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Vol. XXXVIII, No. 9

- VANCOUVER, B.C.

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MOORE WARNS PPWC OFFICERS
"STOP RAIDING IWA OPERATIONS"

ALBERNI LABOR COUNCIL
"ROCKS * CITY FATHERS

The Port Alberni & District
Labour Council has handed the
Port Alberni City Council a
real ‘hot potato’ with its
request for financial
assistance to aid affiliates

bargaining for new contracts..

In making the request,
Labour Council Secretary-
Treasurer John Squire, who is
also Financial Secretary of
Local 1-85, IWA, pointed out in
aletter to the City Fathers that
the Council has expressed its
concern over the annual grants
made by the City to various
community groups’ and
organizations.

Squire stated further that the
Council’s biggest objection was
the annual grant awarded to
the Local Chamber of Com-
merce on the pretext that it

Stimulated tourist trade and
brought in needed tourist
dollars to the area.

His letter went on:

“It is our opinion now and
has been for many years that

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REQUESTED ZuE EuMeeR

that through
~ Council's affiliates in 1970,

developing of this kind of ac-
tivity rests with those who
benefit from such trade. Surely
no one is going to convince us
millworker, a

that a

JOHN SQUIRE
longshoreman, or a_ logger
benefits financially from in-
creased meal or gas sales that
may accrue from the spending
of.his tax dollar on the tourist
trade.”’

(In 1970, the Port Alberni
City Council allocated $12,000
in tax money for grants to
individuals and organizations.

This year’s grants will amount-

to $10,000.) }
Hitting at the lack -of
initiative on the part of the

commercial interests, the
letter stated:
“We will accept the

promotion of the tourist trade
by those who benefit from it,

but the commercial interests in.

the Valley should be the
authors and financial con-
tributors to their. own en-
terprises, in the same manner
as the labour movement ac-

cepts its responsibility for .[
increased income to _ its
members.

“Both the labour groups and
commercial groups have their
own individual responsibility
in these endeavours. We have
accepted ours and we object to
being taxed over and above our
voluntary payment of Union
dues to put income into
someone else’s pocket.”

The letter then pointed out
the efforts of the

ne 5000 members and

ALSO ACCUSES PPWC OFFICERS
OF DECEIVING THEIR MEMBERSHIP

Regional President Jack Moore has warned officers of the Pulp and Paper
Workers of Canada to stop raiding IWA certified operations. He stated that the
IWA will no longer tolerate such attacks by any organization.

In making his statement he accused PPWC officers of deceiving the PPWC
membership in reporting their application for certification of MacMillan Bloedel’s
Chemainus Sawmill Division on Vancouver Island.

LOCAL 1-207
STRIKES

AT HINTON

IWA members of Local 1-207
Alberta, employed at the
Woodlands Division of North
Western Pulp & Power Ltd.,
Hinton, struck the operation
February 3.

The crew voted 130 to 66 for
strike action.

Local Union President Arne
Christensen stated that the
dispute centered on _ the
company’s’ insistance of
treating the crew of the
Woodlands Division as second
class citizens.

He cited as an example the
difference in the labour rates
of $2.54 an hour paid to the
Woodlands crew as compared
to $3.30 an hour paid to the
company’s mill crew.

President Christensen stated
that there were also a number
of other injustices that needed
rectifying and until all of them
were resolved, the strike would
continue.

He charged that the PPWC
officers deliberately applied
“out of time” for the certifi-
cation held by Local 1-80
IWA, because the member-
ship application cards submit-
ted to the Labour Relations
Board were signed last year.

Moore said that the appli-
cation was nothing but a pro-
paganda
cover up their inept leader-
ship. He stated that his ac-
cusation could be substantiat-
ed by a check of the PPWC
application to the LRB.

He warned that the IWA is
fast losing patience with the
raiding tactics of the PPWC
officers who evidence more
interest in perpetuating them-
selves in office than looking
after the welfare of their
members or the interests of
the labour movement.

The Regional President stat-
ed that the cannibalism dis-
played by these officers in at-
tacking organized operations
instead of attempting to or-
ganize the unorganized, indi-
cated a complete disregard
for trade union principles.

He said also that the PPWC
officers were notorious for
their “back-stabbing” of -un-
ions at a time when those or-
ganizations were fighting with

FIVE MEMBERS of the joint Union-Management committee on sawmill evaluation in the”
Southern Interior are shown aftending the joint Union-Management conference held in
Kelowna February 8-9-10. Group left, Employer evaluator John Houston; Union evaluator
Tony Vanderheide; Managing Director of the Interior Forest Labour Relations Association
Mike Davison; Regional! ist Vice-President Wyman Trineer; Industrial Engineer Lorne

Fingarson, See Story Page Five.

“smokescreen” to *

their employers to win im-
proved contracts for the mem-
bers.

The IWA, Moore added,
has no intention of allowing
officers of the PPWC or any
other organization to jeopar-
dize its fight to gain better
wages and improved working
conditions for its members.

He concluded by stating
that while the IWA deplores
fighting another union, it will
use all its resources and
strength to retaliate if there
is any further attempt by the
PPWC officers to raid opera-
tions in the IWA’s jurisdic-
tion.

President Weldon Juben-
ville of Local 1-80 IWA,
whose Local has held certifi-
cation of the Chemainus Saw-
mill for over thirty years,
stated that the PPWC appli-
cation was “as phoney as a
three-dollar bill.”

He said the PPWC officers’
were afraid to conduct a new
vote in the operation because
the crew there knew PPWC
members had been badly led .
into a disastrous 10-week
strike last summer.

Jubenville added that after
ten weeks on the picket lines,
the members were forced to

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