announced his retirement to Convention. He will continue in office until early next year.

Delegates hammer out resolutions

STRIKE BREAKING — the Union will demand chan-
ges to federal and provincial laws to outlaw the
hiring of scabs during a strike or lockout and ensure
the right of workers to refuse to deal with services
or goods created by scab labour.

REVOKING CUTTING RIGHTS — IWA-CANADA is
demanding legislation requiring the halting of tim-
ber harvesting rights in TFL’s and TSA’s during
permanent plant closures or shutdowns exceeding

6 months.
sonnet OVER TIMBER — all governments must
legislation that would require the holders of

timber licences to manufacture the fibre from the
licenses in communities that depend on timber
licences.

PRIVATIZATION — the IWA reaffirms its total oppo-
sition to the privatization programs of the Federal
and Provincial governments.

APPRENTICE TRAINING PROGRAM — in BC., along
with the provincial federation of labour the IWA will
lobby the Provincial Government to update the
Apprenticeship training program.
REFORESTATION AND SILVICULTURE — the Union
demands that the Federal and Provincial Govern-
_ Ment enact legislation to require harvesters of
iblic timber to restock and maintain the areas
ey have ci

RUNAWAY COMPANIES — the IWA will continue to
lobby both provincial and federal governments to
put a halt to runaway plants and plant closures.

dance at this year's convention was a full delegation from Thunder Bay, Ontario Local 1-2693.

COMPENSATION FOR DISPLACED WORKERS —
Workers whose jobs are lost due to the loss of
cutting rights should receive full direct compensa-
tion and the IWA will continue to lobby the govern-
ment for this.

PUBLIC ACCESS TO T.F.L.’S AND T.S.A’S — IWA
-CANADA will lobby the B.C. government to ensure
that the public continues to have free access to
public forest lands held’by corporations.
RESOURCE USE — the Union will demand that
resource policies in Canada produce the highest
value product and provide the most economic
benefit to the regions that supply the resource.

VALUE-ADDED MANUFACTURING — recognizing
that workers are losing their jobs, due to tech
change, the union will demand that the industry
invest in value-added manufacturing.

ALTERNATE TIMBER HARVESTING METHODS —
The IWA will lobby the B.C. government to allocate
more timber for new logging methods.

UNION ORGANIZING DEPARTMENT — the Union
will do a full investigation of increased organizing
in the National Union.

NON-UNION CONTRACTORS — the Union will reaf-
firm and enforce its policy that any company or
person having a direct business dealing with an
IWA-CANADA certified operation be legitimately
unionized.

Timber inventory
needed in BC.

Once again IWA-CANADA’s National Convention
has called for the B.C. government to do a complete
timber audit for the province.

Jack Munro said: “It seems to me so damn basic,
that we have a province that makes its livelihood
out of the forest industry and we've got all kinds of
(high technology) but they don’t know how much
wood we've got.” é

He added that the 1991 report from the B.C.
Forest Resources Division and the Western Wood
Products Forum have met with the Forest Minister
and with Cabinet to put in for an increase in Forest
Service staff to do the job.

Loggers Local 1-71 delegate Murray Cantelon
said that audits must take into account the value of
timber. ‘

Brother Cantelon said an audit should point out
where a community can get a good timber base. He
also said that a proper audit would prevent logging
of unmerchantable timber areas which can be set
aside for visual values.

“I think that most of us who work in the bush
realize that the companies are headed towards a
pulp economy and pulp production only,” said
Local 1-85 delegate Tony Bennett. “I think its
important in the audit process that we also look at
grades of our second growth.”

Earl Foxcroft president of the Port Alberni Local
said “its about time that we had a good look at our
tree farm licences to find out exactly what is there,
and what we should be doing in thinning and
commercial thinning.”

“Unless we have some major changes, .. .
added Foxcroft. “Unless we expect some funds
through our Forest Service to find out what we have
got, we are going to get absolutely nowhere.”

Foxcroft said an audit of Tree Farm Licence 44 is
underway now. Both MacMillan Bloedel’s and the
Forest Services’ inventory figures are sketchy.

“Quite frankly that doesn’t give you any idea of
what could or should be happening in that tree farm
licence,” said Foxcroft.

The resolution was also forwarded to the B.C.
Federation of Labour Convention.

LUMBERWORKER/NOVEMBER, 1991/13