The editor of this esteemed
paper informed me last week that
in future I am to confine myself
to writing about events in the
sawmills around town. He further
claims that as a humrist I am
not so hot, I was tempted to quit
on the spot and find a job in the
shipyards, but after seeing a cou-
ed a long time after the ship-
yards, I changed my mind. Any-
way, the way I have got it figured
out, this paper is going to be print-
ed a long ttime after the ship-
yards shut down, so at least I
will be assured of a job when the
war is finished.

Speaking of jobs, Edwin Knickle,
who was the mainspring of the
organizational drive in the Mis-
sion area, has resigned from the
secretaryship of the sub-local and
has gone to work at Boeings Air-
eraft plant in Vancouver. We
would like to take this opportun-
ity to thank Ed for the splendid
work he did in organizing the mills
in and around Mission City. We
would also like to wish him every
success n his new job.

The crew at Bloedel, Stewart and
Welch Red Band Shingle Mill held
a union meeting last Thursday on
the. job and instructed the offi-
cers of the union to conduct a
survey of thé membership in the
Plant with a view to applying for
certification by the government as
soon as possible, The men in this
mill are to be congratulated on
4 their consistent fight for union
recognition. It is more than a year
now since the men n this plant
first joined the IWA. In that time
they have received substantial
wage increases, better working
conditions and in fact, every de-
mand they have made upon the
company has been met, with the
exception of union recognition.
They are now going after this
last and most important demand.
We hay no doubt that in this mat-
ter the company will have no al-
ternative but to sign on the. dotted
line, This just goes to prove that
if the men are sufficiently organ-
ized and determined to have a
union shop, then no amount of shut
down can prevent it,

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The meeting was addressed by
detail the value of organization

organization included with an all-out war effort. The address
was enthusiastically received by all who attended.

Mr. Morgan stressed the point:
that while immediate gains in
wages and working conditions
could be had through organization
that the major task of labor today
is in seeing to it that the prosecu-
tion of the war is carried out in
a democratic manner with unity
of all sections of society partici-
pating in this effort,

The meeting was called by IWA
Local 1-217 and was under the
chairmanship of President Rert
Melsness,

Jack Greenall, International
Organizer for Fraser River area,
also spoke briefly on the develop-
ment of organization in New West-
minster,

Through the courtesy of the
Workers’ Educational Association
a film, showing the wartime con-
ditions in England and how labor
is working to overcome these con-
ditions and increase production by
the use of management-labor com-
mittees, was shown.

The organizing committee from
Canadian White Pine was on hand
at the back of the hall with re-
ceipt books and were able to sign
up forty-three new members. The
committee also reported that they
will go ahead Immediately in mak-
ing arrangements for holding an-
other mass meeting at which they
hope to have an even larger turn-
out present.

Fany to drag out the log short-
age bogey. The men in this mill
started to organize theniselves into
the IWA about a month ago. Fav-
orable progress was being made
when as usual the log shortage ma-
terialized. A lay-off resulted, in
which 75 men were discharged.
‘The management no doubt believes
that the organization has been
smashed in this mill, but we are
happy to disillusion them on this
point, The men are more deter-
mined than ever that this plant
will be a union shop as sdon as
it reopens,

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On Sunday, May 23, two hundred employees of the Ca-
nadian White Pine Company and McMillan Industries, Plywood
Division, met in the Canadian Legion Hall on 49th Avenue in
Vancouver to discuss the question of organization in these mills.

Nigel Morgan, who outlined in
to labor and the need for labor

VL&M Foreman Guilty
Fined $100 And Costs

After a hearing of several hours'in Chemainus police court,
before Mr. G. A. Tisdall, stipendiary magistrate, on Tuesday,
Gordon P. Cook, foreman in the VL.&M Co. sawmill, was
fined $100 and costs on being found guilty of accepting $5
from Sing You as an inducement to retain the Chinese in

the employ of the firm.

Mr. Cook pleaded not guilty. His counsel, F. S. Cunliffe,
K.C., Nanaimo, is reported to have entered a notice of appeal.

‘Adolf Hitler slept here.”

Night Closing Of |
Taverns Protested |

NEW WESTMINSTER.—Closing
of beer parlors at night was pro-
tested by a delegation representing
New Westminster local- of the In-
ternational Woodworkers of Am-
erica, which interviewed Tom Reid,
MP.

Mr. Reid was informed by the
delegation, under the chairman-
ship of Dave Anderson, that the
practice of the beer parlors open-
ing in the afternoon and closing
at night is one cause of absentee-
ism in war industries.

It was also pointed out that there
are now in the province thousands
of men in the aarmed forces who
were not here previously and who
are supplied with beer. No account
of this factor‘has been taken in
fixing the allotment,

The result is, it was stated, that
the civilian supply has been cor-
respondingly reduced.

Mr, Reid agreed to convey the
representations to the authorities.

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Lumber Precious
Im North Africa

SEATTLE, — Maj.Gen. Lucius
Clay, assistant United States army
chief of staff for materials, cited
Pacific Northwest lumber products
for a valuable contribution to the
North African campaign.

In a statement issued through
the office of war information here,
he said:

“Everything from huge howitz-
ers to foodstuffs, from walkie-
talkie radios to thousands upon
thousands of shells came packed
in wood. Much of that material—
such as gun stocks—was made of
wood, too.

“As our troops pressed forward
with the vital supplies brought to
them in wood, other troops in the
rear areas were salvaging the wood
itself, Lumber was so scarce that
it was treatéd with nearly the
same care as the supplies it had
harbored. Not a scrap of that wood
went to wsate.”

Mr. Hi W. R. Moore, crown
counsel, called as witnesses for the
prosecution: Mr. H. E. Heslip, of-
fice manager; Sing You, Mr. Albert
Beasley and Mr. Paul Erickson,
mill employees; and Cpl. John A.
Henry, B.C. Police, Duncan,

The accused admitted having re-
ceived gifts other than money on
occasion, but denied having re-
ceived money at any time.

The prosecution followed an in-
vestigation bl the Chemainus Sub-
Local 1-80, who called in the Pro-
vincial Department of Labor
This and a case held four years
ago in Nanaimo, in which~a mill
superintendent was found guilty
under a similar charge, are the
only two such cases ever heard in
Canada, Mr. Whisker says.

IWA Loeal 1-357
Certified At
Creosote Plant

NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C.
IWA Local 1-357 scored its first
victory here under the new Indus-
trial Conciliation and Arbitration
Act when it was certified by the
Provincial Department of Labor
as the sole collective bargaining
agency for all employees at Tim-
ber Preservers Limited in New
Westminster. Business Agent
Perey Smith reports that eighty-
five percent of the crew are mem-
bers in good standing in the IWA.
Negotiations between the officers
of the Local and the management
concerning a contract covering
wages, hours and working condi-
tions will be started within the

next few days.

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