- THE WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER

CLERICAL CONTRACT
AT SFP OPERATIONS

The Lumber Worker regrets
that the story on the contract
negotiated for the clerical staff
of the Saskatchewan Forest
Products printed in the March
issue was incorrect.

Terms of the new contract
were for a one-year agreement
and provide wage increases
ranging froma low of $27.00
per month to’a high of $68.00
per month.

The contract also calls for
ten statutory holidays plus one
additional statutory holiday
provided a holiday is
proclaimed by any civic or

provincial government where
a SFP operation exists.

For example if the Company
had operations in Prince,
Albert, Hudson Bay and
Saskatoon and one of those
places declared: a_ civic
holiday, all the operations

would automatically get the

same holiday.

Following are the rates:

- Junior clerk starts at $356
per month. This is increased to
$377 in the first year, increased
to $398 during the second year
and goes to $420 in the third
year.

Senior payroll clerk starts at
$568. This is increased to $602
the first year, increased to $635
during the second year and
goes to $670 in the third year.

Senior accountant clerk 11
starts at $626. This is increased

~ to $663 in the first year, in-.

creased to $699 during the
second year and raised to $750
in the third year.

Senior pole scaler starts at
$599. This is increased to $629
the first year, increased to $663
during the second year and
raised to $700 in the third year.

me

THE UNITED FARM WORKERS booth at the CLC Con-
vention proved very popular with the delegates who,

following Cesar Chavez address, gave a record $3,515.85 to”
help the Farm Workers fight with the Teamsters Union.

CLC DELEGATES GIVE
- UFW RECORD $3,515.85

The appeal of Cesar Chavez,
charismatic leader of the
United Farm Workers, to the
record-breaking 10th con-
vention of the Canadian
Labour . Congress, held
May 13th to 17th, extracted the
sum of $3,515.85 from the
cheering delegates, the largest
collection ever taken from a
trade union convention, for the
farm workers’ cause.

“In California men, women
and children are struggling to
save the instrument they have
been building against the
terrible attacks of the
Teamsters and growers,” the
farm workers’ leader told the
huge audience. “We ask you to
support the boycott of western
iceberg lettuce grown in
California and Arizona, and
California grapes.”

The struggle is spreading, he
said. ‘Dock workers in Lon-
don, Rotterdam and Stockholm
refused to handle 11,000 tons of
grapes, which were finally

into the North Sea.”
Reviewing the farm
_ workers’ plight, Chavez told

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DUMARESQ LOGGERS’ AGENCY
328 Carrall Street, Vancouver 3, B.C.

“The Loggers’ Favourite Job Centre”

the CLC delegates that the
three-year contracts which his
unions signed, covering 6,500
workers, expired April 15th
last year. ‘‘On April 16th, the
Teamsters had 32 backdoor
contracts.”

When the farm workers
started “‘the largest strike in
the history of agriculture’, it
was immediately countered
with 65 injunctions against
UFW members which limited
picketing.

“We broke all injunctions.
Five thousand men, women
and children were arrested
between April 16 and August
22; every county jail in the
Fresno area and other places
affected by the strike was filled
. . . The Teamsters paid goons
to beat our people; over 200
were hospitalized and two were
killed . . . The farm workers
realize that the only way to get
rid of the cycle of poverty and
powerlessness, to obtain
human recognition and
dignity, is through their own

union, their own instrument for .
economic justice.”

NICK BRONTE

B.C. FED.

follows:

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operation achieving the best safety record in the Local Union during the past year. The
presentation was made at the Local’s Annual Delegated Meeting May 4-5, in Salmon Arm.
Watching the presentation at the right is Local 1-417 President Sonny Alexandre.
Se ae an RUNNING 24 HOURS
417 Kamloops to attend the The Shelter Bay-Galena Bay Ferry, which operates
B.C. Federation of Labour across the Upper Arrow Lake on Highway 23 serving the
Annual Convention are as Nakusp-Revelstoke-Mica Creek area, will run on a 24-hour
schedule during the summer months. At present the ferry -
Ted MacDonald, Jack operates between 7 a.m. and 6 p.m. F

Kerssens, Larry Viers, Victor
Fast, Larry Jensen. The three
alternates elected were Bob
Schlosser, 1st alternate; Les
Lawless, 2nd alternate; Gayle
Collins, 3rd alternate.

MAY, 1974

The new schedule will have hourly sailings starting from
Shelter Bay at 6 a.m. with the last sailing presently
scheduled at 2:30 a.m. from Galena Bay. More night
sailings will be added if need is demonstrated. /

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