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B.C. LUMBER WORKER

JREJECTION by the Interior lumber operators of the

majority recommendations of the Conciliation Board is
further proof of their union-smashing designs. Their de-
cision confirms all that the IWA negotiators have claimed
that they were faced in their bargaining with ruthless and
unscrupulous men.

In their inordinate greed for even greater profits than
they have enjoyed for years, the operators are prepared
to throw their employees to the wolves. Certainly, they
show not the slightest concern for families which they
have kept on the ragged edge of starvation these many
years.

Rejection of the majority award is deliberate provoca-
tion of strike action. It is a challenge to the IWA to use
its economic strength on the picket line. It is a challenge
that cannot go unanswered, or the Interior lumber work-
ers will be kept in the bondage of sub-standard wages and
scandalous working conditions for another term of years,

IWA members in the Interior have the matter in their ||

own hands. They are now able to vote, on the ballots dis-
tributed, for authorization of strike action. If they do so
they will have the entire resources of the IWA behind
them. ks

Strike action inevitably means sacrifice, but better far
to risk this sacrifice than live forever on one’s knees.

Strike action will hit the pocket-books of the operators
harder now than at-any time for they are counting on huge
profits out of an expanding market.

Militant action to bring these autocratic economic
over-lords to their senses will in the end cost less than
long weary years of starvation wages.

If IWA strength is fully mustered for this fight, the
IWA will win. All that is needed to win this fight now

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[WA experience with the Interior operators has taught
them to expect only outright opposition to proposals for
higher living standards among’ their employees. Now to

this experience has been added open treachery on the part
of self-styled champions of the workers’ interests.

The WIUC, bargaining for the employees in seven
small operations in the Cranbrook area, has recommended
a contract settlement on the employers’ terms.

The WIUC accepted the wage offer of the employers
without protest or any real attempt to secure other con-
tract conditions that were equally vital to the workers.
They accepted the four-cent differential for night shifts,
instead of five, as recommended by the IWA Conciliation
Board. They settled without any provisions for union
security, vacations with pay, improved hours of work,
cost of living bonus, or amended grievance procedure.

Worse still, the WIUC agreed to reconsider the mat-
ter of wages if the operators find that their profits
are likely to recede.

The men who negotiated the WIUC agreement have
seized every opportunity to blast IWA settlements in the
past as betrayals of the interests of the workers. Now
they have sold their members “down the river” in a bar-
gain-basement deal, in which they have, openly “stooged
for the bosses”.

; The IWA has always been right. A Communist-con-
trolled union will always “get into bed with the boss”
when the party policy dictates that the workers’ interests
must be sacrificed for those of the LPP. Trade unionists
know no lower form of prostitution.

SAVINGS BOND DRIVE

DONT MIND WHAT PEOPLE
SAY KIDDO, WE WERE
MEANT FOR EACH OTHER.

Education Needed

The Editor:

Such publications as I have
received, circulated in the inter-
ests of Labor Unions mostly,
while bewailing the failing buy-
ing power of the dollar, never
show any inclination to go to the
root of what constitutes money,
whence it originates, and what
gives it its value, and why it is
subject to so much change in
buying power.

Quite evidently by its varying
rate, it must be a commodity sub-
ject to market manipulation, and
while used as a rule for the ex-
change of goods and services, its
obvious defect is similar to a car-
penter using a rule for measure-
ment, which could be lengthened
or shortened to suit the cireum-
stances of those in possession or
control of the rule.

Labor in its various aspect as
a whole—the major part of the
population including the small
working capitalist, is concerned
mostly with the ‘value of the
goods it requires, and what it
considers desirable as a living
standard. On the other hand there
is a minority whose concern with
money is not in its immediate ex-
change for necessary and desir-
able goods, but by an outlay of
money cause the purchase of
more money, or actual final
value,

Such outlay may be entirely
new money, the value of which
has not yet been created by the
efforts of labor, and has still to
be created, and which is a direct
levy on labor as a whole, for it
decreases by inflation the actual
purchasing power of wages and
salaries. Its objective, whether
well understood or not, is to ob-
tain from labor a portion of its
effort for nothing.

The relation between labor

and money in its various forms,
has for some reason never re-

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Canadians have proved thrifty
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