ie THE WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER picketing a precarious enter- prise. The Alberta representative generous help ready by many B.C. Local Unions. This help is still nec- essary, he said. Of greater importance, he claimed, is recognition of the fact that the strike-breaking company is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Canadian For- est Products Ltd. He believed that if the B.C. employees of the parent company realized Why most Professionals use ; OREGON Saw Chains Most Western Canadiari tim. ber cutters use precision- made MICRO-BIT saw chain for faster cutting and higher profit. They use it on any make or model of chain saw, in any weather on any wood. They know that the name OREGON meansconsist- ently high quality.In every MICRO-BIT chain in the long run, it’s the least expen- sive saw chain. THE QUALITY TRADEMARK TO LOOK FOR OREGON MICRO-BIT for cutting timber of allkinds the nature of the campaign against a legitimate strike in Grande Prairie, immediate repercussions would be startling. The inconsistency of Cana- dian Forest Products Ltd. was roundly denounced. The Company is required to pay a base rate of $2.08 an hour in all its B.C. operations. It now pays a negotiated base rate of $1.49 an hour in its adjacent plywood plant in Grande Prairie. The base rate, as negotiations opened for the planing mill workers, was $1.40 an hour, and is now only $1.42 an hour. It was said that the rate now paid in the plywood plant would quickly settle the dispute. ’ The delegates agreed to call on all employees of Canadian Forest Products Ltd. in Brit- ish Columbia to direct atten- tion to this gross injustice against two-score workers in Grande Prairie. The Com- pany’s balance sheets reveal its financial ability to pay a rate now established for the immediate vicinity they said. The abandonment of a penny- pinching policy and the pay- ment of a few cents more would end a situation which has disgraced the lumber in- dustry in Alberta and the town of Grande Prairie, it was claimed. The delegates asked Keith Johnson to carry back a mes- sage of good cheer to their brothers on the picket line and assurance that the Union stands behind them. The Union will publicly advise Canadian Forest Products Ltd. that as a corporate en- tity, it is expected to enter coast negotiations with clean hands. HANEY Local 1-405 Holds Wage Meet Feb. 15 Sixty-five delegates meet- ing February 15, in Cran- brook, hammered out the contract proposals of the Sub- Locals from the East and — West Kootenay areas of Local 1-405, TWA, to be submitted to the Southern Interior Wages & Contract Conference May 8 and 9 in Kelowna. Guest speakers at the meeting were Regional Presi- dent, Jack Moore, and Assis- tant Director of Organiza- tion, J. Clayton Walls. President Moore gave a short address on the forth- coming negotiations in the coastal area. He also briefly reported on the Millwrights’ Apprenticeship Programme. The following were elected delegates to the Kelowna Wage Conference: Art Dam- strom, Cranbrook; Jack Munro, Nelson, Elmer At- wood, Cranbrook; Harold Smith, Nelson; Melmer Holmlund, Canal Flats; Ez- ner DeAnna, Natal; Robert Pakula, Castlegar; Al Lock- hart, Nelson. ESIC Quote “It seems incongruous to me that an education sys- tem that provides elemen- tary and secondary educa- tion without fees should charge students to go to university.” — Dr. John B. MacDonald, president, Uni- versity of British Columbia in the Toronto Daily Star, January 17. NCA LU IU ERC 000000 BUSINESS GUIDE ESQUIRE MEN’S WEAR (Graham Mowatt) Complete Stock of Work and Dress Clothing “THE STORE WITH THE POPULAR BRANDS” i HANEY BRITISH COLUMBIA STORE HOURS OPEN 9 AM TO 5:30 PM CLOSED ALL DAY MONDAY OPEN FRI. 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I can speak for the members of the Vancouver Local and say that they are subordinat- ing all interests to the imper- ative need of winning the stated demands.” WYMAN TRINEER President, Local 1-357 IWA “The Annual Meeting of the New Westminster Local has already expressed the re- solve that the coast demands will be given unqualified sup- port with all the resources at our command. The Wages and Contract Conference was an impressive demonstration of democracy at work with a final and amazing unity.” Max Salter and Bill Hayes, Presidents of Local 1 - 363, IWA and Local 1-367, IWA, respectively, expressed their full agreement with the sen- timents expressed above by their fellow-officers. STMT = QUOTE “Houses are being built quite out of the reach of more than half the people.” —James A. Murray, archi- tect, addressing | Ontario lita General Contractors Assn. AQUA 0 i Se bb CREW of the Brookmere Logging Company recently certified to Local 1-423, IWA, Kelowna. 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