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Terry Smith
recognized
with United
Way honour

Terry Smith, Secretary-Treasurer
of IWA - CANADA, has been awarded
the 1991 Joe Morris Labour Commu-
nity Service Award, created by the
United Way of the Lower Mainland to
recognize outstanding effort by a local
trade union member towards improv-
ing community services.

‘Terry, nominated by IWA - CANADA
Local 1-357, was honoured for his
many years of extensive voluntary
involvement in community activities,
and for being the driving force behind
many programs designed to help peo-

le.
B Born in Vancouver, he graduated
from Burnaby South High School
and now lives in New Westminster.
His union activity began when he
started work with Canadian Forest
Products, Pacific Veneer Division, in
1964. He was elected First Vice Presi-
dent of IWA Local 1-357 in 1973,
President in 1982, and in 1988, Secre-
tary-Treasurer of IWA - CANADA. He
attended the Labour College of Can-
ada in Ottawa in 1977.

The community activities for which
Brother Smith was nominated cover a
wide range of his concerns.

He was a founding director of Pacif-
ica (a drug and alcohol treatment
centre), and of the Lower Mainland
Assessment and Referral Service. He
was a board member of the Legal
Services Society, and also served on
New Westminster's Advisory Plan-
ning Commission and the municipali-
ty’s Athletic Commission. He remains
an active board member of the IWA
and Community Credit Union, and
serves on many other BC. Federation
of Labour, IWA and community com-
mittees.

From 1986 until December, 1990,
he chaired of the Campaign Labour
Committee of United Way of the Low-
er Mainland, a position which placed
him on United Way’s volunteer Cam-
paign Cabinet for a record five consec-
utive years. His active participation
at this level is credited with growing
support for the United Way among
union members.

The award ceremony was held May
8, 1991 during the joint Canadian
Labour Congress/United Way Union
Counselling Conference held at the
Sheraton Plaza 500 Hotel, Vancouver.

It was opened by David Rice, Re-
gional Director of the CLC Pacific
Region. “It is appropriate that we tie
together this conference and presen-
tation of the Joe Morris Labour Com-
munity Service Award,” he said,
“since the purpose of the conference is
to discuss labour’s participation in
the community, and the intent of the
award is to recognize the very same on
an individual level.”

Bob Wiens, President of United
Way of the Lower Mainland, Presi-
dent of FACS Record Centre Inc., and
Lynne Fanthorpe, Chair of the Lab-
our Committee of the Board, UWLM,
and a member of the B.C.G.E.U. were
co-presenters of the award, an origi-
nal Killer Whale carving in white
alabaster by Noreen M. Fairweather.

The award is named after Joe Mor-
ris, an active B.C. trade unionist since
the 1930’s involved at provincial, na-
tional and international levels. Among
many positions he served as Presi-
dent of the Canadian Labour Con-
gress, Regional President of the [WA,
was a member of the International
Labour Organization, and of the Duke
of Edinburgh’s 1980 Commonwealth
Study Conference. He is now retired
on Vancouver Island.

Recipient of the 1990 Joe Morris
Labour Community Service Award
was Joy Langan, NDP Member of
Parliament for Mission-Coquitlam.

— United Way

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He ENVIRONMENT

© GETTING THE IWA's WORD OUT — Local 1-217 President Gary Kobayashi (I.) and
First Vice-president Gordie McRae were on hand to give out Union information
at a set of public hearings held in May on watershed logging in the greater Van-
couver region. Story coming up in a future issue of the Lumberworker.

© Front — Joy Langan, MP, Mission-Coquitlam, Terry Smith, Financial rT
IWA-CANADA, Joe LeClair, IWA-CANADA Local 1-357 and President, New Westmin-

Secretary,

ster & District Labour Council. Left to right: Back — John Shields, President, B.C.
Government Employees Union, Lynne Fanthorpe, BCBEU member and Chair of the
Labour Committee of the Board of United Way, Jack Munro, President, [WA-CANADA,

David Rice, Regional Director, Canadian Labour Congress, member of the Campaign
Labour Committee, Bob Wiens, President, FACS Records, member of Board of United
Way and immediate Past President.

© The report pointed out that not enough professionals are available to evaluate and

inspect roadbuilding.

A-G’s report

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cited inconsistent inspections as a
problem. For ministry staff the inspec-
tion problem was driven by an uncer-
tainty as to whether the objective of
their inspections was to assess overall
performance of a licensee or police
areas that they believed were defi-
cient.

In responding to the Auditor Gen-
eral, the ministry points out that
some of the monitoring problems de-
tailed in the report are offset by the
extensive planning effort that the min-
istry goes through prior to the appro-
val of road construction and harvest
activity. The ministry requires a licen-
see to submit road, logging and silvi-
culture plans for the areas that it
wants to log. These plans are reviewed
extensively by the Ministry of For-
ests and other government depart-
ments (eg. Fish and Wildlife) before
approval is granted. None of these
planning activities were evaluated in
the Auditor General's report.

It is interesting to note that there
was one point on which both the

ministry and the Auditor General did
agree; restraints and layoffs within
the ranks of the proving govern-
ment’s workforce have severely lim-
ited the effectiveness of the Ministry
of Forests.

Since the early 1980’s, the number
of people employed by the Ministry
has dropped by 38.2%. Over that same
time period the level of harvest activ-
ity in BC. has increased from an
average of 65 million cubic meters per
year in the 1980 - 1983 period to just
under 80 million cubic meters per year
in the 1988 - 1991 period.

It is easy to see that trying to do
more with less rarely produces good
results. But the Socred restraint poli-
cies of the mid-80’s also made it harder
for the ministry to attract or hold on
to the skills that it needed to do many
of the tasks it was mandated to do.
The report gives an example in the
area of road building where proper
inspection means hiring road special-
ists. In more than one third of the
forest districts, those road specialists
had to be professional engineers in
order to properly inspect and evaluate
the complexities of roads in the area.
However, the ministry was unable to
recruit professional engineers to fill
any of those positions.

16/LUMBERWORKER/AUGUST, 1991

Photo by Noreen M. Fairweather

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