JUNE - JULY, 1977

THE WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER

In celebration of the 40th
Anniversary of the IWA, Local
1-85 Port Alberni sponsored a

pioneer dinner April 2nd and.

invited all retired members of
the Local and their wives to
attend.

Approximately 250 retired
members and their wives
attended along with a number
of other special guests. In-
cluded in these were Regional
President Jack Munro;
Regional ist Vice-President
Stan Parker; former Regional
President Jack Moore; long-
time officers and members of
Local 1-85 John Squires;
Maurice Corbeil and Tom
Barnett; and International ist
Vice-President Fernie Viala.

; HONOURS PIONEERS

Local President Earl Fox-
croft paid tribute to the job
accomplished by the early
members in building the Union
under very adverse conditions.

Henry Nedergard, 3rd Vice-
President of the Local and
master of ceremonies for the
evening welcomed the guests
“tas builders of the Union” and
stated that he would still iearn
a lot from them.

Regional President Jack
Munro stated that he was
honored to have been invited
and given a chance to publicly
acknowledge the loyalty and
dedication of these pioneer
members.

Stan Parker, Regional ist
Vice-President and a former

officer of Local 1-85 also paid
tribute to the retired members

by stating that they were the ~

ones who made the sacrifices

and made the organization - |

“tick’’ and he was proud to be
an JIWA member.

Among the old time mem-
bers attending were veterans
of the old Bloedel Stewart and
Welch Company, Bill Semko,
(1932); Frank Bodanski;
Maurice O’Connell (1935); Bill
Kurtz (Mayor of Parksville) ;
and Hugo Lavander (1935).

The concensus of those at-
tending was that the party was
a tremendous success and
gave the retired members a
chance to reminisce over the
early days.

TO HEAD NEW COMMITTEE

| IWA MEMBER ELECTED
|

A new labour Comittee has
been formed in the Peace
Country of Alberta for the
purpose of presenting a united
labour voice to politicians.

Keith Finnen, ist Vice-
President of Local 1-207 IWA,
was elected President at the
first meeting of the committee
which is known as the Nor-
thwestern Alberta Labour
Committee.

There are about 3,000
workers represented in the
three unions which at the
moment make up the com-
mittee. These include the IWA,
CUPE, and the Alberta Union
of Provincial Employees.

The committee is structured
along the lines of labour
councils except that if does not
have a vote during CLC or

Alberta ederation of Labour
conventions.

A larger number of unions
and people will have to be
represented before an actual
labour council can be formed
in the area. However, the
committee will be recognized
by the two parent groups as a
spokesman for labour in the
Peace Country.

A spokesman for the com-

‘mittee said that the federal

government’s anti-inflation
programme was primarily re-
sponsible for the group’s for-
mation.

“Tom Osborn, a regional
representative with CUPE
stated that the controls
programme has made working
people realize that if they want
to get a fair share from the
economy they must become
politically active.

NEW CHINA TOUR
NOW BEING ARRANGED

The Chinese Government
has given permission for
another group of Canadian
working men and women to
visit the People’s Republic of
China this summer.

Leaving on August 30th and
returning September 21st, the
group of 24 Cenaitens will visit
Peking, Shihchiachuang,
Chengchow, Wuhan, Kweilin
and Kwangchow (Canton).
Total stay in China will be 18
days.

Also included in the tour is a
stay of two nights in Tokyo and
two nights in the British Crown
Colony of Hong Kong. Total
cost is $1895.00 per person,
which includes almost every-
thing, with the exception of a
few meals.

Handling all the arrange-
ments is TRAVEL UNLIMIT-
ED, 166 E. Pender St., Van-
couver, V6A 1T4. Ph. 683-7765.
Participation is definitely
limited to 24 persons.

BANK WORKERS PROTEST :
LIE DETECTOR TESTS

The United Bank Workers
local of the Service, Office and
Retail Workers of Canada has
sent jetters to the Attorney-
General, the B.C. Police Com-
mission and the Human Rights
Branch calling for legislation
to stop management from
ee. lie detectors on bank em-

G)

The union told the various
government officials that some
banks are now making
re ee P loyees a
matter of Aad a least
one firing ciakied.

The union representatives
say the use of Jie detectors by
management constitutes ‘an
infringement of human rights”
and also refers to a recent
Ontario royal commission as
proof that polygraphs are
unreliable.

“Why do they call it the
hour when traffic is at a
standstill?”

LOCAL 1-85 President Earl Foxcroft is shown addressing the
pioneer members while Henry Nedergard, 3rd Vice-Presi-
dent and master of ceremonies looks on at right.

PICTURES ABOVE show some of the hundreds of members who came from ali over the
province to attend the dinner. 5

WE HAVE TO LEARN NOW

MORE ON THE METRIC SYSTEM

Editor’s note:

The following is the fourth of
five articles explaining the
metric system for those of our
members not familiar with this
measuring system.

Say good-bye to the grain,

ounce, pound, hundredweight,
stone, short ton, and long ton:
and say hello to the gram. It
will measure everything that
all those other units had to he
used to measure, and it will do
it virtually all by itself.

Here is how weight is measured in metrics, in table form:

} miJligram (mg)

1 mm3 (of water)

1000 mg = } gram (about 1/28 oz.) = 1 cm} (of water)
1000 g=1 kg (about 2.2 Ibs.) = 1 litre (of water)
1000 kg = | ton (about 2200 Ibs.) = 1 m3 (of water)

Weight is S.I. is based on
the weight of water, measured
in the volumes discussed in
lesson four: The weights of a
mm3, a c.c., a litre, and a m3,
are all the same things; each is
just 1000 times heavier than the
previous one.

Let’s start with the most
common unit, the gram. The

gram is equal to the weight of 1
c.c. of water, Thus, as an
example, we can see that a
container holding 400 cc’s, or

ml’s, of water would weight 400
grams. And from that we can
also see that 1000 ml would
weigh 1000 grams. Referring,
once again, to lessons two and
four, we can immediately see
that this means that 1 litre is
equal to 1000 grams, or 1
kilogram (kg); you’ve heard of
that term before, haven’t you?
Of course you have. And 1000
kg is 1 metric ton (t). Ex-
tremely heavy masses (to use
the ‘‘technical’’ term for

' weight) are measured in

kilotons - 1000 equals 1 kt and
Megatons - 1000 kt, or 1,000,000
t equals 1 Mt.

When measuring extremely
small weights, the milligram is
used: The mg is equal of
course to 1-1000th of a gram; so
there are 1000 mg in i g. This
unit is most often used in
medicine: Take a ‘ook af the
label on the side of any bottle of
medicine - vitamin pills, for
example: You will see that
most of the ingredients are
measured in mg.

And that believe it or not, is
all there is to measuring
weight in the metric system.

Having explained the whole
system now, in fhe previous
four lessons, wel] have a
general review in the next, and
last, lesson. And at the same
time, we’ll see some of the.
ways that this “new’’ system
will be used in a metric
Canada.

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