Diente Covet Fes Vol. XXV, No. 21 >-** Ist ISSUE, NOV. 1958 - VANCOUVER, B.C. bd 5c PER COPY Action Ordered Application has been made for a writ in the Supreme Court of British Columbia to institute action alleging slan- derous statements by a mem- “ber of Local 1-217, IWA. This action was launched by District President, Joe Morris; President Lloyd Whalen, and Financial Sec- retary S. M. Hodgson, Local 1-217, IWA, as individuals. In reporting to the Union, the officers concerned stated that this was their only avail- able course of action to gain judicial consideration of the accusations, Slander The labour candidates will not contest all seats up for election but the Council’s Political Co- ordinating Committee, to expedite the election campaign, will have the power to endorse “suitable candidates” of other organizations. Vancouver Elections Candidates nominated by La- bour in the Vancouver civic elec- tion are as follows: For Mayor—Tom Alsbury, city high school principal, Chairman of the Labour Council’s Education Official Probe Clears Officers Investigation conducted by International Vice-Presi- dents Jim Dicey and Claudé Ballard into allegations arising during the hotly-contested election of officers in Local Union 1-217 TWA has found that these allegations were not sub- stantiated in evidence before The enquiry was authorized by International President A. F. Har- tung in compliance with a_re- guest from the Executive Com- mittee of the Local Union. The inveStigating officers spent a number of days interviewing the representatives of contending fac- tions, and surveyed the campaign material distributed and released to the press. ‘The findings of the Committee were as follows: 1. In the opinion of this Commit- tee, the release to the public press and radio stations of campaign material pertaining to the intern- al affairs of the Union is harmful to the best interests of the mem- bership. The publication of art- icles in the PACIFIC TRIBUNE intended to influence membership voting, can only be regarded as deliberate interference by political interests outside the Union, for purposes which are contrary to the Union's objectives. is Committee strongly rec- commends that campaigning for Union offices shold be confined WHAT'S INSIDE Alberta ... IWA Pix the Committee. to the membership of the particu- lar Loéal Union or District Coun- cil, and that any suggestion of See “PROBE” Page 3 Labour Names Civic Slates Expanded labour participation in municipal elections has been announced by the Vancouver and District Labour Council, with the names of all candidates, either nominated or endorsed by organized labour, who will contest the elec- tions to be held in December. Committee, and long-known in civic politics. For City Council—E. A. Ted Jamieson, Labour Council Secre- tary-Treasurer. Paddy Neale, Re- cording Secretary of Local 1-217, IWA. Sam Jenkins, President of the Marine Workers and Boiler- makers Union. For Schoo! Board—Jack Hen- derson, long-time unionist and a veteran School Board Trustee. John Hayward, Street Railway- men’s Union. For Parks Board—Bill Pierce, President of Local 1-252, IWA. Charles Lamarche, Ist Vice-presi- dent of Local 1-217, IWA, and Labour Representative on the Community Chest and Council for Greater. Vancouver. The Labour Council hopes to endorse three further candidates from outside labour for the six City Council seats, four candidates for the six School Board posi- tions, and two for the Park Board’s four seats. Burnaby Elections Candidates nominated or en- dorsed by Labour in the Burnaby See “CIVIC” Page 2 S. Interior IWA Majority Favours Strike Action... All Large Operations Take Militant Stand Results of the government-supervised strike vote in the Southern Interior which gave an over-all majority in favour ot strike action, has opened prospects of peace talks between the IWA Negotiating Committee and the Southern In- terior Lumber Manufacturers’ Association. Strike vote for the Northern Interior has been set for November 28th. Conferences between the South- ern Interior operators and the Union were scheduled to begin November 20th. Out of thirty operations where the supervised vote was held, six- teen reported a majority for strike action and fourteen voted against. Employees in all the large op- erations voted for a strike. These included the “big six”, Celgar Ltd. Crestbrook Timber Ltd., Kootenay Forest Products Ltd., Passmore Lumber Co. Ltd., Boun- dary Sawmills Ltd, and S. M. Simpson Ltd. As those operations which recorded a vote against a strike were all small, those vot- ing in favour of a strike far out- numbered those voting against. Protest Made Interior Regional Director, J. Clayton Walls, lodged a protest with the Department of Labour with regard to the procedure fol- lowed by the Department of La- bour officials. He alleged that the voting procedure was “tailored to suit the bosses.” He charged that the Depart- ment Officials refused to allow the Union's scrutineers to check the: lists in possession of the De- partment and the employers prior to the voting. This constituted rank discrimination against the Union, he claimed. In support of his charges he pointed to the fact that in civic, provincial and fed- eral voting, voters’ lists are avail- able to all concerned prior to the commencement of the voting. The position taken by the em- ployers’ organizations in both areas against adequate wage in- creases is not being supported by all the employers. This is indicat- ed by the fact that the Union is now signing agreements with em- ployers who are bargaining inde- pendently, and who are agreeing to wage standards considerably above those now in effect or pro- posed by the employers. Independents Signing As reported earlier in the oper- ation at Savona, B.C. in the Southern Interior an agreement has been reached which places the base rate at $1.65 an hour, as compared to the base rate of $1.53 an hour in the Master Agreement, In the Northern Interior, man- agement in the operation owned by the Netherlands Overseas Ltd. at McAllister, B.C, has signed an agreement which places the base rate at $1.68 an hour, as compared to the present rate of $1.53 an hour in the northern area: In addition, provision has been made for a five cents an hour night shift differential, and cate- gory. revisions, “It was’ -further agreed that the rents of the em- ployees’ houses would remain at the scale presently in effect. Quesnel Contract District President Joe Morris and Jacob Holst, Business Agent, Local 1-424, IWA, Prince George, See “INTERIOR” Page 3 ‘ MEMBERS OF LOCAL 1-71, IWA, employed in the Columbia Cellulose operation, Terrace, who attended the highly successful weekend educational classes held there November 8-9, under the auspices of the Local Union with Financial Secretary, Fred Fi er class\instructor. Group are: W. Penner, G. Davis, J. Glen, E. W. Dusdal, E. R. Dusdal, C. Mi R. Haigh, K. Lambert, L. Sloat, L. Gair, G. M. icki, prune Becta: usdal, lunson, jaig| ,ambert, loat, L. Gair, G. Munson, M. Strymicki, LISTEN TO Green Gold-CJOR 7:00 Thursday CKPG-ist & 3rd Thurs., 6:00 p.m. CKEK-Thurs., 8:15-8:30 p.m.