| © September 6, 1943 THE B.C. LUMBER WORKER Page Seven B.C. LUMBER WORKER . Published Bi-Weekly, Every Second Monday by INTERNATIONAL WOODWORKERS OF AMERICA (CIO) _ DISTRICT COUNCIL NO. 1 Managing Editor: B. J. MELSNESS : B.C. Room 504 Holden Building — Phone PAcific 4151 — Vancouver, Make Payments to: IWA-CIO District Council No. 1 — Overtime Pay ee ERS and their paid representatives are actively attempting to confuse the recent “orders” passed by the Provincial Government relative to overtime pay. ; For the purpose of clarification, your District Executive Board in full session September 1st, recommends that all offi- és and members of District No. (1) comply with the order to its fullest extent “that employees, with the exception of the exemptions, receive ene and one half evectime Eye for ail work done in excess of 8 hours in any one day an« in any one week, and that the WORK WEEK SHALL CcOoM- MENCE ON MONDAY MORNING.” The purpose of recom- mending that the work week commence on Monday morning is to eliminate the confusion spread by certain employers in their attempts to stagger the work week. The Lord’s Day Act provides that Sunday shall be a Sabbath day and a day of rest. In emergencies and in the interests of the war effort, union men and women will not object to working on Sunday but in making such sacrifice will demand that employers make equal sacrifice in such emergency work by paying time and one half. Certain partial and full exemptions to the order are pro- vided and officers and members of the union requiring copies of such orders can obtain them through the District Office or by writing to the King’s Printer, Parliament Buildings, Vic- toria, B.C., and requesting the Male Minimum Wage Act, Order No. 1 (1943), logging industry; Order No. 49, woodworking industry; Order No. 55, box and shook; Order No. 62, shingle industry; and Order 50, sawmill industry. Democracy at Work EON TANT decisions emanating from the Seventh Interna- tional Convention of our organization will be before the membership in the very near future. ‘Ours is an organization based upon democratic industrial unionism, requiring. that every member pay his dues, part of which goes to the District and International in the form of per capita tax. Qur eight char- tered Locals in the Province of British Columbia have met their District and International per capita tax obligations; and therefore are in good standing and will soon be in receipt of international ballots requiring our membership to vote “Yes” or “No” on important propositions arising out of the recom- mendations of our International Convention. We shall be re- quired, through secret ballot, to elect our International Officers for the ensuing two years, to adopt or reject certain changes in our International Constitution and to vote on other questions of vital importance to every one of us. The important thing here is that we have true industrial unionism and true trade union democracy, and the best way to make democracy work is for every member to maintain himself or herself in good standing and to vote his or her convictions. It is your bounden duty as a trade unionist to demand and receive a vote in the coming International refer- ‘endum! Be sure to exercise your democratic right and make democracy work. VICTORIA Mass Meeting FOR WOODWORKERS Sun. Sept. 26, 7:30 p.m. Victoria K.of P. Hall BROAD STREET Union Speakers - Moving Pictures —— Special Invitations to —— _ MOORE-WHITTINGTON, LEMOUS GONNASONS, ' DALZEIL BOX Percent of American war workers are in plants covered by collective bargaining agreements, Joseph D. Keenan, WPB vice-president for Labor Production, revealed. The newly appointed vice-chair- man declared that “managers and workers and government share the responsibility for getting rid of any kinks in our production line,” and asked that labor-management cooperation be made “a tremen- dous powerhouse for increased production. Keenan said that equipment which workers produced in recent months has been used up recently in the invasion of Sicily. “If you had not-been at your posts doing your jobs with skill and speed our Collective Bargaining Pacts Cover 85 Per Cent of Workers WASHINGTON, D.C.—About 85¢receiying end instead of on the attacking side,” Keenan asserted. “Every extra gun or plane or ship we produce from the bottom of the barrel of human energy means life to some of our fighting men and destruction to Axis ene- mies. “Despite sharp disagreements that have existed at times in some Places, collective bargaining ma- chinery in war plants already has formed the basis for joint action between labor and management to boost output, conserve manpower from accidents and illness, save materials and increase salvage. “I ask labor organizations to ex- tend and improve the pattern of labor management cooperation to fighting men might now be on the accomplish these necessary goals.” By Ernie Dalskeg, IWA Hiring Hall Manager Another campaign of big busi- ness in Canada is to effect the reduction of corporation taxes af- ter the war. Says the Financial Post: “Present tax levels would strangle the business system in time of peace.” Why? Taxation is simply the tak- ing by the government of a share of currently produced wealth to use for a national purpose. There is prosperity in Canada today because there is high taxation, because the nation is spending. But, argues the Post, taxation as it is now “does not permit the ac- cumulation of capital which is es- sential to job making.” To which we reply by calling attention to the fact that right now there is a greater expansion of capital than ever before in Canadian history, and it is taking place by govern- ment investment or government fi- nancing of private plants. It is be- ing done and can only be done because there is high taxation. Capital expansion is, after all, just taking some of the wealth we produce and putting it into factor- jes or mines or machinery. That is what the nation is doing to a great extent today, and jt could only be done by high taxation. But that isn’t all. The fact is that Canadian industry, despite its wails about high taxation is now accumulating more, by depreciation reserves and profits than it ever did before. What irks big business is that in such an era of tremend- ous production it is not being able to hold all it thinks it should hold. An example of what is happening in industry now is given in the very edition of the Financial Post from which the above quotations were taken. It is the annual report of Dominion Textiles, This company had a net profit, after all taxes were paid, of $1,636,884, compared to $1,546,624 in 1941. (In addition it set aside $2,200,000 for deprecia- 000. By taking this amount in taxes and spending it, the government created a demand for more textiles, and for more coal and other things, The howl of the Financial Post and those for which it speaks is for the government to take less and for the company—and others like it—to keep more. That, it argues, will give us all jobs after the war. Well, we all have jobs now, thank you! And before the government began to take so much from the corporations we didn’t haye them. Labor in Canada should do everything in its power to counter- act the campaign to have corpora- tion taxation lowered after the war. Leaves Extended It is reported that while there has been no apparent improvement in the labor situation in the woods, the downward trend in employment appears to have been checked. A three-month extension of the log- gers leave arrangement for soldiers working in the woods was an- nounced recently and will help to some extent, although the number of soldiers released to the industry so far is not a very big factor in the coast payroll. Applications for extension must be made jointly by the company and the man 30 days before his original leave period lapses. AU future leaves granted under this arrangement will be for @ period of six months. i I H P. L. GILL — Optometrist | 1 Graduate of College of 1 Optometry,, Toronto H Telephone 625 H 180 Government St. DUNCAN I Horseshoe Barbers 102 EAST HASTINGS There 1s more to a haircut than cutting off the hair. . . . Try the Horseshoe Barbers for an up-to- date stylish haircut, tion.) The taxes paid were $7,700, UNION SHOP Organization — what thoughts that word conjurs in the minds of the common man. Since the beginning of time man has been obliged to work to exist. in the era of the cave man society existed in its crudest form. Man, at that time, had only to ob- tain food and shelter, which were found at every hand. With the rise of civilization and the development of ownership, the business of living became more complex and the obligation of working for a living became more apparent. The few “gentlemen” who, through organization, brought about the subservience of the “workers,” eritrenched themselves behind the walls of their education and their prestige and gained tre- mendously by cooperation. So it has been down through the ages; the organized people have had the advantage and they have attained and retained the luxuries by continued aggressive organiza- tion. But what of the working man who has produced these luxuries? There is still a vast army of pro- ducers unorganized. Such condi- tions are harmful to labor. Labor should be organized into the largest possible units, for in numbers there is strength. The greater the number, the greater the strength. Each industry, as far as is possible, should come under one union, not many. This is the key to obtaining the greatest pos- sible power from the men ayail- able. 4 Few people remember the story of the bundle of faggots. It is the story of a king who was going to give over his reign to the one of his sons who could break the bundle. All tried and all failed. The king, thereupon, undid the bundle and broke the faggots sep- arately. Though none of his sons took over his reign immediately they learned their lesson. In union there is strength. Had the big bundle been broken up into many smaller ones it would haye been broken easily. So, fellow lumber workers, let us remember that so long as we remain unorganized, we, too, can be esaily broken. But organized and united we workers are un- breakable. Let's get 100 Percent organized; and let's take full ad- vantage of the opportunity of hiring out through our own UNION HIRING HALL to help build our union. UNION HIRING MEANS JOB SECURITY. Courtenay Join Your Friends at COURTENAY HOTEL “The Loggers’ Headquarters” G. TATER — PRop, COURTENAY, V1.