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AMONG HONEST MEN ‘ExXceELs/oR’
HE event of most far-reaching consequence in the world 5
of organized labor during past months was the forma-| f Ww UW lie
of the International Confederation of Free Trade NN ey e
nions, in London. * SN
4 Trade unions in fifty-three countries, including Amer- SS
_ ica’s CIO and AF of L, as well as Britain’s TUC, united to ~~
reject all forms of totalitarian domination of trade unions
and work for world freedom through economic and politi-
eal demeracy.
Most signficant was the pledge given by the representa-
zy of over fifty million workers to organize the unorgan-
on a world basis and to re-organize the disorganized.
The birth of this new labor international, to offset the 2 IWA
Communist-dominated World Federation of Trade Unions, a»)
is the outcome of the experience of trade unions through- ( LOGGERS
out the Western democracies with attempted Communist Fa Nuns wwoakeds
aeanOD: 8 SHINGLE MILL WORKERS.
The Communist program for free trade unions is now Brena hoRKeRe
known the world over as a program of destruction, and
enslavement to aims other than those of a free labor move-
ment.
E issue was made clear to the lumber workers of Brit-|’
a ish Columbia last October. They chose the way of a
H free trade union democracy.
Again the issue was to the fore in the national conven-
ion of the Canadian Congress of Labor. The decision of
the majority spurned Communist intrigue emphatically,
and for good reason.
; The CIO in the Cleveland convention dealt out even-
handed justice to the conspirators and struck a resounding
blow on the side of democratic labor action. le
In every instance, whether repudiation of Communist! ’
sabotage of democracy was international, national or pro-| SICK BUT NOT FORGOTTEN BY WA’s | See aiaan
vincial, the decision was that of a clear-cut majority of| rP Settee :
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the workers.

It was no more and no less than the plain speaking of
honest trade unionists, who have grown heartily sick of
lies, and who believe in honest and upright dealing in the
administration of their affairs.

| It was no mystery. They preferred their own policies
to those made in Moscow.

REJECT FOUL LIES

; ]® ANY further proof is required of the unprincipled
| methods of Communist agents parading as labor cham-
{ pions, it is now to be found in the flood of nauseating dis-
tortions appearing in the Communist-controlled press.

| Filthiest of all is the organ devoted to the destruction
i of the IWA in British Columbia.

Distortions and half-truths are well spiked with out-
| right lies. Every official elected by the IWA membership
' is a thorough-paced scoundrel, owned body and-soul by
the bosses.

if Every action taken by majority decision within the

| IWA is a dark and evil plot of a small clique of men, with

* mysterious powers to hypnotize lumber workers toward
their self-destruction.

1 They lie so easily, they make the IWA seem so evil,
| that their abuse cannot be believed, or if believed for a
‘ while, is soon exposed by events. So the Communists out-

wit themselves, while sane men ignore their feverish and en AV OMENS RUXTLIATIES a =
baseless slanders, and get on wit! j | SL if are doing fine work visiting men injured in the industry. Here are
Pika h the job for the Cana-| 'iisters Kay Woods and Pat Fulljames, WA. Local 1-217, at St, Paul's, Hospital, giving Chrit-
| mas boxes and copies of B.C. Lumber Worker to Larry Laughren (in bed), T. Kowlchuk and
ae oe L. R. Kennedy, while another patient looks on.

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