JURISDICTIONAL DISPUTES

B.C. delegates returning from the fifth constitutional con- ©
vention of the Canadian Labour Congress expressed warm
approval of a constitutional amendment which provides new
machinery designed to resolve jurisdictional disputes among
affiliates of the Congress, The plan, patterned after the AFL-
utes, calls for mediation of con-

CIO approach to internal disp

flicts, with impartial umpires to deal with clashes that resist
ready solution. It also sets out penalties against unions that
refuse to abide by the umpire’s decisions — short of suspension

or expulsion.

The principles laid down
are as follows:

“The integrity of each such .

affiliate of this Congress shall
be maintained and preserved
and each such affiliate shall
establish the collective bar-
gaining relationship of every
other affiliate. No affiliate

shall organize or attempt to

represent employees as to
whom an established collec-
tive bargaining relatinnship
exists with any other affiliate,
or otherwise seek to disrupt

or disturb such relationship. |

For the purposes of this
Article, the term ‘established
bargaining relationship’ means
any situation in which any
affiliate, or any local or sub-
ordinate body thereof.

(a) has been recognized by
the employer as the collective
bargaining representative for
the employees involved for a
period of one year or

(b) has been certified under
the provisions of the Indus-
trial Disputes Investigation
Act of any Provincial Labour

Act.”

The Congress President is
required to establish a panel
of mediators. In the event of
a dispute, an impartial Um-
pire selected from this panel,
hears the evidence and makes
a determination. An appeal
against the ruling of the Um-
pire may be taken to a sub-
committee of the Executive.

The decision of the Umpire
stands until it is set aside by
vote of a majority on the
Executive Council.

The Congress may, upon re-
quest, supply every appro-
priate assistance to any or-
ganization resisting action de-
termined to be a violation of
the Constitution. The disobe-
dience will be suitably pub-
licized to all other affiliates,
with a warning against aid to
the offending affiliate.

_ The Congress may deny the
use of its services to an of-
fending affiliate or any protec-
tion under the policy deter-
minations of the Congress.

An affiliate found to be in
non-compliance may apply for
restoration of its rights under
the Constitution.

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ALBERNI SUPPORT
On behalf of the members of Local 1-85, International Woodworkers of America, Port

Alberni, we salute the IWA members on -strike at the planing mill of North Canadian Forest
Industries Ltd., Grande Prairie.

We take this opportunity of expressing our warm appreciation of their long and cour-
ageous fight in protest against intolerably low wages and poor working conditions.

It is our fight too, because we know that low wages in the Alberta lumber industry are

a threat to the wage standards we have established in the British Columbia section of the
industry.

Our basic minimum wage rate is now $2.08 an hour as compared to the $1.42 to $1.47
an hour base rates paid in Grande Prairie for the same work. Moreover, we are promised
higher wage rates after June 15. From experience, we know that the low wage rates imposed
on Grande Prairie lumber workers are wholly inadequate for decent family living.

We hold Canadian Forest Products Ltd., a large British Columbia firm now making huge
profits, responsible for the deplorable situation in its Grande Prairie subsidiary planing mill.
This company can easily pay the same wages in Grande Prairie that it now pays in all its
British Columbia operations.

We wholeheartedly support the Grande Prairie strike both morally and financially. In
token of our support, our members have already contributed the sum of $1800 and are pre-
pared fo continue this support by a weekly donation of $100.

We extend fraternal good wishes for success to the IWA members on strike and their
families.

MAURICE CORBEIL
Financial Secretary

WALTER F. ALLEN
President

This advertisement inserted by Local 1-85, International Wood workers of America, Port Alberni, B.C.

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LOCAL 1-423 MEMBERS who completed the course requirements of Units 1-4 of the
Union Training Program were presented with certificates by Regional President Jack Moore

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