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SON’S GREETINGS

OVER FASCISM IN 1942!

KENNER IRENE K LDN ULRICH LE EILEEN,

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VANCOUVER, B.C., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1941

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_ ANNUAL MEETING

The general annual meeting of Local

__inereases, improved working conditions
and organizational gains consistent with
_ the program of our International Union
_ and the CIO, establishing our Union as
an ever-growing, powerful, stabilizing
foree in the lumbering industry which
commands respect and recognition of the
powerful logging industry,

This will be the most momentous meet-
ing ever held by Local 1-71 IWA, We will
examine our activities of the past year
and lay plons for the next year. It is your
_ union. Come and participate in the busi-
hess of your union,

NOVICH! Election of officers, standing
committees and delegates to various
bodies will take place. Speakers will in-
clude Nigel Morgan, secretary B, C. Dist-
rict Council and International Board
| Member IWA; H. Bergren, President
B, C, District Council IWA; and H. J.
Pritchett, Board Member B. C. District
Council TWA and secretary Vancouver
Labour Council CCL. We have sent invi-
_ tations to Karly Larson, President North-
ern Washington District Council IWA
and Sam Guthrie, CCF member of the
British Columbia Legislature from Cowi-
chan-Neweastle to address the meeting.

‘The annual conference will convene on
December 80th, 1940, in the Assembly
‘Hall, 5th floor, Holden Building, 16 Hast

Hastings Street, Vancouver, B. C. at

10 am.

Board to Sit on

Sash Dispute

_ The arbitration board set up under
the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitra-
_ tion Act to investigate the dispute be-
tween the Contractors Supply Sash and
Door Company Limited of Vancouver and
its employees, members of IWA Local
1-217, will hold its first session on Friday,
December 12, at 7 p.m.

Phe board is under the chairmanship

Stanton, barrister, will represent the em-
1 and KE. Meredith, barrister, will

nt the company.

three main questions to be arbi-

are union recognition, seven arid

aalf cents hourly increase in wages,

@ and one-half for overtime,

rd is the first to be constituted

1-71 will convene with a record of wage |

Local Union Officers

John McOuish

Ernie Dalskog
President Secretary
Local 1-71 Local 1-71

-IWA District Convention To
Help Solve War Problems

Every winter, during the Christmas shutdown, the International
Woodworkers of America (CIO), District Council No. 1, holds its Annual
Convention in Vancouver. Next January 3 and 4, the Fifth Annual Con-

vention vill be held in the Auditorium,
the fifth floor of the Holden Building,

at 10 am,
At this convention, to which is

next to IWA Headquarters on
16 East Hastings Street, commencing

expected the largest and most repre-

sentative delegation ever to attend a woodworkers’ convention in
Canada, loggers and millworkers will gather from practically every sec-
tion of the great 30,000-man industry in B.C, stretching along more than
two. thousand miles of rugged coastline.

With a proud record of achievement during the past year, resulting in

increased membership, substantial
ment of contractual relations with
tion promises to be one of the most

wage gains and the firm establish-
a number of employers, this conven-
important in the history of the union,

facing as it will the new threats of fascist aggression and consequent

An Editorial

IWA Offers All-O

ut Aid

In National Emergency

ie devastating force of war, which yesterday may have seemed remote

to some of us, has suddenly been

thrown right at our doorstep. With

the Hawiian Islands, which were severely bombed on Sunday, closer to

British Columbia than they are to

Japan, the threat of destruction as

a result of ruthless fascist aggression becomes a terrorizing reality. For

years labor leaders and labor papers,

have warned against the appeasement®
of imperialist Japan; demanded a halt
to the export of scrap iron, logs, oil
and other resources, and pointed out
that by the continuation of such ship-
ments to Japan certain industrialists
were assisting in the slaughter of mil-
lions of innocent Chinese people.

And yet the gallant fight that has
been waged alone against Japan by the
Chinese people for ten years, the struggle
of the people of Spain, the trade union-
ists an dunderground movement in Nor-
way, France, Czechoslovakia, ;Austria,
and in fact all Central Hurope, is an
important factor in making up the dif-
ference between victory and defeat, with
its terrible consequences for our people.

UTSIDE of China and the Asiatic

mainland, the new front has no
limits except those imposed by the
flight range of bombérs and the cruising
range of submarines and aircraft car-
riers. Within this range British Colum-
bia has overnight become a part of the
new front, our cities a possible target
for enemy bombs, our shipping the pos-
sible victim of submarine attack. And,
if such attack comes, it is not unlikely
that sawmills in the midst of the in-
dustrial areas will be amongst the first
to suffer.

rPHE International Woodworkers of
America (CIO), speaking officially
for the organized lumber workers on
the West Coast, unconditionally supports
the Canadian Government in Its dec-
laration of war on Japan. Many mem-
bers of our union, particularly from
the sawmills are already serving in
the Armed Forces and Air Raid Pre-
eautions work. In this new crisis we
appeal for, and we are confident that

including the B.C. Lumber Worker,

new volunteers will come forward to
share in the defence of our coasts, fur-
ther demonstrating organized labor's de-
termination to contribute its utmost to
victory over fascist aggressors, who will
enslave or slaughter the whole world
unless halted. Workers have always
been, are now and will always stand
firm jin their opposition to fascism
whether of the Hitlerite or Mikado brand.
It must be defeated and destroyed. De-
mocracy can survive in no. other way.
Nor can the people in any section of the
world have security until this has be-
come an accomplished fact. Toward this
end the IWA-CIO pledges our. Govern-
ment all possible aid.

WHO ,'s better able to assist in guard
duty along the sparsely populated
coast of B.C. and the Queen Charlotte
Islands than the loggers; who knows
their way around and understands the
layout of our mills better than our saw-
mill workers?

cS! THIS serious crisis, therefore, con-
fronting us today, we offer the ful-
lest cooperation of the facilities of our
organization in this work. We urge
members of the IWA to attend ARP
classes so as to aid in the immediate
preparation of adequate Air raid pre-
cautions. At the same time, we call on
the government authorities to take im-
mediate steps to provide air raid shel-
ters, gas masks, additional hoses and
equipment for fighting incendiary bombs,
addiitonal beds, medical supplies and
food in case of attack; and to take over
several of the largest buildings to pro-
vide adequate shelters in each locality in

See ALL-OUT AID—Page 4

{f destruction of all that labor holds dear.
~ lai tall sent out over the signa=-
tures of the District Officers, President
H. Bergren, Vice President Ernie Dal-

skog and ecretary Nigel Morgan states
in part:

“The gains and lessons of the past year
will be carefully reviewed, and a program
drafted to guide our Union in this Dist-
rict for the coming season. Great respon-
sibilities face our organization, meeting
at this time when Fascism has grown
from a hideous and reactionary doctrine
into a positive military menace, Labor
has always loathed everything for which
Fascism stands, Destruction of labor
unions and democracy; worsening of
wages and living conditions; racial intol-
erance and aggressive militarism are the
Fascist program for the entire world.
Here it is the antithesis of everything the
IWA, the CIO and the CCL stand for.
But this Fascism is now more than a
Political creed or form of government in
certain foreign countries. With all the
Power of Hitler's tremendous war mach-
ine behind it, it has become a program
of world conquest,

See DISTRICT CONVENTION—Page 4

IWA Members...
Note These Dates!

Monday, December 29. — Annual
meeting, IWA Local 1-71, held in
the Auditorium, Holden Bldg.,
Fifth Floor, opening at 10 am.

Tuesday, December 30.— Loggers’
Annual Ball, to be held in the
Georgia Street Auditorium, 9
p.m. to 1 am. Admission $1.00,
including refreshments,

Saturday, January 3.—Opening ses-
sion of the B.C. District Conven-
tion in the Auditorium, Fifth
Floor, Holden Bldg., 10 a.m.

Sunday, January 4, — Loggers’
Mass Victory Rally in the even-
ing, 8pm. |