Vol. XXXI1, No. 13 THE WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER VANCOUVER, B.C. 5c PER COPY STRIKE CRAIN WORKERS = Alta —s GAIN WORKERS {> ce MEMBERS OF THE GRAIN WORKERS UNION, Local 333, on strike at the Alberta Wheat Pool, Vancouver. The Union has been on strike at this Pool since June 2, after voting over 90 percent in favour of strike action. Strikers are left, John Gault, Sam ree, Brett, Theo Heynemans, Harold Harbour. For-full story on strike see Moore’s report page 12. CLC BATTLES AFL-CIO Canadian Labour Congress Secretary Treasurer Donald _ McDonald charged at the 1 ICFTU’s 8th Congress in . DONALD McDONALD g »«.» accuses Meany. % i 4 } A new one-year agreement has been negotiated by Local a, IWA, Seth the Pacific Coast Pipe Company Ltd., eo wage increases of cents an hour for the 65 i pa Amsterdam, that George Meany, President of the AFL- CIO, was trying to push Canadian unionists around. The accusation was made by McDonald when Meany a aetaied four seats for the U.S. in the five-man section allotted to the North Ameri- can section of the ICFTU Board. The U.S. presently holds three seats and Canada two. In a heated statement Mc- Donald said Meany was Play- ing power politics and ‘ will not accept this as tus as we live.” After a meeting with ICFTU President Arne Geijer it was decided the out- come of the battle would be announced in November. This latest action by Meany won't endear him to CLC of- ficials who are already look- ing at him with a jaundiced eye for giving his whole- hearted approval to President Johnson’s tactics in the Do- minican Republic and Viet- nam, PIPE COMPANY SIGNS The new contract will bring the wages of the employees in line with the basic rate paid in the Coast industry. Conducting the _ negotia- tions for the Local were 1st Vice-President Tommy Clarke; 2nd Vice-President George Kowbel and Record- ing Secretary Doug Evans. GETS GOVERNMENT POST S. M. “Stu” Hodgson, Fi- nancial Secretary of Local 1-217 IWA, Vancouver, has been appointed deputy com- missioner for the Northwest Territories by the Federal Government. Stu, who has been a mem- ber of the Northwest Terri- tories Council for the past year, will resign from the Union sometime in August to take up his new duties in the full-time post. S. M. HODGSON » hew post, Under the Northwest Terri- tories Act, the territory is governed by the commis- sioner under instruction from the Federal Cabinet or North- ern Affairs Minister Arthur Laing. No announcement has yet been made by officials of Local 1-217, as to who will fill the vacancy caused by Stu’s resignation. Ist Issue June, 1965 The IWA strikebound Fro- lek Sawmills, North Kam- loops, failed to reopen July 19 as was publicly stated it would do by its owner Mr. George Frolek. Latest word from the area is that the mill is now completely shut down. The big break for the Union in this bitter eleven-month- old. strike occurred recently when the majority of the strikebreakers in the mill quit and joined the IWA picket line. The remaining strike- breakers, three East Indians, are doing “make work” around the yard. Union Representative Bob Ross, who is in charge of strike arrangements reported that Frolek, in announcing his ‘intention to- reopen the mill July 19, was openly chal- lenging the ability of the Un- ion to convince possible re- cruits of the folly of strike- breaking. Regional President Jack Moore stated that the wide publicity given the strike ‘makes it virtually impossible for Frolek to hire workers outside the Kamloops area FROLEK’S A FAILS TO REOPEN § MILL and the workers in Kamloops are honoring the IWA picket line. He suggested that unless Frolek wants the mill to re- main closed indefinitely his only course is. to return to the bargaining table and ne- gotiate with the Union. In the meantime, one of the original IWA strikers at Fro- lek’s has been charged with assault following an alterca- tion in a Kamloops beer parlor. According to witnesses, the IWA member was overheard telling a friend that a truck’ driver a few tables away had driven. through the Frolek picket line. The truck driver immediately started an argu- ment with the striker but was quickly ejected by a waiter. A short time later the IWA man left with his friend and was accosted by the truck driver who had waited for him outside the beer parlor. A heated exchange ensued. The next day he was charged by the police with “Assault by threatening” and ordered to appear in Court later in the month to answer the charge. NEW METHOD MAKES PRESENT MILLS OBSOLETE The Vancouver Times, in a strongly worded editorial July 15, suggested that the pulp and paper industry in British Columbia was more interested in protecting its capital investment than in in- vestigating new pulp produc- ing methods that could elim- inate noxious odors and poi- sonous effluent from pulp mill communities, To back up its argument, the editorial cited the proven hydrotropic pulping system developed in the United States and reported in the Times Business Section July 14, This report stated that the developers of the new system claim it is odorless, won’t poison water and is so eco- nomical that a pulp mill using the hydrotropic pulping sys- tem could be built for ap- proximately $12,000 per ton, as against the $100,000 cost per ton of present mills. It is further claimed that figures based on a mill to pro- duce 100 tons per day show a total cost per ton of $40.70. The average cost per ton of processes now in use is about $63.00. The report also stated that this new process can digest any type of chip. Another point in its favour is that the water consumption of mills using this method is only one fifth that of present pulp mills. ; The secret of the hydro- trovic process is the use of sodium xylene sulphonate (NaXS03) which acts as a catalyst and can be re-used up to 12 times rather than exhausted in one cooking as in the case in the present sys- tems. The cost of these make up chemicals is less than one dol- lar per ton of pulp produced. Cost of chemicals for a Kraft process is from $5 to $25. “Why,” asks the Times’ edi- torial, “does the pulp and paper industry not appear to show interest in the hydro- tropic process? “Is it because any new mill © built to use the new process would immediately make ex- isting mills obsolete with a considerable loss in capital in- vestment?”