2 WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER From Page 1 “Demands. 4. Required adherence to contract provision by all contractors and sub- contractors. 5. Payment of $2.80 an hour to .Shingle sawyers, plus 51 cents an hour per square for all squares in excess of. 20 squares a day and $2.25 an hour to shingle packers plus 39% cents per square for all squares in excess of 20 squares a day. 6. Amendment of the present con- tract Provisions for loggers’ travel time on a portal to portal basis. 7. Deletion of all reference to casual labour in the agreement. _8. Upward revision of rates for en- gineers and firemen. _ 9. Inclusion of ‘one additional paid Statutory holiday. 10. Re-negotiation of the present contract provisions relating to rate revision to expedite decisions res- pecting new and revised jobs resulting from technological changes in those sections of the industry not now covered by the job evaluation pro- gramme, 11. Revision of the seniority clause in the present agreement to clarify the application of seniority to be de- termined by length of service and ability to do the work required., 12. Deletion of the following words from the present seniority clause, “except where circumstances render such a posting impractical”. 13, Payment of a doubled rate for overtime. From Page 1 “Bill are changed, making it possible for an Arbitration Board to de- termine what is arbitrable.. This may compel arbitration of mat- ters now subject to negotiation. ‘No Political Check-off @ Unions are forbidden to contribute to a political party out of funds derived directly or indirectly from the check-off or from membership dues. Volun- tary contributions from indivi- duals are not banned, but “con- tracting in” is not permissible. All forms of political education may be stopped, if construed to be within the terms of this sec- tion. @ Trade unions are required to furnish complete and audited statements of their affairs. In- dividual members may demand such statements. This section is drafted on the assumption that this is not now the practice of trade unions. A complaint that such statements are not complete may involve the union in court action. The provisions of the Bill are under continued study by experienced 42° officers of the IWA, the B.C. Federa- tion of Labour and legal advisors. Unions affiliated with the B.C. Fed- eration of Labour have been alerted about the dangers to collective bar- gaining rights. Wage Freeze Looms The general consensus of opinion is to the effect that the trade unions are about to be robbed of their oppor- tunities to bargain successfully. If the sponsors of the Bill are able to impose their will on the Legislature, and on trade unions, the workers of the province may have to endure a wage freeze for an indefinite period. Robert Strachan M.L.A., Leader of the Opposition_has stated that the provisions in the amending Bill which threaten trade unions will be fought on the floor at every stage. When the Bill is given second read- ing, the underlying principles will be debated. Before third reading, it must be referred to a Committee of the Whole House for consideration clause by clause. Each objectionable clause will be protested, and a further debate raised on the third reading before it goes before the Lieutenant- Governor for assent. - CCF Members To Resume Commons Divorce Blockade - IWA member Frank Howard (CCF-Skeena) and Arnold Peters (CCF- Timiskaming), who were the joint authors of the 1960 session’s five- month filibuster against Quebec and Newfoundland divorce petitions, will resume their divorce blockade in the House of Commons this year. DUNCAN BUSINESS GUIDE LOUTET AGENCIES LTD. INSURANCE AND REAL ESTATE Duncan Lake Cowichan J. Lindsay Loutet Gordon R. Loutet 131 Jubilee St. S. Shore Road HANEY BUSINESS GUIDE ESQUIRE MEN’S WEAR | (Graham. Mowatt) Complete Stock of Work and Dress Clothing “THE STORE WITH THE POPULAR BRANDS” “HANEY BRITISH COLUMBIA EXECUTIVE COUNCIL of the Canadian Labour Congress making its annual presentation to the Federal Cabinet February 2, in Ottawa. Canada’s unemployment crisis was given top priority in the 35-page statement read by CLC President Claude Jodoin. Continued From Page 1 IN MEMORIAM mediately became associated with the organization among the wood- workers, which later materialized in affiliation with the LWA. As Local 1-217, IWA, was then the only Local Union on the Lower Mainland, his membership was originally in what is now the Vancouver Local Union. When delegated by the membership in New Westminster to apply for a charter, he commenced a continu- ous period of service on the Execu- tive Committee of the newly formed Local Union with two years as Financial Secretary. During this period he won ap- proval for his handling of the Local Union’s finances. He also served five years as a member of the District Executive Board, representing his Local Union. In 1944, he was appointed to the organization staff of the Inter- national Union, and while actively opposing the Pritchett-Dalskog domination of the Union, played an active part in the campaign which brought almost every mill in the New Westminster area under IWA contract. For four years, he served as Vice-President of the Vancouver and Lower Mainland Labour Council, and as President of that Council for another two years, until his voluntary retirement in 1953. In 1949, he was elected IWA Regional Secretary-Treasurer and has occupied that post continu- ously since that date. He was elected two years ago as one of the labour representatives on the Medical Services Associa- on. Outside of the trade union move- ment he was well known and res- pected for his active work in community and church affairs. Brother Mitchell is survived by his wife, Ellen; three sons, Gordon, Nanaimo; Allan and Murray, at home; a daughter, Christine, at home and two brothers and four sisters. Funeral services were conducted Monday, March 6, at St. Aidan’s Presbyterian Church, New West- minster, with Dr. M. S. Blackburn officiating. Burial was at Fraser Cemetery. Officers and staff of the Re- gional Council attended the fun- eral and extended their. deepest sympathy to the family. All Is Not Well In Smallwood's Woods A Liberal colleague of Premier J. R. Smallwood in the Newfound- land House of Assembly, Jack Forsley, MHA, has warned that Small- wood’s union-busting tactics may return to haunt the Newfoundland Liberals. He told the Liberal policy conference in Ottawa recently that the Smallwood government had done “something probably too drastic, but courageous” when he broke the legal strike of IWA members in the Province during 1959. “All is not happy in the woods in Newfoundland today,” said Mr. Forsey. “If you gave the logger a free right to vote today you might be surprised at the outcome.” Scotton Gets New Post Clifford A. Scotton has been appointed editor of Canadian Labour, the official journal of the Canadian Labour Congress. He succeeds Norman Dowd who re- cently retired after 40 years’ sery- ice in the labour movement. Mr. Scotton, a former Ottawa cor- respondent of the Co-operative Press Association, moved to his new post after two years as assis- tant public relations director of the i The Congress has appointed Jean-Pierre Fournier of Mont- real as the new assistant PR director. Mr. Fournier, an active unionist, comes to the CLC from La Presse of Montreal. Phone 2600 PORT ALBERNI BUSINESS GUIDE MacGREGOR’S MEN’S WEAR For Everything A Man Wears To * WORK, SPORT or DRESS WOODWARD STORES (PORT ALBERNI) LTD. “YOUR FAMILY SHOPPING CENTRE” | Closed Monday All Day We Can Afford Sell The... ok BEST For LESS! Hours: 9 - 5:30 Herridge Knows Of What He © Speaks From the Federal House... H. W. Herridge (Kootenay West): I want to give a brief explanation of what inspired this bill and its purpose. 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