A SAFE AND
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VOL. XXIX. No. 24. VANCOUVER, B.C.

SCAB-PRODUCED PAPER
NOT WANTED HERE. Man-
agement’s journal “Forest
and Mill” printed behind the
legal picket lines of the Amal-
gamated Lithographers, Local
44, and the International Bro-
therhood of Bookbinders, Lo-
eal Union 105, at Mitchell

Press Ltd., is returned by
Regional 2nd Vice-President,
Jack Holst.

Talks
Held

The Regional Officers,
on instructions of the
Regional Executive =
Board held meetings
with Forest Industrial
Relations Ltd., Novem-
ber 26, 27, 28, to iron out
a number of problems
concerning Plywood
Evaluation. ;

No conclusions have
been reached at this

the officers report,
further meetings
© have been scheduled.

time,
but

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December, 1962

Hillcrest
ispute

Settled

Year-old transportation dis-
pute involving loggers of Lo-
cal 1-80, IWA, and the Hill-
crest Lumber Company, has
been satisfactorily resolved,
reports Local 1-80 President
Percy Clements.

The tentative agreement
arrived at last June was used
by Local officers and Com-
pany officials as the basis of
settlement.

President Clements wel-
comed the settlement on be-
half of the Local Union and
congratulated the members
involved for their solidarity
and determination.

Health & Welfare

Interior
Trustees

Named

First meeting between rep-
resentatives of the IWA and
the Northern Interior Lum-
bermen’s Association was
held December 12, 1962, to
discuss the implementation
and application of the Union’s
Health and Welfare program,
which will become effective
September 1, 1963.

Jack Holst, Regional 2nd
Vice-President, and Ross In-
glis, Ist Vice-President of
Local 1-424, were appointed
as trustees for the Northern
Plan. Fred Fieber, Regional
Secretary-Treasurer, and Joe
Miyazawa, Research Director,
also attended the meeting in
an advisory capacity. With
their first hand experience
regarding administration of
the Coast Plan they were of
valuable assistance.

See “INTERIOR”—Page 2

By JACK MOORE
IWA Regional President

“FHE earnest wish that all IWA members and their fami-

lies may enjoy a Happy and Prosperous New Year
shapes our Union’s outlook for 1963. As we exchange
good wishes, one with the other, we reaffirm and
strengthen our common purpose to make this wish come
true in the lives of all our people. Through our Union,
we accept the collective responsibility to make the sea-
son’s good wishes meaningful.

Our Union enters 1963 under circumstances that
challenge all our resolutions to make it a happy and
prosperous year for all our members. The nature of the
problems which beset us do not allow for any false
optimism. Nor should we yield to pessimism and push
the panic button. Our most effective approach is to face
the issues of the day with realism and utilize the re-
sources of our organization with renewed determination
in ways that will bring the maximum progress toward
our objectives.

The first and most realistic consideration is that our
Union must work closely in concert with our affiliated
unions in the province, in order that, together, the or-
ganized workers in the province may exert a combined
strength of effort in defence of our interests.

An examination of IWA problems offers the best
clue to the more general questions of pressing import-
ance. In the past year, the IWA negotiated a two-year
agreement which we expected to bring a reasonable
degree of stability in labour-management relations in
the forest products industry for the contract period. Our
hopes have been frustrated by employers, many of
whom have associated themselves with the anti-union
campaign now fostered by big business. :

In recent weeks we have been given painful evi-
dence of this attitude. Members of our Union have been
vindictively prosecuted. Any vigilant effort to police the
contract has met with frustration in too many operations.
Collusion between management and government has
resulted in the emasculation of the Hours of Work Act
as it applies to the logging section of the industry.

Job opportunities are being diminished by mechan-
ized and automatic processes of production with little or
no consideration for displaced workers. Necessary ad-
justments to the wage structure by reason of new pro-
duction methods is meeting with employer resistance.
The benefits of a vastly increased productivity is not
being fairly shared with the working force.

Neither management nor government will face the
simple fact that fewer workers are producing more —
a condition that is steadily undermining the job security
of every worker now employed.

See “OUTLOOK”—Page 4