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The linking of accident prevention
with the welfare of retired employees
is the basis on which the management
of the Powell River Company and
its plant Safety Committees have just
inaugurated a unique and far reaching
experiment in industrial relations.

This imaginative plan envisages
the construction of a number of
small, low rental housing units for
these men and their wives—which
will be financed by Powell River
Company contributions, based on
non-accident days in the plant.

For each non-accident day through-
out the year, the Company will con-
tribute to the Retired Employees
Building Fund five cents per day for
every employee working. Mill, Office
and Store employees are all included.
This is the foundation on which the
new housing project will be launched.

A non-accident day is defined as a
day on which no lost-time accident
occurs; and for the purpose of the
plan, a lost-time accident is one which
prevents the workman from return-
ing to work on his next regular shift.

There are two important qualifi-
cations governing the company’s
daily contribution. First, for each em-
ployee in receipt of workmen’s com-
pensation, five dollars will be de-
ducted from the fund for every day
off. Second, in case of pensions and
awards paid out by the compensation
board on behalf of employees, ten
per cent of such costs charged against
the Company will be deducted.

_ If the plan had been in operation
in 1948 on the basis just outlined,
approximately $11,000 would have
been transferred to the building fund.
All of which simply means that the

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lower the accident rate the higher the
contribution to the fund.

This challenging and novel plan
in principle was first conceived at a
meeting of the safety committees of
Locals No. 76 and No. 142, under
chairmanship of Fred Parsons. The
committee met with President Harold
Foley and representatives of local
management at Powell River, who
gave the plan a cordial reception. The
Company guaranteed a trial period of
two years and further agreed to make
land available up to 25 lots in the
vicinity of the present veterans sub-
division in the Cranberry area.

It is generally agreed that safe
workmanship, in addition to its effect

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on morale, family happiness, and ac-
cident reduction, is a definite part of
industrial operating efficiency. “The
Powell River plan is a further ex-
ample of how labor and management,
working together, can achieve results,
which are beneficial to both.

It is hoped that arrangements will
be completed for administration of
the fund by the Powell River Em-
ployees Sick Benefit Society. “This
organization, as representatives of all
hourly and salaried employees, is in
an ideal position to undertake this
responsibility.

Company contributions commen-
ced on January | of this year, and
clearing operations on the proposed
site should be underway within three

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