Employers Wreck Interior
Strike Mediation Efforts

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Operators Insist On
Original Wage Offer

With IWA picket lines holding aomy, in the Southern
a terior, and the likelihood of a strike in the Northern In-
rior, evidence anes been accumulating Focatily that man

Vol. XXVI, No, 1

E> Ist ISSUE, JAN. 1959 - VANCOUVER, B.C.

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UNION COMMITTEE from the Purcell Lumber Company, Rey presents the sum af $60 t
ommittee af the striking IWA Celgar employees

‘mas Tree Committee in provid:
ers’ children. Group left, front, C. K Bowes (Purcell; V. "Bone (Celgan);

Tree
employees to aid the Christ
left,

at Nakusp,
ing the

ul eke Christ-
which was donated by the Purcell

edt Gheistmos party:possible for the strike

Natsuharh (Celgar); Back r

ols (Celgar); B. Aalten (Celgar); R. Obayashi (Celgar); C. Gregory (Purcell).

Tatsnee employ: d
mated the dcterniie few of Interior lumber workers to wipe
out sub- lard wage levels.

tion can no longer be defend

a €)
ae all competitors
SseaploUradion Bei cae paid work-

m °
Cranbrook, Distei a President Teele
Morris east ‘pace in the at-
aie of the emb on

strike duty.

New Factors Ignored
“The eomee use been made to
create the 8:
Union i: reas'
jenerosity P mands and unwilling to negotiate
He cer Braised ae aaa ism. The
WA mei in adjacent |n

ie he

e
seulement Hee ed by the Con:
ciliation Board, whieh ies alle
obviously dominate
ey) “The Conciliation Board’s v
proposal introduced eee in are
ha

the International Woodwork-
ers mi d of
passing of the Honourabl
Gordon MacGregor Sloan.
His sudden death removes
public service one of
it ible Conciliators
and Arbitrators that this prov-
ince a er known. ‘his
‘ill leave a poe a ie going
eae ‘o fill,

Royal mmissioner in the
fields of Fors and Work.
n’s Ce nsation will

os incest peas to his
family.

IWA Tribute

Demand eat

net recently.

declaration of
emergency was renewed at the
last meeting of the Council.
unity Actio:

Comm
Officers of the Labour Council
i .

summoned a meeting for
Jeowery Bical at meri represent-

ervice or-

WHAT'S
INSIDE

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“nece ssary

cal 1-357

the statement that

en in the Van-

couver area are aes a a ane
come Bs atsoever,

hausted their rights 4 ae nefits

under the Unemployment Insur-

Federation Urges
Emergency Plan

the sisting. unemployment situation in
Nah mae

ency, with appropriate emer
presentation made by t

our ane Council to the Drevin

With an Puucuneting: § $ ical expos un-
employment ir e Pacific r re! Sou the Co eel aR ‘that a
sum 0 be set aside immediately under the Un-
employment Assistance Act

Proposals made by the Federa-
Penmaes ediitteporty fom: ail nats
sections of the trade union move- Bae sega aciiecaoe-the
ment in British oe Es-| Prime Minister have been r
pecially active on subject wa: on numero: ccasions
the Vancouver Hae Council,| to th fect that if he were
which had earlier sought to im- elected, “there would: Al
ess upon the Vancouver mem- man or child in need
bers of Parliament the need for

When re
ise on a recent radio panel, a
prominent Conservative P.
Official said, “The Prime Min-
ister un tedly over-extended
himself o; it occasion.”
Members of the Federation’s

ouncil who attended: the pil-
grimage to Victoria, were
piseitaa i i

ow too big for their breeches.”
Six r Cent Increase
_The 10,000 word brief by the
Federation outlined the grave pro-
portions of the problem in forc-
EDERATION” Page

f their work warrants wage rates | negotiations, which had not been
mi nearly comparable with|examined during the hearings.
th how blished in the|This proposal was for a two-year
coast lumber industry. It has be-
come more and more apparent See “INTERIOR” Page 3
that the vastly improved market:
for’ Interior ie nber makes
higher wage level feasible) and ELECTED
urgent, 2

Out. n Myth

“The caniyeee have clung to
the out-worn myth that the sur-

val of Interior production de-
Hands on low wages. This posi-

the
Workers
has

SYD. THOMPSON

Syd Thompson was instal-
led as President of Loca’
WA,

The newly appointed Secre-
tary eames, Pat O’Neal, is

and favorably known to ported by by the Balloting Com-

the fr union movement as ||M™ittee
Sesriny of the ae Bus podlicess for the ensuing year
Labour Council, anc s
Vice President of the Federa-
eae ceqnataeeer: “Peden Syd Thompson; 1st

Jim Bay fos to British

Columbia from his post i in
© City as

secre y of ORIT, the Latin:

merican section of ICFTU.

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» E. Holm

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