4 Bi-weekly Bulletin Published by The B.C. District Council, Internationa 1 Woodworkers of America, (CIO), Affiliated with Canadian Connie of Labor VOL. XI. No.1 VANCOUVER, B.C., MONDAY, JANUARY 11, 1943 Broadway <€5B> Printers Ltd, (283) SIXTH ANNUAL CONVENTION OF DISTRICT COUNCIL URGES AMENDMENT OF ICA ACT Canadian Congress Has Appointed Commission © To Investigate Dispute OTTAWA, Jan. 9.—The executive council of the Canadian Congress of Labor today appointed a three-man commission, to investigate the “situation now existing among the affiliated and chartered unions of the Congress and the Labor Council in Vancouver.” The commission, functioning as a sub-committee ‘of the Executive Council, will have “full power and authority to take such action as the commission may deem necessary in the interests of the Congress and the membership involved.” Tt will begin its duties in the near future, possibly Monday, Jan. 11. MEMBERS NAMED. Members of the special commit- tee are Pat Conroy, Secretary- Treasurer of the Congress; C. H. Millard, National Director for Can- | Asked if he would be agreeable to another election being held, Mr. Stewart said: “I would welcome another election, I believe in giv- ing the members their democratic rights.” - vestigated. ada of the United Steelworkers of America; and J, E. McGuire, Sec- retary-Treasurer of the Canadian Brotherhood of Railway Employees and Other Transport Workers. WILL CO-OPERATE, In commenting on the proposed action, William Stewart, president- elect of the Boilermakers’ Union, declared: “We welcome the setting up of the committee and will co-operate with it in every way, so that the affairs of the Boilermakers will be straightened out, and the affairs of the union may move forward. “This set-up is in line with the request of our resolution to the Canadian Congress of Labor on three points: (1) The request that thé Executive Council come. here. This resolution was passed at ‘Thursday's meeting. (2) That both sides of the dispute be fully in- (3) That Pat Conroy be sent here. This means that all points were acceded to at the Ot- tawa meeting today.” ~ Nigel Morgan, Canadian Repre- sentative of International Wood- workers, said: “I believe the CCL decision is in the best interests of the Congress movement at the Coast. It will give our national officers an opportunity to see the actual situation, It is one of the things the bollermakers have been asking for right along. I sincere- ly hope there will be a satisfac- tory settlement; and that provision will be made for another election So that democratic rank and file control will be re-established. QUESTION RAISED. During the strife of the past 10 days, the question had been raised as to whether the CCL might in- terfere with the charter of the In- ternational Woodworkers. In this connection, Morgan said: “The Congress could not inter- fere with our charter or the funds of the IWA because we are af- filiated with an international union, and through that to the CIO. They could merely disaffiliate us from the CCL.” LOGGERS’ BALL PRIZE WINNERS The Sixth Annual Loggers’ Ball, which -was held in Vancouver on the night of January 1, was a huge success, even though overcrowded. Both halls were jammed to capac- ity and next year we'll have to get four halls, One of the feature attractions was the judging of the best “Paul Bunyon Beard” for which a prize of $25.00 was offered. The prize was won by Len Hedenberg, who is pictured above; bowler, beard and all. Winning tickets, which were drawn in the Hastings Auditorium, were as follows: Ist prize, $100.00 cash, was won by ticket No. 4998, Paul Nichol of Port Alberni; 2nd prize, $50 cash, was won by ticket No. 8797, Mr. L. G. Clark of New Westminster; 8rd prize, a $35.00 eredit note donated by Goldbloom & Sons, Jewellers, 127 West Hast- ings Street, was won by ticket No. 1764, C. J. Carlysle of 1834 Pender Street, Vancouver; 4th prize, a ?Delegates Ask For Labor Partnership in War Effort — Production Commit- tees — Elimination of Grievances — Lowering Morale and Voted To Adopt the Canadian Forestry Corps | VANCOUVER, B.C.—Stating clearly the IWA’s desire to throw its full energies into ad- vancing production. and winning the war, 140 delegates to the IWA-CIO District Council No. 1 Sixth Annual Convention, unanimously urged the passage of a Canadian “Wagner Act.” Pro- duction problems held the spotlight throughout the two-day session attended by delegates from logging camps and sawmills in virtually every section of the province. Convention ban- ners decorating the walls included: “Production on the Home Front — For Action on the Second Front — Let’s Step It Up!” “Compulsory Collective Bargaining Will Increase Production,” and “Stamilized Wages and. Improved Working Conditions Will Improve Worker Morale.” Unanimously endorsed was a resolution asking the government to establish a ministry of production to function as the “supreme planning, co-ordinating and executive high command of the nation’s battle of production,” the ministry to include outstanding represen- tatives of industrial management, labor and government, with equal representation from labor and management. “Total war production has not been reached and our war effort is suffering from material shortages, lack of coordination and maximum planning which is exemplified in unnecessary layoffs, idle machines, slow production and other evils,” the resolution stated, adding that pressure of powerful corporations which insist on placing their post- war competitive’ and monopolistic positions against the needs of total . war for national survival has held back maximum expansion and con- version of Canada’s basic war industries and plants. Enactment of legislation to es-- tablish labor's rights would, dele- JPY Al Feonomite gates felt, strengthen “labor's fight to increase production. Declaring that “the spirit and in- tent of Order-in-Council 2685 has | been flouted by many in industry | and is failing in support from the government itself,” the resolution | stated that “experience of the past | two years has shown that two- thirds of our labor disputes are over the question of collective bar- gaining.” Other resolutions called fo: (Continued on Page 8) $25.00 credit note donated by the Hub Limited, 45 East Hastings Street, was won by ticket No. 9044, Arcade Pare of New Westminster; 6th prize, a pair of Johnston's Log- gers’ Boots or the cash equivalent, was won by ticket No. 7684 which had no name; and 6th prize, a $15.00 credit note donated by Gold- bloom & Sons, Jewellers, was won by ticket No. 5420, which had no name. Prizes may be had by sub- mitting your ticket to the IWA District Office, 504 Holden Build- ing, Vancouver, Guins $1,500,000 “wage increases amounting to three-quarters of a million dol- lars a year were gained by B.C. members of the International Woodworkers of America through seven briefs submitted by the IWA to the Regional War Labor Board during the last half of 1942,” stated Bert Marcuse, direc- tor of the Pacific Coast Labor Bureau in addressing the 6th An- nual Convention of the IWA held in Vancouver last week. These briefs which were prepared by the IWA, covered wage gains for approximately 4,000 woodwork- ers in British Columbia. Nigel Morgen, secretary of the IWA, district council No. 1, also told the convention that a similar amount was gained through briefs prepared by the district council itself, union organization publicity campaigns during 1942. This brings 1942 wage gains achieved through the union by the IWA members to a total of one and one-half million dollars. A 140 DELEGATES ATTEND SIXTH ANNUAL CONVENTION OF IWA DISTRICT NO. 1