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LOCAL 1-71 secretary-treasurer Bill Wilson addressing
crew from Weldwood of Canada’s Empire Logging Di-
vision at Squamish, October 3. To Bill’s left is John Piche,
secretary of the Union Committe and to the right is Dan
Otto, chairman and Local trustee.

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EMPIRE LOGGING DIVISION CREW voting on the In-
ternational ballot for the new 2nd vice-president at the
conclusion of the meeting.

LOCAL 1-71’s Union Committee chairman and _ secretary
Gordon Flowerdew and Fred Thrasher at Canadian Forest
Products Camp “N’” during the meeting held October 16.

LOCAL 1-71’s Union Committee chairman and secretary
Andy Sobczak and Harald Holdt at Rayonier’s Mahatta
River Logging operation during the meeting held Oct. 15.

An interim agreement was
reached on Thursday, Nov.
16, between Local 1-217 IWA
Vancouver and Monocrest
Kitchens Ltd. of Richmond,
which will apply until a de-
cision is made by Canadian
Labour Congress umpire H.
Carl Goldenberg, of Montreal,
on the jurisdiction quarrel
with Local 1928 of the Car-
penters and Joiners Union.

Under the terms of a letter
of understanding entered in-
to by both sides, the IWA
were to supply all the labour
and workers who were hired
by the company after the
IWA’s legal strike was started
on Oct. 26 were to be laid off.

Members of the Carpenters
Union had been crossing the
IWA picket line but on Wed-
nesday, Nov. 15, that union
called its crew out and the

carpenters began respecting .

the picket line.

The following are the terms
of the letter of understanding
signed by the company and
Local 1-217:

© Monocrest Kitchens Ltd.
agrees to pay retroactive pay
to May 1, 1967, or during the
period of employment, if
hired since that date, to all
IWA members in the amount
of 25 cents per hour for all
hours worked. This retroac-
tive pay shall be paid in full
to those entitled not later
than Friday, Nov. 17, 1967.

e All-employees hired by
the company since Oct. 25,
1967, shall be laid off and not
re-hired. (The strike by the
IWA started on Oct. 26.)

e All new employees dur-
ing the period of this letter of

MONOCREST INTERIM SETTLEMENT

understanding, being in fact
hired by Monocrest Kitchens
Ltd., shall be supplied by Lo-
cal 1-217 and can be replaced
if unsatisfactory to the com-
pany.

e During the period that
this letter of understanding is
in effect, all employees shall
be paid the rate of pay as
designated for the various job
categories.

SYD THOMPSON

(Local 1-217 president Syd
Thompson explained that
throughout the summer, the
IWA members were paid at
lower rates of pay than the
Carpenters Union members
got, doing the same jobs. The
IWA members will now get
the designated rates.)

© Monocrest Kitchens Ltd.
agrees not to obstruct in any
way whatever through the
Labour Relations Board or
any other government agency
or the courts, the right to re-
sume the strike by Local 1-
217 IWA against Monocrest,

nation of this letter of
standing, if a satisfactory col-
lective agreement is not

agreed upon.
® tigi a out of the
paragraphs
shall not be the subject of

first and fourth
contempt of court proceed-

S.

® This letter of understand-
ing shall be null and void
upon the date that the Cana-
dian Labour Congress umpire
dealing with the jurisdictional
dispute regarding Monocrest
Kitchens Ltd. is handed down,
if his decision is favourable to
Local 1928 of the Brotherhood
of Carpenters and Joiners.

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LIGHTER SIDE

The nemesis of a large
office of clerical employees
was the office manager, an
incorrigible braggart and
pompous stuffed shirt who
overlooked no occasion to
dress down and humiliate an
employee in the presence of
the entire office for the petti-
est of reasons.

One day, after a phone call
from his wife, the office man-
ager strutted into the office,
chest puffed out in obvious

self - satisfaction, and loudly
exclaimed, “My wife’s preg-
nant!”

After a moment of silence
a sweet young voice from the
back of the room demurely
asked, “Whom do you sus-
pect?”

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