ea ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING of Local 1-85, Port Alberni, March 14 in the Royal Canadian Legion. Officers, back to camera from left: A. Free- man, 2nd Vice President; Earl Foxcroft, 1st Vice President; Walter Allen, President; Maurice Corbeil, Financial Secretary; Gil Ingram, 3rd Vice Presi- dent; John Squire, Recording Secretary. Guest speakers Regional President Jack Moore, and International 2nd Vice President Ron Roley are seated at right, front. Ne = z a. Asass ae some are made This one, the famous PARIS "Light Cruiser", has been made for over half a century by the same family of craftsmen right in B.C. _...» AND HAS BEEN THE UNDISPUTED LEADER EVER SINCE PIERRE PARIS & SONS 51 West Hastings Street Vancouver 3, B.C C aship since 1907 THE WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER 4 Job Issu “Quotas and Speed-up vs Common Sense” is the subject of an article appearing in the Alply Bulletin, Port Alberni, which expresses the views of the Shop Committee in the Alberni Plywoods plant about present-day conditions. On this subject the Alply Bulletin states: “The common practice of Management in Alberni Ply- woods is to set a quota for ‘every machine and every worker and to convince every worker that he or she is obli- gated to meet this quota every day. The quota might be 65,000 feet per shift at the lathe, 13 inches per hour at the Rai- manns, so many fills per shift at the presses, so many loads a day at the patchers, etc. The foremen always refer to this quota as the normal day’s work and anyone who falls below it is liable to be asked ‘What was the trou- ble?” “Were you not feeling well?” “Do you not like work- ing here?” etc. etc. The Union has often ex- pressed its opinion on these quotas. Experience has proven that these quotas are always set just a little higher than can be met and they are raised from time to time as the sit- uation warrants. No matter how hard you work the quota will always be a little higher than you can regularly: achieve. These quotas do not take into account the differences in stock from machine to ma- chine or shift to shift, not even the difference in thickness of the wood in most cases. es The quotas are not recog- nized in the Master Agree- ment and therefore are not a part of our conditions of work. They have not official place in the labor - management rela- tionship under the IWA con- tract. The contract is based upon the assumption that every worker is going to do a fair day’s work for the pay he or she is getting and in the Union’s opinion the Company is already getting this out of every one of their employees. It is the perogative of man- agement to manage the plant, however it sees fit, within the terms of the Master Agree- ment and if it resorts to:a quota method for each mach- ine, that is management’s bus- iness. However, when man- agement tries to use these arbitrarily set quotas as a means of speeding up the crews, they are not operating within the terms of the agree- ment and therefore the em- ployees are not obligated to regard these quotas as the cri- terion of a normal day’s work —as management would have us believe. Quotas are management’s creation and management’s responsibility. Speed-up is bound to result from our acceptance of ‘any quota system. Common sense and the Master Agreement tell us that we do not accept responsibility for a quota which we have no part in set- ting and which is changed from time to time by Manage- ment in such a way as to al- ways remain just a little high- er than a normal day’s work can produce.” Home Bonus Ends April 15 OTTAWA (CPA) — Labor Minister Allan MacEachen said here the bonus of $500 paid for houses built in winter will be available until April 15 this year. The two-week extension was given because unusually hard winter weather had delayed housing starts in some parts of Can- ada. The program began this winter on November 15. Opposition speakers tried to persuade Mr. MacEachen to extend the winter works incentive program under which municipalities receive subsidies from higher govern- ments for certain projects done in winter. They also Federal government em- ployees including agencies and corporations totalled 332,431 at the end of Febru- ary or nearly 4,000 more than a year earlier. asked the Finance Minister to give new impetus to the building trade by abolishing the 11 percent sales tax im- posed in June, 1963. There was little hope that either minister would oblige. "70H, I'M IN FAVOR. OF UNIONS —IT's WORK | CAN'T STAND....27