’ B.C. LUMBER WORKER

Décember 7, 1950

IWA members employed at

ry is tendered
Mateh cae Mtlacions for a typographical error which

in some copies of the

B.C. LUMBER WORKER, No-

16 issue, before discovery.
It was correetly reported on their behalf that they had gen-
erously donated the sum of $116,20 in aid of a brother seriously
in hospital. An unintentional and mechanical slip, dropped
the first cipher, thereby subtracting $100 from their contribution

each on paydays.

This has not subtracted from our appreciation of their un-
selfish act, which they have supplemented by a pledge of $1.00

CIO TOLD ,

TWO POINT PROGRAM
FOR WORLD SECURITY

Arresting and eloquent
speech made by Dr. Mordecai
W. Johnson, President of How-
ard University, Washington,
D.C., at the recent CIO Conyen-
tion in Chicago, excited wide-
spread comment, It is believed
to be the intention of the ClO
to reproduce his remarks in
pamphlet form, His main pro-
posals on world peace to the
conyention were as follows:

You do not understand what
you are dealing with unless you
understand you are dealing with
a passionate movement of world-
wide evangelistic proportions, en-
gaged in what they conceive to
be the most fundamentally con-
structive undertaking in the
world, and that they are dealing
with you in a totalitarian way,
in a violently aggressive way, in
a deceptive and subversive way
because they believe that under
no circumstances can we be
trusted to do anything else but
to destroy them and their move-
ment as quickly as possible.

Better Program Needed

Now, don’t you see that how-
ever effective you are in address-
ing yourselves to the combatting
of that totalitarianism, their vio-
lence, their subversion and their
deceit, you are only dealing with
the frustration of their tactics,
that you don’t begin to get at the
heart of the matter until. you
address yourselves to the pro-
gram which they are trying to
put over, and meet that program
with another program big enough
and positive enough to overcome
it?

Our Virtues

Now, the thing we have to do
is to acquire some humility in the
appraisal of ourselves. We say
that we are not only facing a dia-
bolical totalitarian and violent
conspiracy, but that we of the
western powers are the free peo-
ples of earth, and that humanity,
it seems, ought to have sense
enough spontaneously to trust us
and love us, and will do so if we
only put enough money into the
Voice of America and other prop-
aganda instrumentalities to tell
them about our virtues.

Now, let us take a look in all
humility at these free peoples
that we are, Who are they?
Britain, France, Belgium, Holland,
Spain, Portugal, Germany and
the United States,

We are indeed the free peoples
in the sense that our domestic
institutions are the freest and
the most flexible institutions on
earth, but there isn’t a one of us,
especially our European allies,
who have not been busy during
the last two hundred years, se-
el and sustaining his free:
dom by the political demination,

economie exploitation and social
humiliation of over half the hu-

man race,
On the Defensive

Our good faith is open to ques-
tion around the world. 3

In this

answer. And here are those

questions.

Do you leaders of the economic
life and political life of America
really believe in the unity of the
human race? And do you intend
to use the enormous productive
genius at your disposal to do
away with the colonial system
and set the people of Asia and
Africa economically and politic-
ally free, and to deliver them
from the agression and racial dis-
crimination and humiliation which
your Buropean allies have thrust
upon them for hundreds of years?
Do you intend to do that, or do
you not?

Economic Reconstruction

Secondly, do you accept the
moral responsibility that goes
with your enormous scientific,
technical, organizational and
productive genius, to go into
the United Nations and lay
down a program for the eco-
nomic reconstruction of this
earth in such a way that the
working men of the world as
well as the working men of
America can have a reasonable
expectancy in this generation
of overcoming the struggle for
existence and being able to
feed, clothe and house their
children, without killing one
another? Or do you intend to
use this enormous power to
dominate and control the earth
and to confine the subordina-
tion and anxiety and bitterness
through which your allies have
led the world through the last
two hundred years?

Before We Fight

Now, these are-the real ques-
tions that we have got to answer.
Now, we can answer them the
right way before we fight, and
we can answer them after we
fight. If we answer them the
right way before we fight, we
may not have to fight. We may
not only not have to fight, but we
may step into the leadership of
this world like no other nation
since the beginning of history has
ever done,

Fadling Backs
CVA, MVA

Principles of resource con-
servation as applied by the
Tennessee Valley Authority
were again endorsed by the
CIO Convention in Chicago,
November 20-24. Legislation to
establish a Missouri Valley
Authority and a Columbia Val-
ley Authority on the same
basis was urged.

In advocating the management
of all electric power and river
engineering work in accordance
with sound policies of regional
planning of natural resources,
emphasis was placed on the de-
sirability of publie generation,
transmission, and distribution un-
der public auspices,

In the debate which followed
the supporters of public owner-
win gaa the day, Predominating
belief was that only public own-
ership could provide low cost elec-
trie service to meet the needs of
the American people for both
peacetime needs and defence.

Support for the resolution was
given vs aS die asonel
President J. E. Fadling on
floor of the convention.

M&M Loggers
Help Kids

Press Committee M. S. Bruce
and S. C. McConkey report that
the “Loggers Navy” visited
M. & M. Logging Co., Forward
Bay, on Nov. 4th,

Being the first visit in over
four months, crew members were
looking forward to the meeting
which was held that evening. An
open discussion was held concern-
ing the coming convention and
other union matters.

At present the camp is 100 per
cent IWA other than a few fal-
lers who will be signed up soon.

On the 19th of November the

monthly meeting was held. Dur-|
ing discussion on welfare and |

goodwill, it was moved and sec-
onded that all the members. in
this camp make a donation to the
Crippled Children’s Hospital.
Three members were elected to
canvas the camp, $186.25 was col-
lected. This money was forwarded
to the Vancouver Sun for the
Crippled Children’s Hospital.

This response by 60 members
should be a good incentive for
other camps to follow suit. The
boys in this camp are starting to
get Christmas fever in the blood
as Christmas comes nearer.

Doc. Douglas Aids
"Green-Gold’

Renewing his interest in the
welfare of loggers and mill
workers, an old friend of labor,
Dr. R. Llewellyn Douglas, Dentist,
9 East Hastings St., will again
be associated with the presenta-
tion of the IWA radio program
“Green Gold”, it was announced
this week by the IWA District
Officers.

The offer made by Dr, Douglas
to assist this program in aid of
his many friends in the lumber
industry was accepted, because
of his record of long-standing
friendship toward the organized
lumber workers.

His desire to help, dates back
to the days when he worked on
the railroad as a brakeman and
conductor, a member of the
International Brotherhood | of
Railway Trainmen.

He was one of the financial
backers of the mimeographed
publication first issued by the or-
ganized lumber workers in 1927.
For over five years, his name was
heard on “Green Gold” broadcasts
as co-sponsor.

One of a group of prominent
New Westminster sportsmen, he
was at one time President of the
New Westminster Salmonbellies
lacrosse team. a

He located in Vancouver in
1928, and attempted to retire in
1946. No longer able to endure
the prospect of becoming a mere
house-boy, he re-established his
dental practice at 9 Hastings St.
East, Vancouver, recently,

It is an open secret that the
backroom of his suite of offices
is a popular rendezvous for old-
timers in the logging industry
for the swapping of yarns, and
salty quips.

15 NEW
CO-OP BANKS

OTTAWA (CPA) — Charters
were issued to 75 new credit
unions in the province of Ontario
last year.

_ Altogether there were 436 ac-
tive credit unions in Ontario at
December 81, 1949, with a total
membership of 118,660. Total
share savings at that date were
$12,495,210, and outstanding loans
totalled $16,197,508,

These figures are all increases.
Membership jumped in 1949 by
22,909 over 1948. The total as-
sets of the credit unions increased
$4,890,056 over the previous year
and loans out were increased by
$4,585,799. Only a fraction of one
percent (124%) of loans was
written off,

The greatest rural development
has been in eastern and northern
Ontario, particularly among the
French-speaking groups.

This point was pressed by [WA
and other B.C. delegates at the
CCL convention in Winnipeg last
September on the ground that a
convention in the
far West would
have a unifying
influence on the
Horganiza~
tion. Their judg-
ment has been
upheld, and I am
De that the re-

-jsults will vindi-
(OP “jcate their judg-
is ~~ ment,

We cannot allow trade union
members in the East to think of
the Rocky Mountains as a barrier
to complete Congress solidarity,
or that events in faraway British
Columbia have minor significance
in the national movement,

The principal business of the
Executive Committee at the re-
cent meeting was to complete the
matters referred from the conven-
tion. This was done with des-
patch and thoroughness.

In co-operation with commit-
tees from the Trades and Labour
Congress and the Confederation
of Catholic Trade Unions, contin-
ued pressure is being exercised on
the Federal Government to im-
pose price controls and maintain
rental controls.

W.C.F.T.U.

The work of the World Con-
federation of Free Trade Unions
received. considerable attention
because of the importance at this
time of maintaining contact with
the trade unions in non-commu-
nist countries, especially in Asia.
Important work has already been
done, and these plans will be fur-
thered at the Western Hemis-
phere Conference in Mexico early
{in 1951,

The CCL will be represented at
that conference and the world
 eoREenuion in Milan next July, by

Secretary Pat Conroy, Vice-Presi-
dent A, MacAuslane, and Execu-

By 5 Svat Albury
ROCKIES NO CCL BARRIER

TT will be a matter of satisfaction to all CCL Unions in British

Columbia that the November meeting of the Executive Com-
mittee of the Canadian Congress of Labour decided to hold the
1951 convention in Vancouver. This recognition of CCL strength
on the Pacific Coast is most gratifying.

tive Board member George Burt,
UAW. ‘

The representative of the Brit-
ish Trade Unions, now stationed)
in Washington, D.C., addressed!
the committee and made a strong
case for closer co-operation be-
tween British and American
trade unionists for their common
objectives.

The work accomplished by; the
committee provided still further .
evidence of the importance of the
work of the Congress in protec-
tion of our interests as trade
unionists on the national field.

1-71 WINS AT
ENGLEWOOD

Grievances respecting inter-
pretations of the contract were
adjusted in conferences be-
tween camp. committees and
management during a recent
visit of Financial Secretary
Fred Fieber to the Englewood
Camps.

The night shift differential,
especially as applied to the work
of train crews has not’ been paid
for overtime beyond eight hours.
The differential now applies to
all time worked outside the regu-
lar day shift,

It had been understood that
maintenance and repair men
would work for straight time if
they worked on their regular
days of rest. This was also ad-
justed in accordance with the
terms of the contract as now
interpreted.

At a joint meeting of commit-
tees in all five camps plans were
prepared dealing with seniority
for presentatiow to the manage-
ment at a later conference,

Agreements have been signed
on behalf of employees of Har-
vey Logging Co. and W. M. and
F. Logging Co.

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