B.C. LUMBER WORKER

Minority

SMEAL

Report

BACKS

IWA POSITION

Minority report submitted to the Minister of Labow
by Robert Smeal, the IWA nominee on the Conciliation
Board which heard the dispute with the coast lumber

ively, it was, in effect, stat

The report was not submitted;
until the IWA nares on te
Boat:

ad first m:
the Minister Paes The ik

to
by the Union as prescribed
the Act,
The minority report in part
stated:
“T am unable to agree with the |
majority report for the following

“The Sa itself contains only

bare the consequences which would Fe

any right to bargain effect-

hen assumed ight
only the orersentva of
ee Minister of Labour.

Id ap}

ES

It woul pear that the Min-
ister has accepted the recom-
endation as reported and hi

. mion votes
at “the
ton whatsoever

erely puts itsel

Tt me
hands of a tribunal whose i recon
mendations, if any, c hav

ive r
Board

30.
ereneion neganling Heine
referred to Board were set

force, effect, or Tewal. coe pa
the Union would be: un:
take ri
recom) be rejected by

FOUR ‘A Loc
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report

iff prepare material for distribution to
of rie pee ts ae (From left) Joe
John MacKenzie, Local 1-118; George Smythe, Local 1-80, and Walter Allen, Local 1

i. adden, Local 1-357;

ither party, or, alternately, it
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Should the proposed tribunal
il to recommend a ainsi |

the Board,

t ment indefi

ith the consent of the partis
or as may be allowed from tim

her is som

ne
e| mind as to. mhether tte present

to a ime ay the Minister. TI
jor ort was signed ae
the ae haton the previous day
the Ti egotiating committee of the

expiry ae If the Union agrees
to the majority proposal, it
would, i mn my opinion, require the

same pr
posal by the chairman. Despite
the objection by the Union, the

e
for pase

If this most ec precedent
is allowed to stand, future con-

the standard of other workers

continues to improve.

There can be no justification | ©
for a ware seale that imports
upon its recipie: Ga . bgtietes
living inferior of other
workers in ne ps ates

Whil id 1

wages cost per m. bd. ft. of lum-
hee bye a = rom fi fe work~
reased

wage: =

Farther bree which was in-»

fore the bo: nal ‘eal with the fu-

of an interim
wl which, punder the term of the Hes

could be binding for one year.

cumstances would be free to ad-| >

which .is_expee

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take Cowichan

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b to free ea of wage cost to gross peices the

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but by all trade uni

Ly
ney 61 per
m,

na-
¢| ity and the resultant decrease in

that the profits realized
such keys Bile be eo

m. bd. ft,

per m. bd. ft. Janes thant the fig-

ure used by the employers in

1953.

oe would substantiate one of |
main contentions of the

Union that man-hour productiv-

Evi
s $2.83 *

se who helped
produce it.

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hat

ral os a healthy profit

stain ah capital ae
m. No evidence was in

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same board
that had sited to deal decisively

problems .
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_ My second reason for dissent

as submitted to the board to
warrants ie inamediat and posi-
re deci

that i ards have paid
cognizance speculation
and, as a consequence, the wage:

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nce before the board
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the a Bei hes hie ae
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were pe eg a acen
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fore the board, who at one time
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