Fed up with unsanitary con- ditions and other unresolved grievances, 120 members of Local 1-71 IWA employed at the Nass and Kseaden logging camps of the Twinriver Tim- ber Company, a subsidiary of Celgar Limited, stayed off the job ten days until ordered back to work March 18 by a Supreme Court injunction. The officers of Local 1-71 re- port that the Company had displayed complete indiffer- ence to a long list of griev- ances raised by the men prior to the work stoppage. Includ- ed in this list was a serious THE WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER bedbug problem infesting the Nass Camp and a bad water supply at the Kseaden Camp. The bedbug problem was so bad that the men from the Nass Camp going to Terrace on weekends were refused rooms in the Terrace Hotel. The married men in Camp with homes in Terrace were afraid to go home on week- ends for fear of infesting their families with the vermine. The Company took a nega- tive attitude when the crew requested that the Camp be fumigated. The officers of Lo- cal 1-71 when notified of the Camp conditions, immediately demanded fumigation of the Camp. The demand brought a to- ken effort by the Company to fumigate the Camp and the problem remained. The crew at the Kseaden Camp was more successful in resolving the bad water sup- ply. The Company, likely fear- ing an outbreak of typhoid fever which would result in the Camp’s closure, put in a new water line. — The Company, however, bluntly refused to take action on other outstanding griev- ances raised by the Camp Committee which included problems on travel time, safe working conditions, and changes to the working hours. Matters finally reached a head in both Camps on March 9 when the Bullbucker at the Nass Camp suspended a faller for five days for allegedly working unsafely. The crews were incensed at the Company using safety as an excuse for the suspension when up to then it had paid such little heed to safe work- ing conditions of any kind. They demanded that the faller | be reinstated and when their request was denied took ac- tion by remaining off the job. Neither the Company nor its ‘representative Forest In- dustrial Relations Ltd. in- formed the Local Union of the work stoppage. Local of- ficers learned of the dispute three days after from their Terrace Business Agent. They immediately attempt- ed to resolve the problem but met with little success when it became apparent that. the Company preferred taking the Union to court. : FROM PAGE ONE "NORTHERN INTERIOR DEMANDS" © All contract rates to be negotiated with the Union. (2) HEALTH AND WELFARE © Weekly indemnity to $75 per week for 39 weeks. © Health and Welfare and medical coverage to be paid for fully by em- ployer. (3) VACATIONS AND HOLIDAYS ® 3 weeks’ vacation after 1 year of service. © 4 weeks’ vacations after 4 years of service. ® 5 weeks’ vacation after 10 years of service. © Thereafter, 1 week’s addi- tional holiday for each additional 5 years’ serv- ice, with all vacation pay based on 242% of annual earnings for each week of vacation. ®@ Easter Monday to be an additional statutory holi- day. @ Where ‘a statutory holi- day falls on a rest-day Saturday, Monday shall be the holiday. HOURS OF WORK Double rate of pay for all overtime, ® Tradesmen, en neers, Cookhouse and Bunkhouse yees, firefighters, boat- Interim findings of an ex- periment in a given area to test the results of a guaran- teed annual income program indicate that the plan actually gi-” emplo- — men, etc., to have Mon- day to Friday schedules. © All Saturday and Sunday work to be paid at double rate. © Two fifteen-minute rest periods per regular shift for all employees. © All employees to be en- titled to a minimum of a half-hour lunch period. TRADESMEN That wages and condi- tions for tredesmen to be equal to those at the Coast. © That all tradesmen who have completed the Ap- prenticeship Training Program receive the cer- tified rate. LOGGING . Travel-time after 8% hours and overtime rate after 9% hours. © $1.50 per hour pay for use of power saws owned by employees. © Free Room and Board for all employees living in camp cookhouses, or in lieu of Room and Board, $10 per day living-out al- lowance. (This provision (5) e (6) e to apply to all members that live in camps.) © A Logging Evaluation Plan to be negotiated, to establish and protect cor- rect wage differentials for skilled categories. the supplement worked hard- er and spent their money more wisely than those who were left to their own resources. The scheme started in Au- gust 1968 is to run a total of four years at a cost of $5 mil- lion. The money is provided by the U.S. Office of Econo- mie Opportunity. The officials conducting the experiment are being asked to testify before the Senate Com- mittee on Poverty headed by Senator David Croll. The Wisconsin Research group are moving into the rural areas of North Carolina and Iowa to compare results (7) PLYWOOD © That a Plywood Evalua- tion Plan be instituted, with grade increments based on a percentage of the base rate. : SAWMILL That a Sawmill Evalua- tion Plan be instituted, with grade increments (8) ° based on a percentage of’ the base rate. CONTRACTORS - A clause to regulate the use of contractors and owner-operators through- out the industry. (10) GENERAL © The 30-day probationary period to be eliminated. © All reference to “compe- tency” to be deleted from contract. © Improvements to Techno- logical Change clause. © That the practice of work- ing foremen be eliminat- ed. © That the industry nego- tiate a fire fighting agree- ment, with firefighting rates. © A new clause providing that it shall not be a vio- lation of the agreement to refuse to handle “hot products” or cross picket lines, © That the Union Security clause be improved. (9) e j ty * j ah a i eS: so En a) with those in urban New Jer- sey. In the meantime the re- search group is not yet as con- fident as the OKO officials that the preliminary results will be borne out by later study. =) TOO TRUE First Logger: “I’m really a happy man. I have a good job, a wonderful home and the finest wife in the country.” Second Logger: “Who wouldn’t be happy if his wif was in the country?” - JUST THINK GERT ... WITH TH’ CONTRACT I GOT YA MAY NEVER HAVE TO GO BACK TO COOKIN’ IN CAMP .. . PLL SLIP BACK - FER MORE GAS GIVES INDIANS CHOICE STANDING GROUP INFORMED Indian children should not ‘be moved into the regular pro- vincial schools except when their parents request it, says H.B. Hawthorne, a University of British Columbia anthro- pologist. Dr. Hawthorne, along with Adelard Tremblay, a Laval University specialist in com- munity planning, prepared the 1967 Hawthorne-Tremblay re- port, “Survey of the Contem- porary Indians of Canada: Economic, Political, Educa- tional Needs and Policies.” In a Feb. 3rd appearance before the Commons standing committee on Indians affairs and northern development, . Hawthorne said he wishes Dr. Tremblay and he had made this point more strongly in their report. Met by Silence Too often, when Indian af- . fairs officials have gone to tell a community what was plan- ned, they were met by a si- lence. They interpreted this silence as assent, “But often with Indians silence is not as- sent.” Integration of- Indian stu- dents has not gone in the right direction, Dr. Hawthorne added. “I don’t think teachers have realized the task they have taken on.” He said the Hawthorne- Tremblay report did not rec- ommend full integration. “But we have said that economical- ly and every other way the Indians must have a choice, and they must have education to prepare them for that choice.” i Two Cultures Indian education needs to be experimental and to “try bringing children up in two cultures.” Dr. Hawthorne also stressed that Indians should not be as- similated. Integration was a different matter. “The contri- butions of Indians to the na- tional life will only be valu- able if they keep their identi- ty.”