WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER

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. ~ “Demands’

Double Rate on Overtime

‘ The demand for a double rate on all overtime was recognition of
the fact that a higher penalty rate is necessary to end excessive
: overtime and provide more employment. This demand also requires
the clarification of employees’ rights regarding compulsory over-
time; the correction of abuses in the employment of casual workers

¢ and in shift arrangements.
It was claimed that the individual worker should have the right
t to elect whether or not he works overtime. Present methods of hiring
casual workers and re-hiring have Ied to abuses which the demand

2 proposes to eliminate.

Seniority Provisions

2 The delegates were agreed that the present application of the
contract seniority provisions is wholly unsatisfactory. The Union

‘ will clarify its position on departmental seniority. The main prin-

: ciple involved in this demand, as stated, is that seniority shall be

: based on length of service and the ability of the individual concerned

to do the work required.

Medical Coverage VIEW OF THE IWA WAGES & CONTRACT CONFERENCE in session at Woodworkers’ House, Vancouver, March 3. Officers on
platform are left, Bob Ross, Regional 2nd Vice-President; Jack Moore, Regional Ist Vice-President; Joe Morris, Regional Presi-

~y, The Conference delegates proposed written-in contract provisions = FFG Fieber, Regional Secretary-Treasurer.

for medical coverage. The conditions for medical coverage are now
set forth in a letter of understanding attached to the agreement pension plans in the industry. The results of any such enquiry will Death

7 which expires June 14. It was stated that this medical coverage must : :
now be incorporated in the master agreement. In addition, the con- be reported to the membership when the study is completed.
é ference demanded that the provisions for eligibility, portability, lay- Paydays s
off coverage and administration be similar to those now in effect Bill
No extra cost to the employers is involved in the demand that

under the Health and Welfare plans. It is proposed that premiums

. be paid on a 50-50 basis, as determined by the experience rating of | paydays be every second Friday. It was the opinion of the delegates
each Company. that this proposed change in paydays is necessary to meet the con- Short

t venience of the workers, especially in view of prevailing family
Contractors and Sub-contractors shopping habits. Bill No. C-69 this session is one
é Contract provisions were demanded which will require all sign- Job Grievances of the shortest ever put before the
ing Companies to stipulate that work contracted or sub-contracted ‘ Hone O ere an as an
é be performed under the terms of the master agreement. The delegates at the Conference considered that some better aaa Yael a (it it 7 Z cone =
means of settlement must be found for a wide range of job griev- Fv. grea former secre ae Lt

Oe eee coraching las row become a common prac” ances which have vexed the Local Unions. It is now required that
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tice in many operations. Sub-standard wages and conditions have the Union should attempt, by means of conferences at the Local governor James Coyne

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been condoned by Companies signing the agreement. Such under- 5 A 5 rs The bill, in the name of Liberal
mining of negotiated contract provisions must end, said the dele- Was level, to establish better means to expedite urgently required Tidy, Mieersh’ (GWiacara malls)
$ gates. adjustments. 2 simply provides that persons found
: One hundred and thirty-one resolutions were forwarded to the — suitty of capital crimes shall be exe-
Pension Study Wages and Contract Conference by the Local Unions on behalf of cuted “by a gas chamber, and not

. the IWA membership. These were reviewed by the Policy Com- by hanging until death.”
The approach taken by the delegates to a pension plan for the mittee, and the principal needs so expressed were the basis of the This may be humanitarian pro-
2 industry was to demand a joint Union-Management survey of the _ programmatic resolution finally adopted. gress, but many Canadians still feel
The uppermost consideration in determining the size of the bar- that capital punishment itself results

whole question. A report on the subject was given by International
Research Director, Elwood Taub. It was agreed that all available
data should be assembled, especially with regard to existing private

Liberals
Vote To

Southern Ontario Liberals have

a voted in favor of abolishing

Workmen’s Compensation and re-

turning to days when a worker

, has to take his chances in the
courts,

At a week-end conference of
Liberals from southern Ontario
ridings, the group voted to go
& back fo the system in effect be-

fore 1910.

If the Liberal resolution be-
came law, whenever a worker was
injured on the job, he would have

gaining “package” was that it should be realistic, and that it should _in two stiffs instead of one—and

assure benefits to all the workers in the coast lumber industry. nothing else.
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LIZARDS CAN GROW A NEW TAIL -
BUT A MAN CAN’T GROW NEW FEET ,

HERE'S ANOTHER PAGE FROM DAYTON’S ‘‘SAFETY LOG BOOK"'
(Re-printed by courtesy of the ‘‘Western Canadian Lumber Worker’’,
official organ of the INTERNATIONAL WOODWORKERS OF AMERICA).

Carl KLINT, of SPROAT LAKE DIVISION, MacHillon
& Bloedel, is now walking on two feet because he was
wise enough to have GOOD BOOTS. A faller at Sproat
Lake, he was standing close to a log that was in the
process of being bucked. When the cut was completed,
the log sprang over and smashed his foot against another
log. The result was a smashed boot and a bruised foot.
If Klint’s caulked boots had not been in good condition,
the result would have been a badly crushed foot. This

é to go to court to sue his employer
gp here ee eee. could be an object lesson fo all of us :
« tion, while it may not work per- WHEN YOU WEAR GOOD BOOTS, IT’S THE BEST
ASSURANCE OF KEEPING TWO GOOD FEET TO

PUT THEM IN : ANOTHER GOOD EXAMPLE OF
THE “‘WEARABILITY'' WE SPEAK OF IN CONNECTION

WITH DAYTON BOOTS

fectly, injured employees are
quickly and efficiently paid out of
a fund, no matter who was at

By the way, Klint's logging boots were purchased last June
and were worn steadily up until the time of the accident in

' investigations into whether the eae
accident was caused by the em-

f ployer or the employee, court
costs, witnesses and month after '
month of waiting.

y Said one Toronto lawyer: “The “PAUL BUNIONS”

’ only — —, - is oe to be Paul Bunions,
under system Iz feet were always sore,
ee eo the cost He paid no heed to ads. and such

i damages, are caught, He gambled more and more.
by insurance or through their

But now he’s changed his outlook,
His lesson is complete;

? GUS YiAa mi

Pts

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“Don’t ever play the gambling game -
d The one called SEVEN-TOED PETE!"
E “The cards were stacked agin me,
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ee I paid no heed to SAFETY SHOES, fh
rm 1 wore *‘another’’ brand.

I've learned my lesson very well,
Time’s past and now J know,

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