_B.C. LUMBER WORKER 11 THREE WOMEN active in Canadian affairs took part in the 12th National CCF Convention in Toronto. Left to right: Mme. Therese Casgrain, Quebec, national vice-president; Mrs. Gladys Cooper, M.L.A., Regina, and Mrs. Laura Jamieson, Vancouver. 7 “XKroll TWA Keynoter The man widely blamed for preventing Vice-president Alben W. Barkley from becoming the Democratic party’s presidential candidate this fall will be a headline speaker at the 16th annual convention of the International Wood- workers of America (CIO-CCL) to be in Portland, Sep- tember 15-19. He is Jack Kroll, successor to the late Sidney Hillman as direc- tor of the CIO’s political action committee who has been a union member since he was 18 years old in 1903. Kroll was one of several labor leaders at the recent Democratic convention at Chicago who in- formed the T4-year-old “Veep” that despite his support of labor and labor’s support of him for many years, labor could not back him as a presidential candidate ahead of other liberal and young- er men such as Senator Kefauver and Governor Stevenson. Labor's declared reason for this ‘was because Barkley was being adyvanced—without his knowledge —by a coalition of “Dixiecrats’” and party machine men headed by James Farley. Neither faction has labor’s support. Kroll, born in London in 1885, entered the tailoring trade at age 15 after immigrating to this country with his parents. He took part in the ill-fated tailors’ , strike of 1904-05 at Rochester, N.Y., and was blacklisted by em- ployers. He had to take an as- sumed name and go to Chicago in order to get another job. In 1910, Kroll helped Sidney Hillman conduct a strike of 40,- 000 garment workers against Hart, Schaffner & Marx and later aided in the formation of the amalgamated clothing workers who broke away from the united rment workers. Today the CW-CIO has a membership of 850,000. Kroll was an organizer and troubleshooter for the union from 1919 to 1926, then became man- ager of the union’s Cincinnati (headquarters) joint board, was elected vice-president in 1928, president of the Ohio CIO council in 1939 and: chairman of CIO’s PAC in 1946. ClO TEXTILE WINS FIGHT TORONTO —The treacherous attempt by Sam Baron and Jack Robinson, defeated office-seekers, to lead Canadian members of the Textile Workers Union of Ameri- ea, (CCL-CIO) into the UTW/ AFL has virtually collapsed. Early reports of widespread secession from TWUA, issued by the dual-unionists in an attempt to stampede the workers, were quickly quashed as expressions of loyalty to the union came from practically every area of Canada. The failing secession move in the Canadian section of TWUA is confined to the Hamilton area. No other part of the union is affected. Without exception the Greater Cornwall Joint Board, Greater Toronto Joint Board, Greater Montreal Joint Board, Trent Val- ley Area Joint Board, Greater London Joint Board, and local unions in the Maritimes, Ottawa Valley area and Saskatchewan, quickly expressed their desire and determination to remain in: the Union. . PRIZE WINNERS Following is is the list of winners at the 8rd Annual Picnic of Local 1-217, IWA, Confederation Park, Saturday, August 9, bak contestants received candy. First 2 races—Girls up to 5 years, and Boys up to 5 years—All GIRLS—6-8—Beverly Bryce, Judy Bryer, Joan Putz. BOYS—6-8—Raymond Hansen, Freddy Bower, David West. GIRLS—9-11—Mavis Vogt, Marilyn Haggart, Jacqueline Miller. BOYS+9-11—Chuekie Heath, Louis Brown, Grant Stevens, GIRLS—12-14—Sandra Thomson, Kay White, Leone Michaud. BOYS—12-14—KEdward West, Ken Rystad, Dan Dunn. Doreen Fletcher. Haggart, Doris Howard. Busch, " GIRLS—15-21 (Cup) — Mrs. Sheila Metcalf, Laurie Michaud, S Georgina Shewchuck, aha (Cup) — Vineent Forsberg, Allan Fulljames, Jerry ue SENIOR LADIES—Over 21 (Cup)—Betty Ross, Mrs. Doris Howard, ‘MARRIED WOMEN — Over 21 (Cup) — Doreen Fleteher, Myrtle [OR MEN (Cup)—John Goodman, Leslie Arnold, Ken Mansfield, N—Over 40 (Cup)—Art Shure, Robt. Mitchell, Ewen McDougall. WOMEN’S RACE — Myrtle Haggart, Kay ‘Wood, ‘Sick List | Lourdes Hospital Brother B. Wilson of Local 1- 363, TWA, visited the Lourdes Hos- dital in Campbell River distribut- ing cigarettes and chocolate bars to the following: Art Norek, choker on Cat., Jackson Logging Co., Jackson Bay—Cut end off index finger. Doing fine, ‘Vm. Summer, wood puller, Beech- er Lake Lumber Co., Campbell River—Ulcerated stomach, Get- ting better. Brother B. Wilson of Local 1- 363, IWA, visited the Lourdes Hospital in Campbell River dis- tributing cigarettes and chocolate bars to the following: William Roger, carpenter, Salmon River Logging Co.—Feli, strain- ing muscles in leg. Improving. John Owen, faller, B.C. Forest Pro- ducts, Pért Renfrew — In for stomach X-rays. Doing okay. Art Clayton, Cat. operator, C.M. Logging Co. Cortez Isiand— Slipped and fell, breaking cartil- edge in knee. Doing okay. B.A. Melville, booman, Camp 1, ‘Menzies Bay, Uleerated stomach. Doing okay. US. INDEX HITS HIGH WASHINGTON (LPA) — The cost of living hit a new all-time high in mid-June, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced, July 24, A record level for net work- ing capital of US corporations was disclosed by the Securities and Exchange Commission the day before, up $1.5 billion in the first three months of 1952 to $84.1 nm. In addition the cor- porations invested $5.1 billion in plant and equipment, with more than three-fifths financed out of undivided profits and deprecia- tion accruals. Who’s Who In CCF TORONTO (CPA) — Here’s a who’s who of the CCF National Council, up to date following the recent Toronto Convention: National President: M. J. Coldwell, M.P. National Chairman: Percy Wright, M.P. National Vice-Chairmen: Da- vid Lewis and Therese Cas- grain. National Secretary: Lorne Ingle. National Treasurer and Na- Donald C. tional Organizer: MacDonald. Executive members: (elected by the Council folowing the Con- vention) — Andrew Brewin, Bill Dodge, Stanley Knowles, Morden Lazarus, Grace MacInnis, Henry Weisbach, Council Members elected from the floor of the national conven- tion: Hazen Argue, Carl Hamil- ton, William Irvine, Roy Knight, Florence Welton. Council Members from Prov- inces: Nova Scotia: Russel Cun- ningham, Clarence Gillis, Allan O’Brien. P.E.L.: Doug MacFarlane, W. Kells, Mrs. Hilda Ramsay. New Brunswick. Percy Mit- ton, Claude Milton, Laurie Bright. Quebec: Georges St. Amour, Cy Durocher. Ontario: E. B. Jolliffe, Ted Isley, Mary Ramsay. Manitoba: Gordon Fines, Eugena Moore, M. A. Gray. Saskatchewan: T. C. Doug- las, Carlyle King, Ed McCul- lough, Roger Carter, Alberta: Elmer Roper, Bob Carlyle, Ernie Cook, Joe Peter- son. British Columbia: Harold Winch, Joe Corsbie, Tom Als- bury, Mrs. Jessie Mendels, LOGGERS ATTENTION! Ack for Speed-Sew at Your Commissary MENDS SOX, JEANS, BONE DRYS in 30 SECONDS Giant Size Tube Mends: at Least 50 Pairs of Socks 75¢ Plus Tax Universal Enterprises Head Office: 228 Rogers Bldg. Vancouver, Re. CCL-PAC Sparks Action Program The Canadian trade union movement and the CCF de- veloped a program of effective cooperation at the CCF National Convention, Toronto, August 6-7-8, it was re- ported by J. Squire, M.L.A.-elect, who attended as a dele- gate from the riding, of Com: ox-Alberni. Two active CCL unionists, Henry Weisbach and Bill Dodge, were elected to the CCF National Executive. Problems of working together were discussed freely and frankly at a pre-convention meeting of trade union representatives and CCF National Council members; trade unionists were active in the course’ of the convention; and a new drive to secure affiliate and individual membership for the CCF among trade unionists was announced by CCF National Or- ganizer Donald C. MacDonald. To head up the new CCF-Trade Union drive, which will include both TLC and CCL unionists in its efforts, the newly elected CCF Council, meeting immediately after the convention, named Ar- thur Schultz, United Automobile Workers Political Action Direc- tor, as chairman of a revitalized CCF Trade Union Committee. Henry Weisbach, CCL-PAC Executive Secretary, will be Sec- retary of the CCF committee, while Angus MacInnis, M.P., will act as vice-chairman. Principles Supported “We support the COF not because of its promises or be- cause of the legislative program it will enact but because we be- lieve in the principles of the CCF,” Henry Weisbach told the pre-convention CCF-Trade union meet, first of its kind on a na- tional scale. ¢ He felt there was every reason to believe that CCF-union co- operation could be fruitful pro- viding both parties were patient, realized that trade-union CCFers like other workers had to do a long-term educational job which could not be hurried. “We are winning the battle vight now in the trade union movement,” he said. “We are making progress slowly in per- suading more union members to support the CCF. It might not show itself in one election or two elections, but it will show itself in the end.” Labor Leaders Among trade unionists promi- nent in convention activities were Fred Dowling, Canadian Director of the CCL Packinghouse Work- ers who chaired. the pre-conven- tion meeting, Bill Dodge of the CBRE, who acted as chairman of the convention resolutions committee, Doug Hamilton of the TLC Federal Labor Unions in Toronto, Don Swailes, M.L.A. of the TLC, Donald MacDonald, Secretary-Treasurer of the CCL and many others, Weisbach and Dodge were elected to the CCF National Council from the floor of the Convention and both were subse- quently named to the party’s na- tional executive, A little boy, caught in mischief, was asked by his mother: “How do you expect to get to Heaven?” He thought a minute and then | said: “Well, Ill just run in and out and in and out and keep slam- | ming the door till they say, ‘For | Heaven's sake, Jerry, come in or} stay out,’ Then I'll go in.” 1 Art Gets B.A. Stand Popular IWA member and bookkeeper of Local 1-217 office, Art MacDougall, has gone into business for himself, Art, bookkeeper in the Vancou- ver Local for over 344 years, re- cently accepted an offer from the British American Oil Co. to op- erate a gas station at Cambie and Marine Drive, Vancouver. The garage business not new to Art, who operated a garage on his return from overseas, in Nova Scotia, until coming west, and going to work in the woodwork- ing industry. Art hopes to see many of his Union friends drop in for some first-class service. Brother Mac- Dougall’s smart new station is opened from 7:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., as’ a special service for afternoon shifters on the way home from work.” Members of Local 1-217 are sorry to see Art go, but wish him all success in his new ad- venture, 4 ‘ G. MITCHELL VLC CHOICE District Sec.-Treasurer George Mitchell will be one of two delegates represent- ing the Greater Vancouver and Lower Mainland Labor Council at the approaching convention of the Canadian Congress of Labor. Election of delegates held at the Council meeting on August 12 gave handsome majorities to George Mitchell and Jim Bury, Secretary of the Council. a fst AID SUPPLIES PROMPT ATTENTION To MAIL ORDERS Se KNOWLTONS DRUGS 16 EAST HASTINGS ST, VANCOUVER, B.C. oe ©). 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