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Officers’ Report submitted

to the 19th Annual Meeting

of local 1-423, IWA, April 11,

* in Kelowna, which was at-

tended by Regional President

, Jack Moore, showed great

progress in the Local’s organ-

izational activities with three
‘new operations certified.

The Report also indicated
¥ the Local was operating with
a healthy financial surplus.

The well attended meeting
heard President Moore state
that unions must strive to

- gain a greater share of the
E profits for their members and
t’ re-training for production
{ workers at the employers’
! expense.

‘i “By putting more purchas-
| ing power into the hands of

‘the membership,” he said, “‘is’

the only way to lessen the
a danger of experiencing the

type of recession that oc-

curred during the 1950's.”

The operators, he pointed
out, were enjoying un-
dreamed of profits and every

_ indication pointed to the cur-
< rent boom continuing into the
1970's. There is no logical rea-
son why IWA members
should not get more money
now and provided the mem-
~ bership backs up their Union
they will, he said.
- In a bitter attack on the
low wages paid in Alberta,
Moore stated that the IWA

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Local 1-423’s Annual Meet
. Reports Record Progress

was prepared to fight it out
with the employers to ensure
the workers there received
fair wages.

Alberta was one of the few
remaining areas left unor-
ganized in Canada and the
IWA could ill afford to have
lowly paid unorganized work-
ers so close to their Interior
operations, he said.

In reviewing the past year’s
activities, the Officers’ Report
stated in part:

“In the past year there has
been increased activity on or-
ganization in the Local Union
with approximately 120 new
members gained through
certification.

“Plant grievances have
been many and varied with
the operators in some in-
stances pulling all the stops
possible. Your officers have
also dealt with a number of
Workmen’s Compensation
problems in addition to Un-
employment Insurance prob-
lems and the personal prob-
lems of some of our members.

“Your officers are pleased
to report that the Local Un-
ion has operated in the black
during the last fiscal year. It
has been the collective desire
of your officers to keep our
operating expenses as reason-
able as possible and at the
same time provide the maxi-

mum of service to you, the
membership.

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IWA MEMBER IN THE MAKING? Ray Friesen,

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“It is a pleasure to report
there has been ‘no fatalities
within the Local Union’s or-
ganized operations over the

past year. Your officers would
like to take this opportunity
to thank all Safety Commit-
tee members, who have de-
voted themselves to the never
ending job of promoting and
participating in safety at the
Plant level.

“Your officers would like
to caution the membership to
start preparing for this year’s
negotiations. If we are going
to. be successful in obtaining
the type of an agreement that
we are all desirous of getting,
we must all pull together.”

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REGIONAL PRESIDENT, Jack Moore addressing the 19th
Annual Meeting of Local 1-423, IWA, in Kelowna. Group left,
S. A. “Bill” Muir, Financial Secretary; Bill Schumaker, Presi-
dent; Moore; Noel Gooding, Recording Secretary.

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