B.C. LUMBER WORKEW _ March 1, 1951 Line By BILL DAVY Labor Press Association Labor Joe Sez: The days ahead call for some- thing a bit more enduring than just lip unity. ee | Assembly Nothing removes conceit like a walk through the cemetery. ie hee —Anon A commentator’s guess that Mao may be another Tito is one to lay away in the hope chest, among the lavender and such souvenirs as “Will Hitler now settle down?” ‘ Senator Soaper in the Chicago News ie) ie Some folks speak as they think— and some oftener. 1 < * * * Patient—“Is the doctor in?” Maid—“No, sir.” Patient —‘“‘Have you any idea when he’ll be back?” Maid — “I don’t know, sir. He ‘went out on an eternity case.” Bat at Success ix a fraud after all. By the time you're rich enough to sleep late you're so old you always wake up early. ‘ Inland News Tee Hubby sneaked home at 3 a.m, His angry wife met him at the door. “So home is the best place after all!” she snorted. “T don’t know about that,” her mate replied, “but it’s the only place open.” se & Two temporary letter carriers weary of their burdens 0} Christmas mail, de: livered them respec: tively into an incin- eralor and 4 snow- bank, post office in- spectors charged. Arrested on charges of destroying mail in Manbhathan and the Bronx, both defendants ‘offered the same ex- planation: "I was tired.” —News Item arn The man who pokes fun at a woman trying to drive through a twelve-foot garage door usually quiets down when he tries to thread a needle. —Christian Herald foe. A young woman from Vermont ac- cepted a position as a governess but resigned the following week. When atked why she replied in the laconic manner typical of her state: "Had to. Backward child, forward father.” —The Gilcrafter Having recently taken up driving a timid woman wanted everything to be just so. One day she complained to her husband, “that little mirror up there isn’t set right.” "Whats the matter with it?” the busband asked. "I cdw’t see myself at all,” she said. “All 1 see is some car behind.” * 8 * “All Europe is not worth the death of one American. i, soldier.” Senator Blubber- mouth, so 8 Boss to timid employee: “Per: haps you should get more pay, Joe. Speak to me again in a few days—if you're still with us.” POSSIBILITY of a national daily paper devoted to labor in the U.S. is seen by the trial pub- lication of the National Reporter, published in Pittsburgh by a group of unions. see NEGOTIATIONS. are almost complete for the merger of the AFL Boilermakers and Black- smiths, 174,000 unionists in all. SEVENTY THOUSAND tex- tile workers struck February 16 160 mills in New England and ntie state. It is the first ] in the strike another 10 percent! That’s the word from IWA President J. E. Fadling, summing up, the situation of the worst ever inflationary cycle, which has cost the nation billions of dollars and severely slashed “real” wages. Ou the profit question, too, the excess profit tax passed by Con- gress, was full of loopholes and will do little to curb blatant war profiteering. Truman’s “across the board” $10 million tax proposal means, too, the low paid, the underpaid, and the pensioner will suffer most of all. United Labor Policy committee, warned that’no “simple formula” can be found by which to hold wages at a stable level. Such a formula “would breed unrest, in- terfere with our efforts to main- tain maximum production, and create more inequities than it would solve. “The nation cannot succeed in its effort to achieve maximum production if it condemns hun- dreds of thousands of workers to sub-standard conditions of living for the duration of an emergency of unpredictable length,” said Fadling. aes NORTHWEST NEGOTIA- TORS, representing 50,000 IWA employees in the Pacific North- west, are asking a 35 cents-an- hour wage increase, three addi- tional paid holidays, liberalized vacation clauses and a wage re- opening in September. Contracts expire April 1. Effects of the wage freeze were not known at time of writing... “Last spring, the IWA nego- tiated a Health and Welfare plan and three paid holidays for our members, which did not increase labor cost more than $1.50 a thousand,” stated President Fad- ling, who heads the regional negotiating committee. ‘‘Yet, lumber prices jumped $5.73 per M from April to June. From June to November, the price in- creased another $13.41 per M and our membership got a 5c an hour increase. So, while total labor cost went up not more than $2.20 per M, lumber went up more than $19. “As far as the mah on the job is concerned, he must have a fur- ther increase in wages to take care of increased living costs. “We are willing to produce and sacrifice, but we cannot be ex- pected to do all the sacrificing while our employers wax fat on bloated profits. se 8 PLYWOOD & Veneer Workers Local Union, 9-2521, at Hoquiam, Washington, has purchased the Hoquiam Moose Temple for $35,000 cash, according to John Pilas, business agent. The build- ing ‘holds meeting hall, club rooms and office space on the sec- ond floor, with a dance hall on the lower fioor. CANADA WOOD Products, Grimsby, Ontario, has now agreed to rehire the pfesident and other officers and members of IWA Local 106, who were discharged after winning certification of the plant” after a long and bitter struggle. eee LABOR’S WITHDRAWAL from the Wage Stabilization Board was a symbol of develop- ing crisis in the defense gram. Spokesmen for 15 million AFL, CIO and Rail brotherhood members have charged the de- fense program is being run by busit Organized labor, through its | Food prices keep on rising—and risi up with rises in prices of other commodities! Big U.S. Price Feeeee Is Fraud The big price freeze in the United States turned cut to be an even bigger fraud. nd rising—just because they haven't yet caught But in the meantime profits after taxes are up ‘NON-UNION’ LABELS NOW Union label campaign of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers has been so successful in Canada that some non-union firms have introduced a so-called “union label” of their own, promoting their “Association of Employees,” CCL and TLC unions are rally- ing to the support of the Amal- gamated in its fight against anti-union employers. The proper time for divorce is during the courtship. Learning Union Procedure =. 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