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B.C. LYMBER WORKER

February 21, 1952

CARL WINN AT CONVENTION

“One Day... One Union -
For World’s Workers”

Speech made by IWA International Secretary Carl Winn at
the Annual Convention of the B.C. Federation of Labor was
hailed by his audience as one of the finest in recent years on trade
union ideals. Excerpts are quoted below.

Even during the times of stress
and tensions of war, the peoples
of the Asiatic countries that I
visited had the same aims and
objectives that you have here in
Canada. Yes, I know, I realize
that many sections of the world,
the workers look on Cana-
dian workers and American
workers in some degree of envy.
They think that our standards of
living are heavenly. In many of
these countries they class the
American worker, the Canadian
worker in the categories of
wealthy persons.

Wants and Desires

In comparison with their stand-
ard of living, I believe it is true.
I know it’s true. I’ve lived with
them, ate their food and was in-
timately associated with them
for nearly four years, and I know
that our standard of living is
much higher than theirs, but still
it is not high enough. It is not
good enough. Our freedoms are
not adequate. I believe that the
workers in the United States, in
Canada and in other places of the
world that their needs, wants
and desires are simple and funda-
mental. They want a little better
standard of living for themselves
and their families. They want to
raise their children in a manner
of health and decency.

Plump with Food

That's what I want, that’s all
I want from life, here on this
earth. I don’t want great wealth
or riches. I don’t think that any
working man does, but he does
want to see his kids plump with
good food. He wants to see them
in their periods of illness have
adequate medical attention. He
wants to see that they have an
adequate schooling, so that they
can make a contribution to the
welfare of the human race.

Wherever it may be, perhaps
in future years, that instead of

having international unions that-

embrace the two great countries
| of the United States and Canada,
international unions will extend
world-wide, that the loggers in
the jungle of Burma will have a
standard of living equal to the
loggers of British Columbia or
the United States. I hope that
the son who bears my name de-
votes his life to the welfare of
humanity, to the international
trade union movement.

All we want is freedom—the
freedom of worship, the freedom

those are the things I believe are
wanted world-wide, and, in my
opinion, those are great issues to
which the muscle, fibre, the brain,
the ingenuity and energies of the
trade union movement are going
to devote themselves.

Political Set-up

Now, I do not possess the te-
merity to try to advise the mem-
bers of this great Convention on
items of purely local nature, but
I do want to express to you my
impressions that I have gained

Model Co-

here and impressions that have
engrained themselves in my mind
as a citizen of the United States.

Thave heard some of our people

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of speech, the freedom of he
right of assembly, the freedom
for the right to demand redress

say from time to time during my
weok’s visit up here that they
thought that the political system

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of grievance, and the freedom
of association (the freedom to
associate with those people who
wish to associate with us and
the freedom for us to associate
with those people whom we
choose as our friends or our asso-
ciates in our normal business life
or in our leisure moments).

Security for All

All we want is securi
reasonable measure of security—
security in our homes and our
persons—the security to go to
bed without fear, with the win-
dows raised in our homes and the
doors unlatched, in full security
in the knowledge that there won't
be a policeman drag us off in the
middle of the night to execution
or a concentration camp. That is
the measure of security we want
in that respect, and we want a
security of the right to earn a
living, a security to a guarantee
of job tenure, a tenure of produc-
tive labor, and, in my opinion,
one of the greatest things that
people world-wide want is respect
and dignity, a respect that’s due
a child of God, without considera-
tion to his race, his color, his
creed, the respect to be known as
a man,

World Wide
__ Those are the things they want
in Canada; those are the things
we want in the United States;

in the United States was an im-
provement over the political sys-

manager of the half-million dollar project. (LPA)

tem in Canada. I don’t know
whether it is or not. While I have
a general view and knowledge of
our political set-up, I don’t know
it in the intimate details that I
do the political set-up in the
United States where both of the
major parties: meet in their na-
tional’ convention and_ in‘ high-
sounding phrases and deep pro-
nouncements say that we're going
to appeal the Taft-Hartley law |

and reinstate just the best pro-| Other 3 2Ougs
misions Obfthe Wabner Ace |ave: President, Leo Stadryk and

While we have laws in the) Andy Smith; 1st Vice-president,
United States that United | 57.-* eat nie
States Senator can’t spend more | yice-Bresident, Dan McBride and
than $10,000 on his campaign, in | (1t, NeDonald; 3rd Vice-Fresi-
the election of Robert A. Taft in | Gove. ‘Rucording Secretmy, Rov

Ee tie CHO POM Maicore and Rae soddie; Conductor,

Other nominations appearing

cal “Action Committee can prove | ; ; “arlyle,
that, there was more than $5,-| Wrladn Bob “Mason ant Bere
000,000 spent in that campaign, | Warden, Bob Mason and Pete

Of ‘course, he's a golden-haired | Ho
‘boy and a prospective president |

down there, he thinks. | The R 1 City Local Uni .
e Royal City Local Union is

Much Worse | supporting a. proposed amend-

Lord help the working stiff if | ment to the Unemployment. In-
he ever gets to be president, be-| surance Act which will change
use we might think it has been | the present procedure to deprive
bad in the last four or five years, | workers of benefits because of
but it'll be much worse if he goes | the intervention of the annual
into office with the people who | holiday for those who have not

Thompson.
UIC Amendment

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| 1 can just imagine General
Douglas McArthur as, Secretary
of State—the hero of Anticostia
| Flats. But we have our problems,
you have your problems, every-
one in the world has his problems,
and there is only one way that we
are going to solve them, and that
is by honest and diligent applica-
tion of our brains and brawn, too.
Abiding Faith

I have an abiding faith in the
workers of the world. I know
that eventually the day will come
when those modest wants and de-
sites that I have enumerated here
to you today will be a world-wide
reality, and if I could have one
ish in this life it would be to
live to see the day when these
were realities, where the workers
of the world lived in peace, secur-
ity, happiness and contentment.

Rotation-conscious Marines in
Korea are publicizing a safe
driving campaign with roadside
signs warning: “Drive carefully
—the guy you hit might be your
relief!”

| yet. established sufficient contri-
| butions. In a number of instances
|men have resumed employment
| only. for a brief period before the
holiday shut-down and were thus
disqualified.
Mohawk Handle

Protest lodged by a worker at
Mohawk Handle against abusive
language employed by an official
and which led to his dismissal,

predicted.

The incident resulted when a
carrier driver, without apthority,
attempted to instruct the worker

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IN 1-357 ELECTIONS

Uncontested nomination was accorded Financial Secretary
Lawrence Vandale as nominations were considered by the members
of Local 1-357, New Westminster, for the election of officers of the
ensuing year by referendum ballot.

in question as to his work meth-
ods. When he questioned this pro-
cedure the matter was carried to
the Superintendent who waxed
abusive and called him an un-
printable name. He later objected
and_was fired.

Bakery Workers Strike

Mel Kemmis, Business Agent
|for the Bakery Workers Union,
| received a cordial response when
he addressed the workers at Fra-
ser Mills on behalf of the strik-
ers at National Biscuit Co. It is
expected that the collection in aid
of the strikers will prove a gen-
erous one.

One result is that the Fraser
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