- 2nd Issue, February

B.C. LUMBER WORKER

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CANDIDATES FOR IWA DISTRICT OFFICES

For International

For District Secretary-Treasurer

GEO. H. MITCHELL

Candidate for Office of District Sec.-Treasurer

George Mitchell entered the trade union movement 29 years ago, when he joined the Hod Car- viers and Helpers’ Union. Upon change of occoupation, he later joined the Shoemakers’ Guild, and retained his membership dur- ing the 11 years spent in that trade.

When, in 1989, he secured em- ployment at Fraser Mills, Cana- dian Western Lumber Co. Ltd., he immediately became associated with the organization among the woodworkers, which later mater- jalized in affiliation with the IWA,

ALEX. ARCHIBALD

Candidate for Office of District Sec.-Treasurer

Alex Archibald, a Scot, com- menced his trade union experi-

As Local 1-217 IWA was then the only Local Union on the Lower Mainland, his membership was originally in what is now the Vancouver Local Union. When delegated by the membership in New Westminster to apply for a charter, he commenced a contin- uous period of service on the Executive Committee of the new- ly formed Local Union with two years as Financial Secretary. During this period he won ap- proval for his handling of the Local Union’s finances. He also served five years as a member of the District Executive Board, representing his Local Union.

In 1944, he was appointed to the Organization staff of the In- ternational Union, and while actively opposing the Pritchett- Dalskog domination of the Union, played an active part in the cam- paign which brought almost every mill in the New Westmin- ster area under IWA contract.

For four years, he served as Vice-President of the Vancouver and Lower Mainland Labor Coun- cil, and as President of that Council for another two years, until his voluntary retirement in 1953.

He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Arthritie and Rheumatism So- ciety, and is an active worker in community enterprises.

In 1949, George Mitchell was elected IWA District Secretary- Treasurer and has occupied that post continuously since that date. He is also Managing Editor of the B.C. Lumber Worker

ence during strikes of the coal ininers in 1921 and 1922,

When he migrated to Canada, he first became active in the Longshoremen’s Union, and took a part in their 1935 Vancouver strike.

He entered the B.C. lumber in- dustry in 1938, and has been active in the IWA continuously since that time, with the excep-

|| tion of four years on active ser- || vice overseas.

In the Fraser Mills, where he is employed, he has served as Chairman of the Plant Grievance Committee. He has also been elected to the Executive Board of the Local Union, 1-357 IWA.

Juvenile Delinquents: Corporal punishment was administered to 214 in the 1948-52 decade. How- ever, only 11 or 5% of the cases were in the last four years—52 were in 1943 and 64 in 1944, only

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ALLEN

Candidate for Office of International Executive Board Member

Walter F. Allen gained his early trade union experience with the United Mine Workers, which union he joined in 1934. Upon his return from service with the

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Royal Canadian Navy in 1945, he entered the plywood section of the lumber industry and the IWA at the same time. He was elected as an IWA job steward immedi- ately.

He took an active part in the re-organization of Local 1-85 IWA, Port Alberni, after October 1948, and was thereupon elected Local Union Trustee. In the fol- lowing year he was elected as District Executive Board mem- ber, and has served continuously on the District Board ever since.

He has served his fifth year on the District Negotiating Commit- tee, and during two years of that period acted as Secretary of the Committee. He was placed on

‘full-time duty during the 1952 strike, and for the Interior nego- | tiations in that year.

He was elected as President of Local Union 1-85 IWA, Port Al- berni in 1950, and has been re- elected to that office each year since that date. In 1955, his no- mination to the Presidency was unopposed.

In 1958, he was elected as In- ternational Board Member from District No. 1, and is the present incumbent of that office.

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CHARLES E. LAMARCHE Candidate for Office of

International Executive Board Member

Charles E. Lamarche entered the lumber industry and the IWA at the same time in 1947, when

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he gained employment at the Universal Lumber and Box Co. Ltd.

In this plant he has served since then as job steward and plant committee member, until elected to the post of Plant Com- mittee Chairman in which post he is now serving.

He has also served as Chair-

| man of the plant Safety Commit-

tee, having taken an active in- terest in the IWA-safety pro- gram.

During the present year, he was elected to serve the 1955-56 term as a member of the Execu- tive Committee Local 1-217 IWA, Vancouver.

On behalf of his Local Union he has been frequently elected in the last three years as a dele- gate to conventions of the Dis- trict Council IWA, the B.C. Fed- eration of Labor, and the Cana- dian Congress of Labor.

His present union duties are those of Conductor, Local 1-217 IWA, and IWA Plant Committee Chairman, Universal Lumber and Box Co. He is also Secretary of the District PAC Committee, and Local Union PAC Committee.

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THE VANCOUVER PROVINCE HAS AGREEMENTS WITH THE FOLLOWING UNIONS:

Vancotiver Typographical Union No. 226. Vancouver Printing Pressmen and Assistants,

Union No. 25.

Electrotypers’ and Stereotypers* Union Van- couver and Victoria No. 88.

Vancouver Mailers Union No. 70. Vancouver Newspaper Guild No. 207. Vancouver Photo-engravers’ Union No. 54

For complete coverage of Labour news, it Pays to Read The Province.

The Vancouver Province

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Local 1-424

SCHELLER OPERATION UNIONIZED

Successful organizing of the Scheller Logging Company at Quesnel, has been accomplished by Local 1-424; IWA, following a meeting January 14th, of the crew and Local Officials, in the Union Office. ,

District 1st Vice-President Bill Gray administered the oath of obligation to the 21 employees present. Grievance and Safety Committee members were then elected and instructed in their duties.

Members elected on the Griev- ance Committee were: Don Mc- Carthy, Walter Hoffman, Charlie Dillabough, Joe Krevenky. Safety Committee members elected were Bill Walker, Scotty MacSobie and Bob Walters.

Action is being taken by. the Local Office to rectify infractions of the Agreement, by the Com- pany, some of which have been in effect since June ist, 1954.

Quesnel Sub-Local

Jack Ostergard, Head Shop Steward at the Western Plywood, Quesnel, reported at a Sub-Local Meeting of Local 1-424, IWA, held January 16th, in Quesnel, on the overtime dispute at Western Plywood.

The dispute arose when the Company unable to handle the volume of work which had piled up in the. finishing department, had asked the employees to go on overtime shifts.

The Plant Committee refused the Company’s request, stating that overtime work should only be necessary when there is ab- normal breakdowns. In this in- stance they believed the Com- pany’s problem could best be solved by the hiring of more men, which they pointed out, would also ease the unemployment situ- ation in the Quesnel area.

The 91 members present at the meeting voted unanimously to en- dorse the committee’s action.

A talk on the need for extend- ed organization in the Prince George area and how the mem- bership could assist in the task, was given by District 1st Vice- President, Bill Gray, who was a~ visitor at the meeting. :

NOTICE

Saving Credit Union ANNUAL MEETING

SATURDAY, MARCH 5th Time: 7:30 p.m. ELKS HALL 704 EAST 47th AVE.

Formerly Vets County Hall 47th & Fraser

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