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AND THE RAINS CAME. Local 1-71, IWA, loggers board one of the special flights chartered September 3rd, to return
them to their respective camps following the end of the long B.C. dry spell that closed most of the forest districts to loggers
and campers. The plane, a DC-6-B, was chartered from Canadian Pacific Airlines by Pacific Western Airlines and made two trips ea
to Port Hardy with loggers. Four special flights were also made by Mallards the same day. 7

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nedy Lake Divisions, leaving the
slash to be cleared by the Power »
Commission. The B.C. Forest Com- pe
pany does not have an operation in > a |
this area so an agreement was
worked out that the Power Com- »
mission “would remove the mer-
chantable timber and clear slash. >
While the I.B.E.W. Union has the
right to this job they indicated at a ¥
a meeting with the IWA, the Power
; Signe. Commission and themselves that x»
Bs M, ' “ey they would prefer IWA members : 8
= - doing the job because it required ait
THEY NEED YOUR HELP. These strikers at the Port Alberni store of the giant  ©xperienced loggers. cs
F. W. Woolworth Company have been on strike for over three months for better The B.C. Power Commission set » ¥
wages and working conditions. The strike started June 16 when the Company re- up a trailer camp in the B.C. For-
jected the majority award of a Conciliation Board which recommended a basic rate est Company section for the IWA
of $1.25 per hour, plus job security, health and welfare, and nine paid statutory members which the men say is a |
holidays, The strikers all members of the Retail Food & Drug Clerks Union were really first rate. The Commission on ” :
receiving 75c to 87Vac per hour. This strike is being suppored Py se IWA ond is also taking an active interest in ee £ se a |}
ore of the Woolworths Port Alken’ store fo practically nil the strike con still be the Safety of the crew. Safety WINNER of the annual Scholarship awarded by Local 1-80, IWA, was Miss Vivian V
lost if trade unionists in other areas patronize this Company. They recommend to meetings have been held and a Dams shown here receiving a cheque for $300.00 from Local 1-80 President, Wel- :
all trade unionists and their families NOT TO PATRONIZE F. W. WOOLWORTH. safety programme laid out. don Jubenville while the winner's mother Mrs. Dams looks on. The Scholarship is
(Insert shows fourteen of the strikers who are carrying on the strike.) Officers of Local 1-85, after in- open to any wife, son, or daughter of an [WA member, obtaining the highest ”
specting the trailer camp stated that stonding in the written examination for Grade XII (University Programme) con-
Fist. of privatencomeanicetcon! ucted in June by the Department of Education, provided the winner has not re- a
° ° learn how: feusunemennpiocenen ceived another award of higher monetary value. Miss Dams attended the Jr.-Sr.
erni oggers raise f 4 US i peny High School at Lake Cowichan. She will further her education at Victoria College
4 if they were to visit this operation in Victoria. Her father, Mr. Stan Dams, is employed at the W.F.I. Sawmill at $
° ° t] too. Honeymoon Bay.

Power Commission's Camp :
Members of Local 1-85, through the Forest Management f
IWA, Port Alberni, working Licence of MacMillan, Bloedel & :
on the new transmission line Powell River Company, a section of A
between Port Alberni and Crown Land, and the start of the (F fh GY PLOW , Pe
Ucluelet, are praising highly B.C. Forest Company’s Manage- ae
the bunkhouses provided for ment Licence. é {
them by-the B.C. Power Com- MacMillan, Bloedel & Powell a és
mission. River Company are logging out all wv My
The B.C. Power Commission is the merchantable timber with em- —= Oh

building the line which runs ployees of Sproat Lake and Ken- LG
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SAFETY MEETING held by B.C. Power Commission officials for I!WA members
working on the Port Alberni-Ucluelet transmission line right-of-way.

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VIEW of the modern, clean trailers provided by the B.C. Power Commission for :
IWA members.

heltér than Paris! || .\
Pierre Paris & Sons

51 West Hastings Street Vancouver, B.C.
i } A Family Business Owned and Operated In B.C. Since 1907

TRAILER WASHROOMS. As clean and bright as any new home. The crew state -
that the food is so good in this Camp that no logging camp can match it. a