THE B.C. LUMBER WORKER

SAWDUST

By GREEN-CHAIN PETE |

Local 1-217. The organizational

drive in Plywoods is progressing very well, with a good majojrity _.on two of the shifts but with a smaller group on the one shift. It is expected that by the first _ of the year that the majority of all shifts will be gained and this Jast large operation will take its place with organized plants. Evans Products Factory has been successful in gaining a ma- jojrity and are now waiting for certification. The girls in this plant are doing a good job and report nearly 100 per cent or- ganization among them. This is the spirit that will give us the support and co-operation that is needed for winning the union shop and other important de- mands.

Munroe’s Sawmill gained a majority and applied for certifi- cation. The great labor turn- over in this operation has made it necessary to hold certification until we had an excellent, ma- jority.

The crew from the Coast Mills Export came into the local office and joined the union. This is the only operation of its kind in our local, in that their work is sort- ing of logs in the booming ground and have no cennection with a sawmill, Alberta is at last reaping results of an exten- sive drive to become an organized plant. The necessary 51 per cent have signed applications and soon will be certified.

Eburne, Robertson and Hack- etts and Red Band are closing down for the holiday, the ma- jority of employees, those who have been working for one year will be getting: holiday pay.

Brother Jack Gray, an em- Ployee of Canadian White Pine " and a member of our union was laid to rest on Friday, December 15. Funeral services were from me Mount Pleasant Funeral Par- lors,

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Local 1-357

Elects 1945 Executive

Results of a referendum bal- lot conducted by Local 1-357 at New Westminster for the elec- tion of officers is as follows: President, Percy Smith; Vice- Presidents, Jack Greenall, Sam Ostrickoff and Merle Monnson; Financial Secretary, Jack Lind- say; Recording Secretary, Vince Hnatnicky; Conductor, Bert Mason; Warden, Ed Barnes; Trustee, Lee Palmer; Press Man- ager, Herve Boisse.

Two trustees whose terms are not completed are: George Mit- chel and Bill Russell.

Annual Ball At New West.

New Westminster Local 1-357 is again rolding its annual mid- winter dance. This year the af- fair will be known as the “Saw- millworkers’ Bai! and is to be held in the Arenex, Queens Park, New Westminster, December 29. Dancing will be from 9 to 1 to the tune of Benny Cole and his “Legionairs.”

Five prizes are offered: 1, a $50 bond; 2, $25 cash; 3, $15; and 4, $10. Drawing for the prizes will be held at 11 pm. on the night of the dance.

Disaster Was Close

The way I felt after the (U.S.) election was like the story about an old prospector when he saw his first railroad train. It was heading for a tunnel entrance, The old boy stood frozen to the ground until the train was out of sight in the tunnel, then he mop- ped his forehead and said: “By gum, if’ she’d missed that hole what a pile of junk there would have been.”

Well, Barney, I didn’t think the American people would jump the track, but what a relief when we made it, We had more reason to worry than the oldtimer; we could see guys trying to under- mine the roadbed. — Wright in The Union, Denver, Colo.

Leaflets At Port Alberni

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Meeting in Port Alberni, Sunday, December 10, mem- bers of Local 1-85 passed a resolution urging incorporation of the Union Shop into our next contract. Another resolution passed by an overwhelming majority scored an annymous leaflet that had been circulated in the BS6W, and APL Mills, and calling itself the voice of the rank and file. Text of the

resolution was as follows:

RESOLUTION Subject: Union Disruption. WHEREAS: 1. One of the major demands of the IWA in B.C. is.the Union shop, the main- tenance and consolidation of our union is the main task in the immediate future if we are to fulfill the obligations of our union agreements, if we are to fulfill our pledges to the nation and if we are to go for- ward to better wages, hours and working conditions; 2. The union shop is bitterly opposed by certain reaction- ary employers who are more concerned with their own self- ish partisan interests than they are with the welfare of the nation as a whole; 8. If we are to gain union shop conditions, our membership must be fully united, our or- ganization must have self-re- spect and dignity and further. we must have the respect of all people of goodwill whoever they may be: 4. This respect and goodwill

Britain Needs Canadian Lumber

Canadian woodworkers will be called on to help rebuild mil- lions of English homes destroyed and damaged by bombing. Under the terms of a recent agreement signed with Great Britain, Can- ada will supply the United King- dom, with approximately 2% mil- lion board feet of lumber in the first two years’ after the end of the war’in Europe. This $70 ex- port may mean that much build- ing material that. would other- wise have been used in construct- ing new Canadian homes will be sent to Britain,

Two and three-quarter million houses have been damaged in the United Kingdom by bombing. Of these, one and three-quarter

| million are uninhabitable.

Plans for building four mil- lion homes after the war, most of them for lower income groups, have been announced by the Brit- ish Government. :

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and the unity of our union is being threatened by certain ir- responsible, unprincipled elo- ments who wish to further their own particular selfish ob- jectives, and who by their very actions are aiding and abbet- ting those who are opposed to the union shop;

5. ‘These irresponsible ele- ments who may or may not be members of our union, re- cently circulated in the BS&W and APL mills an ellegal un- signed leaflet, the purpose of which was to sow confusion in the minds of the union mem- bers, and interject partisan polities into our union in order to disrupt and weaken the or- ganization;

6. At a well-attended meeting of this local union, held in the Capitol Theatre, Sunday, Aug- ust 8, 1943, the membership by overwhelming vote warned all individuals or groups that we are satisfied to run our own af- fairs, that we would counten- ance no outside interference and further that any member or members of our ‘union car- rying on disruptive activity would be dealt with under the provisions of our International Constitution.

THEREFORE BE IT RE. SOLVED: 1. That we, the mem- bers of Local 1-85, IWA, reaf- firm the position of our local union as adopted by resolution at the August 8th, 1943 meet- ing.

2, That we consider the pub- lication and circulating of leaf- let such as the “Véice of the Rank and File” as disruptive activity and we demand that if those responsible are discoy- ered, they be dealt with under

our Constitution providing they ate members of our union.

3. That we insist that any mem- ber who disagrees with the policy of this union shall raise his or her objections on the floor of a union meeting and abide by the decision of that meeting.

3. That while being opposed to political discrimination we will not countenance the inter- jection of partisan poltics in any form by the supporters of any political party into our inner union life.

Workers Decide That Large Local Is Best Bet

Members of the IWA at Che- mainus Mill have decided that they are not in favor of setting up a separate local for that op- ; eration,

Several weeks ago a commit- tee was established by the sub- local to investigate the advisa- bility of applying for a separate ‘ local. A special meeting was called to hear the committee’s report. The report consisted mainly of letters which had been received on the experiences of small locals in B.C. and in the United States.

Acting District Secretary Jack Greenall, who attended the meet- ing explained the experiences of small locals in B.C., mainly IWA Local 1,367 before it was consoli- dated with all logging camps and sawmills in the Fraser ‘Valley area. Local 1-118 of Victoria was also mentioned. These re- ports indicated the difficulties, mainly financial, which a small local could expect to encounter.

Members attending this special meeting felt that it would be unwise to make a decision imme- diately and decision was held over. A regular sub-local meet- ing held last week definitely shelved the idea. It was felt that to operate a local of this size efficiently would require an in- crease in dues to perhaps $2.00 a month, besides weakening the organizational structure of the IWA.

In order to enable members at Chemainus to attend local meet- ings more often, arrangements are being made to hold meetings of local 1-80 at Chemainus peri- odically,

Art Exhibit Now Moved

The competitive art _exhibi- tion, “British Columbia at Work,” for which Trade Unions donated over $600 in cash awards and which completed three suc- cessful weeks’ showing at the Vancouver Art Galléry on De-’ - cember 10, was moved to the Boilermakers’ Hall; 339 West Pender St., on December 11, where it will remain until after the holidays.

Many workers, trade unionists and others were unable to see the exhibition because of incon- venient hours, and this extension was arranged at popular request, with the co-operation of the Boilermakers’ Union and the

Vancouver Art Gallery.

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