Bees 1964

THE WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER

Local 1-118 holds

successful

Annual Meeting of Local
j-118 IWA, Victoria, held No-
vember 29, was well attended
with all plants in the Local
being represented.

The Financial statement
and Auditor’s statement indi-
cated the Local Union was in
a sound financial position and
both reports were approved
by the members.

In the elections held for
various posts, Local President,
Murray Drew was elected Re-
gional Executive Board Mem-
ber for the coming year.

Ray Troutman was elected
Local Safety Director.

Elected to the Delegated
Conferences were Joe Fowler,

Al. Carle, Jack Burt, Ted.

Hess, Ed. Haw, Tom Ainsley.

Elected as the Education
Committee were Frank Put-
ney, Al. Carle, Jack Groves,
Cy Smith, Richard Emerson.

Regional 1st Vice-President,
Jack Mackenzie who attended
the meeting as a member of
the Local Union, stressed the
need for greater organization-
al efforts in the Interior. He
appealed to the membership

* call for Extraordinary Measures #
& in Boots that means

| DAYTON’S! |

Year!

meet

of Local 1-118 to give special
attention to this important
IWA programme in the com-
ing year.

Local 1-357

makes new
wage gains

Local 1-357 IWA President, -

Wyman Trineer reports the
Local Union has signed an
agreement with the Oakleaf
Woodarts Limited, which
gives the employees wage
rates comparable with the
highest established in the in-
dustry.

Some of the sixteen em-
ployees won wage increases
that were in excess of one
dollar an hour.

The Local Union has also
concluded an agreement with
the North Coast Forest Prod-
ucts Limited and is presently
negotiating with the Burnaby
Custom Planing Company.

...and not forgetting to wish all our
* friends in the IWA an extraordinarily
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Sweatshop
force crew

Refusal to work under
sweatshop conditions has’ re-
sulted in dismissal for 106
members of the Retail, Whole-
sale and Department Store
Union employed by McLen-
nan, McFeely & Prior Ltd.,
(Mc & Mc) Vancouver.

The employees walked off
the job November 27, in pro-
test over the sweatshop work
schedules imposed by Com-
pany efficiency experts im-
ported from Alabama.

Ray Haynes, the Union’s
International Representative
stated the Company appeared
to have deliberately provoked
the dispute to get rid of the
Union members.

He also charged the Com-
pany with breaking faith with
the Union. At the request of
the Company, the Union met
with the strikers the after-
noon of November 27, and
talked them into returning to
work.

The Company then stated
the strikers were fired be-
cause they had not gone back
to work on the 27th, even
though it knew the Union
had only two hours to contact
the 106 employees, hire a hall
and attempt to convince them
to return to work.

An attempt by the Union to
have conciliation officer, E. P.
Fisher mediate the dispute
failed when the Company in-
formed the government that
any such move was pointless.

The Company’s General
Manager, H. B. R. Kirkpat-,
rick who branded the walk-
out illegal was quoted as say-
ing, “You don’t normally give
lawbreakers a second chance.”

In the meantime, the Com-
pany is interviewing appli-
cants seeking the jobs left va-
cant by the walkout. The Un-
ion still has a legal contract
with the Company and under
the terms of its Union Shop
Clause, new employees will
have to join the Union within
30 days.

Haynes states that if no

settlement of the dispute is
reached soon the dismissed

workers may go to arbitra-

conditions
to strike

tion. Notices have been filed
by the workers claiming un-
just dismissal and asking for
reinstatement.

The B.C. Federation of La-
bour has announced it is giv-
ing its full support to the Un-
ion. Federation Secretary, Pat
O’Neal said, “There is no
doubt the Company is trying
to provoke the workers and
get rid of the Union.”

Employees
awarded
back pay

Two discharged union em-
ployees of the J. Ernst Lum-
ber Co. Ltd., Quesnel, have
been “ordered reinstated
with back pay by the B.C.
Labour Relations Board.”

J. C. Walls, IWA Organiza-
tional Director, said union
members Allen Blake and
James Ross were fired by the
company during a recent or-
ganizing drive at the plant.
The IWA had then laid “un-
fair labour practices charges
against the company with the
Labour Relations Board, al-
leging the men had been fired
for union activity,” he said.
Following a two-day hearing
on the charges in Vancouver,
the Labour Board upheld the
union’s allegations issuing the
reinstatement orders on No-
vember 25th.

Walls said that Blake would
receive $306 and Ross $324 in
reimbursement for wages lost
by reason of their dismissal.

The union official said the
Board had issued an addition-
al general order “pursuant to
Section 7 of the Labour Rela-
tions Act, directing the Com-
pany to cease using coercion
or intimidation of any kind
that could reasonably have
the effect of compelling or in-
ducing any person to refrain
from becoming or continuing
to be a member of a trade-
union.” :