LOCAL 1-424 PRESIDENT Ross Inglis delivering his presi-

dential

report to the members attending the Local’s

Quarterly Council Meeting October 22, in Prince George.
At left is Gordon Hurlburt, 1st vice-president, and right is
Toby Mogenson, financial secretary.

From Page 8

“MAN OF THE HOUR"

the big MacMillan-Bloedel fire
in the Alberni Valley on Van-
couver Island where 100 men
were taken off their jobs and
paid with company cheques
at their regular rates. But the
next 300 were taken off the
job and paid the $1.25 per
hour forestry rates.

The aggravating part, ac-
cording to the report, was

IN
MEMORIAM

Jack Pulling passed away
on September 23, 1967, after
34 years as a P.L.I.B. Inspec-
tor. Jack, a member of Local
1-288, entered the lumber in-
dustry on his return from
overseas after the First
World War. He went to work
at the old Chemainus mill on
Vancouver Island, and be-
came a planerman. He work-
ed in many of the mills on
the Island and Mainland. He
was active in the grading
classes in the 1920’s and
1930’s. and was an instructor
at the New Westminster
classes around 1930.

In 1933 he became a
P.L.I.B. Inspector and was
one of those who worked to
organize the Inspectors, and
was a staunch supporter of
the Union over the years.

Jack’s last steady assign-
ment as an Inspector was at
the Bay Lumber Co. where
he was injured in 1964, when
he fell into a conveyor. He
never fully recovered from
his injuries, and worked only
part time since 1964. He and
his wife had built a small
comfortable home on Hatzic
Lake, and enjoyed the last
few years in semi-retirement.

He leaves his wife, Flor-

- ence, a married daughter and

two grandchildren.

that at the same time unem-
ployed men were begging for
work and were repeatedly
turned down as unsuitable for
fire fighting.

The report commented that
problems about lack of com-

pensation for burned boots, -
clothing etc. seem to be prov-

ince-wide and are going to be
a major issue in the future.

The local’s delegation was
impressed by the speed with
which an emergency resolu-
tion on the National Housing
Act interest rate increase was
introduced. The resolution de-
manded a rollback of the rate
from the new 8% per cent to
4% per cent. The report said
that with interest rates, land
prices and construction costs
what they are today, the or-
dinary wage earner cannot
afford to build or buy his own
home.

“Whether or not we gain
anything from the resolution
remains to be seen, but, noth-
ing ventured, nothing gained,”
the report commented.

DUES INCREASE
PROPOSED

A packed membership
meeting of Local 1-363 Cour-
tenay, October 15, approved
an executive proposal to seek
a $1.C0 dues increase.

The proposed increase, if
approved by the members in
a referendum ballot, would
raise the dues to $5.00 per
member per month, plus $1.00
per member a month for the
strike fund.

The Local officers in press-
ing for the dues hike pointed
out that the move was made
necessary to provide the addi-
tional money needed for the
new International per capita

increase now being voted on
by the Union.

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THE WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER

IWA Regional presi-
dent Jack Moore has advised
Interior town councils alarm-
ed by the effects of the cur-
rent IWA strike that the
Union is prepared to enter
into immediate and continu-
ous negotiations with the em-
ployers to reach a mutually
satisfactory settlement.

The Union’s position was
outlined in a telegram re-
sponding to a resolution of
the councils of Castlegar and
Kinnaird which stated:

“Since the present strike at
the Celgar Sawmill and the
Woods Division and resultant
cessation of operation at the
pulp mill is seriously affect-
ing the local economy and
that since there does not ap-
pear to be any fruitful effort
on the part of either party to
bring this situation to an end,
therefore, be it resolved that
this Council ask our Mayor
to join with the Mayor of
Castlegar in requesting Cel-

IWA WILLING TO NEGOTIATE

—MOORE TELLS COUNCILS

gar and the Union to resume
negotiations. To offer the as-
sistance of both Mayors, if
necessary, to bring the two
parties together and to effect
settlement ‘so that operation
may be resumed and employ-
ment restored.”

President Moore replied:

“To: His Worship, the
Mayor of the Town of Castle-
gar, B.C.; His Worship, the
Mayor of the Town of Kin-
naird, B.C.

“The IWA: appreciates the
effort of the town councils of

-Castlegar and Kinnaird to get

both sides back to the bargain-
ing table. We recognize that
all strikes must end ulti-
mately and that the faster a
settlement is reached the less
hardship for the community.
We are striking to obtain the
same wages for doing the
same work as the coast wood-
workers, just as the Castle-
gar pulp workers get paid the
same as coast pulp workers

and construction crews on the
damsite at Castlegar get paid
the same as their counter-
parts on coast construction
jobs.

“We are willing to meet.

continuously with Celgar, if
arrangements can be made,
until a settlement is negoti-
ated. Although our demands
are for immediate parity with
coast we are willing to negoti-
ate an agreement allowing the
company time to adjust to our
requests.”

Bill Hartley, the New
Democratic Party MLA for
Yale-Lillooet, has also said he
is prepared to act as mediator
in the strike, if his services
could be useful in getting the
industry and the Union back

to the bargaining table.
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