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 Strikers are maintaining their picket lines in forty below zero temperatures, When you do it means you’ll get a wonder- fully mellow beer - CARLING PILSENER. The flavor you'll enjoy is the result of care- ful, natural brewing. It’s the kind of brewing that won a World Award for CARLING PILSENER, and its the kind of brewing that made CARLING PILSENER a B.C. Favorite for almost four decades. CARLING ¢ PILSENER {he B.C. Beer with the Fresh Natural Flavor 9676-8 This advertisement is not published or displayed by the Liquor Control Board ' + or by the Government of British Columbia. we CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 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: 1 .You have every right to OLYMPIA TAILORS WE ARE PROUD TO OFFER YOU SHIFFER HILLMAN QUALITY TAILORED CLOTHES @ A Large Selection of Imported Materials Tuxedo Rentals for All Occasions 2425 East Hastings St. (Nanaimo & Hastings Sts.) Vancouver 6, B.C, AL. 3-1310 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- LOOK FOR THIS TAG It is your guarantee of the finest leather work gloves made for your job — see them at your local dealers. JOHN WATSON LTD. 127 2nd Ave. East, Vane., B.C. Ne a Se. “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. PARKWAY HOTEL AND RESTAURANT 119 West Pender Street MUtual 3-9853 ROOMS FROM $3.00 Daily $12.50 Weekly