ws ; : B.C. LUMBER WORKER

"July 2; 1953

PROTESTS
ET CRUELTY

Views freely. expressed by prominent IWA members in
it weeks, and endorsed by the Vancouver Labor Coun-
‘were voiced when in joint representations, the Cana-

‘Congress of Labor and the Trades & Labor Council
ed to the Soviet Charge d’Affaires, Ottawa, the use

of gums and tanks against striking workers in Hast

WILLIAMS

Presidents A, R. Mosher and
Perey R. Bengough stated:

“Our Congresses deplore the
use of Soviet guns and tanks

against workers exercising
their centuries-old right to
strike as free men. We are
aghast at the executions of
workers before Soviet firing
squads and the inhumane hold-
ing, as hostages, of the wives
and children of striking work-
ers with threat of reprisals
against these innocent vic-
tims.”

The resolution of the Labor

Council, which was supported by

IWA delegates, stated:

WHEREAS: Reports from Berlin
reveal that a general strike is
taking place against the puppet
rulers of East Germany based
on the workers’ needs for bet-
ter wages, homes and security,
and,

WHEREAS: The Communist
Government of East Germany
has established Martial Law
and is using the armed forces
‘and tanks of the Soviet Union
to suppress this workers’ re-
volt, and

WHEREAS; The working class
of the world persistently op-
pose such actions, whether-they
take place in Louiseville, Vene-
zuela, or Berlin,

THEREFORE

BE IT RESOLVED: That we
condemn the policy of the Com-

__munist puppet government in

East Germany for allowing
conditions of workers to reach
such a level where without a
free trade union movement and
free political action open revolt
is the only recourse to justice,
and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED:
That we appreciate and respect
the courage and the spirit
shown by German workers who
have exposed to the entire
world the oppression and the
false front of the Communist
poliey, and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED:
That we scek support for this
resolution from the National
Office of the Canadian Con-
gress of Labor and suggest
that this be given to the Con-
gress delegates to the coming
convention of the International
Confederation of Free Trade
Unions in Stockholm.

In the window of a New York
Turkish Bath is a sign: “We
Make Young Colts Out of Old
45's.”

AWARDED
NEW POST

OTTAWA — Jack Williams,
publicity director of the Cana-—
dian Congress of Labor, has
been appointed to a similar po-
sition with the Canadian sec+
tion of the United Steelworkers
of America (CIO-CCL).

A former newspaperman,
Mr. Williams has held the CCL
publicity post since 1946 and
will take up his new duties in
Toronto on July 15.

Murray Cotterill, who. was
formerly USWA publicity di-
rector, is now the western Ca-
nada representative of C. H.
Millard, the Steelworkers’ Ca-

nadian director.

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

These are two of the

or favorite dealer.

LOOK

FOR THE JONEER,
NAME 7 BRAND

Sj

FOR WORK CLOTHING
OF
UNSTINTED MATERIALS

Notice the four large pockets in front, and the large

feature of both mackinaw and kersey garments.
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. a

many designs of “Pioneer

DESIGN and
WORKMANSHIP

Mutual Aid Pact
Upsets Employers

OTTAWA

staff representative to organize

— The recent appointment, by the United Steel-
workers, of Kenneth Stirling, a Jamaican trade uniow offici

, as
and assist Jamaican unionists,

has got big business interests in Canada very worried.

Following the recent visit of |"

G. H. Millard to Jamaica, USWA
sent $1,500 to-assist-striking Ja-
maican bauxite workers of Mr.
Stirling’s union, the National
Workers’ Union of Jamaica. The
strike, for an increase from the
present rate of 19 cents an hour
to 56 cents an hour, has been

ended and the dispute submitted

to arbitration.

Post’ Analyzes

The Financial Post analyzes |}

the appointment as a measure “to
restrict any move by importers to
buy in lower labor-market coun-
tries. Steel officials fear that
such a move could weaken their
own union structure if workers
here and in the U.S. were laid
off.”

In an additional editorial on
the subject, The Post goes even
further and hints at a world-
wide plot by the Steelworkers.
It says, “And this isn’t going to
be an isolated case. It’s no secret
that this is the first of many
moves by the union designed to
control any plant in any part of
the world supplying the Canadian

and U.S. industrial scene.”

July 10th,

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KEN STIRLING,

recently ap-
pointed to the Steelworkers’ staff,

will attempt to organize the
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VIEW OUR
WAGE RATES

From Wall Street Journal,
June 25, 1953

“East Coast Invasion—So this
year, B.C. lumber has been ar-
yiving by boat on the U.S. At-
lantic seaboard in unprecedented
piles. In the first four months of
this year, Canadians shipped
about 183.2 million feet, compar-
ed with only 2.7 million exported
to that market a year earlier.
While mills in the Pacific Coast
states still had a lion’s share of
that market, sending nearly 380.6
million feet eastward by water in
the first four months, a 34% in-
erease over last year.

“Complains one big producer
doing business with the East
Coast: ‘The Canadians will dollar
you to death, The Canadians
often set the price. If not, they’re
always a dollar or two under us.
They can do it; their wage costs
are more than 30 cents an hour

below ours’.”

OTTAWA — Although the
number of Canadians looking
for work at May 14 had drop- ,
ped by about 35 percent from
a month earlier, ‘more than
one person in every 22 of the
total labor force had an appli-
cation for employment on hand
at National Employment Of-
fices at that date.

The Department of Labor has
announced that there were 242,-
003: applications -for employment
on hand at employment offices on
May 14. This is a drop of 35 per-

JOBLESS INCREASE

cent from the 372,520 applica-
tions at April 16 and slightly
lower than the figure: for May
15, 1952, when application to-
talled 261,159.

Quebec Highest

The largest number of appli-
cations were from the Quebec
region which accounted for 92,-
118, followed by the Ontario re-
gion with 53,297, the Atlantic
region awith~96,409, the Pacific
region with 29,578, and Prairie
region with 28,601 applications.

See for yourself—today.

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