B. Cc. LUMBER WORKER and Issue, October ENGLEWOOD REPORT By THE CAMP INSPECTOR It’s been quite a while since your camp inspector was here in Englewood. While many camps are now tearing up their railroads in favor of truck logging shows, Canadian Forest Products are building additional lines and laying more track. Their recent project is in build- ing a line from Camp “N” to Beaver Cove thus eliminating the long log tow down the Nimpkish Lake. __ I see that the boys still have the same regard for the Cook- house Supervisor. I understand that he has now cut the cost of serving meals down to $2.87% a day. Maybe part of the reason for this is a bonus system for certain cooks. There is a pretty strong rumor here that some of the cooks get a bonus at the end of the year for cutting costs in the cookhouse. If this is true, then the monicker of “Belly Robber” which has been pinned on the gentleman in ques- tion may be a correct one. Beach Camp Got here just in time to take in the Union’s educational week- end of September 29 and 30. It sure is time that the IWA did something like this. For years we've been organizing the un- organized and now we are con- centrating on educating the or- ganized. There were delegates here from Pioneer Timber, Beaver Cove, Camp “L’ and the Beach Camp. After a two-day discussion about the interpretation of the Union Agreement you can bet your bot- tom dollar that some of these camp “pushes” will not be able to get away with chiselling on the provisions of the agreement. Of course, we shouldn’t lay all of the blame on the camp supers for many of the big companies have an official policy of chisel- ling and cheating on any and all occasions. I see that Beach Camp Chair- man, Bob Pickering, is still out in the Bay every night looking for fish, I say looking for fish, for he certainly doesn’t catch any. Y Camp “A” It see that politician fellow, Tom Barnett, M.P. Comox-Al- berni, was up here the other day, Most of the boys in camp were glad to see Tom and were also glad to see that he has been put- ting the pressure on the Federal Government about income tax de- ductions, unemployment insur- ance, and the Union Steamships. Tom told us that no one has any control over the Union Steam- ships and that they can give whatever type of service that they like, charge whatever fares they like and generally do what the heck they please with the loggers. Seems to me that the IWA and the loggers in camp, through their sub-locals, should start rais- ing the roof over this one. Met a lot of the boys who are “home-guarding”. Camp “A”. Joe Boyes, Union Secretary, has got orders from the doctor to take it easy for awhile so it looks as if the IWA will lose a good man until Joe gets back on his feet. We all wish him the best. Bill Roberts is our new Chair- man here and one of the first things that Bill did was to go over to an Educational Weekend at Woss Camp. That’s what we need more of, members who are willing to take their duties seri- ously enough to learn something about them. Our first stop in “A” was at the First Aid shack to see Jack “Gabby” Gavin but we found that he didn’t have any patent medi- cines like Lambs or Lemon Hart. These First Aid shacks cer- tainly aren’t what they used to be in the old days. All that “Gabby” would offer us was a couple of whiffs of oxygen, when what we really needed was some other kind of “gin”. Camp “N” Boy, what a state of organized confusion exists here. What with men working three shifts on the new railroad and the usual amount of “Top Brass” from the company the cookhouse is open 24 hours a day. Understand that all the railroaders are going to have a seniority conference here soon, Francis McIntosh is still camp secretary and is doing a real bang-up job of keeping the camp HEAD’S Champion of All Lightweight @ Caulked Boots e LIGHT CRUISER 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. “HEADS YOU WIN” 4844) Vancouver, B.C, CREDIT UNION AFFAIRS EXPERT Mr. R. Monrufet, right, nianaging-director of the B. Union League, is interviewed by Harry Bardsley, Business Agent of Local 1-217, IWA, for the IWA Green Gold audience, Oct. 25th, in the Credit Union Services Centre, Vancouver. » Credit in good shape. I hear, by the grapevine, that there might be some trouble over the Company trying to “weasel” their way out of paying overtime to the cook- house crews. The Dept. of Labor recently passed a wage order saying that cookhouse crews must get over- time over 191 hours a month. Typical of the logging industry’s past attitude towards these Bro- thers in the Cookhouses is CFP’s recent move. Through that “great friend” of the cookhouse, Ian Dodds, Englewood has been selected as the testing ground for an attempt to. “beat” the boys out of their rights under the law. Well, if CFP, or any other company for that matter, want a test of strength, they picked the right spot. After about a week in the Englewood division, I discovered that certain liquid refreshments are not available, except with the consent and graciousness of the company. Therefore we must leave now and pay a visit to the “grog shops” in Alert Bay. Our report from there might be a lit- tle garbled and confused so we’d better not say any more. 35-Hour Week Demanded STE. AGATHE, P.Q. (CPA) —A vigorous campaign to win the 35-hour work-week for Ca- nadian garment workers has been promised by Bernard Shane, International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union execu- tive board member. Mr. Shane made the announcement at a union weekend institute here recently. In the United States, Mr. Shane said, some 97 percent of the union’s 450,000 members were al- ready on a 35-hour week and no new contracts would be signed without such a provision. Can Co. Workers Win Pay Boost TORONTO (CPA)—Minimum pay boosts of 2114 and 241% cents an hour for plant workers and over $60 a month for office workers over the three-year contract period, have been won by the United Steelworkers for employees of Canadian subsidiaries of the U.S.-owned American and Continental Can Companies. A highlight of the settlements is the wiping out of differentials in rates of pay between men and women in the same job classes and reduction in area differen- tials. Other changes call for im- proved vacation and holiday pay provisions, increases in the spread between job classes and higher benefits under the group welfare plans. 1,400 Affected Sharing the benefits resulting from the contract changes are workers in three Continental Can plants in the Toronto area and one in Burnaby, B.C., and those at American Can’s Vancouver plant. All told, around 1,400 workers are affected. Negotiations were carried on during September, in Los An- geles, where spokesmen from each of the Canadian locals were part of the International Union Committee headed by Steel Presi- dent David J. McDonald. Basic Increases Pay increases in the Continen- tal chain vary slightly. In To- ronto plants, the basic increase over the three-year period will total 24% cents; 8 cents as of October 1, this year, another 8 cents starting next October 1, and the balance a year later. Office workers in the Toronto area (the only ones organized in Canada at present) will get in- creases ranging from $4.63 to $8.83 a week effective October 1, this year. Next year, the basic salary increase will be $20.54 a month and, in 1958, $24.87. At the West Coast Continental Can plant, rates were slightly higher and will continue to be, although by 1958, the differential will be reduced. Total basic in- crease will amount to 21% cents in three instalments. Base rate is now $1.82 (nine cents higher than in Toronto) and will be $1.96 in 1958 (6 cents above the To- ronto rate). Welfare Plan Welfare plan provisions under the Continental Can settlement call for weekly sick benefit pay- ments of $55 for plant workers (up from $40). Similar payments for office workers range from $40 to $50 according to salary. Maxi- mum allowance for surgery was upped to $300. Another change makes employees eligible for benefits after one month’s em- ployment, instead of six. In the Vancouver American Can plant, basic increases will total 21% cents, Rates here are the same as in the B.C. Contin- ental Can plant and so is the in- crement—6.8 cents now; rising to 6.7 at the beginning of the third contract year. There is provision, also, for cost of living adjustment of 1 cent an hour if the Consumer Price Index reaches 11.6.6 plus an additional 1-cent boost if there is a further .5-point rise. Blak 7th AVE, & MAIN STREET IWA DISTRICT OFFICERS Que PLYMOUTH’S from JOHNSTON MOTORS THE STYLE-PACING CAR OF 1956 WITH PUSH-BUTTON “TOUCH & GO” SPECIAL FINANCE PLANS ARRANGED FOR IWA MEMBERS. JOHNSTON MOTOR CO. LTD. VANCOUVER 10, B.C. (Right next door fo B.C. District Council No. 1)