THE B.C.

LUMBER WORKER

April 16 ,1940

NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C.—Butcher Workers and Meat Cutters’ union, local 94, will celebrate four years of union ac- tivity, during which many concessions for its members employed at Swfts (Can- adian) plant have been gained, at the annual banquet to be held in Legion Hall, Begbie street, here on April 26, at 8 pm.

In the course of those four years the union has dispensed with the employees representation plan, a company union set-up, which was.better known to the workers as the assembly, has raised min- imum wage rates from 35 cents an hour to 50 cents; has won a full two weeks’ holiday with pay; collective bargaining rights; full seniority rights; and elected a safety committee to draw attention of the company to defficient or unguarded machinery .

In gaining full seniority rights, the union ended a system whereby workers were laid off and rehired at a lower wage rate.

TORONTO, Ont—By a vote of 76-147, Toronto District Trades and Labor Coun- cil at its meeting here Thursday of 1ast week decided to expel CIO unions from the council,

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VANCOUVER, B.C.—Application ror a board of conciliation under the provin- cial Industrial Conciliation and Arbitra- tion Act was made this week by repre- sentatives of the three divisons of Street Railwaymen’s union of Vancouver, Vic- toria and New Westminster following a three-to-one referendum vote.

This move was made necessary when the company refused to negotiate furtner with the union’s advisory board for a mew agreement unless demands for a 10 percent wage increase for conductors and motormen and a 15 percent boost for barmen and trackmen in the lower brackets were dropped.

A full week's holiday with pay in pace of the present 8day holiday is being sought.

Inland Boatmen’s Union, CIO affiliate, has been expelled from the Vancouver ‘Trades and Labor council, it was learned ‘Thursday. Ostensible ground for expul- sion was that the union was three months behind in per capita payments. IBU officials, however, declared the unon to be only two months behind.

DETROIT, Mich—The AFL auto union’s last stronghold in Detroit has swung over to the CIO and leaders of the United Automobile Workers, CIO, are revising upwards their already opti- mistic predictions on the outcome of the big General Motors Labor Board election on April 17.

The last plant of consequence in De- troit where the AFL union had bar- gaining rights went soldly to the UAW- CIO when the membership of the AFL local voted to merge with the CIOlocal at Graham-Paige.

Meanwhile, union and NLRB officials, after checking General Motors employ- tent lists, said that 136,000 workers— rather than the previously estimated 125,000—will vote in the elections.

All the polls, to be held in 59 plants

in 11 states, will take place on April 17.

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Lumber Firm’s Profits Rise

Of considerable interest to woodwork- ers, particularly at the Fraser Mills and Comox Log operations of the Canadian Western Lumber Co., is that firms recent annual statement. Lumber sold by the Company in 1939 amounted to 200,203,982 feet; an increase of just over 16 million feet above the 1938 figure. With this comparitively small increase in lumber sales, operating profit for 1939 was more than double that of the previous year. But more impresive still is the reported profit of the Company after depreciation and taxes had ben deducted, but before provision was made for sinking fund interest and timber reserve depletions. This amounted to approximately seventy times the figure for 1938,

PULP INDUSTRY BOOMING IN B.C.

‘The new operation planned by Bloedel, Stewart and Welch at Port Alberni to produce 135 tons of unbleached sulphite pulp daily, will employ about 150 men in the plant and an additional 125 men in the woods. The entry of Bloedels in- to this field will give B.C. five major producing units in this industry, the others being Powell River; Pacific Mills at Ocean Falls; and the B.C. Pulp and Paper Co. at Port Alice and Wood- fibre,

According to the business editor of the Vancouver Daily Province, the pulp and paper industry is enjoying relative pros- perity, Newsprint mills are operating at a rate far in excess of Hastern Canada mills and one plant is ‘on a seven-day basis. B.C. Pulp and Paper Co. reports orders far in excess of production, and teh Westminster Paper Co. just issued one of its best financial reports. The Crown-Zellerbach Company's net rofit for the 9 months ending January 31 st, 1940, was more than five and one-half million dollars, the highest on record. Pulp markets the world over have shown marked improvement since the war.

DENVER, Col.—CIO affiliated mem- bers of the Mine, Mill and Smelter Work- ers’ Union this week at the Sunshine Mining Co. at Wallace, Idaho, won a Labor Board decision this week. The order directs the Co. to pay one of the largest back pay amounts in history, a total of one million dollars to some 216 men who were fired for union activity. The Co. must also cease coercion, timidation and discontinue its company union.

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