THE WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER

HARTUNG PAYS
LAST OFFICIAL VISIT
TO LOCAL 1-424

Retiring IWA International
president A. F. Hartung told
fifty members attending the
Quarterly Meeting of Local
1-424 IWA, Prince George,
July 23, that he saw no reason
why Interior woodworkers
shouldn’t receive as good or
better wages than Coast
woodworkers.

Hartung, who was in the
Local Union to install the
Prince George officers, was
optimistic that the Union
would achieve a good settle-
ment from the employers.

During his address he em-
phasized the need for greater
organizing efforts now to pro-
tect future bargaining, He
stated that less than fifty per-
cent of the Interior -wood-
workers were organized and
the Union must make an all
out effort to make every
woodworker a union mem-
ber.

Referring to the irrevoca-
ble trend to automation in
the forest industry, Hartung
said with more men being
displaced by machines “we
have to organize like the
devil just to stand still.”

Hartung stated that an-
other problem confronting
unions was the growing
power of ‘big business.. He
said the 200 largest corpora-
tions in the United States
now control 51 percent of all

business, and the percentage

is growing annually.

He added that this massive
and growing power of big
business is one of the great-
est challenges to the labour
movement.

The following are the
names of the delegates elect-
ed at the meeting to attend
the International, Regional
and BC. Federation of La-
bour conventions.

INTERNATIONAL
CONVENTION

Ed Baker, Williams Lake;
Earl Hall, Quesnel; Doug
Edwards, East Line; Milton
Kaye, Prince George and
West Line; Darryl Preston,
North Line; J. R. Inglis,
President, Staff; Gordon
Hurlbert, 1st Vice-President,
Staff; Tage Mogensen, Fin.
Sec’ty.; R. E. Pitman, Re-
cording Sec’ty., At Large.

ALTERNATE DELEGATES
Bruce Farquharson, Wil-
liams Lake, No. 1 Alternate;
Sister Blanche Miller, Ques-
nel, No. 2 Alternate; Fred
Ibis. Staff, No. 3 Alternate.

REGIONAL CONVENTION

Bruce Farquharson, Wil-
liams Lake; Sister Blanche
Miller, Quesnel; Gus An-
goldt, East Line; Jim Lani-
gan, Prince George and West;
Gordon Hurlbert, 1st Vice-
President, Staff; Fred Ibis,
Business Agent, Staff; R. E.
Pitman, Recording Sec’ty.,
At Large (Quesnel); Sister
Freda Ellison, At Large
(Quesnel) .

ALTERNATE DELEGATES

Werner Rudeloff, No. 1
Alternate; LeRoy Heater, No.
2 Alternate; Charlie Sutton,
No. 3 Alternate.

E DELEGATES TO
B.C. FED. CONVENTION
Charlie .Sutton, Williams
Lake: Fred Ibis, Staff; O.
Cassidy, Quesnel; Doug Ed-
wards, East Line; LeRoy
Heater, North (Mackenzie) ;
Bruce Farquharson, Williams
Lake; Howard Webb, Staff.

ALTERNATE DELEGATES

Gordon Hurlbert, 1st Vice-
President, No. 1 Alternate;
Stan Annis, Quesnel, No. 2
Alternate; Stan Ball, Ques-
nel, No. 3 Alternate.

GUEST SPEAKER International president A. F. Hartung.
On left is Ross Inglis, president of Local 1-424. Photo

by Gordon Hurlbert.

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RETIRING THIS FALL, IWA International president A. F. Hartung conducts his last
official job in Local 1-424, Prince George, by swearing in the new Local officers. Group
from left are, Doug Edwards, warden; S. Annis, conductor; Gus Angoldt, 3rd vice-presi-
dent; Werner Rudeloff, six-year trustee; Stan Ball, 2nd vice-president; Gordon Hurlbert,
Ist vice-president; Ross Inglis, president; Toby Mogensen, financial secretary; presi-
dent Hartung. Missing from picture is recording secretary Bob Pitman who is attending

the Labour College in Montreal.

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