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MAN'S
OPINION

INTEGRATION

INCREASING

Workers face layoff

By JACK HOLST

Regional 2nd Vice-President

NTEGRATED compact production units in
forest products industry will increase in
the next few years.

Included in plans for pulp and paper mills
now under construction by a number of com-
panies is the building of sawmills and possible
plywood mills adjacent to these pulp and
paper mills.

It is indicated that new pulp mills now
under construction or those in the planning
stage on a long-range basis
have integration as part of
the overall production plans.
One large company in the
Interior of B.C. now in the
process of constructing a
pulp mill apparently will
construct a modern sawmill
adjacent to its pulp produc-
ing unit.

It is now anticipated that
some 300 sawmill workers, members of the
IWA, could find themselves looking for other
employment when this new sawmill com-
mences production.

The construction of the sawmill means the
closing down of five other sawmills which
the Company now owns and operates in the
area. This will affect the employment of a
substantial number of persons who now have
long years of seniority, It is also a foregone
conclusion that the new sawmill will employ
very few persons compared to the present
numbers being employed in the five other

mills which are considered obsolete by the
Company.

Integration of the industry in the direction
I have mentioned will be more rapid in the
Interior because the advent of the new pulp
and paper mills, which are now under con-
struction, give the employers a golden op-
portunity to install the most modern machines,
employ the latest technicians of mechaniza-
tion and automation, and at the same time
plan ahead for new production processes
which can be added to these mills.

We have already experienced the effect
of runaway industry from one area to another
in British Columbia. Actually it has amounted
to relocation of production by the same em-
ployer to more modern facilities.

It is vital and necessary that attention be
directed to solving some of the problems
which integration in the forest industry
present.

Among these must be a procedure of
transferring workers to new mills when old
mills are closed down as a result of inte-
gration.

Jurisdiction of Unions in the forest pro-
ducts industry may be a serious point at
issue, which requires attention if we are to
adequately solve part of the problem.

The reduced number of jobs as a result
of integration towards compact production
units is another problem which must he
tackled as part of the overall automation
challenge which faces many workers and
their Unions across Canada.

LIGHTER SIDE Canim Lake employees

A horrified cop collared a

young lady at the beach
dressed in the scantiest of bi-

vote for strike

kinis and scolded.
“What would your ma say
if she saw you in this suit?”
“She’s say plenty,” admit-
ted the cute young thing, “It’s

her suit!”
Ke IOI
An equestrian lady from
Natchez
Fell into some cactus plant
patches.

Now she lies in her room
With her back to the moon
And. scratches and scratches
and scratches.

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Employees of the Canim
Lake Sawmills Ltd., near 100
Mile House, ignored Com-
pany threats and voted for
strike action in a government
supervised strike vote held
December 4.

The Company, largest in
the area, threatened to lock-
out its 53 employees if they
backed the Union. The mill
owners also charged that the
Union was asking for a Union
Shop when they had no union
shop agreements in the
Northern Interior.

Their attempt to discredit
the Union was defeated by
Regional Organizers Dick
Larson and Vern Griffith who
held special meetings with the
employees and acquainted:

them with the true facts. The
job done by the Organizers
at the meetings is credited
with winning the vote for the
Union.

The operation was organ-
ized by Vern Griffith in the

‘spring and certification was

granted.to Local 1-424 IWA,
July 7, by the Labour Board.
Union attempts to sign an
agreement failed when the
Conciliation Officer made no
concrete proposals other than
to recommend that no Con-
ciliation Board be appointed.

Traffic accidents claimed
277 lives in March or 43 more
than a year ago. So far in
1964, fatalities total 78
against 620 in 1963.

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