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IWA parley formulates
1975 contract demands

The first round in the 1975 con-
tract negotiations involving about
44,000 woodworkers in B.C. will
open April 9 when demands of the
International Woodworkers of
America are placed before coastal
employer representatives.

For the first time this year the
IWA contract demands will be
identical for 30,000 coast wood-
workers, whose contract expires
June 14; 9,000 south Interior
workers whose contract expires
June 30; and 5,000 north Interior
workers whose contract ends
August 31.

IWA demands were formulated
at the IWA’s Wages and Contract
conference which met in the
Georgia Hotel in Vancouver last
weekend and was attended by 200
delegates from all parts of the
province. Local unions had for-
warded 721 resolutions to the
parley, many of them concerned
with wages. The union officers
presented a  ‘‘Programatic
Resolution’”’ to the conference
which included 28 demands and
amendments to the existing con-
tract.

Demands formulated by the
parley include a $1 an hour across-
the-board increase on the current
base ratein a one-year agreement;

- cost-of-living. adjustments to be

included in the hourly rate so that
it cannot be adjusted downward;
an increase in the COLA clause
from one cent per .35 change in the
consumer price indéx to one cent
per .25 change.

- The demands. also call for im-
provements in the health and
welfare plans including increased
life insurance and weekly §in-
demnity ‘set at 75 per cent of
weekly earnings; improvement in
paying 100 per cent instead of the
present 75 per cent of the cost.

Demands will also call for a 60
per cent increase in pensions with
the employer contributing 40 cents
an hour per employee instead of
the present 15 cents.

Sharpest debate at the. con-
ference centred. around the wage
demand to be put forward this
year. An amendment to the union
officers resolution called for the
demand to be increased from $1.00
to $1.50 across the. board. The
amendment was finally defeated
by a vote of 75 to 123.

Some of the largest IWA locals in
the province had voted to
recommend $1.50 an hour increase
to the conference. Syd Thompson,

the dental plan with the employer.

president of Local 1-217, was
heckled by some delegates for
supporting the $1.00 demand after
his own local had voted in favor of
$1.50. Alberni local president L.
Foxcroft: also went against his
local’s resolution and supported
the $1.00 demand. New West-
minster local president Gerry
Stoney spoke in favor of the $1.50
demand and stressed the need for
unity with pulp unions.

Several delegates to the parley
were critical of the ‘‘Economic
Report”’ presented by the officers
to the conference on the grounds
that they did not think it gave a
true picture of the profits being
made by the forest companies, and

did not take into consideration the
huge profits made in 1970-71-72,
compared to profits in 1973-74. ~

There was a feeling among some
delegates that the officers,
spearheaded by regional president
Jack Munro, exaggerated the
problems of the industry in order to
win agreement to lower contract
demands.

One delegate told the Tribune
afterward that a recent statement
in the Vancouver Sun, comparing
the first quarter with the same
quarter in 1974, showed MacMillan
Bloedel’s profits up 7.7 per cent;
Crown Zellerbach, 9.4 per cent:
and B.C. Forest Products, 9.9 per
cent.

Canadian aid to Chile
sets May solidarity day

Increased action in support of
Chilean democracy can be. ex-
pected across Canada following a
conference held in Toronto on
March 1 and 2, 1975. A national
campaign is under way to work
with Chilean Associations to gain
Canadian government support for
civil rights in Chile, and an In-
ternational Chile Solidarity Day is
projected for the middle of May.

In. Vancouver the local com-
mittee of Canadians _ for
Democracy in. Chile was

‘reorganized at a meeting on

February 11. The new officers are
Elspeth Gardner, president; Philip
Rankin, vice-president; John
Radosevic, executive secretary;
and Jonnie Rankin, treasurer.
The Vancouver committee is
sponsoring a social meeting at the

’ Fishermen’s Hall, 138 E. Cordova,

on Saturday, April 5, 1975. Com-
mencing with a social hour at 7
p.m., the evening will include a
showing of a film from Chile, a
short discussion, entertainment
and refreshments. All are
welcome.

An annual meeting, open to all
members and supporters of the
committee, will be held at the
Fishermen’s Hall on April 26, 1975
at 1 p.m. At the meeting detailed
plans for future activities will be
discussed.

Speaking for the Vancouver
Committee, Elspeth Gardner
stated: “‘We welcome the recent
release of a large number of

political prisoners in Chile as a.

tribute to the mounting pressure on
the junta there, but there is great

Chile social evening

Members of the Chilean com-
munity in Vancouver, organized in
the Vancouver Chilean
Association, is holding ‘‘An
Evening for Chile’s Freedom’’ at
the. Fishermen’s Hall, 138 E.
Cordova St.,.on Saturday, March 29
at 8 p.m.

The program will feature
popular theatre and music. Ad-
mission will be $3 per person. The
public is asked to support the work
of the association by attending

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need for continued and increasing
pressure to bring about the release
of all the remaining political
prisoners, and the restoration of
democracy in Chile. We are going
to need a lot of help from many
people, and we are confident that
we will get it.’’

New leader named
LONDON — The executive
committee of the Communist
Party March 9 accepted the
resignation of John Gollan, the
party’s general secretary since
1956. It appointed Gordon
McLennan as his successor.
Gollan, who will continue to work
at party headquarters con-
centrating on writing and lec-
turing, told the executive that he

felt there was an urgent need to -

make way for younger people in
the party’s leadership. He is now
approaching 64.

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