7 c February ——___ ' B.C. LUMBER WORKER For District 2nd Vice-President. STUART M. HODGSON Candidate for Office of District 2nd Vice-President Stuart “Stu” M. Hodgson se- cured employment in the lumber industry during 1940, but almost immediately commenced a four- year term of service in the Royal Canadian Navy. Upon discharge from the Navy, he returned to the Vancouver MacMillan Plywood Division, and immediately joined the IWA, as the plant had been organized dur- ing his absence overseas. When the October 1948 disaf- filiation attempt was made, Stuart Hodgson was Plant Chair-| © 3rd_Vice-. man of the Vancouver Plywoods| * — Division, the largest operation in the Vancouver Local Union. Ine} the fight to preserve the Union, he was appointed to the Inter-| | national staff. Upon the reorgan- ization of the Local Union he was elected Financial Secretary. He has been re-elected to that post continuously up to and including the 1955-56 term. He has been an active partici- pant in all District negotiations since 1950, when he was loaned by his Local Union to aid the Interior struggle in the Kamloops and Kelowna areas. In 1991, he was elected District 2nd Vice-President, and was re- elected in 1953. In 1952 he was elected as re- presentative of the IWA on the Executive Council of the Cana- dian Congress of Labor, and in this capacity has been active in publicizing the work of the ICFTU. In IWA work he has specialized in public relations, and during the International and CCL Con- ventions held in Vancouver, as well as during the 1952 strike, was placed in charge of public relations. He is the present incumbent of the office of District 2nd Vice- President. -|break on the plant grievance | committee, acting twice as Chair- he has served almost without a man, and once as Secretary. He :|was Plant Committee Chairman, » | Mills, where the membership ap- HENRY F. SWITZER Candidate for Office of District 2nd Vice-President Henry F. Switzer, when a mill- wright at Eburne Sawmills, joined Local 1-217 IWA in No- vember, 1943. In that plant, he was elected as a shop steward, and member of the Grievance Committee in which capacities he served continuously until he moved to New Westminster. In December, 1945, he secured employment as a millwright at Fraser Mills, Canadian Western Lumber Co, Ltd. Since that time 1951 and 1952 and was recently nominated unopposed as Plant Committee Chairman, in Fraser proximates 1400. In Local Union 1-357, Henry Switzer was elected Warden in 1947, and in the following year was elected Press Manager. Dur- ing the years 1951 and 1952 he was Chairman of the Social Com- mittee which staged very success- ful Local Union picnics and Christmas Parties. Motor vehicle accidents in eight provinces (Quebec and Manitoba excluded) caused an estimated $9,734,068 property ddmage in the first quarter of 1953, an av- erage of $318 per accident. * * Pulp and paper led all indus- tries in both gross output value ($1,287,897,000) and net output value ($679,258,000) in 1952, also had the largest payroll ($213,- 170,000) and ranked second in number of employees (57,291). cn FRED FIEBER Candidate for Office of District 3rd Vice-President Fred Fieber, upon securing em- ployment with Alaska Pine Co. Ltd. in 1942, immediately joined Local Union, 1-357 IWA, ‘New Westminster. He became active in building up the newly-chartered Local _|ard, and Board Member for the :| Alaska Pine Sub-Local.. President Union, and served as. Shop Stew- In October, 1948, he was as- sociated with those who restored democratic control of the Union’s affairs. As International Organ- izer he had been engaged in work in the Kamloops and Kelowna areas. He was immediately as- signed to the Port Alberni Local Union to assist in rebuilding the Union at that point, and subse- quently he performed similar work in the Cranbrook and Ke- lowna Local Unions. He was elected Financial Sec- retary of Local 1-71 IWA in July 1949, and has been re-elected to this office for each succeeding term until the present time. He was elected District 3rd Vice-President _in 1951, and was re-elected to that office in 1953. He has played an active part on all District Negotiating Commit- tees from 1951 until now as the incumbent of that office. On behalf of the District Coun- cil, he was placed in charge of strike action in the Northern In- terior during the initial and cri- tical stages of that emergency, for three months. He is at present the District 8rd_ Vice-President ee CARL ANSHELM Candidate for Office of District 3rd Vice-President Carl Anshelm was first elected to a trade union office in 1946, when he became Secretary of the Sub-Local 1-85, Somass Division MacMillan and Bloedel (then B.S. and W.). After playing an active part in the October 1948 re-organiza- tion, he was elected Recording Secretary Local 1-85, IWA, Port HEADS Champion of All Lightweight e LIGHT CRUISER Caulked Boots @ Featuring High Carbon Steel Oil Tempered Boot Caulks FOR SURE GRIP Another Favorite HEAD’S famous “SAFETY TOE BOOTS” - for Mill Workers W. J. HEAD BOOT FACTORY LIMITED 21 East Hastings Se, (PA. 4844) “HEADS YOU WIN” Vancouver, B.C, Alberni in October, 1948, and was re-elected to that post in the fol- lowing year. Since that time he has continuously held a seat on the Executive Committee in vari- ous capacities. He was engaged as an Inter- national Organizer during the summer of 1949 in Local Unions 1-363, and 1-367 IWA. He was elected as the repre- sentative of Local 1-85 on the District Safety Council in 1949, and has taken an_active-interest in the safety program through- out. In-the Somass Division, Mac- Millan and Bloedel, where he works as a setter, he has been either Chairman or Secretary of the Plant Committee since 1950. He is Third Vice-President of Local Union 1-85 IWA at the present time. Printers of The B.C. ' LUMBER WORKER AA BON GU LIMITED PRINTERS AND LITHOGRAPHERS An Employee Owned Co. 944 RICHARDS STREET PAcific 6338-9 CANDIDATES FOR IWA DISTRICT OFFICES For District Vote Orders Change Resolution which provok- ed prolonged debate and was carried when a roll-call vote was finally demanded read as follows: THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED: - That the Wages and Contract Conference be ‘discontinued, as such, after 1955, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED: That we adopt the following procedure in democratically de- ciding on those matters of Contract policy that should be submitted to employers in the Woodworking industry: 1. That all resolutions dealing with suggested contract changes and amendments be submitted to the 1956 and subsequent District Conventions. 2. That the Policy Committee (as in the past) be composed of one elected member from each Local Union plus the District Of- Ticers and International Executiye Board Member. 8, Said Policy Committee, when constituted, will be convened at least two (2) days prior to the 1956 and succeeding Annual Dis- trict Conventions to consider all resolutions pertaining to contract changes and negotiations. 4, That the findings and recomi- mendations of the Policy Commit- tee will be presented at the earliest possible time to the dele- gates assembled in Convention for their final disposal. 5. Such policy as is finally adopted by the Convention dele- gates will be the basis for the current year’s negotiations. APPOINTED TRUSTEE | WM. WILSON APPOINTED PREVIOUSLY to fill unexpired term, 1-80 MEETS MARCH 19 Annual Meeting of Local 1-80, IWA, will be held Sat-_ urday, March 19th, at 10:30 a.m. in the IWA Hall, Dun- can. Business will include nominating Local Officers. aS Tombstone dealer (after sev- eral futile suggestions): “How would just a simple ‘Gone Home’ do for an inscription?” Widow: “I guess that will be