“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

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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

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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