have regular parts or the liven of British ° Seaman, They are not without founda-: But we British Colum- bians have faced hard times before. I believe that it is pos- sible to turn around the harsh economic circum- stances of the past three years. I believe we can, working to- gether and working hard, make British Co- lumbia the land of opportunity and happi- nesé& it should be. To make this change in direction we must first conquer our own fears. A generation ago when others were fac- Vol. XLVII No. 4 a Su he LSEARCHING | ing tragedies, Franklin Delano Roosevelt coun- selled his people with the words: “We have nothing to fear but fear itself.” Those words are true today in British Colum- bia. If we look around at the great wealth of nat- ural resources and the greater wealth of hu- human energy and tal- ent, we should recog- nize at once that there is no need for any worker to be unem- ployed. There is no need for any person to be sick because he can- not afford care. Thereis no need for any youth to turn to crime because of . lack of opportunity for a career. VANCOUVER, B.C. «33»? similar economic With iia recognition we will conquer our own fears. Having overcome our own fears, we can guide our Own economic des- tiny and end forever the uncertainty. of having our jobs and resources controlled by outsiders. We can build indus- tries, mills and refiner- ies and shipyards, that will use our resources and employ our work- ers. These are not idle dreams, These are tasks that can be accomplish- ed. It is my view that ~ British Colum- including every every bian, politician, must now do some serious searching See “BETTER FUTURE”’ page 3 "APRIL, 1979 Dein cnn oa SERPS ee a After repeated ‘attempts - Local 1-71 IWA (Loggers’ Local) has been successful in winning certification of the Price-Skeena Forest Products sawmill in Terrace. The two hundred and thirty- . five-man operation was for- certified to the Terrace & District Forestry Employees Union. In the representation vote conducted April 11, by the Department of Labour, 124 employees voted for the IWA, and 86 voted for the TDFEU. Twenty-five employees re- = from voting. The organizational cam- ign was a joint effort by the ai Union and Dedional organizers headed by Sick RAN oumemaaet | s Pied li i, ae : t =e 2 H i883; FS el i BE? - Worhaug. cluded Ben Lum and John Smithies, Regional organizers phd CERTIFICATION AT Manuel Renan from the Local Union. NOTICE You may not be home on election day, May 22, or any of the advance polling days, but you can still vote .. . by proxy. If you're: © A fisherman, mariner, member of an aircrew, member of a forestry crew, member of a typographical survey trapper, crew, prospector or © it or physically incapacitated; or term, Fad ge }_of illness, obtain a medical * A full-time student registered at a recog- nized educational institution in Canada during are unable to vote in your own poll on May et Fie beeen poll you may appoint a to vote in your place. ' to vote by proxy, all you have to do is ntact the Returning Officer and apply for a ; patna tig before 10:00 p.m., Friday, May fou cam even have your proxy voter make DAVE BARRETT AT BARGAINING TABLE INDUSTRY PRESENTS TWELVE DEMANDS The IWA Provincial Nego- tiating Committee presented the Union’s contract demands to the forest industry’s bar- gaining authority, Forest In- dustrial Relations, April 18, at the Hotel Vancouver. The industry in turn pre- sented a number of demands to the Union which call for: 1. Increased Productivity (Art. V) Appropriate amendment to provide the employer with optional alternative shift sche- dules and, if required, con- tinuous operation. 2. Shingle Piece Rates (Art. IX) (a) Amend Section 1 (b) to provide for consersion of wage increases to piecework on the basis of the respective lnue mill average. (b) Amend Section 1 i pro- vide that Shingle Packers’ daily earnings be set at 80% of the Shingle Sawyers’ daily earnings. 3. Shift Differential (Art. IX) Amend Section 11 to provide for the flexibility of scheduling more than one day shift within an operation without payment of shift differential. 4. Statutory Holidays (Art. © XII) (a) Amend Section 5 to pro- vide. that where employees scheduled on a Monday-Friday work week in an operation ob- serve a Statutory Holiday on a Friday or Monday, it will be observed by the Tuesday- Saturday aeihtenanee em- ployeees on the succeeding Tuesday. (b) Where two or more operations rely on the same support services, the Statutory Holiday will be observed on the same day. 5. Vacation Option (Art. XIII B) Delete the Vacation Option . section from the Master ~ Agreement. ’ 6. Fare Allowance (Art. XV) . Delete ‘‘Sawmills at Tahsis”’ from Section 3. 7. Health and Welfare (Art © XVID Amend the IWA-Forest In- dustry Health and Welfare Plan to: ‘(a) Provide that Weekly In- demnity will not apply to em- ployees on leave of absence for extended vacation, nor to new employees until the first of the month following the month in which they completed their probationary period. (b) Eliminate the disability See “DEMANDS” page 3 proc | BOB PICKERING PASSES | : 1 AFTER SHORTILLNESS _ Bob Pickering, the very popular 2nd Vice-President of Local 1-71 (Loggers’ Local) passed away March 24, after a short illness. Bob joined the IWA in September, 1945, while work- ing as a welder in a logging camp. He was highly skilled at his trade and his services were utilized in a number of oper- ations. He was elected a vice-presi- dent of Local 1-71 in the early fifties and was appointed a full-time Business Agent. For a number of years he was skipper of the Local’s former boat the ‘Loggers’ Navy’, which serviced the log- ging camps up and down the Coast, He is sirkarieiet by his wife Mary and his son Tom, who is a boomman in the industry. §