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Boilermakers
Elect New Slate

William Stewart, now

a charge hand at North Burrard ship-

yard, will be the next president of the Boilermakers’ and Iron
Shipbuilders’ Union here, and Malcolm MacLeod, until recently

a business agent for the union,

treasurer. ;

Members of what is claimed to be
the largest union local in Canada,
electing their officers for 1943 in
a referendum ballot last week, re-
jected Matt Mills, now president,
and Tom Bradley, member of the
present executive, to elect Stewart,
who obtained 1153 votes to Mills’
761 and Bradley's 734.

Stewart has been an advocate of
the seven-day continuous produc-
tion program While both Mills and
Bradley have favored the now Een-
erally rejected six-day plan.

Lioyd Whelan was re-elected vice-
president with a clear majority over
his two opponents R. Guiliana and
R. Gunningham. Whelan obtained
1675 votes, Guiliano 618 and Cun-
ningham 356.

Three nominees also contested

the position of secretary-treasurer

will be its next secretary-

now held by Robert Stephen.
Stephen, who received 699 votes and
T. McKenzie, who received 610, were
defeated by Malcolm MacLeod with
1405 votes.

New recording secretary of the
union will be Fred Carr, who ob-
tained 1062 votes to the 801 given to
A. McLeod and the 784 given to
W. Robertson.

id Simpson was re-elected to the
executive with 915 votes and J.
Woods, who recejved 999 votes, was
elected to the executive position
now held by Tom Bradley, who was
nominated for president. Only
other candidate for executive posi-
tion to receive more than five
hundred votes was T. Griffin, who
obtained 775 votes.

Wew trustees will be Joe Wright
and J. McColl, both re-elected, and
Art Staub.

B. C. Teachers To
iliation lo Organize

the British Col
ganized labor is to be decided early in January,
A labor affiliation commi

The question of whether
throughout the province.

teacher “to cast an intelligent

Recreation
Centers
Proposed

Labor’s obligation to the
armed forces was stressed in a
resolution passed unanimously
by Vancouver Trades and
Labor Council last week.

Proposed by Fred Alty, delegate
from Local 376, Gas Workers’
union, the resolution ealled for set-
ting up of recreational centers for
members of the armed forces, and
for a more energetic campaign by
labor in behalf of the Red Cross
Blood Donor’s Clinic. Fifty percent
of his union’s membership, Alty
said, had volunteered as donors,
and “for the first time since this
war started these men really feel

Probe Urged In
Los Operations

SEATTLE.—Charging that large operators are openly sabo-
of urgently needed lumber by their”
failure to utilize logging facilities fully and by their refusal tc
operate on a 48-hour week basis, the CIO International Wood: §
workers of America’s Northern Washington District Counci
last week placed conclusive evidence before U.S. Army officer}
and congressmen at a meeting held at Bellingham. As a resul |
of evidence presented at the meeting,
Coffee and Henry Ja
immediate investigation into the situation.

taging war production

gressmen John M.

The AFI Lumber and Sawmill
Workers’ Union joined with the
GIO in accusing managements of
having failed to make the best use
of railroad operations, which would
make it possible for the industry

they have done something concrete
to defeat fascism.”

Members of the armed forces are
themselves giving blood, another
delegate stated, supporting the mo-
tion. Other delegates reported that
their unions were aiding the cam-
paign, and delegates were remind-
ed by president Birt Showler that
the council had pledged its full
support.

when a vote

affiliation of the BCTF with organized labor?”

The report, printed in full in
the B.C. Teacher, points out that
affiliation will not commit
teachers to a strike policy or even
to a sympathetic strike, nor will
it destroy freedom of action,
since a vote of the membership
could immediately bring disaffili-
ation, if affiliation fails to solve
the problems of the present so-
cial and economic position of the
teaching body.

“Affiliation need not conflict with
the conception of teachers- that
teaching is a profession,” the report

continues. “The American Federa-
tion of Teachers ...- affiliated with
jabor for 26 years states its

chief objective to be ‘to profession-
alize teaching through the organ-
ization of teachers in such strength
that they may be in a position
to determine their own Status - . +
The American Federation states
further that some ‘twelve hundred
of the leading scientists of the
country have not lost their profes-
sional standing by belonging to
jabor unions.’

Commenting that “sffiliation will
help to bridge the gap between the
abstract theory and the realities of
social life,” the report Says: *ATfili-
ation will give the teachers the
right to bring themselves into closer
contact with a large organized
body of citizens that has never
eoncurred in economy at the ex-
pense of a progressive, democratic
system of free, compulsory educa-
tion.”

The American Federation of
Teachers, it adds by way of ex-
ample, declared that it joined the
AFL because it recognized that or-
ganized labor was the major in-
strument in establishing the sys-
tem of free, tax supported schools
and has been their consistent pro-
tector and defender, and has an
advanced educational program

second to none.

“Affiliation will add to the voice
of the teaching body when dealing
with local boards, and particularly
the provincial government, the in-
finitely louder voice of labor in de-
manding that the reasonable needs
of teachers and education be heed-
ed. ... The teachers will no longer
have to stand alone . but will
have the sense of security born of
the knowledge that they are backed
up by a large organized group in
the community,” the report con-
tinues.-

“Affiliation will benefit us by de-
stroying the impression in many
labor organizations that teachers
have a superior attitude and re-
place it by confidence born of a
mutual understanding of their com-
mon problems.”

Members of the committee Op-
posed to affiliation, whose argu-
ments are outlined in the report,
fear that affiliation will result in
the loss of membership to the Fed-
eration, and a change of teachers’
attitude towards their work from
the professional to the purely vo-
eational outlook.

Opponents of affiliation assert
there is a danger that, through at-
filiation with labor and the activi-
ties of a certain portion of its mem-
bership, the Federation will “be-
come a political tool,” and that the
best interests of teachers would be
served by development of a pro-
fessional organization, rather than
in allying themselves with any par-
ticular social or economic group.

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ttee set up for
arguments for and against affiliation states in its final report that it
and informed vote” on the question:

Ole On

d |_abor

umbia Teachers’ Federation will affiliate with or-

will be taken among teachers
the purpose of investigating
is the duty of every
“Are you in favor of the

The report for trade union affilia-
tion answers this argument with
the statement: “Where lies the
basic opposition to affiliation? Out-
side the teaching body, would it
be principally because trade unions
have power and affiliation with an
organized group prepared to make
the teachers’ cause their own adds
immeasurably to our strength?

‘Within the teaching body, would
it be because of a lack of under-
standing of the objectives of labor,
a willingness to drift; a flickering
hope that teachers may obtain
their objectives alone, a certain
antipathy to having affiliations out-
side of the white collar, the influ-
ence of some educators in the ex-
ecutive field who fear an increase
in the strength of teacher's organ-
izations may bring changes. origin-
ated with the teachers rather than
with the administrative officials?”

The Rural Teacher's Association
at its last annual meeting endorsed
a resolution in favor of affiliation,
and the RTA, through the B.C.
Teacher, 1s NOW appealing “to all
teachers, wherever they may be lo-
cated, to endorse this progressive
proposal.

“This vote is a challenge to ac-

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to the
\Working Man
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to operate on a year-round basis.
Karly Larsen, president of IwA
Northern District Council, flatly
accused operators of putting profits
above patriotism and warned that
men were actually being laid off
at rail operations.

“There is a reason for large rail
operations having only 20 percent
of a normal crew,’ stated Larsen,
“snd that is chiseling On W&8£ESs,
overtime conditions, and refusal to
work employees 48 hours a week.
All we ask is that the army and
navy investigate the charges we
have made, and we won't have to
convince them further that em-
ployers are in collusion against the

war production program.”

At the meeting, with over 300
loggers and representatives of
the US Army engineers and Us
Employment Service present, log-
gers cited many instances where
eperators had refused to permit
them to work the full 48 hours,
and appealed to army officials to
use their influence.

After hearing the evidence, CG) BD:
Ross, chairman of the labor rela-
tions committee for US army en-
gineers stated:

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“Qur branch of the war depart |
ment will do what we can to se
cure an investigation. We have go |
to have this lumber. It looks 2°
though someone is standing in th a
way.” S

Every charge laid by the unis
had been investigated, and prove |
correct, James Ryder, district su
pervisor of US Employment Ser
ive told the meeting. Fon

“J have found you ready to co

operate as far as humanly pos

sible” be told the union, adding

that many employers had mad |
no attempt to co-operate.

Three months ago the unio
made proposals which, if put int
effect then, it is believed, woul
have prevented the present loss ¢
production.

The plan suggested by the unic
provided for full production on
48-hour work week basis of lozeir
Tail operations which would ha
made it possible to operate d
spite snow; the rapid transfer —
loggers irom truck operatior
which are impossible on steep
praded logging roads during t
winter months, to rail operatio
through a “leave of absence” S}>
tem, which would protect the wor.
er’s seniority rights and insu
return of crews to small operate |
when weather permitted; and ;
ordination of the War Producti.

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