APPROXIMATELY 510 MEMBERS of Local 1-367 employed at the Hammond Division of B.C.F.P. — one of the larger integrated forest industry companies in British Columbia — temporarily withdrew their labour starting lunch-time on the dayshift March 26 in protest of the immediate lay-off of 28 crew members and the inhuman working conditions both resulting from an intensive efficiency study by the infamous Proudfoot Company. FROM PAGE ONE THE WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER PS toes "HAMMOND WORKERS" Fieblecorn, T. Coward and L. Cowan. For the company: J. Warr, E. Mosdell, D. Barker, N. Flowerdew and B. Wallace. During the meeting Plant Manager J. Warr was quoted tating “as of the comple- nm of this meeting the plant s shut down.” The next day the crew was informed of the Company’s decision and the men gave 100% backing to their Local Union negotiat- ing committee. Work resumed at the start of the afternoon shift on April 2 following meetings between IWA officials, FIR and BCFP contingent upon a satisfactory settlement prior to April 6. The Union negotiating committee — headed up by Regional President Jack Moore — worked out a solu- tion which was presented to the above mentioned mass meeting of April 7 in the Ha- ney Legion auditorium for membership ratification. AGREEMENT Mr. C. Godfrey, President, Local 1-367, International Woodworkers of America, Haney, B.C. Dear Sir: Following are the commit- ments undertaking by British Columbia Forest Products Limited as a result of our re- cent discussions concerning erew transfers and lay-offs resulting from studies of Alexander Proudfoot Inc. at our Hammond Division: 1, The Company guarantees it has not and will not use Proudfoot reports as a basis fer disciplining or discrimi- nating against any individual employee, either while em- ployed at Hammond or in seeking employment else- where. 2. It is the hope of the Com- pany that any reductions in crew, resulting from Proud- foot studies, can be achieved through normal attrition such as quits and retirements. However, in the event that this is not the case the Com- pany agrees that no employee with one or more years of seniority as of April 1, 1968 will be laid off as a result of Proudfoot installations. wage rate of any employee who is transferred to a lower paid job because of Proudfoot installations, provided the em- ployee involved has two or more years of seniority at the time he is transferred. In the event such an employee is subsequently promoted for a temporary period of one week or more to his previous job or rate level, these temporary periods will not be included in the six months of rate pro- tection. An employee so af- fected will lose this six months “red - circle” protec- tion if he fails to bid on high- er-rated jobs to which his seniority and competency en- title him. 4. The Company agrees that employees laid off because of Proudfoot installations will be Paid severance pay in accor- dance with the terms of Arti- cle VI, Section 3 of the Master Agreement. 5. The Company agrees to advise the. Plant Committee in situations requiring un- usual overtime. This would normally include the situa- tions where a number of em- ployees are involved, and would not include normal scheduled, or emergency overtime. On the basis that the Com- pany will undertake all of the above commitments at its Hammond Division, it is un- derstood that you will en- courage the cooperation of the employees in our efforts to achieve greater efficiencies at that Division. Yours very truly, BRITISH COLUMBIA FOREST PRODUCTS LIMITED, W. H. Wallace, Manager, Industrial Relations Department. i ae oe) LIGHTER SIDE Modern economics: The present generation paying the last generation’s debts by is- suing bonds for the next gen- eration to pay. es | “Officer, I’m looking for a small man with one eye.” “Since he’s a small man wouldn’t it be better to use both?” POOR LIBERALS Here’s how the Liberal leadership. candidates got around the country to campaign. PAUL MARTIN—“Swooping in aboard the sleek little French Falcon jet owned by Westcoast Transmission’s Frank McMahon, Mr. Martin, freshly briefed on local problems by James Peterson, one of the bright young (26) aides, is ready to shake the first outstretched hand.” —John Walker in Southam News Services, March 12, 1968. PAUL HELLYER—‘“Paul Hellyer flew to Winnineg last weekend in a Jet Commander, loaned by Bombardier, the firm that makes snowmobiles. In Winnipeg he trans- ferred to a Piper Navajo, owned by Rodell Industries. The president of Rodell is Rod MclIsaac, the federal Liberal organizer in Manitoba .. .” ROBERT WINTERS — “Like Mr. Martin, Robert Winters was in the Maritimes, and like Mr. Martin, he was travelling in a loaned aircraft — the property of Denison Mines...” PIERRE TRUDEAU—‘Pierre Trudeau went west in a twin-jet de Haviland DH-125, which carried the name of the Domtar Company, but which, according to aides, Mr. Trudeau has chartered from Execaire (Quebec) Ltd. It is the same aircraft that Execaire leases to Domtar.” JOSEPH GREENE—“Joe Greene did Northern On- tario in a three-passenger Piper Apache, loaned by a friend in the Ottawa-based firm, Survair Ltd. Mr. Greene will be using the same aircraft to visit Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick . . .” ALLAN MacEACHEN — “Allan MacKEachen used a chartered Air Commando to go to Sudbury last weekend. and will do so again this weekend in New Brunswick, An assistant said, although the plane was chartered, there may have been a preferred rate.” JOHN TURNER—‘“John Turner, in British Columbia last weekend, had the use of a small aircraft; a spokesman would not say by whom it was loaned.” MITCHELL SHARP—“Mitchell Sharp hasn’t needed transportation; he’s been grounded in Ottawa. But if he goes West this weekend, he probably will do so in a Falcon Jet owned by Home Oil Co. of Calgary.” § IF IT’S MONEY YOU WANT TO MAKE § THEN USE THE ““ALL-NEW SABRE WIDE-CUT CHAIN" (a helps your saw make money faster. High quality, low Priced, fully guar- anteed. MADE IN CANADA, USED THROUGHOUT THE WORLD DEALER ENQUIRIES INVITED SELLS BROS. SALES LTD. CANADIEN CHAIN SAWS — Distributors for ALL-NEW SABRE WIDE-CUT CHAIN 221 Carrall Street Vancouver 3, B.C. Telephone MU. 4-7758 11 In a subsequent meeting held the same day between B.C.F.P. Local Management and Local 1-367, the Company informed the Union that “as of the completion of this meeting the plant is shut down.” A mass meeting of the crew on March 27 unanimously informed the officers of Local 1-367 that a return-to-work would be contingent upon the disappear- ance of the Proudfoot Company from the Hammond _ mill. BEST OF LUCK TO STRIKERS To All IWA Members Presently on Strike in B.C.: While we in this Local Union 2-1000 in Northern On- tario do not have a large bank account that we can support you financially, we do moral- ly support the terrific fight that you people are putting up against the giant corpora- tions of B.C. It is this kind of determina- tion and solidarity that made the labor movement and this country of ours what it is today. 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