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Aft annual meeting

Local 1-288 reaffirms
its stand with P.L.LB.

Delegates attending the An-
nual Meeting of Local 1-288
IWA, November 21 in Nanai-
mo, reaffirmed their deter-
mination to stand fast in their
present dispute with the Pa-
cific Lumber Inspection
Bureau.

The Local has been nego-
tiating with the Bureau for a
new wage agreement since
last April and the action by
the delegates followed a com-
prehensive report made by
Rod Beaton, Local president,
on the state of negotiations.

The strategy to be em-
ployed by the Local if an ad-
‘verse Conciliation Board re-
port is handed down was also
mapped out after a general
discussion by the sixty-eight
members in attendance.

In his Presidential Report
President Beaton summed up
the feeling of the meeting by
stating:

“We have responsibilities to
our fellow IWA brothers on
the job, at the same time we
must continue to pursue the
course we have taken; to
show any signs of weakness
at this time will defeat us.”

The meeting then heard a
brief address by guest speak-
er Regional President Jack
Moore on the twin problems
of mechanization and automa-
tion. Mechanization, he
pointed out, was already tak-
ing its toll in the forest in-
dustry. Older sawmills were
being replaced by newer

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mechanized plants employing
only skilled workers.

He added this elimination
of older mills and unskilled
workers would increase with
the advent of automation in
the industry. The IWA must
face up to the challenge, he
stated, and protect the mem-~
bers by instituting job train-
ing programs.

GUEST SPEAKER Regional
President Jack Moore.

An executive motion to set
up a General Assistance Fund
for the purpose of aiding
worthy appeals was unani-
mously approved by the dele-
gates. Money for the Fund

REPORT ON LOCAL NEGOTIATIONS was given by Rod Beaton, President
of Local 1-288 IWA at the Local’s Annual Meeting November 21, in Nanaimo. .
Group from left, Ron Grant, Financial Secretary; Norm Cary, Ist Vice-Presi-
dent; Rod Beaton; Malcolm Kerr, 2nd Vice-President; Ernie Smith, Recording

Secretary.

would be provided from the
Local’s general revenue at the
rate of ten cents per member
per month.

The delegates also approved
a later motion to set aside

three hundred dollars from
their general revenue to start

the Fund going.

A motion by Ron Grant, Fi-
nancial Secretary to have the
date of the Local’s Annual
Meeting changed from No-
vember to December, passed
when he pointed out that the
November meeting gave him
very little time to prepare his
Financial Report.

At the conclusion of the
meeting, the delegates, their
wives, visitors and friends
took over the Ballroom of the
Shoreline Hotel where they
were treated to a fine banquet
which was followed later by
an evening of dancing.

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Conducts
school in
Salmon Arm.

Joe Miyazawa, Regional
Education Director of the »
IWA, conducted a successful
one-day school in Salmon ‘
Arm, B.C., on November 21.

Students attended from
Westwold, Falkland, Salmon E
Arm, Canoe and Revelstoke.

Subjects discussed included «
a break-down of the Union
dues dollar, Regional Council
jurisdiction, duties of the B.C.
Federation of Labour and the
Canadian Labour Congress, 4
provincial legislation and sev-
eral tests to acquaint the stu- ;
dent with the use of the Un-
ion agreement.

Jack Kerssens, secretary of
the Salmon Arm Sub-Local,
extended thanks to Joe Miya- <
zawa on behalf of the students
for the very informative dis- 5
cussion.

Overseas
workers )
scored |

WINDSOR—Labor is going

to have to study its position '
carefully before making any
recommendations on the gov- =,

ernment’s plan to recruit
skilled workers from over-
seas, according to James
Dowell, education director for
the Canadian Union of Public ~
Employees.

Speaking at a weekend
education seminar in Wind-
sor sponsored by the Windsor
and District Labor Council, -
Mr. Dowell said, “If we per-
mit unrestricted immigration
of skilled workers from other
countries, what is going to
happen to the thousands of ~*
Canadian youngsters who will
be coming out of school inthe
next few years?”

Mr. Dowell said the govern-
ment’s proposal to relieve a
shortage in Canada of work-
ers with specialized skills by ~-
combing Europe for such men
had been tried in Windsor, |
but had backfired. rage

He told of a group of indus-
trialists who got together and
brought workers from Europe
and added, “The inevi
happened. They went to