THE WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER MISSION LOGGERS’ SPORTS The Mission Loggers Sports Association is holding its 9th Annual ee Sports Show July 1, in Mission. There will be 18 events with the preliminary competitions commencing at 10:00 a.m. through 12 noon and the finals starting at 1:30 p.m. All male contestants over 16 must be covered by insurance issued by the North Western Logging Sports Performers Society. An entry fee of $2.00 is charged contestants for each event they enter. _Following are the events and prizes: WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP CHAIR CARVING CANADIAN CHAMPIONSHIP — Obst. Power Saw Bucking Obst. Power Saw Bucking (Novice-closed) Obst. Pole Bucking (Open) Obst. Pole Bucking (Novice-closed) Log Birling A Log Birling Novice Log Birling Junior Standing Block Chop Speed Climbing “A” Speed Climbing’”B” Speed Climbing Novice Ist Prize 2ndPrize 3rd Prize 4th Prize TROPHY & $150.00 125.00 40.00 75.00 50.00 75.00 40.00 30.00 75.00 100.00 50.00 40.00 $100.00 75.00 30.00 50.00 25.00 50.00 25.00 20.00 50.00 50.00 35.00 30.00 $ 50.00 . 15.00 $ 25.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 _ 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 40.00 10.00 25.00 25.00 15.00 10.00 25.00 25.00 20.00 15.00 Pole Falling Single Handed Bucking Axe Throwing Chokermen’s Race Ladies Nail Driving Tug-O-War FROM PAGE 1 70.00 60.00 50.00 50.00 15.00 40.00 40.00 30.00 35.00 10.00 15.00 - 15.00 15.00 15.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 Trophy and Special Prizes BEST 7 MAN TEAM ‘CONVENTION’ separately to ensure Canadian presence and voice at the international industry level. The second, and in the long run more important, standard requires international unions to take whatever action is necessary to ensure that the Canadian membership will not be prevented by constitutional requirements or policy decisions from participating in the social, cultural, economic and political life of the Canadian community. The standards, approved in 1970, required election of Canadian officers by Canadians; policies to deal with national affairs to be de- termined by the elected Canadian officers and/or members; and Canadian- elected representatives to have authority to speak for the union in Canada. The new procedure for en- forcing compliance with these standards approved by this year’s convention, provides a four-stage timetable with the ultimate right by the CLC president, on the strength of a two-thirds vote of _ the Executive Council, to suspend a union that fails to comply with the. self-government standards. The IWA’s standards have surpassed for years those laid down by the convention. IWA delegates attending the con- vention were angered by the failure of these - so-called reformists to name the unions not measuring up to the CLC standards. This failure to name names raised the suspicion in the minds of a number of delegates that these national and _ pro- vincial unions were really more interested in discrediting international unions than they were in improving the struc- ture and constitution of Congress. TOP IWA INTERNATIONAL officers were visitors at the CLC Convention and followed the proceedings with keen interest. Group included International President Keith Johnson, front row right; International 2nd_Vice-President Leonard Palmer, back row centre and International Secretary-Treasurer Bill Botkin, back row right. COMPENSATION CHANGES LOCAL 1-217 PRESIDENT Syd Thompson is shown opening the Canadian Labour Congress Convention in Vancouver. Syd headed up the opening ceremonies as President of the Vancouver & District Labour Council. Gerry Stoney, — ’ President of Local 1-357’ also addressed the Convention as - President of the New Westminster & District Labour Council. Labour Minister Bill King has introduced in _ the Legislature ‘‘substantial reforms’? to the Workmen’s Compensation Act, including a change in title to remove the connotation that it applies only to male workers. The proposed legislation would provide improved levels of compensation benefits, procedural reforms, greater recognition of. industrial deafness, and improvements in the provisions relating to in- dustrial safety. The name would change from Workmen’s Com- pensation to Workers’ Com- pensation on both the act and the administering board. ~ of-living Death benefits on new claims will be changed from the present fixed flat rate to pensions based on the earnings of the deceased worker or a minimum pension, whichever is greater. Existing depen- dents’ pensions will also have some provisions for being increased. As well, cost-of-living ad- justments to benefits will be made twice a year, rather than. annually, to reflect changes in the Consumer Price Index. King said the new cost-of-living adjustment will reduce the existing time lag between cost- increases and the corresponding adjustment in benefits. sé FROM PAGE 1 | “CONTEST' 3 — The trip must be taken prior to December 31, 1974. 4 — The selection of Local Union finalists and the winner will be as follows: A — Each IWA Local Union will select a designated quota of names from their mem- bership, based on the pro rata system used to determine the number of delegates to a Regional Convention, using a method acceptable to the Local Union. B — Each Local Union must submit its quota of names to the Regional Council by June 30, 1974. C — The names of the Local Union finalists will be placed in a barrel and the winner’s name will be drawn on the first day of the August 1974 Regional Executive Board Meeting. Under the rules of the contest no officer or staff member is eligible to participate in the draw. FROM PAGE 1 ‘JOHNSON’ the United Paper Workers International Union. The latest of these unwarranted raids on our jurisdiction by the UPIU was at the Rim Forest Products plant at Hazelton, B.C. “It does not sit well with our organization that a union under CLC’s sanctions seems un- concerned with this type of thing even though its Canadian Director continues to sit on the highest councils of the Congress. It makes us wonder just what value sanctions are. Certainly it does not seem to be a deterrent to unprincipled actions. “We question the honest concern of the CLC when it continues the UPIU Director on its highest councils and who officially represents the Canadian Labour Congress. “We believe the UPIU should be forced to vacate the high positions of leadership it holds in the CLC. Further it is our position that no consideration should be given to the so-called new ‘‘Canadian Pulp Organizations” affiliating with the CLC until they have satisfactorily cleansed themselves of the reasons for the sanctions being imposed in the first instance.”