- 2nd Issue, February

B.C. LUMBER WORKER

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CANDIDATES FOR IWA DISTRICT OFFICES

For International

For District
Secretary-Treasurer

GEO. H. MITCHELL

Candidate for Office of
District Sec.-Treasurer

George Mitchell entered the
trade union movement 29 years
ago, when he joined the Hod Car-
viers and Helpers’ Union. Upon
change of occoupation, he later
joined the Shoemakers’ Guild,
and retained his membership dur-
ing the 11 years spent in that
trade.

When, in 1989, he secured em-
ployment at Fraser Mills, Cana-
dian Western Lumber Co. Ltd.,
he immediately became associated
with the organization among the
woodworkers, which later mater-
jalized in affiliation with the
IWA,

ALEX. ARCHIBALD

Candidate for Office of
District Sec.-Treasurer

Alex Archibald, a Scot, com-
menced his trade union experi-

As Local 1-217 IWA was then
the only Local Union on the
Lower Mainland, his membership
was originally in what is now the
Vancouver Local Union. When
delegated by the membership in
New Westminster to apply for a
charter, he commenced a contin-
uous period of service on the
Executive Committee of the new-
ly formed Local Union with two
years as Financial Secretary.
During this period he won ap-
proval for his handling of the
Local Union’s finances. He also
served five years as a member
of the District Executive Board,
representing his Local Union.

In 1944, he was appointed to
the Organization staff of the In-
ternational Union, and while
actively opposing the Pritchett-
Dalskog domination of the Union,
played an active part in the cam-
paign which brought almost
every mill in the New Westmin-
ster area under IWA contract.

For four years, he served as
Vice-President of the Vancouver
and Lower Mainland Labor Coun-
cil, and as President of that
Council for another two years,
until his voluntary retirement in
1953.

He is a member of the Board
of Directors of the Canadian
Arthritie and Rheumatism So-
ciety, and is an active worker in
community enterprises.

In 1949, George Mitchell was
elected IWA District Secretary-
Treasurer and has occupied that
post continuously since that date.
He is also Managing Editor of
the B.C. Lumber Worker

ence during strikes of the coal
ininers in 1921 and 1922,

When he migrated to Canada,
he first became active in the
Longshoremen’s Union, and took
a part in their 1935 Vancouver
strike.

He entered the B.C. lumber in-
dustry in 1938, and has been
active in the IWA continuously
since that time, with the excep-

|| tion of four years on active ser-
|| vice overseas.

In the Fraser Mills, where he
is employed, he has served as
Chairman of the Plant Grievance
Committee. He has also been
elected to the Executive Board
of the Local Union, 1-357 IWA.

Juvenile Delinquents: Corporal
punishment was administered to
214 in the 1948-52 decade. How-
ever, only 11 or 5% of the cases
were in the last four years—52
were in 1943 and 64 in 1944, only

two in 1951, two in 1952,

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Board

ALLEN

Candidate for Office of
International Executive
Board Member

Walter F. Allen gained his
early trade union experience with
the United Mine Workers, which
union he joined in 1934. Upon his
return from service with the

Member

Royal Canadian Navy in 1945, he
entered the plywood section of
the lumber industry and the IWA
at the same time. He was elected
as an IWA job steward immedi-
ately.

He took an active part in the
re-organization of Local 1-85
IWA, Port Alberni, after October
1948, and was thereupon elected
Local Union Trustee. In the fol-
lowing year he was elected as
District Executive Board mem-
ber, and has served continuously
on the District Board ever since.

He has served his fifth year on
the District Negotiating Commit-
tee, and during two years of that
period acted as Secretary of the
Committee. He was placed on

‘full-time duty during the 1952
strike, and for the Interior nego-
| tiations in that year.

He was elected as President of
Local Union 1-85 IWA, Port Al-
berni in 1950, and has been re-
elected to that office each year
since that date. In 1955, his no-
mination to the Presidency was
unopposed.

In 1958, he was elected as In-
ternational Board Member from
District No. 1, and is the present
incumbent of that office.

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CHARLES E. LAMARCHE
Candidate for Office of

International Executive
Board Member

Charles E. Lamarche entered
the lumber industry and the IWA
at the same time in 1947, when

oon

he gained employment at the
Universal Lumber and Box Co.
Ltd.

In this plant he has served
since then as job steward and
plant committee member, until
elected to the post of Plant Com-
mittee Chairman in which post
he is now serving.

He has also served as Chair-

| man of the plant Safety Commit-

tee, having taken an active in-
terest in the IWA-safety pro-
gram.

During the present year, he
was elected to serve the 1955-56
term as a member of the Execu-
tive Committee Local 1-217 IWA,
Vancouver.

On behalf of his Local Union
he has been frequently elected
in the last three years as a dele-
gate to conventions of the Dis-
trict Council IWA, the B.C. Fed-
eration of Labor, and the Cana-
dian Congress of Labor.

His present union duties are
those of Conductor, Local 1-217
IWA, and IWA Plant Committee
Chairman, Universal Lumber and
Box Co. He is also Secretary of
the District PAC Committee, and
Local Union PAC Committee.

the Province is

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Produced

THE VANCOUVER PROVINCE HAS
AGREEMENTS WITH THE
FOLLOWING UNIONS:

Vancotiver Typographical Union No. 226.
Vancouver Printing Pressmen and Assistants,

Union No. 25.

Electrotypers’ and Stereotypers* Union Van-
couver and Victoria No. 88.

Vancouver Mailers Union No. 70.
Vancouver Newspaper Guild No. 207.
Vancouver Photo-engravers’ Union No. 54

For complete coverage of Labour news, it Pays
to Read The Province.

The Vancouver Province

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Local 1-424

SCHELLER
OPERATION
UNIONIZED

Successful organizing of the
Scheller Logging Company at
Quesnel, has been accomplished
by Local 1-424; IWA, following
a meeting January 14th, of the
crew and Local Officials, in the
Union Office. ,

District 1st Vice-President Bill
Gray administered the oath of
obligation to the 21 employees
present. Grievance and Safety
Committee members were then
elected and instructed in their
duties.

Members elected on the Griev-
ance Committee were: Don Mc-
Carthy, Walter Hoffman, Charlie
Dillabough, Joe Krevenky. Safety
Committee members elected were
Bill Walker, Scotty MacSobie and
Bob Walters.

Action is being taken by. the
Local Office to rectify infractions
of the Agreement, by the Com-
pany, some of which have been
in effect since June ist, 1954.

Quesnel Sub-Local

Jack Ostergard, Head Shop
Steward at the Western Plywood,
Quesnel, reported at a Sub-Local
Meeting of Local 1-424, IWA,
held January 16th, in Quesnel, on
the overtime dispute at Western
Plywood.

The dispute arose when the
Company unable to handle the
volume of work which had piled
up in the. finishing department,
had asked the employees to go
on overtime shifts.

The Plant Committee refused
the Company’s request, stating
that overtime work should only
be necessary when there is ab-
normal breakdowns. In this in-
stance they believed the Com-
pany’s problem could best be
solved by the hiring of more men,
which they pointed out, would
also ease the unemployment situ-
ation in the Quesnel area.

The 91 members present at the
meeting voted unanimously to en-
dorse the committee’s action.

A talk on the need for extend-
ed organization in the Prince
George area and how the mem-
bership could assist in the task,
was given by District 1st Vice-
President, Bill Gray, who was a~
visitor at the meeting. :

NOTICE

Saving Credit Union
ANNUAL MEETING

SATURDAY, MARCH 5th
Time: 7:30 p.m.
ELKS HALL
704 EAST 47th AVE.

Formerly Vets County Hall
47th & Fraser

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