2nd Issue

December, 1963 THE WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER

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IWA STRIKERS PICKET MAIN GATE at the Orion Bowman & Sons sawmill near Chilli-
wack. The strikers are members of Local 1-367; IWA, and are, from left, John Giesbrecht,
Henry Geng, Eugene Geng, Bill Reimer, John Nickel, Art Corey, Local Financial Secretary.

IWA Certification Contested
ke-bound Company
Taking L.R.B. to

‘Owners of the strike-bound

Orion Bowman & Sons Saw-
mill at Chilliwack, are now
threatening the Labour Rela-
tions Board with court action
for granting the IWA certi-
fication of the mill.

They are contesting the cer-
tification on the ground that
the Board withheld pertinent
information from them. They
also claim the certification
should have excluded the
' win Company’s log dump employ-
oe ees as their logging operations

PICKET CAPTAINS Ed Petker, left, and Hans Roenitz in . Sa Sao ae were not included in the

: OE aS 5 hain. Union’s application.
front of the strikers’ trailer headquarters. LONELY SCAB sorts out lumber on the green chain Officers’? Cfo Moca eae

_ IWA, who hold the certifica-
tion, state the log dump is on
the mill property; the employ-
ees were allowed to vote in
the Government Supervised
strike vote, so they must be
considered as part of the bar-
gaining unit. ;

r “lanier In the meantime, the strik-

Si vac oS oh ee 1 ers are also being threatened

Bogae—** by court action but from an-
other source. An Ontario
firm, the Peirson Sash & Door

Company which has a small

plant on the mill property, is

attempting to obtain an in-
junction preventing the strik-

ers from picketing the mill.
The Peirson Company

claimed in applying for the in-

junction that the strikers
were initimidating their em-
ployees doing normal main-

tenance work at the mill.
The Local officers stated the

Peirson employees were not
doing maintenance work but
were conducting major reno-
vations to the mill. While
these renovations continue,
they said, Orion Bowman
will make no effort to settle
the strike.

The Peirson employees are
nothing but strikebreakers,
they suggested, and the courts
would be amiss in: granting an
injunction. .

The threat of an injunction
is not worrying the strikers.

e o The officers say their morale
when rrié QO, iN.. in high even theugh Ge mee
. eee is now more than two months

old. They are happy too in

f the knowledge that the Com-
WV IM RR ED pany’s production is at a
A standstill. mone
ys gan ele PREMIUM } “The Company can’t hold
B.C.’s LARGEST SELLING BEER LIK On out for ever,” they say, “and

_when we settle it won’t be for
any lousy $1.25 or $1.50.

“Nothing will suit us but
the Standard Coast Agree.
men’ ” t * f