2nd Issue

THE WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER

November, 1963

IWA STRIKERS at the Canadian Forest Products Planing
Mill in Grande Prairie, Alberta. The operation has been strike-
bound over four months with no signs of settlement. The

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Northern Alberta Railway
Company, informed them that
they would be dismissed un-
less they. carried out the move.

Keith Johnson, Financial

‘Secretary of Local 1-207, in’

reporting on the strike stated
that the Company’s ‘action in
advising the crew to report
for work followed closely the
pattern employed by the
Western Plywood Company
during its strike in Alberta.
In that strike, Western Ply-
wood followed up their first
letter with another informing
the members they were no
longer employed by the Com-
pany.

If this occurs at Grande
Prairie, Johnson said, the
Union will lay charges against
the Company under the La-
bour Relations Act. Johnson
pointed out that the Supreme
Court of Canada ruled during
the Royal York Hotel strike
in Toronto, that strikers can-
not be dismissed during a
legal strike.

Following is the complete
text of the letter received by
the strikers from the Com-
pany:

“Dear Mr. Gray:

We are writing to let you
know that the Company has
decided to start planing lum-
ber at the Grande Prairie
Lumber Division. While we
have continued to sell lumber
from our yard every day since
the strike started over three
months ago, we have now de-
cided in addition to re-acti-
vate our planer operations.

We hereby notify you to re-
port for work at 7:00 a.m. on
Wednesday, Sth of November,
1963.

We can assure you of the
following:

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cross any Picket Line in order
to return to work.

2. You are entitled to the
protection of the Law should
anyone try to interfere with
your returning to work, and
should there be any interfer-

‘ence with you the Company

will take the necessary steps
to have such _ interference
stopped.

3. The Company will not
sign any Agreement with the
Unicon unless full protection is
provided in the Agreement re-
garding the security of jobs
and seniority of all those now
returning to work.

When the planer operations
start next Wednesday, the
Company will require suffi-
cient crew for its operation.
While all employees will be
given the first chance to re-
turn to their former jobs, the
Company will employ such

additional crew as may be -

necessary to fill any vacan-
cies. The wage rates as recom-
mended in the Conciliation
Board Award will be paid
effective April Ist, 1963.

Prior to the taking of a
strike vote by the IWA at the
Grande Prairie Lumber Divi-
sion, the Company had agreed
to accept the award made by
the Conciliation Board ap-
pointed by the Government.
After thoroughly studying the
proposals and arguments sub-
mitted by both parties in the
dispute, the Conciliation
Board recommended an in-
crease in wage rates which
would have established a
wage scale as high or higher
than any other unionized
planer operations in the prov-
ince.

This wage scale was even
better than the same Union
had accepted in a new con-

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“STRIKERS”

tract with another operator.
It was pointed out that the
Grande Prairie operation
could not continue at any
higher rate of pay than the
one recommended by the
Government - appointed Con-
ciliation Board.

We would again emphasize
that the wage rates we are
prepared to pay are as high or
higher than any unionized
planer mill in the province,
and that you could have been
receiving these wage rates
during the entire time you
have been off work. The Com-
pany will welcome your re-
turn to work and looks for-
ward to continuing the same
friendly relations with you in
the future as have existed in
the past.

Yours truly,
North Canadian Forest
Industries Limited,
Grande Prairie Lumber
Division.
R. F. MURPHY,
General Superintendent”

De
of

MRS. TAREA HALL PITT-
MAN, Regional Secretary of
the National Association for
the Advancement of Coloured
People, addressing the 8th
Annual Convention of the
B.C. Federation of Labour
November 14, in the Hotel
Vancouver.

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