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I-80 ELECTIONS |

Following are the names of
the newly elected officers of
the Nanaimo Sub-Local of
Local 1-80, IWA:

Chairman, Vern Dawes; Ist
vice-president, Ee Robinson;
2nd vice-president, P. Hamm;
financial secretary, R. Kerr;
recording secretary, W. Mil-
burn; warden, F. Aquino;
conductor, O. Jabbs.

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| WA Strike ‘Settled

The IWA strike against the Sault Ste. Marie opera

tion of Weyerhaeuser ‘Emad Ltd. has been settled. The
400 employees have returned to work with a wage in-
crease of 17% cents an hour on the base rate in a one

year agreement.
Another 14%4 cents an hour was gained for classified

or skilled workers and 4% cents will be applied to a
Health and Welfare plan.

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UNION-MADE

LEATHER

schedule. The same applies to

those classified as Improvers.
An apprentice who

the test in the second period

of training receives a wage

increase of ten cents an hour.
An apprentice who passes

the test in the fourth period

of training will receive a fur-.

ther wage increase of 10 cents
an hour,

The agreement makes pro-
vision for tools to be supplied
by the employers to OM
wrights employed in manu-
facturing plants under the
Northern Interior agreement.

Millwright apprentices re-
quired to do construction
work are assured that they
will receive on-the-job prac-
tical training.

In commenting on the

agreement, Regional Presi-
dent Jack Megs said:

“The Millwrights’ Appren-
ticeship Training Program,
now a reality in the Northern
Interior, represents real prog-
ress for our Union. I con-
gratulate the members of our
Regional Negotiating Com-
mittee on their success. The
members of Local 1-424 de-
serve the Union’s commenda-

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“PROBE”

financed as “runaway indus-
try” from the higher wage
area of British Columbia. For
instance, the strike - bound
planing mill in Grande Prai-
rie is a wholly-owned sub-
sidiary of Canadian Forest
Products Ltd., Vancouver,
B.C.

“The employees of this com-
pany, now engaged in B.C.
coast negotiations, have given
financial and moral support
to the Grande Prairie strike,
now in its eighth month. A
recent one-day collection from
employees at Eburne and
Huntting - Merritt divisions
netted $430 to supplement re-
lief payments from the IWA
strike fund.

“Low wages paid Alberta
workers for comparable work

‘performed by British Colum-

bia workers at a much higher
rate constitute a threat to
standards negotiated in Brit-
ish Columbia. The Alberta
producers thereby gain an
unfair profit advantage over
British Columbia producers
while supplying the same
markets.”

gr
step forward in our U
plan to offset, as far as pos-
sible, the displacement of |
workers by the rapidly ac-
celerating mechanization of
the lumber industry. This
agreement ensures’ jobs for
many now employed in the _
industry, whose displacement
is threatened. It an im-
portant entering wedge for a
training program of wider ap-
plication.”

“Check Off

For Politics

;
REGINA.—The Saskatche-

wan Progressive Conserva-
tive party has proposed leg- .
islation requiring union mem- —
bers to “check off” if they
wish to have union dues —

checked off for support of a
political party. .

The proposal is contained
in a “white paper” on party
policy for the April 22 elec- ~«
tion campaign.
The white paper says leg-
islation requiring individual
union members to specify that
their dues should be checked :
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off for a political party would
“ensure that the right of
every Saskatchewan resident
to support the party of his
choice has been safeguarded.”

H. S. Elkin, aece Saskat-
chewan labor minister, said ,
Saskatchewan has no legisla-
tion regarding checkoffs. He
said conceivably a union
could decide by majority vote
that a portion of the dues |
paid by all members would
be used to support a certain
pola! party. ;

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1-417 Elections |

Following are the names of
the officers elected at the last
monthly meeting of the Mer-
ritt Sub-Local of Local 1-417,
IWA: }

Lou Tessier, President;
Owen Lloyd, 1st Vice-Presi-
dent; Jack Menzies, 2nd Vice-
President; Jack Biccum, Sec-
retary; William De Geus, |
Treasurer; Ernie MeIvor, |
Warden.

Jack Mumm.

TWO POPULAR MEMBERS of the Port Renfrew Sub-Loce
of Local 1-80, IWA, are photographed in the Local office
Duncan and are, left, Chairman Bill Hanna and Ss