Page Four B.C. LUMBER WORKER August 17, 1950 A Scandal CONDITIONS in the Interior logging camps, described elsewhere in this issue, demand vigorous action by the IWA in British Columbia, ” Se ioe Contractors are imposing incredibly filthy and unsani- tary accommodation on workers in the camps, which are said to be even worse than the conditions outlawed in the Coast logging camps 30 years ago. The failure of the Provincial Health Department to en- force health and sanitation laws is a public scandal. In- spectors are too few, and suffer interference from local Politicos in any genuine attempt to remedy matters. Health standards were established by law for the gen- eral protection of the community. The IWA must make it abundantly clear, that no group of employers, however melon ir enclied politically, can flout these laws with im- punity. Sheep’s Clothing BOASTFUL declarations of the remnants of the WIUC meeting recently in Nanaimo as a “national. council” were obviously intended to disguise new tactics of disrup- tion by LPP-Communists within the IWA. Following the complete failure of the October secession to separate B.C. woodworkers from the International Union and establish a Communist-dominated empire in the major basic industry of the province the new “line” is infiltration of the IWA, Whether the new LPP-directed efforts develop into an actual threat against the IWA depends on the vigilance of IWA members in stamping out Communist cells within the organization, The main purpose of these otherwise unexplainable manoeuvres is to gain support for the Soviet “fifth col- umn” now busily engaged in sabotage of the United Na- tions resistance to Communist aggression, With a glib distortion of the facts, the WIUC attempts to claim credit for the unity achieved by the IWA in the fight for contract demands, as justification for special con- sideration at this time. By such double-talk, they expect to make IWA mem- bers forget that WIUC disruption was the chief handicap during the past two years in developing the full bargain- ing strength of the woodworkers, The WIUC had no part in the effort which won con- tract gains this year. The record shows that they merely attempted to exploit the situation for their own ends and to the disadvantage of the bargaining agency. IWA members will not forget the despicable methods of WIUC leaders to retain IWA funds, ‘and the fact that full re-imbursement has not yet been made. IWA members know how to deal with traitors and renegades. It rests with the IWA membership to deter- mine the conditions on which they may or may not be re- admitted to the IWA. Each former WIUC member must make application for IWA membership individually, and in accordance with the IWA Constitution and Local Union by-laws. E LEADERS of the secession move were named by the [WA International Convention, and can be forgiven only by a decision of the International Convention. Others known to be guilty of treacherous attempts to destroy the IWA, if applying for membership now, have no good ground for protest against any penalties or re- _strictions imposed upon them by vote of the IWA member- ship. Those who were simply misguided by WIUC mis- representation will find fair consideration of their appli- cations for reinstatement. For the most part, IWA members are not motivated by-a desire to take revenge. Their main purpose is to pro- tect the Union against any repetition of the former treach- ery. os the decision to retain WIUC organization in the form of a national council is to be found the intention to main- tain an organizing centre for remote control of IWA policy by the LPP-Communists, in the promotion of nuisance tactics. : IWA members have reaped the advantages of full dem. ocratie control of the Union’s affairs. They will not be robbed of these advantages, if they remain vigilant in the maintenance of the deniocratic processes, and ready to challenge any attempt to restore Communist domination, Employment Survey Monthly report of the National Employment Service, New West- minster, states that employment in sawmills and woodworking plants in that area is at an all- time high, “All mills in the area are op- erating to capacity, and many are enlarging their operations which wil in due time mean more hir- ing in this industry,” states the xeport, ‘Shingle mills, continued the re- port, are having trouble keeping all machines producing due to a shortage of shingle sawyers, Very few are being trained for this occupation, and it will be some time before all shingle mills are operating with full crews. Vacancies in sawmills were mostly for skilled men, edger- men, planermen, and graders. Pa- cific Pine started a night shift on July 18, Sash and door and millwork factories have levelled off and there haye been few hirings and few layoffs. “This industry has become very competitive due to the many new factories doing this type of work.” : OPEN THE DOOR, RICHARD! Fred McNeil In “Daily Colonist” Communists are trying to wig- gle back into power in British Columbia’s giant logging indus- try. The reason is obvious. It is British Columbia’s biggest, most basic industry and wood forms an important part in any forthcom- ing mobilization of resources, Central figures in the new party line which will be unfolded at Nanaimo today are Harold Pritchett and Ernie Dalskog, leaders of the Weodworkers’ In- dustrial Union, Newspaper readers will recall that both men were thrown out of the 35,000-member Interna- tional Woodworkers of America last year. There were allegations of misuse of funds, but the basic issue was that British Columbia’s tough loggers finally got wise to the real purposes of these two gentlemen and their associates. Day by day it became plainer that their main objective was to create industrial strife on this continent. Unhappily for Messrs, Pritchett and Dalskog they overplayed their hand. Their attempt to set up a rival union has not been successful, The Woodworkers’ Industrial Union, with Pritchett as president and Dalskog as vice- president, is a sickly organiza- tion, we ere It has become plain that if they are to be effective they must slip back into the TWA. A statement issued by these two men outlines in typical Communist double-tallc, the reason for the closed Nanaimo meeting today. It says: “Among other business under consideration will be the question of giving leadership to woodworkers in further unifying their strength, to offset employer attacks, The entire question of the future of the WIUC in the struggle to build one union in the industry will be considered.” Pritchett elaborated further: Tight Line a Few Orders My Way BARTLETT CLEANERS Cleaning, Pressing, Alterations We Speslalize In Mall Orders 321 Cambie Street Vancouver, B.C. , Bartlett Phone PAci#ie2426 “There is no question of the de- sirability of one union in the in- dustry. That one union might be the IWA.” And he added that he is in favor of an independent Ca- nadian union with “no interefer- ence by United States officials”, The reason for this statement is obvious. Pritchett is one of 41 ex-IWA people who can be re-admitted to the Union only by the vote of an International con- vention. Our guess is that the Commun- ists are out of the IWA for good. 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