4st Issue November, 1963 THE WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER IWA REGIONAL RESEARCH DIRECTOR, Joe Miyazawa (centre) at the I.L.O. Conference in Geneva, held last Septem- ber 30 to October 18. Unemployment Studied By I.L.0. Conference The critical problems of un- employment and wunder-em- ployment were discussed at an I.L.0. Conference held in Geneva September 30 to Oc- tober 18, 1963. Government, employer, and worker delegates from fifty- six countries were represent- ed at this Preparatory Tech- nical Conference on Employ- ment, Policy. The Conference adopted a series of conclu- sions incorporating proposed measures to combat unem- ployment and under-employ- ment. The conclusions fall under four main headings. General objectives and principles of employment policy; general and selective measures of em- ployment policy; employment . problems associated with eco- nomic underdevelopment and international action, and ac- tion of employers and work- ers and their organizations. The conclusions adopted by this Preparatory Conference will be.communicated to the I.L.0. member countries and will be before the next ses- sion of the International La- bour Conference in June 1964 for final decisions. SIMONI IQ HNL How to Make $26 Million (By M.B. &P.R.) The following notice was pinned on the pay cheque of a Port Alberni IWA member employed at the Somass Division of Mac- Millan, Bloedel & Powell River Limited: “This is to notify you that you have been overpaid by 10 minutes and the adjust- ment will be made on your next pay cheque.” The same day, the follow- ing article appeared in the newspapers reporting the third quarter profits of Mac- Millan, Bloedel & Powell River: “A strong third quarter is also announced by MacMil- lan, Bloedel and Powell River, and the increased net income during this period has enabled the company to catch up on its performance of last year after lagging during the first six months. Net income for the nine- month period is $26,000,000 ($1.25 a share). This is ex- actly the same as for the corresponding period a year ago. The third quarter net in- come, however, was $8,466,- 373 against $7,437,610 in the corresponding quarter of 1962.” HT “In common things that round us lie Some random truths we can espy, The beauty of a searching root The comfort of a mighty boot... ?: (WITH APOLOGIES TO WORDSWORTH!) FUR ROWED wa Lp b by Time and Honourable Service .... DAYTON SHOE MFG. CO. (B.C.) LTD. 2248 - 50 EAST HASTINGS ST., VANCOUVER, B.C. 1-288 Scores Plan Markets Jeopardized By New Stamping System By ROD BEATON President of Local 1-288 The integrity of the Coast’s lumber grading system is be- ing jeopardized in world mar- kets through the introduction by the Pacific Lumber Inspec- tion Bureau of a new licensed grade stamping service. The new service offers the lumber industry the use of PLIB stamps without the necessity of using PLIB In- spectors to control quality. This form of grade stamp- ing has been in effect in the Interior for a number of years with indifferent success because it is dependent on the honesty of the individual operators. The practice has been for a group of operators to get to- gether and agree on a com- mon stamp for their lumber. They then have the stamp approved by the Canadian Lumber Standards Associa- tion and its counterpart. in the United States. By using this system no PLIB Inspec- tors are necessary. This practice, unfortunate- ly, allows each company to assess the quality of its own lumber and the lumber grad- er being an employee of the company is placed in the dif- ficult position, if his employer is dishonest, of having to raise the value of inferior lumber or face being fired. Here on the Coast how- ever, qualified PLIB Inspec- tors who are independent of the companies, have complete control in assessing quality of the lumber. This impartial stamping system has enabled the Coast lumber to maintain a quality of excellence long admired in world markets. The new stamping service will also have an adverse effect on employment in the industry by eliminating PLIB Inspectors from the planing mill section of the mills. Local 1-288 believes that the grading and ‘inspection of all lumber should be con- trolled by an independent or- ganization if the quality of the product is to be main- tained. The cooperation of all IWA members and especially grad- ers is necessary if we are to win this fight. We ask that no PLIB stamps be used without a PLIB Inspector be- ing there. We feel that only through this type of cooperation can the position of both the PLIB Inspectors and graders be improved. DELL PRATT, third Vice- President of Local 1-80, IWA, has been appointed the Lo- cal’s new Business Agent. Prior to his appointment, Dell was Chairman of the Gordon River Grievance Committee. 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