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Vol. XXXVII, No. 3

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1st Issue
February, 1969

AFTER FIGHTING ICE and bitter cold on the job a
mill workers face the bleak prospect of having their employment cur-
tailed because of a log shortage caused by the short-sighted and_ruthless

ll through January,

policy of the forest industry. Photo shows boom crew at Crown Zeller-
bach Building Materials Ltd. (Fraser Mills) waiting for tug and boom
boat to cleararea free of ice so logs can be sent up jack ladder.

SCHLOSSER APPOINTED
ASS'T ORG. DIRECTOR

Bob Schlosser, President of
Local 1-417 IWA, Salmon
Arm, has been appointed IWA
International Assistant Direc-
tor of Organization of Re-
gional Council No. 1.

BOB SCHLOSSER

The appointment, effective
February 2, was made by In-
ternational 2nd Vice-President
Keith Johnson, who heads up
the Organization Department.

Schlosser succeeds the late
J. Clayton Walls, who had
served as Assistant Director
from 1962-until his death Jan-

uary 22. °

Bob who is 32, joined the
IWA in 1958 while working
as an edger man at the Mer-
ritt-Canford Mill in Merritt.
He went on the organization
staff in 1961 where he helped
organize in the Interior Local
Unions.

He also spent a year organ-
izing in Alberta.

From there he went to Lo-
cal 1-417 where he was elect-
ed to the position of Warden,
later the Recording Secretary
and finally Local President
and Business Agent.

He was also elected an Ex-
ecutive Member of the B.C.
Federation of Labour at the
Federation’s last convention.

Bob is married with four

children.

To allow the editorial
staff an opportunity to
complete holidays, the
Lumber Worker will not
publish its sécond issue in
February.

Normal publication will
be resumed in March.
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PETERSON RECEPTIVE TO UNION’S VIEW
ON GRANTING OVERTIME PERMITS

Labour Minister L. R. Peterson has promised the IWA to investigate the
practice of granting overtime permits in the forest industry which are issued
without prior consultation with Local Unions.

The commitment was made by Peterson February 14 at a meeting re-
quested by the Union to discuss the indiscriminate granting of overtime per-
mits by the Board of Industrial Relations at a time when the industry is faced
with a critical log shortage.

Attending the meeting were
officers of the Regional Coun-
cil, Coast Local Union officers,
Peterson and Ray. Williston
Minister of Lands and Forests.

The Union has been vitally
concerned at the number of
overtime permits granted to
the large converting plants
while employees in smaller
plants are being laid off. The
Union is also objecting to the
exporting of logs at this time.

Spokesman for the Union,
Regional 1st Vice-President
Jack MacKenzie informed the
ministers that these were seri-
ous problems which required
immediate attention to pre-
vent large scale unemploy-
ment in the converting plants.

He charged that the large
companies — who control the
logs — were reaping fantastic
profits at the expense of their
smaller competitors and the
lack of proper government
controls in the industry was
allowing it to occur.

He stated that the large
companies were attempting to
use the recent cold snap as an
excuse for the current log
shortage, when in reality,

their tremendous greed was
responsible.

He cited figures proving
that these companies deliber-
ately manipulated their log-
ging and milling to inflate the
price of lumber. He showed
that over the past few years
when log stocks were down,
the price of lumber skyrocket-
ed allowing these operators to
add to their already swollen
profits. -

MacKenzie stated that this
ruthless policy resulted in the
small companies being de-

prived of logs, causing wide
scale unemployment among
IWA members, which was
economically unsound for the

province. og
He suggested to the minis-

ters that they agree to the
Union’s proposals which
called on the provincial gov-
ernment to:

1. Revise government forest
policies to ensure that small
sawmills and_ shingle-mills
have an adequate and secure
source of logs.

See “OVERTIME BAN?”—Page 2

IWA MAP OF
LOCAL UNION BOUNDARIES

Due to numerous requests, the Lumber Worker has

published in this issue on pages 4-5, a map of British
Columbia and the three prairie provinces showing the
Local Union boundaries of Regional Council No. 1.

These boundaries are drawn as accurately as the
included

wordage in the Union’s Time Book permits.
in the map’s legend are the Local Unions’

membership.

approximate