Managing Editor:

B.C. LUMBER WORKER

| Published Bi-Weekly, Every Second Monday by
. DISTRICT COUNCIL, International Woodworkers of America

Editor: NIGEL MORGAN

B, J. MELSNESS~

504 Holden Building — Phone PAcifie 4151 — Vancouver, B.C.
Make Payments to: “I.W.A., B.C, District Council”

in B.C. lumber must go full steam

who are fighting so nobly against

and so tighten up the work of our

living AFTER the war. So then,

future. The struggle we have been

element that apparently are more

in effect tells its readers the war

‘

To Win the War and Peace

RGANIZING our union 100 percent is our “order of the day.” There
can’t be any delays in carrying out this IWA decision. Our
campaign to organize everyone from the stump to the finished product

ahead. Nothing else.

‘The life and death struggle, in which Canada as one of the United
Nations is involved, is in the balance, In this struggle against labor's
greatest enemy—fascism—and the very future of the whole world at
stake, labor can and has the responsibility to swing that balance for
an early victory, The full-scale invasion of Europe is in the offing.
_ Our Canadian armed men are shortly going td need a Nazi-proof um-
brella of war planes, ships, tanks, guns and munitions as never before.
Then, again, Prime Minister Churchill tells us the sub menace is
blocking supplies to our boys overseas, to our Soviet and other Allies

the forces of fascism and slavery.

‘That means that we must rally the thirty-thousand men and women
of British Columbia’s lumber industry more solidly behind production
than ever, The only way to do this, as we know, is to organize them

Production Committees.

And in the second place, our union is our only means for secure

our dues and the energy we put

into our union are really insurance premiums paid to guarantee our

through to establish our uniofi this

far, to establish our right to bargain collectively, to better wages and
working conditions should remove any illusions about the need to build
a strnog union, We have achieved our gains only through the strength
of our own organization and the assistance we, as organized workers,
were able to obtain from other organized workers.

Many of the people we are up against are the kind of big business

fearful of organized labor than of

Hitler, And we don’t need to kid ourselves that because we have won
some improvements to the B.C. Labor Act that this element has sud-
denly decided to retire. Far from it. Just take a recent article in one
of big business's leading publications, The Financial Post. This article

has been practically won and now

is the time to get rid of “government restrictions on business’—that.

_ ‘6; now Ju tho.time to go back to “business as usual.” Labor must be

put into its place right away, acco:

_ and women will depend directly on
be after the Armistice. .

rding to The Financial Post.

So it all piles down to this—the future security of Canadian men

how strong their organizations will

These are two unbeatable reasons why we should be extending and

_ tightening up our organization! The progress made by our union in the
"last year with a creditable increase of doubled membership, improved

conditions, and -better wages, has

to organize to win that, too!

brought the goal of 100 percent

unionization of B.C, lumber forward today as a realizable objective.
Se, let's get busy foday, and every day. Let’s tell the unorganized
workers next to us why they should join the union and help to build
powerful, effective union for our present and future welfare.

__ .The war hasn't been won; we have got to organize to win it and at
same time defend our rights. The peace has not been won; we have

et a Lauqh

RONTO.—The U.S. Congres-
Dies Committee has a new
for “best red-baiter of the
mm Hemisphere” in the per-
of M, A, Sanderson, manager
Reliable Exterminators (bed
their specialty), Sanderson
recently described in a three-
mn advertisement in the Tor-
Globe and Mail as “one of
's leading pest control op-
”

n ran a three column by
ich ad in the daily paper fea-
@ half column, full length
of himself, under the sar-
e eaption, “The CIO Stages
n-the-War Parade,” and then
led to develop the theme in

in his own peculiar style,

7

Bua-

ser Attacks CIO

Seeking to split Canadian sol-
diers from Canadian workers, the
advertisement appealed to the needs
of the former for jobs after the
war, and said: “They know that
they are entitled to the rights—the
same rights—as those staying at
home enjoy and demand, They
know that thelr ‘union’ is also en-
titled to recognition . . .”

Attacking the Ontario collective
bargaining bill, which became law,
the pest exterminator suggested

that CIO leaders be drafted into |

the army—apparently regardless of
age or physical condition—in a de-
liberate effort to weaken the or
ganization so that the pest exter-
minators, and others like them can
take over the nation,

Pe LUMBER WORKER

Chemainus Shop Stewards ©

Make Sawmill

99% Union

A well-attended meeting of the Chemainus Sub-Local Shop
Stewards held recently at which seventeen of the twenty
Shop Stewards were present proved to be an outstanding suc-
cess. After electing Brother MacDonald to act as chairman and

Brother Thornley as secretary,
to business. :

the meeting really got down

First on the agenda was a report by each of the Shop Stew-
ards on the membership in his or her individual compartment
of the plant after which the Head Shop Steward gave a report

on the membership as a whole.

He reported that at the end of

March there were 342 members in good standing, 15 in bad

standing and 21 not yet in the

Having finished with the reports¢
and feeling the great necessity and
importance of having a hundred-
percent paid up membership, es-
pecially with the negotiations for
the agreement pending; it was de-
cided that something should be
done about the delinquent mem-
bers, and also the potential ones,
So a very practical program was
adopted and on the following day
put into effect with such good re-
sults, that at the end of April it
could be reported that the Che-
mainus Sub-Local had three hun-
dred and seventy-two members in
good standing, two in bad standing
and only four potential members
left in the whole plant, two of
which had promised to join.

We would like to take this op-
portunity to commend the shop
stewards of the Chemainus Sub-
Local for the excellent job they
have done in the past year, not
only in keeping the membership
paid up in their dues without the
help of an agreement, but in set-
ting an example for every sub-local
in District No. 1 who have not as
yet inaugurated the shop stewards
system and put it into effect, to
follow.

We feel that this, being done at
Chemainus with such outstanding
success, considering that until the|
inception of the union there last
June, not one man had been a
dues paying member of’ the IWA
Proves beyond a doubt that the
shop steward system must play a
very important part in organizing

union,

and uniting the lumber industry

of Canada one hundred percent

under the banner of the IWA.
PRESS COMMITTEE

Continued

LADYSMITH

was present at the meeting, was
asked to say a few words to the
members and I might say that Bro-
ther Valley gave a very interesting
little speech. He explained in de-
tail the manner in which we have
to apply to the department of labor
for the right to bargain. A few
questions were asked and Brother
Valley answered them very capab-
ly. He was heartily applauded when
he finished talking.

A vote was taken on the Inter-
national Referendum Assessment,
and it resulted in favor of paying
the assessment for the period stat-
ed in the circular presented to the
Brothers who attended the meet-
ing. This closed’ the business meet-
ing for the evening and the meet-
ing’ was adjourned, but before I
close, I want to impress upon the
Brothers the’ need for Unionism.
Get behind your Local executive
and back them up. They are work-
ing for your benefit, and they de-
serve your support, Keep your dues
paid up and better working condi-
tions will come in due course; also
don’t forget the big softball dance.
Let's have a real old get-together
on the 29th. “JEEP.”

a

"What? Me sabotage that guys Victory
Gardern.?. What doyou fake ine for -a Jap ?"

Well, here I am

Hello,
back on the. job. Hats off to the
bedmaker for -filling in for me
last week. I hope that you haven't
accepted the rumor, which is cred-
ited to a guy by the name of Mor-

Boys:

gan, that it was a case of too
much bug juice. Actually I have
gone to work. Having been on the
“unfair to boss loggers’ list” since
1934, they have finally become man
hungry enough to give a man a
chance to earn an honest living
at the noble art of bullcooking
again. :

‘Last week we saw the ridiculous
situation of the great Boeing Air-
craft plant in Vancouver being
shut down by “government order
and losing 36 thousand man hours
of work on planes urgently need-.
ed to help destroy Hitler. . The
dispute started when Mr. Ralph
Bell, government _dollar-a-year
man, took away from the Cana-
dian Pacific Airline workers their
ten-minute rest periods in viola-
tion of a union contract. The main
reason for the ten-minute morning
and afternoon rest period having
been agreed to by. the company in
the first place was due to the
particular problems in this plant,
where workers are dong exception-
ally monotonous work on produc-
tion lines.

The management of the CPAL
has frankly stated that the rest
period helped production by 25
per cent;. yet the Boeing workers
were locked out and kept out, in
Spite of their appeal for a commis-
sioner for investigation, Instead
of dealing with complaints and
grievances expeditiously, the policy
of the government seems to be,
never to do today what it is hoped
may be postponed until the day
after tomorrow.

Which reminds me of a story I
heard:

A dollar-a-year man came down
from Ottawa to show the local
farmers what they needed. He had
never been on a farm and was
shown a cow with a large udder,
Being an efficiency expert he be-
gan to ask questions:

“What are those things hanging
down?” he asked.

The farmer told him that the
milk from them,

“But why does she need four?
That is a waste effort.”

The farmer smiled and took the
Ottawa boy for a walk. “One,”
he said, “is for milk, another for
cream, the next is for ice cream
and the fourth is for buttermili.”

“That's too many,” said the Ot
tawa man, “I'll issue an order
freezing the cream, ice cream and
buttermilk faucets, and leave the
milk one. The cow can concentrate
on the one, give more and eat less,
What's the big animal over there?”

“That's a bull,” replied the farm-
er. “It's the biggest bull in the
country.”

“Ill buy him,” said the Ottawa
man, “and shoot him. I was told
when leaving the Capital the more
bull I could shoot the better.”

It is fortunate that the Being
workers and their union have
shown a greater sense of respon-
sibility to Canada’s war needs than
that exhibited by the men who
ordered the shut-down; namely,
Mr, Ralph Bell, Director of Air.
craft Production, and Honorable
Mr. Howe. It should be drawn to
the attention of the government
that in their official organ of the
Department of Labor, “The Labor
Gazette,” of January, 1943, Hon-
orable Ernest Bevin, Britain's Min-
ister of Labor, in a statement of
July 25, 1942, speaking on produc-
tion in Britain, is quoted as saying,
“Some form of shift system is
recommended, and ten-minute
breaks and the provision of suit-

able refreshment in each worki
period will help.” ie