10 “vg AW ADAGE OT RERM ANS ERLE RCIEY ERE RAEA LHe OY! | Phas cpr je THE WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER RSS ENS LOCAL 1-423 PRESIDENT Bill Schumaker reading the Officers’ Report to the Local’s Annual Meeting April 22 in” Kelowna. Group left, Dell Welder, Financial Secretary; Schumaker; Bill Oner, Recording Secretary; Jack Welder, Ist Vice-President. AT ANNUAL MEET DELEGATED MEETINGS PROPOSED FOR 1-423 A Notice of Motion was served at the Annual Meeting of Local 1-423 IWA April 22 in Kelowna, that a special Local meeting would be called for the ‘purpose of dealing with proposed by-law changes to provide for Annual Delegated Local meetings. The officers explained that under the present meeting system employed by the Local Union, some operations were not effectively represented. Because of this it had been decided by the Executive Board to put the issue to the membership of following the example of the other Interior Local Unions. who have all instituted the Annual Delegated Meeting procedure. The annual Meeting which was attended by seventy-five members, approved the setting up of an annual $500 scholar- ship to be awarded to a son or daughter of a Local 1-423 member who achieves the highest scholastic marks in Grade 12 and who intends to continue on to university or college. Regional 1st Vice-President Wyman Trineer was the guest speaker and as spokesman for the Southern Interior Negotiat- ing Committee gave the meet- ing an up-to-date report on negotiations. -_ The officers in their Report touched on the various ac- tivities and problems ex- perienced by them over the past year in handling the Local’s affairs. They also reported an increase in the Local’s finances for the -year which they attributed to the new dues structure based on two hours at the base rate plus the fact that the Local had substantially increased its membership. The Local Safety Director Jack Welder in his Report scored Northwood Mills for its lack of interest in safety. He stated that the Local had on a number of occasions offered to help Northwood management set up a safety programme in the company’s three opera- tions certified to the Local but had been consistently ignored. He added that in contrast, Crown Zellerbach operations had given the fullest coopera- tion to the Local Union which: resulted in Crown operations achieving outstanding safety records. One of its operations, Kelowna Lumber Sawmill, is the first sawmill in Canada and. the North Western United States to achieve one million man hours accident free. Following the meeting, the Local sponsored its Annual Dance for the members which was attended by nearly seven hundred people. / AUTO WORKERS PLEDGE FULL SUPPORT TO oe NEW. DEMOCRATIC PARTY The United Auto Workers have again pledged broad sup- port for Canada’s New Demo- cratic Party. At the UAW constitutional conference in Atlantic City, New Jersey, the union pledged ‘‘to increase UAW support for the NDP, financially, organizationally and through active member- ship in the party and personal participation of all our Canadian members, officers and representatives at all levels of Canadian govern- ment.” The resolution was passed unanimously after Stephen Lewis, Ontario NDP Leader, denounced U.S. domination of the Canadian economy, and told the conference that Canada would no longer submit to colonialism. “The greatest single tension between the two countries is the foreign control of the Canadian economy, chiefly by the U.S.,’’ Lewis said. In his introduction of Lewis, UAW President Leonard Woodcock said: ‘‘The UAW and Lewis are very close in program, in ideals and in friendship. He is my personal friend as well.” LOCAL 1-423 MEMBERS attending the Local’s 27th Annual Meeting April 22 in Kelowna. F.I.R.’S “GARBAGE” NOT WANTED Mr. Billings, Forest Industrial Relations, No. 880, One Bentall Centre, 505 Burrard Street, Vancouver 1, B.C. Dear Mr. Billings: The Inside and Outside Civic Workers Union has struck rather than wait any further. They’ve waited since December 31, 1971. All they want is a small raise in pay and some fringe benefits. The mayor and the aldermen have voted themselves a raise, mayor $1,200, aldermen $360. All from the taxpayers pocket. How do you expect the working man in the IWA at this point in negotiations to accept the FIR Bulletin garbage you peddle on intelligent men. Sincerely, ' P. L. ST. JAMES, MacMillan Bloedel employee, No. 851774. : BANK BY MAIL When you use our special bank-by-mail service there's always a branch of the Commerce as close as your mail box. CANADIAN IMPERIAL BANK OF COMMERCE LIGHTER SIDE Sawmill Sue says that men are the lucky ones: they don’t have to kiss someone who hasn’t shaved for two days! * kook ‘Moctor,” asked the logger’s wife, “what’s the best way to keep my youth?” Doctor: “Don’t introduce him to any of your girl friends!” * * * Anatomy: Something that everybody has but it looks better on a girl. KE * Kamloops Katie’s girl friend was going to marry a surgeon but at the last minute he cut out. eM, ATO Chokerman Charlie says you can tell how healthy a guy is by what he takes two at a time—pills or stairs.