B.C. LUMBER WORKER

Page Nine

0 a few years ago, men
were called extreme radicals

re looked upon today as respect-
citizens. It may have been
Ww years ago to say

labor leaders wanted

on shop so they could keep

ir jobs. Nothing can be fur-
from the truth. Greedy men
it small, well-controlled or-
tions with which to prom-
themselves and keep office.

ll the people functioning in an

é tion keep it clean of peo-
ple with ulterior purposes. This

Bi ably demonstrated late in
1948 right here in the lumber
industry. :

‘The aims of labor organizations
are to secure decent wages and
hours, health, security, job con-
tinuity, overtime pay, abolition of
child labo¥? the sweat shop,
‘stretch-out, speed-up spies, etc.
As long as one of these aims has
not been achieved, trouble will
break out, Security is one of the
"big aims of labor before us today
that has not been achieved in the
B.C, lumber industry,

Labor has helped itself immeas-
wably, as no one can deny, and
4 the years while doing so, it
also helped the whole na-
tion; has helped business, living
conditions, morality and religion.
Labor is deserving of its reward
—the Union shop.

The Right to Work

Last year, in negotiations, we
said about all there was to say in
behalf of the Union shop. Still,
there are some people who say
that Union shop deprives an indi-
vidual of the right to work.
Again, we must say:

‘The right to work is not inter-

fered with by a Union shop con-

tract. The employer hires at will.

‘The prospective employee has the
_ right to choose whether he shall

go to work on a Union job with

Union wages and conditions that

hhaye been reached after many

ams of employer-employee re-
tions; or he can choose to go
into businss for himself; he can
be self-employed or he can go to
work on a non-union job.

‘There is no coercion with Union

shop. A man not only has the
right to work, it is his duty to
work so he may provide for him-
Self and his family. Otherwise,
he becomes a problem of the
state,
Payment for that work per-
formed is generally payment ac-
cording to productivity and must
he fair. We do not contend that
@ man can rightly claim, as a
matter of economic justice, more
than he produces, Neither should
he be asked to accept less.

The right to work, based upon

claim, means that those who
are fortunate enough to be ac-
cepted by some employer will au-
tomatically receive a return based
economically, upon productivity.

Industrial Peace

A year ago, we pointed out
that in the United States, the Na-
tional Planning Association was
conducting studies on how to
achieve industrial peace. They
have studied cases which show

relations and, in ev
Study, it'is pointed out that the
les accept each other as
equals and the employers encour-

bic a strong and responsible
nion,

SAN FRANCISCO
— TAILORS —

LOAN MONEY ON

MARKET OUTLOOK FOR B.C. LUMBER |

NEVER BETTER

Market prospects for B.C, lumber were never better, it was
proven by the IWA Negotiating Committee in the presentation
of facts and figures before the Coast Conciliation Board, May
22. Increased demand in the United States, likely to be main-
tained, and general increase in prices promise still more lucra-
tive markets, was the IWA conclusion.

Coast mills show less than 235
million feet on hand at the end
of January.

B.C., with the coast mills pro-
ducing about 80 percent of the
total for the province, increased
shipments to the U.S. to more
than 66 million feet in March,
1950, compared to 69 million in
February and less than 19 million
in March, 1949, and 10.25 million
in 1948.

B.C. shipments to U.S. ports
reached 179,631,865 bd. ft. for the
first three months of 1950, com-
pared with 49,292,072 feet for the
same period in 1949 and 20,718,-
peearcee in the same period in

The unexpected trend which
was shown in the last quarter
of 1949 in the lumber market has
carried through. Shipments in

August, 1948, so average realiza-
tion as of March, 1950, would be
$71.16. The average price for the
last three years was $69.67 per
M. This compares to $45.48 in
1946 and $39.00 in 1945, Prices
continued up in February, and
latest reports show No. 2 dimen-
sion fir selling at $70 per M—
mill price up $20-$25 from July,
1949,

Plywood demand, production,
shipments and price shows the |
same trend as lumber. The BLS}
reports 270,000 housing starts in
the first quarter of 1950, which
continues to make the market
strong in lumber shingles and
plywood.

Average Wholesale Price Index Comparison

1926=100
All Comparison, Lumber
Commodities Lumber with All Comm.
154 94.0 25% higher
82.9 103.6 25% higher
100.0 146.4 46% higher
103.6 160.5 55% higher
108.7 170.4 57% higher
129.1 219.1 69% higher
153.4 268.7 75% higher
159.5 282.5 17% higher
4-4
159.3 281.6 71% higher
158.1 281.6 78% higher
157.6 284.2 80% higher
157.5 283.3 80% higher
156.4 281.3 80% higher
156.3 279.6 79% higher
156.6 278.7 18% higher
155.5 271.8 15% higher
155.4 271.3 15% higher
157.2 273.0 14% higher
157.1 273.1 74% higher
156.9 274.2 75% higher
157.1 257.7 75% higher
158.0 ~ 278.8 76% higher
159.3 281.7 76% higher

Tahsis Purchase

Between fifty and seventy-five mil-
lion fect of standing hemlock timber
in the Zeballos district, west coast of

the fourth quarter of 1949 ex-
ceeded all previous fourth quar-
ter shipments on record. There
were 9 million 87 thousand feet
of shipments which was 16.6 per-
cent greater than the fourth quar-
ter of 1948, “Production in the
fourth quarter,” says the National
Survey of Lumber Demand and
Survey, “was phenomenal.” This
production exceeded the third
quarter by 5 percent, still it was
not enough to meet the demand,
and mill stocks were reduced by
7 percent,

Total production in the United
States for 1949 is being estimated
at 31 billion 987 million feet, and
West Coast production was 9
billion 600 thousand feet.

chased by Tahsis Ltd., from the Man-
ning interests of Victoria.

Included in the deal was a small
sawmill with a capacity of about
30,000 feet daily.

21 Strikes

In March, 1950, there were 21'!
strikes in Canada, involving 5,-
659 workers who lost 25,118 man-
working days. Fifteen of the
strikes were settled during the
month.

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Mild weather in the middle
west and on the east coast last
winter made the early part of
1950 exceptionally good, and this
large demand has _ increased
prices. Mills are exerting every
effort to meet the demand for the
record-breaking building pro-
gram,

Non-farm housing starts broke
all previous records with a total
of 1 million 19 thousand new
houses started in 1949, according
to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
102,900 were started in Septem-
ber alone.

The construction lumber price
has increased steadily month by
month. The index stood at 287.5
in January, 1950; at 292.1 in Feb-
rurary, 1950, and at 295.9 in
March, 1950, as compared to 279.6
in September, 1949; only 8.9 per-
cent of the all-time high in lum-
ber as of August, 1948, —

The average realization of west
coast shipments in December was
$59.54 as compared to the Novem-
ber price of $61.25.

The average mill realization of
Douglas fir lumber was $78.11 in

The biggest ones were shoe
workers at Richmond, plumbers
at Ottawa, and paper box factory
workers at Toronto.

Jobless In-°50

Labor Minister Humphrey Mit-
chell has admitted that at Mar.
30, 1950, 428,216 were registered
as unemployed in Canada, com-
pared with a peak figure in 1949
of 265,000

He claimed, however, that “it
was not possible to make a fair
comparison with last year, be-
cause the granting of supple-
mentary allowances caused 56,500
extra to register. They were peo-
ple living far away from offices
who had not come in to register,
because they thought no work
was available.”

Less time would be wasted in
Union meetings if some of the
speakers would tell what they
know instead of what they think,

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