Sinclair Mills Crew
Backs 1946 Demands

Mr. Editor:

‘The northern interior lumber
workers are stepping into line
with industrial union labor
across the continent. This fact
has been demonstrated clearly
by labor policies adopted by this
sub-local,

In the past few months much
confusion has been in evidence
in this area, but since the
holding of the Kamloops Con-
ference (March 12) our aims
have been coneretized, and our
membership united in determin-
ation to achieve our goal. The
good work accomplished at
Kamloops was given added im-
petus when Brother Bergren at-
tended our sub-local meeting on
March 18. At that time we en-
thusiastically accepted as ours
the proposals made by the Dis-
trict Executive in order to clari-
fy the program of the whole
Interior.

The brothers here are anxious
to win their demands. They are
solidly behind the 1946 pro-
gram, and at a meeting held
April 8, endorsed by secret bal-
lot the strike vote was 100 per-
cent. This unanimous vote is
clear evidence that the men do
not think that wages have been
keeping pace with the greatly
increased cost of living. Today
many workers are finding it
more difficult to make both ends
meet than in the “hungry
thirties.”

It is hoped that the opera-
tors will realize that for our
country to progress and become
more prosperous it is essential
that the people haye sufficient
purchasing power to maintain
decent living standards. At the
rate the cost of living has been
climbing the present wage levels
are totally inadequate to pro-
vide the economic security
which every working man should
have a right to expect.

In closing we would like to
urge every lumber worker to
get behind the fighting fund,
for this is one of the most im-
portant tools to be used in win-
ning an acceptable agreement.

SINCLAIR MILLS
PRESS COMMITTEE.

QUALITY

Always at the Home of —
UNION MADE Clothing
— and Friendly Service.

No Compromise Needed
Demands Reasonable

To the Editor:

I haven't been saying very
much, I’ve been sitting’ in the
shadows and saying little. But
I've been observing—I've been
seeing what is going on. Now
I feel it is my time to say
something.

We are now in the midst of
our 1946 negotiations, which
consist of three major points:

3. A 25¢ per hour increase in
wages.

2, A 40-hour week.”

3. A union shop and check-
off system. -

All three are good points. All
three are’ necessary improve-
ments. None is unreasonable.

I have heard, however, from
union members, that it is a well-
known fact that a union asks
for twice 2s much as it really
wants to insure getting what it
does want, Also, I have heard
that if we wanted a 40-hour
week, we would have asked fcr

a 36-hour week.
‘There is no reason why we
must demand more than we

want or need; there is no reason
why we must cower before the
operators and make compro-
mises with them — if our de-
mands are honorable, and they
are.

Do we want a 44hour week?

What good is a 44-hour week?
How much better is it than
what we now have?

With a 44-hour week, will we
not still have to work 6 days a
week?

All that a 4hour reduction in
weekly working hours will do
is let us off work 50 minutes
carlier each day.

We must not let the Opera-
tors buy us off with half of
what we demand. We must not
wait until next year for what
we want and need now. WE
MUST NOT! For if we do, if
we let the operators dicker with
us and whittle down our de-
mands, afterwards, when we re-
alize what we have done we
will, each one of us, want to
kick ourselves where it hurts
most for we will have lost our
first major battle.

Now is NOT the time for
compromise. Now is the time
to stick by our guns and get
those things for which we ask.

bee Ed
We must not give ground on
any front,

‘We have stated our demands,
they are reasonable, we should
get them, We must be willing
to back up these demands. We
are a union, nob a flock of
goats. We must stand together
and push with ali we have.
Each with his shoulder to the
wheel.

We must get our 40-hour
week, our 25¢ per hour raise,
our union shop and check-off
system. We must get them this
year so that we can go on next
year and tke our second step.
Now if we don ot, we will have
a long, bloody fight to secure
fully what we want this year
alone, to say nothing of our
final goal.

Brothers and sisters, the time
is now. THIS IS OUR HOUR!
Do not let it slip through our
fingers,

IWA-CIO Local 1-857.

BOB CLERIAUE,

AZ,

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45 miles per hour covers 66 FEET IN ONE SECOND OF TIME!

When you consider that the average passenger automobile
weighs about 2300 Ibs., it means you are driving over a ton

of steel at 66 feet per second.

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REACTION DISTANCE

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And more important still—when travelling 45 miles per
hour IT REQUIRES 171 FEET TO STOP the average
automobile with four wheel brakes in perfect condition

on a dry, level stretch of highway.

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