Western Pulp and Paper

April 1961 Page 1

[photo] Pulp & Sulphite delegates attended the Staff and Winter School held at Parksville on Feb 20th to 24th under the CLC. among others in the photo are: A.E. Calder (312) W. Smalley (312)

April 1961 Page 4

Letter to the editor by Andy Akkerman

When I retired on 1st March, the Brothers of Local 312 gave me a great sendoff; at the regular meeting they presented me with a brand new electric typewriter. ... As there is no regular Legion paper published in OF I kindly request you to allow me to also thank the members of Branch 144 for the royal sendoff they have given me and my wife.

April 1961 Page 10

Eyer Conducts Classes In the Falls

[photo] On March 16-18 Brother John Eyer, west coast representative of the Pulp Workers Research and Education Department conducted Union Training classes in Ocean Falls.

The Local took the participants off the job and paid for their lost time. Seated left to right: Brothers John Bell, Gunther Hogrefe, Leroy Entner, Helmut Reusse, Eric Day, Roland Bergdoll, Ivan Pedersen, Gerhardt Leibling, Ed Saiko, Ed Lehti, Ian Macintosh, Sister Agnes Sonne was absent when picture taken.

Ocean Falls Report by R.B. McCormick

At the March meeting Brothers Diggens, Hogrefe and Williamson were appointed to the political education committee. A special fund had been set up for the use of this committee but the membership must give prior approval of any monies to be spent out of this fund. ...

Ocean Falls was privileged? the other day with a visit by the Sheriff, minus guns and spurs. The reason for the visit was a Court Order to evict an unemployed worker. Brother Norman "Yukon" Smith. Brother Smith was at one time employed by Crown Zellerbach and had a service record of nearly ten years Regardless of any other implications, it is the opinion of this writer that no one, not even CZ has the moral right to evict a worker who is unfortunate enough to be unemployed and if we had the right spirit the Sheriff would have been met by a citizens picket line ...

May 1961 Page 1

312 Loses Checkoff by R.B. McCormick

A special general meeting of Local 312 declared that no officer of the local should be requested to sign the Statutory Declaration required by "Bill 42" to continue the checkoff.

The officers and members realized that losing the checkoff would entail a tremendous extra work load on the local's financial officers, but took the position that this was a matter of principle and that we could not under any circumstances request an officer to sign this Declaration. ...

May 1961 Page 7

Wage delegates from Ocean Falls - Brothers Peter Marshall, Doug Diggins and Jim Reed paid a visit to (Prince) Rupert on their route to Vancouver ...

June 1961 Page 1

Ocean Falls - A near capacity crowd filled the Blue Room of Martin Inn here on Tuesday May 23 to hear Brother Pat O'Neal, secretary of the BC Federation of Labour speak on Bills 42, 43 and the New Party. ...The meeting was sponsored by the Political Education Committee of Local 312.

June 1961 Page 6

[photo] Local 312 hires Secretary

Pictured is Mrs. C. Evenson Local 312's office secretary, entering dues of Brother Marshall, 312's recording secretary in the day book. Local 312's financial secretary Brother Smalley looks on approvingly.

June 1961 Page 12

Ocean Falls Report by R.B. McCormick

The Local has decided to dis-affiliate with the I.C.F.T.U. This decision was made primarily because of the interference the ICFTU has given in having the CLC stop the BC Fed from acting on the resolution that was passed at the last Convention that the Federation of Labour sponsor a delegation to Cuba ...

It is quite obvious around the mill that the contract is up for negotiations. The Supervisors have been called in for their annual "Brainwashing" on costs etc. ... I wonder if the high paid brass really know what the boys think of them when they make their strolls down the alley way in the maintenance shops at "Smoke Time" every morning and afternoon and their constitutional walks at 5 min to 12 and 5 ...

Quite a number of the boys are packing it up for greener pastures and in the maintenance shops are not being replaced. (Millwrights please note that you are not required to pick up the slack because the welding shop is below regular standards of manpower).