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B.C. LUMBER WORKER -

Geo, Mitchell Reports

THE UNION’S BUSINESS

The
B.C. Di

warterly meeting of the
ict Council, IWA, in

Vancouver, October 15-16, will
deal with the final details relating
to the general enforcement of

the 1949-50 contracts. Reports on
the negotiations in the Northern
and Southern Interior, with the
furniture plants, and independ-
ents will be available.

The special
committee on the
jurisdiction of
Vancouver Island
Locals will sub-

ratification.

Plans for the
District Conven-

tion, January 6.
8 will bé ad-
% vanced. The con-
vention, on recommendation of
the District Executive Board, is
scheduled to be held in Nanaimo,
provided satisfactory arrange-
ments can be made regarding ac-
commodation, A full report on
- tentative plans will be
All Locals are urged to com-
mence preparations for this con-
vention, and to give consideration

mit its report, for)

to matters that must be decided
|by the convention. It is not too
early to give thought to resolu-
tions on subjects of importance.

Careful preparation and thor-
ough discussion of these resolu-
tions in the Locals will lead to
well-informed discussion on the
floor of the Convention.

One immediate task is the com-
| pilation of evidence in support of
| IWA proposals to the Royal Com-
Imission investigating Workmen's
Compensation which it is expected
will sit in November.

This enquiry will bring the
question of Workmen’s Compen-

sation to the fore in the delibera-
tions of our convention.

The membership should be

aware that the 1950 District Con-
vention will be called upon to
make decisions on many impor-
tant matters of Union Policy.

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SUPPORTS

United Nations Orga
conyention.

The comprehensive four-page
foreign policy resolution, intro-
duced by the international execu-
tive, set out eight points:

1, Support for the U.N. and
condemnation of the Soviet’s use
of the veto to frustrate the Sec-
urity Council.

2. Support for the European
Recovery Program, again con-
demning Soviet opposition.

3. Early peace treaties with
freely-elected.democratic govern-
ments in Germany and Japan and
and assistance for trade unions
in those countries,

4, Reaffirmation of CIO policy
of no help or recognition of the
Fascist government in Spain.

5. Vigorous condemnation of
the belief that another world war
is inevitable.

6. International control of
atomic energy with full power of
inspection. Disarmament on an
equitable and universal basis.

7. An enduring . peace, with
backward and colonial countries
fully free from all coercion.

8. “Peace and prosperity are
indivisible.”

CIO SUPPORTED*

The Communist-controlled WF-
TU was disposed of in a ‘resolu-
tion which backed the break-
away action of CIO Secretary
James B. Carey.

Mid- west District Council
No. 12 failed to get passed at
the convention, a “double mean-
ing” resolution which asked for
a promise of “no purges and no
witch-hunts”:

Another world-wide resolution
which caused a stir was No. 56
which asked for stepped up lum-
ber exports to China.

The delegates took the view
that trading with China was not
unlike the pre-war policy of send-
ing shipments of scrap iron to
China. Accordingly, the resolu-
tion was turned down by the dele-
gates.

‘Again on the world-wide front,
the 14,000,000 slave labor pris-
oners of the Soviet Union came
in for a rapping.

SLAVE CAMPS

The IWA now supports a per-
manent UN Commission to inves-
tigate and expose forced labor
camps, wherever they may be.

The Atlantic Security Pact was
approved, too, as a move which
no country outside of Russia
“can for one moment take seri-
ously as an aggressive act”.

The convention went on record
as being opposed to peacetime
military conscription, and com-
plained that the. only reason the
voluntary system does not have
full success is because of obsta-
cles such as the caste system,
and discrimination.

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Columbia,

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The foreign policy of the IWA, as almost unanimously expressed
by the delegates, is now officially based on full support for the
tions, and for the Marshall Plan. 3
The Communist cries of “warmongering” were absent from this

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Praise For B.C.

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WHEREAS: The overwhelming majority of woodworkers in Brit-
HEREAS: che overMrated their loyalty to the LWA in Canada
by repudiating its former officers who saw fit to betray the IWA
and the Labor Movement, an ee

WHEREAS: The International Officers and Organizational De-
partment have given full assistance to our British Columbia
brothers in preventing the wrecking of the IWA by the former
District Officers who saw fit to set up a dual and so-called “In-
dependent Union” of woodworkers, known as the WIUC, now
therefore be it

~ RESOLVED: That District No. 7, IWA, hereby go on record
highly commending the Woodworkers of Canada for their deter-
mination to prevent a split in our ranks in Canada by remain-
ing loyal to the IWA, be it further 5

RESOLVED: That we go on record commending the International
Officers for their efforts to regain the funds held by these be-
trayers of the labor movement and to rebuild the B.C. District
Council into what is now the largest District in the entire IWA,
be it finally Si

RESOLVED: That copies of this resolution be sent to the, next
Convention of our International Union and to each of the Locals
in British Columbia, Canada. 2

Submitted by s/E. E. Benedict, President, District No. 7, IWA.

s/Eugene Miller, Secretary, District No. 7, IWA.

Carried unanimously.

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