PAUI BUNYAN LUMBERCO.

GIO Woodworkers to Seek l2r/z-cent Across-lhe-Boqrd Woge lncreose

Portland, Ore.C.I.O. Woodworkers announced last month they would seek a L2l-cent across-the-board wage increase and criticized the A.F.L. Lumber and Sawmill 'Workers for settling for less. A Portland vice-president and the local said the AFL's surprise settlement for a 5-to-i5 cent hourly hike had not done much to help the then proposed union merger. The CIO union represents 45,000 lumber and woods workers in the Pacific Northwest and based its wage demand on a statement that "lumber industry profits are 45/o higher in 1955 than the same period in 1954."

Weyerhaeuser Timber Co. and the CIO union agreed on a 4%% wage hike covering 6,000 sawmill and logging employes, effective December 1, and also agreed to a pension plan financed by the company efiective June 1, 1957. Hammond Lumber Company and the AFL union agreed on a new contract boosting wages to $.0875 per hour in the 5-to-15 cent bracket effective December 1. In a notice posted to Union Lumber Co. employes, officials announced wage boosts to all hourly production and maintenance employes. Employes of Rockport Redwood Co. received news of a similar hike.

A fir plywood industry spokesman said he expected 18,0@ AFL and CIO plywood workers in Oregon, Washington and California would approve. an average g/a-cents an hour wage increase. About 4O/o of. the plywood plant people are represented by the CIO-IWA and ffi/o by the AFL-LSW.