Western Pulp and Paper

October 1963 Page 8

Ocean Falls Report by Peter Marshall

September has been a month of leave taking here in the Falls.

Retiring trustee Fred Jackson was honored with an Honorary Life Membership and gift of a pen and pencil set to recognize his service to the local.Fred served as a trustee for 9 years and has been a delegate to various conventions ... He had been a member of Local 312 since it was formed in 1937 and has worked at OF for a total of 45 years. Brother Jackson will retire at the end of September.

Editor and 1st vice president Brother Bill Smalley ... his wife and young son are moving to the Crown Mill at Elk Falls ...

Brother Jim Reed will be leaving the Local to go on staff here in the Falls in the Industrial Relations Department.

Pretty well all the readers of the WP & PW in OF will now be aware that the old United Worker has been revived The United Worker was a local publication put out by Local 312 and 360 ... suspended publication in 1956 when the council Paper came along. It has been revived by Local 312 to try to bring to the attention of the membership some of the problems that have been encountered with the local Crown Zellerbach Management over the past months. ...

Rule in the hotel: Waitresses may not walk along the street holding hands with their boyfriend when in uniform. Another one is that Hotel employees will not be served in the Coffee Shop if they are wearing their uniform, on or off duty. Small petty rules that only serve to annoy.

At the September meeting the Local agreed to send a small donation to the local Fire Prevention Committee to help with the local Fire Prevention Week.

I would like to endorse Brother Smalley's open letter to the Ocean Falls Resident Manager regarding play areas for the local children. This is an item that goes back to the days when Andy Akkerman was associate editor for Local 312 ...

Still the major item that troubles many local people is the question of housing. Apartments and houses are left vacant sometimes for as long as a couple of months while the housing list continues to grow. The union goes in with complaints only to be told that housing is not an item for negotiation. The Union negotiated an agreement at Bull Sessions that tenants vacating houses or apartments would be told at least two weeks in advance who would be coming into their accommodations so that they could arrange to sell furniture etc ...

The mill safety record as of writing stands at 214 days accident free ...

November 1963 Page 7

Ocean Falls Report by G. Griffin

We have protested to the Labor Relations Board, also the compensation Board the scheduling of first aid guards to work in excess of 30 consecutive shifts without a day off. ... the company have a qualified first aid man with an "A" class certificate employed elsewhere in this mill. He has also held the position of first aid guard at Ocean Falls for 3.5 years, with out any record of complaint against his record. The only reason as I see it why the management will not place this man in the position he desires is because of a court case which this man was involved in along with his supervisor, who testified against him. ...

President Peter Marshall and Treasurer Len Reitlo have been elected to attend the BC Federation of Labor Convention, November 12th to 16th.

A referendum ballot will be held this month to decide if we are to go back to dues checkoff.

The one item (in the hotel) that I take exception to is the unhygienic practice of the cashier handling food (toast etc) while doing the duties of a cashier. The company has been notified of this and have not done anything to alleviate it. Their comment when notified was "other restaurants in Vancouver get away with it"

December 1963 Page 1

[photo] Council executive attends BC fed Convention: Peter Marshall IBPS & PMW Local 312, Ocean Falls, executive officer; George Pembleton UPP Local 360 Ocean Falls sec-treas. among others. Peter Marshall was elected as a delegate to attend the meeting of the Central Canada Council of Pulp and Paper Mill Unions in Quebec.

December 1963 Page 9 by G. Griffin

Three Recovery Boiler explosions, costing seven lives, have occurred in BC in the past four months; this has prompted the operating personnel of these and other similar Recovery Plants to band together in the hopes that a meeting with Mr. Denham, Chief Boiler Inspector will be called in the near future. ...

On this basis we asked the management of Crown Zellerbach Ocean Falls to pay the wages of a Recovery Engineer to represent this plant at this future meeting - they refused.

Even though Local 312 stated they would pay the fare and expenses the Company still refused to pay the wages, approximately three day's pay ($75.00)

An overwhelming majority voted in favour of going back to the union dues check off system, to go into effect February 1st, 1964.

The next few months will see large numbers of construction men arrive in Ocean Falls - Pacific Coast Pipe crews to build new roto stock tank.

The employees of Crown Zellerbach and members of Local 312 have shown good response to the Woodfiber Disaster Fund - set up to aid the widows and children of the men killed in the recovery boiler explosion. Three of the seven killed were former members of this Local.