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WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER |

An Analysis

of the
NEW REGULATION No. 3 (1) (LOGGING) MADE
PURSUANT TO THE HOURS OF WORK ACT
PROVINCE OF BRITISH COLUMBIA

Because of the need for every member in the Jogging Section of
the industry to fully understand the danger to their established rights
contained in the amended regulation of the Hours of Work Act
governing logging, the following analysis of the regulation has been
prepared by Regional 3rd Vice-President Bob Ross for study.

The old Regulation No. 3(1) reads as follows:

“3. Persons employed in:

(a) Booming operations; or ;

(b) Transporting logs by logging-railway, motor truck,
flume, horse, or river-driving; or

_(c) Transporting workmen or supplies for purposes of
the said industry;

(d) The occupation of boatman;

(e) The occupation of emergency firefighters.”

The new Regulation No. 3(1) which is substituted for the
above, reads as follows (underlined are the new features):

“The Board of Industrial Relations has amended Regula-
tion No. 3 made under the ‘Hours of Work Act’ by inserting a
new section (1) so that the Regulation now reads as follows:

3. Persons employed in:

(1) The logging industry in maintenance and preparatory
work which is necessary to prevent interruption of normal
production schedules including, but without limiting the gen-
erality of the foregoing, the following:

(a) Log dumping and booming operations;

(b) Transportation of workmen and supplies;

(c) Transportation of logs;

(d) Occupation of boatman;

(e) Fire watching, control and suppression;

(f) Barge loading; .

(g) Road construction;

(h) Moving and rigging, where necessary to prevent in-

terruption of normal production schedules;

(i) Maintenance.”

Of primary importance in any analysis of the New Regula-
tion No. 3(1) is an understanding of the implications inherent
in the covering wording of the Regulations:

(1) The logging industry in maintenance and preparatory
work which is necessary to prevent interruption of
normal production schedules including, but without
limiting the generality of the foregoing, the following.”

First, “preparatory work” is in itself a very broad term,

the interpretation of which will rest entirely with manage-
ment. The Board of Industrial Relations, in the absence of the
need for a work permit, will not now have an opportunity
to interpret the application of the words.

Secondly, the words “normal production schedules” means
that there shall be eight hours per day and forty-four hours
per week of un-interrupted yarding and loading in the
woods operations.

Any of the phases of production or maintenance work
which interferes with this work schedule may now be done
without a permit on a compulsory overtime basis.

*NOTE
Recent decisions of the Department of Labour have not
protected our people from compulsion in respect of main-
tenance or preparatory work.

POINT (i) “MAINTENANCE”
Government sources claim that the addition of mainten-
ance work to Regulation No. 3(1) is not new inasmuch as
such work was exempt from permit under Regulation No. 6.

“EMERGENCY REPAIRS”

“6. While engaged upon repair work requiring immediate
performance, persons employed in’ shipyards, engineering-
works, machine-shops, foundries, welding plants, sheet-metal
works, belt-works, saw-works, and plants of a like nature
may work:-such hours in addition to the working-hours limited
by Section 3 of the said Act as (but not more than) may be
necessary to prevent serious loss to, or interruption in the
operation of the industrial undertaking for which the repairs
are being made.”

One should note the emergency nature of such mainten-

ance.
The emergency feature is now relieved by the inclusion
of maintenance in the New Regulations.
Finally it should be noted that the exemptions apply not
only to eight hours per day and forty hours per week but
also to the twelve hour limit on split shifts.

R. C. ROSS,
Third Vice-President and Safety Director.

IWA REGIONAL PRESIDENT Jack Moore (left) and B.C. Federa-
tion of Labour President J. R. “Russ” St. Eloi, look over the vast
number of injunctions that have been served on the B.C. Federation
and its affiliates during the past few months,

—— ll ao: candied
REGIONAL PRESIDENT JACK
MOORE is seen paying tribute
to R. T. Matthews and outlining

to those present some of organ-
ized lfabour’s problems.

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No Drunk |

Drivers
Here

A recent U.S. medical
report says two coun-
tries appear to have
solved their drunk driv-
ing problem. .-

In Red China all driv-
ers are alleged to be ab-
stinent and therefore no
drunk driving charges
are ever laid.

In San Salvador the
penalty for drunk driv-
Ing is execution by a
firing squad.

Sn nen

Boss Jailed
For Firing
Employees

A Montreal employer was
sent to jail for thirty-two days
following his conviction of
illegal dismissal and intimi-
dation of six employees. It
was the first time in Canada
that an employer had been
sent to jail on such charges.

The employer, Clement
Alepin, a Montreal lingerie
manufacturer, fired the em-
ployees for joining the Inter-
national Ladies’ Garment
Workers Union. The Union
filed charges against Alepin
under the Criminal Code.

A sessions Court judge
found Alepin and his firm
guilty of intimidating employ-
jees. Alepin appealed. Mr.
Justice Roger Ouimet upheld
the conviction and sentenced
Alepin to jail. The judge also
imposed fines totalling $550
on Alepin and his company.

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Lighter Side

A poet, out meditating in
the country, noticed a farmer
looking at him: curiously.

“Ah,” said the poet, “per-
haps you, too, have seen the
golden-red fingers of dawn
speeding across the eastern
sky, the red-stained sulphur-
ous islets floating in a lake of
fire in the west, the ragged
clouds at midnight blotting
out the shuddering moon?”

“No,” replied the farmer,
not lately. I’ve been on the
water wagon for over a year.”

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Jim: Say, how did you get
that scar across the bridge of
your nose?

John: From glasses.

Jim: Then why don't you
get contact lenses?

John: They don’t hold
enough beer.

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CLAUDE BALLARD, International ist Vice-President, left, and R. T.

Matthews who is expressing gratitude in being chosen as I!WA Local
1-417 Community Services Man of the Year.

Canoe Member Named

IWA “Man Of Year”

IWA member R. T. “Bob” Mat-
thews of Canoe was named the
Community Services “Man of the
Year” at a banquet held in his
honour in Kamloops, December 1,
by Local 1-417, IWA. Jack Moore,
IWA_ Regional President, and
Claude Ballard, International 1st
Vice-President, were the guest
speakers.

Bob was chosen for the award
by his fellow-members in Local
1-417 based on his activity within
the community. As a memento of
the honour he received, Bob was
presented with a handsome clock
by Claude Ballard.

He has an impressive record of
community service in various
capacities. Positions in which he
is serving or has served include
cub master, member of the Boy
Scout council, district cubmaster,
member of the executive of Sal-
mon Arm Band Association, mem-
ber of the safety committee of
Federated Co-operatives Ltd. saw-
mill, Canoe, member of the Canoe

Labour Briefs’

Unemployment began to grip
the Canadian economy more tight-
ly between October and Novem-
ber, indicating that the Canadian

Labor Congress apprehension of -

possible record peaks may come
true. Jobless rose by 59,000 to
342,000 or 5.2 per cent of the labor
force. The November job force
was estimated at 6,720,000 or about
the same as in October.

Ke KS
After waiting for more than a

year, 65,000 civil servants were
notified that their wage freeze
had thawed and that lump-sum
pay cheques—retroactive — would
be paid in January. The conces-
sion by the government, which
followed June 24 austerity mea-
sures, sparked speculation that an
election might be near, although
most observers saw no grounds
for firm expectations.

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Free transportation on Cana-

dian railways has been proposed
for old age pensioners in a bill
sponsored privately in the House
of Commons by Tom Berger, New
Democratic Party member for
Vancouver Burrard. It is expect-
ed to get scant support from goy-
ernment members,

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