THE B.C.

LUMBER WORKER

March 20, 1940.

MINNESOTA SIGNS NEW CONTRACT,
GAINING TWELVE PERCENT PAY INCREASE

ELECT. STATEMENT

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LEARNS HIGH COST OF
SCABBING.

VANCOUVER, Wash.—A strike-break-
er learned something about the high
cost of scabbing at a meeting of IWA
Local 9-39 held here last Sunday even-
ing,

‘The man, a former employée of the
West-Oregon Lumber Co. at Linnton,
had been working on the maintenance
crew on a permit card. When he applied
for regular membership in the local, an
investigation of his qualifications was
made, which revealed that he had gone
through a picket line at the Linnton
operation in 1938, A committee from
IWA Local 5-3, consisting of business
agent John Sullivan, “Brick” Bennett,
Ed Peck, and Joe Gerritsen, was pres-
ent at the meeting and went into the
case thoroughly, The local expects to
take final—and stringent—action on the
case in the near future.

4) COCHRAN, Ore—Does union mem-
bership really pay?

“The loggers at Beldings certainly
think so. In the first place, they have
one of the best agreements ever written
—the five-consecutive days, 40 hour
week, with time and a half for over-
time; a 62c minimum wage; holidays
(in addition to Sundays) New Year's
Day, after 5 pm. New Year's Eve,
Memorial Day, Armistice Day, all state
and national election dates, and Christ-

eines Day. The men at Belding’s have

preferental hiring, too. To work there,
you have to go through the IWA hiring
hall in Portland; the agreement says
so.

for the community as a whole ana for
woodworkers in particular, We affirmed
with renewed determination our inten-
tion to bring this program into life. We
placed ourselves and our organization
firmly on record for economic justce
for all, public works to provide for the
unemployed, slum clearance and better
housing, health insurance and old age
pensions, greater educational facilities,
conservation of our natural resources
and particularly our forests, much needed
improvements in labor laws, elimination
of war-profits, and civil rights for all. We
protested vigorously against the War
Measures Act; the increased cost of liv-
ing, the threat to our trade union rights
and the threat of conscription—now is
the time when we have got to register
our unalterable disapproval of a state
of affairs which has brought these re-
pressive measures into effect and which
provides a firm barrier to any legisla-
tive program for the betterment of our
standard of living and security.
Farreaching realignments have taken
place since last summer; many of those
who previously stood out for a progres-
sive program have wilted under the heat
of international affairs and resultaat
internal situations, and while still pay-
ing lip service to “reform,” have become
involved to varying degrees in the power-
ful dragnet of INTERNATIONAL RE-
ACTION, Individuals and parties who
have already tied themselves to this
state of affairs which is being used to
further enslave Canadian workers and
to defeat reform; will be worse than
useless after election day when the “real

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Lion Hotel, has moved to take over
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All communications regarding the
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Gaining a new agreement which pro-
vides for a 12 per cent. increase in
wages immediately and an automatic
pay boost in October, Minnesota L.W.A.,
Local 12-29 this week announced the
signing of a pact for the entire state
with the Timber Producers Association.

Final settlement was made calling
for an increase of 12% per cent. in the
spruce and balsam peeling scale, with
other adjustments also being made, in-
cluding automatic increase in monthly
wages on October 24, 1940, The mini-
mum monthly scale will be increased’
to $76.

Peeled spruce and balsam piece-cutt-
ing rate was raised from 4 to 4% cents
on the 3%4to 6 inch bracket, which will
affect 98 per cent, of the summer opera-
tions, as peeled spruce and balsam is
the major product in the summer
months,

Renewal of the contract was planned
by the executive board of the union on
the basis of organization of the un-
organized areas, and to bring in the
remaining outlaw operations that are
not covered by union contracts, union
wages, conditions and other benefits,

It comes at the finish of a con-
centrated organizational drive that has
been carried out, and the union will now
be able to further consolidate and move
on for increased benefits through the
use of special consideration clauses in
the contract,

heat” goes on. Because of this fact it
is particularly necessary for the wood-
workers and labor in general not to be
led astray by slogans, political plat-
forms or catch-words—but to under-
stand the basic underlying fundamentals
necessary for the implimenting of these
programs, Canada’s participation in the
European war, which was entered into
without any mandate from the Canadian
people, must be challenged on election
day. In view of the fact that profiteer-
ing and increased taxation have resulted
in imereased living costs; repressive
measures have been used to take away
our trade union rights and hold down
wages; and that Canada’s participation
can under any party of whatever political
stripe, only mean continued and’ ever-
greater suffering and hardship for the
laboring people, your executive strongly
recommends that the International
Woodworkers of America only support
those candidates who stand definitely
for Canada’s withdrawal from partici-
pation in the present European war.
—International Woodworkers of Am-
erica, B.C, District Council Executive.
(Signed) —H. BERGREN, President
ERNIE DALSKOG, Vice-Pres.
NIGEL MORGAN, Secretary

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