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2nd Issue, March

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King’s Daughters

sinancial Secretary Ed. Linder of
Teneo IWA, visited ‘the follow.
ing patients in the King's Daughters
Hospital February 21st, distributi ing
Uerdy, cigarettes and copies of the
B.C, Lumber ‘Worker.
Mr. Ernest McTaggart,
han, B.

Lake Cowi-

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Mr. Eldon eBcnstasy RR. No. 2,
ean, B.C.
Mn Reg Caplin, Youbou, B.C.

jig, Duncan, B.C.

Mr. Sam Bolig, Duncan, B.C.
Mesachie Lake, BS.
aycuse Beach, B.C.

strom, Honeymoon

C.
ndstrom, Duncan, B.C.
AMidie “Osokin, Lake Cowichan,

mre Chris Mearns, Hillcrest.

, Duncan, B.C.
Mrs; Pearl Houston, Duncan, B.C

Mrs. Olga Loewen,
BC. %
“Lyn Caplin, Youbou, B.C.
Mire: Jogindar Singh, Mesachie Lake,

Me sack West, Fleischer Rd.,

ean, B.C.
Mae Renate Stoss, Honeymoon Bay,

B.C.
5 Id Woodcock, Paldi, B.C.
Mrs. Jaak Quigley, Gordon River, B.C.

Pearson and South Pines

Sisters Margaret Ferrall and Sheila
Pither of the LA Local 1-217, IWAy
Visited the following patients in, the
Pearson and South Pines Hospitals
from January 1 to 31, distributing
candy, cigarettes and copies of the
B.C. Lumber Worker.

Donald Gregoire, Selkirk Spruce—
ken Knee. ,

Fo bogiand, Westview—Knee injury.

J. Gillis, Comox Logging—Back in-

jury.

EP Oxtlin, Hudson Lumber—Leg in-

ry. ae

Ao tSuie, Fort Fraser—EHead injury.

J, O'Shea, Queen Charlottes—Tuber-
culosis.

N. Nicolsky, Western Plywood—Tu-

erculosis.

G. Saunders, Englewood — Tubercu-
losis.

©, Downie, Campbell River—Tuber-
culosis.

E. Whitehouse, Hope—Tuberculos!

L. Quinlan, Ladysmith—Tuberculos

M. Arola, Queen Charlottes—Tubei
culosis, se

W. Pratt, Gibson Bro.—Tubereulosis.

W: Cochrane, Englewood—Tubercu-
Tosis.

D. Jeffray, Kline Lumber—Tubercu-
losis.

Rahko, Smith Inlet—Tuberculosis.

M, Mathesian, Mahatta River—Tu-
berculosis.

H. Schmidt, Alice Lake —Tubercu-
losis.

Luoma, Queen Charlottes—Tubercu-
losis.

R, Burle, Alouette Sawmills—Tube:
culosis. -

D. McCaig, Bear Creek —Tubercu-
losis.

F. Herrling, Percy Logging—Tuber-
culosis.

L. Stephenson, Vancouver Bay—Tu-
Derculosis. .

©. Kasin, Booth Logging—Tubercu-
losis.

J. Chong, Keeley.

A. Tobiassen, Knight Inlet.

V. Anderson, Terrace.

C. Hansen, Cameron Lumber.

J. Ireland, ‘Terrace.

G. Chernoff, ‘Timber Preserves.

D. Young, Craig Croft.

G. DePape, Stave Lake.

Royal Columbian

Sisters P. Miller and M. Gobin of
the LA Local 1-357, IWA, visited the
following patients’ January 21-28th,
distributing candy, cigarettes and
copies of the B.C. Lumber Worker.
B. Tollardo, Giroday Sawmill, Local

1-217—Back injury.

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McGibbon Jr., Harrison, Local 1-367
—Broken leg.

J. Gagnon, Fraser Mills, Local 1-357
—Arm injury. Bette:

A. Arpin, Fast Creek Timber, Local
1-367—Arm injury. Better.

J. Newman, Fraser Mills, Local
patie cate shoulder. Bet-
er.

Lee Palmer, Fraser Mills, Local 1-357
—Operation. Better.

S. Chmilk, Flavell, Local 1-357—Op-
eration. Better.

W. Mitchell, Fraser Mills, Local
1-357—Heart condition. Better.

J. Spindor, Local 1-367—Ulcers. Bet-
ter.

J. Ryan, Fraser Mills, Local 1-357—
Cancer. Better.

©. Everett, B.C.EVP., Local 1-357 —
Operation. Fine.

G. Wilson, Fraser Mills, Local 1-357
—Operation. Fine.

H. Abra, Fraser Mills, Local 1-357—
Heart condition.

Moravec, Hammond, Local 1-367 —
Cedar poisoning.

Vancouver General

Compensation and TB
Sisters A. Bowman and G. Pither
of the LA Local 1-217, IWA, visited
the following patients in the Van-
couver General, Commpensation and
TB Wards distributing candy, cigar-
ettes and copies of the B.C. Lumber
Worker. ‘i
Shea, Kelsey Bay—Tuberculosis.
Doll, Terrance—Tuberculosis.
Dahli, Tahsis—Tuberculosis.
Pearson, Kamloops—Tuberculosis.
Noto ‘Vancouver — Retired tubercu-
losis.
S. Miljure, Vancouver—Tuberculosis.
Bradley, Manhatta River—Tuberou-
losis.
Garner, Bellacoola—Tuberculosis.
G. Englema, Quesnel—Gall bladder.
G. Evin, Castlegar—Stomach.
H. Granberg, Lone Bute—Hand.
R. Kearns, Beaver Cove—Leg and
foot.
J. Horovatin, Greenwood—Spine.
Monsell, Westview—Hip and arm.
P. Remezoff, Englewood —Leg and
chest.
R. McDonald, Vancouver—Back.
J. Duviet, Port Alberni—Leg.
H. Remprecht, Williams Lake—Leg.

Vancouver General

1D. & H. Wards and Cambie

Sister_G. Paul of the LA Local
1-217, IWA, visited the following
patients _in ‘the Vancouver General
LD. & H. Wards and the Cambie
Hospitals distributing candy, cigar-
ettes and copies of the B.C. Lumber
‘Worker.

M. Deleri, R. J. Morgan—Arthritis.

H. Benson, Campbell River—Car ac-
cident.

W. Ganner, Turner Bros.—Back in-

jury. é
A. Thomas, Lone Bute—Spine injury.
D. Boivie, Tahsis—Back injury.

E, Crone, West Lake Sawmill—Arm
injury.

R. Leroux, H. & W. Logging, Saua-
mish—Car accident.

F. Masloff, Kootney Forest Products

‘Head injury.

G. Pruss, Alice Lake Logging—Foot
injury.
¢. Sandstrom, Prince George — Car

‘accident.

W. J. Butler, Williams Lake, B.C—

Uleer.

P. Remezoff, Englewood, B.C.—Leg
injury.
J. Busky, Roberts & Hackert—Silli-

‘Salmon, MacLean Valley—Neck

injury.

P. Bartolomeo, MacDonald Logging—
Leg injury.

Y. De Marchi, Eagle Lake—Foot in-
jury.

D. Westberg, Tahsis—Hip injury.

James Aitken, Kootney Logging —
Back injury.

bel, Crown Zellerbach—Thumb

dislocation.

Support the

RED
SHIELD
APPEAL

Congress

Recruits
40,000

A 234% increase in Canadian
trade union membership in the
year ending January, 1957, to a
total of 1,386,185, is reported in
the latest edition of Labour Or-
ganization in Canada, recently
published. It is the 46th annual.
report issued by the Department.

The 1957 total, compiled just
seven months after three quarters
of Canadian union members re-
aligned themselves to form the
Canadian Labour Congress, was
32.8 per cent of non-agricultural
paid workers, This proportion, de-
spite the increase in total member-
ship, was 0.5 per cent lower than
a year earlier.

The 1957 survey showed that:

(a) The Canadian Labour Con-
gress increased its membership by
40,000.

(b) Affiliation of the Brother-
hood of Locomotive Firemen and
Enginemen with the CLC reduced
the size of the independent rail-
way brotherhood group by 10,000.

(c) There were, at August 1957,
six fewer provincial federations

and 25 fewer local labour councils
than a year before.

(d) The number of unions ac-
tive in Canada decreased by seven.

(ce) International unions gained
43,000 new members.

(f) National union membership
changed little from last year.

(g) Ontario recorded the largest
increase in union membership.

(h) Largest labour market gain
was in Hamilton, where some 9,000
members were added.

(i) By industrial groups the
largest change was in manufactur-
ing, where the percentage of work-

ers organized rose by two per cent.

LW.A. M.L.A’s Advocate Full
Auto Insurance Coverage

By TONY GARGRAVE, MLA

One of the privileges that a
private member of the legislature
has is to introduce resolutions.
A resolution is different from
a Bill in that it rarely has legal
authority.

The legislature, by resolution,
ean conduct its own business.
That is to say, we can instruct
the Sergeant-at-Arms to have
the lobbies cleared by resolution,
or we can instruct the Queen’s
Printer to supply copies of Bills
to members. However, the im-
portant use of a resolution is to
express an opinion of the legisla-
ture,

Arthur Turner (CCF Vancou-
ver East) moved the following
resolution last Wednesday:

“Be it resolved that this
House is of the opinion that
the Government should take
under advisement the calling of
a Provincial-Municipal Confer-
ence to consider all phases of

- Municipal regula-
and jurisdiction.”

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s resolution had carried

the government would not have
been. compelled to hold such a
Conference, but it would have
been under strong moral obliga-
tion to do so.

It is nearly always an Opposi-
tion member who moves such
resolutions because they are a
medium of expressing dissatis-
faction in a particular issue.

John Squire (CCF Alberni)
has frequently placed on the
Order Paper a resolution asking
for a minimum level of compul-
sory automobile insurance. Such
a scheme could be administered
through the motor-vehicle branch
in a manner similar to the B.C.
Hospital Insurance Scheme.

This would mean that the mot-
orist would pay a fee at the time
he received his car license, which
would mean that all licensed
automobiles are covered by some
kind of basic insurance coverage.
Consequently nobody who is in-
yolved in an automobile accident
— either driver, passenger or
pedestrian — would be without
some kind of insurance coverage.

I think this is an excellent idea.
The same principle is applied in
Workmen's Compensation. Every
workman who is injured in an
insurable occupation is covered
by Workmen’s Compensation. He
receives benefits if he is involved
in an industrial accident, regard-
less of who is to blame. If this
resolution on automobile insur-
ance is carried, the government
would be under strong moral ob-
ligation to enact universal auto-
mobile insurance similar to that
in effect in Saskatchewan.

I think that the essential char-
acteristics of such a scheme are
its low administrative cost and
its universality.

aie soe

Fiancee: “Mother told me to
object to the use of the word
‘obey’ in the marriage ceremony.”

Fiance: “And what did you tell
her?”

Fiancee: “I said I wouldn't.”

Fiance: “You darling.”

Fiancee: “Yes, I said you could
take a joke as well as any man.”

LOCAL 1-423
Annual

Meeting

Marks Progress

Annual meeting of Local

1-423 held in Kelowna, March

Ast, heard District First Vice-President Joe Madden out-
line plans in prospect for an expanding organization and

improved contract conditions

Nominations for election of
the Local Union officers for
1958-59 resulted in placing the
following names on the member-
ship referendum ballot:

For President, Jack Welder
(unopposed).

For 1st Vice-President, Frank
Stich (unopposed).

For 2nd Vice-President, G.
Major, J. Egerton.

For 8rd Vice - President,” W.
Schumacker, E. Hiett.

For Recording Secretary, J.
Wilderman (unopposed). -

For Financial Secretary, S. A.
Muir (unopposed).

For Warden, F. Colton (un-

opposed).

For Conductor, Del Welder
(unopposed).

For Trustee, J. Knorr (unop-
posed).

Election of District Executive
Board member returned S. A.
Muir to the post. Frank Stich
was named as Safety Director.

Balloting Committee members
named were: R. Richards, G.
Mackie, J. De Montreuil, B. Bain,
E. Wohl, A. Kretchmer and J.
Gonsky.

Delegates named to attend the
Special International Convention
were: J. Welder, S. A. Muir, and
J. ©. Walls.

As District Conference dele-
gates the membership selected J.
Welder, F. Stich, J. Egerton, and
E. Hiett.

To represent the Local Union
at the Interior Wages and Con-
tract Conference, Kelowna, in
May, the following were elected:
W. Schumacher, J. Welder, N.
Rebin, F. Stich, G. Major, F.
Colton and J. Gonsky.

Membership meeting heard re-
ports from §. A. Muir regarding
the excellent progress made by
the Local Union during the past
year, and from the delegates who

.| had attended the District Con-

vention.

Oliver Sawmills

Following ‘official confirmation
of the representation vote on
Feb. 13th which awarded bar-
gaining rights to the IWA in the
operation of Oliver Sawmills
Ltd., the first sub-local meeting
was held on March 2nd. The
meeting was addressed by Re-
gional Director J. C. Walls, Pre-
sident J. Welder, Local 1-423,
and Business Agent S. A. Muir.

Elected as officers of the Sub-
Local were:

in the Interior.

Chairman, W. H. Sharp.

Vice-Chairman, Ivan Escattel.

Secretary, Joe Robinson.

Head Job Steward, Victor Fast.

Safety Committee members
elected were: George Miller, Pete
Harms, Bill Forest, and Maynard
Davis,

Grand Forks Sub-Local

Annual meeting of the Grand
Forks Sub-Local held February
21 returned the following to of-
fice for 1958. .

Chairman, Nick Rebin.

Secretary, Mike Wishlow.

Job Stewards, Nick Rebin,
Mike Wishlow, Peter F. Plotnik-
off, Mike Novakshonoff, Paul
Daviboff, and Sam Waselenkoff.

Safety Committee members
are: Nick Rebin, John Semenoff,
Sam Waselenkoff, and Fred Mak-
roff.

Report on the affairs of the
Local Union was given on the

occasion by Business Agent S. A.
Muir.

18 Million
Unionized

A survey of 191 unions with
members in Canada and the
United States shows them with a
membership of 18,350,000, ap-
proximately one million of whom
were in Canada,

They pay annual dues of about
$620 million a year, an increase of
$162 million since 1955.

The survey showed that 49 of
the unions reported a gain of at
least 2,000 members over the two-
year period, 1955-57, while 18 re-
ported decreases of 2,000 or more.

33-Day Strike
Wins Victory

MONTREAL (CPA)—A strike
here by 125 employees of Stand-
ard Telephones and Cables, mem-
bers of the National Federation
of Metal Trades (CCCL) has
ended in union victory. The strike
lasted 33 days.

A new contract, signed for the
two-year period January 1, 1958-
1960, provides for an hourly
wage increase of seven cents.
The workers also won seven cents
per hour retroactive pay from
May 1, 1957 to January 1, 1958,
which will be calculated on
worked. hours.

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