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Incorporating he B.C. Luubermorker Official Publication of the Jeteraatlonal Weeduorkers of Auertea Regional Council No. 1

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Vol, XXX, No. 19

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1st Issue
Oct. 1964

UNION MOVES FORWARD

Delegates endorse policies
upheld by Regional Officers

A!’ midnight, October 2, after five days

of stormy debate, 160 delegates at the
IWA Regional Convention had decided on
the means to move the Union forward. out
of the bog of dissension toward solutions of
urgent membership problems,

They accepted the motto displayed on the
wall of the convention hall, “Democracy
must be based on majority decision.”

They re-nominated Regional Officers
whose actions had been onlay fire. Only
three of these officers were opposed. Chief
critic, Syd Thompson, President of Local
1-217, declined nomination but named his
Financial Secretary, Stu Hodgson, to contest
the Regional Presidency against Jack Moore.

Incumbent Ist Vice-President Jack Mac-
Kenzie was opposed by President Weldon
Jubenville, Local 1-80.

A member of Local 1-367 nominated
Walter Allen to oppose the nomination of
incumbent Fred Fieber for the office of Sec-
retary-Treasurer.

Regional Officers’
strike fund
recommendations accepted

Approval was given the regulations pro-
posed by the Regional Executive Board for
the administration of the strike fund, as ad-
vised by Regional President Jack Moore in
his keynote address.

As the audited statements revealed,
neither illegal nor unconstitutional expendi-
tures had been made from the fund. The
$2.3 million fund remains intact with gilt-

edged and liquid investments. As indicated

by President Moore, decisions affecting this
fund are to be made only as directed by the
membership to whom it belongs.

From all sides, delegates sternly de-
nounced the publicity given groundless
charges about illegal expenditures from the
strike fund. Although opposed by the critics
of the Regional Executive Board, the conven-
tion ordered that in future internal matters
‘be dealt with through union channels rather
than in the press and on radio and television.
President Moore explained that he had been
reluctantly compelled to use public media
during the vote on the Fisher settlement pro-
posals because information about the pro-
posed settlement had been withheld from
IWA members. The official statement of the
Regional Policy Committee had been de-
scribed in the press as “garbage” and “hog-
wash” only fit to be burned.

The acceptance vote of the membership
was clear proof, he said, that the Regional
Policy Committee had served the will of the
membership.

Retraction of false charges
demanded or International -
hearing requested

When all points of_view had been thor-
oughly aired, the convention demanded re-
traction of the groundless charges made re-
garding illegal expenditure from the strike
fund. Failing to secure such retraction, the
convention requested that the Regional Ex-
ecutive Board be heard before the Interna-
tional Executive Board at the next meeting
to clear the good name of the Union and the
Board.

Earlier the negotiation of a Millwrights’
Apprenticeship Training Program had been
attacked. Opposition to this program wilted
during the convention. It had become ob-

See UNION — Page 3

NOMINATIONS

Nominations at the 27th Annual’ Regional
Constitutional Convention placed the following
names on the membership referendum ballot.
Under the provisions of the Constitution, Local
Union voting returns must be postmarked or
delivered by hand not later than midnight,
November 12, 1964. ;

Nominated were:
FOR REGIONAL PRESIDENT
Jack Moore, incumbent.
ou Hodgson, Financial Secretary, Local
-217.
FOR REGIONAL 1ST VICE-PRESIDENT
Jack MacKenzie, incumbent.
Weldon Jubenville, President, Local 1-80.
FOR REGIONAL 2ND VICE-PRESIDENT:
Jack Holst, incumbent, unopposed.
FOR REGIONAL 3RD VICE-PRESIDENT
Boh Ross, incumbent, unopposed.
FOR REGIONAL SECRETARY-TREAS.
Fred Fieber, incumbent.
Walter Allen, President Local 1-85. :
FOR TRUSTEE
Howard Webb, Ist Vice-President, Local.
.1-424, incumbent, unopposed.
FOR INTERNATIONAL EXECUTIVE
BOARD MEMBERS
Wyman Trineer, incumbent,
Local 1-357, unopposed.
Clift Michael, Financial Secretary, Local
1-417, unopposed.
ALTERNATE INTERNATIONAL
EXECUTIVE BOARD MEMBER
Keith Johnson, President, Local 1-207, un-
opposed.

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