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new ruling of the B.C. Board of Industrial Relations
hing time and one-half for overtime premium pay
mendous victory for organized labor and particularly for
dworkers. Members of the Board, especially its chair-
lam Bell, and Minister of Labor Pearson, are to be
nended for the sound, progressive measures adopted.
it is also due to the membership of the International
s of America, who have worked so hard and so
it it across. Month after month, year after year, in
mill meetings, in union agreements, in resolutions,
conventions, in the The B.C. Lumberworker, and
n Gold” the demand has been raised and pressed
d this work not been done consistently and thor-
re can be little doubt that overtime pay would still

en which directly affects some 20,000 to 25,000
ill mean thousands of additional dollars in workers’
pes. A number of occupations have been excluded
ovisions of the new orders, These omissions must
and our union must continue and intensify the
their inclusion. The quicker the unorganized join
faster we can increase the strength, efficiency

: ®@ B.C, LUMBER WORKER @

Page Seven

Cc. LUMBER WORKER

d Bi-Weekly, Every Second Monday by

IATIONAL WOODWORKERS OF AMERICA (CIO)
a DISTRICT COUNCIL NO. 1

Managing Editor: B. J. MELSNESS

den Building — Phone PAcific 4151 — Vancouver, B.C.
Payments to: IWA-CW District Council No. 1

agreements Essential .

press releases inform us that Canadian, British and
United States troops are sweeping the Island of Sicily with
no opposition, laying a sound bridgehead for the open-
a real Second Front and thereby completely knocking
second Axis partner out of the war.
On the central Russian front, the double Russian drive
d last week by Marshal Timoshenko has already virtu-
} d off the German advance bastion of Orel.
On the Northern Pacific front, the Alaska Defense Command
3 ; continuous bombing of Paranushiro, Japan’s norther-
t military base. These raids come as a logical development
the American occupation of Attu and are the first suc-
sssful raids on Japanese territory since the bombing of Tokyo.
“Democratic peoples the world over welcome this growing
fensive, for the bigger and mightier the offensive, the sooner
ictory will be ours and the sooner our fathers, husbands, sons
nd brothers will be back home. :
_ But what is the situation on the spruce production front?
With the Allies Jaunching a major offensive and the Interna-
onal Woodworkers of America doing its utmost to stabilize
abor relations and increase production of vital Sitka spruce,
employers of the Queen Charlotte Islands (backed up ina
d statement to the Minister of Labor by 42 other sawmill
d logging operators), in total disregard of Canada’s serious
r crisis and the democratic principles for which we as a
tion are fighting, continue to play into the hands of Hitler
by denying labor its rightful place in the affairs of our country.
And this even in spite of the fact that the government Concilia-
Board under the chairmanship of His Honor Judge Harper
| just brought down a decision favoring the union and recom-
g an agreement with IWA Local 1-71.
The lumber operators of this province should come to their
mses and realize their responsibilities to the government and
he people of Canada. This war is being fought on foreign battle-
lds withthe sweat and blood of Canadian people for Canadian
mocracy, which must carry with it the right to organize, the
ht to bargain collectively, the right to signed agreements,
right to free assembly and free speech; in fact, the four
z so ably stated by Roosevelt. The company’s unfort-
e position, publicly announced, can contribute only to labor
west and the inevitable retarding of our war effort.
This will concern every labor organization now enjoying
inion-employer signed agreements in the usual way, and
f r, it will concern every citizen of Canada who is desirous
of victory over fascism and the democratic principles that Ca-
nadians are fighting and dying for.
Bombs, depth charges, torpedoes and incendiaries, must be
at Canada’s enemy—Hitler; not at the Canadian people.

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ging Boots and Sleeping Bags‘

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‘Deferred’ Workers
Must Stay on Job

Men working in war industries
on deferment of call-up for mili-
tary service must stay on the same
job during the. duration of his
Postponement and must not move
to any other job, according to noti-
eation just issued by the Mobiliza-
tion Board. The notice reads:

“Please note that when a man
is postponed to any employer by
reason of the essential character
of his services in war industry, he
must stay with that employer for
the duration of that postponement.

“He cannot move to any other
employer without the consent of
this board. It is the duty of the
employer to immediately notify
this board if a man on postpone-
ment quits his employment. The
man will then be issued a call to
report for military training im-
mediately.

“The same rule will‘ operate in
the case of men who are absent
from work without leave of their
employer.

“The board realizes that indus-
try in this division (B.C.-Yukon) is
very short of labor and it post-
Pones callable men to industry for
the sole purpose of maintaining

Along the Skidroad

By ERNIE DALSKOG, IWA Hiring Hall Manager

The B.C, District Council of the
International Woodworkers of Am-
erica has decided to establish a
Union Hiring Hall. It therefore be-
comes of the greatest importance
that every union member-be made
aware of this fact, and conscious
of the benefit that will be derived
from such an important move.

It means that instead of the hir-
ing sharks, that are now doing a
“land office” business, having con-
trol of the jobs and the placement
of men, this will be in the hands
of whomever the ufion selects. It
means that the union will be great-
ly strengthened in its efforts to es-
tablish the conditions of work and
standard of living, ete. It simply
means that you won't have to de-
pend on the good will of the hir-
ing shark in getting a job. It means
that chiseling and graft will be cut
out of the hiring “game.

Every union man should imme-
diately he comes to town register
with the Union Hiring Hall. It will

war production at as high a level
as possible.

“Absenteeism and moving from
job to job will not be countenanced

by this board in the circumstances.

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and influence of our organization—the sooner we shall be able
to obtain the full benefits for those who should and must in
fairness be covered by this same overtime principle.

Jn the “hungry thirties,” when B.C. lumber workers began
to organize on a large scale, conditions in the camps and mills
were in bad shape. We had no union; we here at the mercy
of tough employers; wages were miserably low ($2.35 on the
chokers, as compared with $6.58 today); speedup and conditions
were generally bad. Organization meant the beginning of a co-
ordinated, well-planned campai;
to organize, to bargain collectively; the right to higher wages,
better.conditions and security. For years we fought discrimina-

ign, for the right to assemble,

most vicious anti-labor “black-

lists” known on this continent; but we have come through it
with a strong union in both the mills and woods. Little by
little, step by step, our union has been growing and as it grew,
improving conditions and wages. Recent gains and victories
should not only spur B.C. woodworkers and strengthen their
organization, but they will do much to maintain the high morale
and the ever greater production we need to beat the Fascists,
to win the war and to secure the peace.

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ATTENTION!

Fellow Citizens: Under the initiative and leadership of Mr.
Tim Buck, a nation-wide effort has been launched to form a new
political Party of Canadians; a Party that first and foremost will
work for a maximum of unity in our country to carry the war
against the Hitlerites to a speedy and successful conclusion. Sec-
ondly and no less important, a Party that holds to the idea that
communist policies are the policies which correspond with the
needs of the Canadian people in winning the Peace, and building
the kind of a Canada tomorrow, that we fight for today.

In our recent Initiative Conference on July 17 to launch such”
a Party in British Columbia, an Initiative Committee was elected
to direct this work. We are extending a cordia
worker, farmer, professional or middle-class citizen—who agrees
with us that such a Party is needed for the betterment of Canada;
a Party that will achieve the enactment of policies leading to
victory in the war, and prosperity in the peace, to JOIN THIS

PARTY NOW.
TOM McEWEN,

Occupation_.

Address all correspondence to:

High. 6240 ALWAYS OPEN

be necessary to have your name,
address and phone number. Also
whether married or single, if with
dependents, next of kin, age, and
what work you do or are capable
of doing. We also will need to know
when ‘you are ready to go out.
We intend to have the “hall in
full function on or about August
1. Suitable ground floor’ premises
will be gotten, with tables and
reading matter and as good sur-
roundings as we can possibly se-
cure. Don’t expect that everything
will be like the Hotel Vancouver
immediately, but we will improve
as we gain experience and find
out what is needed. Write in sug-
gestions and ideas on the Union
Hiring, and if they are good and
practicable they will be used.
Even now there are calls for fal-
Jers, chokermen, rigging slingers,
and boommen, Let’s build the
Union Hiring System to the extent
where all loggers and sawmill men

hire out on the job through the
Union.

Continued .

MORGAN NOMINATED

men in the scattered far-away sec-
tions of the constituency as the
/fommentator ‘on the weekly labor
newscast, “Green Gold,” is extreme-
Jy popular. One of the outstanding
trade unionists in B.C., he was one
of those responsible for bringing
about united trade union action
that forced passage of the revised
ICA Act. As an organizer for the
TWA, he has addressed meetings
in many camps in the riding, many
times in face of opposition from the
employers. In the course of his
many tours into logging operations,
he has often been forcibly ejected,
sometimes by provincial police, but
the work carried on by him and
other IWA officials since 1938 has
now resulted in the organization of
several thousand loggers and mill-

Chairman, Provincial Initiative Committee.

FERGUS McKEAN,
Secretary, Provincial Initiative Committee.

Initiative Committee, Room 211 Shelle: Bldg.,
119 West Pender Street, Vancouver, B Cc m

workers in the Comox-Alberni area.

vitation to every

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