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“LW.A., B.C,

November 16, 1942

E B.C. LUMBER WORKER

Page Seven

B.C. LUMBER WORKER
soem’ Bi eatin Leabetd pee Monday by
B.C. DISTRICT ‘oodworkers of America
Sie aca aie
ging Editor: B. J. MELNESS
9727 — Vancouver, B.C.
District Council”

declaration, “I refuse to bargain with my employees,” signed, a,|
sealed and de livered = the Se alocee to the union; and ever’ y-
body realizes that is never the way in which aut refusal is
xpressed,

happens is that such employers seize on eve:

avoid a signed agreement. Some
fencihie tact ae

nion.
in all its strength, the strength o:
great ‘eset (See Stain sesolutely cae their aoctliat
Bue is world fascism. To-| @.
day, the ‘Sok et Fe Union phere aoe ect, admiration and};
active support of th the Pas Nati Senos peoples every-
0. reco} its plorious fight for the freedom of
their eon is our eg

(O is there today, except the despicable eee pute

re will
in this world ariel our Aces and our liberties
at stad

today. We welcome the ae
now being taken, and are heartened. by. the success of
rican

in. PEO-

ay 1
the easinea

a growing all-o
will bring aang pata save the ay jest
e terrible ravages of fas

Time To Act, Mr. Pearson
itheson’s al week in Pi

rs
collecti tively with th ir employees ay ai
i i Arbi-

tration me as also of ee Federal igation a seed
cp eee pues petiestvs peparaain ining and thus
eae

ion a all i chaieeice

no employer can. be con-

it Rus:
ts and Soerety aes ae eee acti ion in Ru

SSNS Bs EEG feed

ye to pions strikes or to create dissension among
of war when we are engaged in a life and death
suede suai fascism and all that it implies, it is more than
ver necess to prevent a powerful minority of employers
ovince pag pees the war effort in pursuit of
pen ‘selfish individual tulonasis
bor Min-
ister Pearson iloclace: i eee come to the se See in my,
personal opinion, that the time is now ripe to seule ce
side ler amendments to the act so that employers shall be m-

employees and where the majority of the employees can oe
shown to be bona fide members of a properly constitute d
trade union employers shall be pelled to e the
union as a bargaining agent for their employees.’ x
We wholeheartedly approved this statement when it wes
ade. We await i lation into de next session
the provincial house is approaching. Th timents ex-
presse: minis ad to be imple: by I

al x
minister ai ropesals adopted by a loggers’ emergency
conference at Nanaimo last w

ane loggers asked for measures that would bring into being:

ae which a the majority of the employees af-

fected, with 0 nity for the union to decide whsthes it

wishes to su mi He membership record or have a vote con-

ducted in the operation.

aaialifes against employers discriminating

against or interfering with employees engaged in union ac-
ivit

3. ‘Sev e penalties against employers engaging in in unfair
labor Gectices such a gine e use of industrial spies and estab-
lishment of com;

company uni
4, The immediate ag lishment Sa ec aa
production committees and industrial councils’ thereby

viding the eatery through which workers can share with
management all phases of responsibility for the mainten-
ance and ier increase of production.

ie ave no hesitation in fully endorsing these proposals,

re just; they
effected without delay,
—“THE FISHERMAN,’ *

MEAN, VALUES
CONSERVED ?’

Forestry Corps :

‘HEN I enlisted back a‘ ie, six thou:

(I joined up at Vancouver, lade

I went and joined the Forestry,
3h e, ever’

and miles a’
here trom Menzies Mey
ing mi

Se know a spar-tree from a “cat.”
wel, boys, they sure do know it now. We laid the country flat.

IR trees are mostly Hee stuff, a spindly kind of shrub.
wouldn’t think their and fir ae Sith sae aa our grub.

are urgently needed, and they should be >

Hell

0 Boys:
The k
Worker” ‘par a letter addressed
to your

I

issue of your “Lumber

mail from his readers occasional-
ly.
Well, Boel: Saieney I
letter

received

sippies entitled “Opel n. Shop’
he een “would go good in
“Lu orker. =P haa 3, sie
I ar ae it below. -
THE OPEN SH
“What's all this in
about the op
Hennessey.

eo papers
n shop?” asked Mr.

don’t ye know?” said Mr.
all

e it constant stream of min
min’ in t jobs cheaper
min that os th’ jobs. "Tis

day
anither son-ov-a-g1 zt? th’,
boss, ‘Oi think Oi ‘ould ‘ieee th’
job lea fe 90 $i
“Sure, sez th’ ae and th’ wan
do tat 3 man gets out int eroo!
exercise ‘his inalienable
- n

nissey. An’ who gits th’ benefit?
Thrue, its saves the
but he don't

money thin he ice Gh si at

res all oe wid him.

hates t? see ‘obbed av aan
pale asin av every-
thi

ae said Mr. Hennéssey,
“these open-shop min ye menshun
say they ore f'r unions if oe
conducted.”

” said Mr, Deeley “if prop-

them of the firs "that grow tw n’ ho’ id they have thim con-
But Josh (that’s Scotch), they laugh at our aeart ete strikes, no rifles, no
peak of cedars ten feet thick and mountains two miles high contracts, no Bese hardly iny

And rivers ae miles broad and s| . they blink an eye —_| wages, \bers.”
But ee Y, “Och” and “‘Heugh” i “wow” and other Scottish words| ‘This vite in the
at Bae adians can lie the same as other birds.” story about the old sergeant who
was to swear in a bunch of
MAE i fle he was render-

They
we only wish their firs had grown two ous) res or so
‘o give us wood to bit on and put on a proper

*e gosh, # They rs
They ought to see a loggi ing camp that really ae Ha blast,
An outfit near Alberni, say, that tears the wo
And turns the trees to Davis rafts before as pirely ‘att
ND yet, though ae not logging folk, I like these eee ae

| They're solid and they’re careful and they never m:
But just keep working on the job, aready for what's next,

Tve tt th

pal or two

m tact they think much peer, meh salle the cabs men,

is not published or displayed by the ned Control

d or by the Government of British’Colum!

n cuttin; gain,

—Reprinted from “PUNCH” of London, England.

boys, Keep quite. Silence please. I'll
only be another few minutes.” Fin-
ally he got through. He took a deep
breath, pointed his finger at the
C1 and hollered: “Damn you,
shut up. u're in the ly now!”
Of course, the TA. doe: it have

0 worry about ae unions 01
shops; the wi oe are ae
ing members Why they

tat me that Bert Pao and Bill

from writing union receipts
lately. Good work, bo} ae now get
the ink on the contract