NOTICE

It is reported that certain IWA Coast members who have either left one forest firm to work for another or

have left the industry altogether after June 15, have not

received the retroactive pay due to them as a result of the Coast contract settlement.

Provided a member left after June 15, he is entitled to retroactive pay from his old employer and should make the necessary application for the money owed to him.

TRUDEAU PLANNING

The government will bring down a White Paper on the establishment of a wage-price

_ review board early in the new Parliamentary session.

Prime Minister Trudeau said he planned to meet in- dustry and labor representa-

tives before actually creatin the board. J

Mr. Trudeau, speaking at a press conference, refused to specify precisely what his government’s wage “guide-

"GUIDE LINES" FOR LABOUR

lines” were, while agreeing that definite figures were al- ways in mind.

He said some wage in- creases of-more than 6 or 7 per cent might be warranted if general industry levels were higher, or if boosts were justified by productivity. But he added that the economy generally wasn’t having that much of a productivity in- crease, and general wage boosts at that level would be “inflationary.”

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capacity of 450 tons of -pulp. The company will have an approximate work force of 900. Local 1-405 is presently engaged in.a legal battle with two construction contractors— > Flanders Installations Ltd. and Burns & Dutton (1962) Ltd—resulting from an injunction

against the Union during the Interior strike. Examination for Discovery was set for Sep- tember 6th and the Trial of the Action will be held on September 23rd, 1968. The Statement of Claim submitted by the Plaintiffs mentions damages of $234,726.72.

LIGHTER SIDE

The wife was understand- ably furious when she came home unexpectedly and found her husband with a lady mid- get.

“You promised me two weeks ago that you would never cheat on me again,” she stormed.

Her husband shrugged non- chalantly. “Take it easy, dear,” he said airly. “Can’t you see I’m tapering off?”

* * *

A local yokel was bragging to another that he was an ex- pert on stuff to drink. An- other same got a bottle and told him to “take a slug” and tell him what it was.

The bragging one took a big gulp and came up gasping: “That’s gasoline!” The friend calmly answered “Yes, I know, but is it Ethyl or regu- lar?”

* * *

Visitor: “Where does this lane lead to?”

Native: “Well, it’s led half

the young folks around these parts into trouble.”

—Photo courtesy Nelson News

VITAL POWER

Ten thousand times has the labour movement stum- bled and fallen and bruised itself, and risen again; been seized by the throat and choked into insensibility; en-

joined by courts, assaulted by thugs, charged by the militia, shot down by regulars, traduced by the press, frowned upon by public opinion, deceived by politicians, threatened by priests, repudiated by renegades, preyed . upon by grafters, infested by spies, deserted by cowards, betrayed by traitors, bled by leeches, and sold out by leaders, but, notwithstanding all this, and all these, it is today the most vital potential power this planet has ever known, and its historic mission of emancipating the workers of the world from the thralldom of the ages is as certain of ultimate realization as the setting of the sun.

“Catching any?” asked the bystander.

“Caught 30 walleyes outa here yesterday,” replied the fisherman.

“You did? By the way, do you know who I am? I’m the county fish and game war- den.”

The fisherman pondered a moment, then said, “Do you know who I am?”

—EUGENE V. DEBS

“No,” replied the warden. “Well, I'm the biggest liar in this county.” * * *

Asked a small boy, looking up from the evening paper, “Dad do political plums grow from seeds?”

“No,” replied his father,

“they result from clever grafting.”

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