WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER : IWA International President, A, BF. Hartung and Regional Sec- retary- Treasurer, Fred Fieber were guest speakers at the meet- ing held by Local 1-80, IWA,, -_ May 14, to install the newly elec- ted officers. _ ‘The following are the names of the officers who were installed by Presi- !/, dent Hartung: | President, Weldon Jubenville; 1st _ Vice-President, Lorne Atchison; 2nd _ Vice-President, George “Dody” Ziz- _, 2c; 3rd Vice-President, Frank Wil- _ son; Financial Secretary, Edwin Linder; Recording Secretary, Peter _Hawryluk; Conductor, Fernie Vialo; , Warden, William A. Dwyer; Trustee, \ George Cross. Fyaryet5 as ~ In his address to the meeting Presi- dent Hartung stated that a shorter work week was the only solution to automation and the population ex- plosion. He termed the present unem- ployment in both the U.S. and Can- \.. ada “a tragic situation” and charged \ “ that both governments were showing o4 Ve, ) Vi. } no great concern. Hartung Installs Elected Officers Secretary-Treasurer Fieber reported on the Coast negotiations to date. He also pointed out that the member- ship could help the Union’s negotiat- ors by maintaining a united front at this critical time. WELDON JUBENVILLE .. High-Handed hee _ reported that a company foreman "on his toes while ordering him to do other type of work than y, which he was doing at the time. “Local 1-85 Protests SUBMITTED BY LOCAL 1-85 On Thursday, May 25th at approximately 9:00 a.m., an em- ployee of MacMillan, Bloedel & Powell River, Somass Division Tactics pushed him around and stomped When reporting the incident, the employ juested that a Union \? Official go down to the mill. Mr. Cor- a beil, financial secretary of Local 1-85, * went to the Personnel Office immedi- ately and a few minutes after arriving * there the employee involved came into the Personnel Office. The per- 4 sonnel man and Corbeil listened to | the employee's side of the story. A \ » request was then made that a Union _ representative be allowed to go with vy the personnel man to talk to the fore- i. man involved — the request was de- nied and the personnel man stated } that he would phone the IWA office ', and report what he had found out ie from the foreman. The employee in |. question was instructed to remain in \ * the Personnel Office and later was returned to his job. :* The foreman's explanation, received | from the Personnel man via the tele- | “ phone, was entirely different from i the explanation given by the em- ‘ ' ployee. » Union p tatives quest , * that passes be granted allowing them Vy b to go into the mill at lunch time and speak to the crew and get the other side of the story, without being es- corted by company officials—this re- quest was denied. \ ; Business Agent Squire and Finan- . cial Secretary Corbeil went to the mill just before noon and were y &ranted a pass and were escorted by the personnel man into the mill. This + made it impossible to get a true pic- ture from the other employees as « long as the personnel man was pres- ent. To avoid this, the whole crew , y Was taken outside of the plant gate and a meeting was held with them in ce the parking lot. Members of the crew reported that the employee's story, ‘a8 given earlier in the personnel office, was factual. This shows how far top manage- ment will go to deny the right of free association during lunch periods of union members to discuss their prob- lems with representatives of their LC Union without surveillance of Com- " pany officials. + It is reported that members of the Grew are very upset and unhappy | y about the new policy of the company & x ry ~ in’ restricting union officials from » Visiting union members during their » hunch period. ‘¥ The Officers of Local 1-85, IWA are also very concerned and have * pledged themselves to do everything : Boulder Creek 4 Members of Local 1-405, IWA, * employed at the Boulder Creek Saw- mill, who were elected to the Griev- “ance and Safety Committee, are as - follows: Plant Chairman and Head Shop Steward, Joe Nussli. Pee. S f + Grievance Committee Dan McQuarrie; Duey Johnson; «© Nussli; Edward Whitney. Safety Committee in their power to re-establish the free- i ~~ wi ——elae, JACK WILLIAMS, Canadian Labour Congress Public Relations Director (left) addressing delegates to the Shop Stewards’ Conference sponsored by the B.C. Federation of Labour on “How Well Are You Informed On Important Union Affairs?” May 28, in the Canadian Legion, Vancouver. Seated on platform with Williams are Pat O'Neal, Secretary of the B.C. Fed. and William Dodge, CLC Executive Vice-President. ; The speaker opened a one-day dis- cussion on the major public relations problems of trade unions. Executive Vice-President William Dodge, CLC explained, the impact of restrictive legislation across Canada, Roy Jacks, Station CHAN advised the delegates on press and broadcasting relations, and Thomas Berger gave a labour lawyer's point of view on Bills 43 and All speakers found a highly appreci- ative audience, and were questioned at length. : dom of speech to which people in a democracy are entitled. Occupational Revolution Jack Williams described “an occu- Stewards Discuss Urgent Problems “Our legislative targets have become increasingly important supplements to our collective bargaining activities,’ Jack Williams, Director of Public Relations, Canadian Labour Congress, in addressing 250 shop stewards in a conference under the auspices of the B.C. Federation or Labour. , declared pational revolution that has taken place within the Canadian labour force. This has been due to a sharp rise in white collar occupations, a drop in agricultural employment, and a decline in the proportion of manual workers. He contended that this change justified a new approach to problems of trade union organization. Williams complained that every time a group goes on strike, attempts are made to imply that there is some- thing wrong, both with the workers on the picket line and with unions in general, In 1960 the total number of man- days lost through strikes was 747,120 in Canada. This amounted to .06 per cent, or just one-hundredths per cent of the working time. The time lost through sickness in the same year was 20,228,000 man- days — 27 times as great as the time lost through strikes. Time lost through unemployment was 105,716,000 man-days—l4 times aS much as the time lost through strikes. On the question sometimes raised that unions are too big, he said, “We've all heard it, so I ask you, too big for what? Too big in seeking better wages and working conditions? Too big in battling for better social legislation. If the objectives of the labour movenient are sound, and are in the interest of the Canadian people as a whole, then how can the term “too big” apply. The bigger we are, the stronger we are, the better job we can do for the Canadian people”. Norberg Bourke; Rob- d; Sterling Shane. 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