B.C. LUMBER WORKER “Subtract, Don’t Add” employees”, and remove them from under the bargaining ar- rangements of the Union. The term “security employees” is a term which may be given a broad interpretation, although profes- sedly it refers to guards. 5. That a section relating to the Union’s rights as a bar- gaining agency be re-defined as to restrict all discussions to matters” within the confines of the agreement.” The effect of this proposed amendment would be to prohibit discussions between thé Union and the employer, as now per- mitted, and ‘which come within the scope of collective bargain- ing between employer and em- ployee”. 6. That the seniority provi- sions in the existing contract be modified to permit the em- ployer the right from time to time, “to select persons who are to be given special experi- ence or training, and prepar- ing them or trying out their capabilities for other or broad- er assignments with the Com- pany, or for future services other than with the Company, to a numbher not exceeding at any time two percent (2%) of the employees, and to pro- mote and demote such persons, engage, retain, or dispense with their services, and direct their efforts from time to time, free from any limitations pro- vided in this Article (Article X); provided, however, that no such person shall be assigned to take over the job occupied at the time by an employee, outranking such person for promotion purposes, if such assignment would result in the demotion of such employee.” The purpose of this proposed amendment is at present obscure, but when formerly advanced in principle, has been regarded by the Union as a dangerous weak- ening of seniority principles. -7. That if a grievance has “not advanced to the next stage under the second, third, fourth and fifth steps of the griev- ance procedure within 14 days after a final answer has been given, thén the grievance shall be deemed to be abandoned, and all rights-of recourse to the grievance procedure shall be at an end. ‘The intent here is to speed up the grievance procedure and cut off those grievances likely fo require extended consideration. It is generally considered that this would work a special har ship under conditions which pr vail in the Coast logging camps. 8. That existing provisions in the contract which enable special consideration for cook- house and bunkhouse employ- ees with regard to yacations with pay be deleted. 9, That the existing provi- sions in- the contract which enable consideration of the special needs of cookhouse and bunkhouse employees in the matter of hours of work, and their accumulated leave to pro- tect their days of rest, be deleted. The ostensible reason for the deletion of clauses granting spe- cial protection to cookhouse and bunkhouse employees is the re- cent Wage Order 4 of the Board of Industrial Relations. When the Wage Order°was published it was regarded as being in: quate, and of much less perma- nent value than the clauses now placed in the contract. 10. That a new section be added to the contract which will extend the work week into Saturday at straight time, if due to breakdowns’ or weather, a forty-hour week has not then been completed. This proposal has always been emphatically opposed by the Union as being open to abuse, and likely to undermine the striet observance of the forty- hour week. 11. That a new section be added to the contract which would enable the work week to “ESQUIRE” MEN’S WEAR - (Graham Mowatt) Complete Stock of Work and Dress Clothing “THE STORE WITH THE POPULAR BRANDS” HANEY BRITISH COLUMBIA VOGUE CLEANERS Truck Calls at Mesachie Lake, Cowichan Lake, Crofton & south to Shawnigan Hats Cleaned and Blocked Press While U Wait Phone 360 DUNCAN, B.C, DUNCAN BUSINESS GUIDE J. LINDSAY LOUTET I (C. Bradshaw & Co.) INSURANCE and REAL ESTATE DUNCAN 131 Jubilee St. LAKE COWICHAN BRANCH: Old Post Office Building PORT ALBERNI BUSINESS GUIDE MacGREGOR’S MEN’S WEAR For Everything a Man Wears WORK, SPORT or DRESS We Can Afford to Sell the BEST for LESS! WOODWARD STORES (PORT ALBERNI) LTD. “Your Family Shopping Centre” * “Closed Wednesdays All Day” MacDONALD’S PHARMACY Prescriptions, Drug Sundries, irst Aid Supplies Registered Optometrist _ Argyle Street Port Alberni Hours be extended to 48 hours in logging camps, at time and one-half, upon joint application for a permit to the Board of Industrial Relations. The Union has always taken the position that such a clause is inadvisable, as likely to be used to wipe out the forty-hour week, and also because under emergent conditions the neces- sary steps may now be taken to protect the employer’s interests. 12. That an amendment to the Hours of Work section should require that if two hours or less are necessary to complete a shift after mid- night before a statutory holi- day, that the shift be complet- ed at straight time. This would be in addition to the present provision which applies only to Saturday work. 13. That a Right of Refer- ence be inserted as an alterna- tive to arbitration as the last step in the grievance pro- cedure. 14. That the permissible period for leave of absence on account of sickness be one year instead of “the term of the agreement” as now stated. 15. That if an employee fails to work within the twenty days before the statutory holi- day, or within the twenty days after, no payment be made for the statutory holiday in that period. 16. That arbitration, which may follow Right of Refer- ence, shall be as set forth in the agreement. | members or less, and one (1) FROM PAGE 1 “STRIKE LEVY” dures as formerly outlined: ” Executive Meetings and Conferences The by-laws now approved are: 1. The District Executive Board shall, when they deem it advis- able, or by written request of three-affiliated Local Unions call delegated conferences. These con- ferences shall be ft purposes of co-ordinating activities of the affiliated Local Unions in the fields of negotiations, organiza- tion, education and other mat- ters of District or Regional-wide importance. 2. Representation to these con- ferences shall be on the following basis: (a) Each affiliated Local shall be entitled to two (2) delegates for the first one hundred (100) additional delegate for each three hundred (300) members or major fraction thereof up to one thou- sand, (1000) members, and one (1) additional delegate for each five hundred (500) thereafter or major fraction thereof. There shall be no voting by proxy. (b) The District Council Of- ficers, the International Board Member for The District, and each Local Union Executive Board Member shall be members of the Conference with the same rights as other members. (c) Representation to any Con- ference in‘any one year, shall be based upon the average member- ship of the Local Union, com- puted from the twelve month period in the preceding calendar year. i (d) That all reference to Quar- terly Councils where it now ap- pears in the By-Laws of the Dis- trict Council shall be deleted.” Officers “7, All District Officers, Inter- national Board Member, appoin- tees and Committee members shall receive pay for time lost off the job for attending to the business of the Union on the basis of wages lost, but not to exceed $18.00 per day, and in no case shall their total monthly salary exceed the salary of the District Officers as set forth in Article 6, Section 6. 7. (a) In addition to salary, Officers, International Board Member, appointees, committee members, and employees of the District Council ‘shall receive an expense allowance not to exceed $6.00 per diem, plus hotel and transportation expenses when they are away from their resi- dence on official business of the Union.” District Convention ““The delegates to the District Convention shall be elected by and from the Local Unions, with the exception that all District Officers shall be duly accredited delegates to the Convention. Their basis of voting representation shall be one (1) single vote. Local Unions shall have one delegate for the first one hundred (100) members or less and one (1) ad- ditional delegate for each addi- tional three hundred (300) mem- bers or major fraction thereof.” ENGLEWOOD CREWS REGAIN PRIVILEGES Attempts made by management in the Englewood Division, Canadian Forest Products Ltd., to curtail cook- house and bunkhouse services by reason of Wage Order No. 4, touched off such a storm of protest recently, in all camps, that it was finally agreed to restore the former schedule of hot lunches and bunkhouse attention. The order posted by the man- agement, which was responsible for the open revolt among the crews, read as follows: Cookhouse and Bunkhouse Report The following arrangements are announced, pursuant to re- cent amendments to Province of British Columbia Male and Female Minimum Wage Order for Cook- and Bunk-house Occu- pation, and which we have answered.as follows: Regular cookhouse or bunk- house employees will be assign- ed a work week not exceeding 48 hours. The noon-day meal will be made as nearly as possible uniform to all diners whether they are eating out on the job or in camp. Lunches will be made up for those packing lunches; a similar lunch, plus tea and soup, will be provided those eating at the cookhouse. This will apply to all days of the week. Transients, either to Vancouver or inter-camp, will pack their lunch. Week-end bunkhouse service will be curtailed, Men on spe- cial work and desiring their beds made up will leave their names and bunk location at the office, Other beds will be made up only on regular work days. These changes will be effec- tive following April Ist. IAN DODDS. This order as originally inter: preted, eliminated all hot lunches throughout the week, and provi- sion for hot water in the bunk- houses during the weekend. Some of the bunkhouses went un- heated until some of the crew members undertook duty as stokers. The camp committees met im- Tnediately with management to voice an emphatic protest, and were granted the concession of hot meals at noon on Saturdays and Sundays. The committee members were told that only cold lunches would be available during the remaining five days, and that nothing would be done IRA BECKER & SON Vancouver Island Distributors. LE. L. POWER CHAIN SAWS PARTS SERVICE Campbell River Phone 94H to restore the bunkhouse services on weekends. When the sad news was coni- municated to the crew members, their spontaneous reaction was to stay in camp the following Monday in order to recover from the hardships ofthe weekend. The unanimity with which this decision was reached, convinced management that it was unwise to tamper with established priv- ileges, and the accustomed rou- tine was again set in motion, with resulting harmony in the camps. Wage Income Drops OTTAWA (CPA)—The Do- minion Bureau of Statistics re- ports that total labor income took a drop of $48,000,000 in January compared with the previous month. All major industrial groups shared in the decline in aggre- gate wages and salaries, with amounts ranging from a $4,- 000,000 drop in the finance and Service group to $13,000,000 for construction and manufacturing. A loss of $7,000,000 in the prim- ary industries took place in farm- ing and logging. Trade account- ed for a large part of the $10,- 000,000 decline in the distributive group. m Comparison with figures for January of last year shows a larger total labor income in ti- nance and service groups but a drop in the primary and cqnstruc- tion industries.