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B.C. LUMBER WORKER

ist Issue, January

Young Named For

Education

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In Portland, Walt Young, former International
Organizer for the IWA, has been takef on as an assistant
to E. W. Kenney, IWA International Research and Edu-
cation Director, to handle industrial union education in
the Pacific Coast and Rocky Mountain areas.

Born in Burns, Ore., 89 years’

ago, Young attended schools
there and then began college in
1984. Between college terms he
worked in the woods for a Hines
gyppo in 1934; at Quincy Lum-

ber Company, Quincy, Cal. in

1936; at Hines Lumber Company
sawmill at Hines, Ore., 1937-38-

39; Consolidated Pole and Treat-|
ing Company, Minneapolis, Minn., |

1940-41, and was International
- Organizer in 1943-44, when he en-
tered the army. He was about
two years in service, with 105
days of combat as staff sergeant
in Company B, 24th Infantry
Regiment, 24th Division, in Phil-

ippine theatre,
In 1946 he again became an

International Organizer until
1950, when he resigned to finish
his Bachelor’s Degree in educa-
tion at Linfield in 1951. In 1952
he worked as trimmerman and
edgerman for Engle and Worth
Lumber Company, McMinnville,
and this year worked as cant
trimmerman and gang-saw set-
up at Weyerhaeuser Timber Com-
pany, North Bend, Ore.

During this time he also near-
ly has completed requirements
for a degree of Master of Edu-
cation. He has been a dues-pay-
ing member of the IWA for 16
years. Married, he now lives in
Portland with his wife and five-
year-old son, George.

Shingle Workers -
Repudiate Raiders

Formation of a Shingle
Workers’ Council within the
IWA has followed the unsuc-
cessful attempts by A.F. of L.
organizers to raid the IWA-
certified Somass and Tahsis
shingle mills in Port Alberni.

Ten organizers of the AF. of
L., including their international
representative, Vic Midgley, call-
ed a meeting of the shingle
workers at the Somass and Tah-
sis mills, in the hope of convert-
ing to the A.F. of L. Carpenters’
and Joiners’ Union.

John Hieneman, President of

thé Alberni District Joint Labor

Council, and an A.F. of L. mem-
ber himself, who was in attend-
ance at the meeting, bitterly
condemned his brother officers
for their raiding attempts and
unprincipled trade union tactics.

The only IWA official present
was Financial Secretary J. A.
Moore, of Local 1-85, IWA, who
was allowed by the meeting to
present his Union’s views on the
matter.

The shingle workers were able
to prove that they had many
legitimate complaints and the
only answer to the problem was
for them to form their own
council. Following the refusal of
shingle workers to switch over
to the A.F. of L., this plan was
proposed by the [WA and ac-
cepted by the shingle workers.

At the first meeting of the
Shingle Council, the following of-
ficers were elected: President,
Harold Turner; Vice-president,
Bob Curran; Secretary, Bert Tay-
lor, and Bill Higgens, Council
member on the Local Executive
Board. 3

LABOR GAINS
CIVIC HONORS

TORONTO (CPA) —In four
Canadian cities, CCL trade
unionists will head the new
1954 city councils as mayors.
Oshawa, the largest of the
cities, re-elected its Mayor,
John W. Naylor, a member of
the UAW-CIO, by acclamation
for a second term. In Brant-
ford, Ontario, UAW-CIO mem-
ber Reginald Cooper won the
race for Mayor of that city for
the first time. And in Owen
Sound, Ontario, Steelworker
Percy England was returned
also by acclamation. Mayor
(Scoop) Lewry, a member of
the CCL Textile Workers was
re-elected Mayor of Moose Jaw,
Saskatchewan, against a very
heavy opposition.

Many Canadian cities will have
trade unionists on their city and
town councils, as well as on
school boards and public commis-
sions. Winnipeg gained some
strength this year by electing a
new member to the School Board.
However, former School Trustee,
Len Stevens, who ran for alder-

man, was defeated for that office.
Walter Hatcher, a Steelworker,
gained Len’s seat on the School
Board.

In Moose Jaw, Aldermen
Davies, Secret and Gray, all CCL
members, were re-elected to their
positions on the City Council. In
many other cities, too numerous
to mention, gains were made.

In the Toronto area combined
efforts of TLC and CCL unions
re-elected Ford Brand, a printing
pressman, to the Board of Con-
trol. He moyed up from fourth
to third place this year. The
Labor Council, PAC, in Toronto
endorsed-14 candidates in To-
ronto and suburbs. Eight of the
fourteen were successful in be-
ing elected in the Toronto area;
among them the Vice-president of
the Toronto Labor Council, Matt
Drummond, who retained his seac
on the New Toronto Council.

In many other areas, first tries
were made this year and many
more trade unionists took an in-
terest in the municipal field for
the first time.

COMMONS TO AMEND HOUSING ACT

OTTAWA (CPA) —Govern-
. ment housing plans, outlined in
the Throne Speech at the open-
ing of Parliament were made
public by Public Works Min- ~
ister Winters, in the Commons
recently but they will not be
fully discussed until Parlia-
ment reassembles in the New
Year,

The government bill, amending
the National Housing Act, pro-
vides for:

1, Reduction in down payments
from the present 20 percent of
total value to 10 percent on the
first $8,000 and 80 percent of the
balance,

2, Extension of the amortiza-
tion period to 25 years from the
present 20 years,

8, Home buyers to pay an in-
surance premium of two percent
on the first mortgage. A 2%
percent premium is payable on
rental housing.

4, Authorization for private
banks to borrow from the Bank
of Canada on the security of in-
sured mortgages.

No mention was made by the
Minister of the interest rate pay-
able on the loans, nor was the
maximum permissible loan dis-
closed,

Joe Noseworthy (CCF York
South) left few illusions as to the
reception the legislation would
receive from his group. He said
that the whole object of the gov-
ernment bill was to “enable lend-

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ing institutions, including the
banks, to put money into housing
with greater security and less
risk, to try to induce a larger
number of people to buy these
houses which will be sold at a
profit by private builders.”

The proposed legislation, he

‘noted, would not provide housing

for those in the $3,000 and lower
income brackets, “The sooner
the government realizes that
houses can be provided for those
in the lower income brackets only
with government assistance and
government subsidy, the better.”

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OTTAWA
ORDERS
VOTE

A representation vote of em-
ployees of the Pioneer Towing
Co., Ltd., Vancouver, has been
ordered by the Federal Labor
Relations Board, following the
application by Local 1-357,
IWA, to certify them.

The voting unit will comprise
employees classified as_mate,

mate-deckhand, and deckhand.
Masters will be excluded from

the voting unit.

ZEBALLOS
DONATES
$82.00

The Zeballos Sub-Local of
Local 1-85, IWA, recently con-
tributed $82.00 to the Interior
Christmas Fund. In view of
the fact that this Sub-Local
has only 20 members, their
donation was regarded by the
Local Union as exceedingly
generous.

DOUBLE
TRAGEDY
MOURNED

Local 1-423, IWA, announces
with deep regret that one of its
members, P. P. Hlookoff, . of
Grand Forks, and his seven-year-
old daughter, died recently of
food poisoning. Mr. Hlookoff had
been very active at the Boundary
Sawmills, which is presently on
strike.

The Local Union is taking up
a collection for his widow and
remaining children.

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