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Incorporating Ghe CE. Lamberwarker Official Publication of the Jaterwational Woodworkers of p¥mertea Regional Council No. 1

VOL. XXIX, No. 15 =>’ VANCOUVER, B.C.

2nd Issue
August, 1962

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INDUSTRY CHANGES BRING NEW PROBLEMS

MECHANIZED PRODUCTION THREATENS JOB SECURITY

By JACK MOORE
IWA REGIONAL PRESIDENT

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Whether we work in a logging camp, sawmill
or plywood plant we are witnessing revolutionary
changes in production methods. New machines are dis-
placing manpower. The rapid advance of mechani-
zation in the last five years, and still continuing, is
enabling a smaller work force to break all previous
production records. This presents our Union with a top
priority problem involving the job security, employ-
ment and seniority rights of our members.

We cannot stand in the way of technological pro-
gress. Our responsibility is to make sure that this pro-
gress does not throw lumber workers on an industrial
scrapheap.

The problems which follow in the wake of techno-
logical change cannot be entirely solved at the bar-

gaining table. Our demand for shorter work sched-
: See “INDUSTRY CHANGES” — Page 2

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“LOGGING AIN'T WHAT IT USED TO BE"
By JACK HOLST |
IWA REGIONAL 3rd VICE-PRESIDENT

Startling changes are now to be found almost
everywhere in the logging section of the lumber indus-
try. These changes vary according to the size and loca-
tion of the operations, but the whole picture requires
the close attention of our Union.

The amazing contrast between old and new
methods of logging was impressed upon me, when, as
a member of the industry’s Wage Revision Committee,

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I returned to operations where | was employed as a.
logger ten years ago. Loggers who have worked in the
woods during the last ten years will tell the same story.
All of them ask the same question. ‘““What happens next
to our jobs and our wage rates?”

Huge, high-powered, mobile equipment and new

techniques are revolutionizing logging. The end of this
See “LOGGING AIN’T” — Page 3

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