Page Seven B.C. LUMBER WORKER x Published Bi-Weekly, Every Second Monday by B.C. DISTRICT COUNCIL, International Woodworkers of America Editor: NIGEL MORGAN | Managing Editor: B. J. MELSNESS ” Room 504 Holden Building — Phone PAcific 9727 — Vancouver, B.C. * Make Payments to: “I.W.A., B.C. District Council” ' a ‘AL mobilization for victory is the chief task to which the P TWA-CIO will devote itself in 1943. | -_ Labor has no illusions about the magnitude of the effort which victory demands. We know how great is the military might of the Axis. We know the desperate determination of its dictators. We know that any negotiated peace or appeasement will betray the cause of : world security and freedom and open the way for even worse warfare | in the future. The United Nations must battle through to the complete defeat of the Axis powers. And we know that such total victory calls for supreme effort and sacrifice on the part of all the Canadian people, and the total mobilization of all our manpower and material | resources. C) (= IWA therefore in the coming year will seek to mobilize the lumber workers as never before for greater and greater effort to increase production, to make our civilian defense more effective, to provide more war relief, and to further every one of the nation’s essential war activities, At the same time, the IWA in 1943 will increase the insistence of its demands for nation-wide planning and centralized addministrative control of all the resources and economic policies of the nation. To make total mobilization effective, it will insist on the full and direct participation of labor in the formulation and administration of war policies and activities. aa Collective bargaining rights for labor must be established by law, so that labor can put all its energies into production to win this war. ) NE of the chief essentials for victory is the creation of a healthy war economy, in which available goods are distributed in such @ way as to assure the health, morale and productive efficiency of ‘war workers; in which proper safeguards are taken against inflation; and in which special privilege is not allowed to interfere with the mobilization of all our financial and material resources for winning the war, To this end, the IWA will work in 1943 for a universal system of democratic rationing, so all may have their fair share of available goods; for effective price control, particularly over living necessities; and for a win-the-war tax program that will adequately finance the supplying of our armed forces, will prevent inflation, will plug loop- holes. through which wealth has avoided paying its full share, will distribute the tax burden according to ability to pay, and will not deprive low-income groups of the goods they must have for healthy activity. | ° . i order that labor may play its full part in our country’s total war mobilization, the IWA will intensify and extend its organizing activities in 1943, . It will continua to work for effective labor unity to promote the war effort, without sacrifice of the democratic gains made through industrial organization and without yielding to any form of racial . discrimination. To make total mobilization effective, the IWA will also continue its fight against any discrimination in employment directed against ; Orientals, against women, against the foreign-born, or against any . other workers whose loyal participation must be enlisted for our total war effort. e (ALLY, the IWA holds out the hand of fellowship and solidarity to all the freedom-loving peoples of the world. In the coming year it will work for closer war unity and cooperation between the labor movements of all the United Nations. It will aid their peoples in every way possible in our common cause, And it will work for 2 the establishment after this war of a world order in which the 4 four freedoms will prevail, in which the the principles of the Atlantic ___ Charter will become a living reality, and in which fascist imperialism may never again destroy world peace and threaten democratic progress. HITLER’S BEANSTALK Jatk’s experience with the little seed that grew overnight into & huge beanstalk inhabited by a ferocious ogre, has its parallel in _ Europe's experience with the little seeds of anti-Semitism. Hitler found these seeds among the German people—little lies about the Jews, snide remarks, job discriminations, ignorant racial prejudices. i He planted these seeds in the measure of national frustration "and economic depression. He watered them with the bloodshed caused by his thugs, and with a golden stream from the labor-fearing rich. And lo and behold! From these small seeds grew the mighty ¥ stall from which he now casts his hideous shadow over the whole _ world. Hitler's Jew-baiting propaganda has now borne fruit in wholesale ‘slaughter of helpless Jews in Eastern Europe and in a systematic "and cold-blooded campaign for the elimination of this persecuted race. While we join in the horror of the whole clvilized world at 's atrocities, and pledge ourselves to crush the monstrous system created them, let us also give thought to destroying at once seeds of anti-Semitism and race discrimination which Hitleristic -@- B.C. LUMBER WORKER LWA Convention Pledges Dv Sevss- Drawn for OW! 4-285 It won't be long now and we'll have Hitler in the bag / BUT DON'T YOU . FORGET IT PAL, AIN'T FINISHED! “Well Help Finish the Job” THE BAG IWA Convention Calls For| Production Committees In Every Camp And Mill WHEREAS the offensive attack on the Axis forces in Africa is a signal that our armed forces are readying for the carrying out of the second front agreement which will call for maximum increase of Canadian production; and WHEREAS Canada is producing significant quantities of war weapons and supplies, yet total war production has not been reached and our war effort is suffering from material shortages, lack of co-ordination and maximum planning which is exempli- fied in unnecessary layoffs, idle machines, slow production and other evils; and WHEREAS today practically all government planning and di- recting of our war production is done by separate departments and boards which are restricting influence of competitive habits and normal business outlook; and WHEREAS the maximum expansion and conversion of our basie war industries and plants has been kept back by the pres- sure of powerful corporations which insist upon placing their post-war competitive and monopoly positions as against the needs of total war for our national survival; THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that this Convention of the IWA-CIO District Council No, 1 call upon the Dominion govern- ment to immediately establish a Ministry of Production which will function as the supreme planning, co-ordinating and executive high command of the nation’s battle of production, charged with the over-riding task of taking all necessary measures to obtain maximum increases in the production of steel, coal, metal ores, oil, synthetic rubber, aluminum, lumber and other raw materials and the consequent maximum increase in the production of planes, tanks, ships, munitions and small arms of which Canada is cap- able; and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this Convention call upon the government to include as members of such a Ministry of Pro- duction outstanding representatives of industrial management, labor and government, and with equal representation from labor and management. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this Convention call upon the government to take immediate measures to include on all in- dustrial War Boards outstanding representatives of organized labor democratically elected by the workers on a basis of ability rather than political patronage. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this convention calls upon all affiliated Locals, and Sub-Locals to carry forward a campaign of enlightenment around the matters dealt within this resolution among the workers and public with the object of organizing maxi- mum influence upon the government to implement the overdue measures proposed which will strengthen our national war effort and thus hasten the end of Hitler fascism. 3 Hastings Steam Baths 764 EAST HASTINGS ST. Government. Registered Masseurs in Attendance J. WEPSALA, Prop. Also Agent for... 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