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The pickets re- mained at their stations when KENNELLY’S EMPLOYEES AT CRANBROOK who last fall voted to revoke their membership in the Lumber and Sawmill Workers Union and join the IWA. This fairly modern plant employs ap- proximately forty-Ffve work- ers and produces forty thous- and feet of lumber per shift. PLANER CREW. The only member identified is Hilbert Olafsen, third from right, who was a charter member of the IWA with book No. 62. PART OF THE SAWMILL CREW. Another member not shown, L. Nelson, was also a charter member. the manager herded his sel- ected foremen and a few strikebreakers toward the plant. He then called for the RCMP, although no violence was threatened. The police of- ficers remained on the scene but found no breach of the peace, but ordered the scabs through. Jack MacKenzie, who was present said, “Clearly, it was the intention of management to intimidate a legal picket line by insinuating that police action was necessary. The ac- tion was not only unnecessary but an attempted perversion of law enforcement. In no re- spect has the law been violat- ed by the men who hold the picket lines,” Later in the same day, the RCMP were again called to .the plant when railway train erews switched four box cars im \@i Supervisory Personnel a e ° , Scab Blairmore Mill into the yard for loading by the suvervisory staff. Officials of both CPR and the police were on hand to make certain that the train crews obeyed JACK MACKENZIE orders to cross the picket line under threat of immediate dismissal if they refused to do so. The management of Blair- more Sawmills have also ac- cused the pickets of damag- ing equipment on the employ- er’s premises. As not any of the pickets have access to the premises the charges are ob- viously absurd, but are being used as a pretext for police investigation intended again to alarm and intimidate the pickets. Overtures made by the Al- berta Department of Labour for discussions leading to set- tlement have been arrogantly rejected by management. The illogical position taken by the company is shown by its pres- ent attempt to operate the mill with highly paid personnel. Apparently, management is willing to pay from $3.00 to $4.00 an hour for work form- erly done by men who re- ceived only $1.32% an hour, a rate which the company said could not be safely in- creased by any substantial amount. The strike bulletin contains a definition of a “scab” ob- tained from the Oxford Dic- tionary. A scab is defined as “a low scurvy fellow, a scoun- drel, a workman who refuses to join an organized move- ment on behalf of his trade, a ‘blackleg’ or a man willing to work for a master whose men are on strike.” The bulletin then lists the men known to have crossed the picket line and who will be branded in the community as “scabs.” CLL LL ALAA AAALAC N Training | Means Jobs “Seventy percent of the jobs in Canada are avail- able to trained workers, Students who drop out of school without completing high school education stand the chance of getting jobs with very little future, It adds up to a life of insecur- ity, unemployment and lim- ited earnings.” ' —Harold Tangjerd, Vocational Supervyi Regina. Pome \sor, LLL Led LLL VILL ddd ddd ddedbd bb XA N N N N N N N N N Yr S ~2