THE BCG LUMBER WORKER

CONSCRIPTION

‘The favorite subject of false leaders
oday is conscription. Organizations,
ups and individuals, certainly un-
representative of organized workers, have
‘been vociferously demanding conscrip-
‘tion of wealth, industry and labor. In
‘existing conditions this means, in effect,
‘conscription of labor only, The experi-
ence of the British people has shown
clearly that Industrial conscription is
used as a means of furthering the de-
struction of trade unién rights and im-
posing upon the workers conditions of
industrial serfdom. There are also pow-
erful tory forces in high places clamor-
ing for military conscription; in fact, a

prominent military authority was quoted
in the Vancouver papers recently as hav-
ing said, “Canada is making what may
be the last voluntary call for recruits.”

The King government has repeatedly
pledged itself against conscription for
overseas service and in that pledge we
unanimously support the policy of the
government. The Canadian people are
opposed to any kind of coercion of men
to enlist in the armed forces, because
coercion runs counter to Canadian de-
mocracy. It negates the basic democratic
rights we are informed we are fighting
for. The Canadian people reject abso-
lutely the claim of fascist totalitarian-
ism that an individual must give un-
questioning obedience to the state lead-
ers, whether right or wrong. Neither the
state nor any other power has the right
to compel a person to engage in that
which his beliefs declare to be a wrong-
ful act. Conscription cannot achieve any-
thing except to create irritation, bitter=
hess, a sense of intolerance and universal
dissatisfaction, which is destructive of na-
tional unity and leads to deep internal
divisions of long duration, just as it did
in the last war, Conscription is contrary
to the desires of the vast majority of the

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ean and must insist that the government
adhere to its oft-stated pledge, and not
deceive the people,

Dividends
i CIO militant strike policy has brought
more than $50,000,000 in annual wage in-
creases to its members, AFL no-strike
Policy is making it harder for AFL mem-
bers to win wage increases.

This didn’t stop the five railroad
brotherhoods from following in CIO foot-
steps to demand 30 per cent wage in-
ereases for 350,000 workers. This would
put another $168,000,000 in pockets of Am-
erican workers,

“Tho greater the difficulties are, the
stronger we resist. The final vi
must be ours.”—Dr, P, D, Chang, in
“China Today,

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IWA Lauds Murray
Position On Troops

Following is the text of a message
from International President 0. M.
Orton to CIO President Philip Mur-
ray, sent June 16:

“Your forthright and unequivocal
statement on the position of the CIO
condemning the use of American
troops to break strikes thus creating
forced labor, your charge that the
work or fight edict of draft board
constitutes a flagrant abuse of the
conscription law, your condemnation
of any move by the National Defense
Mediation Board to usurp or be given
the authority to impose compulsory
arbitration or interfere in any way
with the base rights of Iabor, meets
with the full approval of the IWA and
its membership. Rest assured that we
shall carry out your request for action
|| at once in support of your categorical

denunciation of the administration's
present labor policy. Your courageous
and inflexible stand in behalf of the
basic rights of free labor merits the
support of every sincere and liberty
loving American.

O. M. ORTON, President,
International Woodwork-
ers of America.”

IMPORTANT MEETS

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part in finding a solution to the prob-
lems of increased wage taxes, heavy
taxes on travel to and from the job,
refrigeration for food carried on the
Union boats, higher wages and better
working conditions which can be ob-
tained through SIGNED UNION
AGREEMENTS. The time: THURS-
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38 KILLED

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A delayed report has come in of the
death on May 26, of Alex Berisoff, a
Doukhobor logger, employed in the
cutting of fence posts for Stanmore and
Lindstrom at Salmo, about 25 miles south
of Nelson. Berlsoff was killed when
struck by a falling tree top.

A later report recelved regarding the
death of Hjalmar Larson, who was re-
ported in our last issue as having been
accidentally killed, shows that he died
of natural causes, having suffered a,
heart attack on his first day at work
after an illness.

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JOHN STANTON

(PC 7440 Continued)

You will remember that the first part
of PC 7440 pegs wages at the 1926-29 level
by ordering Arbitration Boards to recog-
nize that the wage level then. prevailing
is “generally fair and reasonable.”

But what happens if the 1926-29 level
is found to be higher than the prevailing
wage today? In that case PC 7440 re-
quires Arbitration Boards to limit a
wage increase in any one year, if granted,
to five per cent of existing wages.

This is a point often overlooked by
unions in their campaign against PC
7440, It is perfectly true, as Unions say,
that this order-in-council “pegs wages.”
But the “peg” is not always inserted
even at 1926-29 levels. It can be lower.
And it must by law be lower if to restore
the 1926-29 level would result in wages
higher than those prevailing today in a
given industry or locality.

The full implications of this order
are not often realized. It means in
effect, that if employers since 1929
have succeeded in forcing wages in a
given industry or locality downwards,
these wages cannot now be restored to
the 1929 level. They must remain below
it except for a maximum annual in-
crease of five per cent.

Note also the words “industry or lo-
cality.” They permit a Board full free-
dom to set wages in one locality at lower
levels than those prevailing in the same
industry elsewhere. For example, if a
new steel workers’ union in Quebec,
-where— wages’ ‘até “generally low, “seeks”
a wage increase, it is useless for that
union to prove that in the same steel
industry in Ontario higher wages prevail.

The question might well be asked
whether a union going to arbitration for
higher wages might find the Board order-
ing lower wages than those already being
paid. PC 7440 does not go quite that far
because it provides that established wage
rates in effect as of December 19, 1940,
“ought not to be reduced by reason of
any principle herein set out.” You will
note, however, the word “ought” which
means that a Board would, technically
speaking, be free to lower wage rates
now being paid in an arbitration in which
a union was seeking a wage increase.
Of course, it is doubtful whether a Board
would go to such lengths in view of the
above provisions; but it is nevertheless
a possibility,

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Page Five

In Defense Of
Interned Labor
Leaders

One of the first principles guaranteed
by. a democratic nation is personal lib-
erty. No person suspected of an offence
should be deprived of his freedom until
he has had a fair trial in an open court
with a-full right to present his side of
the case. 5

The people of England established
this right in Magna Charta, wherein it
states, “No free man is to be taken or
imprisoned or dispossessed or outlawed
or exiled or in any way destroyed—except
by legal judgment of his peers,”

Yet, here in-Canada today, people are
being quietly removed to concentration
camps without trial’ and without any
charges being laid and consequently with
no possibility of defending themselves.
Many of those thus interned are prom-
inent labor leaders, such as International
Vice-President C. S. Jackson of the United
Electric, Radio and Machine Workers of
America (CIO),. who was spirited away
this week in the latest “Gestapo-act” of
the R.C.M.P.

This is happening here and now and is
made possible by Section 21 of the De-
fense of Canada Regulations.

A group of interested people, trying te
obtain justice for these interned labor
leaders, have formed the Committee for
the Release of Labor Internees, From
June 15 to July 15 a campaign will be
conducted to establish a fund with which
to carry on ‘this work, as legal advice
and other necessary expenses will be in-
curred.

The committee, in launching this cam-
paign, urges everyone to assist them fin-
ancially. Further information may be
obtained from the chairman of the com-
mittee; Mrs, -McKean,-at HIgh.  0900-¥,
2561 Cambridge Street, Vancouver,

Those labor leaders who are trying to
convince people that Roosevelt is still
“liberal” will have a very hard time, After

all, there isn’t any “liberalism” in the steel
of a bayonet!

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