B.C. LUMBER WORKER July 17, 1952

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“WE KNOW THE CULPRITS”

‘THE strike situation in which the IWA is involved was the in-
evyitable outcome of decisions reached behind closed doors by

» the shots”.

ers of the prov-
ince consulted
earlier in the |
year and deter-
mined that this
was the year
when they would &
“give the trade unions a shel-
lacking”.

Conciliation Blocked

If any confirmation of this
agreement was required, it was
found in the attitude of the em-

loyers toward conciliation

joards, More than ever before,
our trade unions were forced into
conciliation, only to find that they
‘were confronted with a stiffened
opposition from the employers,
inspired from behind the scenes.

It_was soon obvious that in a
number of our key industries the
larger employers were “calling
Settlements in the
making were broken off, because
of the fears of the small employ-
ers that they would be penalized
in one way or another by the
large corporations who were dic-
tating policy. i

Collusion Evident

In those series of conciliation
boards which dealt with firms in
the same industry, there was an
open exchange of information, a
common pretext for denial of
trade union claims, and a uniform
policy for no wage increases.

Not only the IWA experienced
the complete futility of bargain-
ing and conciliation, which was
dominated from the outset by the
employers, and offered no oppor-
tunity for fair and objective con-
sideration of labor’s claims.

In this organized activity of
the employers, plus the subservi-
ence of the Labor Relations

sharing of the fruits of produc-
tion.
The Remedy

Organized labor has been at
great pains to describe the rem-
edy. It is genuine bargaining,
genuine conciliation, and genuine
advancement of living standards
in a manner compatible with the
expanding productive capacity of
the province.

Those who lament the devas-
tating effects of strikes in the
productive effort of the province
should look in the right quarters
for the true culprits. They should
also remember that serious as the
effects of strikes may be, still
more serious would be the devas-
tation in the lives of the workers
which the employers brutally and
callously planned to accomplish

Illustrated is the Cruiser’s
Stag of pure virgin wool
in mackinaw or kersey.
Mackinaw plaids are
either red and black;
green and black, or blue
and black.

pack pocket in back, which

or favorite dealer.

Notice the four large pockets in front, and the large

feature of both mackinaw and kersey garments.

These are two of the many designs of’ “Pioneer
Brand” clothing obtainable from your commissary

Made in Vancouver, B.C., by Jones Tent & Awning
Ltd., they are designed through careful study of the
needs and desires of B.C. workmen.

opens at both sides.:.a

this year.

Ont. IWA Meet
Records Growth

Justice is a one-way street for employers, H. Landon
Ladd, Director for Eastern Canada of the International
Woodworkers of America, stated in his report to the
fourth annual convention of the Eastern Canadian Area
of the IWA in the Royal York Hotel, Toronto. A. F. Har-
tung, International President, attended all sessions and
met for the first time many of the 55 delegates,-represent-
ing 5,000 IWA members in Ontario and Quebec.

Dismissals for union activity
and contract delays that come
within the law were condemned

by Ladd, who is also president of
the Bastérn Canadian Area, IWA.

members on the job assisting
with organization and reviewed
the early development of the
IWA in Eastern Canada.

“This amounts to utter contempt
for what might be termed as ‘na-
tural ‘justice’ for the working
people,” he said.
B.C. Strike

International President Har-
tung reported on the B.C. strike
of Woodworkers and pointed out
that half of the lumber industry
in B.C. was owned by U.S. op-
| erators, who had just agreed to a
18%4-cent-an-hour package in-
crease for IWA members on the
Pacific Coast of the States.

Challenge
“We cannot afford to ignore the

challenge being thrown at us by
organized big business,” Hartung

Board to the employers, we find
the real reason for a spreading
and intensifying strike situation
throughout the province.

Crisis Looms

We face an industrial crisis
when we find more than fifty
thousand workers involved in one
way or another with strike ac-
tivity.

By no stretch of the imagina-
tion can this be attributed to the
reckless conduct of trade union
officers.

ese
Steel Fights On

Contract Goals

The 40-hour week, with the
same take-home pay, plus pay for
all statutory holidays and sub-
stantial wage increases were the
major contract goals approved by
the delegates. On Unemployment
Insurance they endorsed a re-
quest for a further reduction of
the waiting period and higher
benefits.

In a strongly worded resolution
the convention condemned the
Liberal Government for stalling
on Health Insurance. In the pro-
vincial field reduction of the wait-
ing period for conciliation ser-
vices to 15 days and labor partici-
pation in safety inspections and

Though 85 steel companies had
already signed with the CIO
Steelworkers on WSB terms, it
cluding the union shop, the “big
six” and their medium-sized sa-
tellites held out adamantly in the
week of June 30 - July 3. By
week's end, even the Senate pass-
ed_a resolution asking for bar-
gaining.

said. Unless unions also fight on
the legislative front, they could
lose years of gains in Parliament
and Congress. “We cannot afford
to ignore political action,” he
stated.

Alex. McAuslane, Canadian di-
rector of the Oil Workers, also
addressed the convention briefly.

programs were demanded.

Elections
H. Landon Ladd and Earl R.
Patterson were returned by ac-
clamation to the offices of presi-
dent and secretary - treasurer.
Gaston Bonin and Felix Eggiman
were nominated for first vice-

He stressed the importance of |President; Tim Cooper and Carl

‘Wilken for second vice-president;

Publicetion date of the next issue of the B.C. LUMBER WORKER
is July 31. Deadline for ad copy is June 25 and for news copy

June 26,

and Fred Cook and Herb Murdoch
for trustee.

B.C. Scale

Timber scaled in British

President

Ist Vice-President
2nd Vice- dent
3rd Vice- ident

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Columbia for the first four
months of 1952 totalled 1,-
490,580,766 feet, compared to
1,186,483,139 feet in the same
period in 1951, according to
the Department of Lands &
Forests.

Total for April, 1952, was
428,842,738 compared to 379,-
574,548 in 1951.

Ey districts, the scale in
April was as follows, with
last year’s totals in brackets.

Vancouver; 281,679,490
(252,531,569) ; Prince Rupert,
(Coast), 13,545,551 (18,695,-
311; Prince Rupert (inter-
ior), 19,689,327 (14,613,964) ;
Fort George, 65,038,096 (51,-
100,687); Kamloops, 30,828,-
402 (25,315,864) ; and Nelson,
18,061,872 (17,317,153).

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cnoneeemnenine JOC MOFTIS
» Stuart M, Hodgson

wewnen Bred Feber
George H. Mitchell
—- William N, Gray

U.S. Department of Labor fi-
gures for ’61 offer some straight
into morals in business, 2 matter
sometimes neglected by the pub-
lie press. These are the statistics
of investigations by the agency
charged with enforcing the mini-
mum wage law and laws govern-
ing overtime and child labor.

Forty-four percent of all em-
ployers investigated in 1951 were
found to be cheating on overtime

$7 MILLION SWINDLE

pay; 19 percent were found in
violation of minimum wage regu-
lations. Nine percent were
caught violating child labor laws.

All told, 14,000 employers.

cheated 95,000’ workers out of
nearly $7,000,000. Those were the
ones who were caught.

We couldn’t find any editorials
condemning these chiseling busi-
nessmen, Wonder why?

See for yourself—today.

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Bank of Commerce in
British Columbia. Get
some Banking by Mail
forms before you leave
town, or write for a sup-
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of the Commerce.

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the employers of British Columbia. The pattern of provocation E
- was evident to me for many months in advance as an officer of the FOR WORK CLOTHING

Greater Vancouver and Lower Mainland Labor Council when the OF

reports of the various unions came before the Council. is
pobt hag, now “| ea UNSTINTED MATERIALS
Pape cclieh ie | the denial of simple justice in the DESIGN and

lemand for progress in labor-
Dae teins iS | |management relations and the WORKMANSHIP