himself on his good employee wa) NEWS OF THE LOCALS 1-118 ELECTIONS Ed Haw, Financial Secre- tary of Local 1-118 IWA, Vic- toria, since 1952, has been re-elected for another two year term in the referendum ballot recently conducted in the Local Union. Murray Drew, the Local’s President was unopposed in the nominations. Other successful candidates for office were, Joe Fowler, 1st Vice-President; Al Carle, 2nd Vice-President; Roger Lewis, 3rd Vice-President; Dick Emerson, Recording- Secretary; Darvis Cook, War- den; Tom Ainsley, Conductor; Six-Year Trustee, Dick Mor- rison; Four-Year Trustee, Walter Rosenberg. The officers will be installed in office at the Local’s regular ED HAW monthly meeting January 23, by one of the Regional officers. ROSS INGLIS WORKING RELATIONS Local 1-424 IWA President Ross Inglis reports that one of the employers in the Prince George area who professes keen interest in maintaining good working relations with the crew, forced twenty of his employees to work'from 4 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. New Year’s Eve. This employer, Inglis ad- mits, didn’t violate the Union Agreement as the time work- ed was the crew’s normal shift. He pointed out, how- ever, that the other employ- ers in the area recognized the oceasion and closed down their operations so that their employees could celebrate the New Year. Inglis stated that it is ex- amples like this that needless- ly strain management - em- yee relations, He added employer, who prided has lost their re- BANQUETS The Annual Shop Stewards’ Banquet sponsored by Local 1-118 IWA, Victoria, for the Stewards and Committee Members will be held Febru- ary 12, at the Club Tango. The affair is one of the social highlights of the Local Union and provides an opportunity for the Union to express its appreciation for the work ac- complished throughout the year by these key members. Officers of the C.P.S. Sub- Local of Local 1-118 report that the Sub-Local is holding its Banquet February 5, at the Sooke Golf Course Club House. ORGANIZATION Regional organizer Vern Griffith and Local 1-424 Bus- iness Agent Fred Ibis have recently organized the McColl Forest Industries Ltd. at Burns Lake, report officers of Local 1-424. There are approximately thirty employees in the opera- tion. Certification is pending. SUBMISSION The Canadian Labour Con- gress will make its annual submission to the federal gov- ernment at 10 a.m. on Tues- day, Feb. 15th. A big turnout of CLC affiliates is expected, as usual. Just swamp her out a bit . . . big enough fer a crummy ta turn in... "SUSPENSION OF WORK™ Celgar Limited, with woods operations in the Terrace area and a sawmill located in Prince.;Rupert, was at one time known by us as one of the better large companies to deal with in resolving prob- lems in the area of Industrial Relations. This doesn’t mean to imply that problems or grievances which arose were - necessarily settled to the sat- isfaction of the Union, but that such problems were usu- ally discussed promptly and in a reasonable manner. Com- pany decisions were also made without undue delay so that the grievance procedure pro- visions of the Agreement pro- vided the means by which such past problems could be dealt with. t Over the last several months, however, the Local’s Plant Committees in the Com- pany’s Terrace and Prince Rupert operations have been encountering frustrating at- titudes in their attempts to resolve current grievances. The Company has either taken totally unreasonable original positions which they refuse to modify, or have not taken any position at all, in order to delay indefinitely any pos- sible solution to the matter. These tactics have resulted in no grievances being settled at the plant level and indeed very few being settled at the Local level, except through _.“Right of Reference,” or other “methods under which the question is no longer the property of the Local and the Company, and under circum- stances where unreasonable Company positions no longer prevail. Such examples include a question recently determined by the Board of Industrial Relations and another. ques- tion which was to have gone before the Interpreter of the Agreement on January 6th. In the case of the latter ques- » By BILL WILSON Financial Secretary, Local 1-71 tion, the Company capitulated and agreed with the Union’s position the day before Chief BILL WILSON Justice Munroe was to hear the case—“another delay until the eleventh hour.’ ” In Prince Rupert Sawmills, membership frustration reach- ed its peak on Friday, Janu- ary 7th, and finally resulted in a complete work stoppage of that plant on Monday, Jan- uary 10th, because of the fol- lowing general circumstances. On Friday, the 7th, an em- ployee was suspended for the remainder of his shift for allegedly refusing to obey an order. The same person was present as a member of the Plant Grievance Committee later that day when the Com- mittee and Management met to discuss several other grievances. The question of the Committee Member’s sus- pension was not on the agenda of the meeting. Dur- ing the course of the meeting the Mill Manager demanded an apology from the Commit- teeman who had been sus- pended, which was refused. The Mill Manager then added two weeks to the individual’s original suspension because of his refusal to be intimidated in an obvious maneuver by the Manager to embarrass the Committee and restrict their effectiveness. The crew of Prince Rupert Sawmills, on learning of this latest incident of arrogant disregard for the dignity of individual employees and their elected committee, took the position that work in the plant would be suspended until the Committeeman was reinstated. This course of ac- tion was made necessary on Monday when a last-minute attempt by the Committee to talk reason with Mill Man- ager failed. It is significant, too, that the Company in trying to counter- act the actions of its crew did not depend on further Union-Management meetings entirely, but resorted to ‘ phone calls to each individual employee with the false mes- sage that the dispute had been settled and with an order to return to work. In addition to this, the Company threatened individual employ- ees that they had called the RCMP to escort them as un- desirables from Company property, even though a bunk- house for a number of em- ployees is situated on Com- pany property. A meeting held in Prince Rupert on the 11th between Local Secretary - Treasurer, Brother W. H. Wilson; Local Business Agent, Brother fk. Ollenberger; the Prince Rup. ert Sawmill Committee and Company representatives did not meet with success in re solving the issue because, primarily, the Company was not prepared to admit that they had made a mistake and reinstate the Committeeman See “SUSPENSION”—Page 4