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APRIL-MAY, 1975

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Four of the top officers of .

_Loecal 1-424 IWA, Prince

George, were re-elected by
acclamation at the Local’s
Annual Delegated Meeting
April 26-27, in Prince George.

Those re-elected were:
President Don Muirhead, ist
Vice-President Gerry Wolf-
ram, Financial Secretary Toby’
Mogensen, Recording Secre-
tary Blanche Miller.

Four other positions are
being contested. Those nomi-
nated and whose names will go
out on the referendum ballot
are Harvey Arcand and Lyle
Severns for the position of 2nd
Vice-President; Thomas R.
Stewart and Larry Docken-
dorff for the position of 3rd
Vice-President; Ron Stewart
and Klaus Kindermann for the
position of Conductor; Thomas
Bray and Shiv Garcha for the
position of Warden.

“The conference dealt with a
number of reports and resolu-
tions and heard from guest
speakers International Presi-
dent Keith Johnson, Regional
President Jack Munro,
Regional 2nd Vice-President
Stan Parker, Local 1-357 Presi-.
dent Gerry Stoney, Local 1-417
First Vice-President Bill
Hobbs, and the Hon. Alf. Nun-
weiler, NDP Minister Without
Portfolio.

The comprehensive Officers’
Report listed the activities of

THE WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER

the officers during the past
year and indicated that the
affairs of the Local were in
excellent shape.

President Jack Munro was
the first of the guest speakers.
He gave the delegates a
detailed report on the Coast
Negotiations and followed this
with a strong plea for support
of the NDP government of
Dave Barrett.

He listed the accomplish-
ments of the government over
the past three years and stated
that no other government in

Canada has done so much good .

for the people in such a short
time. ;

He suggested that too many
people were being taken in by
the propaganda put out by the
large newspapers to discredit
the government and if this anti-
NDP campaign were success-
ful, it would be a black day for
the workers.

He urged the delegates to
examine the social legislation

passed by the NDP which was |

providing so.zmuch badly
needed care for the sick and
aged. He told them to check the

~ costs of auto insurance in B.C.

against the rest of Canada to
see how fortunate drivers in
B.C. are.

He closed his speech by say-
ing that the province could not
afford another twenty years of

LEVI DETAILS WHERE
THE MONEY WENT

In a major statement to the
legislature, the Minister of
Human Resources, Norman
Levi (MLA _ Vancouver-
Burrard), has detailed the
programs of his department.
Levi emphasized that his
department’s budget goes
beyond ‘‘welfare” and deals
with all of those citizens who
require social services.

Of the $516 million allotted to
the department, Levi ex-
plained ’’$500 million, or 97
percent of the budget, goes to
people other than those single
people who are so-called
employables.” Levi stated that
“in 1971, 6.4 percent of the
population of this province was
on welfare under Social Credit.
In 1974, this NDP government
has reduced that percentage to
4.9 percent.” .

“Let us put the lie once and
for all to the myth that all of
the budget goes to welfare. To
the taxpayers out there, the
workers: Do your parents
benefit from mincome, or
pharmacare? Do. your kids
benefit from day care? Of
course people are on welfare.
That is direct legacy of the free
enterprise system. We didn’t
discover poverty. The system
created it, and we are trying to
do something constructive
about it.”

Levi detailed the costs of the

department’s plans for day

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care, mincome, pharmacare,
income assistance, chronic
care, children’s homes, mental
health and alcohol and drug
abuse. Faced with Social
Credit and Liberal opposition,
Levi demanded to know where
those parties would cut the
budget. Levi pointed out that in
1972, under Social Credit, 1,283
people in B.C. received the
maximum pension of $191.00
per month from the Provincial
Government, compared to
128,000 now receiving mincome
of $238.00 per month.

Levi said he was proud of the
budget: “It is the people’s
money gathered collectively
for the common good, and we
shall continue to spend it for
the common good. This is a
budget for people — a human
budget — and that’s what this
business of government is
about.”

The Canadian Labour Con-
gress has re-affirmed its call
for prompt government action
to re-establish a Canadian-
flag, deep-sea merchant fleet
as proposed by the Darling
report on deep-sea shipping
tabled in the House of Com-
mons in January,

NICK BRONTE

WIN RE-ELECTION.

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Social Credit now that it had
the most progressive govern-
ment on the North American
continent.

President Keith Johnson
reported on the progress made
to date by the three com-
mittees appointed to study
changes to the Union’s struc-
ture, per capita taxes, and site
of the Union’s headquarters.

He stated that he was unable

at this time to make any report

on the decisions made by the
structure committee and the
headquarters committee as the
matter was confidential until

the 1975 convention in Mon- |

treal.

He did, however, report on
the proposed changes to the
International per capita tax.
The changes proposed, he said,
have met with general agree-
ment by the Regions and Local
Unions and the membership
will be asked to approve the
new measures in a referendum
ballot to be held some time this
month.

He told the delegates that it

was vital for the organization
that they approve the new pro-
posed increase so that the
Union could provide the type of
service needed to compete with
the employers and other
unions. ;
- He concluded by saying that
the increase would come out of
existing per capita dues and
would not entail any further
increases from the members.

The Hon. Alf.. Nunweiler
reported on the changes made
in forest stumpage rates by his
government to keep the wor-
kers in the small non-
integrated companies em-
ployed. He stated that without
this aid, thousands more would
have been unemployed in the
forest industry.

He went on to describe other
innovations of the government
which were designed for the
purpose of providing more
employment for the people of
the province.

He stated that the opposition
parties were highly critical of
these measures when they
were instituted but now recog-
nize their merits.

On the Saturday evening, the

‘Local held its annual Banquet

which was as usual a highly
successful affair.

THREE MEMBERS of Local 1-423 IWA, left, Alex

Wirachowsky, Frank Jeneway, and Ed Rashke, are shown
with their Twenty-five year Membership scrolls and pins: All
three are longtime employees of Crown Zellerback, Kelowna

Lumber Division.

LOCAL 1-423 MEMBERS

Forty-three members of
Local 1-423 IWA Kelowna, have
recently received their
Twenty-five year IWA Mem-
bership scrolls and pins.

Following are the names of
the members:

John McEachren

Al Luknowsky

A. Leverrier

Art Kretchmer .

R. Neetz

Art Beliveau

Tony Welder

John Egglestone

J. Summerfelt

Noboru Hashimoto

Fred Kurenoff

Bud Newick

Ed Rashke

A. Gallon

Mike J. Wishlow

Adolf Dubec

Walter Sigfuson

Al Stevenson

Alex Wirachowsky
A. Klassen
Bill Moonen
Dell Welder
Tom Chernoff
Fred Evdokimoff
George J. Faminoff
Alex Popoff
John Peterson
R. Spletzer
W. G. Lutley.
Vern Unser

' Ray Nelson
Graham Stewart
Phil Shabluk
Wilf Reiswig
Joe Tschida
J. Koski
John Rezansoff
Jack Takahashi
Peter P. Plotnikoff
Mike Wyokin
Don Lawson
F. Jeneway
R. Cadden

ON THE LIGHTER SIDE

Mixed emotions: Watching
your mother-in-law go over a
cliff in your new car.

Kamloops Katie points out
that middle age is when your

husband’s. age starts to show
around the middle.
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Chokerman Charlie says that
a bridegroom is a guy who
began by handing out a line but
ended by walking it.

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