- B.C. LUMBER WORKER

01552 Cane Stan.

“You anti-union guys have a one-
track mind, but you'll never make
the grade with your ‘loco’ motive!”

COME IN
CAMP WOSS

The Editor: :
This is Camp Woss, we have

not been in the picture or the

news for a long while, but we

have been neither idle nor dor-
ant.

Camp Woss is the stout Sub-
Local of the Loggers’ Local 1-71
and today it is organfzed as never
before, for you see it is totally

. organized.

All who are eligible to belong
to the IWA are members of the
union. There are no non-union
men here nor should there be.
We have a membership at present
of 365, but we had alay-off of
fallers through the scare cam-
paign being conducted by the
boss loggers.

Reports Interesting

We had a hurriedly organized
meeting as of May 7th, to hear
the Local Secretary - Treasurer
Fred Fieber and Bro. J. McFar-
lane give us an outline of the
negotiations as to what happened.
The hall was filled with roughly
175 members and keen interest
was taken in their reports.

Conditions Improved

The camp has a pool yoom, and
recreation centre combined. A
community hall for-shows, dances
and bingo. Also a coffee bar.
Camp conditions are good, labor
management relations the same.

Our Camp Committees and
Officers are alert and capable
being Chairman, M. Hedman;
Vice-chairman, G. Glover;
Camp Secretary, J. E. Ray;
Corresponding Secretary. D.
Jamieson; Job Stewards, O.
Larson (head job steward), C.
W. Cooper, S. Lazare, A. Wat-
son, N. Simard, H. Forseman,
J. White, F. Beaske, P. Diotte,
A. Anderson.

Camp Committee: M. Hed-
man, J, E. Ray, P. Lecour, J.
Harkness, J. Young, G. Flower-
dew, N. Bastine,

Safety Committee: Chairman
A Granger, 0. Larson, P. Le-
cour, L. Kliese, W. Kees, J.
Passerina, R. Bastine.

There is no wasted talk con-
ceming the negotations, Green
Gold is heard and the bulletins
posted, There is just patient
waiting with an air of “no con-
tract June 15th, no work”.

The Press Committee,

Mr. G. Mitchell,
Int. Woodworkers of America,
45 Kingsway, Vancouver, B.C.

| Dear Sir and Brother:

.On behalf,of the membership
of the United Packinghouse
Workers of America, CIO-CCL,
Locals 333 Penticton, 339 Kelow-
rna and 344 Osoyoos, I wish to
extend the appreciation of all the
delegates for the very competent
and efficient staff supplied by
your organization to assist in the
operation of our joint Union In-
stitute held in Kelowna, B.C., on
May 8rd and 4th.

It is not my intention to give
credit where it is not due, and it
is from very satisfied delegates
that the congratulations are

many of our delegates attended
as a wearisome duty to their
Union, and left the Institute with
the firm intention of not missing
another. It is their wish that we

fortheomjng. I might add that |

%- Your Space Boys!
UPWA ORCHIDS FOR IWA.

hold another before the year is
out,

Unfortunately our fresh fruit
and vegetable contracts protect
the Companies from any large
number of employees from being
taken away from the plants dur-
ing the fruit season, and it would
be impossible for us to partici-
pate on the necessary scale be-
fore the month of December, but
we are prepared to co-operate
when that month arrives, or dur-
ing the winter months, if the
IWA wishes to hold another such
Institute,

Furthermore it is desirable for
| the IWA and UPWA to work to-
| gether in all matters possible, as
we are the only CCL-CIO unions
of any strength in the Okanagan
‘and vicinity.

Brother Joe Morris, Brother
| Vie Mauro, Brother Bill Cox and
| Brother Rene Bourcet were a ¢re-
dit to the IWA, but possibly ex-
tra kudos should go to Brother
‘John 'T. Atkinson who made one

Readers
“Vlinkl

of the most difficult, and normally
least interesting subject to the
average worker, a highlight of
the Institute. That is Safety and
Workmen’s Compensation.

Our delegates have requested
that if ever Brother Atkinson is
in the Okanagan, he speak at our
meetings to the full membership.
This has possibilities, for the
IWA_ has sawmills in Osoyoos
and Kelowna, and joint meetings
could be arranged. In Penticton,
while the IWA has not got the
sawmill, some good advertising
for the IWA would get around to
both the Penticton and Oliver
sawmills from a lecture to
UPWA membership, who by kin
and marriage have many connec-
‘tions in the sawmills.

Yours fraternally,
W. H. LYNCH,

International Representative,
| United Packinghouse Workers
| of America,

! 1191 King St., Penticton, B.C.

The Editor:

The citizens of B.C. have and
are being given the “siren treat-
ment” via the media of radio,
public meetings and press re-
leases, This by a group of self-
| proclaimed “Messianic Saviours”,
| otherwise known as Social Credi-

tors.

They have been very vague re-
garding their plans for cleansing
our, Province of its political and
economic iniquities. However,
they have. not been reticent re
the wonders they have performed
in our neighboring province of
Alberta.

The writer is not unaware,
there is considerable scope for
improvement in B. C., but in com-
| pany with others, is vitally inter-
lested in the record of past. per-
formance of the various political
‘and economic architects who
[would remodel our political and
| economic structure.

I will not dwell on the inepti-
tude of the late unlamented Coa-
lition government, after all they
were nothing more nor less than
a glorified “Personnel Manage-
ment” for big Business Incor-

lower behind the scene.

Rather I would ask a few ques-
tions of our Social Credit friends.

Their oft repeated assertions,
that for all practical purposes,
the Social Credit Government of
Alberta have paid off the tremen-
dous debt Alberta staggered un-
der when they first took office.

In view of the above would
they explain the following fi-
gures:

Alberta Provincial Debt
1944 . 151 Million
1951 98 Million

An apparent reduction of 53
millions of dollars, a very credit-
able showing by itself, but we
have further figures as follows:
for the corresponding period in

porated, the real policy forming |

Camp Woss, Englewood, B.C.

respect of Municipal, City and

OHNSON’S
LOGGERS

{UNION MADE)

COMFORT
and

QUALITY

A.W. Johnson Lid.

Social Credit Queried

Villages we find for the y

indebtedness of 42 mi
dollars, for 1951 indebtedness of
116 millions of dollars, an in-
crease of 74 millions of dollars,
or a net increase for Alberta as
a whole of 21 millions.

Further to this, there are fi-
gures that indicate the Municipal
Hospital District Debenture in-
debtedness is in the amount of
$3,253,801,510. This, added to the
previous figures, would indicate
Alberta is in the red, as of the
year 1951 by an amount of 24%
millions greater than 1944,
| The writer is no financial wiz-
ard, Social Credit brand, or ortho-
dox, but from past experience
and observation, has found that
paying certain debts out of one
pocket, while accumulating more
at accelerating rate in another
pocket, generally brings its day
of reckoning.

j, Some explanation should also
be forthcoming regarding an ar-
jticle published in the Calgary
Herald of Friday, March 28,
Page 1. to the effect, one hundred
and fifty or more of the Oil Com-
panies exploiting Alberta’s oil re-
| sources were circularized regard-
ing financial contributions to the
Social Credit Campaign funds as
there was an election in the off-
ing.

Free Enterprise, so called, re-
gardless under what political
banner it flaunts its slogans, is
in effect, today as in days gone
by, “Freedom of the few to ex-
ploit the many”. There is only
one program in B.C. that carries
within itself hopes of the produc-
tive many attaining true free-
dom, Freedom from want, Free-
dom from fear. The CCF and
Labor are holding the banner
high for all to see. Rally ‘round
it on June 12th, Let it never be
said of the woodworkers, they
voted on June 12th for the “tools”
of the forces we may possibly op-
pose by strike action, June 15.

F. J. Courneyeur, «
4T44—1-357, TWA,
New Westminster.

See Safety Too

The Editor:

As to now you have not had
any word from Copper Canyon
but here’s to putting us on the
map.

We would like to take this op-
portunity to mention that we
have a fully organized camp,
with Camp Safety, Press and Re-
creation committees all function-
ing for the furtherment of our
Union and the benefit of our
members. This we feel is import-
ant in view of the circumstances
that at present confront us.

We would also like to submit
a list of the table officers as
OF Tactuee, chairman: i, Wad

. Jacques, chairman; H. Wade
Financial

Secretary; F. Stock-
ford, Vice-chairman.

H. E. Jacques
/ HAE. Wadé,

ALBERTA
LABOR
LIKES
AINLAY

Dear Sir and Brother:

According to recent newspaper
publicity in Edmonton, Mr. H. D.
Ainlay of Haney, B.G., is a can-
didate for the GCF in the con-
stituency of Dewdney, in the
forthcoming B.C. election.

I have known Mr. Ainlay for
more than 15 years as an untiring
worker in the cause of labor. He
belonged to the Labor party in
Edmonton before the CCF was
formed. and was a “natural” for
the CCF movement in which he
took a very active part, and was
a staunch supporter of right up
to the time he left Edmonton for
the B.C. Coast a few years ago.

Mr. Ainlay was a Labor mem-
ber on the City Council of Ed-
monton for many years and May-

“We should join a labor union, Mil-
dred — Their contracts specify a
cents number of man-hours each
week!”

or of this city for, I believe, three
terms of two years each, and he
unquestionably held the confi-
dence of the great majority of
the citizens of Edmonton.

By profession he was a High
School Principal, and a number of
years ago his teaching ability and
close relationship to the workers
was recognized when he was one
of the Tutors selected by the
Workers’ Education Association
to lecture in a course on “Eco-
nomies’—I personally had the
pleasure of being one of his pu-
pils in this course of two years in
the fall and winter months.

In view of Mr. Ainlay running
on the CCF slate in the next B.C.
election, I am sure that his long
experience in Labor and CCF
politics would be of great assist-
ance to the Labor movement in
B.C., and I would suggest for
your consideration that the mem-
bers of the IWA in the locality
which he is contesting, be in-
formed of Mr. Ainlay’s past rec-
ord in the interests of Labor,
which I have so very briefly put
forward in this letter.

Yours fraternally,
R, ATKIN,
President, Ind. Fed. of Labor
‘of Alberta, C.C.L. on

BAR DOWN

TORONTO — The Lawyers’
Club of Toronto has amended its
constitution to remove the bar to
membership of non-whites and
non-Christians, The Club which
has been going for about 30
years, required that prospective
members be not less than 40
years of age and “barristers or
Solicitors in good standing, male
white and Christian.” ‘

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