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THE B.C. LUMBER WORKER

B.C. LUMBER WORKER
Published Every Second Monday by
INTERNATIONAL WOODWORKERS OF AMERICA (CIO)
DISTRICT COUNCIL NO, 1

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The deadline for stories for the coming issue is 4 p.m. Thursday,
February 3.

Why Labor Protests
PC 9384.

lees has not eee to eae stabilization and controls

the cas of the effort, but it has advocated
eee control a ili Labor has stood and will
ontinue to eee for pee unity, all-out production and a

aximum war effort to destroy fascism in the shortest possible
time with the least po. ie loss of life resources. Lal
is not disagreeing with th licy of maintaining a stable w:

or
ar-
amount of wage con=

just
mtrols should not be used as a screen
an

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

eo ef

Say What You Please

maladjustments
one the weakness
ras presented by
n explanation, it should not be
e explanation is
em

the Mi

rnment itself es even set
6 believe in the ean of its own new wa;
A great deal h printe is week re-
fueding PC 9384. ‘All ae Gael eee rs of the House
of Commons at Ottawa, regardless of party affiliation, have
joined in protesting the order. Liberal, mservative ai
CCF M.P.’s have united in demanding the order be repealed;
a de vee hee likewise been endorsed by all Canadian
lal bor © well as a number of other (prom: pene

ehh is , behind this united protest?

1. Wage injustices and cost-of-living inequalities of as much
difference. as 95c and $4.60 per week are virtually frozen under |“
the order.

2. The order can nullify all recognized principles of collec-
tive bargeining, Section 41 reading, “This order
force snd tice notwithstanding any Dominion or Provincial
statute

r contravenes fundamental rights under British
‘ainst the order until such

4. The board can deny ihe. right of appeal from any de-
cision saute md the decision cannot be appealed in any
court in C:

ae a has full power to reduce higher wage scales |™

5.
to lower Ssecailing scales and can freeze wages at that level.
Every labor eee now in force in Canada is jeop-
wed by the order.
. The board has “fall power to an troduge ee and a
ee of wage scales instead of a unified schedule.
8. Under Order PC 9384 the government
representation on the Natio mal War Labor Board to

hor Confer
rni; the annual meeting of ace 363 = Gane
well = "hundreds of Locals and Sub- ‘Locals throughout the
province

This barrage of resolutions, telegrams and letters to the|s
Prime Minister, the Minister ct Labor and Members es Parlia-
mly be kept up, but intensified during the

fey must not o:
coming w eck,

This vetes tains grave sniustices and violations of basi
principles of Bitch justice. as and will create widespread
dissatisfaction ekaeperie efforts to win

war in the shortest Eablet time with the least possible aes
of life « and res

Order-i in-Counell 9384 must (go! Wages and cost-of-living ia
lites

pone nequ e frozen until it is eliminated. Remember

old slogan, ‘TH. Give your

write a
shall have full | O°"

ne a
reco aa pene ples. of ete and justice, by deem- | Commons.

nt ee jeduesy qabor in

member ae in me fone
B.C.

wn

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on ay ae geri while dis-
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s for myself I am going to

wa
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a been tabled in the none of
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like | tice would make for more et
1- | ency.

W the ane as these accldeutl «ay
where it belong:
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indings of the jury w

exelent in that it found ae

lis ae bee

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id placed

we
A millworker sends the follow-
ing contribution:

for one would like

one they are going to u: When

I chink we
ic | things v eines be
ave to ae that pro]
know the facts.

use. When ga
the various provisions

eems d
firing or blacklisting union organ-|
izers.

mis:
e all must Mee eee

Editor is

what they

mean accomplish-
See according to the Bullco
eae seriously fellows,

ur blood is just as sim}

needs it,
esides, what r excuse
could a fellow have for
good er—that is, if
excuse!
Well, I’

the “To the Editor”
we will come to understand these

fall ae NOW to have PC 9384 rescinded forthwith!

things better.

and I. ee Tot aa you
teow" “Lambe ee ae will |

m the cause of Seah

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