JANUARY-FEBRUARY, 1972

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‘LADIES’ AUXILIARY |
PRINTS FIRST |
NEWSLETTER |

The Editor:
Re: Ladies Auxiliary
Newsletter.

Further to our conversa-
tions concerning this Auxil-
lary project may we now “fol-
low-up” on our promise to
send to you the material and
results to date? We regret
that we missed our initial tar-
get date for submission but
are hopeful that at least part
of this Newsletter will be ap-
propriate for the Lumber
Worker.

As you know, the Ladies
Auxiliaries at their Annual
Meeting last October decided
to try establishing some lines
of communications between
Auxiliaries by means of a
little Newsletter. The Nelson
Auxiliary to Sub- Local No.
1-405 agreed to undertake this
idea and we are optimistic
that it will catch hold as the
year progresses, Certainly see-
ing even a portion. of our
Newsletter reproduced in the
Lumber Worker would pro-
vide inspiration and encour-
agement to the Auxiliaries as
a whole to make this project
successful. Thank you for
your continued interest and
support in our endeavours.

Once again thank you for
your interest in this project,
we hope to see it become a
successful endeavour for the
Ladies Auxiliaries.

MRS. FAITH TORRANS,

Pres. Ladies Auxiliary to

Nelson Sub-Local 1-405.
First Edition — January, 1972

1.W.A.
LADIES’ AUXILIARY

NEWSLETTER

Now that the rush of the
holiday season has passed, we
are sure all of the Ladies Aux-
iliaries will be busy preparing
for a New Year full of activi-
ties and continued effort to
assist our Union. Our first
Newsletter is being printed a
little later than we had hoped,
but we hope better late than
never! Our next proposed
Newsletter date is April 10,
1972 and we are looking for-
ward to hearing from all of
you between now and then.

AUXILIARY REPORTS
Lake Cowichan:

The Ladies of this Auxiliary
report they had a busy ond
successful Christmas Seeeon:
Their adoptee at the Solarium
was assured a Merry Christ-
mas and a Happy ‘Birthday

_with gifts from this Auxiliary
being sent. [WA members and
ikon families -also enjoyed a
Christmas Party sponsored by
their Auxiliary

The gals in ae group also
participated in a Community
Bazaar in November with
much success. The Auxiliary

also made contributions to the
Mental Health Association
and the Christmas Hamper
Funds. Thank you, Sister No-
velli, for your letter and re-

port—sounds as if you are a
busy bunch of Ladies!
Nelson:

Nelson’s Ladies have had an
active Fall and Winter too.
We've tackled quite a few pro-

jects and had a lot of fun and

been pleased with the results
to date.
Social Activities:

Dances on November 20th,
December 27th and January
22nd. A Get Acquainted Cof-
fee Party was held on Novem-
ber 13th to introduce other
IWA wives to Ladies Auxil-
iary members and promote
the Auxiliary objectives, 21
women attended for a two-
hour coffee and conversation
session.

Educational and
Organizational:

Two members of the Ladies
Auxiliary were in attendance
at a Job Steward School
sponsored by our Local—they
found this very interesting
and had much to report back
to the group on their return.
In an effort to keep posted on
Labour News the girls have
‘begun a scrapbook of news-
paper clippings and one mem-
ber reports at each meeting
on special interest items from
the Lumber Worker and oth-
er publications. We also were
able to arrange to show Na-
tional Film Board films in sev-
eral High Schools, the Uni-
versity and our own Local
Union Hall together with pro-
viding a speaker from the B.C.
Federation of Labour.

We estimate that approxi-

mately 1,000 students and gen-
eral public saw the films and
heard the speaker. and the
general reception was very
good on this project.

The girls also continued to
make donations to worthwhile
causes — The Legion on Re-
membrance Day, the local
Fire Hall for a students’ es-
say contest prize, the local
group who have successfully
established a Community Ser-
vices Centre received a dona-
tion, and our Past President
sparked a challenge Pledge
campaign during a Radio
Marathon for the Kootenay
Society for Handicapped Chil-
dren which resulted in quite
a number of individual mem-
bers matching her contribu-
tion and getting some “free”
publicity for our group in the
process!

Future plans sound inter-
esting with speakers for our
meetings and continued work

to edit and publish our News-
letter.

$23 MILLION FOR ECONOMISTS

Commons questioning on December 29 elicited how
much the federal government is paying for the economic

advice. behind
economy.

its mismanagement of the Canadian

The government employs 1,380 economists and pays

them $23 million a year.

The NDP financial critic, Max Saltsman, said the
government's economic advice was not only price-inflated
oid also Pe nhost as bad as it could get.”

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MORALS
PROTECTED
BY MAC-BLO

By BILL HAWKES
First Vice-President
Local 1-85

A mechanic at MacMillan
Bloedel’s Sproat Lake Logging
camp in Port Alberni, B.C. has
lost two days work and may
lose more for his refusal to
remove a Playboy pin-up from
the dolly he carries his tools in.

The picture of a young lady
wearing a pair of blue jeans
and little else had been on the
mechanics tool dolly for over
three weeks when for some
reason Management took ex-
ception to it and ordered him
to remove it. In the discussion
that followed the employee told
his Supervisors that if they
wanted to remove it they could,
but as he liked it he would
not remove it himself, and
ended up home for the rest of
the shift.

Admittedly, the dollies
belong to the Company with
each mechanic being assigned
one to move and keep his tools
in, but they are extremely
utilitarian pieces of equipment
and the consensus of opinior
among the rest of the crew waz
that the young lady greatly
improved the dollies usual
drab and greasy appearance.
But, alas! MacMillan Bloedel
has no eye for feminine beauty
and they have ordered her
banished from Sproat Lake.

Senior officials of the
Division have told the Local
Union that they fully support
their Supervisor in this matter

Joe Larson relaxes with ‘‘forbidden”’ picture.

and would not commit
themselves on whether there
would be further action taken
against the worker who in-
troduced her into Sproat Lake.

The young lady in this
particular Playboy centerfold
reveals less of female form
than do many calendars that
can be seen in any number of
respectable business establish-
ments and as Sproat Lake’s
mechanical shop is situated
several miles from the City of
Port Alberni, the Company can

have only been concerned in
protecting the morals of their
mechanics.

While the Local Union ap-
plauds MacMillan Bloedel for
their sincere efforts to
preserve the purity of their
loggers, we question their
assumption that aman whois a
satisfactory mechanical
foreman is also qualified to act
both as an art critic and a
guardian of the public morals.

Hugh Heffner Beware!! Big
Brother is watching!!

Vancouver

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