Page Four THE B.C. LUMBER WORKER ‘November 27, 1940 UNION DIRECTORY Local secretaries are requested to re- port any change of meeting time or place in order to keep this Directory up-to-date. Any change of officers should also be reported. B.C. District Council, International Woodworkers of America (C.1.0.), 504 Holden Building, Vancouver. Phone ‘TRin, 4464, Secretary, Nigel Morgan. Local 1-71, I.W.A., 506 Holden Building, Vancouver. Phone TRin, 4464. Secretary, Ernie Dalskog. Meetings every second and fourth Friday of each month at} union headquarters, Local 1-80, I.W.A., Cowichan Lake, meets third Sunday in each month. Box 61, Lake Cowichan, B.C, Secretary, Archie Greenwell. Sub-Local 1-80, Courtenay - Campbell River, cor. Walker & Cumberland Road, Courtenay, B.C, Secretary-organizer Don Barbour. if Sub-local 1-80, Ladysmith, c/o Hotel Burope, Ladysmith, B.C, Secretary-or- ganizer Nigel Morgan. Next meeting Nicholson's Hall, Tuesday, December 8rd, 7:30 p.m. The Secretary will be at the Europe Hotel from Monday, Decem- ber 2nd, until Thursday, December 5th, from 7 to 10 p.m, each evening, for the convenience of members desiring to pay dues, Local 1-85, 1.W.A., Port Alberni, Secre- tary, Leonard Norris, Box 746, Port Al- berni, B.C, Local 1-118, I.W.A., Millworkers, Vic- toria. Secretary, Howard Mezger, 568 Vetoria Ave,, Garden 2260. Local 1-217, I-W.A., Millworkers. Busi- ness Agent, Don Cameron, 504 Holden Bldg., Vancouver, B.C. Phone TRin. 4464. Ladies’ Auxiliary, No, 1-30, I.W.A., Lake Cowichan, B.C. Secretary Mrs, Edna Brown. Get A Free CIO Annual Next week the CIO News, of- ficial international weekly publi- cation of the CIO, is printing its Annual Convention Edition, con- taining full and authentic coverage of the momentous doings at the Atlantic City convention. A special eight-page, highly illu- strated supplement marking the fifth anniversary of the birth of the Congress of Industrial Organi- zations, to which the IWA is affili- ated. Beautiful artist’s drawings, interesting charts, and action pic- tures, together with feature stories, will tell the five-year story of this continent’s most dramatic organization—the CIO. The B.C. District Council of the IWA have wired a special order for 2,000 copies for distribution in B.C. If you would like one of these valuable documents on the birth and growth of the CIO, cut out the attached coupon, forward it to the B.C. LUMBER WORKER and one will be gladly sent you free of charge. Please print name Labor Marches On Strange echoes in the CIO convention hall in Atlantic City. The ghosts of dead speeches whining around the windows and doors, grumbling at the bustling life of today’s delegates. “I tell you, it’s never been done and never will be.” “Young man, when you've been in the labor movement as long as I have. . .” “For more than 50 years, this Federation .. .” “We'll never surrender our jurisdiction . . .” Strange echoes indeed! For in this same hall today is living evidence to dis- prove so much of what was said here five years ago. . * * Five years ago in this very hall, the American Federation of Labor met to go through its time-honored convention rituals. Heavy, heavy hung over its head the weight of a dead past. A crazy quilt of craft jurisdiction, stitched together before the days of modern mass production and now used to smother hopes of union progress, A horse-and-buggy leadership content to meander along the by-ways of de- clining small production, while the main stream of motorized industrial traffic passed it by. Leaders with the uplift of an old-fashioned pump, the drive of a squeaking wheelbarrow, and the social outlook of the dog in the manger. Or so it seemed to some of the impatient youngsters against whom points of order were raised every time they tried to speak. * * ° |. In this same hall, five years ago, the handful of delegates from the big un- organized industries like automobiles, rubber, steel, electrical manufacturing and the rest, felt isolated at first, They represented few members and had fewer votes. They were slighted and squelched, condemned as reds and lectured as upstarts. But they found a champion here in John L. Lewis and the United Mine Workers, and in others of the industrial union group. And what a battle there was! The debates of that 1935 convention will echo down the years. The ghosts of the dead craft speeches may well grumble and whine, for the living ideas they tried to suppress have grown into a great move- ment that makes them doubly dead. + ° ° Many of the delegates who attended that 1935 AFL. convention represent- ing little more than a hope and a handful, returned to that same hall in Novem- ber, 1940, as officers or delegates of CIO unions with tens and hundreds of thou- sands of members. In those five years, sheer human determination, and the dynamic leadership of that same champion who came to their aid in 1935, have toppled industrial tyranny and conquered one aniti-union stronghold after another. Gigantic struggles have taken place. Huge organizing campaigns have been launched. All the forces of industrial and political reaction, of brute force and devious lies, have battered in vain against this advancing army of the CIO. ‘The roster of the unions represented at the 1940 CIO convention, their mil- lions of members and the record of the higher wages and better conditions they have won, are vindication indeed of every argument that Lewis and his associates made in the same hall in 1935. * * * But something more than a multiplication of union membership and union gains has taken place in the years between 1985 and 1940. There has been a change in quality as well as quantity in the labor movement. The old leadership that Lewis challenged in 1935 was narrow and servile in spirit, It was content that labor should have an inferior status to the masters of industry and politics. Lewis dedicated himself to the eradication of labor's inferiority complex. In speech and action he expressed his conviction that labor’s millions need take a back seat to nobody; that if they organize they can demand rights, not plead for favors; and that every principle of democracy entitles labor to greater represen- tation in government and greater consideration in all other respects than has ever yet been accorded. . . * The spread of industrial organization through the CIO has brought a growth of this new spirit of independence and aggressive self-confidence to labor. ‘The remnants of company-union thinking still remain. A childish belief in some kind of industrial and political Santa Claus is still propagated to prevent labor bargaining for a better deal. : Every effort of labor to free itself from the shackles of servility is bitterly attacked by factional confusionists, deplored by so-called liberals, and roundly denounced and misrepresented in the anti-labor press. But the CIO has always confounded its critics with concrete achievement, and experience is a great debunker. If you would know how much labor has grown in stature and spirit, thanks to the CIO, just look back to 1935. GET YOUR TICKETS NOW for the Fourth Annual LOGGERS’ BALL Vancouver EMBASSY BALLROOM me fri.Dec.2/ ™ MORGAN 10 AID IN LADYSMITH READJUSTMENT As the first step in a reorganizational move in the Ladysmith Sub-Local of LW.A. Local 1-80, Nigel Morgan, Inter- national Executive Board Member for B.C., has been instructed by the B.O. District Council to assist the member- ship in that area. Morgan, who made a number of visits to members there last week, reports sentiment for the or- ganization good, and is confident that with a number of adjustments which are being planned, a further consolida- ton can be rapidly completed. The next meeting of the Sub-Local will be held in Nicholson’s Hall, on Tuesday, December 8rd, at 7:30 p.m. Since the resignation of Organizer Ed. Wenner- low, Morgan has been acting as Tem- Porary Secretary, with headquarters in the Hotel Europe, Ladysmith. He will be in Ladysmith the first week in December and will be at the Hotel Europe each evening from 7 to 10 p.m. to meet with members. Came Here As Honest Toilers If we, the so-called “foreigners,” have in any way infrniged-upon the rights of the returned soldiers, it is sadly beyond our conception. We came here, not as thieves in the deep of night, but as honest toilers, invited and welcomed by a new country, then In need of the strength we had to offer. The jobs that some of us are holding down today were not taken by trickery; they were obtained by honest effort and were by no means the pick of the crop. Even today we're not pushing gold-plated pens in luxurious offices; we're still do- ing the’same back-breaking work in the mines, the forests and on the fishing grounds. In the first Great War countless “aliens” laid down their lives for this country in a struggle to preserve this same freedom that’s now being rapidly destroyed by a lot of hysterics without any sense of logic. In the muddy waters of war propa- ganda, labor's enemies have found fine fishing. They have muddied the waters still further and pushed the trend, for very special selfish reasons of their own. (D To take advantage of labor's patri- otism by rendering it submissive to a breaking-down of union conditions and social legislation, and to a denial of its legitimate demands. (2) To take advantage of war hysteria to curtail civil liberties; to check union organization; and through conscription and other such measures to regiment the workers and make any kind of protest punishable. (3) To reap large profits for themselves both by the above-mentioned subjugation of labor and through the special profit favors a war-minded government will grant to speed up production. Speaking for the foreign-born logger in particular I can hardly imagine him being either desirous or capable of pro- moting any Fifth Column activity among the stumps and windfalls of the British Columbia woods. “A Canadian Trade Unionist.” Join the IWA and Help Boost Our Pay a Buck a Day!