B.C. LUMBER WORKER

“NOMINATED”

For International For Trustee
Secretary-Treasurer _

Business Agent for Boel 2 to re-

Botkin was appoi
tional ee cave for the
by i

ness Agen s- Internation:

presentative, vered the states

of Tennessee, Mississipi, Lousi-

ana, Arkansas, “Oklahoma and Res

Virgin RORCONVENTIONIGE ICERU MAIN eecaTrits! Lucille
Wandling on left and Lily Albrecht ore shown 5 they wvork on praecore

In Banvaty, 1943, Botkin was ap-
point by Eee en Worth

ry to fill
d d by ‘ ae 5 be
dit ome wy JP alin] AE GEIGER. — tomo Unions Mourn
‘e was subsequently elected to fF
Mosher’'s Death

ILL BOTKIN this position in 1943, 1945 an
| Botkin first joined the union in| 1947.

= 1935, in Aberdeen, Washi ington. Botkin entered private business
1

vention preparation

eee

le was a member of the in 1950 and returned to the Inter-
Lum Bead Sawmill Workers un-| national Union i 52, to From coast to coast, the|
fil split in 1937. He became aj fill the position of Assistant Di- di labour vement
a Re of the IWA-CIO at that] rector of Organization. was deeply shocked on Sept-
i ember o learn of the

Hee ted Shop Steward at the] national President A. F. Hartung,
Aloha Eiatibes Co. mill in Aber-|as International Secretary-Trea- unionist, A. R. sh
. ieen, for Local 2, in which office| surer on November 1, 1954, to fill he end ca: idenly a
: we served from 1935 to 1941. the vacancy created when Carl result of a hi attack while Mr.
oa in was appointed Sawmill] Winn’ resigned. Mosher was listening to a foot-
ball broadcast at his summer
home.
$13. 000 M k S t ane deceased was 78 years of '
ay
n bs ar € ‘As head of the former Cana-|#
a U.S. TEACHERS at their annual convention held recently in gan. Cone see we ae abour,
| Minneapolis, ane to set $13,000-a-year as their maximum salary Mosher piayedi save
ri Some delegates, representing the nation’s 50,00 Le merging that body with the rival
10 classroom instructo: the adoption of salary schedule © fF) and Labour C
"| by which teachers would ‘advance in eight annual steps from a m é = is Canada and cheerfully stepped
$6,000 minimum to the $13,000 mark. DANIEL F. KELLEY, Fin.|aside to make way for
Sec. of 3-116, Coos Bay. dent Claude Jodoin a
q ni re’
Ww hii found

x > | ESR EY
Employees in 1907, remained) Canadian Labour Relations Board
president until 1952 and became and Wie “adanes, cannes!
its honorary life president. aid Labour Minister Starr.
ion, now the Canadian * sai
3 ha | Mr. Mosher, a native of Halifax
. Nov County, was a freight handler on
Scotia and New Brunawic ait.) ie. old. Intereelonial < Ranwey
sens 0,000 hotels, | When he and a few
Sipps nighway mentinan® smc — formed the CBRE and

and Ps
the Teamsters as “Canada's s largest | ei tars
transport union. -
B YA Region a ae sident Joe
Morris fad in tribute, “Aaron
© r

is de s serving on mi
the es pales Relations | out the rates movement upon
rubwoman working for a| Board and w member of oe which he has left the mark of his
Wee London soles fell oy pe con- fete governments national e1 sturdy and forthright trade union-
siderable p: ae "No, of course ployment comm ism. Thr sh we Bun isi
I’m not seine “His sinightforward Brother Mo ood with
she told the eceniene “y By honesty of aepoacts the wee lom prente lied loyalty ee “nis prin-
know what to do with myself| which he garnered thro the ciples. Hi is left behind him a
without it. But I’m warning you| years, made him a trem ne eee heoail tion ae genie that we all

h help th tino thi ”

the operation of the|may well emulate.

pl
carey oti senaa tieitete- Wry: h f

phone operator, “by tat number Not “High Cost O

has been taken u"

4 02” snapped, an indig- b h

nant voice. “Then maybe you can La our T e Cause

tell me who has taken her out?” erie PO ae it attained top soma tae

se saver com the high cost of labor” According to these

dining in a restaur- Polis for technological displacement, if unions would forget

oe Yell t to discusing a third who Eas demands, management not seek labor-saving

ILSENER

had just entered.

? React

course! “Her insband is a judge, saute ae These spokesmen seem t: et that automation is suy

eee of to in increase Productivity and wee result in benefits to ees

sumer—the that organized labor welcomes technological
qoranceese

as isn’t the “high cost of labor”, efor example, that has led
1¢ development of a mec! bean harvester—a har-
ee that, according to Lael ae tnd pete Commissioner M.
ee Canensond, a ieee entually replace much

Soe tae ban high
fate Ee a high paid occupation. M
of inte done by migrant workere wo ae nae es ae