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=LEGATES APPROVE MOTION RESTRUCTURE LOCAL DUES

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Delegates attending the 14th Annual Delegated Meeting of Local 1-417 IWA April 29 in Kamloops, approved an Ex- ecutive Board resolution to restructure the Local dues.

The resolution, which will be voted on by the member- ship, calls for the monthly dues to be two hours pay per month based on the Southern Interior base rate. This will also include the $1.00 assess- ment for the Regional Strike Fund.

Approximately 85 delegates representing all areas of the Local Union attended the meet. Visitors included Bill Botkin, IWA_ International Secretary-Treasurer; Wyman Trineer, Regional 1st Vice- President; Stan Parker, Regi- onal 3rd Vice-President; Jim Mitchell, President. of Local 1-424 Prince George; and Bob Schlosser, International As- sistant Director of Organiza- tion.

Business of the conference included dealing with a num- ber of resolutions, electing delegates to the various con- ventions and approving the Financial and Officers’ Re- ports.

In their Report the officers noted that the membership of the Local was close to the 2,000 mark, an increase of fifty percent in four years. This growth is an obvious re- flection of the fine organizing job the officers have conduct- ed in the Local Union:

The officers also reported on the progress of negotiations, some of the problems experi- enced in dealing with UIC and Workmen’s Compensation claims plus grievances and ar- bitrations.

Local Safety Director Jack Kerssens in his report to the meeting stated that there had been one fatality in the Local during the year and numerous serious accidents. He called on the members to help in eliminating some of the causes of these accidents by co-oper-

ating with the Safety Commit- tees.

Delegates elected to the various conferences and con- ventions were:

Regional Convention dele- gates: Bill Hobbs, Larry Jen- sen, Bob Smits, Ted MacDon- ald, Herb Sadorski, Jack Kers-

sens, Ken Schneider, Frank Wilson.

Special Delegated Confer- ence delegates: Jack Kers- sens, Larry Jensen, Ted Mac- Donald, Kevin Kelly, Bill Hobbs, Larry Viers, Bob Smits, Aaron Ruppel.

B.C. Federation of Labour convention delegates: Vic Fast, Bob Smits, Ted Mac- Donald, Larry Jensen, Larry Viers, Jack Kerssens.

NDP convention delegates: Jack Kerssens, Vic Fast, Larry Jensen.

Prior to adjournment, the meeting approved an emerg- ency resolution attacking the Social Credit government for its blatant use of the taxpay- ers money to conduct its po- litical radio programme “Ask Your Provincial Govern- ment.”

A telegram of protest was sent to the government by the officers and the news media was informed of the confer- ence action.

Following the meeting the delegates, their wives, friends and visitors enjoyed a fine

banquet and gala evening of dancing.

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Postmaster-General Jean- Pierre Cote says he is not blaming letter carriers and postal clerks for a decrease in Post Office productivity. In a meeting with postal officials here, Cote said his recent remarks on declining productivity were simply to underline ‘a problem to which we had to address ourselves.”’ During a speech to the Van- couver Board of Trade, Cote had said that productivity had

dropped 12.5 percent since 1965.

One item on which Cote is working is slow delivery of materials mailed Fridays, and one solution might be to rein-

State Saturday mail deliveries, he said.

“T will be meeting with postal officials and unions across the country to try to improve the system, and if the renewal of Saturday mail delivery turns out to be the only solution, then I will put it into effect. But I will not im- pose it without extensive consultations beforehand,”’ Cote added.

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@ The combined total assets of the biggest unions in Canada are less than the assets of any one of these corporations — Steel Company of Canada, Ford Motor Company of Canada, Mac-

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@ In 1971, the Employment Standards Branch in Ontario assisted 52,340 employees to collect $2,663,618 for 10,546 em- ployees for wages, overtime, vacation pay, minimum wages,

equal pay for equal work?

@ Time lost in 1971 due to strikes in Canada was 2,910,580 mandays or 2/ 10ths of one percent of time worked. Time lost due to unemployment was 6.7 percent of total time worked?

@ In 1971 the number of contracts that ended in strikes was five percent of the total negotiated?

® In 1971 the time lost in Ontario due to strikes was 1,344,830 mandays or 2/10ths of one percent of time worked. In 1970 the number of disabling injuries caused five million mandays of lost

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aN MRS. STIG KESKINEN, Financial Secretary of the Shuswap Ladies Auxiliary of Local 1-417 IWA is shown making the Auxiliary’s Annual Report to the 14th Annual Delegated

Meeting of the Local Union April 29, in Kamloops. To her

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