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- Bi-weekly Bulletin Published by The B.C. District Council, International Woodworkers of America, Affiliated with Congress of Industrial Organizations

VOL. 9, No. 15

VANCOUVER, B.C., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1940

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cio Building Best Defence

IWA Sends Three Delegates

To Toronto

Convention To Establish New Canadian
Labor Congress With CIO-ACCL Merger

VANCOUVER, B.C.—Seven British Columbia delegates will leave
this evening to attend the joint convention of the All Canadian Congress
of Labor and the Canadian section of the Congress of Industrial Organiza-
tion, which convenes in Toronto September 9. Amongst the delegation
from B.C. will be three delegates from the International Woodworkers
of America, including International Representative Nigel Morgan, Presi-
dent Fred Wilson of IWA Local 1-80 and one other delegate from IWA
Local 1-71. Other B.C. delegates are Ed. Boyd from Nanaimo U.M.W.A;
James Robertson from Cumberland U.M.W.A. and James Thompson of
the Inland Boatmen’s Union.

Activity leading toward the establishment of the new “house of labor,”
which was the result of A.F.L. splitting tactics, was gaining momentum
this week from Atlantic to Pacific, as unionis right across the Dominion
named delegates to undertake the historic and important role of charting
a new course for industrial unionism in Canada. Important CIO unions
in addition to the IWA which will be represented will be the United Mine
Workers of America, the Steel Workers, the United Automobile Workers,
the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, the United
Rubber Workers, the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers, the
American Newspaper Guild, the amalgamated Clothing Workers, as well
as the Canadian Brotherhood of Railway Employees and other A.C.C.L.
affiliates.

If completion of the merger can be®toward re-establishing labor unity in
worked out successfully, it will leave but! Canada, H
two major labor groups in Canada, with] A ietter sent out by the Canadian Com-
the new Canadian Labor Congress having

C.LO. vresident
JOHN L. LEWIS

It will be a fitting answer to those who

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a larger membership than the A.F.L-
affiliated Trades and Labor Congress of
Canada.

“If a progressive program is laid down,
and an aggressive organizational policy
adopted, the merger may well be the
greatest forward step yet taken by labor
in Canada,” said Nigel Morgan, before
leaving this week. “If a powerful Con-
gress is built it will be the first step

1.W.A. ORGANIZERS
COMMENCE DRIVE

SEATTLE, Wash. — The CIO-IWA
drive on wood got off to a flying start
last week, with three organizers report-
ing for duty on Monday in Eugene and
two others Inunching a campaign on
the same day in Longview.  ~

Assigned to the Eugene area were
Max Gardner, W. C. Funk, and James
Freeman, the regional office informed
the Timber Worker. George Brown and
‘Chet Dustin were asigned to Longview.

A special Canadian Assessment Ac-
count has been opened in Vancouver
and already IWA Local 1-71 has paid its
first installment on the fund which is
to be used exclusively for B.C’s own

mittee for Industrial Organization last
week said in part, “It is most important
that the largest possible number of dele-
gates attend. A large and enthusiastic
participation will do much to demon-
strate to the people of Canada that Ca-
nadian workers are determined and cap-
able of winning industrial democracy.

| have tried to hinder and those who may
contemplate further opposition. We urge
you to send the full representation al-
lowed under the draft constitution even
though it may strain your treasury. The
success of this new Congress will be
worth more than money in the days just
ahead.” :

AF.

Here’s one for the book.

known to the sleeping officials of

own offices.

Efficiency: Believe It Or Not?!

In Cincinnati Paul Fuller, CIO Regional Director, advises, the
U.C.W.O.C. local did the painting job on the headquarters of the
A.E.L. building trades department.

It so happened that a U.C.W.O.C. contractor was the low bidder
on this job. He did the entire work with U.C.W.O.C. members un-

Not until the work was completed did the A.F.L. wake up to the
fact that the U.C.W.O.C. had stolen a march on them right in their

(Editor’s Note.—U.C.W.O.C. is the new CIO-sponsored United
Construction Workers’ Organizing Committee).

the A.F.L.

SIXTIETH WORKER
KILLED IN LUMBER

Bringing the toll up to sixty already
this year, the B.C. lumber industry ac-
counted for two more lives again this
week, The first ‘fatal
accident reported was

I.W.A. ABOLISHES
BUSHELLING IN
ORE. OPERATION

LABOR DAY MESSAGE
By JOHN L. LEWIS

Let Labor Day 1940 be the occasion
for a re-dedication of labor to its task
of creating in their nation, the kind of
a democracy that no alien pholosophy
or nation can conquer.

The Congress of Industrial Organiza-
tions stands second to none in its deter-
mination to defend their nation and its
democratic way of life. And labor will

devote its energy without surcease to
that end.

The very roots of effective defense of
any nation lies in the loyalty of all its
citizens. That loyalty must be grounded
in the deep conviction that democracy
the best way of life.

It is the proud boast of the fascists
that they have ended unemployment.
Our boast, our only answer to that boast
must be that democracy, too, can end
unemployment, It can, labor believes,
end unemployment and insecurity with-
out the destruction of human and civil
rights, without the creation of an arms
economy which, like a moloch, devours
the youth and strength of the nation.

‘The enemies of labor seek in the guise
of promoting national defense to re-
sume their attacks on labor’s rights.
They would destroy our civil liberties.
They would erode the rights ¢f collec-
tive bargaining. They would increase
the hours of labor, They want to con-
seript into the army millions of our
workers.

At the same time these enemies of
labor join in the brazen attempt on the
part of large industrial interests to hold
up our national defense until they are
guaranteed extensive profits free from
proper taxation. Already the U.S. na-
tional defense production is lagging be-
cause some American manufacturers
prefer 18 per cent profit from Great
Britain to 8 per cent profit from their
own country. I do not believe the Am-
erican people will long tolerate this
condition.

Labor believes there is no conflict be-
tween effective national defense and
labor's program of complete security
and full employment. The productive
resources of the country are so great,
both in’ manpower and in materials,
that we can add the burden of national
defense to our economy without in the
least impairing its capacity to provide
our people with things they need to live
well.

Let us have an end to unemployment.
Arms alone will not do that, Let us
wipe out insecurity of the aged. The*
building of cannon alone cannot do that.
Let us provide opportunity for our
youth. Conscription is not the answer

“Organize the Unorganized” campaign |that of | Herman 60 JEWELL, Ore. — Negotiations by the| to that ‘

in lumber. All locals are urged to start | Laine, 66-year-old fal- oe tease? ¢ TWA Local 532 last| _ Only the kind of program sot forth
s : ee ee ocal 5-32 last) 5. the CIO can establish the most: ef-

collecting the assessment immediately |ler for the Vedder | woodworkers ; > i a y 2

for as soon as suffiicent monies are to | Logging Co., who was have been week brought final elimination of | fective defense of democracy. “The

hand here, organizers will go into the Jalmost instantly pet eos bushelling in the Van Vleet operation in| strength of such a ee oe

‘field to augment and extend the present | killed last Thursday ee ne the Jewell district, Day rates were set| with the growth of the CI as growtl

organizational work, Local seeretaries {when struck on the | Jan. 1, 1940. || at $685 for buckers and second faller| that is steady and increasing.

and camp delegates from all over the

head by a log. The
other woodsman lost, also belonged to a
falling gang; Peter Birkholm, a 46-year-
old bucker who was working with a
power-saw crew at Bloedels Great Cen-
tral Lake operation, Birkholm, who was
a native of Denmark, leaves a sister in
his homeland.

and $7.10 for the head faller.
‘This latest accomplishment puts all the
operations except two under the Jewell

loeal's jurisdiction on a day work basis,
and indications are that the final elim-
ination of all bushelling in this area will
| be gained before long.

"

Fach year finds a greater member-
ship than last. And the only way
that the things which the CIO stands
for can be made certain is through
the continued organization of the un-
oreanized into industrial unions. The
CTO pledges that this progress will not

rence.