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THE WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER

IN TIMBER BOARD NEGOTIATIONS

SASK. GOV'T TWISTS THE FACTS

Regional 1st Vice-President
Jack MacKenzie who has
been aiding Local 1-184 Pres-
ident Alex Smith in the ne-
gotiations now being conduct-
ed between the Local Union
and the Crown-owned Sas-
katchewan Timber Board, re-
ports that the government
has twisted the facts on the
Union’s demands in an at-
tempt to intimidate the em-
ployees. ;

MacKenzie stated that the
Local will soon be negotiating
with five of the big employers
in the Province plus a number
of logging contractors. The
five companies are MacMillan
Bloedel’s Aspenite Division,
Hudson Bay; Simpson Tim-
ber Company, Hudson Bay;

Domtar Building Supplies, -

Saskatoon; Dominion Tar and
Chemical, Prince Albert; and
the Saskatchewan Timber
Board.

He said it was obvious that
the government had been
meeting with the other com-
panies for the purpose of plan-

ning strategy to defeat the
Union. In his report to the
last Regional Executive Board
he stated in part:

“The request of the Sas-
katechewan Timber Board to
meet in negotiations was
viewed with suspicion. On
meeting, our suspicions were
confirmed when it became
clear that the managements of
the Saskatchewan Timber
Board, MacMillan Bloedel,
Simpson Timber Company
and Domtar had been meet-
ing. It became apparent that
the intention was to set the
Timber Board negotiations
out in front. They were clear-
ly of the opinion that because
the Timber Board employ-
ees had been on strike in the
last set of negotiations they
would be unwilling to fight on
this occasion, and thereby set
a pattern that would be a
cheap settlement for the rest

of the industry of that pro-
vince.

“The demands of the em-
ployees of these five major

WATCH YOUR DRIVING
ON LABOUR DAY WEEKEND

By ANDY SMITH
Regional Safety Director

Whatever you do over La-
bour Day weekend, come
back alive! Improper driving
of some type is reported in
nearly nine out of ten traffic
accidents. Always drive ac-
cording to conditions and
within the law.

If you are making plans for
a holiday trip, be sure to al-
low extra time in the sched-
ule for delays that are likely
to happen because of heavy
traffic. Have a peaceful, en-
joyable, and safe trip.

Organized labour has long
worked to prevent accidents
and correct unsafe working
conditions, That’s’ why, on
this Labour Day weekend, it’s
important that every working
man and woman drive care-
fully and prevent traffic acci-
dents. Remarkable records
have been achieved for safety
on the job. Too often those
safe attitudes and safe prac-
tices are forgotten after quit-
ting time, especially behind
the wheel of a car. It really
pays to take safety with you
beyond the plant gates — into
the home, on the highway.
This significant holiday week-
end is a good time to prove
it. A worker may have a per-
fect safety record on the job,
but he is not truly safe and
his family is not secure if
that same person is not con-

Scientious about safe practices
at home.

This Labour Day is a good
time to renew your aware-
ness that safe living is a full-
time job and a paying job.

In driving during the holi-
day, be prepared for other
drivers’ hazardous actions and
be extra-protected with safety
belts. Driving too close to the
vehicle ahead can trigger an
accident. Be sure you can
stop short of collision. Main-
tain a safe cushion of space.
Control your temper, control
your car, control the safe
course of your family’s fu-
ture. The extra hazards of
holiday traffic call for extra
alertness and extra patience.
Enjoy the nation’s salute to
labour by working hard at
the job of safe driving.

The most dangerous char-
acteristic of the highway
driver is impatience leading
to reckless driving which
brings on accidents so, wher-
ever you're going this week-
end, start early, keep your
car and yourself under con-
trol.

Nowadays accidents off the
job take a greater toll among
workers than accidents at
work and most of these acci-
dents could be prevented if
the same common-sense atti-
tudes prevailed while driving
a car and in other pursuits as
when working in the plant.
Let’s remember this during
the Labour Day holiday
period and consistently
throughout the year. Let’s

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JACK MacKENZIE

hour increase, the same shift
differential provision, an addi-
tional statutory holiday, dou-
ble time for overtime, the

guide our cars as skilfully
and conscientiously with safe
practices as we do our job.
You know how to drive safe-
ly. Accept your responsibility
and do it.

An accident, the great
spoiler, lurks not only on the
concrete of the highway but
also in the inviting waters at
recreation spots. If your holi-

If this develops as indicated, it will be a wide!y popular move.

company to pick up the full
tab for health and welfare and
weekly indemnity, the hours
of work reduced to 40 hours
per week, plus a number of
other changes.

In Regina, D. J. Steuart,
Provincial Treasurer and
Minister in charge of the Sas-
katchewan Timber Board, in
a public statement criticized
the IWA’s demands as un-
realistic, and threatened that
if they had to meet what he
called exorbitant demands the
Big River mill would be
closed down. This threat did
affect a number of employees,

-particularly since Steuart

used percentage figures to
distort our demands. For ex-

ample, he referred to the in-
crease in daily rest periods as
an increase of 25 percent,
when in actual fact the em-
ployees are requesting that
the 12-minute rest period be
extended to 15 minutes. He
referred to the severance pay
request as a 100 percent in-
crease, implying that we al-
ready had a severance pay

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day pleasure includes boating
be sure of the protection of
all concerned by knowing all
the rules of safe boating and
observing them strictly. Be
sure, too, that no-one in your
family takes risks while
swimming at all places of
recreation whether water
ponds and ditches as well as
rivers, lakes or oceans. Don’t

clause in the contract and
that our request doubled it.
Nothing could be further from
the truth, for the reason that
there is no provision for sev-
erance pay in the contract.

“The present contract has
a provision wherein if there
is a death in the immediate
family, the employee is allow-
ed two days off with pay to
attend to funeral arrange-
ments, etc. The members are
requesting that it be extended
to three days. Steuart refers
to this request as an increase
of 133 percent in compassion-
ate leave time.

“It was deliberate distor-
tion, intended to put the
Union’s demands in a very
bad light, which unfortunate-
ly it did with much of the
general public.”

MacKenzie concluded his
report by stating that the
Union counter-acted the em-
ployers’ strategy by inform- .
ing the Timber Board that it
could not meet in negotiations
until late August or early
September.

let small children wander
without supervision. Treat
the water with as much re- :
spect and skill and attention
as you would an industrial
machine or the family car,
and when you come back
alive from your Labour Day

weekend don’t stop being
safe — you have just started!

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