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A Published Every Second Monday
” INTERNATIONAL WOODWORKERS OF XutBrica (GIO)
DISTRICT COUNCIL NO. 1
22,000 copies printed this week

Subsexiption Rate: $1.00 per year

Editor: JACK GREENALL Advertising: MATT FEE

Room 504 Holden Building—Phone PAcifie 4151—Vancouver, B.C.
Authorized as Second Class Mcil, Postoffice Dept., Ottawa,

The deadline for the coming issue is 4 p.m.
Thursday, March 21

The Record

Recent issues of the Vancouyer Sun and the Vancouver Prov-
ince carried a Canadian Press despatch quoting a publisher in
Sherbrooke, P.Q., on the subject of CBC and the National Film
Board. The man’s statements constituted a diatribe suggesting little
Knowledge of these services, but a maximum of prejudice and
spleen against the two most progressive achievements of the
Canadian Government.

Sherbrooke is a little country town. The Sherbrooke Record is
a paper of purely local repute. The Canadian Press would not have
picked up any statement of this man had he attacked Fascism,
reactionary bosses, or the increased cost of living despite price
control. He is not important enough.

But any peg is good enough on which to hang a halter for
progress. The Province, in particular, indicated clearly in the head
given the article that it was fully in accord with the Record
publisher, Well, this paper is not.

If there are two public services of which Canadians may be
justly proud they are the National Film Board and CBC. This
is something with which all trade unionists, who have benefited
by the services of both, will agree. And, despite the views of
the Sherbrooke Record, we have never found them “propaganda
mills” for the Liberal Government. Frankly, we think the Liberal
Government could be of more value to the Canadian people if
its actions conformed in even a slight degree to the principles and
views expressed in NFB films we have seen.

We are writing this purely to keep the record clear, as far
as this paper and the organization of 18000 workers for which

© it speaks is concerned. If the Canadian Press is as much concerned
in reporting honestly the opinion of the Canadian people, it is
quite welcome to accord this editorial the same publicity it gave
to the publisher of the Sherbrooke (P.Q.) Record.

WFTU Charges German
Nazis Still Hold Power:

PARIS (ALN)—De-Nazification results in Germany are “far
from satisfactory” according. to the report of the World Federation
of Trade Unions’ special commission investigating conditions under
the Allied occupation. Rejecting the excuse given by Allied officers
that some Nazis with technical skill are “indispensible,” the report
says “there can be no ‘indispensable,’ Nazi, De-Nazification can and
must be given priority over any desire to achieve maximum produc-

By Don
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Heading Out

tax from one to three cents per member by Locals 1-71, 1-217,
1-357, and 1-85. This increase was agreed upon in the January
District Convention, and will be carried out by other locals as
soon as conditions permit.

This increased per capita means that by the time you are
reading this, and I trust you all do, the Union Hiring Hall will
have a full time worker, Mrs. Arna Bee, whose duties will be to
look after all the details of office work. She will be able to take
full charge during the times that my work takes me away from
the office, such as at those times when I have to arrange trans-
portation for men being shipped out, etc.

The Union Hiring Hall will no doubt have to remain in the
same location for some time to come, and I trust no occasion shall
ever arise that will compel us to move our quarters from that
part of the town where the majojrity of lumber workers con-
gregate, The above remark may stir the memories (none too savory)
of some of the workers of our industry of 1934 vintage.

In conclusion, this week, I dispatched a set of fallers with
whom I worked in 1920, bringing back a quarter of a century of
memories of all the ups and downs of troubled progress. Yet the

| fact that our organization is today able to cater to the needs of

our membership by sending men to the job via Union Hiring is
something of which one can be justifiably proud. This is the be-
ginning; your full support to union hiring means the fulfillment
of a great and worthy objective.

A Reply To Don Herd
Of The Comox Free Press

By KEN McLEAN
Recently an article regarding the proposed IWA strike or strike
vote appeared in the Comox District Free Press. The writer being
Mr. Don Herd of Campbell River, who had previously discussed at
some length the safety measures which have been adopted through-
out the logging camps in B.C,

Proof that the IWA intends to go forward with the idea ||
-| of Union Hiring has been manifested by the increase of per capita.

tivity.”

.The WFTU commission, which
just returned from three weeks
in- Germany, also revealed that
Allied officials in many cases
scorn trade union assistance, with
the result that Nazis are left in
important posts in industry and
are able to hamper trade union
growth. Bven Nazis who haye
been ousted from one post have
little difficulty in getting an im-
portant job in another factory,
the report says.

Speaking for thé commission
at a press conference here, CIO
leader Stanley Hillman under-
lined these findings but empha-
sized the commission’s view that
the German trade union move-
ment is a strong force for a new,
democratic Germany. In every
zone, he said, Socialists, Com-
munists and Christians are deter-
mined to avoid the division in
the working class movement that
made Nazism possible.

The report, however, stresses
that the Junker (landed propri-
etor) class must be stripped of
economic power in order to pre-

+ vent re-emergence of militarism.

“It would be folly,” the report
asserts, “to rely wholly on the
ability-of the German workers
to transform their land and their
institutions as a guarantee that
the world be free of the menace
which twice in our lifetime has
plunged us into war.”

Commission findings will be
presented to Allied authorities,
who will be continuously informed
of future WFTU findings on the
progress of de-Nazification, Hill-
man said. He pointed out that
the length of time our troops will
have to occupy Germany depends
largely on our determination to
uproot fascism. The WFTU com-
mission, he said, favors a small,
efficient occupation force.

Trade unions, the report says,
should be encouraged to develop
on a zone-wide basis, and since
they represent “one of the most
reliable anti-fascist forces in
Germany,” they should also be
empowered to establish youth or-

thus making a logging career for
any energetic young man a much
less dangerous occupation than
it had been in years past.
However, we will pass lightly
over Mr, Herd’s column on safe-
ty measures in the woods, as it
is on his newspaper effort in
regard to a logger’s strike that
we would care to give a reply.
Mr. Herd’s article of February
7 does merit an answer, several
or more to be exact, but we
fraternal brothers in this camp
would be greatly pleased if this
one article could possibly be
printed in the Comox Free Press.

Without a doubt there are
several ways in which we might
approach Mr. Herd’s article in
which he was so very adept in
his criticism 6f our union lead-
ers, According to his statements
the IWA unon leaders have un-

justly and most unwisely chal-
lenged the timber operators to
a show-down resulting in an
“all-out” strike if the demands
of the IWA are not adopted.
Now that statement is to be
questioned greatly, because as
Mr. Herd admitted, the union
heads have not uttered any rash
statements as to the advisability
of taking every logger from his
job. Rather, they have issued
bulletins in which they have set
forth the new clauses to be in-
serted in our 1946 agreement.
At the same time they have
suggested it may be necessary
to call a strike, if the timber
operators refuse to sign the new
agreement. This is seemingly in
accord with the union members,
as it would appear rather odd
for any organization or union to
attempt a serious undertaking
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ganizations for re-education,

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urtesy z Canadian Auto Worker.

Hello, Boys:

Greenall shakes me awake to-
day and says, “Come on, you old
coot, here it is ten minutes to
our press deadline and you ain't
give me your column yet.”

“Aw, keep your shirt on my
boy,” I says. “For over ten years :
I have never let the different
editors of your paper down yet.
Besides, like all other workers
I have become 40 percent faster
so ten minutes is lot of time for
me to get my work done in 1946,

“Now what I want to know,
Jack, is when this $2.00-a-day
raise across the board becomes
a fact, Will you make a joint ap~
plication with me to your suc-
cessor that this raise will also
boost my price for this job. I
would ask for more but my cost
of living hasn't really gone up.
It’s been diluted, for there is
more water in it than ever,” I
says.

Jack allowed it wouldn’t be
much use to make a joint appli~
cation, but he would be willing
(if I go on strike) to arbitrate
the question with a recommen-
dation that my wages be im-
proved.

Well, boys, I done got doubly
religious. You remember maybe
as a child reading all about that
“six days shalt thou labor and
do all thy work,” I reckon now if
“five days shalt thou labor and §
do all they work,” with time
and a half for anything over
that, would make a feller more
godly or goodly, and also give
him time to attend his union
meetings more often.

Sure it is true when “six days
shalt thou labor” was written the
only motive power at that time
was the ox or the ass. Time has
done away with the ox and most
of the asses except those who
still think it necessary to work
six days a week to produce enough
goods for the average man to live
in comfort.

Once upon a time I asked my
boss for 25¢ a day increase in
wages and he said: “Well, darn
it all, I'll give it to you but don’t
spare yourself.” I would never of
got it if I hadn’t asked for it and
I reckon sometime just asking for
it don’t get a raise either. It
won't do much good to raise the
wages unless the cost of living
remains the same. Heck, what
good would it do me if the ed
raises me 30 percent if the price
of liquor goes up even by 10e
a bottle. And just asking may find
us like the G.I. Joe who happened
to be standing close, back to, a
Missouri army mule, found hii
self sailing through the air with
the greatest of ease, landing right
in his commanding officer’s tent,
right plump into the officer's
Jap. The officer said, “Tut, tut,
man, what goes on here.” And
poor old G. I. Joe stood up trying
to brush himself and salute at
the samé time, said, “Well, to
tell the truth, sir, I was _
here.”

So long, boys.

Police Want 40 Hours

Vancouver Police
AFL, presented demands
week to the City Council, |
the 40-hour ae which |
makes it unanimous with

Vancouver Policemen, ‘