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- The IWA has declared its swderitene smth regard to the 1953-54 master contract terms in the B.C. coast
area. Ninety delegates, representative of all sections of the workers in the lumber industry, during a two-day
session of the Wages and Contract Conference, March 28-29, hammered forty District Convention proposals
into eleven concrete demands.

> Unanimous decisions of the Conference were the result of painstaking research and caréful planning
with all economic factors in view. Top priority was given the four major demands of prime concern to all
categories. Seven additiorial changes in the contract will also be demanded as necessary for the solution of
special problems.

Bargaining talks with Forest Industrial Relations Ltd., representing the coast lumber operators, are
1 due to commence on April 15. The Conference outlined the strategy to be followed by the Union’s
negotiators.

| MAJOR CONTRACT DEMANDS

y 1, A l5c an hour across the board wage | 3, Fare allowance to benefit woodworkers

increase to be applied to the wages now and loggers required to travel periodi-
being paid and elimination of the obso- cally from metropolitan centres to their
___ Tete cost of living bonus. employment.

| Q, Six additional paid statutory holidays. 4, A full Union Shop.
Le ADDITIONAL CONTRACT DEMANDS

} 5, A daily rate for fallers and buckers of | 9, Streamlined provisions for the griev-

$20.00 a day. ance procedure in the contract.
G, Changes in the hours of work clause to

Peat overlapping of shifts. 10, Daily rate of $20.00 for shingle sawyers

Two vest periods per day, and $15.00 for shingle packers.
8, Adjustment of tradesmen’s and other | 1], Provisions requiring companies to sup-
> categories, where wage inequities exist. ply up-to-date seniority lists.

British Columbia’s largest Union declared that it is prepared to wage an all-out fight in support of the
economic needs of its members as expressed in the contract demands. Delegates from all IWA Local Unions
pledged the support of 30,000 members, as the negotiators prepared to meet the lumber operators at the
bargaining table.

Selected as negotiators for the Union this year were: J. Stewart Alsbury, New Westminster; Walter
Allen, Port Alberni; Joe Morris, Duncan; Stuart M. Hodgson, Vancouver; Fred Fieber, Vancouver; “Jock”
5 MacKenzie, Victoria, and “Doug” Ferg, New Westminster.

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