THE B.C. LUMBER WORKER SESIDEN: Ay COLUMN) Coe WITH victory over the axis in Europe a matter of days, and the United Nations preparing for a history-making conference in San Francisco this month, freedom loving people the world over have a right to be optim- istically enthusiastic. The cost of yetory in life and material has been enormous. ‘The peace that will follow this victory must bring security— @ guarantee that never again will this world be engulfed in a devastating blood bath — a guarantee that democracy will live and grow to ensure the de- termination of democratic governments everywhere that wil be representative of the people’s choice — a guarantee that the united effort which made this victory over Hitler possible will be. continued on the basis of full co-operation im the reconstruction of the devastated nations, the indus- trialization of the backward nations, and the development of free trade between all coun- tries of the world—a guarantee that organized labor, which has played such an important part in winning the victory, will have a full voice in estab- lishing the peace. We are living in a period un- like any other in history. This was demonstrated at the world international labor conference in London, Efgland,<and in the establishment of:an International Labor Cogress. . The Canadian Congress of La- bor, in a recent special council meeting, completed its proposed amendments to Wartime Order- in-Council PC 1003, that if adop- ted will give labor in Canada the assurance of dignified strength the respect of employers and the public generally. Arrange- ments are snow being made “for the representatives of organized labor in Canada to meet with the federal cabinet prior to the dissolving of this parliament. The importance of this national lobby will be understood by the membership of District No. 1 of our union; for while industry- wide negotiations were consid- ered highly successful, our de- mands for greater union secur- ity were incomplete because of the employers’ flat refusal at this time to consider the union shop and check-off. Representatives of the people in government, regardless of what party they may belong te, are receptive to the united voice of the people. Outside of winning the war, our first task must be to mobilize our mem- bership and the entire trade union movement, backed up by an enlightened public, for the enactment of legislation em- bodying full union security now. District No. 1, in regular Council session, is on record for an all-out campaign to send our representatives to the National Lobby in Ottawa who are to be supported by resolutions, tele- grams, and public petitions to ensure the enactment of our just legislative demands through the federal government, as was ac- lished by labor’s efforts the provincial government omen he Fateh Later Come tne EP REM 2 Strategists of the rapidly re- viving Klan movement plan an all-out assault on Catholic labor Teaders. Within a few months they will attack along religious lines such men as Philip Murray George Meany as intensely as they hit Sidney Hillman with anti-Semitic propaganda in the November campaign. The Klansmen, operating in- dependently of their national headquarters in Atlanta, Geor- gia, will concentrate on the Asso- ciation of Catholic Trade Union- ists. This will round out their pro- paganda along traditional KKK lines. BLACK LEGION TERROR FEARED They already have “exploited Hillman’s Political Action Com- mittee and have warned that trade union rules virtually will turn American post-war indus- try over to the Negroes. Now the KKK men simply are adding anti-Catholicism to their anti,Negro and anti-Semitism activity. So they will be right back in their old business again—but this time as crusaders defend- ing rugged individualism against the unions and the big, bad closed shop. Some high Catholic clergymen are aware of the coming cam- paign against labor leaders of their faith. And one important member of the Detroit hierarchy has said that the new drive might even revive the Black Legion type of terror organization. This easily could be accomplished in Midwest industrial areas which have attracted many Southern workers. and'| Klan Maps Attack On Catholic Labor. Leaders -* By VICTOR RIESEL TIE-UP WITH MIDWEST UNIONS Strategy for this campaign has been worked out with me- thodical skill, The Klansmen, after a futile attempt to revive some of their old units, decided to seek the support of some ac- tive Midwest independent unions for use as an operating base. A tie-up with these unions could serve to supply manpower for all Klan purposes, and, most important, could be used to prove that the modern KKK is not ‘anti-union but rather an organ- lization to protect the workers | against the AFL‘and CIO. So certain independent union leaders have been approached by the Klansmen. The independ- ents have been promised certain henefits supposedly to come from. the weakening of the AFL and IO, via.attacks on Catholic leaders of both organizations. This deal with some independ- ent unions will not prevent the KKK from negotiating with cer- tain industrialists and wealthy conservative propagandists for funds with which to finance the anti-Catholic drive. The industrialists, of course, will be told that the real purpose of the campaign is to destroy unions, wipe out the closed shop and diseredit labor leaders in many areas. The plan then calls for the coupling of the CIO Catholics with AFL Catholic leaders. Then it will be charged that men of this faith are plotting to seize the American labor movement. The whole plan, is in effect, the international - Jew - Communist- banker technique in reverse. By NIGEL MORGAN, Legislative Director and International Board Member, IWA-CIO District One FULL STEAM AHEAD FOR AMENDMENTS TO P.C. 1003 1) BENG in executive board session last week, B.C. istrict Coun- MM cil No. 1 IWA-CIO, laid plans for a streamlined political action program to mobilize public support for amendments to P.C. 1008, the Federal Labor Code. Proposals of the executive board, embodied in the directives sent out by your District IWA-PAC, have been planned to synchronize with proposals of last week’s meeting of the national committee of the Canadian Congress of Labor for a great national campaign. / Serious consideration has been given to the amendments put - forward by all CCL affiliates and an excellent program is being pre- pared, with the expert advice of J. L. Cohen, K.C., Canada’s out- standing labor attorney and former labor representative on the National War Labor Board. Clarification of collective bargaining rights; simplification of certification procedure; decisive action to outlaw company unions; as well as provisions for union security clauses, such as the union shop and the check-off, are being asked. Similar action is being taken by. the Trades and Labor Congress (AFL); and it is hoped a joint demonstration, with participation of both national labor organizations, will conclude the campaign with a powerful lobby of several hundred trade union representa- tives in Ottawa before the Federal Parliament is ‘dissolved about the middle of this month. Arrangements are being made by the IWA B.C. District Council for adequate representation of our union in the Ottawa lobby. We have now reached a critical stage in labor relations in Can- ada. Cunning manoeuvres are being made to frustrate and defeat the democratic aims of working people; to provoke them into strike actions which the trade unions do not desire; actions which will satisfy only those who wish to cause disunity and disruption for political parties; strike actions from which only the fascist war criminals and their accomplices can take comfort. We have reached a stage where trade unions, confronted with obstruction of reaction- ary employers, after they have taken every step prescribed in the present P.C. 1003, find that there is no provision for compelling genuine recognition of their union. It therefore faces the alterna- tive of either going out of business; violating the no-strike pledge or going before the government urging more effective legislation that will compel defiant employers to conform to the democratic processes of collective bargaining. The IWA recently decided on the last alternative and now is our opportunity to act in consort with a great national campaign of all Canadian labor. It is obvious that P.C. 1003 must be made more effective. It must-be-given teeth to deal with those employers who flaunt gov- ernment policy; the will of the people; and who will only comply when compelled to do so. Our collective bargaining legislation must be amended to frustrate that small defiant group that is now threatening us with industrial strife and national disunity. Labor today has responsibilities; the like of which it has never had before. Labor has shown by the constructive, statesman-like policies it has advanced in war, it is prepared and capable of accepting those re- sponsibilities. As Minister of Labor Pearson so correctly pointed out, Canadian management should accept labor as a full partner in our common effort to establish a peaceful, secure and prosperous Canada. The District PAC stands instructed to mobilize all Local and Sub-Local committees behind the demand for adoption of labor’s requests. sized—and as you can see THE TIME IS SHORT! ACTION IS REQUIRED! The importance of this campaign cannot be over-empha- IMMEDIATE Roosevelt Orders Study — Of Guaranteed Wage WASHINGTON (ALN)—President Roosevelt this week directed the advisory board of the Office of War Mobilization to investigate the question of establishing a guaranteed annual wage for U.S. workers, ‘ out that the move was in Jong a goal of the labor movement. The President pointed line with a recommendation made last De- cember by the War Labor Board-and “is closely connected with the problems of reconversion and the transition from a war economy to a peace economy.” The WLB report urged that “the whole question of guaran- teed wage plans and the possib- ility of their future development in American industries as an aid jn the stabilization of employ- ment and the regularization’ of production, should now be com- prehensively studied on a nation- al scale.” It declared that a guar- anteed wage “is one of the main aspirations of American workers” and that “the search for it is part of the search for continuity of employment which is perhaps the most vital economic and social objective of our times.” The WLB recommendation was a direct result of its decision last November to reject demands of the United Steelworkers (CIO) that 86 steel companies guaran- tee “each employee a minimum weekly wage during the life of the contract” on the grounds that it did not have sufficient infor- mation about the operations of assured wage plans. In proposing that the President appoint a study commission, the WLB stated that’ fear of unemployment has led to annual wage guarantee demands. Estimating that there were only some 50 or 60 guaranteed annual wage plans in existence in U.S. industry, the Board observed that most of these plans were initiated by employers themselves and that some were tried and abandoned. No such plan was attempted in the steel industry, where the de- mands for labor “has fluctuated widely from year to year,” it added.