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Gage Two

B.C.

LUMBER WORKER

$1.00 A MEMBER PLANNED FOR PAC CAMPAIGN
BALLARD OPPOSES FADLING;

ANTI-LABOR LAWS
FORCE ACTION

The IWA will go all out
for political action in elec-
tion.campaigns in the United
States and Canada in the
coming year.

Every member of the or-
ganization is now called upon
to donate at least $1.00 to
CIO and-CCL political action.

The decision of the convention
to enter the political arena with
all the forces at its command was
taken by unanimous vote.

The resolution recognized that
recent election results both in Ca-
nada and the States have em-
phasized the need for fullest par-
ticipatioyi by CIO-CCL unions for
definite Aolitical action.
convention heard two
spesches on PAC—one from Mur-
-ray Cotterill, CCL director of P-
AC, and the other from George
Roberts, PAC director for the CI-
O in the 11 western states,

“A ROUGH ROW”

Murray Cotterill, said he and
the CCL could well understand
why.the IWA in B.C. was not
overenthusiastic , about political
action in the last elections.

“I realize that the IWA in B.
C. has had a rough row to hoe,”
he said. “After two or three years
of the-tspe-afleadership you had,

‘very word~politics stinks.

‘But there is a big difference
etween a political party making
a union a puppet, and a union
taking its own political action.”

At the same time, he warned
that organized labor must run the
political party, or the party would
take it over.

Referring to the CCF defeats
in provincial and federal elections,
Cotterill admitted that the CCL
policy of backing the CCF had
taken a licking.

“But we are by no means
down,” he said, “and we have no
illusions about what happened.

A FAIR SHARE

“Organized labor. has no de-
sire whatever to run the coun-
try,” he said. “All we want to
do, is see that the producers of
the wealth of our countries have
a proportionate say in the affairs
of the nations.”

Cotterill foresaw political vic-
tory for. organized labor in B.C.,
to be followed by completely fav-
orable labor legislation, instead
of the ICA Act, if only unions
would get their people to the polls
on voting day.

Roberts, in effect, brought the
same message.

WAKE UP OR DIE

“We had better get our people
to the polls or be wiped out,” he
warned. “It is time we woke up.”
- Roberts traced the history of
CIO political action since 1944
when it went into the arena to
campaign, successfully for the re-
election of Roosevelt.

“We were blasted from hell to
breakfast,” he said. “Then came
1946, and we became apathetic.”

Roberts also pressed the case
for pensions in the woods indus-
try with comparisons of what the
top executives of United States
Steel get at the age of 65.

$40,000 PENSIONS

He quoted other pensions
from $60,000-$70,000 a year,
adding, “and these are the peo-
ple who cry ‘Socialism’ when
we go for pensions of less even
than $100 a month!”

On unionists who don’t’ use
their vote, Roberts said, “I look
upon brothers and sisters who do
not go into the balloting booths
as just as guilty as those who
break our picket lines.

“Tf our fellow workers had all
gone to the polls, the attitude of
the employers today would have
been very much different.

“f put it to you straight, that
we are not unionists unless we
protect ourselves both on the
picket line and the ballot box.
The only reason that we lost elec-
tions is that we did not get our
people to the polls.”

1-217 LOST

A resolution from Local 1-217,
Vancouver, that any member el-

5-DAY, 30 HOUR WEEK

OBJECTIVE

Demand for the six-hour
day and five-day week was
one of the key resolutions on
wages, working conditions
and pensions handled at the
18th annual convention.

It was resolved that the
30-hour week be pressed in
contracts opened in 1950, “if
deemed advisable by the
broad negotiating confer-
ence”, and-every year there-
after until the aim is real-
ized.

Other resolutions, in sum-
mary, were:

RESOLVED:

1, We intensify our efforts to
unite our membership in broad
negotiations on a regional and
area basis,

2. We continue to hold regional
conferences to determine the
points to be demanded of the em-
ployers in regional negotiations.

3. We hold to a minimum the
number of basic demands to be
made by our union in broad nego-
tiations. -

4, We continue the policy that
where local unions authorize the
Regional Negotiating Committee
to represent it in negotiations on
the points coming out of the
broad conference and so notifies
the employees, the employers
also be notified that the Regional
Negotiating Committee of the
Union is also authorized to repre-
sent the local union on any issues
or demands which may be opened
by_the employers.

5. That all points or issues
opened by the union on a regional
basis or the employer on any
basis be negotiated by the Re-
gional Negotiating Committee of
the Union and that where the em-
ployer refuses to negotiate any
of those points the Regional Neg-
otiating Committee be authorized
to call conferences to mobilize our
membership on the broadest poss-
ible basis to bring about a set-
tlement on the issues in the best
interest of our membership.
wee

GUARANTEED ANNUAL
WAGE

The value of guaranteed annual

wages to workers and the entire
community has
strated through various plans
now in existence.

been demon-

A number of operators pursue

the disastrous policy of cutting
production to maintain excessive
prices, a policy that would not be
profitable if the companies had to
bear the cost of resulting unem-

ployment.

Unemployment insurance at

best cannot be substituted for
jobs and under the present laws
is not adequate.

From Previous Column

ected to political office should at

once resign his union position,

was defeated.

Another clause in.the defeated
resolution was that all paid offi-
cials should advise their respec-
tive executives before accepting
a candidacy.

_ RESOLVED: That the conven-
tion go on record urging that the
various Locals and International
Union give serious study to the
matter of a guaranteed annual
wage in the woodworking indus-

try.

s * *

OVERTIME WORK

Adopted by IWA Local 2-75
Giles C, Evans, Secretary:

RESOLVED: That the per-
manent policy of the IWA is to
cut out overtime by hiring extra

men.
Coe

SUB-STANDARD CONTRACTS

Recently a contract was signed
wherein articles were accepted
which are much inferior to the
former contract, and such a type
of contract is now being pushed
for signing in our Districts and
Local Unions, which if signed will
break down all former condition.

RESOLVED: That we go on
record as opposed to the signing
of such inferior contracts and call
on‘all officers and the entire mem-
bership of the International
Woodworkers of America to dis-
courage the-signing of contracts
that contain any inferior provi-
sions below the standard.

ost) be

PREPAID MEDICAL AND
WELFARE PLAN

There are hundreds of different
plans now in effect covering
members of the International
Woodworkers of America for hos-
pital and medical expenses,
mostly unsatisfactory.

RESOLVED: That we go go
on record in support of National
Health Insurance and a public
health act as introduced by U.S.
Senate Bill 1679 and H. R. 4312-
4318, and similar bills to be intro-
duced into the Parliament of the
Dominion of Canada, and

‘That in the interim period until
these bills become law we go on
record adopting a uniform medi-
cal plan, approved by the Inter-
national’ Executive Board. The
IWA will in turn recommend
such plan which will replace the
‘present hodge-podge plans, and

That a complete Health and
Welfare plan be drafted and be
used as a basis of negotiations
where companies have installed
plans covering life insurance, loss
of time and other matters beyond
the present plans, and that all
locals endeavor to establish the
“full coverage” plan, with the em-
ployer paying at least half, at
once.

+k *

NEGOTIATING FUND

Local 1-217 submitted the fol-
lowing resolution, duly approved:

The present ten-cent Negotia-
tions Fund is administered by the
International officers.

The negotiations in our respec-
tive Districts must be conducted
under the direction of the Dis-
trict officers, with the co-opera-
tion and assistance of the Inter-
national officers.

Conditions that exist in B.C.
District No. 1 negotiations have
no parallel in the International
Union.

RESOLVED: That a consulta-
tion be held between the Interna-
tional Executive Board and Dis-
trict, No. 1 Executive Board to
work out’a more adequate ar-
rangement for the administration

of the Negotiating Fund.

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hav-

WINN, HARTUNG ACCLAIMED

be acclaimed.

Claude Ballard, Director of Or-
ganization, will oppose President
James E. Fadling on the refer-
endum ballot for presidency of
the IWA. :

Ballard was nominated by Dis-
trict 5. ‘

Al Hartung, first vice-presi-
dent, and secretary-treasurer Carl
Winn, were unopposed, and will

national officers are:

‘The other candidates for inter.
‘Second vice-president—William

Botkin, and John Hawkins;

Trustee — Herb Irving, and

Gordon Johnson.

Executive board members, Dis-

trict 1—T. G. MacKenzie, and
Gilbert Schofield.

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