BRAIERD, Minn.--Efforts of timber
operators to block organization by IWA
Local 12-29, in this vicinity, resulted in
three convictions Wednesday on viola-
tions of the Wage-Hour law in which
two interlocking lumber companies were
ordered to pay $35,000 in back wages
and were fined an additional $10,000.

CHICAGO, July 13—The U.S. circuit
court of appeal has upheld a decision
issued by the National Labor Relations
Board ordering the Stewart Die Casting
Company to reinstate 190 workers with
some $250,000 back pay.

The workers, who are members of
Local 298, United Automobile Workers,
were fired for taking part in a strike
in March, 1937.

Support Merchants and Products ad-
vertising in the B.C. Lumber Worker,

NLEB RULING

WASHINGTON — (FP)—The NLRB
here ruled that the denial of passes af-
fording representatives of a certified
union access to the unlicensed personnel
on board the tankers of-three oil com-
panies interfered with the employees’
right to bargain collectively through re-
presentatives of their own choosing.

(Note: Let's have the NIRB check
certain B.C, logging camps.)

HUNTINGTON, W. VA., July 13—Pay
increases of 20 percent and a bonus of
$2.50 per week when drivers book $60
or more in any week are included in a
one-year contract just signed between
the Yellow Cab Company and the CIO
‘Transport Workers Union,

Phe contract provides for a wage of
$3 per day exclusive of tips, reduces the
work week from seven to six days, guar-
antees seniority ratings and the closed
union shop.

THE ©.L0, PAYS A DIVIDEND

A “C.L.O. Dividend” of $7,000,000 in the
form of 40 hours’ pay for every worker
with 10 months’ seniority is one of the
features of the new contract won by the
CLO, United Automobile Workers for
130,000 General Motors workers.

When Harry Bridges began organiza-
tion of the Pacific Coast longshoremen,
average Wages were $10.45 a week, with
long hours, kickbacks to foremen and
dangerous working conditions. Today,
the longshoremen average $40 to $50
® week, with reasonable hours and union
protection on the job. Is organizing
workers to better conditions a deport-
able offense?

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LUMBER WORKER

How Much ‘Equality Of Sacrifice’
Is To Be Found In Canada’s War
Budget For Mr. Average Worker?

The new war budget reflects what is
commonly known by many true patriots
as “equality of sacrifice.” Democracy in
Canada has always meant that both a
rich man and a poor man could always
sleep under a bridge on a rainy miser-
able night; and likewise the new phrase
“equality of sacrifice” means that both
a rich man and a poor man can pay
equally, as if they were on the same
income basis,

‘The ordinary revenue from taxation in
peace time approximates 450 million dol-
lars, 30 percent of which is raised
through what is known as the 8 percent
sales tax. This means that when a man-
ufacturer sells a commodity either to a
wholesaler or retailer for $100, the whole-
saler or retailer pays $108 for it, the
remaining $8 going to the Government
in the form of taxation. Naturally the
consumer pays the full amount of this
with an additional sum when he ulti-
mately purchases the article.

The other three most important
sources of revenue are the customs, ex-
cise duties and income tax. All three
have been vitally affected by the war
budget, which is now being discussed
in Parliament,

The custom import duties for the year
1938-39 netted the Dominion Government
in revenue, approximately 95 millions
of dollars. Naturally this custom duty
is added directly onto the purchase price
by the importer and once again this
amount of revenue is taken out of the
money wages of the bulk of the consum-
ers—the working class. The same ap-
Plies to the 50 million dollars excise
duty, another form of direct taxation
(another way of lowering low living
standards, another manner of proving
what “equality of sacrifice” really means
—that the workers foot the bill).

The highlights of the new war Bud-
get are as follows:

(a) New national defence taxation
starting at 2 percent of a salary of $600
for a single person and $1200 in the case
of married persons. This in effect means
that where a single man with no de-
pendents is making the miserable sum
of $50 a month, that 2 percent or $1.00
of this must be deducted by his employ-
er and remitted directly to Ottawa.

(b) Tax of 10 percent on value for
duty on all imports except under British
preferential tariff, This means that all
goods coming from theUnited States;
that coffee coming from Costa Rica;
tea from China, ete, will have its price
to the consumer increased by at least
10 percent due to this new form of taxa-
tion which bears “equally” upon those
able to pay and those forced to. Fur-
ther, this can aid the domestic pro-
ducer in profiteering, for it imposes a
high tariff wall on cheaper and more

efficiently produced goods of other
countries,
(c) Manufactured tobacco tax in-

creased from.25¢ to 35c a pound; cigar-
ette tax increased from 5 to 6 dollars
4 thousand; new 10c a pound tax on
raw leaf tobacco. The effect of this

tax will mean that the working stiff
who has long enjoyed smoking at a
comparatively low price, will now have

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to pay further taxes for cigarettes and
tobacco which may cause them to be-
come a luxury. Ss

(a) Income tax rates are being
changed so that the exemptions of $2000
for married persons and $1000 for single
Persons are lowered to $1500 and $750
respectively.

Further to that, the rates on the low-
er incomes are increased so that on the
first $250 of net income or any portion
thereof in excess of exemptions, 6 per-
cent is paid. So where a single man
earns $25 a week or $1300 a year, $600
of that will be exempt and on the re-
maining $700, $250 will be taxed 6 per-
cent, that is, a tax of $15 levied; and
the remaining $450 at 8 percent or a
tax of $20 levied. The total tax will be
$85 or another reduction of approxi-
mately $3 a month which must be add-
ed to the new defence tax mentioned
above to further reduce his money
wages.

Aside from the lowering of his money
wages; his real wages, that is, what the
working stiff can buy with his money
wages, is greatly lowered also. The cost
of living has steadily mounted; for his-
torically war has meant an increase in
the cost of living. An illustration of this
is the index for the cost of living in
Canada in 1914, December. If we regard
that index at 100, the index figure for
the month of December, 1920, is 184, a
corresponding increase of 84 percent,

Already the cost of living in Canada
has risen 5 percent and the retail cost
of food which is the most important
item in a family budget has risen 7 per-
cent. The wholesale price index has
risen 15 percent, which is a grim shape
of things to come.

Equality of sacrifice does not seem
to affect the various industrialists whose
1939 profit figures reveal the following:

Industry Profits Percent
No. of Cos. 1938 1939 Increase
Pulp & Paper—

16 5,695,000 10,188,000 78.9
Base Metals—

12 67,194,000 86,149,000 28.2
Textiles—

17 2,156,000 4,804,000 122.8

This budget merely intensifies the
technique of taxation that the boss log-
gers, cannery operators, and mining
barons have always adopted at Ottawa
under the guise of high-sounding phrases
as “equality of sacrifice,” for it consist-
ently and intensely continues the soak-
ing of the poor. The War Budget was
introduced in the House of Commons
by Col. Ralston, M.P.. The colonel is
president of Equitable Life Insurance
of Canada; Director of Dominion Steel
and Coal; Asbestos Corporation; Mount
Royal Hotel; Canadian Paper Board;
Eastern Trust, etc.

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