THE WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER

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THE WEEK OF MARCH 4 through 8, was a period of unrest at the Kootenay Forest 7 and 8. Pictured above from left to right are: (1) supervisory personnel approaching
Products Ltd. operations in Nolson, which have been strike. bound since October picket line; (2) supervisory personnel being prevented by picketers from entering plant
4, 1967. Incensed by the Company’s paid “return-to-work” and “strikebreaking” advertise- premises; (3) supervisory personnel returning to company office. It is reported that
ments coupled with the performance of Union jobs by company supervisory personnel approximately 11 Nelson City policemen in uniform were on hand allegedly assisted by
behind the legal 1.W.A. picket line, spontaneous mass picketing was staged on March 6, 4-7 R.C.M.P. officers in sports clothes.

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NELSON MEMBERSHIP
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: i “BACK-TO-WORK” MOVE
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PICTURED ABOVE are the nine members of Local 1-405
who were named in the Company’s Notice of Motion and/
or suporting affidavits in order to obtain a “picket restrain-
ing order;” Jack Munro, Theo Reiners, Fred Strukoff, John

Hodgkinson, Jack Musa, Mike Khadikin, Ray Carmen, Gor-
don Dehnke and Walter Skinner.

AN EMERGENCY MASS MEETING was held on March 8, by the striking employees of Ltd. in the City of Nelson, was read to the meeting by Jack Munro, Ist Vice-President

Kootenay Forest Products Ltd. in the Nelson Hotel to discuss the future course of action and Business Agent for Local 1-405. Out of several suggestions the membership decided

in the face of an expected “interim injunction” and the Company’s intent to employ to stage a peaceful and orderly parade through downtown Nelson and to demand a

“scabs.” The affidavit signed by Ray West, General Manager of Kootenay Forest Products meeting with the City’s Mayor Louis Maglio, in order to impress upon him the possible
ugly effects of “Company sponsored scabbing.”

Nelson Daily News
VISIBLY IMPRESSED by the orderly demonstration and

s of Kootena TRADE-UNIONISTS IN GENERAL and 1.W.A. members in particular owe a tremendous

by ae en ests Aaaa oF Ee rail ares City of NAIEBE debt of gratitude to the women pictured above, who are employed at the Kootenay
rd d to intervene and to request the Company to Forest Products Ltd.*plywood operation in the City of Nelson. At the height of turmoil
ee natte the opening of its operations in line with a when company supervisory personnel tried to force their way through the legal 1.W.A.

i ier i A. i picket line these women formed the last barricade and linking arms together defeated
ee ee ee Bing any fromm: JeWAs Regione) their “bosses.” Thanks for a job well done, girls. i