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2nd Issue
August, 1968

IN_ SASK.

DISPUTE

IWA WINS VICTORY

FRED FIEBER
STATES POSITION

Once

again election time is drawing near, and

public accusations are starting to fly against the

Regional officers.

The IWA is a very democratic union and that is
as it should be. However, it would be desirable
that all members do not abuse that right by going

to the public press with inter-union

squabbles.

It would be much more desirable to have our
_ arguments confined to union meetings and. con-
ventions, and let the membership make decisions

referendum ballot as to who their officers should
what policies we should adopt.

IWA MEET SEPTEMBER 9-13

The 3lst Annual Conven-
tion of Regional Council No.
i, will be held September 9-
13, in the Hotel Georgia, Van-
vane ly 170 dele

Approximate ele-
gates will attend the week-
Jong conference represen

Prior to the convention, the
Region will hold its 19th An-
nual Safety Conference Sept.
7, at Woodworkers’ House,
Vancouver.

The majority of the dele-
gates attending this confer-
ence will also be delegates to
the Regional Convention. Ap-
proximately 75 are expected

at this meet to review the

Union’s safety program.

The IWA has won a signifi-
cant jurisdictional victory
over the Labours Internation-
al Union of America’s at-
tempts to move into the basic

forest industry in Saskatche-
wan.

The IWA had charged, in a
submission to the CLC’s Im-

BOYCOTT
CALIFORNIA
GRAPES

Strong support is growing
for the California grape work-
ers who have been on strike
for the past 34 months against
the giant California grape cor-
porations.

Organized labour, religious
and consumer groups in Van-
couver and other cities across
the country and in the United
States, have joined together
to form the “Citizens Com-
mittee to Support the Grape
Workers.”

The Canadian Labour Con-
gress has called for a boycott
against California grapes and
contributed $1000 to help the
striking farm workers. This is
the second CLC grant in aid
of the strikers. :

Even the Mayor of Vancou-
ver, Tom Campbell, has taken
a strong interest in the plight
of the strikers and is at the
moment in California making
a first hand investigation.

The grape workers are re-
presented by the Farm Work-
ers’ Union of America which
has teams of workers helping
to organize the “don’t buy
California grapes” campaign.

Marshall Ganz, one of the
team working in Metro To-
ronto, told the CLC executive
Council about the farm work-
ers’ policy of non-violence in

- attempting to achieve its aims,

despite extreme provocation
of employers. “Some of our
people have been badly beaten
up on the picket line,” Ganz
said.

In the meantime a campaign
backed by the Labor Council
of Metro Toronto is well
under way.

Together with Ganz in To-
ronto are Father Day, a
Dominican priest from Stock-
ton, California, who got per-
sonally involved through first-
hand knowledge of the plight
of the grape pickers, and Jes-
sica Govea.

At a special meeting called
by the Labor Council to plan
a course of action, Mr. Ganz
outlined the problem.

The grape farmers in Cali-
fornia are not farmers in the

ordinary sense of the term.
See “GRAPE” — Page 3

partial Umpire Dr. Carl Gold-
enberg, that the Labours Uni-
on had made ‘sweetheart
deals’ with two forest com-
panies to gain certification of
the operations.

The. submission was pre-
pared and presented by Inter-
national Assistant Director of
Organization Clay Walls with
information supplied by or-
ganizers Jim Rouw and R. E.
Larson.

At the hearing held in
Montreal last April 8, Walls
was able to prove that the
Labours Union, while holding
no certification in the Saskat-
chewan forest industry, was
able to gain certification for
the employees of the Wood-
lands Enterprises Limited two
days after the company was
incorporated.

Certification was granted
on May 3, 1967 and a collec-
tive agreement between
Woodlands and the LIU was
signed May 19, 1967 for a
three-year period. There were
seven employees in the unit
at the time of certification.
This increased later to appro-
ximately. 150.

Three months later, the La-
bours Union was granted cer-
tification for the employees
of the Waskesiu Holdings
Limited and signed another
three-year collective agree-
ment. There were three em-
ployees in the company at the

time of signing. This number
also increased significantly.

CLAY WALLS

In presenting the IWA’s
case, Walls pointed out that
the Labours Union was a con-
struction and general labour-
ers’ union having no right,
under the CLC Constitution,
to organize in the basic forest
industry.

He charged that the two
agreements signed by the La-
bours Union were inferior to

See “VICTORY” — Page 3

U.A.W., TEAMSTERS
PLAN JOINT ACTION

The International Brother-
hood of Teamsters and the
United Auto Workers have
reached an agreement “to co-
operate and work together to-
ward achievement of common
goals.”

The agreement for joint ac-
tion was worked out at a joint
meeting of the IBT’s Execu-
tive Board and the UAW’s
Executive Board.

It establishes an Alliance
for Labor Action (ALA)
which will assist’ all bona fide
labor organizations which are
prepared to cooperate in and
contribute to joint efforts to
advance the interests of work-
ers and their families and to
join with others in the com-
munity to promote the general
welfare and to improve the
quality of life for all’ of the
American people.

Formation of the ALA was
announced at a press confer-
ence which was held jointly
by UAW President Walter P.
Reuther and General Vice-
President Frank Fitzsimmons
of the Teamsters.

The precise mechanism of
ALA was not spelled out, but

will be set up at a national
conference which will be con-
vened in the early part of
1969.

At the press conference,
Reuther denied that the Alli-
ance was a potential rival to
the AFL-CIO, but did say
that federation affiliates would
be encouraged to join in the
community action program.

Currently, the UAW is
working out a program for
national, state and local com-
munity action councils. The
relationship of the IBT to
such councils had, avparently,
not been determined.

Under the terms of the joint
action agreement, the Team-
sters and the UAW agree:

1. To discuss and develop
union and community pro-
grams for joint community ac-
tion;

2. To establish an alliance
for labor action;

3. To commit the necessary
resources and efforts to insure
the effective imvlementation
of such joint action programs,
both in the labor movement
and within the community of
the nation at large. ie 3

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