EDITORIAL
‘Ware Saboteurs

RELATIONS between CCL and TLO Unions in this

province have become so strained by recent unfortu-
nate incidents, that both labor bodies must reach some
sensible working agreement to avoid betrayal of, the
workers’ interests into the hands of the organized em-
ployers.

Indeed, all unions must be on their guard to crush any
employer-organized attempt to sabotage unionism from
within, by opportunists, who will collaborate with anti-
labor employers for their own benefit to the disadvantage
of the workers. :

Both AFL and CIO leaders at the international level
realize the danger and have encouraged “peace talks”
falsely described in the daily press as “merger talks”.

Bitter experience has taught them how the employers
expertly benefit by jurisdictional clashes, when negotia-
tions are pending.

In this province, the Labor Councils, both TLC and
CCL, have made an effort to promote agreements in
avoidance of clashes on the labor front likely to be dis-
astrous to the workers.

No one dare gainsay the fact that the rank and file
members in all responsible unions are heartily disgusted
with any breach of sound trade union ethics, and desire
cooperation for a common purpose.

The responsibility for unseemly clashes in British
Columbia at present rests with a few TLC staff officials
who have with misdirected zeal attempted to bolster
their personal careers by invasion of jurisdictional areas
where CCL unions can better serve.

IWA-certified plants are those where organization
logically should be promoted on an industrial basis, to
maintain the maximum bargaining strength for all the
workers. ‘There is no recognized principle of trade union-
ism which justifies the sniping to which the IWA is con-
stantly exposed by craft unions seeking to divide an
already established bargaining unity.

The greater the effort expended in this direction, the
less the energy expended in organizing the unorganized.

When the IWA made careful preparation to defeat
the anti-labor designs of one of the worst employers
known in the Interior, how can an AFL representative
justify his collusion with that employer to prevent the
negotiation of an agreement on terms established by the
IWA in the area after bitter struggle.

The developments in the struggle at the Penticton
Sawmills should be followed with care by all those who
seek the progress of trade unionism.

The use of blanket certifications granted AFL unions
by the Labor Relations Board to obliterate the bargaining
rights approved by workers in the individual units is
a negation of justice.

The alarming feature found throughout the whole
series of clashes is that the influence of the authorities
and the employers is thrown on the side of the invading
union.

The result to be expected is the result intended by the
employers — the deterioration of wage standards and
working conditions.

Our Conventions

attention of IWA members in British Columbia is
now turning toward two conventions in which they
will share responsibility with their fellow-workers in

making decisions of direct bearing on the welfare of -

IWA members.
~The IWA International Conyention to be held in Van-
couver will be an occasion on which the British Columbia
woodworkers will act as hosts to their brothers from
elsewhere on the continent.

Already IWA Local Unions are preparing to send
their full quota of delegates. It is also realized that it is
not too early to give thought to the issues which will be
under consideration.

It is not improper to remind members in District 1,
that the largest District should exercise an influence on
convention decisions in ratio to its strength and growth.

It is important to remember that the IWA Interna-
tional Convention is a channel through which IWA mem-

_ bers may express their views on world issues. The IWA
is an integral part of the ClO, which in turn forms a
mainstay of the ICFTU.

The question of world peace at this time cannot be

- ignored in view of the Korean truce. CIO leaders have

called for an all-out war against the poverty found in the

undeveloped countries from which springs all threat of
future wars. ‘

In Canada, IWA members will also have an important
part to play in shaping labor's policies on the national
field at the forthcoming convention of the Canadian
Congress of Labor.

Both conventions represent democracy in action,
Trade union democracy will achieve for trade union mem-
pers exactly what the individual trade union members
invest by way of thought and effort in the shaping of
their own decisions on these matters. ‘s

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Let's WHACK THI
BIG ONE DOWN

IT SHOULDN'T
BE HERE

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“A WELL-FED
LOGGER IS
CONTENTED”

The Editor:

It has been, in the last few
years, quite a common practice
in many logging camps to cut
down on the amount and variety
of the food. Substitutes such as
margarine instead of butter are
passed in a lot of the camps.

The argument that the cost of
living is too high for the opera-
tors to allow better and more
food is as much an argument for
the worker who pays $69.75
board bill for a 31-day month
and at the basic rate of $1.50 per
hour it takes a full 1% weeks
work to pay for lodging, plus tax
on same.

It is not that the average work-
er in the logging industry con-
sumes more food just for the
glory of it. The work is very
hard and the length of time be-
tween meals is very long, too.
The hills he has to climb are
getting steeper and travelling
time to work is getting longer.

Good Food Essential

Not to be prejudiced or biased
it only stands to reason that a
well-fed logger is a contended
logger who will return more and
better work. A.farmer who
wants good work from tractor or
horses knows full well, to expect
good work, he must use good
fuel and good food.

To say that margarine is a
pure food is-not true, I have
made a test with cats and dogs
to find out which they prefer,
butter or margarine. I have
found out they will clean up the
butter and leave the margarine
when they are put out, side by
side.

An expert who for many years
served with the Provincial Gov-
ernment Department of Health &
Welfare in B.C., has piit out a
booklet called “Don’t eat that—it
may be poisonous”. This book
leaves no room for argument that

margarine is detrimental to the
health,

Poor Policy

It’s a poor policy on the part
of the operators to try and in-
erease their production by cut-
ting the amount and quality of
food to their men. Logging camps
should be graded A, B, or C so
the loggers could tell before they
go there what kind of treatment
they could expect and bypass the
poorer ones if they wanted to,

Jerome Hajek,
Camp 5, Bloedel, B.C.

“EVERYTHING
IS Al AT
AERO CAMP”

The Editor:

It has been some time since
there was any sort of report from
this operation. This is due to the
summer holiday season and the
large turnover in men. We have
not had a regular meeting lately
due to the above-mentioned fact
but intend haying one in the very
near future,

Brother Frank Howard was in
camp here for the last two days
and gave us a hand in getting a
few things straightened out. We
also held a Job Stewards’ meet-
ing while he was here and had a
yery fine discussion as to how
the camp could be organized to
a higher standard.

Going Up.

There are approximately 95
men on the check-off which
makes this camp about eighty-
five percent Union. We hope to
bring this percentage up before
too long. z

This operation was on early
shift for a while and we are all
hoping that the damp weather
continues so we won’t have to go
back to the early shift again.

There is very little else to re-
port except everyone here is very

anxious to hear what happens to
the conciliation award, which

Readers
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feeling we expect is general
throughout the industry,

Hoping for future success in
our Union,

Eddie Cottrell,
Camp Secretary,
Aero Camp, Q.C.I.

STRIKE
LOSSES
REDUCED

OTTAWA (CPA)—The time
lost through strikes and lock-
outs during June this year was
less than one-tenth of the time
Jost in the same month in 1952.
However, the time loss in June,
1958, was up from the total
for May, the Department of
Labor has announced.

There were 31 strikes and lock-
outs in existence during June,
1958, involving 6,452 workers for
a total time loss of 57,346 man-
working days, In June, 1952,
there were 42 strikes and lock-
outs involving 59,706 workers for
a time loss of 717,846 days.

More than half the time loss
during June, 1958, was caused by
six work stoppages. They were
British Columbia fishermen, shoe
factory workers at Preston, Ont.,
flour mill workers at Peter-
borough, Ont., and Saskatoon,

yarns and carpet factory work-~

ers at Guelph, Ont., Toronto mix-
ed conerete truck drivers and
steel tank factory workers at
Fort Erie, Ont.

Based on the number of non-
agricultural wage and salary
workers in Canada, the time lost
in June, 1953, amounted to only
0.07 percent-of estimated work-
ing time compared with 0.87 per-
cent for June, 1952.

On recrossing the border from
the Seattle Picnic, the customs
seized four bottles of alleged
beer, We had to sign a paper
stating we were “abandoning it
to the crown”. This is legal lingo
for giving it to the Queen. This
makes us Purveyors to Her Ma-
jesty by disappointment.

ANS

B. C.

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