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VOL. 9, No. 9.

VANCOUVER, B.C., MAY 29, 1940 OS

No. 232

International Officers Give
Aggressive Lead To Unite And

Consolidate Recent [WA Gains

Executive Board Asks Approval of Fifty Cent Assessment to Launch Vast Organizational

Drive and Take Advantage of Favorable Organizational Sentiment

The spirited theme of the San Francisco convention of the National
CIO began surging through the IWA this week as the International Execu-
tive Board mapped off for immediate inauguration, an organizing drive
to take the banner of industrial unionism to every unorganized worker,
every unorganized camp, mill and plant in the lumbering industry of the
United States and Canada. The organizing drive planned by the Executive
Board promises to be without parallel in scope and unexcelled in the lum-
bering industry; and called upon to underwrite its success will be every
member of the International Union, every District Council, and every
Local Union and official of the National CIO.

In every section of the industry, into the pine and fir belts, the red-
woods, the Lake States, Canada, the deep, dark South and the Northwest,
the drive will be pushed, taking the program of the IWA and the CIO, for
higher wages, shorter hours and better working conditions to the thousands
of unorganized workers in wood. ‘

Devoting the major portion of its attention to the launching of the
organizing drive, the Executive Board constructed and adopted a ten-point
program, pivoting around a 50c assessment of the membership for six
months, which will be levied and earmarked for organizing purposes only
and which will be the subject of a referendum ballot commencing June 3rd.

‘The complete text of the 10-point pro-g
gram prepared by the executive board’s
sub-committee on organization, composed
of Vice-Presidents O. M. Orton and Worth
Lowery and Executive Board Member
Nigel Morgan, and adopted by the board,
follows:

4—That John L. Lewis, President of
the Congress of Industrial Organizations,
be petitioned for organizational assistance
to the extent of furnishing sufficient fi-
nances to maintain five organizers for
an organizing campaign by the Interna-
tional Woodworkers of America in the
woodworking industry.

2—That Michael F. Widman, or some
other suitable representative of the Con-
gress of Industrial Organizations be ap-
pointed by John L. Lewis to advise, coun-
sel and assist in this organizing cam-

‘$—That the four International Officers
and the CIO representative from the Na-
tional Office to be responsible for the
directing of the organizing campaign.
They to work out all details of this cam-
paign and to select responsible organizers
Who shall be responsible to the Interna-
tional Officers and the CIO representa-
tive for their organizing activities.

4—That all organizers to be placed in
the field for a ninety-day period and to
be maintained on its staff for such period
from time to time, dependent upon their
work and ability only to secure results.

G—That a referendum be submitted to
the membership for a monthly 50 cent
assessment for an organizational fund
for a period of six months.

~ Phat this assessment be specifically
used for organizational purposes only,
and that all organizers who may be se-
lected, whether they be board members
or otherwise, to be paid out of this fund,
Also radio broadcasts, publicity, or any
other expenditures necessary to a suc-

cessful organizing campaign,

Attention, Members

Local 71, WA

SPECIAL MEETING
Monday, June 17th, at
8 pm. Fifth floor,
Holden Building, Van-

G—That this assessment be a first
obligation of all members and must be
paid before dues are accepted for each

LW.A. President Harold Pritchett, to-
gether with International Secretary Ber-
tel McCarthy will leave this week for

month each is respectively due.
§—That the referendum on assessment
be submitted to the membership no ear-
lier than June 3, 1940.
Q—That the International Officers, to-
gether with the Congress of Industrial

Washington, D.C., to lay the aggressive
organizational plans of the I.W.A. before
CIO President John L. Lewis, and enlist
the financial and organizational assist-
ance of the four and a half million CIO
members to complete unionization of
Jumber.

(Continued on Page Three)

Organize the Unorganized!

i ee PLANS for a concentrated organizational campaign in woodworking
industry as approved of by the International Executive Board, merit the
fullest support and cooperation of every member and officer of the International
Woodworkers of America.

The plan provides for the concentrating of organizational activities that will
be of the greatest immediate benefit to our organization, consistent with the
greatest degree of economy.

In all matters necessary to the carrying out of such a campaign successfully,
the International Officers will seek the counsel and advice and assistance of
John L. Lewis and the CIO representatives he may delegate to assist us in this
organizing campaign.

Sufficient finances are a very necessary requirement in the carrying out
of this campaign. Therefore the International Executive Board authorized the
submitting of an assessment referendum to the membership to raise funds
specifically for the purpose of bringing in new thousands of unorganized wood-
workers into our union.

It is our obligation and responsibility to organize the unorganized in the
woodworking industry, so that every member may benefit through better wages
and conditions, and make our organization a more powerful factor in securing
more and better contracts. It will immeasurably assist in present inter-District
negotiations for 2 master contract. We fully recognize that the ‘unorganized
worker, through no fault of his own, is a direct threat to our wages, hours,
working conditions and to further improving them.

It will be possible to institute the greatest organizing campaign with the
assistance of the CIO, ever conducted in the woodworking industry. Your Inter-
national Officers endorse the program in its entirety and urge the fullest
cooperation and support of this plan by every member and officer of our Union.

HAROLD J. PRITCHETT, Pres.
0. M, ORTON, Vice-Pres.
WORTH LOWERY, Vice-Pres,
BERTEL J, McCARTY, Sec.-Treas,

| for industry. Total dividends for the five million dollars higher than the

Dividends Soar .. How About Pay?

Dividend payments by Canadian|real Stock Exchange, amounted to
corporations in May and in the first| 724 million dollars, contrasted with
five months of the current year con-|514 million dollars for May, 1938.
tinue to reflect inprovement in busi- | Total for the first five months of 81
ness and resultant larger earnings} million, 850 thousand dollars, some

month as reported by Hugh McKay ,76 million, 470 thousand dollars for
and Company, members of the Mont- the similar months of 1939,

SIX MORE LOGGERS
KILLED IN B.C.

Six more B.C, woodworkers’ deaths
are reported this week as the lumber
industry drives forward to what ap-
pears like an all-time record of tragedy
and sorrow for dozens of B.C. families.
The fatal accidents in this industry last
year at this time totalled 24, and 1939
was a record high toll for several years.
Already the first five months of 1940
have shown an increase of more than
60 percent.

Among the deaths reported this week
are Robert Boyd, 23-year-old Vancouver
logger employed as a chokerman at the
Camp 1 operations of the Alberni Pacific
Lumber Co. at Port Alberni.

A Miller, a faller at Matheson and Pig-
gan’s Camp at Seymour Narrows, was
killed last Thursday by a falling snag.

William Barrett,

well known’ at Lake
Cowichan where his
home had been and

; Woodwork
where he was a while | Wp0dwonkers
ago employed at the | jailed in B.C’s
loading works of the | lumber in-
Lake Log, was killed | dustry since
at the Port Renfrew. | %0- 1, 1940.

operation of the Cam-
eron and Hemmingson Log Co. He was
struck by a log while helping to load a
car,

Willlam -Morrison, 27-year-old camp
foreman and partner in the M. & M. Log
was killed instantly on May 22nd when
the heavily loaded truck he was driving
crowded the guard rail and came to a
sudden stop. The jolt drove the load of
logs forward, pinning Morrison, who was
substituting for the regular driver, be-
tween the bulkhead and the wheel, break-
ing his neck besides severely crushing his
chest,

Alex Zorikoff, 59-year-old logger of
Blewitt in the interior was fatally injured
when struck by a falling tree on May
27th. Zorikoff was falling on the Santa
Rosa Creek timber lease at.the time of
the accident,

Another woodsman is reported by log-
gers returning to town yesterday, to have
died on the Union Steamship boat en route
to Vancouver after a logging accident.
As yet we have been unable to get fur-
ther details or obtain the name of the
deceased.

From Seattle, Wash., comes new that
despite the widespread unemployment in
the Northwest lumbering industry, the
Weyerhaeuser Timber Company last year
doubled its profits over the year 1938.
In an annual report make public this
week the huge lumber concern announced
that 1989 net profits amounted to 5 million
dollars as compared to 2 million dollars
during the preceding year, and paid $1.72
‘a share in contrast to 78c in 1938.

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