FROM PAGE ONE “STRIKEBREAKERS” the RCMP who have done nothing to curb the violence. The Nabob company, formerly owned by Weston, was taken over a few years ago by the giant Swiss conglomerate, Jacobs Inter- national. Since the takeover the company has attempted to erode working conditions. Prior to the lockout, the employees worked four nine-hour days. The company wants to increase this to five seven and one-half hour days. The company has also automated over one hundred employees off the payroll despite promises to the Foreign Investment Review Agency (the agency which reviews foreigners buying Canadian companies) that employment would not be affected. Union president Hugo Tims believes the company’s sole purpose is to break the union. He stated that it was obvious the company had made plans to bring in strike- breakers long before the employees were locked out. The same person who organized the scab truck drivers at the Endako Mine at Fraser Lake in Northern B.C., Len Baldini, is heading up the strikebreaking operation at Nabob. The union has laid unfair charges against Nabob for using professional strikebreakers but a legal technicality has prevented a ruling. The union is anxious to settle the dispute but the company to date has been unwilling to talk. The company likely believes time is on their side and that the union will fold under the strikebreakers’ “goon” pressure. However, the union says this will not happen. A number of unions are now aiding on the picket lines and the B.C. Federation of Labour has issued a “hot” edict against Nabob which is having good results. ‘The union is asking for more help on the picket lines especially between the hours of 8:00 p.m. and the morning. The address is 3181 Lake City, Burnaby. Charley Webster, fired plant chairman at the John Ernst mill in Quesnel, left, is shown with Neil Menard, Regional Second Vice-President; Frank Everitt, Local 1-424 Third Vice-President and Business Agent; and Larry Dockendorff, Local President, prior to appearing before the Labour Board hearing in Vancouver. @ GOLDEN LOOPHOLE AWARD The Golden Loophole Award is in somuch demand that NDP Finance Critic Bob Rae is offering it again to those Canadians earning more than $50,000 who pay no income tax. The Broadview-Greenwood MP also awarded the Honorary Chairpersonship of the Golden Loophole Award to Treasury Board President Donald Johnston for his statement that middle and upper income Canadians are bearing a disproportionate amount of the tax burden. Some 2,300 Canadians earning more than $50,000 paid no income tax in 1978, accord- ing to Statistics Canada. Of these, 96 earned more than $200,000. FROM PAGE ONE “LOCAL 1-424” know to his employees, made the amazing statement that safety is the employee’s concern and there is no such thing as making a plant safe for idiots. He defended changing pay days with the asinine remark that when the workers were paid on Thursday they would get boozed up and weren’t fit for work on Friday. He defended his refusal to upgrade the parking lot as a fringe benefit not worth wasting money on. And he added if his crew couldn’t park a car he didn’t want them for workers. Following meetings in Vancouver between the union, company and the Labour Relations Board the terminated workers were reinstated. The case of Charlie Webster and another member of the crew also fired will be arbitrated early in February. Regional second vice-president Neil Menard and Local 1-424 president Larry Dockendorff along with the union’s lawyer Suzan Beattie, represented the crew at the Board hearing and will also attend the arbitration hearing. LOGGIN’ THIS MORNING By BERT HALL The Timekeeper sits in the office in Camp, pee turned up the stove to keep out the amp. The loads rattle by on their way to the ramp. For the Company is loggin’ this morning. The Cook slams the oven and rattles a pan: The Flunkey swabs out each garbage can. Grub is cooking for each hungry man, For the Company is loggin’ this morning. @ The mechanics are welding out in the shop For the old boomboat has busted a prop And number two truck is running quite hot. For the Company is loggin’ this morning. The Fallers are busy up in the woods. At so much a thousand they’ve got to be good The stumps multiply where once the trees stood. For the Company is loggin’ this morning. The whistle-punk signals to “go ahead fast”, The Hooker is free from his hang up at last. The Chokermen squat as the line sings on past. For the Company is loggin’ this morning. The Loading crew hi-ball up at the pile For logs on the landing are blocking the aisle, And the trucks are haulin’ for seventeen mile, And the Company is loggin’ this morning. The Rigger is swinging blocks up the Tree, If he finishes fast we’ll be yardin’ by three, And the Engineer toots on his whistle with glee, For the Company is loggin’ this morning. The Boommen are sweating out on the sticks, The winds coming up and the waves are quite thick, And the boring machine is beginning to kick, For the Company is loggin’ this morning. Oh the side hills are many and side hills are steep Bnd West coast loggers are high, wide and leep To keep out of the bight you daren’t go to sleep When the Company is loggin’ this morning. _ Lumber Worker/January, 1981/3