a year or
more had been ill for 13 weeks,
said the report, and none get-
ting $5,000 a year or more had
been ill for more than 26 weeks.

Nearly 60% of those who
had illnesses of eight days or
more earned less than $3,500
a year, the report added.

The report showed a definite
relationship between salary and
sickness. The New York Times,
discussing the report, said that
“Tt seems possible that the per-
son of higher income may be able
to fight off illness faster through
superior medical care and earlier
diagnosis.”

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business, together with the

officers,

IWA, New Westminster,
membership in January.
a special announcement as to

The Christmas season will be
marked by the Local Union in the
customary manner by the distri-
bution of hampers to members
confined to their homes through
jllness or accident and those who
have endured the hardships of
prolonged unemployment.

Delegates Elected

Delegates elected to the B.C.
District Council at the last mem-
bership meeting were:

Bob Carlyle, Lawrence Van-
dale, Albert Rose, Andy Smith,
Roy Moore, Ron Walton, George
Whitelaw, Jack Lindsay, Les Lax
ton, John Main, Doug Ferg, Jim
Vallance, and Henry Switzer,

Attending the meetings of the
Vancouver Labor Council next
year will be:

Elsie McNeney, Andy Smith,
Art MacDonald, George Whit
law, Norman Kelly, Wyman Tri-
neer, J. S. Alsbury, Bert Hill,
Lawrence Vandale, George Amy,
Jim Bannister, N. E. Bodnar,
George Mitchell, Wm. McKenzie,
Colin Prediger.

Rae Eddie was returned as
District Executive Board mem-
ber. Geoff Amy was elected Press
Manager, and Charlie Spooner,
Local Union Safety Director.

Spirited or Spirituous

Joe Sproston, formerly employ-
ed at Alaska Pine, and who re-
signed from his employment, be-
cause of the frustration of his
high spirits in defending the
Union’s interests, now purveys
another form of spirits, with his '

“Revenge” Xma
Say Employers

NEW WESTMINSTER. — Accumulation of it

nominations for

d the election of delegates for the District
vention, ‘as compelled the Executive Board of Local
‘ to plan a special meeting of
Members are asked to wai

the date.

wonted competence
by officialdom and wii
warming results for some
former associates,
Revenge

Members of the Local Uy
regard this year’s decision on the
part of the larger companies to
discontinue all Xmas bonuses or
turkeys as undertaken in the
spirit of revenge for the Ui
militancy earlier in the year, Ag
a matter of fact, this reason
has been communicated to
employees discreetly by the cont
panies’ agents, in an effort to in-
still greater docility for next
year’s negotiations,

Vacations Now

Due to the firm stand taken by
the Local Union, many IW,
members employed in New West-
minster plants will enjoy their
annual vacations, as the mills
shut down for the purpose on
the last shift on the 19th inst,

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