2 THE WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER Deserted Aa Heavy MEMBERS OF LOCAL 1-424 employed at the Merrill - Wagner Sawmill, Williams Lake, are shown attending a Joint Safety Committee meeting. Local 1-424 Safety Direc- tor Fred Ibis reports the operation is fighting an uphill battle on safety and winning. MERRILL WAGNER VENEER division has an excellent safety record. Joint Safety Committee is seen here in session. MEMBERS of Local 1-424 I|WA employed at the Tubafour Company, Quesnel, enjoy the new lunch room and facilities . installed by the Company for their convenience. FROM PAGE ONE "WOODS TASK FORCE REPORT” tries where a strike would be against the public interest.” SPECIAL PROCEDURES He goes on to say that labor and management in such designated industries would be required to negotiate spe- cial procedures, ranging from mediation to an imposed set- tlement through arbitration. The Council of the Cana- dian Labor Congress meeting in Ottawa December 4th re- frained from official comment on the Woods report until it is tabled in parliament. The Woods-proposed Public Interest Disputes Commission, differs substantially from the tribunal or labor court pro- posed by former justice Ivan C. Rand for Ontario. Rand’s tribunal would be a court with arbitrary powers of interven- tion in labor-management dis- putes. ONLY AFTER STRIKE The Woods Commission, ac- cording to List, would have the power to prescribe a pro- cedure, but compulsory arbi- tration could come into play only after a strike and with the consent of parliament. Dealing with problems aris- ing from technological change, the Woods report apparently will propose that “unions and management be permitted to negotiate clauses that would empower unions to strike dur- ing the life of a contract if they cannot agree on how to reduce the burden imposed on workers by technological This seems to fall short of the Freedman report which proposed that this and other safeguards be made manda- tory by legislative action. PICKETING LAWS The laws regarding picket- ing will be changed to allow secondary picketing which does not result in a work stop- page and to permit employees of a company “that allies itself with a struck firm to refuse to cross a picket line.” Moreover the Labor Board rather than a court would de- cide if picketing is legal, al- though the manner of picket- ing would still be left to the courts. The report, per List, -will also recommend that the prin- ciple of national bargaining units be maintained, that is, it opposes what Bill C-186 proposed. It will also recom- mend an automatic union se- curity formula under which all employees in a bargaining unit would be required to pay dues to the union; and the establishment of an incomes and cost review board. HOUSE OF COMMONS By and large Woods should be an antidote to Bill 33 in British’ Columbia as well as to Rand in Ontario. But the official trade union position will only be made known after the federal government itself tables the final report in the House of Commons. The government-appointed federal task force includes Dean H. D. Woods of McGill University, Dean A. W. R. Carrothers of the University of Western Ontario, John Crispo, head of the University of Toronto Centre for Indus- trial Relations and Abbe Ger- ard Dion of Laval University. NO TRUST A hillbilly truck driver wrote to a mail order house: “Please send along one of those gas engines you show on page 11 of your catalogue. If it’s any good I'll send you a cheque.” A week later he received the reply: “Send along your cheque — if it’s any good we'll send along the engine.” The Working Man's 3 Best Friends: (1) A cool head (2) Steady hands and (3) Well-shod feet (DAYTON'S of course) NO BETTER BOOT AT ANY PRICE