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By GREEN-CHAIN PETE

LOCAL 1-217 is growing to the extent that in a few months it will be one of the largest locals in the district.

_ Negotiations haye been complet- ed for Kapoor, Evans, Burke's, Anderson, Roberston and Hackett saw mills and Acme Shingle mill. Joint applications to the Regional War Labor Board for wage in- crease in these operations, will mean substantial adjustments in a large number of categories.

It is expected that within a short period negotiations will be finished for Universal Box, Capi- Jano, Bush and Miller Shingle Mills. Giroday, Marine and Glenwood Lumber Companies are waiting pa- tiently for their certification from the Department of Labor.

With the permission and coop- eration of the management an or- ganizational meeting was held at the B.C, Fir. District President Harold Pritchett addressed the employees and outlined the pro- gram of the IWA. The results of this meeting are shown by the large number of new members the shop stewards are signing up into the union.

Contacts have been made in most of the unorganized plants where they are now waiting for the union representative to help them organ- ize into the union of their choice the International Woodworkers of America.

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Cooperage Workers To Maintain Union In Plant

_ A very interesting meeting was held in Local 1-118 head- quarters on Thursday, August 3, for the Cooperage workers. Highlight of the meeting was an address by Brother Morgan, who outlined the situation as it now stood in regard to being unable to have the IWA certified as the bargaining agency until January 1, owing to an agreement signed on March 1

between Mr. Sweeney and the company union of the plant. January 1, 1945, would be the ear-

PREFABRICATED BUILDINGS ~—- CERTIFIED AT LAST

Percy Smith, business agent of Local 1-357, announced this week receipt of certification for the plant of Prefabricated Buildings Ltd. This certification represents an outstanding victory for Local 1-357 inasmuch as this plant has been a concentration point for company union activities.

The company union association under M. V. Mitchell made repeat- ed attempts to retain their foot-

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ber Mill in Victoria is now oper- ating under union agreement; cul- minating several months of active work on the part of the shop stew- ards in that plant. Several wage

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increases retroactive to June 15 have been granted by the Regional War Labor Board. Some employ- ees hayé been given holidays with pay in past years, but this year the entire crew has receieved hem.

The Cameron Lumber Co. is also under agreement, with many Wage increases granted from June 1. This mill is the largest operation in this local.

VICTORIA. — Negotiations got under way last week in Victoria for Lemon - Gonnason. Sawmill. The management are giving con-

sideration to the agreement pro- posed by the Union and negotia- tions are expected to proceed to- morrow afternoon with the main discussion centered around a num- ber of wage adjustments.

Joint application, on the part of the company and the union, re- sulted in new rates being estab- lished for the Shingle Mill at Ham- mond Cedar Company, Port Ham-

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Moody sub-local meetitng was held Wednesday, August 2. The brothers and sisters are all back from their vacations looking very fit. This meeting was one of the best attended meetings yet held in Port Moody. The wage scale was discussed and negotiations will open very shortly with the aim of signing a union agreement. If the Alaska Pine shop stew- ards also the ‘rank and file con- tinue the splendid work of con- Solidating their union, their plant will be one of the first major op- erations to have 100 percent or- ganization in New Westminster.

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mond plant. The award directs sawyers to be paid 31% per sq. for number one’s and two's from July 1. Sawyer on junk will re- ceive .39% per sq. Both rates, of course, including the cost-of-living bonus.

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liest date possible for the electing of any new bargaining agency, as provided in Section 9 of the War- time Labor Relations Act (P.C. 1003), which states “that a period of 10 months must elapse from the signing of an agreement before any changes could be made in bargaining agencies.”

Brother Morgan recommended that the best procedure was for everyone at the Cooperage to stick with the IWA so as to guarantee the dumping of the company union next January 1. This procedure was unanimously adopted and a number of shop stewards elected with Brother Jimmie Mahar to act as chief shop steward.

We take this opportunity of com- mending the brothers and sisters for the fine job they. are doing in this drive to eliminate the stain of company unionism in their plant, and to be on the alert for any tricks of Mr. Sweeney, simi- lar to those used in putting over the last agreement.

BRITAIN TO USE PREFABRICATED HOUSES

Prefabricated houses will play a big part in the British govern- ment’s scheme for providing tem- porary postwar homes. It is ex- pected that when full production is attained, some three months after the jigs and tools are pre- pared, these houses will be manu- factured at the rate of nearly 2,500

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NEW WESTMINSTER.—Sunday night, July 30, New Westminster Local 1-357 held an election to fill the vacancies created when Vice- President Rene Gamache joined the Royal Canadian Navy and Bro. Nick Lasko left the industry to go fishing.

The new officers elected were: Merle Monnsen for vice-president,

hold in this operation. That it has now been ‘finally organized it re- flects great- credit on the small group of sincere union men in the plant, who never gave up their attempt to enroll the crew into the IWA. Negotiations will be entered into within a few days for an agreement and an upward revision ofr a number of wage rates.

and Sam Ostrikoff as warden. Local 1-357 elected the following delegates to represent them at the CCL convention in October: Percy Smith, J. Lindsay, Vince Hnaticky, Geo. Langstaff, Otto Eckman, Sam Ostrikoff and Hervie -Boise, with

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Tommy McDonald, International Representative, who is now work- ing in New Westminster in the absence of Bro. Bergren, who is away on a well-earned vacation, addressed the meeting and outlined some of the problems facing the local, He congratulated the local for its outstanding progress and give a brief outline of organiza- tional work just completed in Vic- toria.

He suggested a tightening up of and extension of the Job Steward’s system in Local 1-357 as a means to increase effectiveness of union activities.

The meeting was unanimous in urging that Political Action com- mittee increase its activity so as to draw in the whole membership into the present campaign for an adequate Health Insurance plan.

Hervie Boise was elected Press Representative to the Lumber Worker.

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