_ Elsewhere in this issue of the B.C.
LUMBER WORKER is an advertise-
“ment contributed by the B.C. District
Council, IWA, requested on behalf of
"the Canadian Government. Our’ Coun-
cil makes this contribution freely, and
in so doing, wishes to bring it to the
attention of all concerned, in reitera-
tion, our declaration on National. De-
fence, issued recently by the Interna-
tional Woodworkers of America and the
GIO.
‘The best defence of any nation is
‘@ contented people, And we say em-

Phatically the successful prosecution
of the present war should not include
hunger, misery and want on one hand,
and enormous war profits for a few
on the other hand,

Labor will willingly and gladly con-
tribute morally, financially and physi-
eally, if necessary, to protect this be-
loved Canada of ours and will support
to the utmost a government that in turn
supports the rights of labor and the
people to bargain collectively as to hours,
‘wages and working’ conditions: the right
to civil liberties, free speech, free as-
sembly and one's choice in worship.

The International Woodworkers of
America stonds prepared to cooperate
with Government and business in the
prosecution of any effort in the interests
of all the people, and will resist any
minority 5th Columnist group that
would break down hard earned democra-
tie gains of labor and the people; chisel-
ing on the Minimum Wage standards,
on the Hours of Work Reguations; and
denying labor its fundamental and de-
mocratic rights to strike. To stop such
chiseling on the part of unscrupulous
. employers, which does not make to a
united nation, the IWA stands pledged,

‘The recent enactment of the Federal
Unemployment Compensation Law, ex-
cluding the workers in the basic indus-
tries such as lumber and fishing, will
develop distrust and lack of confidence
in those directing the ship of state.

Wherefore, the requested financial
investment, which the advertisement
Proposes, should carry with it a guar-
antee from our Government as out-
lined in the official declaration of the
International Woodworkers of Amer-
ea and the CIO and published in the
BC. LUMBER WORKER of June
29th last.

MR. LOGGER:

Canada needs money to carry on the
war. To raise this money, Canada
will guarantee to repay in 7 years

| time $5.00 for every $4.00.you lend it
today. Will you help?
| The War Savings Salary Deduction
Plan had been devised to make it
er for you to save, IT IS ENTIRE-
| LY VOLUNTARY and further infor-
| mation and forms may be obtained
from your employer. Certificates may
bought from $4.00 to $400.00 and
ekly payments can be arranged.

Here is an opportunity for every

worker t® accumulate 3 per-
compound interest and TO

‘VE HIS COUNTRY AT THE
‘TIME. START SAVING NOW

HELP CANADA AND BRI-

IN WIN THE WAR!

| WAR SAVING

THE B.c.

lumberworkers, the IWA District Coun-
cil this week moved immediately to seek
inclusion of workers in this industry
under the provisions of the Unemploy-
ment Insurance scheme. Receiving 2
copy of the Bill after wiring Federal
members of Parliament, a Special Com-
mittee was immediately set up‘to con-
sult with Labor Research Director John
Wigdor, Attorney John Stanton, and a
Social Service expert to prepare statis-
tics to support the woodworkers case.
Close study is being given Insurance
schemes in the U.S. Great Britain, the
Scandinavian countries, South Africa,
New Zealand and Australia, as well as
the Federal Government's own report
on Unemployment with a view to pre-
paring a brief outlining the views of the
IWA for improvement of the act. Im-
Mmediately after completion of the brief,
mimeographed copies will be forwarded
to the Provincial Government and Fed-
eral members of Parliament.

After announcement of the Provincial
Government that they were urging
amendments to make the act more in-
clusive, Nigel Morgan, as President of
the B.C, Industrial Union Council (CIO)
sent the following telegram to Premier
Pattullo:

“B.C. Industrial Union Council (CIO)
commends attitude of Cabinet in seeking
to include basic industries in Unemploy-
ment Insurance scheme and pledges sup-
port to Minister Pearson in efforts at
Ottawa. Brief following,”

“General dissatisfaction is being ex-
pressed over the fact that the Bill ex-
cludes many workers from the benefits
of the Act, in B.C. alone over 40,000, and
the IWA intends to se that everything
possible is done to widen the scope to
include those who need it most, the
lumber workers, fishermen, farm labor-
ers and domestic workers.

ORGAN. DIRECTOR
GERMER URGES ‘YES’
VOTE ON ASSESSMENT

There are thousands of woodworkers
outside of our Union. They must be or-
ganized. Unorganized, they hamper us
in our efforts to maintain our present
standards and progress to higher stand-
ards, Increased wages, uniform con-
tracts, depend upon the success of our
membership in organizing the unorgan-
ized woodworkers,

Without beating around the bush, you
will understand that it takes money to
do this,

Besides their current per capita tax,
sister CIO organizations have poured
millions of dollars, through special as-
sessments, into organizing the unorgan-
ized. The Miners, the Clothing Workers,
the Steel Workers and other organiza-
tions of the CIO have levied assessments
to HELP OTHER ORGANIZATIONS,
INCLUDING THE IWA.

That's how the CIO tecame powerful.
Naturally, then, the CIO has a right to
expect that we will recognize our re-
sponsibilities in doing our part in the
campaign to organize the unorganized
woodworkers,

The CIO National Office is already
bearing some of the preliminary cost
of our organizational campaign. It will
continue to do its part as we show our
willingness to do our part by voting
“YES” in favor of the proposed assess-
ment of 50c per month per member for
six months.

The CIO and our International Offi-
cers are pulling together and we ask
you to do your part with a “YES” vote
to put the organizational drive over.

Pr seaeenseseeseeseseeeseees:

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LUMBER WORKER

Page Three

IWA Moves To Get Unemployment
Insurance Benefits For Loggers

In an attempt to get a better ae

VICTORIA MEETING

1228 Langley Street

Speaker: PRES. H. PRITCHETT
FRIDAY, JULY 26 — 8:00 P.M.

UNITY BRINGS
RESULTS

Fallers in Allison’s Beach Camp at
QOL, recently refused to worl: more
than 8 hours per day, and by all
working together made it stick. One
cold-deck crew was shorthanded, and
when they finally took a stand suc-
ceeded in getting two more men on
the job. In unity there seems to be
Strength, boys—why not apply the
same principle with some of the other

grievances in other camps?

Make up your mind right now, fellows,
to take in our next dance, if you want

a time that is a time. Boy, was our An-
nual Midsummer dance a pip, or was
she a pip? She started with a bang
with the first strains of music and she
was a bang up concern right up to the
time we found “Skipper” John MacCuish
waving his arms and pleading franti-
cally with the last hundred or so. “Gooa
God, the dance has been over for an
hour. Please go on home, will ya?”

One thing is certain, the Woodworkers
Annual Mid-Summer and Mid-Winter
Dances are assured successes in all ways
that dances can be successful. It seems
to be a time when woodworkers get
the unanimous feeling that “this is our
night and tonight,God help the man
who did not leave his liver trouble and
indigestion in the camp or at the mill,”
It's one time when everybody is every-
body's friend and everybody and_ his
friend is out for a good time. During
the night I made a list of riggers and
hookers, right down to whistle punks,
who are as cranky as hell on the job.
I intended to ride them, but, gol’ darn it,
they had such a good time, and did so
much to make it a good time for every-
body that I haven’t the heart to go
through with it. Some day, when we
get more control over the works and
lop off some of the edges that make hell
out of what could be a good job, we'll
take more of the Annual Dance spirit
into the woods,

And our series of successful dances
over the past years, getting better every
year, show that the woodworkers want
it that way and the woodworkers are
the boys who will have it that way yet.

’Course, I'm not going to say there
were no discordant notes. There was.
For one, the Editor was not there—he
was out of town—and I call it a day
lost when I can’t pile abuse on the Edi-
tor’s head over his behavior at our
dances. But we're even, he can’t check
up on me, either. But I would have been
all right it it had not been for the trick
MacCuish and his fellow general, Ernie
Dalskog, played on me. A couple of
well-meaning gazabos came along, well
stocked, determined to give the two of-
ficials the time of their lives. But the
two officials just were not having any
of it, at least not until the responsibili-
ties of the dance were over, so what
could I do about it. I had to help the
two gazabos get rid of the stuff, and well
well, it was a dirty trick of MacCuish
and Dalskog’s anyway.

And then again, that hell-fire little
Frenchman, Nels Arseneau, made a mis-
take. Nels was all dressed up in a
white coat, dishing out the joy. He was
balancing a trayful like an old veteran,

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when another fellow in a white coat
asked Nels to get some chairs for his
lady friends. Nels told his fellow wait-
er to get his own —— chairs, and it
wasn’t until the ladies gave him a. work
over that Nels realized that the other
fellow's white coast was a light gray
Palm Beach suit, and he wasn’t a
waiter at all. Boy, the little French-
man’s arms ached before he got through
explaining and apologizing.

Sorry to say our old friend MacNeil,
former secretary, who has had so much
to do with the success of former dances,
was not there, so I can’t rib him here.
The boss is ribbing him in a camp up
coast.

And in closing, I move a vote of thanks
to all those members who donated their
services, and who are responsible for
giving us a good time, and for the suc-
cess of the dance. All in fayor? Unani-
mous. :

Fifty Killed

Bringing the death toll of B.C.s
lumber industry
up to 50, which
is only four be-
low the ayerage

for the past 10 ieeanarees

ave been
years, and still ee
half the year to ate Gi
go, the death dustry since
was reported last Jan. 1, 1940.
week of Ken-

neth Aitken, 25-year-old logger of
YVencouver. He was fatally injured
by @ falling sapling at Bloedels oper-
ation near Campbell River.

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