January 4, 1951

Cc. LUMBER WORKER

INTERIOR
PICTURES

ALBERT ROWBOTTOM, Sub-
Local Secretary at the IWA desk
in his home at Merritt.

NEGOTIATING COMMITTEE
for employees of Sask. Fed. Co-
op. Lumber Co. meet J. Car-
michael, Manager (left). Visitors

are Tom Bradley and George
Collis.

INTERIOR OF BUNKHOUSE at
Clearwater, B.C., illustrating un-
satisfactory conditions against
which IWA is campaigning.

IWA MEMBERS at lunch at
Canford Lumber Co, machine
shop, Merritt.

Alex B. Macdonald

Barrister & Solicitor
Notary Public

tion very doubtful in 1951.”

Cordell Hull instituted the Re-
ciprocal Agreements and started
goods flowing across our borders
with great advantage to Canada
and the US. Tariffs had been
22 high under Smoot-Hawley Act

“REPUBLICAN VICTORIES in the United States elections
are of direct concern in at least two matters of prime interest
to Canada—tariff and the St. Lawrence Seaway,” said Kenneth
R. Wilson, Ottawa staff of the Financial Post.

“Yariffs: Traditional Republican hostility to lower tariffs
makes passage of new and favourable trade agreements legisla-

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PRICES - LUMBER & ITS PRODUCTS

1935-39 = 100

Source: D.B.S.

Prepared by I.W.A. Research Dept.

that trade.was practically
stopped.

We can only hope that trade
will be allowed to continue as
long as it is beneficial to the
parties concerned.

cost OF LIVING
| 1955-39 = 100
Source: BIS - DBS
Prepared by IWA
Department of Research

170

160

Sept.
"50

Aug.
*50

Sept. Sept.
"48 149
H U.S.

1946 1947 1948 1949 Sept. Sept.
= 1949. 1950
LUMBER PRICES * 3 %
“ Source: D.B.S.—B.L.S. 1936-39 = 100
Sept. 48 Sept. ’49 Aug. ’50 Sept..’50
United States. 317.4 279.8 357.6 871.5
Canada.. 273.7 271.3 326.6 344.5

LUMBER AND ITS PRODUCTS
Source: D.B.S.—1935-39 = 100

1946 1947 1948 1949 Sept. 1949 Sept. 1950
Canada ...... 202.1 242.0 305.8 822.1 320.9 370.6
Lumber and its products percentage increase since 1946:
19% 51% 59% 58% 82%

Department of Research & Education — IWA-CIO.

VIEW BUSINESS GUIDE

COST OF LIVING |
Source: D.B.S.—B.L.S. 1936-39 = 100

Sept. ’48 Sept. "49 Aug. ’50 Aug. °50
174.5 169.6 173.0 173.8
158.8 162.3 168.5 169.8

215.2 204.2 209.0

living or cost of food is percentagewise greater in the United States.
They are published only for the purpose of showing trends in these
items in the two countries.

Norwegian Singers

“ihe

Prompt Attention Given To All . D. OXFORD
MAIL ORDERS Westview, B.C;

OFFICERS VANCOUVER NORWEGIAN MALE CHORUS heard
on the Christmas IWA Green Gold radio program of carols and

appropriate music.

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IN DES MOINES, the Bell
Telephone Co. wondered at its
own stupidity after some of its
top brass yanked down a CIO-
PAC poster which the Communi-
jcations Workers of America-CIO
had placed on a bulletin board.
|'Phe poster carried a simple mes-
jsage, “Notice—In order to vote,
jyou are required to register.”
One day after management pull-
ed down the poster a CWA picket
line appeared in front of the
building displaying several copies
of the poster—which were read
by many more Bell workers than
| might have noticed it on the bul-

Hetin board,
ee

| IN HOLLYWOOD, Calif., two
strikers were picketing an in-
dependent film studio when they

were spotted by the casting
director for a rival company. The
director offered both men jobs in
a forthcoming film and they
promptly quit their old jobs and
the picketing. A week later they
were given their first film roles
—and discovered they had been
cast as a couple of union pickets.

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