August 29, 1942

THE B.C.

LUMBER WORKER

Page Five

B.C. LUMBER WORKER

Bi-weekly Bulletin Published by
B.C. DISTRICT COUNCIL

International Woodworkers of America
Editor

NIGEL MORGAN

Room 604, Holden Bidg., Vancouver, B.0,
Phone, PActfic 9727

Make Payments to: “LW.A, B.C. D.C.”

Good Shop Stewards
Help Build the Union

The union Shop Steward system is a
weapon of democracy. That is its funda~
mental meaning. Where the foreman’s
power is handed down to him by the man-
agement on top, the Steward’s power
comes from the workers below. The fore-
man in the last analysis is responsible
to the owners of the camp or mill. His
job is done successfully when their in-
terests are served. In the same way, the
Shop Steward is responsible to the ma-
jority—the workers, and his job is done
successfully when their interests are well
served.

The Shop Steward cannot take action
without the backing of the people in his
department, camp or mill, This is a
fundamental truth, which also applies to
the union as a whole, and cannot be re-
peated too often. BUT THIS FACT IS
NO EXCUSE FOR INACTION. No Shop
Steward can sit on his hands and allow
the company to ride roughshod, simply
because the workers in his camp or mill
have not taken the bit in their teeth and
endeavored to solve their problem in an
organized fashion, It is the Shop Stew-
ard’s job to go out and win democratic
support for union policies which in his
experiance and knowledge of the labor
movement prove to be right. Shop Stew-
ards in every camp and mill should re-
member that forces hostile to a 100 per
cent organized lumber industry in B.C.,
inside and outside the operation, are at
all times seeking to influence the work-
ets away from the organization and if
possible disrupt it. Unless the Shop Stew-
ard gives positive leadership on behalf of
TWA-CIO principles, he will find the
Workers pulled away from him.

To make democracy work, therefore,
the Shop Steward must be prepared to
put a solid program before those he is
“working with and if need be, fight for its
support. When necessary he should call

in Sub-Local, Local or even District of-
ficlals of the union.

He must awaken and encourage his
fellow workers to take part themselves
in working out union policy, He should
fight at all times against “card carrier”
spirit. He should know and teach others,
that the union is no slot machine into
which men drop $1.50 a month and re-
ceive automatic returns in the form of
better wages, hours and conditions.

The successful Shop “Steward has his
department, camp or mill lined up solidly
behind the union. He will take every op-
portunity to push forward the IWA pro-
gram for better wages and working con-
ditions in B.C. lumber. He will make reg-
ular reports to union headquarters for
publication in the “B.C, Lumber Worker,”
the “International Woodworker” and
“Green Gold.” And in the true spirit
of unionism, he will do everything to
unite, and absolutely nothing to disunite,
those good union men with whom he
works, who are prepared to ‘shoulder
their share of union work,

Hats off to the hundreds of IWA Shop
Stewards in the camps and mills along
the B.C. coast, who are the lifeblood of
our organization, Fellow members, let’s
realize the responsibilities they share and
help to make them easier by doing our
part to help build a bigger and better
IWA. Take your grievances and problems
to your Shop Steward. Pay your dues
promptly, Attend your meetings reg-
ularly.

THE FIVE “W’s”

WHO, WHERE, WHAT, WHY, WHEN

In writing reports to the “B.C, Lum-
ber Worker,” the “International Wood-
worker” or “Green Gold,” make sure they
answer the above five questions as nearly
as possible before sending them in. No
report on an accident, conditions in camp
or a grievance is complete without them.

For the guidance of correspondents in
camp, here are some specimen questions
that should be answered in any report: .

© In covering accidents, give the name
of injured man, time and place, probable
cause, and general remarks; whether in
your opinion the accident could have been
avoided and whether safety regulations
are lived up to, ete.

@ Is there discriminatioi? Do the

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LABOR UNIONS ASK
SECOND FRONT NOW

In full realization of the part labor
must play to ensure a quick and decisive
victory over Hitler, trade unions all over
the country are organizing meetings to
urge opening of a Second Front and
pledging full aid on the production line
to make sure that such a front can be
adequately maintained. :

At a meeting called by the IWA in
Courtenay on August 19, Nigel Morgan,
IWA District Secretary, told an enthusi-
astic audience that “the time to open a
second front is now or never. What sac-
rifice is-too great to save us from the
fate of the peoples of Holland and the
rest of Europe?” he asked, pointing out
that delay would mean victory for Hit-

ler and the rule of fascism all over the}

world,

Called by the powerful Dock and Ship-
yard Workers’ Union, a conference on
the Second Front was attended by rep-
resentatives of many unions in the city
last weekend, Resolutions were passed
unanimously, urging Prime Minister King
and Major-General A. G. L, McNaughton
to use their influence for the opening of
a second land front immediately and
pledging support of all unions in the all-
out production of needed supplies. The
meeting also called for the enacting of
the equivalent to the U.S. Wagner Act in
Canada as the best means of obtaining
labor’s best efforts in the war.

Charles Saunders, president of the Dock
and Shipyard Workers’ Union, chairman
of the meeting, was applauded when he
declared, ‘The time for hesitancy is past.
This is the time for decisive action. .. .
In Britain, the United States and Can-
ada, the people are calling for an invasion
of Europe. The second front is not
to aid Russia alone; it is to halt the tide
of Hitlerism short of our own homes.
‘The second front can be opened; our task
is to lead the demand for it and back our
demand with the utmost production of
which we are capable.”

Similar meetings “have been called in
various other places, including Alberni
and Lake Cowichan.

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camp?

@ How is the wage scale, grub, sani-
tary arrangements, tools and equipment
and the bunkhouse accommodation?

@ Is there a committee in camp and is
the paper distributed regularly?

And to those who hesitate to write in
because of difficulty with the language,
don’t let that be a hindrance. We want
the news and our “experts” can translate
anything from Sanserit to Senegalese

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‘Broken Down Faller’

I'm only a broken down faller,
My life in the woods I have spent;
I've been fooled and played for a sucker;
My back is tired and bent.

‘The cross-cut saw was my fiddle

The spruce stump my big base drum;
The axe and sledge my clappers,

My spirit Demarara rum.

My life was happy go lucky,

Scarlet women were my delight,

‘And soon as a wrong word was spoken,
I’a put up my “dukes” and fight.

Pay day was my hey day

When on beer and rum I’d get drunk,
And T’d wake up in the morning
Broke and feeling just punk,

I'd scoff at the guys in the office,

And called them belittling names,

I realize now that I’m older,

We used our backs while they used their
brains.

The falling spruce dulled my hearing,
The blazing sun dimmed my sight,
The end of my days I am nearing
But I'l rally for one last big fight.

The end of my days I am nearing,
I know it only too well;

But I'll be working, sweating and
swearing
With my axe and saw in H—.

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