“OFFICERS” Also in 1959, the Regional Council took over the respon- sibility of providing a Re- -search and Education Depart- ment for a membership in : Region 1. Thi ibilit, all legislati : es Wesenee wars Prag a end ihe” Wee Cae al “Tt seems outrageous that union members who were present 7 the ig be pi 4 sponsibility of the Interna- and the Local Unions spend- should be fined double the amount of the fine imposed on men who were foun jo} ional Uae ing more money on such mat- of carrying arms and who had originally been charged as being involved in the shoot- Wiens Agreements gee ee meres ba gabe ae ing,’ said CLC President Claude Jodoin after the Congress executive council considered q ing the B.C. coastal area and putes before the Labour Re- the matter, 2 : 5 ; lations Board, court injunc- of British Columbia should in organizing northern and t also the northern and south-. ern interior of the province require a centralization of ef- fort in matters such as ply- wood evaluation, rate re- vision procedures, application of health and welfare plans, disputes on interpretation of a. master agreement under. right of reference procedures and also, where necessary, ar- bitration of any points in dis- pute that are not resolved be- tween the parties. As Unions become more in- volved in legal problems aris- ing out of application of re- tions, etc. Necessity for a uni- form effort in behalf of Local Unions on this type of prob- lem is obvious. Organization is a problem by itself insofar as the union can only extend its coverage in accordance with the amount of money available to it. There are many wood- workers in remote areas that On Reesor Siding The Canadian Labour Congress has demanded a royal commission the court action that resulted from the fatal shooting Siding, Ont., during a pulp workers’ strike. In calling for such an investigation, the CLC threw its and Sawmill Workers. are unorganized and not cov- ered by a union agreement. The horrible wages and work- ing conditions of most of these woodworkers should ‘have the attention of every member of the I.W.A. Per- haps the most effective way of making this point would be to suggest that the mem- bership in the coastal area trade places with the wood- workers in the remote unor- ganized areas, at least long enough to bring about a re- minder of what the organiza- tion has accomplished in or- ganizing. ‘A concentrated effort has been made by the Regional Council in the last few years of three union members | support behind the i ts southern Alberta, and we find conditions in these areas primitive, as was our experi- ence in the coastal area when organization was first com- menced here. However, in 1963 these backward employers have the added advantage of court See “OFFICERS” — Page 3 mie ; < ye Fs fas a aS Das INDIAN CHIEFS OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST No. 3 of a unique series of pioneer photographs by PERCY BENTLEY, F.R.P.S., of Dominion Photo Co., Van- couver, taken around the early 1920’s at one of the rare tribal summit meetings of that era. Only two sets of these COPYRIGHT photo- graphs are in existence, and we are grateful to Mr. Bentley for permitting us to reproduce them. BULL PLUME O FOR DAYTON’S _, ARTISTRY IN TONS LEATHER MAKERS OF THE FAMOUS “LIGHT CRUISER,” WINNER OF 11 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS — es