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EBC LUMBER WORKER

Published Every Second Monday by

INTERNATIONAL WOODWORKERS OF AMERICA (CIO)
u DISTRICT COUNCIL NO. 1

Editor: JACK GREENALL Advertising: MATT FEE

Room 504 Holden“Building—Phone PAcific 4151—Vancouver, B.C.
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The deadline for stories for the coming issue is 4 p.m.
Thursday, November 29, 1945.

Ford Must Be Whipped!

As the autoworkers entered the tenth week-of,the Battle of
Windsor, the company’s faithless attitude showed little sign of
changing. : acces

Despite concessions offered by the Strike Committee, such as
the opening of the powerhouse, the company has maintained its
arrogant refusal to enter negotiations.

It is apparent that’ Ford, relying on governmental refusal
to act, is intent on crushing the strike.

Unions all over the country are .expressing their solidarity
with the autoworkers. However, there has been some confusion
caused by the. inexplicable action of the CCL executive counter-
manding the call for sympathetic action sent out by the Strike
Committee.

However, thousands of workers took sympathetic 4ction in
the early part of the week, including one day demonstrations at
Brantford, Sarnia, Kitchener, and in the Weéstinghouse plant at

Hamilton, where 4500 members of the United Electrical, Radio and
Machine Workers’ Union staged a one-day walkout.

A special meeting of the CCL executive council has been |
called this Thursday in Ottawa to deal with the Ford strike situa-
tion. It has become evident that the company has no intention of
negotiating in good faith. The Thursday meeting of the CCL
council should recognize this. The whole strength of the Congress

must be swung behind the strikers. There must be no wavering
or weakening. This is a battle which must be won. The future
of all unions is tied with the battle at Windsor. Every union with
negotiations pending, every union with union security contracts
shas a stake in the Ford strugge.

Union locals and rank and file workers should let the CCL
executive know their opinions on this question.

Our International in convention supported the Ford strikers.
It is evident that only decisive action involving the whole trade
union movement will influence either the company or the govern-
ment.

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Civic Elections

Organized labor in British Columbia welcomes the action of |
the two Labor Councils in getting together on a joint platform |
and running two candidates from each council in the forthcoming |
civic elections. The action of the councils in recommending to
‘their affiliates the need of a united front of Labor to elect labor
representatives to the city council augurs well for our future, and
opens up tremendous possibilities for closer relationship in future
between locals of all affiliates.

‘We need only look at the role played by Mayor Reaume of
Windsor, Ontario, who was endorsed’ by the U.AW in his election,
to appreciate labor representatives on civic bodies, Mayor Reaume,
in refusing to permit the police to use force, accomplished more
in averting bloodshed in the struggle of the Ford workers than
perhaps any other individual in Canada.

The IWA can feel proud of the fact that one of the delegates
nominated by the CCL Council, was none other than Brother Don!
Barbour, whose record in our union is one of the best for out-!
standing achievements. Brother Barbour will be running in the/
civic elections on December 12, with Brother Turner, Secretary of
the Labor Council, and Brothers Gervin and Parkin of the Trades

and Labor Council.

| ‘The running of these four labor candidates on a non-partisan
basis, with the backing of both labor councils, makes history for
organized labor, and it is up to every member of the trade union
movement, whether Conservative, Liberal, CCF, LPP, or Social
Credit, to do his share in getting labor representation on the Van-
couver City Coneil on December 12. = 5 ©

by Green
m= « wChain Pete

Heading Out

Brother Barbour, who is the usual concocter of this column and
whose unsavory lines you’ve no doubt long since been disgustipated

with, is absent this week at the Eugene Convention, and the editor |

in desperation.has called on your’s truly, a sliver puller, to pinch
hit for the worthy hiring hall manager.

Now boys, before I go any further, I want to say I sure weleom:
this opportunity and fully intend to make the most of it. You know
Brother Barbour and all his troubles, at least you should be fully
acquainted with all his squawks and beefs, because he sure airs
them a’plenty at every opportunity; so help me, I can’t get within
20 feet of the Hiring Hall but what he starts on me about not being
able to get men to fill the orders he’s got, etc. “Yes,” he shouts,
“This camp needs men and that camp needs men and where am I
going to get them? Every logger in B.C. a member of our union,”
he bellows, “but the majority of them sure don’t séém’ to like their

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own Hiring Hall,” and so on.
, Well, fellows, so far you've)
only heard one side of the story, |
and that is about the people who
impose when they shouldn’t or
don’t impose when they should,
but Pll give you the other side
of the story about the people our
good friend, Brother Barbour, |
imposes upon, and boy, they’re
many! First of all Dll start on
Local 1217. I get around that
office once in a while when I’m
looking for news, and what do
you think I hear?—Yes, friends,
you've guessed it! First, Gladys
Shunaman, followed closely by
George Pulling and Tommy Mac-
Donald, and even Norah, the
stenographer, starts howling
about Brother Barbour hounding
them to death to go out and
up men for him, and,
friends, it is a similar tale of
woe in all the other union of-
fices here in the Holden Build
ing, and lately I’ve been to!d|

he has even solicited the Tele-|
phone Workers Union for their |

assistance in phoning all the beer
gardens in this fair city for,
he-men loggers.

Now, folks, it would only be!
repetition for yours truly to!

start preaching about the <im-
portance of union: hiring; but
speaking as one woodworker to
another even though Brother
Barbour calls me a sliver puller,
I am appealing to you loggers
on behalf of all mill workers to
take advantage ‘of the» Union
Hiring Hall to the extent that in
the very near future all.men go-
ing to the camps will be going
through this Hall. The Hiring
Hall mainly affects you loggers,
but remember the mill workers
re helping to finance it..There-
fore, they have a legitimate beef
if you don’t get down to brass
tacks and see to it that Poppa
Black and Hicks and the rest of
the sharks go out of business.
By doing thi ‘ou will be reliev
ing Brother Barbour of many
worries, and at the same time
relieve those people whom Bro-
ther Barbour worries on your
behalf.

This is Green Chain Pete sign-
ing off and I trust Brother Bar-
bour with your assistance will
have the Union Hiring Hall in
better shape by the time he be-
comes one of Vancouver's alder-
men on December 12.

Problem of Peace Discu:

ssed In Canadian Film

‘Vancouver workers seen above are listening to one of their
number discussing the ways in which Canada can contribute
to plans for world peace. They were photographed taking part
in the discussion trailer filmed to accompany the National Film
Board production, “Now—the Peace.”

In the same way that World
Labor Leaders assemble to
formulate foreign policy on a
common level, the workers whom
they represent are everywhere
deciding what their part is to
be in creating a better world.
Those who work on the land also
realize more than ever before
that the goods they produce
must receive equal distribution
in the world if peace is to be a
reality.

For these reasons, the Nation-
al Film Board’s “World in Ac-
tion” release, “Now—the Peace”,

available in November for non-
theatrical showings on the trade
union and rural circuits of the
Board will have special signifi-
cance for Canadian andiences,
This film was considered by
many of the delegates to San
Francisco who saw it at last
spring’s conference to ‘be one of.
the most s surveys of
the problems of world security
on the screen. Prints of the film
which is still provoking wide
comment have been made avail-

‘* Hello, Boys:

It’s sure great to be a union
man these days, when new certi-
fications are popping all over
and old ones are taking a new
lease on life and going out for

union shop agreements. In spite
of this favorable condition, nex

our IWA and boy, this burns up
our union men! :

. ‘The other day a good old son
of Erin came in the club room,
and let me tell you that when
an Irishman describes a person
he dislikes he generally makes
that. person look pretty small,
and this Irishman I am going
to tell you about is no exception,
Té appears that this good old
timer’s mind had been occupied
by non-union men, and that
seemed the only subject to talk
about just then. So being a good
old blabber myself, and having
my own idea about these guys,
ZI entered into the fun of the
subject and between the two of
us we sure raked these fenee
sitters fore and aft. I gota
|few original wisecracks myself
j once every not so often, and I-
was beginning to think myself
| quite an expert at throwing lan«
}Suage around. Boys, when our
| Ivish visitor reached the climax
of his tirade, he just about floor-

ed me,

It appears that an anti union

worker had been getting kind of

chesty and Paddy had retaliated

with some pretty sharp Irish

wit. In the course of their argu-

ment, this non-union man made

the mistake of saying, “Why,

hell, man, you are no better than

anyone slse. Because you pack

a button and you are an Irish-

man, you think you can run

the whole show. You fellows are

all alike, can’t get along with

anyone else. Because you pack
would not live on the same is-

land with you Irish.”

Well, boys, this guy should
have known better than to hold
forth on the subject of why
snakes left Ireland. “You are
right,” Paddy told him, “if you
mean that the snakes jumped
into the sea. This would have
been o.k., but the trouble is
that they swam over to America

;|to make wishy washy anti-union

men.”

Well, boys, speaking of union
men, I am glad you fellows are
supporting the Ford strikers 100
Percent. There is a story about
this Ford plant dealing with ef-
ficiency of production. Efficien-
cy experts are around all the
time trying to speed up produc-
tion. One day, one of these gen-
iuses was inspecting the plant
with Ford Te re came upon a
man who was the busiest man
in the plant. He was threading
nuts on left-hand threads with
one hand, and on right-hand
threads with the other.

on two machines below

able to film libraries for com-
munity use. ‘ i ?

are still fellows who sneer at —

feet were busy working levers

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