Page Four B. <. Editorial } PAC NOW HATEVER analysis may be W made of election results, one fact stares organized labor in the face. The electors have returned Provincial and Federal govern- ments which had previously dealt unfairly with trade unions. The resulting situation is a fresh challenge to the unions. It de- mands an objective appraisal of labor's political action in support of its aims on the political front. The legislative needs of labor were never more forcibly stated than "in the recent campaigns. In a -few short weeks, CCL-PAC made remarkable headway in mobiliz- ing voting support for labor's program, All political parties ‘were forced to promise better job opportunities, better labor laws, and more so- cial security, CCL-PAC rendered an outstanding service in this re- Spect to Canadian workers. How- ever, the plea for labor's rights was drowned out in the lavishly financed big business-free enter- brise campaign thunder. Money talked, and money won a major- ity decision. Now the predominant interests in| the B.C. Legislature and the House of Commons are those which view labor's demands with indifference and- offen antagon- . ism. Fewer trade unionists will speak for labor on the floor of Parliament, "TRENDS in Canada, following those in the Upited States al- ready foreshadow a slump in pro- duction with attendant growing and chronic unemployment. Taft- Hartley-ism has triumphed in the US. Congress, and will now be more openly advocated in Cana- dian Legislatures. Governments with unwieldly majorities are tra- ditionally slow to act on social Security measures, Organized labor in B.C. must insist that promises to revise the ICA and Worknien's Compensation Acts, and to introduce housing, health and social security meas- ures, be implemented, This a biti: not less, but more pol- itical action by labor on behalf of labor, Labor must organize its own political power, and ex- ercise that power now to secure fulfillment of promises made o, otherwise to oust at the next elec: tion any government that betrays labor, Consolidated net income of the Standard Oil Company (New Jer- sey), last year averaged one mil- lion dollars a day, after charges and taxes, according to the Com- pany’s own 1948 report which has just been released for publication. Imperial Oil is a subsidiary. The total net income of the gi- gantic oil firm reached a new The need for a militant and stronger PAC is greater than ever before. “Your Space Boys” on Page 7 BUILD THAT DYKE! LUMBER WORKER Proof of Vindication — din Punk of ie Cheques paid to the B. C. District Council, [WA, under an order of the Chief Justice in Supreme Court, June 22, re- turning funds seized by the former district officers for the of the Court at the time of the breakaway. A MILLION A DAY . | peak of $365,604,976. Gross in-} come was $3,332,187,275. i Shares earned $12.44 each as compared with $9.93 in 1947. Capital expenditure in 1948 for Standard Oil was also a new high —$529,415,000. The Company re- ported current assets of $1,184,- 228, 251. WIUC, together with other bank balances frozen by order LET THE CHIPS FALL by Weedy Weadpacher BELIEVE it or not, but some of the mechanical geniuses in our camp were tinkering the other day with a home- made television set when they picked up a scene in the Vancouver Club. R. V. Stuart was talking with some of the big-shot bosses over their after-dinner cigars, thusly: “What are the chances of getting away with a low- wage contract this year, R. V.?” : “Well, it depends on two things. First, on how well we can bluff the men with our talk of blue ruin. Sec- ondly, on what we ¢an do to cripple the IWA organiza- tion.” “We stood pat on the blue ruin angle, but I’m not so sure about the other.” “Take it from me, but this WIUC is our best bet. Not that we want to do business with the Commies. We can soon ditch them when this is over. Their organiza- tion is a laugh.” “The point is, that if we spot a few of them here and there in our operations, their agitation will keep the men divided and confused. They can’t organize anything worthwhile. They have only a few small cer- tifications against the hundreds held by the IWA. “But they can sow doubts about the IWA and stir up suspicion. Some men will go for any alibi to avoid bothering with the union. Some of them are not sure whom to believe so they sit on the fence waiting to see what will happen. The longer they wait, the better for us. “That's just what we want to doa real job on wages