2nd Issue, November

B.C. LUMBER WORKER

DISTRICT CONVENTION
FEBRUARY 21-26

CONVENTION CALL

TWENTIETH ANNUAL CONVENTION
INTERNATIONAL WOODWORKERS OF AMERICA
DISTRICT COUNCIL NO. 1

TO ALL LOCALS OF THE INTERNATIONAL
WOODWORKERS OF AMERICA, DISTRICT

COUNCIL NO. 1.
CALL:

The Twentieth Annual District Convention of the In-

ternational Woodworkers of

America will be held in the

Georgia Hotel Ballroom, corner Georgia and Howe Sts.,
Vancouver, B.C., commencing at 10:30 a.m., Thursday,
February 21, and continuing through Tuesday, February

26; 1957.

Representation

Your representation shall be
based on Sections 3 and 4, of
Article VII which reads as fol-
lows:

SECTION 3: “The fdclepates to
the District Convention shall
be elected by and from the
Local Unions, with the excep-
tion that all District Officers
shall be duly accredited dele-
gates to the Convention.
Their basis of voting repre-
sentation shall be one single
yote. Local Unions shall have
two (2) delegates for the
first one hundred (100) mem-
bers or Jess, and one (1) ad-
ditional delegate for each one
hundred (100) members or
major fraction thereof up to
five hundred (500) members
and one (1) additional dele-
gate for each three hundred
(300) members thereafter or
major fraction thereof. There
shall be no voting by proxy.

SECTION 4: Representation
shall be based upon the mem-
bership of the Local comput-
ed from the preceding six
months period to the month
in which the Convention Call
is issued.”

Your average membership over
the past six (6) months wa:

Your Local is allowed.

gates. When a roll call
called for, a Delegate shall be
entitled to vote the full member-
ship of the Local Union he rep-
resents, except that he shall not
east more than three hundred
(300) votes.

There shall be no voting by

proxy. ¢

All newly organized Locals

must be organized at least one
(1) month and haye one month’s
per capita tax and all assess-
ments paid prior to the month in
which the Convention is held be-
fore they will be entitled to rep-
resentation.

Enclosed are the number of

Credentials to which your Local
Union is entitled. All credentials

must be signed by the President
and Secretary of the Local Union,
with the official Seal of the Local
Union affixed. .

Duplicate Credentials are to be
brought to the Convention by the
delegates to whom they are is-
sued. Original Credentials must
be forwarded to George H. Mit-
chell, Secretary, International
Woodworkers of America, Dis-
trict Council No. 1, 45 Kingsway,
Vancouver 10, B.C.

No Credentials shall be accept-
ed later than one o’clock (1:00
p.m.) on the first day of the Con-
vention. All Delegates arriving
later will be seated by Conven-
tion action.

Election of Delegates

Local Unions are to elect their
delegates to the Convention: by
the following method:

Delegates to the Convention
must be elected at the official
meetings of Local Unions after
the Call for the Convention has
been received and has been read
to the Local Union. The Local
Recording Secretary shall give
notice to the membership at a
reasonable time in advance, stat-
ing that delegates are to be elect-
éd at a meeting on a certain date.

Delegates receiving the highest
number of votes of the members
present at such meetings and no
meeting other than the one first
advertised and called in accord-
ance herewith, shall be recognized
as an official meeting for the
election of delegates.

Responsibility

Local Officers failing to read
the Call for a Convention to their
Local Union, and to post notices
[in accordance therewith, shall
upon conviction be removed from
office and shall be subject to sus-
pension, expulsion or any other
penalty that the membership may
impose.

No Local Union shall be en-
titled to representation which is
in arrears for per capita tax or

assessments for two (2) months

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| preceding the month in which the
Convention is called. This section
shall not apply to Local Unions
whose members have been idle
one month or more prior to the
District Convention because of
strikes, suspensions or closing of
jobs.
Transportation

Delegates’ travelling expenses
shall be paid from their place of
residence to’ and from the Con-
vention. Hotel (when used) shall
be charged at $5.00 per day; and
Per Diem allowance shall be
$6.00. :

All such expenses shall be pro-
rated, and should be submitted to
the District Secretary for Pro-
rate to the Local Unions not
later than three (3) months after
the conclusion of the Convention.

The method of Pro-rate shall
be on a Per Capita membership
basis.

Resolutions

All resolutions should be type-
written and double spaced. Two
copies should be mailed to the
office of the District Secretary-
Treasurer twenty days in advance
of the Convention (February 1)
so that copies will be available
for each delegate on the first day
of the Convention. Resolutions
should be as brief as possible and
deal with only one subject. Reso-
lutions must bear the official Seal
of the Local Union and be signed
by an authorized officer of the
Local Union or delegate attend-
ing the Convention.

Amendments to the By-laws
shall be made at the Annual Dis-
trict Convention in accordance
with Article XIII, Section 4 of
the International Constitution as
amended November 21 and 22,
1955.

Convention Headquarters

The Convention Headquarters
will be in the Georgia Hotel, cor-
ner of Georgia and Howe Streets,
Vancouver, B.C.

Convention Registration

Delegates to the Convention
will register on Thursday, Febru-
ary 21, commencing at 8:30 a.m.
at the Georgia Hotel.

There will be a registration fee
of six ($6.00) dollars for each
Delegate to the Convention, to
take care of the Convention Ban-
quet expenses.

Housing

All Local Unions sending Dele-
gates to the Convention are re-
quested to make their own reser-
vations immediately on receipt of
the Convention Call.

The District Officers urge each
Local to be fully represented in
the Convention so that our demo-
cratic processes will result in
greater benefits in wages, hours
and working conditions for our
entire membership.

Banquet.

The Convention Banquet and
Dance will be held on February
26 at the Commodore Cabaret

at 6:45 p.m.

AFL-CIO

Praises
Decision

WASHINGTON (CPA)—The

AFL-CIO has hailed the deci-
sion of the U.S. Supreme Court
declaring unconstitutional the
Alabama Jaw and city ordin-
ance requiring segregation of
Negroes and Whites on intra-
state buses as “a vital step
forward” in guaranteeing con-
stitutional protection to all
Americans.

James B. Carey, chairman of
the AFL-CIO Civil Rights Com-
mittee, said: “The Supreme Court
ruling unanimously affirming the
decision of a lower Federal Court,
which declared invalid state and
city enactments which would com-
pel racial segregation on intra-
state and local public convey-
ances, is a vital forward step to-
ward extending full protection of
Constitutional guarantees to
every American in every field of
life.

“Our nation is indivisible. The
law of the land must be given full
force to assure equal opportunity
to all Americans throughout the
United States. Labor calls for ac-
ceptance of the Constitutional
mandate to extend to all fellow-
Americans equal protection of
their inalienable rights.”

YOUR UNION

MEETINGS /

WILLIAM BLACK (right) newly-elected President, of the BC. Federation of Labour, receives the
interim charter for the merged body from the hands of Tom Ward, Director of .Federations and
Labour Councils for the Canadian Labour Congress.

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