THE B.C LUMBER WORKER
7

BE. LoupenttiWonnen

Every Second Monday i
INTERNATIONAL dina or AMERICA (C10) |
STRICT COUNCIL NO. 1 |

Union Hiring Depends
On Your Support —

By DON BARBOUR

Our eed Hall received a visit from Brother Oscar me,
nt ooting,

Mien itor: JACK GREENA!
‘Room 504 Holden ae ee PAcifie 4151—Vancouver, B.C.

snoose chew wing, he-man logger. You know at first ince he is

The deadline for stories e coming issue is 4 p.m, =
hard-boiled because of his capacity to hold such a large amoi

for
Thursday, ae 12, 1945.

Harry Bridges

carts of thousands of longshoremen and with them
Bot “wonavoskers and members of labor organizations are
w tr

B.C.
woods is Announced Li
Lao that ne can’t quite pe in the
e might have beer! the

snoose as manfully as other-

: talk, he would probably say “snuff
- Ths ged Bi ls nae
; Bulg and it is hoped that every pies he Midsum-

and iis lidays will aan himself of the pater te ae calling to see

his atts ul only

ican.
involved een battle.
Bridges which any fair inged a

Our hiring problems me aul unsolved ous in fact, are mount-

e
Cre
1edy Sele ‘
inquiring oda ny heath
asks would like to sell my he
and how much would I

it.

for
Thinks I to myself, now here —
is a oo to make a piece of

Years ago, an Australian boy 17)
to work and li dom. ‘That was in 1920.]ing. Thanks to is effort: jar members in camp who understand
le ok: ont hie fst tin enshie Petes he in | the need of organized lal ie voice to Rested eee
28 he applied for his second papers, but through some mix- | timing to the f ALL mber:
up in the United States District Court at San Bvaneiseoy: TBtidges have signified their willingness to cooperate with our proposals on
hat his first papers had expired and he wi Fall have to | hiring. gel is fea to bear in mind that cooperation is not a one wa
wait two Ba oe before he could apply again. two 3 oe later, | street; nlate/iat werjeeee za
him for his second pap’ ridges ae OW,
Fes ae one mn to bear fe evancial expenditures involved but | #5 4” organization Snub fjeseatn €, Oras ss cone eagaeaa window wa
as soon as he wi einaneial lly able in 1933 he applied. a understand au aaa all pplieabers is all that is neces-| all the
Meanwhile @ ihatece ietell esal pay enmreig reman on| sy 45 ensure Like all things ‘in life, ou Bin Hall | Creek cau
the San Francisco waterfront, No one had an: ing to say against Poa IY pen for
itr eenELS il SES at his pay was very low. The reason mist no veralIOge real to Secomele tatic. For us to assume Lead
he earned so little was not only because the pay a longshore | of the pa needs of the anh industry, rou sere us a short | Tp,
was low then, but also because chisellers the waterfront were | of the objective we visualized a anda eee
trusted with the hiring of] shoremen and they demanded a kick i uy 3
back of the men’s wages or they would not give them worl Because Gamay its aon unconditional surrender, the | ments you
thought that 5 yon end Egan to get the men together to “dis. same th to soon, does not guarantee that labor's pi up a lot
cuss wi col ye dons out i se 3 ‘oul
use wi PSEA TANGER GREET EG ota eaten blew to cnro- | Problems vil aiitomatieally be solved. Although wars in the m
tect themselves and to get better wages, -Qne thing led to another | have been won by the side fighting the more just cause, yet our ou
waterfront chisellers joined hands with petty gangsters, encouraged | record for spe the peace is not so consistent. This is still the
by ae 1s a ih ptt sulted an pny cae vane eat strike big task head for aa of us and a firm foundation of industry-wide | 47)
, which fii netted great gains for the longshoremen. iaines a ; ; 5
As soon as ae Bridges began to talk about decent wages, | Won hiring in the postwar eo one of our best guarantees of been
Somnpicondiensiion his and pr m against the comin high liv ving standar
iil bac Ghatienceigekwac\atncter to: neu lim deported: Within a
suit second after-he began organizing the longshoremen, shady char- insiae pi
acters were ready to swear that Bridges was a subversive and ay
danger prey determined to overthrow the ee ab ate Ci ti o dor
‘According to orant prepared in yy the. Unite fl e
States Departme or. “His (Bridge tion was thei i IZ As l sould re Sn am hee
(1984) and later urgently sought ne the uh! ad antagonized ito ye ‘acilities coul
Se RETeraabetoa ovale Mirsng orate leroriationsorncldges Wan FROM CITIZEN TRADE UNIONIST years to com } oo
been bro to the attention of the Depart r, it has ° we fathers
en investigated, but invariably it has been found he was in the By IDELE L. WILSON, M.A
clear and Hee In) Gaiam oe oa iors entaa GEE SWAN Reseaxchun eet
ip

an
rey President Bee athe Be) rae tt he pe right on the
erse

head waen he said that the real re ecution of E TRADE UNION—A SOCI AL meee
ridges FL ;
Panic aabarerimie ee ooo bed’ ia 188d vhen he organized the ee a cutting ing right eway; and it a ae
Jongshoremen on the Pacific Coast, A memorandum issued by the at representation, It w
Labor Department, coi enema weg onclusion.’ si aid Bete) its policy have a bit

e IWA rejoices with Goma people in the winning of nd Re edieati onal ystem. Its mem: | Plumbing.
Sale just and successful eM for American elasenstinwAtietne Ree aoe neti

ter in American labor history is closed. Labor has won again.| 5+ committees in constant ena pan da 5 2 Jarge number | sible. However, this

the- shop stewards, committeemen, business agents—are in close | MO @bout $100

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touch all the time with the members. Generally pee the of-
ficers are well informed about the way the member:

ni
Hee for more years tine i care
da about. I reckon from the —

Fishermen Win
© press, word has been received an agreement
has been oS pebvecn utes United tashermen ae +n ied Workers
eorhey mua the eae

ehe ip that has
ae bas a apek ail:
agreement are not ean any fe a has authorized fishing to
start oa Sunda lay, July 1st, foliowing a promise that it is felt will

be acceptal

Gilln on aa seine fishing a

and respond es to their opinions.

ganiza

ae

sae hat

the B .C. coast failed to get started

1 8573 result of the refusal of oader sense the ve
ment poe

is fl ing, $2,500 would be pi
the Spee Ti a get.
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have er Pp
will He Lae Ley “wat Ria

ithe Fede ral Depart

ner is a pene ndent, yoluntary, Paar ee and self-fi1 d
fal actor Bae toe nization speaking for a very large rene Gf. the -waritaeaeg
ai

gal
e ation gives it ecial si
dy has

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govern id,
dem aerled hich eae

| presenta iesihey dp al taveltente
‘ople they Sey fee

ADE UNIONIST—A Oey
Anne respect the tr: nde

worth thei

%e per pou al
ir while going out jo
i

Secretary of the Fishermen’s
of “no agri

ae jira in the fishing wa eeiaa on this coast.
to

union members are not Secu swayed bj

znother, the members of the IWA extend Sra
inevitable or that foreigners can never

ee basic Eres
tulation: ie fishermen for their solidarity and their out-

‘Aaning pee

lemocratic institution. It tot
wi

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live in, fe i
hard ig “get stuf ‘to vail ah
at the atic I can mi

“Your place,