- 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 Telephone: 684-3931 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: i 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. / IMPORTANT NOTICE | This ad can be the most important ad you have ever read. Many families are separated, with the father living in camp, and the wife and children living in town, simply because of lack of accommodation. Or many people are living in apartments, paying high rent because of large down payments on homes. 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