THE WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER

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“NOTHING TO FEAR"

. . . HARTUNG

“You have nothing to fear
as you enter this year’s nego-
tiations,”’ International Presi-
dent Hartung told the dele-
gates attending the Wages
and Contract Conference in
Vancouver, February 25, 26,
and 27.

President Hartung was a
close observer throughout the
proceedings, and commended
the determination of the dele-
gates to secure wage parity
with other large industries. ~

“Once IWA wage standards
were among the best negoti-
ated on this continent,” he
said, “but now the situation is
reversed. We're one dollar
to a dollar and a half an hour
behind the wages in some in-
dustries, which means an
average lag of ten dollars a
day.” .

This can and must be cor-
rected this year, said Presi-
dent Hartung. Skilled labour
required is in short supply,
he said, as he suggested that
the employers “must rectify

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the situation or they will suf-
fer lowered production.

The IWA officer spoke of

A. F. HARTUNG
International President

~conferences betwen the rep-

resentatives of all those un-

ions related to the lumber in-~°

dustry on the Pacifie Coast,
and whose contracts expire
in June. These unions, he
said, have pledged each other
mutual support in the 1966
bargaining strategy. B.C. un-
ions are not excluded from
this pact, he assured the con-
ference.

He scored the investment
policy of MacMillan, Bloedel
& Powell River which seeks
advantage of lower wages
paid in the state of Alabama.
Wages paid in the Deep
South are disgracefully low,
he said, and presents a situa-
tion which the IWA is de-

termined to correct.

The MB & PR investment
policy should be noted in
B.C., he said, as production
in the Deep South will thus
gain an unfair competitive
advantage over B.C. produc-
tion intended for exactly the
same markets.

OTTAWA — Eight thous-
and civil servants joined the
ranks of organized labor when
the National Employment In-
surance Association affiliated
with the Canadian Labor
Congress recently.

Ed Fortier, executive secre-
tary of NUICA, said his or-
ganization could now “look
forward to much closer ties
with the workers in the rest
of Canada.”

In welcoming the new civil
service body, CLC President
Claude Jodoin said he re-
garded the NUICA affiliation
“as a particularly important
step with the likelihood of
early collective bargaining
for the federal civil service.”

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