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B.C. LUMBER WORKER Ss

LRB POLICY

QUESTI

NEW WESTMINSTER—Recent ruling of the Labor
Relations Board has been questioned by officials of Local
1-357, IWA, as indicating an unexplained change of policy
by which the Local Union was denied certification in a

local firm.

On March 24, application was
made by the Loeal Union for
certification at Timber Structures }
of Canada Ltd, The employees at!
that time signed up 100% IWA.

At a later date the firm moved
to the location formerly occupied }
by the GPAL, and the staff was!
enlarged, After a considerable |
period of time, during which no}
attempt apparently,was made to}
process the application, the in-
spectors examined the records of
the IWA, requesting at the same!
time withdrawal of the applica-
tion. This was refused by the

Subsequently, advice was re-
ceived by the Local Union from
the Board that the application |
was not in order, mainly because |
initiation fees and dues had not
been collected, The Board’s offi-
cials ignored the dispensation
granted by the International,
which had been accepted on form-
er occasions,

The certification was awarded
to the AFL Carpenters & Joiners.

UP-SWING
CONTINUES

Membership growth surpass-
ed all records in Local 1-424,
IWA, during the month of
March. A new certification has
recently been granted the
Dewey Logging Company, a
subsidiary of the Cormel Lum-
ber Co., at Dewey, B.C.

The annual shut-down for the
Spring break-up is now at its
peak with most roads closed to
truck traffic and others limited
to half-loads. However, the mild
winter is allowing the larger
mills to get started on their!
summer sawing much earlier than
usual,
woods is likely to keep most of
the loggers out until late in May.

ATTEND YOUR UNION

MEETINGS

| following his visit to the opera-

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ONED

LOWERY AT
HARRISON

Increased interest in IWA
affairs following the visit of
President Warren Lowery, of
Local 1-367, IWA, to the Lar-
son Logging Co. Ltd., Harrison
Lake, resulted in the election,
April 9th, of new Camp Com-
mittee Members-and Officers.

Harold Klaudt, who has been
strenuously organizing more
union members among the men
in camp and who was responsible
for President Lowery ‘visiting
them, was elected Camp Chair-
man. Nelson Brown was elected
Camp Secretary.

Safety efforts of District Safe-
ty Director, John T. Atkinson,

tion, are seen in the active co-
operation of the Company and
employees. The new Safety Com-
mittee reports the Company is
suggesting as many safety im-
provements as they are, and im-
plementing them. 2

A new and louder signal
whistle for the donkey has been
promised; also a bridge of ques-
tionable strength will be replaced
as soon as possible,

Camp meetings will be held
every second Thursday, it has
been decided, as members feel
that too long a lapse results in
a lapse of union interest.

Jim Stuart, camp cook, has
been most cooperative in letting
the members use the cookhouse
for their meetings and has
promised that any suggestions
for improvements in his depart-
ment will be well received,

1-80 NOTICE

Local 1-80, IWA, Member-
ship Meeting will be held
May 24, in the Odeon The-
atre, Duncan, commencing at
10:30 a.m. Completion of the
referendum for election of
Local Union officers, it is
anticipated, will enable their
installation.

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Local
Wins
Rights

Reversing the decision of
their Prince George officer, UIC
Referees in Vancouver granted
members of Local 1-424, IWA,
employed at the Eagle Lake
Sawmills, Giscome, the right to
draw Unemployment Insurance
benefits, following the closure
of the mill. -

The employees of the Eagle
Lake Sawmills operation had, on
December 4th, 1952, conducted a
government - supervised strike
vote with the majority support-
ing strike action. The following
day the Company closed down
the sawmill and part of the log-
ging camp for the winter.

Such a shut-down of the saw-
mill has been carried out every
year at this season as it is a
summer operation.

When applying for their Un-
employment Insurance benefits,
employees were notified by the
Prince George U.I.C. that they
were disqualified for the period
from the 6th of December to the
13th of December. The day after
an agreement was reached with
all the Northern Interior opera-
tors.

On advice from Local 1-424,
employees appealed to the UIC
Referees who upheld them and
declared the closure an annual
shut-down.

Ball Team

East, Kootenay softball fans
will soon see why the Vancou-
ver IWA Softball Club came
within an ace of winning the
Major Men’s softball crown
last year.

The classy, hard-hitting IWA
nine will travel to Cranbrook on
the holiday weekend of May 17-
18, for a three-game exhibition
series against Swanson’s,’ last
year’s Interior champs,

The games will be the main
feature of the annual May cele-
brations, and have created a
great deal of local interest due
mostly to the large amount of
woodworkers in that area, Fur-
ther, both teams are considered
to be strong contenders for the
Western Canadian Finals to be
held in Vancouver this fall.

“Clown Prince”

Accompanying the team as an
added attraction will be Herbie
MacDonald, rapidly becoming fa-
mous as the “Clown Prince of
Softball”. Although still one of
the top-notch pitchers in Major
softball, he has been devoting
more and more time to his
comedy act.

His antics on the diamond have
won him the plaudits of thous-
ands of Coast fans, but opposing
| players and umpires are always
uneasy when he starts in on his
shenanigans. They never know
what to expect next, and no won-
der—it might be anything from

To Play

Cranbrook, May 17.

a lemon pie in the face to a smoke
bomb!

Vie Swanson’s team will be no
pushover for the IWA squad,
mainly because of the blazing
speed-ball of young Eddie Swan-
son, considered to be one of the
finest pitching prospects ever
seen in the Interior. He is ex-
pected to give the Woodworkers’
power hitters plenty of trouble.
For the Coast club, veteran Wilf
Walters and last year’s sensa-
tional rookie-of-the-year, Jack
Davies, will share the mound
duties.

Said President Lloyd Whalen:
“Tt is anticipated that this series
will be of great organizational
value to the Cranbrook Local 1-
405, and I consider that the Van-
couver Local is to be commended
for its efforts. Certainly a good
deal of publicity will result and
it should prove a definite morale
booster for the IWA members in
that area.

An .accolade should be »pre-
sented to the players also...
despite the fact that this trip
entails a long, gruelling over-
night drive, it is to their credit
that not a single player is miss-
ing the jaunt.”

“Lady, could you gimme fifty
cents to get to where me family
is?”

“Certainly, Pl be glad to help.
Where is your family?”

“At de movies.”

Local 1-357 Answers Laing

Prompt and vigorous reply
was made to the criticism of
Rae Eddie’s election last year
made recently by Liberal leader
Arthur Laing, when Roy Moore
spoke over CKNW, May 2nd,
on behalf of Local 1-357. He
said in part:

“Many of you read in your
newspapers, the remarks of Ar-
thur Laing, Liberal Leader of the
Province, who said in part, and
I quote from The British Colum-
bian newspaper:

Laing Quoted

“This proud city, a working
man’s city, has lately been rep-
resented by a Socialist. There
is no party that can do more
damage to labor than a Social-
ist party. In a democracy, la-
bor is part of a triangle—
Labor, Management and Goy-
ernment, But with a Socialist
Gevernment, the Government
becomes the owner and man-
agement and Labor loses its
rights to negotiate’

I can agree with Mr. Laing,
that New Westminster is a work-
ing man’s city—this point has
been mentioned to you over this
broadcast from time to time in
order to keep before you, the fact
that if we in New Westminster,
who are members of Unions,
whether AFL or CIO, keep a

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united labor front to the side rep-
resented by the Liberal and Con-
servatives, then there is no rea-
son in the world why, on June 9,
we cannot say “Well done, work-
ing men and women, once again
we have elected Rae Eddie.’

Mr. Laing continued by stating
that no party can do more da-
mage to Labor than a Socialist
party.

Coalition Record

When a broad statement like
that is made, it is well to examine
the records of the late Coalition
Government of B.C., compared
with a once again elected CCF
Government in Saskatehewan—to
see just what the latter is doing
to harm labor. For whatever the
CCF stands for in the minds of
many, still even today we find the
older Canadian Political Parties
trying to lay a dismal communis-
tic cloak over a party that has
done much to better Canadian
Labor’s lot.

The Union members in British
Columbia, know how many hard
years we’ve fought to obtain paid
statutory holidays in our con-
tracts—in Saskatchewan the CCF
made all paid statutory holidays
law. Does that seem unfair to
Labor?

Vacations in Sask.
To you in British Columbia,

who have to work several years
with a company and in the case
of the International Woodwork-
ers of America, five years, before
receiving two weeks’ holiday with
pay per year—compare that with
the allegedly anti-labor CCF
Government of Saskatchewan
where it is law that after one
year with a company you shall
receive two weeks’ holiday with
pay, -

Personally, I cannot follow the
trend of Mr. Laing’s thinking—
especially when you stop and ex-
amine the records further, com-
paring the two hospital insurance
schemes and both provinces’ fi-
ancing of automobile insurance.

All I can say’ to the working
people of New Westminster, and
especially you in the IWA — 1
give you this small thought to
ponder. Who can best represent
you in Victoria in 1958 — Rae
Edgie with over 25 years’ experi-
er.ce behind him in fighting for
the rights of labor, or do we want
to send’ the Liberals’ choice—an
employer of labor?

I certainly hope that ex-Prem-
ier Byron Johnson’s prediction
‘that this city will elect a Liberal
member to Victoria’ has the same
net result as in 1952, Let us go
out and vote on June 9 to see his
story repeat itself.”

Lumber workers regret the
passing of an old friend, Charlie
Wohlford, aged 64, at his home
in Vancouver, recently.

Mr. Wohlford was well known
in logging circles as the man-
ager of the Loggers’ Recreation
Club, where he made many
friends amongst the old-timers in
the IWA.

In 1946 he went into the busi-
ness of manufacturing loggers’
boots, inspired mainly by his
daily contact with woodworkers
and their problems. His aim was
to produce the finest, and the
safest, logging boot that could be
made, and since that day many
thousands of Dayton 64’s, as the
brand was named, have been

IWA FRIEND PASSES

worn in the woods and camps of
British Columbia.

The IWA remembers particu-
larly his unfailing, and imme-
diate, loyalty to the rallying
membership of the IWA in 1948,
when friends were badly needed
to help regroup a badly shaken
movement,

Charlie came forward with an
immediate advertising contract,
to set an example to others, and
this support has continued ever
since.

“Dad, what do they mean by
“puppy love’?”

“They mean somebody is get-
ting ready for a dogs’ life.” 2