~ Alsbury,

BY LOCAL 1-357

WORK SCHEDULE CHALLENGED

Annual meeting of Local
1-357 IWA, New Westminster,
held February 27, authorized
Local officers to seek legal
counsel for the purpose of de-
termining whether the Board
of Industrial Relations has
the right to arbitrarily set
plant work schedules.

The action resulted from
the Board granting Canadian
Forest Products Ltd. permis-

sion to institute a seven-day

work schedule in its Hard-
board department at Pacific

Veneer.

Unless the Board’s order is
revoked, the 93 employees in
the Hardboard department
will now be required to work
a straight seven days before
receiving their normal two

days off.

President Wyman Trineer
informed the meeting that at
a Board Hearing held to dis-
cuss the Company’s applica-
tion February 24, union argu-
ments opposing the applica-
tion were “scuttled” by re-
marks made by the Deputy
Labour Minister Bill Sands.

Sands’ remarks, Trineer
stated, were to the effect that

the more industrialized na-

THE WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER

tions of Europe were utilizing
all their manpower and re-
sources to the fullest capacity
and the IWA should follow
this trend by making a joint
application with the Company
es a seven-day work sched-
ule.

Efforts of the Local officers
to point out that Article 1,
Section 3, of the Coast Mas-
ter Agreement specifically
spelled out that setting work
schedules was the prerogative
of the Union and manage-
ment, went unheeded because
of the obvious support the
Board’s Chairman Sands gave
for the seven-day work prin-

ciple.

Two days later, the Board
notified both the Company
and the Union that it had
ruled under Section 11 (4)
of the Hours of Work Act,
that the proposed work sched-
ule would be mandatory on
both parties until December

31, 1966.

Indications are that the
Company will institute the
new work schedule starting
March 6.

The meeting also held elec-
tions for the posts of Local

‘Former District President
and last charter member of
Local 1-357 IWA, J. Stewart
retired from his job
at Crown Zellerback Building
Materials Ltd., March 1, after

47 years.

Stu started work for the
Company in 1918, when it

S was ien@wal as, Fraser Mills.

His first job there was moving
lumber with a horse so it was
natural that he should join
the Teamsters’ and Chauf-
feurs’ Union.

He joined the Lumber
Workers’ Industrial Union in
1931, and later joined the
Lumber and Saw Mill Union,

_A.F, of L., in 1936,

In August, 1942, he joined
the IWA, and actively assist-
ed in the organization of the
New Westminster Local,

» 1-357. Upon formation of this

Local, cs was elected to the
office of 2nd Vice-President

‘and served in that capacity

’ for two years,

He also was elected halls
man of the Fraser Mills Sub-

DUES
INCREASE

The fifty-five hundred

members of Local 1-357
IWA, New Westminster,
have voted by a
stantial majority

sub-
to increase
their dues to the Local by
an additional 75 cents per
member per month.

The members will now
pay an even $5.00 per month
of which $1.00 goes to the

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Alsbury retires

Local and Grievance Commit-
tee. In 1947, he was elected
President of Local 1-357 by a
three to one majority.

In 1948, Stu was appointed
Provisional President of B.C.
District Council No. 1, fol-
low the disaffiliation move of
the Communists in October,
1948. At the Annual District
Convention in 1949, he was
unopposed for the position of
President and was elected in
the referendum ballot.

At the Annual Convention
of the Canadian Congress of
Labour, 1950, he was elected
a member of the National
Executive Committee of the
Congress. In 1953, Stu lost
out to Joe Morris in his bid
for re-election as District
President.

Since that time, Stu served
four years on the municipal
council of Coquitlam, and is
the present Chairman of the
Harbour Board Commission
which looks aiter the ship-
ping problems on the North
Arm of the Fraser River.

Stu continued to take an
active interest in IWA affairs
through the years and always
won election to Regional and
International conventions. He
stated that it was his inten-
tion to continue to attend
these local meetings and con-
ventions whenever possible
during his retirement, but on
an observer basis only.

The Regional officers take
this opportunity, along with
the officers of Local 1-357 and
his many friends throughout
the trade union movement, to
wish Stu and his wife a long

and happy retirement.

Regional Executive Board
Member, Local Safety Direc-
tor, Education Director, and
19 delegated conference dele-
gates. Alex Archibald, the in-
cumbent Executive Board
Member, was re-elected for
another term. Norm Kelly
was elected alternate. Mike -
Major was elected the Local’s
Safety Director and Ev. Flan-
nery, Education Director.

Conference delegates elect-
ed were: Ev. Flannery, Mike
Major, John Chandler, Alex
Anderson, John McMichel,
Ziggy Sauve, Norm Kelly,
Frank Whitehead, Jim Mc-
Laughlin, Pat Ewles, John
Hachey, Joe George, Mo.
Walls, Louis McLeod, Dan
McBride, Tony Vanderheide,
Gordon Lumb, Les Miller,

Stan Rogerson. Trineer, President.

OFFICERS of Local 1-357 IWA, New Westminster, left,
Norm Kelly, Financial Secretary; John Chandler, Record-
_ing Secretary; John Hachey, Ist Vice-President; Wyman

LOCAL 1-357, 1WA, members attending-their Annual Meeting February 27, in the Royal
Towers, New Westminster.

FORMER IWA DISTRICT President Stu Alsbury, right,
who retired March 1 after 47 years’ service at Fraser Mills,
is shown here attending his Local’s Annual Meeting Febru-
ary 27. Seated with Stu is Frank Mclvor, another syertinia
member of the Local Union.

ALEX ARCHIBALD, the Local’s
Regional Executive Board Mem-

ber, giving his report of the last
Executive Board meeting. Alex

was re-elected at the Local meet--

ing for another term a
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