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B.c. LUMBER WORKER

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erators, ete, were being made)
had invested their money in Vic-
tory Bonds, compulsory savings,
ete., and at war's end had con-
siderable ready cash available.
Those who served in the Armed
Services were getting discharged
and receiving their rehabilitation
credits and gratuities.

Prices Sky-Rocketed

At this time with such a tre-
mendous demand for the type of
consumer goods which it was im-
possible to get during the war,
and with almost everyone having
available cash and over-eager to
spend it, and with returning Ser-
vicemen bringing whole families
back fro mfar-off countries, start-
ing to set up house here in Can-
ada, the Canadian Manufacturers’
ssociation pressured the Cana-
dian Government to lift price con-
trols and the wage freeze.

Immediately this was done
prices skyrocketed, but people
with the ready cash were willing
to pay for the goods they had
gone without during the war.
Most Union Agreements ran for
a year to two years after the con-
trols were lifted, and wages could
not climh from the wartime freeze
until these agreements termin-
ated,

Wages have been chasing
prices ever since but have been
unable to catch up. It was the
same people who today are try-
ing to blame labour for our
economic ills who started this
inflation, when they were able
to convince the Government that
price controls should be lifted.
The Canadian Manufacturers
Association are the ones who
must answer for our economic
turbulence.

It is unfortunate that those hurt
most by the action of the’ C.M.A.
are the weaker sections of our
society, the old age pensioner, the
unorganized worker, and those on
fixed incomes.

Organized labour even though
being unable to keep abreast of
the price spiral, have fared better
than m: other segments of our
community, but that is no reason
to lay the blame where it is not
deserved.

“Do you permit your wife to
have her own way?

“No. She
permission.”

has it without my

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PRINTERS AND
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An Employee Owned Co,
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is functional.

EXTERIOR VIEW of the spacious new building of Local 1-357, |WA, New Westminster. C:
fion of wooden office buildings, so the architects designed the structure to use truss sus|

by-laws in New Westminster, prohibit the construc-
pension which not only adds beauty but at the same time

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bidding.

In the opi

“Interior”

(7) Provision that work done in the bargaining unit shall be
done only by members of the bargaining unit.

(8) A contract clause to ensure that on any work performed
by sub-contractors, the employer who has contracted out this
work shall stipulate that the terms and conditions of the agree-
ment are adhered to by the sub-contractor.

(9) The inclusion in the contract of a new section requiring
that all vacancies shall be posted with proper arrangements for

(10) Amended leave of absence clause to require that the
Union shall be notified of leave granted for reasons ‘other than
those stated in the contract, and when the leave is for more than
three weeks, for other reasons than stated in the contract, the mat-
ter shall be discussed between the Union and management.

(11) Deletion of the clause in the present contract relating to
the return to the bargaining unit of members who have tempor-
arily been promoted to supervisory positions. (Southern Interior)

(12) Provision for an industry-wide medical services plan on
a 50-50 contributory basis. (Southern Interior).
ion of the conference, any contract negotiated this
year should be for the period of one year only.

IWA International President
A, L. Hartung, was the guest
speaker at the membership
meeting of Local 1-80, IWA,
Duncan, May 11th, and installed
the newly elected Local Of-
ficers.

Officers elected were: President,
George Smythe; Ist Vice-presi-

dent, John Colwell; 2nd Vice-
president, Alex McEwan; 3rd

Vice-president, Lorne Atchison;
Financial Secrdtary, Ed. Linder;
Recording Secretary, Robert Bou-

Local 1-80 Returns
Smythe And Linder

chard; Warden, David Aitken;
Conductor, Leonard Baker; Three
Year Trustee, Ron Waugh.

President Hartung in his add-
ress to the members discussed
National and International affairs
and gave a comprehensive report
on matters affecting the Interna-
tional Union.

Reports were also made by the
four delegates who attended the
CLC Convention from the Local
Union, They were Alistair Mac-
Leod, John Colwell, Walter Tick-
son, and Robert Bouchard.

Membership meeting of Local
1-85, IWA, Port Alberni, held
April 13th, was attended by
District President, Joe Morris
who spoke on IWA negotiations
and installed the newly elected
officers.

Officers elected were: President,
W. F. Allen; Ist Vice-president,

Morris Reports
On Negotiations

S. Parker; 2nd Vice-president,
L. J. Randall; 3rd Vice-president,
A. G. Ingram; Financial Secre-
tary, M. J. Corbeil; Recording
Secretary, S. J. Squire; Warden,
J. McIntyre; Conductor, W. An-
derson; Trustee, R. Ross; District
Executive Board Member, M. J.
Corbeil,

New Westminster

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CREDIT UNION DIRECTORY

IWA Credit Unions and other Credit Unions
supported by IWA Local Unions in B.C.

Alberni District Credit Union, 209 Argyle Street, Port Albernt
IWA 1-217 Savings, Broadway & Quebec Streets, Vancouver 10
IWA (N.W.) Credit Union, Room 21, 774 Columbia Street,

Local 1-118, IWA (Victoria), 904 Gordon Street, Victoria

us & District Credit Union, Box 299, Chemainus
Leake Cowichan and District Credit Union, Lake Cowichan, B.C.
Courtenay Credit Union, Box 952 Courtenay

Duncan & District Credit Union, Box 1717, Duncan

Prince George & District, 1046-4th Avenue, Prince George
Nanaimo & District Credit Union, 499 Wallace St., Nanaimo

Prompt

Speedy settlement of accum-
ulated grievances threatening a
work stoppage by employees of
Lobb Shingle Co. Ltd., Stave
Lake, resulted when District
and Local Union IWA officials
promptly met in conference with
management and employees to
resolve differences on contract
observance,

Acting for the Union were
District Secretary-Treasurer,
George Mitchell, Financial Sec-
retary Art Corey, and Business
Agent Charles Marshall, Local
1-367. All aggrieved employees
participated in the resulting dis-
cussions after they had “taken a
recess” seeking consideration of
neglected problems.

All. Reinstated

All employ:
when assured

returned to work
that management

Action

Mends Dispute

would meet immediately with the
Union’s officials. Twelve crew
members were involved in the dis-
pute.

The basic wage rate which had
been calculated for some employ-
ees at $1.71% per hour was im-
mediately adjusted with retro-
active effect. A number of cate-
gory rates were also revised to
conform with the standards set
for the area. In some instances,
vacation pay had been‘ calculated
incorrectly. This too was reme-
died, when all the facts were made
known,

Qualifications for two statutory
holidays were in dispute, but ref-
erence to the contract’s terms,
settled the matter in favor of the
aggrieved employees.

Price per square for produc-
tion from the guillotine was agreed
upon,

Unions

Hold
Status

OTTAWA (CPA) — The
unions consisting exclusively of
government employees like
other Congress affiliates are
completely autonomous within
the CLC and will remain politi-
cally neutral, Congress presi-
dent Claude Jodoin said here.
“The Congress recognizes that
these unions must maintain, as
they always have, a position of
strict neutrality” with regard to
political affairs, he said,

“The Congress has as much in-
terest as anyone else in seeing the
government service of Canada...
free from any suspicion of political
partisanship.’

Respects This Attitude
“The decision whether or not to
become identified with any action
such as is contemplated in the
resolution on political action rests
with individual unions. Obyious-
ly the government emplo:
ions will not want such identifi-
cation and the Congress respects
this attitude.

“In any case, the Congress
would take the necessary action to
relieve these unions of any re-
sponsibility for identification with
any policy pertaining to political
” Mr. Jodoin said.

The CLC, he continued, would
centinue to assist these unions in
their organizational, economic and
union-recognition programs. The
Congress, he said, “has every
faith in its ability to retain and
add to the government employee

unions in its ranks.”

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“Boar

Total waterborne shipments
are up 59.9 per cent.

Wy

Total shipments are up 15.7
per cent.

Freight cost of waterborne
shipments are down approxi-
mately 20 per cent.

Canadian housing starts are
up 129.2 per cent.

Wage settlements already ne-
gotiated in the province reveal
that lumber workers are behind
the trend, as these have ranged
from 10 to’ 24 cents per hour,
many of them made possible by
long term agreements granting
automatic increases.

“Good Luck”

Stanley Heys, well known
member of Local 1-80, IWA,
and former Secretary of the
Ladysmith Sub-Local for a
number of years, is leaving
the Union to become a sales-
man for the real estate firm
of Miner & Pringle, in Lady-
smith,

His countless friends in and
out of the Union will wish him
every success in his new ven-
ture. ¢

Union members interested
in buying, selling or renting

jhomes in the Ladysmith area,
‘can be assured of honest
‘treatment in dealing with

‘Stan. |