a THE B.C LUMBER WORKER Page Three UNION BULLETIN Published Bi-weekly by B.C. COAST DISTRICT COUNCIL INTERNATIONAL WOODWORKERS OF AMERICA PRESIDENT - - - - H. BERGREN Jack HOLE VICE-PRESIDENT = ~~ ~ Vice, MonGAN Secrerary - - Frep LUNDSTRUM . EDITOR - - NIGEL MORGAN MANAGER ~ ERNIE DALSKOG Room 506, HOLDEN BipG., VANcouvER, B.C. PHONE TRINITY 4464 MAKE PAYMENTS To: “B.C. LUMBER WORKER” EDITORIAL “MAKE REAL THE TWIN IDEALS OF SOCIAL JUSTICE AND INDIVIDU- AL FREEDOM,” said former-Premier Baldwin during the course of a recent series of lectures at the University of Toronto. A fine objective to have fore most in mind, but before it can become an-established fact we must realize what those high-sounding phrases imply. They mean that a man must have not only the right to voice in government and the right to worship as he sees fit, but that he must also HAVE AN OPPOR- TUNITY TO EARN A LIVING FOR HIMSELF AND THOSE DEPENDENT ON HIM. That is the basis of the new I.W.A, program, which has a two-fold purpose: The first to bring security and liberty to those who work for a living. In achieving this, it is our conviction that we implement a second purpose: the ereation of economic and social stability. It is only upon such economic stability that a democratic form of government can exist, The real foes of democracy are those who would deny jobs at adequate wages to men and women able and willing to work, Several reasons why workers haven't enough purchasing power to keep} the wheels of industry turning are re- vealed in a report compiled by the W.P.A. in the States from figures filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission by ten big manufacturers, In 1937 the report shows, they sold their products for $236,728,950, although all direct produc- tion costs, including labor and materials totalled only $90,843,618, Thus buyers of these products were charged $1 for every 88 cents of production cost. Is it any wonder that we have underconsumption all around us? Increased wages, which ean only be obtained through organiza- tion and intelligent cooperation, will help to right this injustice, Piled-up riches are today condemning our country to stagna- tion, Unionize the unorganized, and unite the common people to take progressive political action and we will go forward to a newer and higher democracy. LOGGERS AND FISHERMEN! while at HARDY BAY EAT AT Mrs. Chas. Lynch Cafe HARDY BAY, B.C. Conservation Needed : eb Beek CONTRAST—Vivid evidence of value of selective logging is shown in this picture. Upper portion, where old style clear logging methods were used, lays a barren waste while below, where trees haye been taken out by selective method, virgin forest remains for future use. FOREST REGULATIONS VIOLATED Proof of the Woodworkers Union’s| charge that greedy lumber-barons are violating forest regulations in order to decrease operating costs and thereby increase their pile of profit, was given in three court con- victions last week reported in the daily papers. Dragon Bros. of Port Moody, and J. E. Fletcher of Port Coquitlam pleaded guilty and were fined by Magistrate Mar mont at Maillardville for “conducting logging operations without providing adequate fire-fighting appliances in ac- | cordance with the B.C. Forest Act and Regulations.” A six months’ suspended When in the City make your Home at the NEW FOUNTAIN HOTEL 45 W. CORDOVA ST. Sey. 28 MRS. FLO. YOUNG, Mgr. HASTINGS STEAM BATHS 764 EAST HASTINGS ST. Government Registered Masseurs in Attendance J. WEPSALA, Prop. Also Agent for Norwegian and Swedish American Steamship Lines. HIGH, 240 ALWAYS OPEN 444 Carrall Street Hotel West Ltd. FRED R. MARCHESE, Mer. Moderate Rates and Centrally Located Phone: SEy. 9401, SEy. 9402 Vancouver, B.C. sentence was also imposed on J. E. Fletcher on a second charge of failing to fell snags within a prescribed area in accordance with the same act. The I.W.A. commends the prosecu- tion of those who violate our forests and unnecessarily destroy our once great lumber resources. We look for- ward to the day when these laws will be used against not only the small operators, but also the “Big Steels” (Steals?) of B.C. lumber. There are other laws also which need enforce- ment—those regulations which aim to protect the resources of our workers, their lives and limbs. It is high time that penalties were enforced for these violations, which are motivated by the same urge, that of increased speed- up which means greater profits for the few. Our union seeks the enforcement of these laws to protect the lives and economic interests of our members. 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