men”

By FRANK STICH
_ Assistant Director
of Organization
ly in January of 1973, a
aign to organize Neonex
ure Products Ltd. at Red
r, Alberta was launched
an application for cer-
eation was filed with the
rta Board of Industrial

ations on January 11th.
_was later discovered that
: Jacked a majority on the
date of application and an
tempt to withdraw and re-
ly failed as the Alta. Board
not allow this practice. As
esult our application was
sed and we were barred
making another for a
period of 3 months.
Organizer Art Friske then
began a campaign to elect
1.W.A. supporters as officers of
the company union (Travelaire
_ Employees Association) at
their annual meeting. This was

good majority at the next
ng and the necessary
cation and documents
filed with the Alberta

ard of Industrial Relations
_ at Edmonton, Alta. On March
| 12th the certification was

9th, while the Board
yas hearing unfair labour
ractice charges against the
f an additional 30

I.W.A. was successful in

re-instating all employees that
had filed unfair labour charges
including their loss of pay.
'When certification was
granted to Local 1-207, Neonex
Leisure Products Ltd. immedi-
ately challenged the Board’s
decision in the Alberta
Supreme Court and on June
27th, the Court ruled against
the Board’s decision. On the
same day an application for
certification by Local 1-207 was
filed with the Board.

While this second application
was pending, Neonex tried
unsuccessfully to have this

application thrown out on

grounds that only application
cards and check-offs were
signed without any monies col-
lected. A representation vote
was ordered by the Alberta
Board of Industrial Relations
for September 18, 1973 with the
results as follows:

Eligible to vote 162
Ballots cast 157
I.W.A. 107
Association 50

This campaign lasted for 81%
months, expending most of the
time of 2 full time Regional
organizers and sometimes 3.

An application for certifica-
tion by Local 1-207 was made
for the employees at Revel-
stoke Companies Limited,
Harleck, Alberta. The Board
ordered a representation vote
which was held on Sept. 24th,
1973 with the following result.

Eligible to vote 27
LW.A. 16
No union 11

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- The Labour College of
Canada is inviting applications
for the eight-week residential
course beginning May 19 and
ending July 12, 1974.

_ The course includes econ-

‘mies, history, industrial socio-

. political science and

unionism.

The Labour College is spon-

by the Canadian Labour

ess and two Montreal
sities.

e union members may

LABOUR COLLEGE
INVITING APPLICATIONS

obtain financial assistance to
attend the College from the
CLC, its affiliated organiza-
tions, the federal and most pro-
vincial governments, and
industry.

The College also offers
correspondence courses con-
sisting of 12 lessons.

Information and application
forms are available from
regional offices of the CLC or
direct from the Labour College
of Canada, 3483 Peel St.,
Montreal, Que.

_ NOW FOR THE
SSTACLE”’ COURSE
DON ~ A divorce court

ordered George Meek
building barricades to
p his wife in the kitchen.

r. Justice Everett issued
m7 restraining order
nm Mrs. Meek’s lawyer told

IT LIKE

. There is no spectacle on earth
more appealing than that of a
beautiful woman in the act of
cooking dinner for someone she
loves.

, Thomas Wolfe, 1900-1938

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_ Remember, there’s a place for
| everything!

CANADIAN §

UNION
SUFFERS...

An independent union,
representing employees at
three Newman Steel Ware-
house Ltd. plants, has voted to
join the United Steelworkers.

In a vote of 127 to 5, the
employees at plants in Stoney
Creek, Saltfleet Township, and
St. Catharines switched their
allegiance from the National
Council of Canadian Labour
which represented them for ten
years.

According to Labour

Organizations in Canada 1972, ©

the NCCL had a membership of
8,792 in 61 locals, 52 of them in
Ontario, 2 in Quebec and Mani-
toba, 4 in Saskatchewan, and 1
in Alberta.

The Steelworkers has 170,000 | __

members, highest in Canada,
in 761 locals.

.. -DOUBLE
DEFEAT

Following quickly on the 127-
5 victory over the National
Council of Canadian Labour at
Newman Steel Warehouse
plants, the United Steel-
workers took another group of
workers from the NCCL at the
Wimco Steel Company in
Toronto. The vote was 76 to 0.

The NCCL unit was known as
the Canadian Steel Ware-
housemen’s Workers’ Union
Local 201. According to the
Steelworkers’ organizers, it
failed to provide adequate ser-
vice to the Wimco employees,
but tried to cover up its failure
“with nationalism and_ slo-

ans.”
NCCL has been receiving the
support of a businessmen’s
group in the Committee for an
Indpendent Canada, says Steel
organizer Pat Grasso.

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“Doctor,” asked the logger’s
wife, “what's the best way to
keep my youth?” 5
Doctor: “Don’t introduce
him to any of your girl
friends!”
* * *
Anatomy: Something that
everybody has but it looks
better on a girl.
Kk ok
Kamloops Katie’s girl friend
was going to marry a surgeon
but at the last minute he cut
out,

Tae ie
And then there was the saw
filer who exclaimed happily:
“I'm having my best season. I
never saw things so dull.”
kook x :
Sam, the machinery sales-
man, says that middle age is

when the “morning after”
lasts all day.
kok

A flirt, according to Kam-

loops Katie, is a gal who be-

lieves in every man for her-
self!

kk ok
Old Chinese adage: Never
slap number one wife in face.

Local 1-423 has announced
that Miss Anita Bieber, R.R.
No. 2, Armstrong, B.C. was the
winner of the Union’s Annual
$500.00 Bursary given each
year to a son or daughter of a
Local Union Member to assist
the recipient in furthering their
education at the University or
College level.

Miss Bieber, who is the
daughter of Clarence Bieber,
an employee of Crown Zeller-
bach Canada Ltd., will be
entering Okanagan College to
embark on a career as a Dental
Hygienist.

Miss Jasvinder Dhahan,
winner of Local 1-85’s annual
$500.00 bursary, was born in.
India and moved to Port
Alberni with her family -when
she was 12 years old.

Her father Tejas, is an IWA
member at M-B’s Somass
Division.

Jasvinder graduated from
the Alberni District Secondary
School with over-all marks of
78 percent.

She is presently attending
UBC and intends to achieve a
degree in Medicine.

LOCAL 1-367
BURSARY WINNERS

Local 1-367 reports that the
Local Union Scholarship Com-
mittee has chosen Laureen
Karton and Sheila Freylinger
as the winners of this years
academic and_ vocational
scholarships.

Miss Freylinger’s father,
Mike, has been involved for
many years in the forest in-
dustry and Local Union affairs
and is employed as a hook
tender for Whonnock Lumber
Company’s Stave Lake
Logging Division.

Miss Freylinger’s ultimate
vocation is to become a
medical laboratory
technologist. :

Miss Karton’s father,
William, is a long’ time

member who is employed at
Whonnock Lumber Company’s
Sawmill Division. Laureen
intends working towards a
career in pharmacy or
veterinarian work.

AND THIS IS
HOW IT GOES

King Solomon and King David
In youth led wayward lives;
Each had his own affinities,
Besides their numerous wives.
But when old age came creep-
ing on
With all its aches and qualms,
King Solomon wrote the Pro-
verbs,

And David wrote the Psalms.
(From the Brotherhood Journal of 1925)

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