THE WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER

2nd Issue
Nov., 1965

SERIES

OTTAWA (CPA) — The
National Committee on White
Collar Organization has call-
ed a series of conferences
across Canada involving the
technical, office and commer-
cial employees’ locals affiliat-
ed with the Canadian Labor
Congress.

The agenda of five confer-
ences being arranged includes
a review of the objectives of
the National Committee, a
survey of the situation with
respect to office and technical
organization at present, civil
service and professional as-
sociations and company un-
ions, and employees in retail
trade.

The first conference was

held in Regina on Nov. 27
and 28.

The B.C. meeting will be

held Dec. 4 and 5 in Van-
couver.

Others are scheduled in
Ontario, Quebec and the
Maritimes in the New Year.

IMPORTANT

SUDBURY — Jim Dowell
of Ottawa, education director
for the Canadian Union of
Public Employees (CLC),
says shop stewards and .of-
ficers of union locals “have
the job of making industrial
democracy work.”

“Tt is within your power to
turn a collective agreement
from a piece of paper into a
living protection of the rights
of workers,” he told a meet-
ing here. “Without you and
others like you the best con-
tract is meaningless.”

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LOCAL 1-405

Financial Secretary Elmer
Atwood of Local 1-405 IWA,
reports the Local has success-
fully negotiated an upward
adjustment for thirty - one
categories in the wage scale
at the Celgar Company’s
Castlegar Sawmill Division.

The revision provides for
wage increases ranging from
3 cents to 17 cents an hour

for employees in the cate-

gories affected.

TWO OF THE ORIGINAL STRIKERS at Frolek’s Sawmill,
North Kamloops, Bill Ferguson, left, and Frank Cupello
chat with Mrs. McInnes, Secretary of the Kamloops Labour
Council during the Federation Convention.

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MURRAY DREW
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The annual meeting of
Prince George Local 1-424
IWA will be held in the
Simon Fraser hotel in Prince
George on January 22 and 23,
1966.

ELECTION

Murray Drew has been
elected president of IWA Lo-
cal 1-118 in Victoria without
opposition.

Ed Haw, who has served
the Local since 1948 in many
elected offices, has been nom-
inated for re-election as finan-
cial secretary. He is opposed
by Jack Groves, Local record-
ing secretary last year.

Other nominations at the
Local’s annual meeting were:
First vice-president, Ted Hess,
seeking re-election, and Joe
Fowler. Second vice-presi-
dent: Al Carle and John Bar-
tanus.

Unopposed in the nomina-
tions were: Roger Lewis, third
vice-president; Darvis Cook,
warden; Tom Ainsley, con-
ductor; Dick Morrison, six-
year trustee; and Walter Ros-
enberg, four-year trustee.

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VANCOUVER: 562 Burrard,

Hastings & Richards, Main &
Pender, 6373 Fraser, 1299
Kingsway. And in Victoria,
Kelowna, Kamloops, Prince
George.

HAMILTON (CPA)—The
beard of David William
Patchett will remain where it
belongs — firmly attached to
the chin of its wearer — and
no longer hidden from public
view by a muzzle.

In a precedent-setting arbi-
tration case, the young Hamil-
ton steelworker has won for
himself — and perhaps for
other razor-shy men — the
right to sport whiskers at his
job.

A member of Local 1005,
United Steelworkers of
America, Patchett last June
refused to obey an order by
his foreman at the Steel Com-
pany of Canada Ltd. to shave
off his beard for safety reas-
ons. He was sent home and
told that he could not work in
the fabricating plant where
steel plates are being cut with

burners unless he got rid of
the beard.

At the advice of his union
Patchett designed a coarse
leather beard guard which
was acceptable to the fore-
man but only if he wore it
eight hours a day. He was
only allowed to remove the
beard guard during lunch
time.

At first he refused, losing
another day’s work. Later,
after talking to the union, he
decided to wear the muzzle at
all times under protest. |

A grievance was filed by
the union on his behalf. The
union claimed Patchett

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should receive wages for the

two days of work he lost.

Denying the claim by the
foreman that the beard was
a “safety hazard,” the union
also demanded removal of the
beard guard, which embar-
rassed the wearer.

It was further claimed that
Patchett should be allowed to
keep his beard because an
order to shave was an in-
fringement on his civil liber-
ties.

A three-man arbitration
board recently heard the case
and has now handed down its
decision.

It meant a victory on all
fronts for Patchett. He will
receive his pay for the two
lost days, he can keep his
beard and no guard is re-
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TRAINING

Commenting on a state-
ment by Immigration Min-
ister Nicholson announcing
plans to recruit 150,000 skilled
workers abroad, CLC’s Presi-
dent Claude Jodoin says em-
phasis should rather be put
on training programs to fit
unemployed for new jobs and
assure work for young people
entering the labour force.
Management has so far failed
to asume its responsibilities
in training.

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