For the information of the member-
ship, changes to the Regional Constitu-
tion were adopted by the Regional Con-
vention held in Vancouver, B.C., Sep-
tember 19 - 23, 1977.

Amendments to the Regional Con-
stitution adopted by Convention action
shall not be finalized until sixty (60) days
from the close of the Convention, and
such proposed Convention changes
shall be published in the “Lumber
Worker” and copies of such constitu-
tional changes shall be sent to each
Local Union within ten [10) days after
the close of the Convention.

Any time within this specified sixty-
day period, the membership, through
their Local Unions, may petition the
Regional Secretary-Treasurer to initiate
a referendum on any amendment
adopted by such Convention action.

lf the Regional Secretary-Treasurer
receives a number of petitions repre-
sentative of one-third (1/3) of the total
Regional Council Membership, he shall
proceed with the referendum within ten
(10) days following the sixty (60) day
period specified.

The following constitutional changes
were adopted by the Regional Con-
vention.

FUNDS
ARTICLE VI, Section 4

Delete first paragraph of Section (4)

which presently reads:

“The per capita tax of the Regional
Council shall be fifteen percent
(15%) of the (2) hours’ pay per
month at the basic rate as nego-
tiated from year to year in the Coast
Master Agreement. Each change
brought about to Regional per
capita by the application of this
formula shall be instituted January
1, 1974 and each ensuing year.”

Following is the proposed change:
“The per capita tax of the Re-
gional Council shall be sixteen
percent (16%) of two (2) hours’
pay per month at the basic rate
as negotiated from year to year
in the Coast Master Agreement.

Each change brought about to
Regional per capita by the appli-
cation of this formula shall be
instituted January 1, 1978 and
each ensuing year.”

WAGES AND EXPENSE
ALLOWANCES

ARTICLE VII, Section 2
Delete Section (2) which presently
reads:

.“‘Regional Vice-Presidents, In-
ternational Board Members, Ap-
pointees, Committee Members,
Trustees, or temporary employees
shall be paid $65.00 per day for all
days employed by the Regional
Council based on a five-day work
week. The Regional Council will
also submit |.W.A. Forest Industry
Pension Plan contributions on the
behalf of these temporary em-
ployees. No Temporary employee
shall be entitled to receive in excess
of $65.00 gross earnings for any day
while employed by the Regional
Council. In determining the maxi-
-mum allowable amount, earnings
shall be deemed to be earnings from
wage sources.”

Following is the proposed change:
“Regional Vice-Presidents,
International Board Members,
Appointees, Committee Mem-
bers, Trustees, or temporary
employees shall. be paid $80.00
per day for all days employed by
the Regional Council based on a
five-day work week. The Re-
gional Council will also submit
1.W.A. Forest Industry Pension
Plan Contributions on the behalf
of these temporary employees.
No temporary employee shall be
entitled to receive in excess of
$80.00: gross earnings for any
day while employed by the Re-
gional Council. In determining
the maximum allowable
amount, earnings shall be
deemed to be earnings from
wage sources.”

NEW BUDGET CALLED FOR

THE WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER

New Democratic Party
leader Ed dBroadbent and
Canadian Labour Congress
president Joe Morris have
renewed calls for a new budget
following the third decline in
four quarters in Canada’s

government’s refusal to act in
the interests of the country.

In real terms, gross national
product — the total market
value of the nation’s goods and
services — declined 0.6%
between the first and second
quarters, an annual decline of
2.4%.

Personal spending on goods
and services, the backbone of
what the finance minister was
optimistically terming an

to take the
organizing

average quaterly increase last
year, as both job creation and
average earnings fell.

BOYCOTT

"The Convention has called on
the Canadian Labour Congress
initiative i
effective
campaign to implement a total
boycott of products coming

Een ge to in-

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with
down 3.9%.

economic recovery, was down
0.9% from the first
on durable goods

Wages, salaries and sup-
tahese income

from and going to Chile.

The request was made
following the appeal made by
the Worker’s Central Union of
Chile, who have been fighting
the Pinochet Dictatorship
which has been persecuting the

quarter,

REGIONAL PRESIDENT Jack Munro opens Union’s 40th
Annual Convention. On his left are Regional 2nd Vice-
President Bob Blanchard and Regional Secretary-Treasurer
Wyman Trineer.

AFRICAN LEADER
TO VISIT CANADA’

The Canadian Labour Con-
gress has announced that it has
invited Joshua Nkomo, a
leader of the Rhodesian Pat-
riotic Front, to visit Canada in
October.

During his stay in Canada
the CLC guest will meet parlia-
mantarians, government of-
ficials, trade unionists and
heads of Commonwealth diplo-
matic missions, to discuss the
future of Rhodesia and of trade
unions in an independent
Zimbabwe.

The invitation is part of a
step-up of CLC efforts to bring
about majority rule and free
trade unionism in Southern Af-
rica, the Congress explained in
a prepared statement. “‘Politi-
cal freedom and trade union
freedom are indivisible,’’ the
statement stresses.

The CLC’s financial assist-
ance to black unions in South
Africa began in 1976. This year
it will be increased ten-fold, the
CLC said.

In June, CLC president Joe
Morris’was responsible for a
common position taken up by
Commonwealth trade union
movements on  major-
ity rule for Rhodesia. The posi-
tion was put before Common-
wealth heads of government at
their meeting in London, and a
number of its major points
have been incorporated in the
Anglo-American proposals re-
vealed by the British foreign
secretary and the US am-
bassador to ‘the United
Nations.

The CLC also expressed deep
concern about Namibia and
said it will cooperate with
Canadian churches to expose
Canadian investments in that
country illegally occupied by
South Africa. Discussions are
to take place in October be-
tween Congress officials and
representatives of the South -
West African Peoples Organ-
ization.

The futures of Rhodesia and
Namibia are linked to that of
South Africa. The CLC is
committed to the fight against
apartheid, and has undertaken
to provide financial assistance
to genuine black trade unions
operating in South Africa.
Much of this assistance will go
towards the legal costs in-
curred by trade unionists “in
the face of the repressive state
machinery that has cost the
lives of so many detainees in
South Africa’s jails.”

The recent death of Steve
Biko:is the latest in a long line
of such deaths.

Fear of the fate of blacks
awaiting justice in South Afri-
ca’s prisons and police cells re-
cently caused CLC president .
Joe Morris to remind South
African Prime Minister Vor-
ster that ‘“‘taking non-whites
before your courts has now be-
come a mockery” and that
“news concerning the trial of
twelve accused in Pretoria
indicates that your govern-
ment is intent on strengthening
repression.”

MEDICAL CERTIFICATES

The Regional Council is
going to demand that when
IWA members are required to
present medical certificates to
Crown Life and other insur-
ance companies as well as the
Workers’ Compensation

Board, the cost of the certifi-

cate will be paid by the
medical plan or the Compensa-
tion Board. —

At present members are
forced to pay the cost of the
certificates themselves and
this cost is quite often over