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Cc. LUMBER WORKER

CRITICS NOW
FIND IWA O.K.

IWA officers, who last year
were attacked by their critics
in business cricles for alleged
irresponsible action were ex-
tremely interested this weel,
when the following story ap-
peared in the Vancouver Sun,
quoting the remarks of a for-
mer member of the Labor
Relations Board. The report
read as follows:

“British Columbia’s construc-
tion industry today appealed to
building trades unions to “follow
the line” of International Wood-
workers of America by foregoing
a general wage increase this
year. :

Macgregor Macintosh, manag-
er of Construction Industrial Re-
lations, bargaining unit for the
majority of B.C.’s building con-
tractors, said:

“IWA officers are to be con-

gratulated on the realistic view-
point of their 1954 contract
requests. They have put the wel-
fare of B.C, ahead of their own
immediate desires for a wage
increase.”

The big woodworkers’ union Is
seeking eight fringe improve-
ments but has decided against
seeking a cash pay boost.

Macintosh said “the IWA has
fully established itself as the
leading B.C. union in responsi-
bility as well as size’ and he
called on the 21 union groups
in the construction industry “to
accept a like responsibility”.

He added, “The construction
industry’s wage bill in 1953 was
$80,000,000 for industrial pro-
jects but for 1954 there Is not
$80,000,000 worth of industrial
business planned in this pro-

vince”.”

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No “Disguise”

tion of two, does not apply to the
whole working force, but the
proposals in their entirety will
also enormously improve the
working and living standards of
the workers in ways that cannot
be reckoned in dollars and cents.

Four of the items proposed for
revision of the contract cannot
properly be described as cost
items. They can easily be ac-
cepted by the employers with a
view to stabilizing labor-man-
agement relations and continu-
ous employment of skilled
workers.

Mutual Benefit

We believe that acceptance of
our demands will benefit the em-
ployer’s competitive position on
the world market: Everything
that we propose. will result in
higher morale, and improved
efficiency in production. >

‘We are bound to agree that no
one can reliably forecast market
conditions beyond the year’s end.

Our program is therefore de~
signed so that we may truth-
fully say to the employer, ‘As
you protect the conditions of the
employees in the way we sug-
gest, you will protect your mar-
Kets. ‘The more efficient produc-
tion required to meet world com-
petitive demands is based on the

well-being of the workers’.

GEORGE
WHATMAN!

Will anyone knowing the
present whereabouts of
Graham W. Whatman, be-
lieved to have worked in a
logging camp at Redonda
Bay, in September, 1953,
please contact the IWA Dis-
trict Office, 45 Kingsway,
Vancouver, or Mrs. Joan
Whatman, 273 Enfield Cres-

|] cent Winnipeg, Manitoba.

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year by important improve-
ments in working conditions,
which do not affect the costs
of production in the same man-
ner as a general wage increase.

firmly by the delegates attend-
ing the conferénce that the
coast lumber operators are well
able at the present time to
finance a general wage in-
crease.

The volume of production and
sales has steadily increased
during the past two years, al-
though there has been a small
downward adjustment of prices.
Our most reliable estimate in-
dicates that this situation will
be maintained during the bal-
ance of the year.

The Workers’ Best
Interests

In balancing the undeniable
needs of the lumber workers
against the forseeable economic
possibilities, our Union consid-
ers that the best interests of
the workers will be served this

We are concerned that the
employers should not find cause
in any new wage demands for
curtailment of production or
reduction of the working force.
We have reasonably exact
knowledge of the requirements
which will be placed upon them
throughout the coming year to
maintain and stabilize their ex-
port sales on a sound competi-
tive basis.

We are therefore prepared
to renew the contract, incorpor-
ating therein the present wage
seale, that the employers may
have the utmost scope in plan-
ning to meet all emergent con-

HIKE WAIVED

tingencies in the export trade.
We will expect the employers
to reciprocate and take all pos-
sible measures to retain the
present working foree in con-
tinuous employment.

We will also request the em-
ployers to reciprocate by agree-
ing to a revision of the contract
with respect to working condi-
tions in such manner as to re-
move injustices and promote
stable and efficient Iabor-man-
agement endeavour to expand
the market for B.C. lumber.

In our bargaining talks with
Forest Industrial Relations Ltd.
and independent operators,
which open in mid-April, we
will present eight such pro-
posals, all designed to improve
working conditions, and thereby
stimulate efficient production.”

Local 1-80 Retur

Annual meeting of Local 1-80, IWA, held in the IWA
Hall, Duncan, in nominations for election of the Local
Union officers, again named President Tony Poje and
Financial Secretary Ed Linder, unopposed on the mem-
bership ballot.

The meeting was addressed by
District President Joe Morris,
who dealt at length with the
Union’s efforts to adjust trades-
men’s rates and the aims of the
IWA with respect to coast nego-
tiations.

Lively discussion centred
around the proposal that the term
of office for Local Union officials
be extended to two years. The
proposal was finally defeated.

Reports of the Building Com-
mittee disclosed a satisfactory
state of affairs with regard to
the completion of the new build-
ing.

Subsequent to the meeting the

with respect to delegates elected.
B.C. District Council
Tony Poje, Nanaimo, B.C.;
James M. Milmore, Chemainus,
B.C.; Jens Erickson, Nanaimo,
B.C.; George Smythe, Camp No.
6, Youbou, B.C.; Stanley Heys,
Ladysmith, B.C.; Lorne Johnston,
Duncan, B.C.; Ed. Linder, Lady-
smith, B.C.; William Cox, Lake
Cowichan, B.C.; Robert Hopkins,
Youbou, B.C.; Ernest Boulet,
Lake Cowichan, B.C.; Frank Tel-
ford, Parksville, B.C.; Albert L.
Smith, Port Renfrew, B.C.
Island Labor Council
Laurence Jones, Northfield;
Peter Wilkes, Chemainus, B.C.;
Balloting Committee comprised of | Tony Poje, Nanaimo, B.C.; John
Kenneth Parsons, Allan Nena |B. Colwell, Ladysmith, B.C.; Gil-
James Milmore, Peter Wilkes,! bert Schofield, Ladysmith, B.C.;
Harold Kenyoh, William Cox, and ; Elof Sundquist, Nanaimo, B.C.;

R. Bouchard, reported as follows | Stanley Heys, Ladysmith, B.C.

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Nanaimo Sub-Local of Local
1-80, IWA, at its Annual Meet-
ing, February 28, elected the
following officers:

Chairman, Alistair MacLeod.

Ist Vice, V. Dawes.

2nd Vice, D. Dawes.

3rd Vice, Alex Poje.

Financial Secretary, C. F.
Pierce.

Recording Secretary, George
Moore.

Conductor, Elof Sundquist.

Warden, Knute Holmstrom.

Trustees: Jens Erickson,
Manne Hanson, John Erickson.

Tony Poje, President of Local
1-80, was present, and addressed
the meeting, discussing matters
relating to the approaching Wage
and Contract Conference and the
need for supporting the One

Dollar Strike Assessment Refer-
endum.

%s Duncan Sub-Local

‘nancial Secretary Ed Lin-
der installed the officers eer
Duncan Sub-Local of Local 1-80,
IWA, elected at the Sub-Locals!

Annual Meeting, in ¢]
Hall, Grae

Elected officers were:

Chairman, Lorne Johnstone.

Ist Vice - Chair
Kenyon. rarer"

2nd Vice-Chairman, A. Nel-

son.
Secretary, Ralph Poilievre,
Dodds, ‘

Conductor, A.

Phone 1515