Western Pulp and Paper

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[photo in front of elementary school showing merry-go-round in the foreground] One of Ocean Falls' annual fairs was held here this year with unprecedented crowds and fair weather. A cross section of the crowd on the Ocean Falls Midway Dominion Day 1966

September 1966 Page 5 [photo of the merry-go-round] Pulp Sulphite executives help out on Dominion Day festivities. Left to right George Nairn, 1st vice-president; Jock Robertson, financial Secretary and Russell Jack, Recording Secretary.

September 1966 Page 7 CORRESPONDENT REPORTS by Eric Day Local 312 voted 95% to accept the two year contract as recommended by the wage delegates. Some members were opposed to a two year contract, but the vast majority were genuinely satisfied with the contract.

Discrimination

Because of an argument over tire pressure, which resulted in complaints being made against the driver, Townsite Department pulled the driver off the truck and reduced his hourly rate by twenty-two cents. The local has applied the Grievance procedure.

The displaced driver charges discrimination in that the salaried foreman is using the incident to get at him because of a personal conflict over union matters. This is not the first time the charge of discrimination has been made against the Old Guard in this department.

I am reminded of how two former shop stewards charged discrimination when they became involved in the infamous "Key" incident and later in the petty "Cupboard" incident some years back. One shop steward has since left. The other steward, often referred to as a difficult employee by the Old Guard leadership, has transferred to the mill where, I understand he is regarded as a good employee.

RCMP A correspondent informs me that RCMP Cpl. Paul Gilchrist former NCO in charge of the Ocean Falls detachment was in the witness stand giving evidence against the strikers in the Lenkurt Electric dispute.

While Cpl. Gilchrist was in Ocean Falls the local was forced to protest to the Attorney-General's department his refusal to bring arrested members before the local magistrate in order to get bail.

On another occasion, we met head-on in conflict over his reluctance to charge a local company under the Motor Vehicle Act after seven of the company's employees, our members, gave him prime testimony that the company was in violation of the Act. Later, the company was charged and convicted.