to make a speech. I

0 have been said in this
think the scroll has been
it is not good that we sit
and ashes, and it. is not
‘we sit and give to ourselves
ch perhaps we only hope we

closing a great convention.
times that I have sat upon this
in the past several days I have
ted the scenes of this convention
nd the great world of labor that lies
ind this convention and the constitu-
behind each of you with the scene
in Atlantic~City five years ago
hen we had not founded an organiza-
i we had not achieved the place for
"our views and policies in the realm of
; ican thought, We were merely de-
d to try and do these things, and as
looks about him and sees the breadth
the accomplishment of the CIO, its
present broad base, its established posi-
‘tion, the structure of its organization
widespread and far-flung, I am compelled
to say that we have done something in
the last five years,
And when one thinks of starting an-
miber five-year period of effort to follow
WP one and compares the starting place
of today with the starting point of five
"years ago, in sheer, white logic, what is
_ to prevent the conclusion that five years
from today we will have an organization
So great that it will have exceeded the
dreams of those who first envisioned it.

C1.0/8 FUTURE.

We are not starting from scratch to-
day. We have millions of members, We
have trained officers. We have head-
quarters, technical staffs and field or-
ganizers splendidly equipped. We have
millions of members that are experienced
in the work of operating and expanding
this union and there is nothing to pre-
vent the rolling and rolling onward of
this mighty organization of men and
pirien except ourselves. We will have
demonstrate that we will still possess
through the coming months and years
the ability to be tolerant of each others’
opinions and retain as between each
other that cssehtial degree of confidence
as is x uired of a voluntary association
cf men to preserve its integrity.

One who reads much of history, will
\ know that the great associations of men
throughout the centuries for the promo-
tion of special principles and the achieve-
ment of desirable and meritorious and
virtuous objectives are rarely estopped or

and Our Best Wishes for . . .

HANK Y

THE BC. LUMBER WORKER

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overcome or disorganized or disbanded
by the external forces which they en-
counter. That goes for nations as well as
inferior groups of its citizens, The big-
gest empire in all the world history had
their period of formation and growth,
reached after maturities and come into
inevitable days of decline because they
were destroyed by forces from within.

‘It is true of political parties. It is true
of labor unions, It is true of all forms of
combinations of men. It is true of na-
tions and it will be true of the Congress
of Industrial Organizations unless each
and every one of you of its leaders and
its members behind them adhere con-
stantly to the thought that only by being
united can the organization endure.

There are lots of individuals who can-
not stand prosperity and this organiza-
tion is merely an enlargement of the i
dividual effort through mutual associa-
tion and by combination of millions of
individuals in order that their pooled and
aggregate strength may accomplish
things which the individual lacks the
strength to accomplish under our system
of modern enterprises,

So all any of us can do, or each of us
ean do, is merely to do our part to the
fullest possible degree. That part may be
little or it may be much. Many of us
are able to do things at times not be-
cause we planned it that way, but be-
cause opportunity in some mysterious
manner came to us that enabled us to
render a distinct service at the right
moment. And the safety for the future
preservation of this union depends upon
the degree of confidence that each of
our members and officers have one in
the other.

I have confidence in the future of this
organization, because in it is life and vir-
ility. It has youth and energy.

One of my happiest reflections as I
sat upon this platform during the ses-
sions of the past week has been to re-
cognize the contributions the young men
of industry, of labor, and the young
women of industry and labor are making
in developing leadership to sustain our
organization,

In that respect the C.LO, differs from
the A.F.L. because we encourage the par-
ticipation of youth with its energy and
with its enthusiasm and with its capa-
city to contribute, when the A.F.L., with
its controlled policies and its concentrat-
ed form of internal organization de-
presses and discourages that same parti-
cipation on the part of the young men

To all our Friends in the Lumbering Industry,
We Extend Our Thanks for Their Patronage

A Merry Christmas and
A Happy New Year!

and women of labor.

CONTRAST WITH AFL.

For many years I was a delegate rep-
resenting a great organization to the
annual conventions of the AF.L., and
during most of those years I was the
President of the largest affiliated organi-
zation in the AF.L, and yet, during all of
those years of participation—and I was
something of an active, vigorous young
man in my own way—during all those
years I never achieved even the chair-
manship of a standing committee in the
American Federation of Labor.

‘Those chairmanships and those secre-
taryships and the membership of those
committee were farmed out year after
year to the same old crowd ‘of sedate,
satisfied, overfed executives who com-
pose with throttling grasp the policies,
acts, the debates and everything that
had to do with the operation of the great
instrumentality called the A.F\L, Rather
than promote progress they stopped pro-
gress. They stopped progress. I resolved
that it opportunity ever came to me to
do so I would prefer to encourage the
free expression of the men and women
of labor, a greater participation by the
younger men in the organizations who
inevitably must assume the mantle of
leadership and direction of the labor
movement if a form of organization en-
dures.

The C10, is training these young men
and women by the thousands and thous-
ands in the duties and the responsib
ties of leadership, And as the years go
by they will be trained and qualified to
assume greater and greater responsibili-
ties and there’ will be room constantly
at the bottom for the younger element
to begin their task of apprenticeship in
leadership,

This nation in the future must look
more and more to the ranks of labor to
produce its public men,

I believe the common people of this
country are going to constantly insist on
having a larger voice, a greater degree of
participation in the councils of govern-
ment, whether that be in the community
where they live, in their homes or whe-

Vancouver

MATSUI OPENS
“HOTEL RANCHO”

Management of the “Rancho Hotel”
is now under the popular directorship
of Jack Matsui, well-known to B.C, log-
gers as the proprietor of the Hotel East.
Mr. Matsui has taken over the “Rancho”
in order to get around a former diffi-
culty of shortage of rooms, and with both
hotels he will be able to guarantee ac-
commodation. The Rancho Hotel has
been completely modernized and reno-
vated to give patrons the best of comfort.

ther it will be in the legislative halls of
the commonwealth, or in the federal Con-
gress of the United States.
CONCLUSION.

I stand for a greater and greater de-
gree of participation and I urge the men
and women of labor in this country to
constantly aspire for the degree of re-
cognition to which they are entitled as
the accredited representatives of their
fellows. And I ask them not to be daunt-
ed by the obstacles placed in their way
by those who make politics 2 profession
or by those who enjoy special priviliges
in America and do not want to yield
rightful degree of participation
or those whom you represent.

But today you have an orgq
and maintain an instrumental}
will protect you while you are—2
that desirable end. Tee instr
tality will bé the CLO.

I thank you all, you representatives of
this organization, for the honors you
have conferred on me and the confidence
you have had in me in the past, If that
confidence has been shaken to any
degree in the recent past in the hearts
or minds of some of you I can only hope
that someday you may come to the con-
clusion that whether he was right or,
wrong, meaning myself, at least his heart
was right and he intended to make a
contribution by saying what he believed
and still believes to be the truth.

Thank you, my friends, and goodbye.

&

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