a 5 7, LOCAL 1-417 IWA DELEGATES IN SESSION AT THEIR 7TH ANNUAL DELEGATED MEETING APRIL 10, IN KAMLOOPS. } ' POPULAR DELL WELDER, Financial Secretary of Local 1-417 IWA, was signally honoured during ee the Banquet of Local 1-417 April 10, when he was with a tape recorder by the three IWA Interior Local Unions for his efforts on their behalf while office manager of the I.R.0O. _ Group left, Dell; Art Danstrom, President, Local 1-405; Mrs. Welder; John Kelly, President, Local (1-417; Mrs. Kelly. ¢ Rie pS ae te Alma Faulds Wins Scholarship Alma Faulds, Recording- Secretary of the B.C. Interior Fruit & Vegetable Workers’ Local 1572, has been awarded an $1100 scholarship to enable her to attend the Labour Col- lege of Canada this summer. The Labour College is a joint project of the Canadian Labour Congress, the Univer- sity of Montreal McGill Uni- versity, and the Confedera- tion of National Trade Unions. The curriculum of the course covers History, Socio- logy, Political Science and Trade Unionism. The entire curriculum is bi-lingual and bi-cultural. This aspect of the institution will serve an im- portant purpose in Canadian Society. Forty to fifty Colom- bo Plan Students will attend this course. Mrs. Faulds, amongst other interests, is past president of the Kelowna, Vernon, Pentic- ton and District Labour Council, holds office in N.D.P. constituency organization and is a member of the Board of ' Referees for the Unemploy- ment Insurance Commission. THE WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER AT LOCAL 1-417 MEET 11 Moore Warns Frolek _IWA Losing Patience Regional President Jack Moore warned in an address to the 7th Annual Delegated meeting of Local 1-417 IWA April 10, in Kamloops, that the IWA was fast losing ‘its patience with the manage- ment of Frolek’s Sawmill. His speech followed a spon- taneous demonstration by the delegates who gave a stand- ing ovation to the IWA strik- ers from Frolek’s Sawmill and one striker from the picket line at the Columbia Auto Customs. Ltd., Salmon Arm. The delegates also unani- mously approved two highly significant resolutions relat- ing to the strike. The first called for the full resources of the Local’s “material and manpower” to be placed at the disposal of the Frolek strikers. The second resolu- tion, used successfully by the old IWW, suggested that each operation in the Local adopt a striker’s family. Other speakers at the con- ference included Local 1-405 President Art Danstrom; Lo- cal 1-423 President Bill Schu- maker; Mrs. C. McInnes, Sec- retary-Treasurer of the Kam- loops Labour Council and Bill Hartley, NDP-MLA for the Yale riding. Those nominated for office at the meeting and whose names will go out on the ref- erendum ballot are as follows: President, Bob Schlosser, Jack Biccum; 1st Vice-Presi- dent, John Kelly, unopposed; 2nd Vice-President, Dave Pease, unopposed; 3rd Vice- President, Ted MacDonald, Ed Timmath; Financial Secre- tary, W. A. “Dell” Welder, unopposed; Recording Secre- tary, Larry Jensen, unoppos- ed; Warden, Owen Lloyd, un- opposed; Conductor, William Hobbs, unopposed; Six-Year Trustee, Melvin Sawka, Jack Stotz; Four-Year Trustee, Frank Wilson, Ake Lestander; Two - Year Trustee, Don Schonwald, unopposed. Bob Schlosser was elected the Regional Executive Board Member at the meeting and Jack Biccum was elected the Alternate Board Member. Ken Sawka of Savona Timber was re-elected the Local Un- ion Safety Director. A resolution to move the Local Union Office from Sal- mon Arm to Kamloops gained the approval of the delegates. A referendum vote will be held in June to determine if the membership concurs in the proposal. The delegates also approved a resolution calling for the Local to reaffiliate with the Kamloops Labour Council. The Local left the Labour Council two years ago over a dispute involving non - cre- dentialed delegates being al- lowed to vote. Other resolutions dealt with urged: e A national health care plan as recommended by the Hall Report so that the people of Canada can celebrate this mile-stone in Health Care on their centennial birthday — July 1, 1967. e The Provincial Govern- ment enter the field of car in- surance. e B.C. Federation of La- bour press for all workers in the Kamloops area to receive the Northern Cost of Living Allowance paid to civil ser- vants in that area. e The Provincial Govern- ment to utilize the forest serv- ice as auxiliary rescue units in areas where there are none now and cover them by the Workmen’s Compensation Act. The Officers’ Report showed a membership increase over the year before and stated in part: : “Our membership increased from an average of 987 in 1963 to an average 1107 in 1964. Part of this growth is attribut- ed to the organizing conducted in 1964. “Organizing in the Local has by no means been easy. We are continually being fac- ed with anti-union operators who will go to any lengths to . keep the Union out. The Local Union was involved in several cases before the Labour Re- lations Board as a result of the anti-union tactics of these operators. “We are looking forward to an increase in membership in the Canoe Sub-Local when the Federated Co-op mill be- gins production in its new plywood plant in July. This will mean between 90 and 100 new members in this plant.” Reports were also made by Local Safety Director Ken Sawka and the Ladies Auxil- iaries of Vavenby and Salmon Arm. Sawka reported the Local was free of fatalities during the year although there had been a number of fatal injur- ies in the unorganized opera- tions. He stated that the em- ployees of the B.C. Interior Sawmills are to be commend- ed for having worked 1305 ac- cident-free days in their op- eration. Following the meeting, a banquet and dance was held at which Dell Welder, the Local’s Financial Secretary was presented with a tape re- corder by the three Southern Interior Local Unions for his work while office manager of the Interior Regional Office in Kelowna. In Other Words A Londoner wound up a business trip to the Orient with a visit to Taipei. Ata Chamber of Commerce lunch- eon he was asked to say a few words. Almost none of his audience could understand English, and he could not speak a word of Chinese. His address was, therefore, to be translated by an interpreter sentence by sentence. “Well,” he began, “I just want all you fellows to know that I’m tickled to death to be here.” ; A look of agony appeared on the interpreter’s face. “This poor man,” he said in halting Chinese, “scratches himself until he dies, only to be with you.”