B.C. LUMBER WORKER Page Nine TWA TO OPEN KELOWNA OFFICE Coast Locals of the IWA will be asked to assist in the estab- lishment of a sub-district office in Kelowna, as a result of the deci- Sion of the quarterly meeting of the District Council, Oct. 16. A voluntary assessment of one cent per dues month was pro- posed, for the ensuing three months. In a report to the Council, In- ternational Board member Tom MacKenzie stated that the pay- ment of additional per capita tax for the purpose would create a hardship on the Interior Locals at > e present time. r) At the end of a three-month feriod, the situation would be reviewed by the three Locals con- cerned, and the possibility of in- creasing their per capita tax pay- ments for the purpose by twenty cents wauld be considered. The sub-district office, to be located in Kelowna will serve as an administrative and organizing centre for the Interior of the Province, UNIONS NEAR MILLION MARK Trade union membership in Ca- nada increased by over seven per cent during 1948 to reach the level of 977,594. This result was shown by the Federal Depart- ment of Labour after a survey of Wage and salary earners in in- dustry. £ This membership figure is al- most three times as large as the one reported for 1939, but the labor force has increased 70% to a total of 3,331,000. Sixty-five per cent of the total trade union membership is con- eentrated in Ontario and Quebec. British Columbia reports a total of 106,668 union members, 2 fig- ure slightly lower than for 1947. Another Vote For Irvine ‘The Editor: at With your kind permission, I would like to make a few com- ments and fisk, via your letter column, a few questions of two of the candidates standing for election in the forthcoming New Westminster by-election. — By what method of reasoning do you, Mr. Philpott, arrive at the conclusion that you, as it were, are a man chosen by destiny to solve what is admittedly the seri- ous problem of Canadian export- import trade with Britain? Also your one-man mission of reorganizing the United Nations Council, along lines calculated to further the cause of peace rather than the cause of war, and your advocacy of a pension plan based on the proposition of sixty dollars at age sixty, ‘All worthy ideas, we grant, but it seems to me that you are guilty of,plagarism, maybe un- consciously, but inasmuch as your much publicized platform has been lifted from the CCF pro- gram, the least that can be said is that you are not very original in_your ideas. In addition, our CCF members are independent in the truest sense of the word, as they are not beholden to the various fin- ancial and industrial institutions which really rule Canada through a government composed of men subservient to their interest. Bear in mind that in government as in other things, “they who pay the shot call the tune”, and what a shot the big boys payed out a few months ago. F. Courneyeur. If fifty men did all the work, ‘And gave the price to five, And let the five make all the rules— You’d say the fifty men were fools, Unfit to be alive. —Charlotte P.. S. Gilman. South of the Border by Portland Pete Sa result of an IWA charge filed im February, a U.S. trial examin- er's report has recommended to the National Labor Relations Board that Potlach Forests Inc. be forced to post for 60 days a notice guaranteeing that there will be no discrimination what- ever against IWA men in Local 10- 364. * # * ANOTHER SLAP in the face to craft unions came at Springfield, Ore., when the men of Weyerhauser Timber turned down the AFL Teamsters and stuck to the IWA. ries PAC will be handled in a big way in a new drive by Oregon State In- dustrial Council. Sa ty : THREE YEARS is a long time for a fight, but Local 422, Montgomery, Alabama, is proud of their victory after that time. Order has been given for reinstatement with payment for the time lost since October, 1946, for 16 men, * se BILL SPEER heads the new officers for Local 6-221, Bute Falls. aa ken HAVE A LAUGH on the cost of living index. In the U.S. it's down a fraction, the headlines scream, and the effect is that you save about a nickel a week, isles NON - ATTENDANCE at union meetings costs the men of Local 10- 340 down in Deer Park, Wash., half a buck. The revenue goes to members in need of help. Local 1-71 SANDSPIT GRIEVANCE FIXED | The “Lady Alice” with Local 1-71 organizers on board, is now in the vicinity of Jervis Inlet. Present plans contemplate visits to all the logging camps in the area. Every such visit results in new and renewed IWA member- ships, indicating that there are few loggers but that accept the IWA as the “Loggers’ Union”. The membership files of Local 1-71 have now been completely restored, and disclose a bright picture of the re-organized Local. The total number of members that have remained with or re- turned to the IWA as of Janu- ary Ist, 1949 are 2500. Of this number 249 are cash members, and 2,341 are on the check-off. A long-standing grievance at Northern Pulpwood, Sandspit, was settled recently, when the Cat mechanic received a 62 cents a day upward adjustment, retro- active to February. The Ie Union office is ready at all times to give attention to legitimate grievances that cannot be settled in camp. High Stakes On Oct. 24th, the courts will hear evidence in the suit launched by Local 1-71 for recovery of funds and assets from the former officers. In this connection it is interest- ing to note the financial state- ment of the Local for July, 1948: Cash*in Bank $25,554.61 Personal Loans ___ 7,046.01 Fixed Assets Boat and Office Equipment 13,065.15 HEADS LIGHT CRUISER Champion of All Lightweight C) Caulked Boots © Featuring: High Carbon Steel Oil Tempered Boot Calks FOR SURE GRIP Another Favorite... HEAD’S famous “SAFETY TOE BOOTS” for Mill Workers Don’t be a Mugwump! _“A mugwump is a fellow with his mug on one side of the fence and his wump on the other.” 21 East Hastings St. W. J. HEAD BOOT FACTORY LIMITED (PA, 4944) "HEADS YOU WIN” Vancouver, B.C. Vote For a Proven Friend of Labour. BILL MOTT Bill Mott, both as a helper and journeyman was a member of the International Brotherhood of Elec- tric Workers. Since organizing his own business he has maintained and does maintain a Union Shop. As Alderman and Mayor of the City of New Westminster for eleven years, as President of B. C. Municipalities, and in many other civic and com- munity activi ies he has been well trained to under- stand the needs and people of the community and to present them in the larger field of Dominion representation. NEW WESTMINSTER BY-ELECTION - OCTOBER 24 - VOTE MOTT \ {