DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS
COMM. INITIATES
BROAD CAMPAIGN

Under the chairmanship of Mrs,
Nellie McKean, wife of a B.C, anti-
fascist labor leader now interned,
with Wilfred Ravenor as district sec-
retary, the British Columbia District
Committee of the National Commit-
tee for Democratic Rights has
opened offices at 307 Dominion Bank
Building. The committee stands for
an all-out war effort against Hitler
by rallying the Canadian people to
preserve their democratic rights and
to combat the encroachments of
Nazi-Fascism upon the Canadian
democratic way of life.

In its stand for democracy against
fascism the committee will serve the
cause of victory by a campaign to up-
hold, preserve and strengthen the rights
of freedom of speech, freedom of as-
sembly, freedom of the press, and free-
dom of organization in Canada; to work
for the repeal of all legislation which
places restrictions upon these rights; to
work for the release of labor leaders in-
terned or imprisoned, and who are op-
ponents of fascism.

LOCAL PROTEST.

As part of its work to ald the preserva-
tion of democratic rights the Vancouver
Committee is urging local trade unions
and all progressive organizations to make
vigorous protest to the Vancouver city
council against proposals of the Police
and Traffic Committee, which commit-
tee has instructed Corporation Counsel
D. E. McTaggart to investigate legal
powers whereby the distribution of hand-
bills may be banned. If such a restric-
tion Is given effect it will prevent public
distribution of handbills by trade unions
for such necessary purposes as giving in-
formation respecting labor disputes. In
calling for protests against this proposed
banning of handbills the committee points
out that it is a valuable democratic right
that our trade unions are able to issue
handbills to combat the propaganda of
Powerful corporations who can spend
several thousands of dollars per day for
large advertisements giving their side
of labor disputes. Also the use of hand-
bills ts an effective and necessary means
of public information and for strengthen-
ing the cause of democracy and build-
ing an all-out war effort against Nazi-
Fascism,

Opening a campaign to make its aims
Public, the committee sponsored a mass
meeting this week at which Lieut, Wm.
Kardash, veteran of the Spanish war
and member-clect of the Manitoba Leg-
islature for North Winnipeg, launched
an appeal to all progressive citizens to
support the work of this committee to
safeguard their traditional rights and
liberties under the democratic way of life.

The organizational plan of the B.C.
District Committee is to establish
branches in main centres throughout the
province, Financial help is being
solicited to render assistance to the de.

» pendents of interned labor leaders, and

for expenses for legal action to obtain
redress and carry on the campaign
against further internment of anti-fas-
eist Jabor leaders. Any donations should
be sent to the Committee rooms, at 307
Dominion Bank Building, Vancouver,

THE B.C. LUMBER WORKER

WORKER SAYS UNION NECESSARY FOR
IMPROVEMENT IN SAFETY CONDITIONS

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To the Editor—How much longer are we going to see ourselves abuse bi
pushed around without the right to say anything about the conditions
under which we work, and the low wages. It is time we get wise to our-

selves and did something about it.

Lots of the accidents here in Cameron’s?

Mill are uncalled for. We are supposed
to have a Compensation Safety Commit-
tee, but, who are they? Very few know
who they are, The only time we who
work here see them is after an accident.
Where are they the rest of the time —
hibernating? What should be done about
it? The safety committee should have
a man in each section of the mill, and
elected by the employees every month,
instead of the committee that’s been in
for years, members of which are only
from-the planing mill and local yard.
What does a planing mill man know
about the rest of the mill or vice versa?
It is time we had something to say about
such inefficiency on the part of the man-
agement. When the committee does turn
in a report on necessary fixing in some
department, what happens? The manage-
ment might fix it if it isn’t going to cost
too much. The chief engineer, Mr. Wirt-
anen, has a big say in what will be fixed.
He likes to keep expenses down rather
than fix up places where fellows are
getting mangled, crippled and smashed
up for life. This engineer must have a
heart of stone, and no conscience at all.
His bullheadedness is unparalleled.
Nothing can be changed in the whole mill
unless he gives consent, and there are
plenty of things that badly need atten-
tion. Little he cares that we have to
strain our eyes to see the lumber on

CIO Kills King’s
Company Union

OTTAWA, Ont. — (CUN). — Canadian

labor heard with interest last week that
the grand-daddy of company unions,
created more than 25 years ago by Prime
Minister Mackenzie King while employed
by the Rockefeller interests, had finally
been given a death blow by the Tenth
Circuit Court of Appeals at Denver. The
court ruled that the Colorado Fuel and
Iron Company should disestablish the
Employees’ Representation plan at its
Sunrise, Wyo. iron ore mine, stop di
couraging membership in the Interna-
tional Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers’
Union and bargain with it. The plan
devised by King provided for joint com-
mittees of employees and company ex-
ecutives with the company paying the
expenses and controlling the organiza-
tion. Premier King’s support of company
union plans has diminished little, in the
opinion of Canadian labor, since the gov-
ernment has provided little if any en-
forcement of Order-in-Council 2685 pro-
viding that industry should recognize
genuine unions,

DENTISTS

LLEWELLYN

Dr. R. Douglas

Phone PAc, 6949

Corner
Richards and Hastings

account of the lights being so high up,
when it would be a simple matter to
lower them,
| Then there is the case of a young fel-
low a couple of weeks ago who got caught
in the sprocket chain of one of the elec-
tric motors. The buttons to stop the
motor are ten feet away. Why are they
not closer, and why wasn’t the sprocket
chain covered? In this particular spot
there have been many accidents. Here
are a few that have happened during the
past few’ years. z
Two men with crushed toes. Three with
strained backs, one of whom was injured
in January of this year and is still in hos-
pital. Another man unable to work, due
to His hands having gone stiff. Still an-
other broke his finger in two places,
Three other cases of smashed fingers.
Some of these accidents are due to im-
proper guards, insufficient room to work
in safety, in addition to speeding up and
crowding workers to do more work than
can be expected of any man.

Very little is done to improve condi-
tions. The engineer’s attitude toward
us is one of contempt, and gives the im-
pression that he is the only one around
here with brains and intelligence, that
all we “slaves” are just dummies who are
not supposed to know or suggest any-
thing without getting into trouble.

When, after some one has béen hurt
and we try to have the engineer fix the
particular spot which caused the accir
dent, what does he say? “It's been
running that way for years, why change
it?”

How much longer are we going to put
up with getting smashed up in accidents
through faulty equipment and such?
What we need is a union to make our
employer realize we have got intelligence,
and will go after the right to speak out
for safer conditions of work, wages that
will allow us to live decently under the
rising cost of living, These same condi-
tions are general in other mills through-
out B.C., so let’s all get together now and
organize—not tomorrow, but- TODAY.

(BROTHER “x.”
(Can’t sign my name for fear
of discrimination).

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