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Fede I Must Go!

‘On Monday evening, January

llth, 1960, the most

obvious attempt to balloon an employee, blew up in the

of MacMillan and Bloedel. On the weekend of January 9th, 1960, Henry Fedje, of Fedje and Gunderson, arrived in Kennedy Lake and with his brother, Harold, pseudo-bull bucker in Kennedy Lake Division, went out to the woods, and alleged to have check scaled Jim Harkness, scaler super- visor for MacMillan and Bloedel. They returned to camp and insisted that Harkness was scaling 30% over. As a result of their jnsistance, Ken Baird, Camp Supervisor, with Lacouvee, one- time assistant bull bucker, again went out to the woods with Harold Fedje and again check scaled Harkness, and continued to insist that he was scaling 30% over,

Harkness Fired

Quitting time Monday, Hark- ness was discharged as scaler by Baird, who apparently then re- lented and offered Harkness a checkerman’s job. Harkness re- quested that he then be shown where he was scaling 30% over and his request was denied. The fallers insisted that Harkness was on scale and refused to lay any more timber down in the quarters until a check scale could be con- ducted.

On Sunday, January 17th, Allen, Local Union President, and Ingram, Business Agent, together with Sam Rogers, supervisor sealer from Sproat Lake Division, flew into Kennedy Lake Opera- tion. The head office of Mac- Millan and Bloedel was represen- ted by G. Towill, Assistant Manager of Personnel of Indust- rial Relations Department, and J. Addison, Head Office Special Projects Forestry. In the meeting at Kennedy Lake, the above- together with Camp Management, plus G. Slater and R. Cooke of the Camp Committee, reached agreement as to the man- ner in which the check scale would be conducted,

It was agreed that Rogers and Addison would be conducting the check scale and would keep one scale card jointly. It was also agreed that .any logs on which they could not agree would not be scaled and the corresponding log on Harkness’ scale card which was in question would be withdrawn from. the tally. It was further agreed that Harkness would go with Addison and Roger~ to be

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- faces of Camp Management in the Kennedy = Operation

sure it was the pokes in ques- tion that were scaled, and that Management would also send one observer.

Scale Check

Addison and Rogers spent eight hours on Monday, January 18th, scaling 47 trees of the 60 which were on Harkness’s scale card. Addison and Rogers disagreed on only two trees. The result of the check scale was as follows:

Harkness tally of the trees scaled.. 41,429 f.b.m.

Check Scale 41,131 f.b.m. Variance in Scale -... .7 of 1%

In a meeting between Union and Management following the conducting of the check scale, Management agreed to a complete reinstatement of Harkness, as a Supervisor Scaler, without loss of pay for time spent at home be- tween mornings of January 12th and January 19th.

Haywire Show

Fedje and Gunderson have had a contract in Kennedy Lake to supply saws and falling and buck- ing supervision for approximately the past six months, and it has been a haywire show ever since they moved in. Arguments have developed over the fallers not being paid for snags, windfalls, rigging cuts, and topping trees. As a result, rigging crews have moved into quarters and further arguments developed because rig-

ging cuts, etc., have not been made. The Company contend that

but admit that

Fedje is paid on bush scale, On questioning they certain checks and balances are maintained between bush scale and water scale, so that obviously water scale is the governing factor. Fallers’ earnings have gone down, and check scales of the type run on Harkness are be- ing continuously conducted.

Own Crew

It is apparent that Fedje intends placing his own scalers in these operations where he has falling and bucking contracts. In the case of Kennedy Lake, he did hire a workman who was completely unfamiliar with scaling or falling and bucking practices, and pro- ceeded to train him “a la Fedje” in .the methods of scaling timber. This workman was maintained on Fedje’s payroll while scaling Kennedy Lake employees.

The Company has now agreed that the workman must become an employee of Kennedy Lake

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LUMBER WORKER apd

MALAYAN STUDENTS M. P. Gopal Rajah, Nuruddin Bin Maaroff, Ong Yoke Fong; and P. S. Maniam, study-

ing in Canada under the Colombo Plan, are seen here with Tom Gooderham, CLC Regional Director at the 4th Annual CLC Staff Conference and Winter School in Parksville, Vancouver Island.

Division Operation and seniority will be dated, as to the time he appeared at the Kennedy Lake Operation.

Tahsis Camps and Gunderson, first employed as falling and bucking contractors in Loca! 1-85, appeared in the Tahsis Log- ging Camps up the coast. They have now crept into Kennedy

Fedje when

Lake. Wherever they go, prob- lems develop with falling and bucking crews.

The big Companies long ago

developed highly efficient falling and bucking departments and the only way Fedje and Gunderson could make a falling and bucking contract operate to their financial advantage, is on the basis of chisel, and since the Companies are in a position to protect themselves, the fallers and buckers take the rap. If the fallers at Kennedy had allowed Harold and Henry Fedje to balloon Harkness out of camp, then it should be obvious, they would be falling at a 30% cut on their scale.

There is no room in this in- dustry for shyster contractors to be riding on the backs of wood- workers. It is high time Fedje and Gunderson were chased out

of the woods. Submitted by Local 1-85, IWA

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‘Real “fancy dan”

Safety program

Camp Management of the Franklin River Division of MacMillan and Bloedel are cur- rently ready to launch a real “Fancy Dan” Safety Pro- gramme. Included in the pro- gramme is a notice board with pretty coloured lights, inter- views of workmen, induction of workmen and re-interviews of workrnen. Real Fancy.

The action of camp manage- ment over the past several months, however, clearly indicates that it is a “talking” in which they are interested. The

practicing” of safety is being ignored.

Roads Icy

On Thursday, January 14th,

roads in Franklin River were icy. The logging ‘truck, HO3, slid the front end over the bank at Spur 6. A loaded gravel truck had to spread gravel before it could be used to pull the logging truck back on the road. At Spur 5, the H100 loaded with logs slipped its trailer over a fill. The H123 loaded with logs was employed to pull it back on the road after the grayel truck again spread gravel.

The H47 loaded with logs came down out of the same area, lost its booster brakes, but the driver succeeded in keeping it on the road, and managed because of adverse grade to get the load into

New Westminster

safety programme’

CREDIT UNION DIRECTORY

IWA Credit Unions and other Credit Unions supported by IWA Local Unions in B.C.

Alberni District Credit Union, 209 Argyle Street, Port Alberni IWA 1-217 Savings, Broadway & Quebec Streets, Vancouver 10 IWA (N.W.) Credit Union, Room 21, 774 Columbia Street,

Local 1-118, IWA (Victoria), 904 Gordon Street, Victoria Chemainus & District Credit Union, Box 229, Chemainus Lake Cowichan and District Credit Union, Lake Cowichan, B.C. Courtenay Credit Union, Box 952, Courtenay

Duncan & District Credit Union, Box 1717, Duncan

Prince George & District, 1046 - 4th Avenue, Prince George Nanaimo & District Credit Union, 499 Wallace St., Nanaimo Ladysmith & District Credit Union, Box 154, Ladysmith,

camp. The booster brakes were fixed and the H47 proceeded to the log dump.

Driver Protested ;

On returning to camp, the, driver of the H47 requested that the clutch be checked, and the truck foreman told him to take the H22. The H22 is an old Mack Truck, notorious for having a tendency to bunk bind, The driver in question protested at having to take this truck out on icy roads, and stated that rather than take such a truck, in view of having had one scare, he would rather

call it a day for that shift. Shortly after, another driver who is just completing trainee

driver programme was instructed to take the H22. He protested, but finally gave in, and because he did not have an accident with the H22, Management insists that it was safe to be taken on icy roads. Driver Gone

The driver who would not take the H22 on the icy roads, is no longer an employee of Franklin River through no choice of his own. The Local. Union has failed to convince Management that he should be reinstated. This is the second case of an employee losing

employment for “practicing” safety’ while Franklin River ' Management “preaches.”

Submitted by Local 1-85, IWA

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