Local 1-80 Head
Reports Growth

“We have the largest membership of any organized group on
Vancouver Island and commensurate with this membership, which
us strength and influence, we feel that this powerful influence
should be used to make the community life of our members and
indeed of the general public more pleaasnt. We therefore urge all
of our members to participate actively in all civic and municipal
affairs,” said Tony Poje, president, IWA, Local 1-80, at the 17th

annual membership meeting.

The President was giving his
annual report and said that he
believed the past year had been

momentous for the local “when |.

considering the progress made
in all fields by this local union.”

He said that “the officers feel
that the achievements made by
the local unior®should be review-
ed. In building a permanent
headquarters, Local 1-80, IWA,
had become an integral part of
the community and gave the
union prestige.”

The president said that in May
1951, by referendum vote, the
membership raised dues to pro-
vide for a 25-cents allocation to
a building reserve fund, and 10
cents a month to a death benefit
fund.

The president said that the lo-
eal continued to maintain an
average membership throughout
the past year of approximately
4800, with a continual increase
showing in the final six months
of the year, culminating the
month of December. “This was
considerably higher than the cor-
responding month of 1952.”

, NITINAT

Nitinat Camp Sub-Local of
Local 1-80, IWA, at their mect-
ing, March 15, elected the fol-
lowing officers for the year:

Chairman: Ross Houghton.

First Vice-Chairman: Bill
Ewing.

Secretary: Alec Ahler.

Job Stewards: Alex Ahlers,
John O'Brennan, Jim Waldie,
J, Schleuss, Klas Stegar, Ross
Houghton, Mattalli Shama,
Withold Jabs, C. Santarossa.

Grievance Committee: Ross
Houghton, Alex Ahler, Jack Ap-
plegarth, Tom Taylor, Jim Wal-
die, Carl Nelson, Niel Morrison,
N. J. Hage.

Balloting Committee: John
Podmoroff, Joe Murray, George
MeDougal.

Safety Committea: Dave Rus-
sell, J. Schleuss, Jin Waldie, Sid
Crisp, Morris Stewart, Harry
Moran, Jim Clarke,

CHEMAINUS

The Chemainus Sub-Local of
Local 1-80, IWA, held their an-
nual meeting, March 2ist, at
which the following officers were
elected for the coming year:

President: G. Schofield.

1st Vice-President: W. T. Mor-
gan Sr, ‘

1D, its

2nd Vice-President:
Wilkes.
8rd Vice-President: H. T.

Simmons.

Financial Secretary: J. M.
Milmore.
Recording Secretary: H.

Churches.
Conductor: E. G. English.
Warden: C. Nuifield.
8-year Trustee: W. Pattison.
Shop Committee: G. Schofiel
W. Pedersen, P. L. Wilkes, W. T.
Morgan Sr., J. M. Milmore.

GORDON RIVER

Gordon River Sub-Local 1-80,
IWA, elected officers for 1954:

Chairman, Stanley Abercrom-
bie; vice-chairman, Tom Ker-
rone; secretary, Ken Hopkins.

Grievance Committee C. Carls-,
son, Stanley Abercrombie, Don
MacNeil, J. Callapy, M. Mac-
Kinnon, B. Dolby, J. Passek.

Safety Committee, C. Carlson,
J. Passek, H. Bird, J. Miles,
Hallberg, Don MacNiel.

1-217 C.U.
Shows Growth

Credit Union finances of Lo-
cal 1-217, IWA, are in a very
healthy condition, it was dis-
closed by the Officers in their
report to the members attend-
ing the Annual Credit Union
Meeting, held in the Steel
Hall, February 27.

A dividend of 3% on shares
were paid and a 5% patronage
was declared. Assets of the Cre-
dit Union are now almost $100,-
000. At the end of the year they
had over 400 active members.

Members were addressed by
the guest speaker, Mr. T. A.
Switzer, Inspector of Credit
Unions, who gave an interesting
talk on the value of belonging
to credit unions.

Elected officers:

Board of Directors: Harry
Bardsley, Paddy Neal, Bill Lyons
(Recording Secretary), George
Friess, Axel Wallner, Bob Wal-
ters, James Simpson, Al Strong
(Vice - President), John Lucas
(President).

Credit Committee; Marlo Ram-
lo (Chairman), Fred Brown, Jack
Ingraham, Hector Kalloch, Ray
Miller, W. D, McIntosh, (Treas-
urer).

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Local 1-367
Meets April 10
At Mission’

Membership meeting of
Local 1-367, IWA, will be
held in the upper IOOF Hall,

Mission, at 1:30 p.m., April
10th.

Report will be heard on
the outcome of the IWA
Wages and Contract _Con-
ference, and voting will be
held on a proposed amend-
ment to the by-laws to estab-
lish regular meetings on a
quarterly basis.

BURY AIDS
KENYA
UNIONS

BRUSSELS (CPA)— British
Columbia trade unionist, Jim
Bury, has brought renewed life
and vigor to the Kenya Feder-
ation of Registered Trade Un-
ions in the few weeks he has
been operating in the East
African colony, the Interna-
tional Federation of Free Trade
Unions reports.

Bury, who was recently. ap-
pointed representative of the ICF
TU, is working in the country
which is currently torn with strife
due to the activities of the Mau
Mau and the repressive measures
used against them. He was for-
merly secretary-treasurer of the
Vancouver Labor Council and a
member of the UPWA.

Employment Card

In view of the deteriorating sit-
uation in Nairobi, security officers
have taken some stringent mea-
sures against, members of the
Kikuyu, Embu and Meru tribes
who are required under the em-
ergency regulations to carry a
“history of employment” card. If
a member of one of these tribes
is found without a card, or if his
card indicates that he is unem-
ployed, he is sent either to an
already over-crowded native re-
serve or to a detention camp.

‘As a consequence of the repre-
sentations made by Bury, in close
association with leaders of the
Federation, many workers whose
cards had been taken away had
them returned, and were thus en-
abled to remain in Nairobi.

MR. WICKS
PLEASE NOTE

EDMONTON (CPA) — The
Alberta Social Credit govern-
ment has decided to drop its
plan for the decertification of
unions during illegal strikes.
The action followed strong pro-
tests from labor representa-
tives.

employment.

_ He said in part:

I do not think anyone in the
house would argue that it is not
correct to say there are wide gaps
in the coverage provided by the
present plan.

There is the question of having
to have the required number of
contribution days. In the case of
lay-off that took place last sum-
mer, to which I referred a few
minutes ago, I know that a large
percentage of the people caught
in that lay-off were recent im-
migrants to this country who did
not have the required number of
contribution days under the plan
in order to qualify for unemploy-
ment insurance.

Hardship

Consequently people whom we
had welcomed to this country,
people to whom we had opened
our doors, in many cases found
themselves suffering severe hard-
ship, with no prospect of gainful
employment throughout the win-
ter and no prospect of being able
to draw unemployment insurance
benefits.

I remember quite well an inci-
dent that occurred on an airplane
trip I made last summer, and I
think this is a rather good illus-
tration of what happens to some
people who follow the advice
given by the Acting Prime Min-
ister and go other places to look
for jobs.

I was travelling on the plane
over a rather rugged section of
the west coast of Vancouver Is-
land. My seatmate turned to me
and said, “See those poor chaps
sitting over there on the other
side of the plane.” I said, “Yes.”
To me they were obviously peo-
ple who had come from one of the
eastern sections of Canada.

He said, “Those four men are
going to land in Vancouver within
the next half hour, and they are
going to land there broke.”

Loggers Left Destitute

These young chaps had fol-
lowed the dictum of the Acting
Prime Minister, and in line with
his and another such dictum has
gone west, as far west in this
country as they could go. They
had landed in a logging camp,
and had been given jobs.

About a week later they were
laid off because of the fire season.
They had paid their fare there |
and their fare out. They had paid
for their logging boots and other
necessary heavy clothing. But
they were going to land in Van-
couver broke through no fault of |
their own but rather as the result |

of their initiative in going to that

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BARNETT ASKS |
UIC CHANGE

Radical change in Government policy with respect to
Unemployment Insurance was proposed in the House of
Commons by Tom Barnett, M.P., (Comox-Alberni) , Local
1-85 IWA, when speaking in a debate dealing with un-

rather remote part of our coun-
try.

I doubt very much if those
men would receive any help under
our present unemployment insur-
ance plan,

Extend Principle

If the insurance principle is
valid, and if the governmént is
prepared to admit that it is, then
I suggest that the time has come
to bring the unemployment insur-
ance plan in line with what is the
generally accepted concept of
insurance coverage.

If I take out a life insurance
policy this evening and through
some misfortune I am not living
tomorrow morning, I expect that
my wife will be covered by the
benefits provided by that plan.

I suggest to the Minister of
Labour and the government
that the time has come when
there should be no question in
the house and.in the minds of
the people of Canada about the
acceptance of the principle that
unemployment insurance should
provide such coverage that if a
man goes to work and makes
only one contribution, he will
have become insured and will
be able to enjoy the protection
of the plan if through no fault
ors own he no Ionger has a .
Job. ‘

WHO OWNS
HOSPITALS

Public Hospitals: Lay corpora-
tions owned 277 at the close of
1952, religious orders 250, muni-
cipalities 243, provinces seven.
However, lay ownership predo-
minated only in: the 1-9, 25-49
and 50-99 bed size groups, muni-
cipal ownership leading among
hospitals of 10-24 beds, and re-
ligious orders owning the most
in all size groups from 100 beds
up. Hospitals under religious or-
ders averaged 13 beds each
against an average of 100 for
lay hospitals. Smallest were
municipal hospitals with an aver-
age of 64,

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