THE WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER

SHOW DRAWS TOP AXEMEN

Four of New Zealand’s fin-
est axemen are coming to the
International Festival of For-
estry at the PNE ’67.

In addition to the New Zea-
landers, there will be loggers
from all parts of Canada, Ja-
pan and the United States
competing for a total of
$30,000 in prize money.

The New Zealand team is
headed by Captain Dave
Lamberton. Other members
are Sonny Bolstad, Geoff
Hocquard and L, J. Gilsenan.

The team is managed by
Godfrey Bowen, M.B.E., who
retired 15 years ago from ac-
tive chopping and sawmilling
but still maintains a keen in-
terest in the sport. Bowen is
better known for his sheep
~ shearing abilities having won
practically every title in that
field of sport.

Bowen demonstrated his
sheep shearing abilities when
he attended the Pacific Na-
tional Exhibition in 1964.

Lamberton, who is 32 years
old, has won every New Zea-
land chopping title both in
the standing and underhand
divisions on logs ranging in
size from 10 to 17 inches.

He is married and has two
girls and twin boys.

Bolstad, 30, father of four
children, is one of New Zea-
land’s most outstanding chop-
pers and sawyers. As a chop-
per, he has won the 14-inch
diameter log world Cham-
pionship twice — in 1963 and
1964 — and was second in
1965 and 1966. .

Working with team captain
Lamberton, Bolstad also
holds the double hand sawing
championship. Bolstad has al-

COMPANY PAYS FOR
EMPLOYEE'S NOSE BLEED

’Penalizing a worker for
taking too long to treat a
nose bleed on the job is an
unacceptable practice — as
the Union Gas Co. of Canada
Ltd. has discovered.

In an arbitration case
fought by the International
Chemical Workers Union,
Judge R. W. Reville ruled

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SAM GOUDAN

LOCAL 1-85
FISHING DERBY

TOP FISHERMAN in Local 1-85’s
Annual Fishing Derby was Sam
Goudan of Alberni Plywood who
won a new suit for catching this
beauty weighing 22 Ib. 5 oz. Sec-
ond prize winner was N. Storry
of Alberni Pacific Division who
won a sports jacket; third prize
winner was R. Curran of Somass
Division who won a _ transistor
radio; fourth prize winner was
W. N. Hucul of Cameron Division
who won a rod and reel; and fifth
prize winner was H. Frost of
Sproat Lake Division who won
* a tackle box. 225 members partici-
pated in the Derby and 249 fish
were caught.

that the company’s Simcoe
Division must pay an employ-
ee for the 1% hours he was
in a first aid station for treat-
ment of a nose bleed. The
company had paid him only
for the first half hour of this
time.

The ruling by the arbitra-
tion board in effect said that,
if an employer wants an em-
ployee to keep himself avail-
able although he is physical-
ly unable to work, he must
pay him or otherwise the em-
ployee should be sent home.

Judge Reville noted in his
finding that the company had
always paid for such lost
time. The ICWU’s Local 725
did not argue that the prac-
tice was in itself enforceable
through arbitration, but it
took the position that the
grievor was requested by the
company to remain on its
spremises and should be paid.

Evidence disclosed that em-
ployees were required to re-
port to the first aid station
for a check on their illness —
a move the employee did
make in this case after report-
ing to his foreman first.

Judge Reville maintained
that, once this practice was
carried out, a right of pay-
ment was implied.

He noted that, if no pay-
ment were made, many em-
ployees would be apt to leave
rather than rest in the hope
of finishing the day. Second-
ly, if an employee faced loss
of pay, he might be tempted
to remain on the job rather
than go to first aid for treat-

“ment of minor ailments or in-
juries. This might entail a
risk to others.

Finally, Judge Reville said
there were many instances in
which employees are paid
while on company premises
although not actually work-
ing — when an employee is
out of work, when he is short
of materials, when his ma-
chine is broken.

Management is. confronted
with a choice — either an
employee must be paid or he
must be sent home.

“There is no right in the
employer to insist on his un-
paid attendance,” Judge Re-
ville concluded.

so won several single hand
sawing championships.

Hocquard, who is 30 and
the father of six children, has
won chopping and sawing
contests in both New Zealand
and Australia.

This year at the Sydney

Royal Show he was second in
both the 15-inch World
Championship standing and
underhand blocks and he won
the 14-inch standing log di-
vision.
_. The logging shows, in the
three- acre Feature Attrac-
tion Area — will be seen
three times daily except Sun-
days during PNE ’67, which
opens August 19 and runs to
September 4.

Show times are 11:00 am.,
3:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. ex-
cept on opening day when
shows will be at 3:00 pm,
5:00 p.m., and 8:00 p.m.

There will be three classes
for competitors: the B.C. No-

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and, the International Woods-
man division from August 28
to PNE closing day on Sep-
tember 4.

vice Logger competitions from
August 19 to August 22; the

B.C. Championship Logger di-
vision from August 23 to 26;

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