NOTICE

It is reported that certain IWA Coast members who
have either left one forest firm to work for another or

have left the industry altogether after June 15, have not

received the retroactive pay due to them as a result of
the Coast contract settlement.

Provided a member left after June 15, he is entitled
to retroactive pay from his old employer and should make
the necessary application for the money owed to him.

TRUDEAU PLANNING

The government will bring
down a White Paper on the
establishment of a wage-price

_ review board early in the new
Parliamentary session.

Prime Minister Trudeau
said he planned to meet in-
dustry and labor representa-

tives before actually creatin
the board. J

Mr. Trudeau, speaking at a
press conference, refused to
specify precisely what his
government’s wage “guide-

"GUIDE LINES" FOR LABOUR

lines” were, while agreeing
that definite figures were al-
ways in mind.

He said some wage in-
creases of-more than 6 or 7
per cent might be warranted
if general industry levels
were higher, or if boosts were
justified by productivity. But
he added that the economy
generally wasn’t having that
much of a productivity in-
crease, and general wage
boosts at that level would be
“inflationary.”

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capacity of 450 tons of -pulp. The company will have an approximate work force of 900.
Local 1-405 is presently engaged in.a legal battle with two construction contractors— >
Flanders Installations Ltd. and Burns & Dutton (1962) Ltd—resulting from an injunction

against the Union during the Interior strike. Examination for Discovery was set for Sep-
tember 6th and the Trial of the Action will be held on September 23rd, 1968. The
Statement of Claim submitted by the Plaintiffs mentions damages of $234,726.72.

LIGHTER SIDE

The wife was understand-
ably furious when she came
home unexpectedly and found
her husband with a lady mid-
get.

“You promised me two
weeks ago that you would
never cheat on me again,” she
stormed.

Her husband shrugged non-
chalantly. “Take it easy,
dear,” he said airly. “Can’t
you see I’m tapering off?”

* * *

A local yokel was bragging
to another that he was an ex-
pert on stuff to drink. An-
other same got a bottle and
told him to “take a slug” and
tell him what it was.

The bragging one took a big
gulp and came up gasping:
“That’s gasoline!” The friend
calmly answered “Yes, I
know, but is it Ethyl or regu-
lar?”

* * *

Visitor: “Where does this
lane lead to?”

Native: “Well, it’s led half

the young folks around these
parts into trouble.”

—Photo courtesy Nelson News

VITAL POWER

Ten thousand times has the labour movement stum-
bled and fallen and bruised itself, and risen again; been
seized by the throat and choked into insensibility; en-

joined by courts, assaulted by thugs, charged by the
militia, shot down by regulars, traduced by the press,
frowned upon by public opinion, deceived by politicians,
threatened by priests, repudiated by renegades, preyed .
upon by grafters, infested by spies, deserted by cowards,
betrayed by traitors, bled by leeches, and sold out by
leaders, but, notwithstanding all this, and all these, it is
today the most vital potential power this planet has ever
known, and its historic mission of emancipating the
workers of the world from the thralldom of the ages is
as certain of ultimate realization as the setting of the sun.

“Catching any?” asked the
bystander.

“Caught 30 walleyes outa
here yesterday,” replied the
fisherman.

“You did? By the way, do
you know who I am? I’m the
county fish and game war-
den.”

The fisherman pondered a
moment, then said, “Do you
know who I am?”

—EUGENE V. DEBS

“No,” replied the warden.
“Well, I'm the biggest liar
in this county.”
* * *

Asked a small boy, looking
up from the evening paper,
“Dad do political plums grow
from seeds?”

“No,” replied his father,

“they result from clever
grafting.”

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