B.C. LUMBER WORKER

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proposition.

When they quite calmly told us that they had no intention of going through _with what they hhad made seem a fairly reasonable package offer, it was the final straw, after months of stall- ing. They may have thought they were making fools of us, but we had the solid satisfaction of knowing that we had conseien- tiously done our duty on behalf of the Interior lumber workers. We couldn’t have done anything else than bargain to the limit

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. ° I Fighting Mad "THERE is only one way to describe our feelings, when we left the last conference with the representatives of the Interior operators, and that is to say that all members of the Negotiating

Committee were fighting mad. We had reason to be, for the CMA bargainers had kept us tied up for weeks with a completely phony

PADDY BOOSTS 1-217 C.U.

The Editor:

It should be brought to your attention that we have, in our Local, one of the best Credit Savings schemes in Canada and that all too few of our members are taking advantage of its bene- fits which are:

(1) At least double the interest

DIVIDENDS STILL SOAR

OTTAWA (CPA)—Dividend payments from the treasuries of Canadian Corporations will total over $320 million during the first eight months of 1951, according to figures published in the Finan- cial page of the Toronto Gloye and Mail recently. This compares with the $277 million level reached during the same months of 1950.

IMPRESSIONS

A Hectic Month

‘TH last month has been a rather hectic one to say the least. What with Interior negotiations, the Plywood Revision, and a slather of org. and administrative problems arising out of our extensive organizational drive in the Interior, I hayen’t had too much time to record my “Impressions”. Net result is that our Jong suffering Editor has had to plug some holes on those occasions when the deadline is past and no copy on hand. He won’t tell us himself about what a H—— of a swell job he is doing on our Lumberworker so today the orchids are for our Editor.

READ A BIT in Local 1-217's Bulletin. No signature on same but it appeared that somebody who: didn’t have the intestinal fortitude to sign his name was

to do their bit in maintaining the right of Big Business to exploit the Canadian public, Defeating efforts to expand Trade Union

while bargaining opportunities were open, even if they were pre- tence. When all the facts are known, it will be seen that they made fools of themselves.

We had no control over the timing of these conferences. Months ago we informed the op- erators that we were ready to reach a showdown as quickly as the law allowed. It was the em- ployers who invented endless ex- euses to delay the proceedings.

The final double-cross was

paid by any bank. (2) insurance on Savings and Loans.

In case of the death of a CU member, all his debts are auto- matically erased and any monies in savings are doubled and paid to his beneficiary. Therefore if a member has $300 in savings and a loan of $700 the loan is erased and his beneficiary receives $600. This is a total gain of $1000.

Low Interest Loans’

attempting to find an alibi for attempting to sabotage the indus- try-wide settlement arrived at last February. I-wonder whether he is one of those who ina mood of frustration was willing to throw away a wage increase averaging 29c, which will un- doubtedly be added to on Janu- ary 1st, Sorry, boys, but I guess it’s difficult to “rally the workers to the barricades” and political manoeuvering is limited to the Politbureau chasing themselves around the Caucus room. Smells

organization is an essential part of such a propaganda campaign and we can expect an intensifica~ tion of such activity in the near future.

HOWARD WEBB has blossom- ed out with a new secretary in the Local office in Prince George. Must admit that this move is a worthwhile one and after visiting the office I can understand why the young blades in Local 1-424 might wish to visit the office to pay dues in preference to having them deducted on the check-off.

made by the employers to post- pone any settlement or strike ac- tion to a time when they thought the IWA would be without the necessary strength to fight, They are playing a game at which two can play, y

The best advice that can be given Interior woodworkers is to stand pat and wait for full infor- mation about the plans of the Union. They may be certain that we're getting into this fight with all we've got, and that we have neyer been less inclined to take this dirt from the Interior em- ployers,

The combination that has been trying every dirty trick in the book, will likely be trying a few more. We warn Interior lumber. workers to be on their guard against the employers’ propagan- da line within the next few weeks, &

The deal they have offered is not good enough, It’s not as good a deal as we can get from any fait-minded Conciliation Board.

We have another round or two to fight, before the decision is announced. Stand pat, and above all else, line up every Joe on the job behind the demand for the full vange of Coast wages and conditions.

“Pat, what’s this about ye joinin’ the Communists? Are ye crazy, man?”

“Mike, it’s the truth. I joined up with thim because the doctor tells me I’ve got but a few weeks to live, and I says to myself, “Tis better for a Communist to go than a good Irishman.”

The present rate of interest is 1 percent per month on the un- paid balance, this means a loan of $100 costs $3.53 for 6 months, $5.50 for 10 months or $6.50 for 12 months.

These rates are subject to re- duction when the Directors con- sider it ‘justifiable. Also if the surplus at the end of the year is great enough the members may vote themselves a rebate of inter- est. This interest rate is less than half that charged by Finance Companies,

Accommodation Loans ‘This, as the name implies, was instituted to aid a member be- tween paydays. These loans may be made without filling in a loan application. There is a charge of 5 cents for each $5.00 borrowed.

No Bogus Money -

I should also like to issue a “word to the wise” to our CU. members. This is not only a Cre- dit Union, fellows, but also a Sayings Union, so let’s have a little more emphasis on the Sav- ings.

If most of our members invest $25 with the sole purpose of bor- rowing $200, will some genius contact the committee and ex- plain where the money to grant the loans is to come from (no counterfeiting suggestions, please).

Let’s_get in there and build our ©.U. savings accounts to equal or larger than any in B.C.

For further information please

contact the following members: |?

Jack Lucas, C.W.P.; Bill Gray, C.W.P.; Harry Bardsley, Local Office; Bob Watters, M.L.L.; Pad- dy Neale, M.I.L.; Don McDonald, Girodays; Andy Good, Eburne.

C. V. “Paddy” Neal.

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like a small black animal with a stripe down its back only the color of the stripe changes, some- times red, but often yellow.

HOPE to get the Plywood revi- sion cleaned up this week. Some operations will gain a substantial number of revisions but it ap- pears that one of the larger op- erators is more concerned with maintaining “company policy” than they are with maintaining a satisfied working force. The old story of bonusing those workers who set the pace and expecting the rest of the crew to work at

Couldn’t find Mike on my last trip to Prince. It appears that he was up in the Peace River organ- izing a group of woodworkers who had written in asking for as- sistance. Should hear much more about this area in the near future as it appears that there are some tall trees in among the tall grass.

AWAY TO PORT ALBERNI this weekend to do homage to Paul and Babe but don’t intend to do a Nigel Morgan. Too far away from the smell of shingle hay for me to acquit myself with any degree of success, Full de-

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Parksville

Ste Se

Picnic A highly successful pienie was held at Rathtrever Beach under the auspices of the Parksville Women’s Auxiliary, Sub-Local 1-80, on July 28. Swimming and games provided enjoyable enter- tainment throughout the day with both young and old taking active part. After the serving of

excellent refreshments a happy day came to a close.

New Job For Noble

T. J. Noble, personnel manager for Bloedel,’ Stewart & Welch Ltd. for the past 10 years, will resign at the end of September to become assistant manager of Forest Industrial Relations in Vancouver.

Blue Cross Second Best

The newly-announced Blue Cross rates for Ontario subscrib- ers to this limited-benefit hospi- tal insurance plan compare even less favorably with Saskatche- wan’s publicly-run health plan’s rates than did the old ones. Here are the figures:

New Blue Cross rates: $3.65 a month for families, $1.45- for single persons (semi-private) .

Old Blue Cross rates: $2.60 a month for families, $1.80. month for single persons,

Saskatchewan rates: maximum of $30 a year ($2.50 a month) for families, $10.00 a year (83 cents a month) for single persons.

British Columbia . Hospitaliza- tion scheme: $33 a year for sin- gle persons and a $42 maximum for families.

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tails on the gory pilgrimage in

rates little better than basic. my next effort,

“There’s an extra 5e in it for you, Joe, if you only drive a bit

harder, so don’t you worry, we'll look after you.” It’s a filthy story that should have never survived the dirty thirties, and according to sentiment expressed by some of the workers, it won’t survive 1951.

MET WITH the Executive Board of Local 1-417 and was glad to meet their new Secretary Brother Anderson. Harold Hick- ling presided and a number of important decisions were made that will materially affect future activity in the Local. Glad to see the LRB issued a couple of dozen new certifications and among them were several to Local 1-417.

HAVE LISTENED to a lot of confused versions of the Exeeu- tive Board’s decision re overtime ermits. There has been no ‘change in District policy. The matter of overtime permits re- mains a matter for decision by each Local Union although the District has recommended that permits be not granted to extend past October 31, 1951.

ORGANIZATIONAL activity proceeds apace with all Interior Locals reporting an increasing number of new certifications al- though there seems to be a rather less co-operative attitude devel- oping amongst the employers.

Methinks that somebody has been whispering in the ear of Interior operators. Could be that the odd CMA “field man” has been doing some propaganda work on the responsibility of all operators in the lumber industry

WANK

TOA MILLION CRADIANS

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Bring your valuables to your nearest B of M branch as soon as you can, It always pays to play safe.

WORKING WITH CANADIANS IN EVERY WALK OF LIFE SINCE 1817,