JOHN HACHEY, 2nd Vice- President of Local 1-357, IWA, New Westminster, joined the IWA in 1943 while employed at Fraser Mills. He left short- ly afterwards to enter the Merchant Marine where he served until 1945. For the next four years he worked in the Coast logging camps in Local 1-71, 1-80, and 1-118. In 1949, he joined the army and went overseas with the Royal 22nd Regiment. He was discharged in 1953 and immediately went to work at Alaska Pine. Dur- ing his eight years at the Pine he served on the Union Com- mittee in every capacity. He . was also President of the Em- ployees’ Welfare Association. In 1959, he was elected Local Education Director. He was appointed 3rd Vice-President of the Local in 1962, and re- elected in 1963. Early this year he moved up to the post of 2nd Vice-President and was hired as a Business Agent by the Local’s Executive Board. John is married with two children. THE WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER EVERT FLANNERY, new 3rd Vice-President of Local 1-357, IWA, New Westmins- ter, joined the IWA in 1954. He worked at the J. R. Mur- ray Plywood Plant in Van- couver for three years and was a member of the Plant Committee. For the past seven years he has worked at the Timber Plywood Plant in New Westminster and is now the Plant Chairman. He is also a member of the Plant Review Committee and a member of Local 1-357’s Ex- ecutive Board, — LLL LLL LLL LLL LL LLL LLL LLL LLL LLL STATEMENT The following statement was made by Regional Presi- dent Jack Moore in a tele- vision interview March 17, on Channels 2 and 8: “The employers’ proposals for reduced contract benefits im a year of exceptional pro- fits has provoked our local unions into staging a full- scale, coast-wide campaign in support of the Union’s posi- tion. Our members are asked by the employers to work harder and longer for less pay and surrender contract rights of great value. This is beyond all reason when gross profits in the past few years run into the hundreds of millions. “Tt has now been decided to present information about the Union’s demands and the employers’ profits through the IWA publications, a regular bulletin service for job dis- tribution, mass meetings; area Job Steward meetings and job meetings. We are using bump- er strips and placards. We will also use press advertise- ments, radio and television to tell our story to all lumber Coal production in January MEMBERS of the Duncan Ladies Auxiliary meeting in the IWA Hall. Mrs. Ada-May Mitchell, President, is seated at was down nearly four per cent at 1,153,600 tons. THESE, the head of the table. THE PERFECT TEAM IF TARZAN HAD COME ACROSS EITHER OF HE‘D HAVE SPENT LESS TIME FOOLING AROUND WITH MONKEYS! Easy Starts Superb Idling Vibration-Free 276 _ GEAR DRIVE STRAIGHT MONEY-BACK GUARANTEE, BACKED BY POWER MACHINERY .. . B.C.‘S ONLY CHAIN SAW MANUFACTURER Abia P.M. 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Ltd. here have joined the IWA protest against low wages in the Alberta lumber industry. By a decisive vote, they rejected a Conciliation Board’s major- ity award of fifteen cents to establish a base rate of $1.55 and authorized strike action. The strike authorization is being held. in abeyance to allow opportunities for dis- cussion of settlement terms in the dispute. The pending strike situa- tion has significance for the © IWA due to the fact that the major shareholders of the local company also control operations at Creston, Cran- brook and Golden in the Southern Interior: of British Columbia. Local 1-206, IWA, reports Regional lst Vice- President Jack MacKenzie, deeply resents the discrimi- nation against Southern Al- berta workers. The Regional Officer has initiated joint dis- cussions on settlement terms. CLL LLL LL LLL LLL gS 1-417 Meet The Sixth Annual meeting of Local 1-417 is to be held in the city of Kamloops on April 25th and 26th, 1964. 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