THE BC.

LUMBER WORKER

Page Five

LUMBER WORKER

Bulletin Published by
_ B.C. DISTRICT COUNCIL
ational Woodworkers of America

Managing Editor
NIGEL MORGAN
506, Holden Bldg., Vancouver, B.C.
Phone, TRinity 4464
Payments to: “LW.A, B.C. D.C.”

EDITORIAL

CIVIL LIBERTIES

__ Elsewhere in the columns of the

B.C. Lumber Worker is a sharp and
justifiable letter from a rank and
file member of the IWA, protesting
the action of Mrs. Laura Jamieson,
ML.A., in welshing, by agreeing
and then refusing, to speak at the
“Freedom of the Press” mass meet-
ing in Burrard Hall last Sunday
night.

As far as we know Mrs. Laura
Jamieson, M.L.A. is the elected pres-
ident of the Civil Liberties Union,
an organization dedicated to defend,
preserve and extend civil liberties
in Canada,—certainly a worthy and
just cause, to which labor, regardless
of affiliation, gives unequivocal and
unstinting support. It is highly re-
grettable that the president of the
Civil Liberties Union should stoop
to such deliberate sabotage, attempt-
ing to create disunity among the
forces fighting for civil liberties.

Adding insult to injury, when
questioned by the press for reasons
for refusing to speak, Mrs. Jamieson
states she would not be in “right
company,” resorting to the time-
worn tactics of all reactionary, bank-
rupt politicians who desire to cover
up their inconsistencies in dragging
out the old red herring.

There is only one obvious conclu-
sion that can be drawn from the ac-
tions of the president, especially
since the Civil Liberties Union gave
its generous financial and moral
support to this public meeting, and
that is that Mrs. Jamieson must lead
the fight for civil liberties or there
is not going to be any fight for ehaal
liberties at all.

WAGE HOIST | NEEDED

The LW.A. calls for the raising of
wages not only because the workers are
entitled to higher wages and industry
ean afford to pay them—not only to off-
set rising living costs and an increasing
tax burden—but because the failure of

Tully Still
Wanted!

A reward of five dollars is be-
ing offered by IWA Local 1-71 for
information leading to the appre-
hension of W. Tully, former dele-
gate at Kelly’s Camp 2, Cumshewa
Tnlet, who left there last Novem-
ber with union funds, Legal steps
are being taken for the protection
of the membership and all camps
are urged to be on the lookout.

HARRISON LAKE BOAT

FOR SALE

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labor to get its fair share, results in
serious trouble to our entire economy.

While the national income has been
rising since 1932, the “C.L.O, Economic
Outlook” points out, a decreasing per-
centage of this income has been going
to wages and salaries. Labor's share, in
fact, has declined from 77.2% in 1932
to about 61% in 1940. In fact, according
to figures in “Iron, Steel and Their Prod-
ucts in Canada,” published by the Dom-
inion Government Bureau of Statistics,
1940, the total of wages and salaries un-
der $5000 per year amounted to 170 mil-
lions, while for the same year profits ac-
counted for 141 millions. ‘This means
that if you were an average steel worker
putting in nine hours per day, then your
pay is “MADE UP” by the work you do
in FIVE HOURS. What about the wealth
you produce in the remaining four hours?
That goes to the company for profits;
yes sir, the full 45%. Those figures are
the latest available and are for 1929. They
are approximately true for today, for in-
dications point to your having to work
still more for profits and still less for
your own wages in 1941,

The declining percentage of national
income going to labor “is one of the
serious causes of depressions,” the C.1.O.
Outlook notes. It means that the Cana-
dian people become less and less able to
buy what they can produce. A sound
economy depends upon an expanding
domestic market. But the present trend
to huge and huger profits, while wage
costs per unit of production decline,
means a lopsided economy. What wil
counterbalance the 1939 increase of sev-
enty times the profit of 1938 reaped by
the Canadian Western Lumber Co.
(Comox Log and Fraser Mills) for ex-
ample,

To right this situation, more purchas-
ing power must be given to the people
with the greatest consuming power. That
means higher wages, payable from the
present profit surpluses—and the I.W.A.
is performing a socially beneficial duty
when it negotiates such increases.

LABOR

AND THE LAW
B
aon
JOHN STANTON

REGULATION 89-C.

We have already seen how, under vari-
ous Defense of Canada Regulations, union
leaders to the number of about 70 have
been interned without trial; how peaceful
picketing rights have been threatened
and how union literature has been made
the subject of police suspicion.

Under yet another regulation (39-C) a
number of organizations have been de-
clared illegal, and it has been made a
crime for any person to be an officer or
member, or for anyone publicly to advo-
cate or defend their principles.

While as yet no trade union has actu-
ally come within these provisions, yet cer-
tain facts about regulation ‘39-C have a
definite bearing upon freedom of work-
ers’ organizations which should not be
lost upon union men.

Up to the present some 30 organizations
have been banned in Canada. They can,
roughly speaking, be classified as follows:
3 German Fascist; 6 Italian Fascist; 17
Canadian working class; 2 Canadian Fas-
cist; 2 Miscellaneous (Technocracy and
Jehova’s Witnesses).

It is interesting to note that a number
of those organizations classified as “Can-
adian Working Class” were banned some

days prior to the outlawing of the six

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‘The London Jewellers has reopened
under new management. We take
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especially to workers. We specialize
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watches and ‘all our work is guaran-
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HERE 1S WHAT NATIONAL DEFENSE
IS DOING FOR THE INDUSTRIALIST

PROFITS
Corporation Ast 6 mos. 1940 Ist Gmos.1939  % Increase
General Electric $25,871,572 $16,370,192 58%
GPR. - 30,000,000 24,000,000 25%
Westinghouse Electric 9,837,012 6,338,787 55%
DuPonts .. 46,853,695 34,871,535 11%
Youngstown Sheet 2,423,212 546,193 340%
Bethlehem Steel 21,698,457 6,231,986 250%
Jones & Laughlin Steel 3,276,256 847,812 485%
Republic Steel 6,449,453 1,083,311 500%
Continental Can (1 year) ...... 14,088,386 5,207,290 110%
Caterpillar Tractor 3,509,514 2,315,380 52%
Allegheny Ludlum (Steel) 1,974,719 354,322 456%
Remington Arms . 1,219,000 144,000 150%
Container Corp. 1,128,735 32,249 3440%
US. Steel - 36,315,003 1,970,312 1740%
Inland Steel 5,933,499 3,785,060 58%
American Rolling Mill 2,084,599 1,669,150 25%
Crucible Steel 2,404,883 350,821 585%
Douglas Aircraft . 3,388,857 1,396,791 140%
Martin Aircraft 4,291,490 967,624 330%
United Aircraft 6,228,106 3,678,689 10%
Bendix Aviation 4,295,419 2,168,210 98%
Curtiss Wright - 6,235,969 3,370,804 85%
Wright Aeronautical — 2,599,989 2,331,036 20%
Chrysler . 30,494,274 25,845,771 20%
Allis Chalmers 2,609,758 1,700,422 53%
General Motors 13,575,460 100,992,531 13%
Bohn Aluminum ... 728,165 209,613 250%
Standard Oil of Calif. 10,369,495 7,117,604 46%
Shell Union Oil 9,449,947 2,162,422 336%
Remington Rand . 1,765,998 473,260 270%
Libby-Owen-Ford 5,176,748 2,654,813 95%

Italian Fascist groups.

None of the organizations were, either
before or at the time of banning, given
an opportunity of defending themselves
publicly or before any tribunal.

When consideration is taken of the
evident bias against working class groups
not only in this particular regulation but
in the others discussed in former columns,
it will not be hard for unions to realize
that their interests stand threatened on
a considerable scale by the regulations.

Next week I will discuss another order
in council, “PC 7440,” which even more
directly impinges upon the rights of
unions.

Is Your Cheque
BIG Enough?

The boss, after having handed a work-
er a cheque which had been in his pocket
several days and was consequently some-
what soiled, apologized for its condition,
remarking, “I hope you're not afraid of
germs.” The worker promptly replied,
“Oh, hell, no, germs couldn't live on my
cheque.”

Balmoral Barber Moves

Alf Lindahl, proprietor of the Balmoral
Barbers, long a patronizer of the Lumber
Worker advertising columns, announced
removal to “Fred’s Barber Shop,” 334
Main Street.

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