B.C. LUMBER WORKER Hung-Up or Held-Up [VE BEEN scratching my bald pate trying to figure how some guys get away with it. If I were to turn up two bits short for the cash register, they’d start hollering for the cops, The Wooies haye the brass- bound nerve to sock away thous- ands of IWA money and still pretend they are holier than the rest of us. They can put Mus- tache Joe’s halo over everything. T’ve been quizzing Fred Fieber of Local 1-71 about what hap- pened to all the dough the Log- gers’ Local had when the Com- mies packed up. As far as he - has been able to find out, they packed up the dough too. His bet is that the loggers will never see it as long as Ernie Dalskog can run a sandy about his high and frenzied finance, Once a week, Ernie puts on his act in front ofthe Court Regis- trar to whom the judge has or- dered him to account for what IWA money he had, and what he has now, or hasn’t, and the differ- ence, and why. With his lawyer pal, Burton, running interference for him, he says he knows from nothing, and please, mister, everybody got the cash but me, and they’ve all va- moosed into nowhere. It’s not the same Dalskog we’ve heard preaching the gospel of Communist purity around the camps, and how he and Pritchett could save the souls of the work- ers from the clutches of the ca- Pitalist wolves. He crawls, he squirms, he sweats, he stalls, he never gives a straight answer to a straight question, He looks and acts like any cheap crook usually looks when the law catches up with him. At these whodunit sessions, he’s the character stooging for his Commie bosses to cover up a dirty deal. And believe me, it’s the dirtiest deal on record, because it is a barefaced hold-out on the work- ers who raised the missing cash the hard way, and who need it now if they ever did. : oe * Soviet Mathematics MAXBE Ernie and his pals think they’re smart. Thou- sands wouldn’t. Most of us know that if you take two away from two you get nothing, and that’s what he offers the loggers in place of their bank roll. He’s getting all the breaks too, Funny thing about this country, unlike the USSR, everybody kinda likes to give a suspect a fair chance to prove his inno- > cence. All polite like, the Registrar tells him, “You prove to me what you had on hand on Oct. 3, 1948, and how much you spent prop- erly, which we will allow, and then the Court can decide who owes who.” It would be very simple and above board to produce the books, vouchers and bank statement and any accountant could work out the score. That wouldn’t suit Mr. Dals- kog, He turns up with a handful of bits of paper, a pile of junk that anybody could have fixed up, and says that’s the only record. Can’t find the books. Doesn’t know where Madsen has ducked. Clearly a very bad case of finan- cial amnesia, I got pawing through the pa- persia Fred's office, and I’m an Al gold-plated sucker , if the "HA" CHECKS ON ERNE'S $3650 BACK PAY AND $1300 LOAN look me polite in print. In loggers’ par! vous, know the right words We know the right action, and to smoke them Bs 1 they turn up. 's only ae to deal with rate ation. mess of waste paper didn’t look as though in October they had dished out the cash in a hurry to all their pals, and then met a few weeks ago and signed re- ceipts for one another. I wouldn’t for 2 moment say that they are graftéers or crooks, Tl be kind, and try to believe that they rigged it up to get the cash away from the IWA and put it to work for Uncle Joe. tae seats Fancy Subtraction ERNE could teach mathematics to Einstein. He’s really good. He takes $31,000 and with a Wave of one piece of paper, melts it down to $83 for the loggers. Cash on hand in October, he Says, was $26,000 odd, less out- standing cheques. Cash depos- ited after the breakaway in Oc- tober runs to $11,000, leaving about $31,000 to be accounted for. ,Urnie says it was all spent right away, except the cheques turned back by John Stanton and the Union Printers, who put out the Pacific Tribune. Stanton got a cheque for $2,- 000, but got cold feet and turned it back to the Court, The Union Printers did likewise with their $5,000 cheque after some sizing up of the risks, The Mine, Mill Union got a cheque for $9,000, but Harvey Murphy thought it over and sent it back later, but where this $9,- 000 then went to, nobody can fig- ure out yet. According to Ernie’s bits of paper, the Wooies went on a $31,- 000 spending spree in October, 1948, high, wide and handsome, and to hell’ with the loggers. Ernie’s Back Pay ERSNIE himself didn’t do so ~ badly, according to his own signed receipt, unless he had to give the Party a cut. Some time after the revolution he dreamed up the idea that he had never been paid his full sal- ary when working for the IWA. Sez he, weeping crocodile tears, he had worked only for the cause, and had slaved nobly for years at only $40 a month, and no ex- penses, So cool as a cucumber, he writes out his own little claim for over $6,000, and issues him- self a cheque for over $3,000, still claiming another few thousand. It must have come in handy, because then he owed the Union about $1,300 on a personal note that the Local had backed, and the bank had charged up against the Local for non-payment. He got a receipt from Madsen for this, but somehow there’s yet no record about any deposit to the credit of the IWA. The catch is that Ernie is not able to show any record to prove that this back payment was prop- erly authorized or if it was really owing. Funny thing, Local 1-71 put out a financial statement pre- pared by the Trade Union Re- search Bureau in August, 1948, which some of us hung onto. They had plenty of money on hand then and no mention is made of ar- rears of salary owing Ernie, Just how dumb do they think we are? John McCuish also thinks he should get back pay, but appar- ently he didn’t get as close to ‘the cash as Ernie, ‘All he got was a few hundred for holiday and retroactive pay, and no record to show that it was owing in Octo-~ ber. One of the other party boys got in on the same racket. Funny thing, again it was mostly the Party boys that were taken care | anti-communist hysteria, of, Paging Madsen MADSEN, who was Financial Secretary at the time of the split hasn’t shown up. All of us are wondering if he’s elected to be the goat. Right after the pretended dis- affiliation he issued a lot of cheques to “cash”, and dished out some more of the funds. Four of the boys who started out then to organize for the Wooies got nice, round sums as advances on organization ex- penses. That idea of using IWA money to organize the WIUC must of kinda tickled them, but the Court doesn’t feel the same way about it. They’ye got rules in this country about playing square with money that belongs to other people. Then he paid out hundreds to more of them for expenses to attend the IWA and CCL Con- vention. That’s a new racket on me, that it’s possible to collect expenses to attend conventions they couldn’t attend, and never attended. Both these conventions were held after they had disaffiliated themselves from the IWA and the CCL, but that never fazed them, They’d been so used to doing just as they darned well pleased with the loggers’ money that they kept right on, and are hay- ing a helluva time explaining anything to people who believe in handling other people’s money on the up and up. es 8 8 Trust Funds AND then they had a lot of trust funds on hand when the break came. Some of it was money held in trust for various collections they had whipped up, such as the Bill 39 Fight Fund. All that they've got to show are more receipts signed in lead pencil by names nobody knows much about. Some of these receipts were signed in 1949, after the Court had ordered them to turn the money over. Ernie doesn’t know where they came from, or if the right per- sons got.the right amounts, for he can’t tell the Registrar any- thing about the books, He’s been trying to do a lot of memory work, he says, and it is the best he can do, so please feel sorry for him, all ruined by wre crooked so and so’s in the Iwa. We'd like to know, for instance, if the boys at the Aero Camp get their library fund back. Ernie can’t or won’t tell us. We'd like to know what the guy did who suddenly got such a handsome cheque for repairs to the Hiring Hall. We’d like to know where they hid all the furniture and fixtures that was bought with the loggers’ money. There’s a lot of things we'd like to know, but obviously Dalskog ean’t or won’t tell. According to the Communist book the end justifies the means, and it’s perfectly all right for Commies to pull any sort of trick just so long as the LPP gets the cash. But just suppose anybody did that sort of thing to the Com- mies, they’d have the firing squad out, ee Commie Logic ‘THEY always have an ever- ready alibi. If anyone gets mad about any of their dirty deals, they squeal ped fealting, ot | bogey. It’s just about time we realized that the well-trained Commie is either just a lick-spittle stooge for the higher-ups or has got a complex that he’s not made of ordinary clay. m Everything done by and in the name of Communism is right, to him — just, perfect, and com- pletely above question, = It doesn’t matter whether it is lying, stealing, or murdering, a Communist can do no wrong when working for the Commun- ists. ‘ Our ideas that the workers’ u No Joking Matter! 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