THE WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER

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"AGREEMENT"

(a) The basic rate shall be $2.77 per hour and shail apply to all employees engaged in fighting Accidental or Slash Escape Fires except those performing one of the follow- ing fire fighting jobs:

except for the overtime pro- vision thereof.

5. Slash Burning

(a) All employees engaged in watching or controlling slash fires which have been

Rate perhour Rate per hour

Category June 15,1966 June 15, 1967 Crew Boss $3.33%2 $3.53 Cat Operators __ 3.3042 3.5044 Power Saw Operato 3.14 3

Mechanics

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ic’s regular job rate

Slip-On Tank and/or Trailer Tanks

with Pump Driver/Operator Water Tank Truck with Pump

Driver/Operator

Service Truck/Bus Drivers ___

Pumpman

ae 3.19 3.39 2.89 . 3.09

Caen oe 2.84 3.04 2.87 3.07

(b) Straight Time rates will apply to all employees throughout the period during which the said employees are

engaged in fire fighting. This _

shall not include cook and bunkhouse personnel, trades- men, mechanics, or other cate- gories servicing, feeding, or supplying fire fighters from areas removed from the area of the fire or fires, unless the duties performed during any day in question are exclusive- ly related to fire fighting operations.

(c) Regular job rates will apply only for the duration of the regular production shift in which the fire started.

(d) Where employees are working in job classifications during fire fighting, other than those set out herein, job rates shall apply._

3. Board and Lodging

(a) Employees who com- mute from home or camp are expected to “carry a lunch.” Additional meals where re- quired will be at Company expense.

(b) Employees required to live away from their private residence will receive board and lodging at Company ex- pense.

(c) Employees living in fly camps will receive board and lodging at Company expense.

4. Travel Time

Travel time for employees engaged in fire fighting will be paid in accordance with the Coast Master Agreement,

set by the Company will be paid their regular job rate and overtime conditions will apply.

(b) The arbitration award of the late Chief Justice Gor- don McG. Sloan handed down on the 23rd day of February, 1948, shall apply to (a) herein. 6. Interpretative

Notes

(a) When active fire fight- ing ceases to be necessary, rates and overtime conditions for fire watchers will revert to the normal conditions pro- vided for in the Master Agree- ment. 3

(b) Notwithstanding any of the conditions herein, if any equipment possessing residual value to the operation is manufactured or created, the work performed thereon shall be subject to regular rates.

c) The meaning of the word “extinguish” as used in this agreement, shall include the act or process of suppres- sion to the point when the fire requires fire watchers only. 7. All provisions of-the Mas- ter Agreement except as amended or modified herein shall continue to apply.

TNESS WHEREOF

the Parties hereto have ex-

ecuted this Agreement the -

day and year first above men- tioned. JOHN BILLINGS, for Forest Industrial Relations Limited. J. MacKENZIE, for International Wood- workers of America, A.F.L.-C.LO. & C.L.C.

THE LIGHTER SIDE

As the client rose to leave, the lawyer said, “Here’s a bill for my services, You can pay four hundred dollars down and 50 dollars a month for the

-next 24 months.”

“Just like buying an auto- mobile,” remarked the client. The attorney smiled, “I ad kok o*

A true story, according to industry, currently going the rounds tells of a government

- clerk who in the course of his

job receives dozens of papers every day which he is sup- posed to read and initial. One day recently, a form from another department

found its way into his pile. He read it, initialled it, and placed it in his out basket.

Two days later, the paper came back with this note at- tached: “This document was not designed for you to handle. Kindly erase your initials and initial the eras- ure.”

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Even the most reluctant politician says he would run for office if drafted. And to make it easier, that kind of a draft doesn’t even require passing a physical, mental, or psychiatric exam.

a couple of weeks ago you raised cane cuz ya

Ah quit yer grousin’.. . } now yer bellyachin cuz ya gotta work

thought you had to go on strike .. . in a little west coast mist!

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