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THE WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER

"PER CAPITA INCREASE"

budgets approved by the
board in line with its author-
ization for deficit spending.
The resolution which the
executive board will present
to the convention at St. Paul,
Minn., in September states, in

“The 75-cent per capita tax
to the International Union was
established some 20 years ago,
and other than structural
changes within the Interna-
tional Union, this per capita
figure has not changed;

“The cost of salaries, sup-
plies, transportation and other
materials continues to rise;

“The International Execu-

tive Board has approved in-
creased budgets for the vari-
ous departments of the Inter-
national in line with various
resolutions approved by past
conventions. This has led to a
sharp increase in deficit
spending and leaves the fin-
ances of the International in
a seriously depleted state;

“It is the opinion of the
International Executive Board
that the International should
play a greater role in negotia-
tions, organizing, individual

corporation conferences, re-
search material, membership
education and some assistance
in times of strikes.”

MEMBERS OF LOCAL 1-206 IWA on strike at the Crest-
brook Forest Industries Ltd. (Fort Plywood Division), Fort
Macleod, Alberta, are shown picketing the operation. The
one hundred employees were locked out last December 17,
following a breakdown in negotiations which had been
going on over a number of months. The crew is seeking
improved wages and contract conditions. The present base
rate in the plant is $1.84 an hour for male workers and
$1.72 an hour for female workers. The Regional Council
is appealing for financial assistance to aid the strikers and
the Local Unions are responding well. Picket group, left,

F. Lavell, K. Hamilton, D.

Heller, F. Wright, G. Butler,

L. Featherstone, L. Thompson, A. Grant, J. Featherstone,

B. Carter.

NEW CANADIAN STAMP
HONOURS FOUNDING OF ILO

The 50th anniversary of the
International Labor Organiza-
tion is being commemorated
in Canada by the issuing of a
special six-cent stamp.

The new stamp will become
available May 21, 1969. It is
the creation of Montreal artist
Julien Hebert whose Expo ’67
“Man and his World” symbol
became world-renowned.

Thirty million stamps will
be printed.

JULUNUZINI NOUVSINVDED

The ILO is an intergovern-
mental cooperative structure
established in 1919. Canada
was one of the 45 founding
members.

The International Labor
Conference, supreme author-
ity of the ILO meets annually.
The conference is attended
by four delegates from each
participating nation, two as
Government representatives
and one each from employees
and workers.

Deliberations set interna-
tional labor standards and
provide a forum for the dis-
cussion of social and labor
questions. The Governing
Body, an executive group of
48, normally meet four times
a year, is composed of 24 rep-
resentatives of Government,
12 employers and 12 workers.
The tripartite structure is a
basis of strength which has
enabled the organization to
survive, even when the
League of Nations dissolved
after World War II.

In 1946, the ILO became
the first major specialized
agency to come under a new
world body, the United Na-

ee ae Oe

REGION MAKES NEW PROTEST

The IWA has made another

strong protest to the provin-

cial government over its latest
decision to allow further ex-
porting of logs to Japan.

In a wire to Lands and For-
ests Minister Ray Williston,
Regional President Jack
Moore stated:

“We're alarmed -about this
decision because it is contrary

to assurances that we’ve had
from both Federal and Pro-
vincial authorities that log ex-
ports would cease,” said
Moore.

“A number of our people

are out of work because of
the log shortage, and yet we

can’t seem to get the govern-
ment to put a stop to exports.

“Crown Zellerbach is still
shipping logs, and I under-
stand from the Federal Minis-
ter of Fisheries that Pacific
Logging may still be doing so
for some time.

“But the most alarming de-
velopment for us is this latest
permit, issued just a few days
after the Legislative session
‘ended,

“Why wasn’t the matter
brought before the House so
it could get close scrutiny?

“Tf the log shipment is being
made to meet a previous obli-
gation, what kind of obliga-
tion is it? ©

‘““Why weren’t we told about
this 20% deal when we peti-
tioned the Minister to stop log
exports?

“We object to future com-
mitments of our raw natural
resources, especially when no
effort is made to protect em-
ployment here in B.C.

“T have instructed our Re-
search Department to study
all contracts made with large
foreign interests, so that we
can determine just how much
control we have left over our
forest resources.

“It seems to us that if we
can’t stop log exports in this
crisis, we can’t have much ©
control at all.”

POLICE CHIEF SMEARS LEADERS

Accusations of sweetheart deals and three-quarters of a million dollars’ worth of
sabotage by an unnamed union have been termed a “smear” by labor leaders in Toronto.
The accusations were made by Metropolitan Toronto police chief James Mackey,

and appeared to be a distorted account of a power struggle in the concrete-forming
part of the Toronto apartment-construction industry. -

Typical of labor reaction was the statement by Cleveland Ballantyne, assistant
manager of the 23-union Toronto Building and Construction Trades Council, who termed
Mackey’s charges “irresponsible”, and said that if the police chief had any facts, he

should lay charges.

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