B.C. LUMBER WORKER

“WE WILL MAKE THE
NEW YEAR REALLY NEW”

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‘THOSE who serve the IWA may extend the Sea-.

son’s Greetings to their fellow-members with
more than the conventional warmth. The usual
good wishes have a special meaning in a trade
union atmosphere.

In the IWA, we can say, “A Very Merry Christ-
mas and a Happ py New Year” with sincerity, be-
cause of the knowledge that all through the year
we have worked together to make just such a
wish come true. We can wish one another the
best in the New Year, because we have confi-
dence in one another, that we will continue to
work together to make each succeeding year
brighter and happier.

The Spirit of Christmas is known throughout
the civilized world as one of ‘peace on earth, good
will toward men”. Even with all our imperfec-
tions as human beings, we have labored together
to make this a realizeable ideal during each one of
the days of our years.

As we now wish one another “A Happy New
Year” we ask ourselves, “How can we make it
so?

It will be a new year if we meet it with faith
in our brotherhood, without fear, facing all that

it brings, making the best of everything, and not!

letting anything make the worst of us.

Not what happens to us, but what happens
within us—that is what counts.

What are we going to do with the New Year—
add another year to our lives, or add a new life to
a new year? We cannot move back into the past
like a man trying to walk into the future back-
ward, forever fighting old battles over again.

If we are to make the New Year really new,
we must plan to be victors over time, not victims
of it. We must find the energy, the good will, and
mutuality to make something more beautiful of it,
or it will make something ugly of us.

May the New Year be a short one, for sorrow
makes the days go slowly; may it be full of all the
best things. HAPPY NEW YEAR.

B.C. District Council No. 1

JOE MORRIS, President
GEORGE MITCHELL, Secretary

District Loggers’ Local Ponders
New Formula For Fallers’ Rates

Negotiations now under way in respect of some log-
ging operations by officials of the IWA District
Council and Local 1-71 IWA may lead to the adoption in
some areas of a more satisfactory formula for the calcula-
tion of contract rates on quarters for fallers and buckers,

it was hinted this week,

Although the details are not
yet available for release, it is
rumoured that the factors, on
which the formula is based, in-
clude those of topography, grades,
density, size and type of timber,
as well as distances of travel and
nature of terrain.

The purpose of the formula is
to ensure that proper weight is
given all these factors as the
rate is set, making provision for

a base rate as well as a maxi-
mum,

Fallers Already Interested

As these negotiations proceed-
ed, it was noted with interest
that for the first time fallers
and buckers in the coast camps
were advancing suggestions for

consideration of their convention |

which urged the elimination of
the present-day hap-hazard
methods of calculation.

IWA officials interpreted this
interest on the part of fallers
and buckers as being the out-
come of this year’s contract set-
tlement, which has proved bene-
ficial to the falling crews.

The subject’ is now under close
study by the officers of Local
1-71, IWA and the District Of-
ficers in preparation for the An-
nual Local Union Convention,
and District Convention.

In commenting on the proposal,
Financial Secretary Fred Fieber
stated, “This proposal offers a
method of calculation which will
temporarily remove many of the
abuses which have crept into the
present system of calculation, to

the grave disadvantage of the
fallers and buckers. It should
not, however, be regarded as a
cure-all for all the evils of the
contract system,

“In this Local Union, the opin-
ion prevails that the establish-
ment of a satisfactory day rate
for fallers and buckers is the
only logical and sensible solution
of the problems which now short-
en the lives of fallers and buck-
ers. We are confident, that we
are rapidly approaching the day,
when the fallers and buckers
themselves will, of their own
volition, decide to eliminate the
evils of the present contract
system.”

WAGE
RATES
UPPED

Announcement was made
this week by the officials of
Local 1-71 IWA to the effect
that another two large com-
panies operating logging
camps on the coast have
agreed to and completed the
wage rate revisions for rig-
ging, loading, and boom
crews.

The latest companies to reach
an agreement regarding the an-
nual wage revision with Local
1-71, stipulated in the master
contract, are Northern Pulpwood
Ltd. (four camps), and B.C. For-
est Products Ltd. (two camps).

The agreements reached with
these two companies virtually
ends the battle waged for months
by the Local Union officials to
secure for the crews in its juris-
diction along the coast line, the
same category rates that are
paid elsewhere in the industry.

Rumours are afloat that all
other companies concerned with
this controversy will now accept
the generally established pattern.

It is estimated that this victory
by the Local Union will net.log-
ging camp crews a substantial
increase in their annual earnings.

CASH SALES accounted for
68.8 cents of the average retail
consumer dollar in the first quar-
ter this year as compared with
67.2 cents in the first three
‘months of 1953, credit sales rep-
resenting only 31.2 cents as
against 32.8.

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Vernon IWA Strike
Settled In Week

IWA Strike which lasted one week in the plant of the
Pioneer Sash and Door Co. Ltd., Vernon, B.C. secured a
settlement for the employees this week which gained for

them substantial contract improvements.

The dispute which arose over
contract terms was finally re-
ferred to a Conciliation Officer,
who made specific recommenda-
tions. His proposals were reject-
ed by the employer, with the re-
sult that a strike vote among the
employees was supported 100
percent.

IWA picket lines were estab-
lished on Wednesday, Dec. 1, but
conferences with the employer
were resumed, with the assist-
ance of the officials of Local
1-423, the Regional Director,
Clayton Walls, and the IWA Dis-
trict Officers.

Terms worked out in the con-
ferences were submitted to the
employees and accepted, with the
result that they returned to work
immediately.

The revised contract terms
extend over a three-year period,
and are now comparable with
other sash and door factories in
the area.

MINERALS—Ontario provided
84.6% of the $1,331,000,000 worth
produced last year, Quebec 19%
Alberta 18.5%, British Columbia
12.1%, Nova Scotia 5%, Saskat-
chewan 8.6%, Newfoundland
2.5%, Manitoba 1.9%, the Yukon
1.1%, New Brunswick 0.9% and
the Northwest Territories 0.8%.

More Jobs,
Says He

OTTAWA (CPA) — At least
16,200 new jobs were created in
1954 due to the expansion of .
Canadian manufacturing indus-
tries, Labor Minister Gregg has
claimed.

The Minister’s statement was
based on the results of a survey
completed recently by the Labor
Department. About 40% of the”
new jobs had been created in the
transportation, iron and steel,
electrical apparatus and chemical
industries, the survey indicated.
The start of operations this year
at the Kitimat, B.C., aluminum
development helped to swell the
job total by 1,200,

The regional distribution of the
new jobs shows that Ontario ac-
counted for about 50%; Quebec,
20%; Prairies, 18%, and the Pa-
cific, 14%.

In 1953 the number of new
jobs created by the expansion of
manufacturing industries was 23,-
000 and a year earlier the total
was 34,300,