B.C. LUMBER WORKER

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Here is the full text of the ad-
ress of Allan S. Haywood to the
VA delegates at Minneapolis:
It is more than a pleasure for
me to be with you. Lumberjacks,
: lers, I have got a warm
spot in my heart for men and
women who built this organiza-
og We remember the days of
Where your base was, there
was the old copper miners and
the great struggle against the
copper barons, and what have
you. You remember the vigil-
antes and, the Tom Mooney’s and
the case of Joe Hill, and so forth.
You remember the massacre of
the miners, women and kids at
Indlowe, Colorado. That section
of the country is where many of
you men, you lumber men, came
from. It has made a great con-
ution to industrial freedom,

jout which we cannot have or

itain our political freedom,
So it is with that memory of
you, your daddies and grand-
daddies we have a warm spot in
our hearts for those who worked
for and worked with out great
human crusade,

/ Birth of ClO.

Your Union, as it is now, came
into being about 1935. It was
quite a coincidence that in No-
vember of that year the AFL
convention was held when the
Committee for Industrial Organ-
izations was formed.: You re-
_- member 1935, the duties of the
committee was to finance and en-
Courage the organization of
x workers in the mass production
j industries into unions of such in-
, dustries,

We had tried for many years
to organize automobile workers
and others into crafts. Just a
few miles south of here, in Chi-
ago, in the year of 1919, the

4 i, steel strike took place.
ere was no CIO. It was all
federation of labor.

And strange, was it not that
the leader of it was called Wil-
liam Z. Foster, He is now the
title head of the so-called Com-
munist Party today. He organ-
ized for the American Federa-
tion of Labor, and he failed. The
Union was driven back. The steel
towns were controlled body and
4 soul by the steel industry.

Craft Unions Failed

There was a meeting held. On
one occasion where there were
men of all nationalities and creeds

Ee eee
stand, divided we fall”, and to
their dismay they saw AFL busi-
ness agents get into a fist-fight.
They were fighting over jurisdic
tion of these workers just as
though they were putty and
mortar, not human beings. It
Was that weakness that made it
impossible to organize 52 crafts,
all struggling for jurisdiction
over human beings; fist fighting
Pitted against billion dollar cor-
porations. These were the things
that led to the loss of the strike
of 1919,

The AFL met in Detroit about
1926 and said by resolution that
they were going to organize the
Auto Workers who had about 30,-
000 organized in small shops out
of one million workers in the in-
dustry.

In the steel industry they had
about the same number organized
for some 50 years in the union
of Iron and Steel and Tin Work-
ers. There were a quarter of a
million men in the rubber indus-
try and there were less than 2,-
000 in the union in 1935.

(To be Continued)

‘DUKE’ EXPOSES
PEACE APPEAL

NEW YORK (CPA)—Promo-
ters of the so-called Stocicholm
Peace Appeal face a damage suit
from Duke Ellington, world fa-
mous musician, unless his name
is taken off literature being cir-
culated in connection with the pe-
tition.

Ellington states that he never
signed and never authorized use
of his name.

Duke Ellington was ina Stock-
holm hotel room, working with
two assistants on a show being
produced by Orson Welles. A
stranger interrupted to ask him to
sign a paper “against the atom
bomb”. Ellington annoyed at the
interruption, asked the stranger
to leave. The stranger, said El-
lington, did not have any paper
in his hand.

When Ellington got back to the
U.S. he was told the Daily
Worker had published reports
that he had signed the Stock-
holm petition. He wired the pa-
per repudiating its story, and de-
manding his name be removed
from the petition. This has not

and they were told, “united we

yet been done.

International View

By Portland Pete

pattern of “Accept nothing less
only way out for union members
of price and profit controls.

BEFORE the start of the
war the general pattern
five to 10 cents increases, but
Murray’s Steelworkers, for
now negotiating, are not
to settle for anything

Jess than 15 cents an hour,

THAT will set the pattern, it’s

Lae for the great number
other unions—from Marine

unions to Shoemakers.

expel
hardly likely that Tru-
will make any attempt what-
freeze

Caught in Squeeze - Again! :

WAGE DEMANDS right across the States are pointing to a
than fifteen cents.”
caught in the squeeze of the lack

This is the

BELIEVE IT OR NOT, the
phony “Labor” and racketeers
still make a good killing from
sucker business men. A boss gets
a phone call telling him he’ll have
“labor trouble” unless he mails a
cheque for an ad to the so-called
labor paper, If you ever hear of
such rackets, warn people off.
Ads should never be paid until
after publication,- anyway.

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HOW do they get away with
it? U.S. Senators, I mean, One
Harry Byrd from Virginia told
an audience that it was the old
folks who were keeping the U.S.
in the red, and what he meant
was by their rolling in the

PEN BASKIN:

“IWA SETS
PAY PATTERN”

Increased representation for
the IWA on the Vancouver La-
bor Council was assured by the
President of the Council, Pen
Baskin, International Repre-
sentative of the United Steel-
workers, when he addressed the
quarterly meeting of the B.C.
District Council, Oct. 15.

By action of the Canadian
Congress of Labor, the maxi-
mum number of delegates al-
lowed had been raised from 7
to 15.

The Vaneouyer Labor Council
President congratulated the IWA
on the 1950 contract settlements,
and pointed to the fact that the
achievements of the IWA had
proved of enormous value to
smaller unions in the province.

“We look to the IWA to take
the lead, and set the pattern in
wage negotiations,” he added.

The speaker warned against
the peril of a wage freeze as
likely to be proposed in the pres-
ent inflationary period.

LABOR
QUIZ

Canadian business and labor
leaders will face a barrage of
questions from half a dozen cor-
respondents from the Parliamen-
tary Press Gallery in two unusual
broadcasts scheduled by the CBC.

According to a press release
issued by the CBC Press and In-
formation Service this week, A.
R. Mosher, President of the CCL,
and Percy Bengough, President
of the TLC, will meet the press
in a joint conference on Novem-
ber 2, at 8:30 pm.

On November 9, Francis Wins-
pear, newly-clected president of
the Canadian Chamber of Com-
merce, and W, F. Holding, presi-
dent of the Canadian Manufac-
turers’ Association will be the
targets for further questions
from the same group of newsmen.

Trade unionists may expect
lively listening as the heads of
these four organizations explain
and justify their policies. Make
a note of the dates and time.

Lively Listening

These two programs are part
of a general series known as
Cross Section. Of particular in-
terest to the labor movement are
the three other items in the series
listed below:

NOV. 16: “How High Is Up?”
An examination of the high cost
of living and attempt to answer
the question, “Is this the time for
full economic controls?”

NOY. 30: “Britain’s National-
ized Coal Industry”. Rebroad-
cast of a BBC documentary.

: “Britain’s Automotive
Also contributed by
the BBG, this program deals with
a big private industry in modern
Britain.

All programs
8:30 p.m.

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52 West Hastings Street
VANCOUVER, B.C.

Harold Pritchett.
The facts speak for themselves.
It should be stated, however, the
matter was introduced at the
Council for no
‘other reason than
ito smear the
_|IWA, at the in-
te "lstance of those
{who have follow-
fed the policies of
the LPP Commu-
nists. On the
Z other hand, the
Wes IWA has scrupu-
z 3 lously refrained
from interference with the in-
ternal affairs of other unions.

Some months ago Harold
Pritchett and Ernie Dalskog
brought actions in the courts,
against the B.C. District Coun-
cil and myself alleging slanderous
remarks at a District Convention
in the United States.

As they proceeded with these
actions in court, the IWA solici-
tor, Alex Macdonald, succeeded in
having the B.C. District Council
action dismissed, with costs
against the plaintiffs.

Subsequently, I was brought to
trial, and was, therefore, with the
support of the IWA, required to
prepare my defence.

Counsel for Pritchett and Dals-
kog failed to appear, and the case
against me was dismissed with
costs again assessed against my
accusers. They could not substan-
tiate their charges.

Every opportunity was given to
counsel representing Pritchett
and Dalskog to reach some
arrangement about payment of
costs for which they were solely
responsible. They ignored all
such overtures.

The District Executive Board,

WHALEN MAKES
MINORITY REPORT

Two minority reports were
attached to the recommendations
of the Conciliation Board which
sat in the IWA dispute with
River Sawmills Ltd.

The Chairman, Judge C. J.
Lennox, agreed with the Union’s
nominee, President Lloyd Whalen,
of Local 1-217 IWA, that the
clause in the contract requiring
employer to show good cause for
dismissal should be retained. The
company’s representative dis-
sented.

The Chairman agreed with the
company’s representative that the
union security clause should be
deleted, or at least the penalty
provisions removed. President
Lloyd Whalen dissented from this
recommendation.

PRESIDENT’S COLUMN

PUBLiciTy given an attack upon the IWA by a few delegates

at a recent meeting of the Vancouver’Labor Council, requires
that I should frankly inform IWA members of the reasons why
the IWA District Executive Board garnisheed the wages of

By J. Stewart Alsbury

therefore, instructed our solicitor -
to garnishee Pritchett’s wages
for a portion of the costs and the
sum of $104 was recovered.

There was nothing vindictive
in this action. It was obviously
unfair to saddle IWA members
with a bill incurred by those who
took irresponsible and threaten-
ing action against the IWA.

Unless these steps were taken
to protect the Union, any person
might be encouraged to institute
groundless action against the
Union with intent to harm its
financial position.

It is the plain duty of IWA
officers to protect the Union

against any malicious action, so
we have no apologies to make to
anyone.

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