years ago in this city to per-
‘organization that would give to
ers of this nation unions—

 Qut of the seeds that were sown five
rs ago there has grown this mighty

mightiest in the world today, the most
influence not only in the field

"of labor, but really the most potent in-
fluence on this American continent—the

‘ago. The right to organize is still here,
the right to enjoy the beneficent bless-
ings of collective bargaining is still
_ with us,
"Thousands of men and women have
_ gone back to their places of work, in-
‘dustry is operating at greater moment-
than perhaps at any period since
ihe year 1929. The door of opportunity
hhas been widened. ©.1.0. must take
full advantage of that opportunity.
—#res. Philip Murray.

Keep It A Secret

“What did you tell that man just now?”
“T told him to hurry.”
* “What right have you to tell him to
hurry?”
“I pay him to hurry.”
“How much do you pay him?”
“Four dollars a day.”
“Where do you get the money?”
“I sell products.”
“Who makes the products?”
“He does.”
. “How many products does he make in
day?”
“Ten dollars worth.”
“Then, instead of you paying him, he
pays you $6 a day to stand around and
tell him to hurry.”
“Well, but I own the machines.”
“How did you get the machines?’
“Sold products and bought them.”
“Who made the products?”
“Shut up! He might hear you.”

PARKIN RECOVERING

A host of friends in practically every
lumbering centre along the coast will
be glad to hear that Brother Al Parkin,
former editor of the B.C. Lumber Work-
er and organizer for the I.W.A, in Court-
enay, is up and around again, After
wing heen confined to bed ever since
‘was foreed to resign his position with
Union, Brother Parkin will have to
e life easy for a few months yet.
we were glad to receive a call
rom him this week and particularly glad
to find him looking so well.

THE B.C. LUM

BER WORKER

Page Five

LABOR

The Congress of Industrial Or-
ganization has steadily and sin-
cerely desired labor unity, a real
unity which would enable labor
to advance the interests of the
workers.

Unity in the labor movement
can be accomplished only if the
unions in the CIO can continue to
organize the unorganized workers
in the mass-production and basic
industries along industrial lines.
And it must be all-inclusive. It
must protect and include all the
organizations in the CIO.

The millions of newly-organized
workers are the pride of the CIO
and the proof of the effectiveness

UNITY

of the principles of the CIO. Not
one must be abandoned to the
eavillings of jurisdictional claims
of craft unions and the prevalent
racketeering within the AFL. In
short, every affiliated organiza-
tion of the CIO must be chartered
and included in any new united
labor body that may develop.
Any progrem for unity should
involve a joint convention of all
labor organizations, including
those of the AFL, Railroad
Brotherhoods and the CIO, with
existing jurisdictional differences
to be adjusted in such a conven-

tion.
(Adopted by CIO 1940 Convention).

IWA MILLWORKERS GAIN

PORTLAND, Ore—Voluntary wage in-
creases for between 1,600 and 1,800 IWA
sawmill workers here and for TWA mill-
workers at Veronica and Wauna, Ore.,
were announcel by the operators this
week.

Common labor will have ite pay boost:
ed from 62% cents to 65 cents per hour.
while upper bracxet men will receive a
5 per cent increase, All increases will be
retroactive to vox. 16.

LUMBER HAS TAKEN
RECORD TOLL IN 194

Three more Geaths as a result of atci-
dents in B.C’s lumbering industry are
reported this week; one in the logging
end of the industry and the other two
in the sawmill division, which has shown
an alarming increase in fatalities of late.

Takeji obo, 40-
year-old chaser at ~———————,
Mayo Bros. Logging

87

operation died in the
Duncan Hospital as a

result of injuries re- | “Couvorkers
ceived when he was | kdlled in B.C’s
caught between two lumber in-
logs on a cold deck | dustry since
Jan, 1, 1940,

pile.

Yoshiro Kaneko, 23-
year-old mill worker was killed in Van-
couver after being terribly mangled by
a belt in the main mill of B.C. Fir and
Cedar’s plant. Appfrently he was ap-
plying resin on the moving belt when
his clothing got caught. Other workers
while not witnessing the accident, heard
a thumping noise and went to investigate
and shut off the lectricity.

Albert Lowe of New Westminster was
Killed on a shingle mill slip at Royal
City Sawmills. According to reports he
fell headfirst from the slip, striking an
obstruction in the water below, which
staved his face in. An outside guard on
the slip probably would have prevented
the accident,

These latest reports bring the tragic
toll up to eightly-seven. This same num-
ber were reported in the last issue, but
since that time we have checked our
reports with the Provincial Labor De-
partment records and find that Mervin
Charles E, Pratt and N, S. Anderson
should not have been included as lum-
ber fatalities,

Office & Stand:
404 COLUMBIA AVE.

“TO THE RIGGERS”

Summer has passed and closed its door
And it’s time to nit the trail once more,
Back to the woods to make it pay

And make a stake for a rainy day .

The fallers are cursing the timber bind,
While the rigging men log far behind.
The rigger is up on the lofty pine
Hanging the blocks and the last guy line.

The blocks in the woods are lined up true

And the straw line pulls the haul-back
thru,

So the tree is rigged with all the junk,

And there goes a blast from the whistle
punk.

Two sharp whistles he clearly blows
And back to the woods the rigging goes.
The snake-like chokers are swinging free
As they go swiftly from the tree,

Leaping and dancing all around,
Up in the air, and now on the ground,
And the rigging man wisely heeds,

For he respects those flashing beads,

‘He's standing far enough away

So they can’t tag him as they play.
Then the rigging slinger hollers “Hi.”
And the punk relays the echoing cry.

Now the choker men are racing fast

And in their hands the beads they clasp.
They're swarming around, busy as bees,
As they, the beads pass round the trees.

And when they're on they give the sign
And the punk shouts it down the line.
The lines grow taut, chafe and burn,
Now look out boys, here comes the turn.

It moves quite slowly for a spell
And then it starts to go like hell,
Thundering along in smashing style,
Knocking down trees as it heads for the
pile.

But suddenly around a stump it slips
And curses flow from the hooker’s lips,
And can he curse, yes, boys it’s true,

When he starts in, the air turns blue. .

But finally it's away and free
And now it’s resting at the tree.

The chaser is hustling like the deuce
As he swiftly cuts the chokers loose.
‘Thus back and forth it goes all day

For they’ve got to have logs to make it
pay,

By
ATTORNEY
JOHN STANTON

—E
THE DDOFENCE OF
CANADA REGULATIONS.

In recent weeks a tremendous amount
of interest has sprung up throughout the
country concerning the Defence of Can-
ada Regulations. Newspaper and maga-
zine editorials as well as correspondence
columns have discussed them at length,
and more than once have these regula-
tions been debated in provincial legisla-
tures and in the House of Commons. —

Certainly no group in the community
is more affected by the regulations than
labor. Accoraing to a statement made re-
cently by C. Gillis, I.P., no fewer than
70 trade unionists have been interned
since September, 1939, when the regula-
tions first came into force. To vhis num-
bed must be added a considerable group
of trade union members and leaders con-
victed in the courts from time to time
for offences against the regulations.

I cherefore propose to review tne De-
fence Regulations quite extensively. in
this column, so as to give its readers
a clear understanding of their history,
meaning and contents, Such a review,
necessarily long, will have to be car-
ried over into future columns.

THE WAR MEASURES ACT.

How did the Defence (Regulations come
into being?

In 1914 the Parliament of Canada
passed the War Measures Act which gave
certain wide powers to the Federal Gov-
ernment. These powers could only be ex-
ercised in a state of “real or apprehended
war, invasion or insurrection” but when
such a state did arise, the powers of Ot-
tawa were practically unlimited, and
could be exercised through orders-in-
council without the approval of Parlia-
ment.

These powers were in fact exercised
throughout the first World War by
orders-in-council which were consoli-
dated, in 1917, into the “Defence of Can-
ada Order.” When the war ended, tms
order automatically ceased to have ef
fect.

The War Measures Act, however, re-
mained on the Statute Books and when,
in March, 1938, the Government felt it
advisable, an inter-departmental commuc-
tee on Emergency Legislation was set up.
Its job was to look into the whole ques-
tion of wartime legislation, and it quickly
found that ‘little in the way of special
legislation by Parliament will be re-
quired’—because the War Measures Act
still stood.

‘ne committee then turned its atten-
tion to the drafting of “extraordinary”
measures” which might be needed in
“war or grave emergency.”. When the
September, 1938, crisis (Munich) arose
the commmittee had not finished its
task, so it speedily revised the old 1917
Order which, because the érisis passed,
never became law.

Between September, 1938, and July,
1939, the Committee continued its work
and made a really thorough revision of
the 1917 Order. This’ revision went to the
Cabinet in July, 1939, and on September
3, 1939, became law—under the name
“Defence of Canada Regulations.”

Next. wee! The Composition of the
Committee on. the Internment Regula-

tion (No. 21).

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