10 THE WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER 1st Issue October, 1966 LOCAL 1-363 IWA The 1966 Annual meeting of Local 1-363 was held in the Native Sons Hall (Courte- nay) on September 11. The meeting was well at- tended and members took an active part in the delibera- tions. Regional President Jack Moore addressed the meeting and spvoke on the fallacy that increased wages are to blame for the present inflationary trend. The regional president also conducted the election of a three-man balloting commit- tee and was in charge of the nominations for local union officers, The membership listened - with great interest to the re- Pi port by the officers dealing with the local union’s achieve- ments of the past year. Fol- lowing is the partial text of the report: ORGANIZATION Six new operation were organized in the year since our last report, and while the units are small, they repre- Sent important keys in the program of organizing the un- organized, and increasing the strength and size of the local in order to provide stability for the membership being served by the local office. At the time of this report, three additional operations are in process of organization. NEGOTIATIONS The past year was one of significant success in the field of rates revisions and upward wage increases to the mem- bership. Members are aware of the great gains made during late 1965, and prior to 1966 nego- tiations, which won substan- tial wage increases to many eategories. At the same time additional gains were made ~ at the local level in achieving higher rates and improved conditions on ie ated — eategories which were far be- low the desired standards. _ A number of other jobs are currently under study by the Loeal, and in several cases there are negotiations under pa ge of the important items cunder way concerns the vast maiority of our members, with the attention now being drawn to Training Programs under process with the larger companies in the area, EDUCATION. While the program of edu- cating more and more stew- ards suffered slow down be- Laie as ANNUAL MEETING cause of the extended wage negotiations, and other un- usual interference, the officers have prepared an outline for renewed classes for the bene- fit of providing union educa- tion to more members. SAFETY In studying the safety re- cords, based on a_ personal survey of the operations by the safety director of the local and region as well as the sta- tistical data on hand, the of- ficers find that, while fatali- ties were reduced from the previous year and that lost time injuries were reduced slightly, the medical treat- ments recorded were double the figure for the previous year. This indicates closer atten- tion by the workers to previ- ous recommendation to pro- tect injuries by immediate at- tention to reporting injuries receiving medical attention. However, the record still shows that hazards in the fall- ing and bucking division have caused 80 serious accidents, closely followed by incidents to rigging crews and an un- usual increase in accidents in truck driving departments. While safety committees have functioned well, and are complimented on the improve- ments shown, it is necessary that the program of accident prevention be further concen- trated in the coming months in order to help avoid injuries which stem from high speed production. GRIEVANCES Complaints handled by the Local Union in the period in- volved 149 individuals, with their problems resulting from health and welfare, medical services, unemployment in- surance and compensation complaints. Several arbitra- tion cases rose from major complaints, and at this time we have arbitration pending on a case involving two mem- bers, and a problem concern- ing interpretation now in the final stages of decision. FUTURE Your officers look ahead with confidence that our local union will continue to suc- ceed in the struggle to better the conditions for the mem- bership, and express the con- viction that further strength and stability will be gained by adjusting the geographical boundaries so that our local is enabled to properly exer- cise supervision for the bene- (Continued on Page 11) | REGIONAL President Jack Moore addressing an overflow crowd at the 1966 Annual meeting of Local 1-363. Pictured also are M. Salter (President of Local 1-363), Karl Lidberg (Financial Secretary), Russ Williams and Wilf Armstrong. We've been making boots by hand for nigh on 60 years. We've yet fo be shown a better way to achieve the supreme quality of a Paris fit. THREE GENERATIONS OF LOGGERS AGREE PIERRE PARIS & SONS 51 West Hastings Street Vancouver 3, B.C. Family Teamwork in Craftsmanship since 1907