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MAX SALTER

RE-ELECTED

President Max Salter and
Financial Secretary Karl Lid-
berg of Local 1-363 IWA,
Courtenay, were re-elected in
the recent referendum ballot
conducted in the Local Union.

Names of the officers and
one trustee elected are as fol-
lows:

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KARL LIDBERG

President, Max Salter; 1st
Vice President, Earl Kemos;
2nd Vice President, Russ Wil-
liams; 3rd Vice President,
Herbert Wheatley: Financial
Secretary, Karl Lidberg; Re-
cording Secretary, Wilf Arm-
strong; Conductor, Roy Wil-
liams; Warden, Ed Thomp-
son; Trustee, Leslie Gray.

FROM PAGE 1

AGREEMENT

conference was asked to re-
commend further steps to

break the deadlock through
resumption of negotiations.

A mounting storm of pro-
test caused the Regional
President to issue a public
statement explaining the cir-
cumstances and advising that
further action by the Union
would be given immediate
consideration by the repre-
sentatives of the Local Un-
ions.

President Moore deplored
the arbitrary ultimatum is-
sued by the employers’ repre-
sentatives which threatened
to destroy the results of six-
teen months’ study and nego-
tiations to implement a prom-
ise made to planermen in the
1964 contract settlement.

He was faced with this ulti-
matum at the time when,
after a meeting of the Nego-
tiating Committee, he met
with F.LR. officials to sign
the Memorandum of Agree-
ment approved by both
parties.

President Moore stated that
the Union had given Forest
Industrial Relations Limited
ample assurance that signed
contracts would be respected
by the IWA. The occasional
discussions of category griev-
ances between crews and
management could not be
properly regarded as consti-
tuting a breach of contract,
he contended. Labour-man-

agement relations would not

‘be improved by any open

strife likely to be provoked
by such an impossible em-
ployers’ demand. It is wrong
in principle, he stated, that
such tactics should be substi-
tuted for sane and reasonable
negotiations. ,

Members of the Regional
Negotiating Committee ex-
pressed the hope that planer-
men would not be unfairly
penalized as proposed by
Forest Industrial Relations
Limited.

Rate Increases Set

The proposed new agree-
ment emerged from a study
of conditions affecting planer-
men employed by six large
companies.

It defined two main classi-
fications with additional pro-
vision for “set-up” men. The
increased rates proposed are
$3.07 an hour for No. 1 clas-
sification; $2.90 an hour for
the No. 2 classification, and
a rate of $2.78 an hour for
set-up men.

Rate increases range up to
33c an hour with the major-
ity of such increases ranging
upward from 16c an hour.

Any decision made by the
Union to correct the situation
will be promptly announced,
the committee’s spokesman
advised. To date the results
have been “inconclusive,” the
Regional President stated,

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NOTICE

Regional President J. A.
Moore has instructed Ply-
wood Evaluators Tony Van-
derheide and A. P. Busch to
finalize their present com-
mitments in order to comply

with the intent of substitute
resolution R-18 passed at the
last Regional Convention.
All Local Unions concern-
ed and all IWA Members of
the Plant Review Commit-
tees have been notified by

circular fetter -to indicate
which study requests will be
held in abeyance until fur-
ther notice.

WORK
STOPPAGE

A four-hour work stoppage
September 20 by members of
Local 1-405 IWA employed
at Rotters Lumber Company,
Salmo, was successful in forc-
ing the Company to adhere
to the terms of the Southern
Interior Master Agreement in
respect to pay periods.

Under the terms of the
Master Agreement signed
August, 1964, all employees
after September 1, 1965, must
be vaid at least every two
weeks,

On September 17, 1965, the
Company after being late

with one pay period, informed °

the crew that it was going to
maintain its original policy of
paying only twice a month.
The crew notified the Local
Union and a meeting was held
Monday morning September
20, prior to the start of the
first shift with Local Business
Agent Jack Munro and Bob
Brown, plant chairman at the
Kootenay Forest Products in
Nelson in attendance.

" At the meeting, the 30-man
crew unanimously decided
that unless the Company
agreed to present the pay
cheques forthwith and abide
by the terms of the Agree-
ment in the future, no work
would be done.

When informed of the
crew’s decision, the Company
after a number of threats
finally capitulated and the
men received their cheques
at 11:30 am. The crew then
returned to work on the after-

noon shift. 2

QUOTE

“Political democracy with-
out economic democracy is a
sham. Money is power.” —
Dr. Frank Sfyth, Director of
the Coady International In-
stitute, speaking in Ottawa.

DEMONSTRATION

The biggest public demon-
stration ever made by a Fed-
eration Convention was
staged November 2, when 400
of the delegates marched on
the head office of the British-
American Oil Company, in
support of the striking Oil
and Chemical Workers Union.

The delegates adjourned
the convention one hour early
to mass picket B-A’s head of-
fice after hearing Fred
Geddes, OCAW Local Presi-
dent, describe the basic issue
in the strike.

This, he informed the dele-
gates, was one of job security
or the right of job re-training
for employment elsewhere.

Other issues in the two-
month-old dispute are: .

1. Wage increases to bring
Canadian workers more
nearly in line with fellow

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workers employed by :
same companies in the U.S. _
2. Negotiation of certain
fringe benefits, rather than
unilateral establishment of ~
these benefits by manage-
ment,

The IWA has supported the
Oil Workers in their strike
from the beginning. All B-A
credit cards used by the Un-
ion’s staff members have been
returned to the Company
and the Regional Council has
numerous copies of letters
from its members which in-
form the Company that until
the strike is settled, they will
no longer do business with
them.

It is also reported that the
majority of the logging camps
and mills using B-A products
have been pressured by the
Local Unions into switching
to other brands.

TWO DELEGATES appreciating the finer things at ‘the
Convention were Jack Bannister, Office & Technical Work-
ers 378, left, and John Poelt, Local 1-405 IWA Cranbrook,
shown here in conversation with Betty Dockery, B.C. Fed-

eration office staff member.

SICK

LOCAL 1-80

Financial Secretary Ed. Linder of
Loca! 1-80 IWA, visited the following
patients in hospital distributing candy,
cigarettes and copies of the Western
Canadian Lumber Worker,

Nanaimo Hospital

Mr. Wilf Allen, Harewood Road,
Nanaimo; Mr. Raymond James, Ham-
ilton Avenue, Nanaimo; Mr. Hallie
Dixon, Lantzville.

Ladysmith Hospital

Mr. Clem Ingram, Davis Road,
Ladysmith; Mrs. Peter Donaghy,
Ladysmith; Mrs. E. Hubbard, Lady-
smith; Mrs. Carole Rayson, Lady-
sian Mrs. Jean Ouellette, Lady-
smith.

Chemainus Hospital

Mr. Giovanni Pagerut, Chemainus;
Mr. O. M. Samuelson, Chemainus;
Mr. E. W. Robinson, Chemainus; Mr.
Louis Armstrong, Chemainus; Mr.
Hugh MacDonald, Chemainus; Mrs.
Dama Cogswell, Chemainus; Mrs.
Martin, Nelson, Chemainus.

King’s Daughters

Mr. Charan Singh Dhaliwal, Mesa-
chie Lake; Mr. Sanwan Singh Bhjal,
Honeymoon Bay; Mr. Clarence TJens-
vold, Lake Cowichan; Mr. Frank Won,
Mesachie Lake; Mr. Donald Kennedy,

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