awe. THE WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER SEPTEMBER, 1973 LOCAL 1-85 President Ear! Foxcroft is shown presenting the IWA 25-year pin to W. Melnik, Dump Operator from Sproat Lake (centre) while Sproat Lake Camp Chairman R. Hors- man looks on. The Ontario Federation of Labour has joined the Ontario Anti-Poverty Organization to condemn a project designed to teach ‘‘good manners’ to people benefits. The three-year federal- provincial project will spend drawing welfare $430,660 — including $100,000 in ~ salaries to professional social workers — for a return of perhaps $1,000 each to 24 welfare mothers. The taxpayer is being ripped off, says Mike Carson, co- ordinator of the Anti-Poverty group. Moreover, he said, the scheme is an insult to those receiving welfare. Ed Waddell, director of social services for the Ontario Federation of Labour, says the money would be better spent by allocating it directly in a way which would help the welfare mothers to break out of the poverty cycle. The scheme is concerned with teaching the welfare recipients how to dress, eat, and converse properly. Another object is to teach the social-worker types how to relate to their clients. Table manners are part of the program. ‘‘If they want to teach welfare mothers how to eat properly maybe they should be providing them with MANPOWER’S HELP | SOUGHT The IWA is urging the federal government not to use the Canada Manpower facili- ties for hiring or referring wor- kers to an operation which is involved in a labour dispute or locked out. The Union is also requesting that Canada Manpower advise union and whether or not a collective agreement is in more money to buy proper food’’, said Waddell. Head of the Emily Post project is psychology professor Ralph Bierman, who is pulling | down $21,000 yearly in addition to his sabbatical pay from Waterloo University. Social-worker types will get $12,000 annually. The ultimate objective seems to be to get the welfare mothers to be social workers themselves by teaching them what fork to use, instead of providing retraining and jobs. ~ Workmen’s Compensation Board Commissioner George Kowbel in his address to the Regional Convention an- nounced that the Board is holding a conference in November for labour and management to improve the rehabilitation of the in- _dustrially injured. In making the announcement . he stated: “As you may remember, it was suggested by several speakers at the WCB’s April Symposium on the Rehabilitation of the In- dustrially Injured, that efforts should be made to encourage closer cooperation rehabilitation between management, labour and the medical profession. “We at the Board are wholeheartedly in favour of an approach involving closer liaison between all those invol- ved in rehabilitation. To help foster this spirit of coopera- tion, as well as to set up some machinery to make it work, we are planning a November con- ference. “The conference will con- centrate on workshop discus- sions on how to achieve greater cooperation in Vocational Rehabilitaion. It is hoped that abut 60 represen- tatives of labour and management will attend. “The conference will last a day and a half, starting on a Friday and ending Saturday afternoon.”’ in. eee fe a Oe aed Doe THREE WIVES taking in Convention from back of the hall are left, Mrs. Leonard Palmer, wife of Region 3 president Leonard Palmer, Mrs. Roley, wife of International President Ron Roley, and Mrs. Moore, wife of Regional President Jack Moore. SEAGRAM WORKERS THANK LABOUR SUPPORT On behalf of the members of Local 69, I would like to take this opportunity to thank the union members of the many local unions which supported the members of Local 69 in its difficult dispute with the House of Seagram Ltd. In addition to the tremen- dous financial support we received, picket line support and assistance in initating an effective boycott of Seagram products was of equal im- portance in winning this dispute. There is no doubt that our strike would have been lost during the early stages had it not been for the active par- ticipation of Federation Secretary, Ray Haynes and other Federation Cfficers. With the added support from affiliated labour councils and - local unions, the members were able to drag the Seagram corporation into the Twentieth Century in terms of conditions prevalent in British Columbia in similar industries. The settlement reached and since ratified by our. mem- ~ bership, represented ‘“‘TOTAL VICTORY” for not just our- selves but for the whole labour movement. in British Colum- bia. 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