Page Two THE B.C. LUMBER WORKER ES. Luycen! Worker Published Every Second Monday by INTERNATIONA Fa CONOR re Ck OF PERSIE ES (Clo) RICT CO! Editor: BERT NESS (on pares pcenagten Managing Editor: JACK GREENALL Room, 504 Holden Building — Phone PAcific 4151 — Vancouver, B.C. The deadline for stories for the com DS issue is 4 p.m., Thursday, September Unionism Pays ficial: Sead seek by the Provincial Department of Labor -y interesting not only from the ee of rom the viewpoint that it pays to be a mem- yf r report shows that thirty-eight thousand vince ti British Columbia joined the labor ae nae in the last year, necessitating the establishment of sixteen ne local unions. Union Hiring Depentle n Your Pea By DON BARBOR, Hiring Hall Manager aces kaye ee an United Nations as a so mucl afin it I trust whoe pardon me a little reminiscing. eitt dite ee reason is iia is that due to the exchange of the oxcart — of van kind today te within our Hiring Hall be: life. wi cag that*the French people captured the Bastille once and in 1886 presented ate United States of America with the Statue of Liberty that still graces New York’s harbor. view of the rol nee ea (interwoven ue ee armies of the rest of the Unite sh people) is playing in the libera- uch di ‘ead this report on ee a so interwoven that even small local problems as occur] th ars a relation to world events in the same ae mat prea world events will have their effect on our future ul rage wage for male wage earners is now $37.19 per month, Gilimancontons ri lay from something far worse than the Bastille we must an increase over last year se $1.95, with a grand total of $3,000,000 in-| realize the full value of the rps stanie toentaberty! bad, t creases aoe (Ere weather) Be UN ee ain the juncture of the Red Army with Tito’s fighting forces in One of the fast growing “organizations in the provines, District No. 1,144. Ratvans will bring to the peoples of those countries the Jind a government they desire, ridding them for all timey of dictators or a large mace of the credit for the three million aie increase in ye aan = as =m eae — oe saree ae Poreec WISE On ae GAB ey Ln land to find what they nn in this « nk It would be ironic if This being so, the arguments against joining our union are. puny Gane da shoul a ind in Oe) ace of the pcported fe ‘ins, for Rye) we, as pails) are un- ort, th: 1 collective bargaining our achiev anentse are astoun mbership is Yequired to pay Ane fa per eM in dues, vies e year alone, is a compared Sarit investment for our futur The wage increases are only one oma part of ee that hay peer made i jours and work’ Sea nd that can be made in the future through organization. Unionization does pay Berea ardent not only in-human welfare nee in citizenship. Union Wives industry could find itself minus many experienced workers and inci- » there-is no problem that does not have a Soe and problem of emigrati g it can only mm) reality if everyone of us takes his rightful place in the economic and political field. may eee our apemberait wit is the ination See less of the kind of men the IWA Hiring Hall is een pi 0 know that the Galea a has st e International Woodworkers of America. has consistent- hall, of commendation fring *h al The i aire thatthe Jetter_speaks highly ofthe type _ en rerorting—to~that. e»mp for important ys essential to the 1. is movement. On num erous work and as that is the main factor in * qurtheei the Scope of union oct asked all affiliated locals to wholeheart ely “tte ladies in setting up papeties and w hole; ded m« bearing this cheerful pre “The honest mule lives thirty ears, e And nothing knows of wine and beer; The goat and sheep at twenty di Ant py taste oe ne or a The cow drinks Ey the ton And * lien ve N cas! And then in tele ge And now like our old friend who writes the bulleook column I The aaeteee sober, bone-dry hen must say so long for hig tne boys, hoping to see you at 206 Holden|y ays eggs for n ogs-anal dien autem Bldg. HIS op Sa town. Phone MArine 7051 days and| ay animals are strictly dry. evenings DEx, 2524-M. But sinful, ginful, rum-soaked Ts; drawing to the attention of the ° local unions the importance’ of eS N | ©) carrying thi: out, e canfiot stress too strongly eacce cat pledsare.- on importance of the auxiliary move-|) 1.16 of the Boilermakers’ Union, ent in the full coordination of union work. The women who have |t© bring greetings to the Lumber een organized into functioning | Workers’ Conference on Septel auxiliaries ave accomplished | ber 24. This conference, I am in- much good for labor and the com-| formed, is for the purpose of d munity as a whole. For they serve ee the terms and provisions on ration ban political action | of a master agreement for n committee: d work, goistions with the lumber opera- Re aaraunes projects, hospital visit- um n Shop Is Important is the situation uae su ing committees and numerous oth- The slogan Boyes the Top with er a fanaa as a as ving help | the Union Shop” is, in my opinion, ity and possible’ attacks upon when are needed |a very approp! a8 slogan for lu ion are therefore gre: er workers at this time. The tre- . And (0 we have found ary movement can be | ™endous ‘ides in organization that the majority of men who for- aS assistance in the |™ade by the IWA during this past merly had never been members field of Political Action by stimu-|¥@2" fully entitles them to have trade union, only remained lating registration of voters and|‘¥nion shop” provisions in their outeldie of alone) eee getting ow d. other lib- agreements. M as been id, jowledge or understanding of owl groups to vote. We feel the ‘o and con, on the advisability of the trade union vement; and by importance ee nes erties move- | Union shop agreements. being required to join the union, like to say a few words on it WILLIAM STEWART attend meetings, participate in its of our locals and sub-locals and operates in the Vancouver ship- function: no oe prin- ve 46) Be this oppor! Bal of | Yards, where in three of the larg-) is always a feeling of ea ciples of t ing member ome est plants” ea men enjoy union}and possible discriminatin if There! eee e feel ‘that with the tes Pi fee ler the pest ae shop Cee of the workers in the plant are | introduction of the union shop in means of setting up ladies cer One o: ost important func- | not members of the uni th- | the _lumbering industry , greater locals, or where one is already tions in tie organizing of a union|er, numerous attempts have been | stability and better labor-manage- ugh eater, tion |35 the convincing of your fellow wait by employers to break up a ations ll be obtained, peu Ps CEng chy cooperation workman to also become a mem-| trade unions, using the small non- irtily endorse and pledge s er of that union. When you reach | union element as their base. With the -cuppact eae iscaeaee union. wife? over the 50 percent mark then it | the introduction oft union shop, | Union to the slogan of the Inter- your wife a an encourage her to become by joining the nearest mie aie jary local of the ments with employ: In the course of your negotidtions ther t becomes one ee ‘easing agree- ae e al Heer Woodworkers of America, Fos he Top With the Union ain is made impossible. man Survives for three score years and ~ ten.” think that the way tl uite n | He could have told me about be- CF k I piled minutes of the Yes, boys, I cai ee id why some of you fellows kick when e = ct t try’ ‘ov rat anaes in the plant by cronie absenteeism. No, boys, oe al som ti is no example to set, I agree. Remember the old bide: ad- , “Don’t as I do, as i say.” So, mill be dent for- get you took on mn to union men sia an only be good zillent en on your job . Get rid of all times. ae Bie ences ” So long, Ew ery Member Get a Member!