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“THIS year, the IWA is asking
for Union shop, which means
that all non-union workers shall
join the Union. Why shouldn’t
they? Why shouldn’t any man or
woman help to maintain an or-
ganization that has bettered their
conditions, wages and hours?

The IWA is only asking for
something that other organiza-
tions have had for a. long time.
Look at the legal and medical
professions. They have ' closed
shop. If they decide they don’t
it you, you don’t belong and
can’t get in (the Martin case, for

example).
Hitch-Hikers

If everyone benefits from the
IWA, all should pull their share
of the load by belonging to the
organization that is doing
something for them. I haven't
run across a non-member yet
who wotld refuse to take a
raise in wages when he had the
opportunity. Yet, he didn’t help
to get that raise. The people
who holler the loudest are the
non-members when negotiations
roll around and the IWA does
not get all it asks for. Yet,
they do not join hands with the
rest of the fellows and carry
their share of the load.

Yes, even some of these same
non-members will go to the
shop steward when they get in-
to trouble and ask the shop |
steward for help or advice. The
Union is a good thing then. The
IWA is only asking for some-
thing that other organizations
already enjoy.”

Employers’ Rights

“The Union shop does not take
y the right of the employer to
hire anyone he pleases. It does
not take away the right to dis-
charge for proper cause. It takes
nothing away from the employer.
The Union shop only asks that all
employees must join the Union.
During negotiations, R. V. Stuart,
representing the operators, gave
two reasons only for refusing the
Union shop—that the Union shop
would create chaos in the indus-
try, and that he did not wish to
sign any document that would
take away the democratic right
of any man by forcing him to
join an organization. These rea-
sons, in my opinion, are childish.”

That Award

‘ow let’s take a look at the
current news. The award of the
Conciliation Board is out. At first
glance, the award might seem to
be something. But, when you take
a closer look at it, it isn’t very
much after all, Here is a sum-
mary: Ye per hour—maintenance
of membership—48 hours a week
in the logging camps—7%c an
hour additional for working the
sixth graveyard shift. The Union
asked for Union shop and 17e
per hour, A raise of 17¢ per hour

_ would only raise the price of lum-
ber $3.00 per M.

Since 1948, when the last raise
Was granted, lumber has gone up
x M. So, they -would

12.00 per M ahead of us
that. Now, on top of this, a
per hour raise is only 7% per-
on the present average rate

industry.

‘devaluation amounts to 10

and they are selling
ily all their lumber to the

"THE way to line public opinion behind the IWA, its demands,
and its actions, is to tell the man-and-woman-in-the-street

Local 1-357, New Westminster, is giving the IWA cause a
" Doost by its straight-from-the-shoulder broadcasts by President
Andy Smith, Here are excerpts from his broadcast made May 27.

“The se. Saturdays 5:45 P.M.
Award Insulting,” Says
President Andy Smith

International View

By Portland Pete

WORKERS’ STRATEGY for 1950 is beginning to shape up now

in the U.S., despite the fact that

lots of the ’60 battles are still on.

For sure it is that wages will take the place of pensions as the top,
demand, that is, in the big industries, which have already won a

pension plan.

cerned. It means that members
who are now members, must re-
main so. The IWA people do not
have to be forced to remain in the
Union. They know that. they
must remain for their: own pro-
tection, or they will be taken for
a vide by the employer. The Con-
ciliation Award proves this.

There is a 30-day clause in this
joker that states—that the Com-
pany shall not be required to dis-
charge any employee by reason of
hjs having ceased to be a member
of the Union until 30 days after,
etc. Then after he discharges him
the company can rehire this man
or woman and he or she doesn’t
have to join the Union. There
sure is a lot of Union security in
that prize package. We ask for
Union shop, not an excuse.

Discrimination

“When the Conciliation award
mentions 9c for a raise, they give
a raise of only 5%4c to cook and
bunkhouse employees. Do they
think that the IWA are going to
discriminate against their own
fellow workers by saying this: We
are going to get 9c an hour and
you fellows are only going to get
5%c. Even the Conciliation Board
did not attempt to explain this
difference. I’m sure I don’t know,
either.”

Hours of Work

The logging operators want a
48-hour week in the summer at
time and one-half for all hours
over 40 hours per week. What
for? The mills didn’t run short
of logs. If the mills could run

last winter without running short
of logs, even when the camps
were down for a while, what are
they going to do with the extra
logs? Sell them? If they don’t,
the camps will run the six months
at 48 hours and then shut down
for the rest of the year. And
then, where would this extra
$500.00 that we hear about come
from?

I don't think the operators are
that big-hearted, to give the log-
gers a holiday at their expense.
Or do the operators see an op-
portunity to make more profit
than ever, by selling the logs di-
rectly to the United States? That
probably is the answer. No, sir,
my friends, the 40-hour week is
here to stay. The award is asking
us to take a backward step. May-
be so, but our brains don’t work
in reverse.

The same thing applies to this
phony offer of 745¢ to workers on
the sixth graveyard shift. A short
while ago, some of our IWA peo-
ple protested against working the
sixth shift, when everyone else is
working only five shifts, Do some
individuals think that this 7%
will entice them? That isn’t even
sensible. That’s an insult,

That 9c might sound good to
people who don’t understand the
award. But, don’t forget this.
You cannot accept any one part
by itself. It is accept all or
nothing.

Willing To Bet?

“Mr. J. G. MeQuinn, general
manager, Comox Logging Com-
pany, in a talk to the Courtenay
Kiwanis Club, also gave as his
opinion, that there would be no
logging strike this year.”

—Comox District Free Press.

“WE WANT a bigger slice of

those bigger-and-bigger profits,”
will be the attitude, the right at-
titude at that, and pensions de-
mands, incidentally, will probably
go from the current $100 a month
to $125.

*

SO GOOD is business that U.
S. News and World Report sees
employers willing to grant wage
increases of 10 cents an hour off
the bat.

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e 8. 8

MORE MONEY is a must too,
because of the wicked rent boosts
that are going on all over the
country.

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It’s my guess that the next few
years will see a concentrated
drive for the 35-hour week, Union
shop conditions throughout the
country, and that working man’s
ideal, ‘the guaranteed annual
wage. Sure is badly: needed.

pi a

The boys ’way over to the far
left are peddling a smug line
about the reason that our Jimmy
Fadling withdrew from the trial
committee of Harry Bridge’s
Union. “He did it because of ex-
treme pressure from locals
throughout the Union.”

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That’s straight eye-wash. With
tough negotiations going on all
over the Union, Red is too busy
to let up on IWA priority tasks.

See eae

CLOCK has been turned back
40 years in labor relations at the
Bell Aircraft strike, Niagara.
Seven months after the end of a
strike there, and renewed rela-
tions between the company and
th UAW, 62 top men and women
officials are being prosecuted for
their part in the strike.

Three have been sent to jail for
six months, 40 have been given
30 days and $250 fines, and the
rest face $300,000 in fines and a
total of 300 years jail.

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_ OF THE first 17 jurors called
in the present case, six of the
“good men and true” are factory
foremen. Troops to protect strike-
breakers have been used. Strikers
have been bribed. Incidents
staged on the picket line, and
helicopters used to scab-lift
strikebreakers into the plant:
Cee a

WHATEVER the final result of
the bitter strike, it won't have
cost Bell Aircraft a nickel. The
taxpayers foot the bill indirectly
through defense appropriations
on which the company lives.

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