quirements. The Council will co-ordinate and evaluate them and make recommendations to the Minister of Education. Other members of .the Council are Dr. D. MacLaurin, Central Saanich, a former vice-president of the Univer- sity of Victoria; Mrs. Betty McLurg, Surrey, school trustee and member of the Douglas College Council; Alex Hart, Vancouver, Senior Vice-Presi- dent of the C.N.R.; Ms. Rita MacDonald, Vancouver, social worker and member of the THE WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER berger Commission; Bernard Gillie, Victoria, former tea- cher and former Superintend- ent of Education for the North- west Territories; Dr. Frances Forrest-Richards, Victoria, psychiatrist; Mrs. Dorothy Fraser, Osoyoos, lecturer and credit union director; Franklin E. Walden, Vancouver, chart- ered accountant and Chair- man, Board of Governors, Vancouver School of Theology ; Randolph Harding, Silverton, former Member of Parliament for Kootenay-West. “CONTRACT” Other benefits won include: © Improvements to the Leave of Absence clause. © Tool insurance for tools lost, damaged or stolen. _ © Free tradesmen’s tools required upon the introduction of the metric system. The companies have also agreed to pay.employees $25.00 once annually for the purchase of safety boots. LOCAL 1-71 WINS , SECOND CLAC OPERATION In a representation vote conducted by the Labour Rela- tions Board of British Colum- bia on September 4, 1974, all the 10 employees at Arnim Saunders Welding, Terrace, B.C. voted unanimously in favour of Local 1-71, IWA. This certification was form- erly held by the CLAC and is the second certification lost to Local 1-71 this year. In an earlier vote at Canadian Cel- lulose Company at Terrace on March 20th, the 261 employees CONSERVATIVES OPPOSE GRAIN BILL With the Conservative Party opposing it, the House of Commons by almost two to one supported a government bill settling the long-drawn-out grain workers’ dispute on the basis of a conciliation report. The legislation gives the B.C. union an increase of 87 cents an hour on the base rate in the first year of a two-year agreement and 65 cents an hour in the second year. A cost of living allowance clause is also included and, for the first time, a pension plan. Labour Minister John Munro, who introduced the bill, said that the package would cost the grain companies an extra 54% figured on base rate employees but 48% figured on all employees covered by the contract which expired November 30, 1973. The companies now agree with the 48% figure although they had refused to settle in negotiations because they elaimed the conciliation recommendation would cost them 61%. The union estimates the cost at 42.5%. government voiced its there voted by a large majority to switch from CLAC to the IWA. Certification for the em- ployees at Banff Mining & Quarrying Ltd. has recently been granted to Local 1-207, Edmonton. This company is lo- cated at Evansburg, Alberta and is involved in the peat moss industry. At the time of applying for certification, 22 employees were in the employ of this company. MUNRO SLAMS sg. GOVERNMENT Regional President Jack Munro, in his presidential ad- dress to the Regional Conven- tion, took on both the U.S. and Canadian governments for their lack of action in coming to grips with the devasting un- employment problem in the forest industry on both sides of the border. While recognizing that the present lumber market slump was world wide, Munro re- minded his audience that the Liberal government had just shortly been elected on promises that they would curb both inflation and unemploy- ment. He suggested that if the government were ‘sincere it could take a number of mea- sures to combat the economic woes of the forest industry. Paramount among these, he stated, would be the repeal of the eleven percent sales tax on construction materials, cheaper mortgage rates and the elimination of all income tax on home mortgages. At a press conference earlier in the day, Munro stated to newsmen that the Union would appeal to the provincial government to undertake con- struction of badly needed pub- lic housing in the province. He also made it known that the Union would not rest until all avenues had been examined and the chaotic unemployment problem resolved in the in- dustry. AW. SEPTEMBER / OCTOBER, 1974 FORMER REGIONAL PRESIDENT Jack Meare was pre- sented with a set of golf clubs, bag and cart, at the Regional Convention by the International. Making the presentation to Jack was IWA International Secretary-Treasurer Bill Botkin. NEW VICE-PRESIDENT MOTION TABLED UNTIL we MEET Delegates to the Regional Convention approved in prin- ciple the addition of a new Re- gional Vice-President but tabled action on the matter until the 1975 Regional Conven- tion. Speaker after speaker en- dorsed the idea of a new Vice- President as a much needed move to keep pace with the growth of the organization. However, the consensus was that the present decline in the Region’s revenue due to the layoffs in the industry pro- hibited taking on any more full- time people at this time. TO A WORLD DRIVEN BY INFLATION . and other pressures towards compromising on second-best, Dayton’s makes no contribution. or That is why Dayton’s loggers have won more world championships than any other boot ever made. % It has always been, and still is, the choice of the man who knows the best—and is prepared to pay for it. — DAYTON SHOE MANUFACTURING CO. LTD. 2250 EAST HASTINGS STREET TELEPHONE 253-6671 VANCOUVER, B.C.