B.C. LUMBER WORKER

CELEBRATION

CARL WINN, IWA International Secretary-Treasurer, speaking at the Banquet and Dance, held by

Local 1-85, IW.

in the Rosebank Cabaret, March 21st, in Port Alberni. From left to right:

John Squire, MLA, and Ist Vice-President, Local 1-85, IWA; Dan Radford, Regional Director

of the Canadian Congress of Labor and President of the B.C. Federation of Labor
International Secretary-Treasurer of the IWA; Walter Allen, President, Local 1-85, LW.

Carl Winn,
; Mrs. Wal-

ter Allen; Mrs. J. Moore; Jack Moore, Financial-Secretary, Local 1-85, IWA. Seated in foreground

is Tara Singh, 3rd Vice-President.
Others present included: Mr.

Mrs. George Mitchell, Secretary-Treasurer, B.C. Di

of Local 1-85, IWA

and Mrs. Stewart bury, Presid

lent, B.C. District No. 1; Mr.-and

rict No, 1; Neil Shaw, Financial Secretary,

Local 1-367, Haney; Jo¢ Miyazawa, Regional Director, IWA; J, Hieneman, President, Alberni Dis-

trict Joint Labor Council; Tom Turner, Secretary,

‘ict

Alberni Dis!

Eddie, Recording Secretary, New Westminster Local.

Joint Labor Council; and Rae

LC.F.T.U. LIVES
UP TO FAITH

The 30 trade unionists who were making history sat | although it was promised over a/

and listened with rapt atten

tion. “This is a memorable

day in the life of the free trade union movement of Asia

and of the world,” said the s:

rests a heavy burden. May you live up to the faith which |

speaker. ‘‘On your shoulders

your fellow-workers have placed in you.”

The speaker was J. H. Olden-
broek, General Secretary of the
International Confederation of
Free Trade Unions. His audience,
the first group of students to at-
tend the ICFTU’s Asian Trade-
Union College. The place w:
Caleutta, one of the most import-
ant industrial cities of India; the
oceasion, the official opening of
the college

Leaders in Training |

The students came from the |
plantations, the mines, the mills, |
the railways, docks and industries |
of half a dozen different Asiatic |
countries. Some of them, you
may be sure, are destined to lead |
the free-trade-union movement of
a vast continent. |

‘And there can be no doubt that |
they were all keenly: aware of
their yesponsibilities. Workers |
throughout, the world had been
called upon for funds to support
the new college to provide the
wherewithal to finance the stu-
dents’ training. The response was |
a tribute to international work-
ing-class solidarity—to the trade-
union principle of the strong|
helping the weak, And the stu-|
dents knew it.

A Major Undertaking

This was no small undertaking.
It was the start of a permanent,
all-year-round training program
for free trade unionists in Asia

Each worker will get three-
months’ course in trade unionism.

His food and board will be paid
for and so will the cost of his
transportation to Caleutta and
return.

Other costs will also have to be
met: for school buildings and
their maintenance, to begin with,
Full-time teachers, secretaries, !

cooks, janitors, a librarian, a di-
rector of the school will have to
be paid for. Books, stationer,
office supplies, furniture and ki
chen equipment are important
cost items.

But the college is established.
It’s small, to be sure, but a col-
lege nonetheless; run by trade
unionists for trade unionists and

financed only with trade-union |

funds.

Practical Curriculum

The course of studies was de-
signed to meet trade-union needs
and geared to the practical job
of strengthening the organization
of workers in Asia, A brief out-
line of courses will show what the
student will get in his three
months at the new college.

Twenty-six hours of lectures
in organizing and developing a
trade union. This includes orga-
nizing campaign techniques,
duties of local union officers,
union finances, and so on.

Thirty-four hours on collective
bargaining and shop practice, in-
cluding grievance procedure, ne-
gotiations contracts, arbitration,
strike techniques, shop stewards’
duties, ?

Thirty hours on labor and
trade-union law, covering legal
status of unions, presentation of
cases before boards, strike regu-
lations, wage and hour laws, fac-
tory inspection laws, and so on.

New Outlook

A series of workshops in which
students can specialize in public
speaking, publications and pub-
licity, union accounting, educa-
tion and recreation and co-
operatives.

There will also be courses de-

| signed to prepare workers for
[leadership in a broader field. The

Canadian Congress of Labor has
| promised to contribute $50,000 to-
|wards the financing of ICFTU
| projects such as the Asian Train-
jing College. Less than half this
| amount has been collected so far,

lyear ago. Of the amount the
| CCL has raised so far, the Steel-
| workers gave two-thirds.

This is the kind of program
jwhich we, in Canada, could be
|proud of. It is a program of
|which the ICFTU is proud, and
| rightly so.

UK Labor

|

Sets New

High

Trade union members affiliated
ts the British Labor Party now
number more than 5,000,000 for
the first time in the »: his-
tory. National. Secretary Morgan
Phillips announced recently.

Mr. Phillips also stated that a
membership tally would show
that the party has now more than
1,000,000 individual local party
members,

Ca eae

The National Executive of the
British Labor Party has an-
nounced that it will publish a
new weekly newspaper in the
near future.

Labor Party members are won-
dering if this will hit the inde-
pendent Socialist weeklies. They
say that whether it will hold its
own, in this highly competitive
field, without a subsidy from
party funds, will depend on the
quality of the new paper.

“Forward”, the famous Glas-
gow Socialist weekly, has recent-
ly revived its London edition
which had not been published
since before World War II. Its
re-entry into the metropolis has
provided keen competition for
London News, official monthly of
the London Labor Party,

LOGGERS’.
ORGANIZER
RESIGNS

Resignation of Jim Mac-
Farlan froni the post of or-
ganizer on the staff of Local
1-71, IWA, for health reasons,
was announced this week by
the officers of the Local Union.

After a year’s service in orga-
nization activities throughout the
Coast logging camps, he was
compelled to inform the Union
that his health would not permit
him to continue.

His resignation was thereupon
accepted with regret.

The resignation of Jim Mac-
Farlan, it was stated, removes
from the Union's organization
activities one of those who pio-
neered the early stages of IWA
activity in logging camps, and |

Jim MacFarlan

who had gained an_ intimate
knowledge of the loggers’ prob-
lems through many years’ ex-
perience, in numerous operations.

His numerous friends in the
industry have extended to him
their good wishes for a speedy
return of good health.

CO-OPS
$685 MI

EDMONTON (CPA) — The

Life Insurance Company.

|
|W. Breen Melvin, for several
| years CUC assistant secretary,
| was named National Secretary to
| succeed the late A. B. MacDon-
| ald. Since the death of Mr. Mac-
| Donald last year, after nine years
|as CUC National Secretary, Mr.
| Melvin had been the acting-Sec-

| retary. |

| Credit Unions |
|

| The’ Congress was informed
that a Co-operative Trust Com-
| pany had been set up in Saskat-
chewan which would be limited
| to co-operatives of all types in-
| cluding Credit Unions. The Trust
| Company, sponsored by the CUC,
| is organized on a national basis
| and will supply funds for loans
on a long-term basis. Its activi-
ties will “include the administra-

TOTAL
LLION

44th annual congress of the” Co-

| operative Union of Canada made’CUC history early this month when
R. G. Staples of Toronto was elected first full-time President. Mr.
Staples recently resigned as Ontario Manager of the Co-operative

tion of estates. This venture will
aim at the application of the prin-
ciples of co-operation to the field
of trust companies,

A, H. Turner, Secretary of the
Agricultural Prices Support
Board, Ottawa, gave details of
the co-operative associations af-
filiated to the CUC. He reported
822 member associations with a
membership of more than 825,-
000 affiliated with the Union last
year. Member associations in-
cluded both marketing and mer-
chandising co-operatives. Total
business transacted by the asso-
ciations during 1952 exceeded
$685 million, an increase of more
than $130 million over the pre-
vious year.

Attend Your Union Meetings

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