Ist Issue, August

B.C. LUMBER WORKER

PULP AND PAPER MILL, now under construction ay MacMillan and Bloedel at Port Alberni at a cost of

$65,000,000,

and which is expected to absorb m

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jany IWA workers now employed in the sa sawmill division.

cas ‘s Se
66 : 9 >») ERIS IDEN ALL
: Protects J obs ber, is seen her is Port Aes ie rane is the focal point for
IWA seine: over a wide are:

how much timber is

is available for | ers would be peanaterred into the
BP) j

duction med to

pone
enable the process of etbseotion
fr

to be carried out without unem-
ployment.
a Exigleges Maintained
ers are now being

employs 200 workers, and i
periaal fever vioya0 tn ane

- expansion program is completed.
mit

ss of emp!
pulp a started to over-
the ea ber operation.

mill without loss or seniority
rights, vacation privileges, pen-
sions, MSA coverage, etc.

The International Brotherhood
of Pulp, Sulphite & Paper Mill

committee has been set up to
handle ransfer of workers

om the sawmill to the pulp
plant. As far as possible, wage
levels are protected. The &
Sulphite Union accepts the trans-
ferred workers into membership
without payment of an initiation
fee.

A ae eee Jack
seen

mbers on a straight

raga Fectitate ae opera-
tion of the

acer aie

was negotiated
Although the new plant is pau me

edel Ltd.

Be ata

ent
with MacMillan & Blo The $65, ee 000 expansion pro:

of ae Ip and paper mill buildi dons
not to go outside a district os | majority of the IWA m 1a :
pulp and paper employ: transferred will meceve “three ee undertaken in Canada, itis
Jong as there week: " cam

have ten or more years! pan ney, ‘Twenty-two different structures

ded @ complete the

ing 70,000 cubic
eee caveat witch
ee alesse been poured.

able presently working in ae
be 11. wil all pe mee

umber mill.

with the company.
Under the plan, sawmill work- The

CLC PROBES
JURISDICTIONS

First industry-wide enquiry into jurisdictional problems of
trade unions under the auspices of the canadien. ator ar Con-
gress was held r scent ly in Ottawa, an esenta-
tives of five unio

All five unions, including the Pulp and purhite pivsriets
and the hes hav i ufac-
turing plat

CLO Na itional aes rrenaen Joe Morris, IWA District
Race aea was in ein aoe
fe Congress Executive provided fe
‘it recommendations at a siete
don Ladd will represent

com see id submi
date. nearer Canadian Director tee be
the IWA on this phase of the enquir,

A Real Union Shop
And No Mistake!

é (Meso pti a)
LOCAL 1-85 OFFICE, Port Alberni, i Bernadette Rieder, Dorothy Watts, and Dorothy

Carlson busily engaged.

thon TEN unions work in harmonious
of The Van.

ie v ith the management

coer Sn 0 ris he iy sf Weston | IWA DISTRICT OFFICERS
St ti she Th Se ay Atak Dive PLYMOUTH’S
Jon JOHNSTON MOTORS

THE STYLE- PACING CAR OF 1956
WITH PUSH-BUTTON “TOUCH & GO”

SPECIAL FINANCE PLANS ARRANGED FOR IWA MEMBERS

JOHNSTON MOTOR CO. LTD.
7th AVE, & MAIN STREET VANCOUVER 10, B.C.
(Right next door to B.C. District Council No. 1)