B.C. LUMBER WORKER : ;

January 4, 1951

TO ‘POP’

Good wishes from bis numerous
forwarded t0 Adolph Germer, 1WA

GERMER--

UR BEST WISHES

friends in British Columbia have been
International Director of Organization,

expressing the hope that he makes a speedy recovery from his recent illness.
It was characteristic of the veteran labor leader that his Christmas greet-
ing card forwarded 10 his friends aptly expressed his philosophy of living in

the following verses:

REAL

WORTH

When you think of a man'you seldom think
* Of she knowledge be has of books,
You seldom think of the clothes he wears;

His habits, or
You seldom think o,
Nor bis power
When you think of

faults, or looks,

f the car he drives,

of name or pen;

the man you mostly think

O} some kindness he has done.

You judge him not

by the blocks of stock

Nor bis power of name or pen;
You judge a man by the place he’s made

In the hearts oj

You judge him more by the fight he's made,

f bis fellow men.

By the way he's faced the strife,
~ And not the amount of the bank account
He's managed to get in life,
You think of the friend he's been to man,

The good that

he bas done,

And you judge the sort of a man he is

By the friends

that he has won,

HE CO-OPERATIVE VIEW

CO-OP LIFE

Advantages of life insurance
at cost is now made ayailable
the cooperative way through
the establishment in British
Columbia of the Co-operative
Life Insurance Company. The
story of the development of
this company is one of bold
challenge to powerful interests
already entrenched in the in-
surance field and closely paral-
Tels the struggle of the trade
unions,

During the drought and depres-
sion when the prairie farmers
were hit en masse and thousands
were forced on to relief, they
were forced to drop their life in-

surance policies due to lack of

funds to pay premiums and in so
doing suffered further financial
losses,

Later when better times re-
turned they found they could re-
gain their insurance only by tak-
ing out new policies at their in-
ereased age which in many in-
Stances was beyond their re-
sources.

Their Own Business

This situation, as in the forma-
tion of the Wheat Pools, forced
the farmers to again go into
business for themselves. After
tremendous amount of prelimi-
nary study and work, the Co-
operative Life Insurance Com-
pany was finally organized in
1945 and incorporated as a Pro-
vincial Company in Saskatche-
wan,

Immediately. following this, re-
quests were received from other
Co-operative Organizations in
other provinces for Co-operative
Life to expand, so in 1946 the
Company was re-incorporated in
Ottawa as a Dominion Legal Re-
serve chartered company.

The Saskatchewan Wheat Pool
and other Co-operative Organiza-
tions across Canada loaned the
original money for Government
reserve deposits in order that
Co-operative Life Insurance Com-
pany could commence business.

True Cooperative

The Co-operative Life Insur-
ance Company is accordingly or-
ranized and operated along true
Re ctaratire - principles, return-
ing all benefits nae surplus to

member y owners. There are
* no cane

This company is now licensed
to do business in ory. Fezince
across Canada except uel an
Newfoundland. The British Co-
lumbia office is at Room 4, 505
Dunsmuir Street, Vancouver.

Since 1945 has

‘grown to a point where there is

INSURANCE

over $30,000,000 of life insurance
in force, A search of official re-
cords fails to indicate any other
life insurance company in Canada
ever experiencing such phenome-
nal growth during its first five
years of existence,

Dividends Paid

In spite of the expenses in-
curred in organizing and opening
new offices in each province, the
Co-operative Life Insurance Com-
pany was still able to declare a
dividend in 1950 on the individual
policies that had been in force
‘for five years. Again, no other
‘insurance company has been
known to have done this during
its first five years of existence.

This experience indicates great
promise for the futuré of the Co-
operative Life Insurance Com-
pany.

The Company is owned and
controlled by members, There are
no stockholders. The directors are
elected from the policy owners,
at least one from each province,
Mr. D. G. Macdonald, Secretary-
Treasurer of the Fishermen’s Co-
operative Federation, Vancouver,
B.G,, is the present director from
British Columbia.

COURT BANS
RACIAL ZONES

OTTAWA (CPA) — Supreme
Court of Canada has ruled that a
covenant restricting the sale of
certain property in Ontario on
racial grounds to be invalid. ~

This decision has sent hope to
the racial minorities who are
seeking equal rights in property,
and is at least one blow against
racial and religious bigotry.

What remains to be seen, how-
ever, is whether this Court deci-
sion will be regarded as a prece-
dent for other such cases, or
whether it will be regarded as a
decision made only in the particu-
lar circumstances.

In any case, the Supreme Court
decision overthrew an Ontario
Supreme Court ruling which had
approved the legality of a cove-
nant in existence since 1933, at
the Lake Huron resort of Grand
Bend.

Seventeen years ago a group of
people who purchased land at the
resort resolved to sell property
to no one of the Jewish, Hebrew,
Semitic, Negro or colored race.
A test case came this year when
Mrs. Annie Maud Noble of Lon-
don, Ontario, who owned a piece
of the property, sold it to Mr.
Bernard Wolf of London, a Jew.

The two jointly sought a court
order to the effect that the cove-
nant did not bar the transaction,
but the Ontario Supreme Court
and the Ontario Court of Appeals
both ruled that the covenant was
valid.

In March, 1950, the Legislature
of Ontario amended its Convey-
ance and Law of Property Act to
make future restrictive covenants
invalid, This amendment, how-
ever, would not affect a covenant
made in 1938, which the Ontario
high courts declared legal.

The Supreme Court of Canada,
however, took the view that the
covenant did not “run with the
land” through transactions be-
yond the original 17 years ago.

Up to the present, Saskatche-
wan is the only province in Ca-
nada which incorporates the right
to occupy and own _ property,
without racial restriction, into a
general Bill of Rights.

The recent Supreme Court de-
cision is another step forward in
the advance towards civil liberty.

ATTEND YOUR UNION
MEETINGS

people of Canada.

University, Antigonish, N.S. one

He said: “Farmers and labor
have improved their position by
co-operative marketing and col-
lective bargaining, respectively,
but as long as they-leave the
great commercial and financial
activities of economic society in
the hands of their masters they
will never haye real democracy.

“Not only will they not have
economie democracy which should
give them a fair share of the
wealth they helped to create, but
they will not preserve the politi-
cal democracy with which they
so bravely started out 150 years
ago.”

Best Method

"The best method of direct eco-
nomic action, urged Dr. Coady,
was the development of consumer
co-operatives.

Co - operation bet ween the
farmers and labor would allow

SO THAT'S THE REASON!
WA (CPA)—William

pisen, Sntaryrisn”

the

o

America, He
the hee this way:

Schmidt of Chicago is managing
week: x of the Property
the Korean War to

said, “is merely an incident. It

- of bureaucrats in Washington for

CONSUMER CO-OPS

JEVELOPMENT of consumer co-operatives to play a major part
in regaining economic democracy and self-government for the

This is the viewpoint of Rev. M. M. Coady, of St. Francis Xavier

the co-operative movement, given when he was speaking to the
annual meeting of United Co-operatives in Toronto.

“|president by acclamation at the

of the world’s leading figures in

people to get goods and services
at a cost that would make our
present monopolistic enterprise
system look silly, he said. Co-
operative action would be a
method of carrying out a “big
measure of socialism without any
fear of bureaucracy.”

Masses Dispossessed

Dr. Coady said that the pres-
ent concentration of wealth and
the growth of monopoly had dis-
possessed great masses of people
now without any ownership of
the means of production.

The general answer was to re-
store ownership to the people
through consumer co-operatives.

CAREY ELECTED

JAMES B, CAREY was elected

second annual convention of the
International Union of Electrical
Workers. Carey, secretary-treas-
urer of the CIO, has headed the
union’s administrative committee.
Albin Hartnett, his administra-
tive assistant, was elected secre-

[half of the Union to the public

The results are heartening
Union will measure up in every
this year.

One important reason for con-
fidence is the growing-strength
of the Union and the improved
state of efficiency iu
in our organiza-
tion, I am confi-
dent that this 7
new-found
strength will be
used wisely and
intelligently to”
advance still fur- ~
ther the welfare Ss
of the workers let’?
see |

represented by
My New Year’s message on be-

the IWA.

in the daily press gave assurance
that the organized lumber
workers would seek their welfare
in the welfare of all the people
of the province. Our objectives
in terms of. living standards are
reasonable, and if achieved, will
add to the prosperity of the prov-
ince. The IWA aims at the
highest possible standards of
well-being and security in the
communities where we work and
live.

Our plans to raise the living
standards of the lumber workers
will raise the living standards of
all, and will permit us to add to
the wealth of the province.

Democratic Faith
IWA members have a deeply
rooted faith in the greater pos-
sibilities of democracy. It was
this belief in the principles of
democracy that armed IWA mem-
bers to withstand the unscrupu-

j|zacy.
ileratic process at all levels of

‘iy 3. Slory
Advance Labor’s Rights

Ne only because it is a custom at the beginning of a New
Year, but also because in the [WA we approach a most im-
portant District Convention this month, we have taken time to
review the past year, and consider the prospects for 1951.

and give confidence that our
way to the responsibilities of

lous attempts of the LPP-Com-
munists to establish control in a
strategic industry. It has been
through the maintenance of
democratic methods that our
Union has grown and displayed

|| amazing vitality of organization.

In the IWA we have done more
than give lip-service to democ-
‘This reliance on the demo-

Union administration is vital to
the future welfare of the IWA.
It points to the fact that the
trade union movement as a whole
is an important institution of the
national democracy, and should
be regarded as a bulwark of

(national strength.

The IWA has always given
support to the purposes of democ-
racy in national and international
affairs. We should not allow the

intensifying international’ crisis e

and the probable consequencest
upon the conditions of our work
ing and living to cause us to sur-
render our democratic rights.

We must retain the right of
free collective bargaining. We
must demand that organized
labor be given a voice in national
security plans. We must ask for
genuine equality of sacrifice if
greater burdens must be assumed.
No nation can remain strong if
the workers’ interests are sacri-
ficed to purely military considera-
tions.

If we make these points as a
Union we are scoring for our
Canadian democracy.

price control.

3-1 FOR PRICE CONTROLS

OTTAWA (CPA).—A recent Gallup Poll in the United States
revealed that 63% of the American public are in favour of price and
wage control. A similar poll in Canada indicated 75% in favour of

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