THE B.C. LUMBER WORKER

B.C. LUMBER WORKER

Published Every Other Saturday by
. DISTRICT COUNCIL, International Woodworkers of America

Managing Editor: NIGEL MORGAN
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Make Payments to: “LW.A., B.C. District Council”

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war effort.

IL GATES ARE CLOSED;
COME ANTI-FASCISTS!

tes of Hull jail closed shut on the only remaining anti-fascists last
culminating a vigorous campaign of Labor, the CCF, and church
tions and many other groups of freedom-loving Canadian

By the release of these men the Canadian Government has not only
d tremendous forces to fight Hitler, but has reassured the Cana-
people, as the leaders of all other Allied nations have done, that we
fight Hitler with Hitler tactics. These men have over a period of
years proven themselves to be staunch anti-fascists and now are
wr to carry on in whatever capacity they are best fitted to help the

Canada’s war effort, although great on the Production Front, in Ci-
-yilian Defense, in the record sale of Victory Bonds and the recruiting
of thousands to our Armed Forces, will now be overshadowed and im-
‘proved. Our government has within its power the releasing of even yet
greater forces by immediately providing collective bargaining by which
law they could further reassure the Canadian people and especially the
working people. Our government if it desires can lift immediately the
ban on all patriotic anti-fascist organizations that stand for the immedi-

_ ate defeat of the Axis.
4 ‘The International Woodworkers

of America welcome home the in-

terned anti-fascists, and commends the government in the latest action
for total war and urges that in the interests of further speeding up the
defeat of fascism it act without hesitation to implement the finding of
the Parliamentary Committee which recommended the lifting of the ban
on the Communist Party of Canada, the Ukrainian Farmer-Labor Temple
Association, and other anti-fascist organizations.

€., Victory Bonds

Destroy Fascism
With the objective of $750,000,000,

Canada’s Third Victory Bond Drive
is past its half-way mark, smashing
all records established to date, But
there is still no room for compla-
cency and the drive requires con-
tinued support.

One of the oustanding features of
this drive is the high degree of co-
operation between labor and man-
agement. Especially is it true on
the part of organized labor, where,
in every instance that the labor
unions in cooperation with the
management had united to make

e drive a success, the quotas have

Gr cscs: reached and excelled.
This shows that organized labor
is desirous of an offensive war now,
is desirous of providing the where-
withal for our government to pur-
chase tanks, planes, guns and mu-
nitions to create the necessary fire
power to open a second front now.
_ With our Chinese and Russian al-
“lies fighting with their backs to
the wall to defend their homes and
their country, and actually defend-
our homes and our country, Ca-
n labor is rallying to the Vic-
Bond drive as never before,
with the full realization that our
“government must have the where-
-withal and must act now before it

eity and in so doing, support the
sive war against fascism, The

ROW, Let's show Hitler
Japan we intend to fight.

Labor Forum

Continued from Page Five)

ers’ Educational Association, which
is co-operating with the CBC to
sponsor the Labor Forum as a reg-
every
Wednesday evening at nine o'clock,
PDT. The letters received show
how extensive and sincere is the

ular weekly presentation

appreciation among listeners of this
fine radio program.

“Many times we have taken part
in the singing of ‘Solidarity ’in the
workers’ labor movement in West-
ern Canada,” ‘says a letter received
from Monteith up in the shadow
of James Bay. “Up here in these
scattered communities, where we
haven’t even a discussion group,
your songs and your fine outline of
things to come over the air this
season brought us back into the
fold.”

THEME SONG POPULAR.

A letter from the Timmins Mine
and Mill Workers’ Union said: “We
joined with you last night. in sing-
ing “Solidarity Forever” — a few
members and friends who gathered
together for the broadcast. The
immediate result was the forma-
tion of a study group here.”

A Sudbury letter said: “We noted
with satisfaction your statement
that wherever management has ac-
cepted co-operation with labor, pro-
duction for a total war effort has
been stepped up. We have a situ-
ation in Northern Ontario which
ealls for complete co-operation of
labor, management and govern-
ment — the transfer of labor from
the non-essential gold mining in-
dustry to the production of vital
war metals, whose output is suffer-
ing from labor shortage.

JOHN STANTON

Barrister, Solicitor, Notary

503 Holden Blag.
16 East Hastings MaAr. 5746

COLLECTIVE
BARGAINING

“ail this, however, does not
necessarily mean that strikes and
industrial wars are bound to be
more numerous, more frequent, or
more prolonged. Just as experi-
enced political democracies have
learned to settle the most bitter
controversies by the peaceful
methods of balloting, legislating,
and submission to judicial de-
cisions, so there has been enough
experience with the processes of
democracy in industry to settle
labor controversies also while
peace and order are being main-
tained , . .”

So wrote William Leiserson, a
government appointed member of
the U.S. National Labor Relations
Board recently, Two-thirds of Can-

L223

Hello Boys:

This
Bulleook, dead sober, speaking to
you again from that great Canadian
net work, the IWA over Station
LBWR.

You know, I always was inter-
ested in the feats and exploits of
Paul Bunyan. I read a lot about
Paul but I never knew much about
his family. They tell me he was
married to a good-natured, big,
contented wife. He now has a few
descendents in the Armed Forces
of the U.S.A.

The Readers’ Digest a few

ada’s labor disputes have centered
around the question of collective
bargaining, along a fundamental
right protected by law in Great
Britain, New Zealand, Australia,
the United States and other coun-
tries.

Today, when Canada is fighting
for its very existence, we cannot af-
ford to lose valuable hours of pr
duction because certain employers,
who apparently fear organized
labor more than they hate Hitler,
insist on maintaining their outworn
opposition to legitimate govern-
ment-recognized trade unions at the
expense of our war effort. In a
recent press statement commenting
on the anti-labor award handed
down in the MacMillan Plywoods
dispute, Minister of Labor Hon. G.
S. Pearson stated:

‘Most of our dispu‘tes are over
the refusal of companies to prop-
erly bargain with the properly
elected representatives of their
employees and further by the posi-
tive refusal of some employers to
accept union agreements.

“I have come to the conclusion,
in my personal opinion, that the
time is riow ripe to seriously con-
sider amendments to the act so
that employers shall be compelled
to bargain with the properly
elected committees of their em-
ployees and where the majority of
the employees can be shown to be
bona fide members of a properly
constituted trade union employers
shall be compelled to recognize
the union as a bargaining agent
for his employees.”

Mr. Pearson obviously is aware
that continued denial of collective
bargaining rights today, constitutes
a serious obstruction to maximum
war production, Organized labor
endorses that statement and wel-
comes the Labor Minister's intima-
tion that the Industrial Conciliation
and Arbitration Act will be opened
at the next session of the Legis-
lature to establish these rights by
law.

Undoubtedly, one of the basic rea-
sons for labor unrest in this critical
period is the refusal of some em-
Ployers to recognize workers’ right
to organize in unions of their own
choice, to bargain collectively, and
to grant labor an equal voice in pro-
duction through their organizations.

Organized labor has done, and
will continue to do its utmost to
boost production to destroy Hitler
fascism, It could, however, accom-
plish much more with full recog-
nition and the establishment of
compulsory collective bargaining,
which with the agreement that
would result from it, would provide
the agency for the peaceful and
orderly settlement of the most con-

troversial questions,

months ago offered a substantial
prize for the best tale submitted
by members of the Armed Forces.
Amongst the tales submitted is one
by a sailor named Bunyan.

It appears that one night in port
a stranger asked him, “Say, lad,
what's the Navy doing these days?”
“I don’t know what the battle
wagons are doing,” he said, “but if
the Heinies don’t get wise soon they
will have no subs left. The des-
troyer I’m on is in the green paint
division. We carry a load of green
paint, and whenever we detect
a sub we circle the danger zone,
pouring paint on the surface. The
enemy, hearing our motors, comes
up to look. When his periscope
comes out of the water it gets a
film of green paint on it. Right
then they don't know they are
breaking water, so the sub keeps
on rising. We just wait until they
get about 400 feet in the air and
then knock them down with our
anti-aireraft guns.”

One of his listeners says: “Are
those destroyers fast?” “I don’t
know,” says Bunyan, “up until now
we haven't had any occasion to
open them up. You see, all we have
had to do so far is to follow the
planes fighting across the ocean.”

Well, boys, I don’t need to go
to a fictious character to get a
tall tale. Yesterday I met a good
old friend of mine, whom many
of you know. His name is Harvey
Murphy. You all remember him
as a great leader and: organizer.
He is all that and also a great
story-teller. We were chatting
after lunch today talking about old
times. “Yes,” says Murphy, “I'll
never forget one night in the
Fernie district. I just arrived in
town when some miner spots me
and says, ‘You are Mr. Murphy,
the organizer? We want you to
give us a hand tonight at the hall.
Every miner walked out of the
mine today at 2'p.m, They'll all be at
the hall at 7.’ I walked in at that
time and the hall was full. Some-
one at the door escorted me to the
platform and asked me to start
the meeting. I immediately called
for order and silence and asked for
nomination for a chairman. Up
jumped a rough and ready miner
and nominated Mike Sylveski. I
then asked, has anyone any ob-
jection to Brother Sylveski taking
the chair? ‘Yes,’ hollered a big
husky from the back of the hall,
‘last year he signed a verbal agree-
ment with the company and it was
no good at all’ Another fellow
jumped up and said, ‘Mr. Presi-
dent, I move that Mike takes the
chair and also move that this damn
verbal agreement be torn up be-
cause it is not worth the paper it
is written on.’ Yes, says Harvey,
those miners were backward al-
right as far as trade union pro-
cedure was concerned, but how
they could fight for their rights.”

Listen to me, Millworkers, the
miners Murphy was talking about
are all organized and covered by
good union agreements. You boys
are now in the process of trying
to get recognition in black and
white. There is only one way to
get it and that is to stay with
your IWA and keep on fighting
until you get it. The harder you
fight the quicker you will get it

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VICTORY VERSE
Tom Clinton writes:
Let’s take the “Hit” out of Hitler,
Smash him with dollars and guns.
Strike! with the Victory Dagger—
Fight, with our valiant sons!

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