Issue —
Mareh, 1965

THE WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER

Local 1-85 Donates
$15 OO To Centre

Delegates attending the 28th Annual Meeting of Local
1-85 IWA, March 14, in Port Alberni, demonstrated their com-
munity spirit by unanimously voting $1,500 to the Alberni

Valley Health Centre.

This long-needed Health
Centre, presently under con-
struction in Alberni, will
service the people in Alberni,
Port Alberni and surrounding
areas. Two-thirds of the cost

of the project came from fed--

eral and provincial govern-
ment grants. The remaining
third must be raised through
public or business donations.

The meeting, attended by
seventy-three delegates and
two guest speakers also do-

‘nated $200 to the Frolek Saw-

mill strikers and approved a
motion to change the quorum
for meetings from fifty to
forty members.

‘In the election of Regional

Council delegates the follow- -

ing were elected: M. Landry,
W. Tyreman, N. McMillan, J.
Kosterow, M. Kokura, A.
Anderson, W. Allen, C. Rous-
seau, E. Wood, G. Ingram, W.
Hawkes, W. Anderson, J.
Squire, E. Foxcroft.

Guest speakers were Re-
gional President, Jack Moore
and International 2nd Vice-
President, Ron Roley.

Moore in a hard-hitting ad-
dress stated that more con-
centration must be given to
convincing every member in
the IWA to assume his or her
share of the fight to better
wages and working conditions
in the industry.

He suggested that if every
member in the IWA were to
show the spirit displayed by
the IWA Port Alberni mem-
bers during last year’s Office
Workers’ strike, the Union
would be invincible.

“This job must be under-
taken at once for the good of
the Union,” he concluded, “so
that we are solidly united to
meet the employers in the
next round of negotiations.”

Ron Roley gave a graphic
picture of the organizing
problems in the deep South.
He stated that the employers
there go out of their way to
provoke strikes, knowing that
the State courts will back
them against the Union.

He said that in one instance
armed men openly intimi-
dated employees while they

were casting their ballots dur-.

ing a strike vote. But in spite
of the intimidation, he stated,
the IWA was making its
greatest gains in these areas.

The Officers’ Report ac-
corded high praise for the
conduct of Local 1-85 mem-
bers during the tidal wave
disaster and Office Workers’
strike last year in Port
Alberni.

The Report stated in part:

“The tidal wave disaster
will be long remembered. Our
membership is to be congrat-
ulated for the manner in
which it accepted nature’s
rampage and tackled the job
of cleaning the mess of debris
and damage caused by the
flood. Our membership was
also most generous in aiding
fellow members and neigh-
bors stricken by the flood.

“The Office Workers’ strike,
although not a disaster, was
an event that will also be long
remembered by our members
and particularly by MB. &
P.R. Your officers were very
pleased with the manner in
which the membership ac-
cepted its responsibilities
along with the other unions
of the Alberni Valley.”

Other items contained in
the Report showed:

The Local Union was in a
good financial position with a
healthy increase in cash and
assets over the previous year.

The overall donations made
to various organizations dur-
ing the year totalled $10,-
867.50.

A continuing interest in
education on the part of the
members.

The Report also stated that
the Local had been successful
in winning a number of griev-
ances, “not because manage-
ment is getting easier to deal
with, but because of more
militancy on the part of the

committee members and the
crew.”

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or

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- wives and friends and other guests.

REGIONAL PRESIDENT Jack Moore addressing the 28th Annual Meeting
of Local 1-85 IWA, March 14, in Port Alberni. Group left, John Squire,
Recording Secretary; Moore; Maurice Corbeil, Financial Secretary; Walter

Allen, President; Earl Foxcroft, Ist Vice-President; A. Freeman, 2nd Vice-
President.

Shop Stewards, Committee Men
Honored By Local Union :

The hard-working Job Stewards and Committee
Members of Local 1-85 IWA, were honored March 13,
at a dance and smorgasbord sponsored in appreciation
by the Local Union.

The gala affair was held in the Barclay Hotel and
attracted nearly two hundred Committee Members, their

Invited guests from outside Local 1-85 included
Regional President Jack Moore and Mrs. Moore; Inter-
national 2nd Vice-President Ron Roley and Mrs. Roley
and their son and daughter-in-law; Tom.Clarke and Bob
Clair and their wives from Local 1-217; Max Salter and
Karl Lidberg from Local 1-363, and Ev. Flannery and
Mrs. Flannery from Local 1-357.