en mn Ci ay ihe te — Bion ae resi Mester oeta E, Prelic. Steerin FRIDAY, JUNE 23, 1972 'S POLICE STATE BE STOPPED NOW! FALLERS REJECT WAGE-CUT OFFERS Fal inane’ of the coast locals have Ment - ie . Tejected any settle- © hour 3 Would include day ele 7 Fates, according to a Sent Monday to the Re- § Committee of the ; wetam tne? told Moore in the e ie oe want the demands inn kd a Members have hoes in a score of meet- eee ty ny t e ini Seen or 4 is r lorward “€Mands Pip’ With i the bosses group s Say anything other they have put td ti : pats i - and again— ie., a . cepa, a ag standard ent — are unac- : 0 their Members Observers believe F.I.R. is flying a kite in the latest pro- posal offering a day rate “‘for the regular hours of work.” Present day and hourly rates coming out of negotiations would mean a 50 percent cut in fallers pay from the. $93-a-day average F.I.R. claimed in its newspaper adverts. Another outrageous provision is the cutback from average hourly earnings for four hours to mini- mum wage ($1.75) for two hours in ‘call time’ (when worker reports to the job but can’t work for weather or other reasons). The daily press headlined the earnings of a faller who al- legedly made $31,000 a year. It has been used to promulgate the myth that such earnings are pos- sible for all fallers if they want to pull up their socks. This is not so. Terrain, weather, fire, and other hazards in the working day of a faller makes it the most ‘‘iffy’’ liveli- hood in the business. Fallers are . not prepared to make a settle- ment which means a drastic cut in their take-home pay. Meantime all reports indicate that IWA-FIR negotiations on a new wage contract is moving ahead, but with progress labelled as “‘slow’’. In the industry as a whole almost half of the membership are reported on strike on a ‘No Contract, No Work’? issue; this despite the urging of the District leadership to ‘stay of the job’. Some 800 or more fallers have been ‘on the bricks’ for two months or over. IWA | VOL. 33, No. 25 ae > Labor’s ‘Moment of Truth’ _ Tuesday of this week RCMP squads raided this the offi ge see Building Trades Council in Vanemiae eae ea struction union offices in other key provincial centr rs ease cate authorized these unprecedented aftanke ¢ = uilding trades unions and described the acti : Las ar ne ction as “normal The RCMP raids were i e R ; carried out un iati petted Act (Bill 33) in an attempt sais Ne 7 violations of Bill 33; to discover what, if any spate cat eae He ewes union leadership has given to their rete ae or ae mast the pee sen of the Mediation Seimei ae -to-work’’ and end the six- i eas ace e six Bee work stoppage in the B.C. waste? an tis Ba sy thet bal pen ee books, leaflets, ete., enable ea to penalize unions for refusing i canny oie ae ens ae es edicts of its discredited Mediation Com. ee 7 “a s which also enabled the construction industry t - pose its ockout and obstruct all efforts of the Buildi ties nions in free collective bargaining. Co oe ae ee eee deere sretan oe illustrated to what lengths i organized labor and turn the clock tachie ae pete ; = Kage the rights of Labor to bargain collectively for the “sale” se ae = power. The RCMP search warrant puts the governm pees RCMP case ina nutshell; that the said union “. did fail rain to notify its members to return to and continue ibeinen | tes their employers’’— on their employer’s terms of reanee abe cael That is precisely and exactl i at i | ane y what the diktats of the iati Commission mean with its compulsory arbitration pees ae gn work on the bosses’ terms, or face the consequences 5 aie te At press time there was no indication i of wha ildi Trades or other sections of B.C. Labor may ee cate aed vicious attack on all B.C. labor by the Bennett government . 2 In the opinion of this paper there is onl i taken by all Labor and workingmen si Suet Coen Bas provincial-wide work stoppage until the Socred regime uae Gs : turn this province into a police state, with a double et age justice, comes to what little senses it may still retain There is = other alternative left! *e* “Never trifle with your rights’ said Willia Ne m L i and it still holds good for workingmen in this seating? apr args “Get some pictures of the demonstration this afte ; ‘ for any Pulitzer Prizes. These are for the RCMP."’ ee as a!