THE WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER

JUNE-JULY, 1974

CHAIN SHARPENING EASY WITH NEW “CLAMP-TITE”

A useful tool for fallers and buckers just on the market is the new vise for holding power saws when sharpening the chain.

New from the Zip-Penn Com- pany of Ontario, the vise known as the Clamp-Tite,

screws right into a tree stump. The jaws clamp the guidebar and hold the entire saw secure- ly in such a position that the chain can be moved freely around the bar.

The vise sells for just under ten dollars.

CLC SCHOLARSHIPS AWARDED IN B.C.

The Canadian Labour Con- gress has announced the awarding of education scholar- ships to two young people whose fathers are members of the IWA in British Columbia.

Opal Blackhall of Hope, B.C. was awarded $500.00 to be applied to post-secondary education. Opal, who is 18 years old, graduated from Hope Secondary School this year and plans to attend Simon Fraser University’s Faculty of Education.

Robert Kidd, of Courtenay, B.C., received the Carlsburg Memorial Trophy for post graduate studies abroad. There are only two of these scholarships awarded in

Canada and they provide for the full cost of tuition, trans-

Deaths of four workers in one year at the General Steel Wares plant in Ontario are thought to have been caused by a cooling agent.

The provincial government has investigated, and will publish a report shortly. The men were all Saslaven | in one department, which used the coolant DP-7965, common in heavy industry.

portation, accommodation and spending money for the full academic year.

Robert, 24, is a graduate from the University of Victoria with a Bachelor of Science degree in Oceanography. He plans to attend University in Denmark to further his studies in this field.

Jack Munro, President of I.W.A. Regional Council No. 1 commented, “‘I am very plea- sed that “these two young people have been given the opportunity to take advantage of these scholarships. ~Invest- ment in the education of our young people is one which brings bountiful returns. I wish Robert Kidd and Opal Black-

hall success in their individual endeavours.”’

The investigation followed complaints by the safety committee of United Steelworkers Local 3789. The company, meanwhile, is using another coolant.

Three of the men died of heart attacks; the fourth of cancer. The department in which the four worked employs seven at full strength.

‘SAFETY CONFERENCE

é The IWA 25th Annual Regional Safety Conference will be 20-21, at Woodworkers’ House, Vancouver.

nately 100 delegates are expected to attend to

discuss the Union’s Safety Programme and

ess | daring the past year.

Telephone: 684-3931

DUMARESQ LOGGERS’ AGENCY 328 Carrall Street, Vancouver 3, B.C.

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NICK BRONTE

MEMBERS

APPROVE ASSESSMENT

The IWA Regional Tabulat- ing Committee has reported that the referendum vote to in- crease the Regional - Strike Fund assessment from one dol- lar per member per month to two dollars per member per month, has been overwhelm- ingly approved by the 52,000 members in Western Canada.

The vote was approved by over 77%.

The members will pay the new two dollar per month assessment into the Strike Fund until the fund reaches ten million dollars. The assess- ment will then be reduced to one dollar per member per month until the Strike Fund is reduced to a low of eight mil- lion dollars, at which time the two dollars assessment will automatically be put back into effect until the Strike Fund again reaches ten million dol- lars. The increase is effective in October.

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4-71 WINS ~ AGREEMENT | AT COHO. oC

Local 1-71 officers have re- ported that an agreement has been signed and a certification received for Coho Logging Co. Ltd. — a contractor for Twin- river Timber at Terrace, B.C.

This contractor had moved out of Juskatla rather than sign an agreement with the Local Union.

IWA members in Terrace took the same action as was done at Juskatla and refused to handle logs manufactured by the Coho Company until an agreement was signed.

The Department of Labor acted on the complaint laid by the Local Union and forced the Company to pay overtime rates and vacation pay to the former employees at Juskatla.

Coho Logging was also forc- ed to repay $25.00 to Neil De- Bock who was illegally deduct- ed for damaging a power saw bar. Russell Jeannotte also re- ceived a refund of $30.00 which had been deducted from him for breaking a choker and damaging a door.

Ss conference.

IWA CONVENTION

The 37th Annual IWA Regional Convention will be held September 23-27, at the Bayshore Inn, Vancouver. Approximately 200 delegates are expected to wast the

SIXTY-THREE UNIONISTS

GRADUATE FROM COLLEGE >

Sixty-three trade unionists from all across Canada have graduated from the two-month residential program of the Labour College of Canada.

The College was founded in 1963 under a charter issued to the CLC, the Universite de Montreal, and McGill Univer- sity. Graduation ceremonies

this year were the College’s 12th.

Already, 822 Canadian unionists and 132 overseas stu- dents have graduated. Hun- dreds of others in Canada have taken, or are enrolled in, cor-

respondence courses offered by the College.

CLC president Joe Morris, who is also chairman of the College’s Board of Governors, spoke at the cexemonies.

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