n, what are -the people
e dreaming about, what
looking forward to?

free labor movement un-
those underlying moti-
forces, and because it un-
tands them and tries to give
constructive democratic
tion, I say that that free
movement in the year of
33 is the strongest bulwark in
world against the forces of
Communist tyranny.
Bulwark of Democracy

“I looked at a map while I
_ was in Stockholm, and I found
that in every country in the
world where there was a strong
labor movement, a labor move-
ment that had the will and the
strength and the courage and
the vision to struggle to win
for the average family a fuller
measure of economic and social
justice, that in those countries
where free labor was strong,
Communism was weak.

“And then I looked at another
country on that map where free
labor movement was weak and
ineffective, where there was great
social injustice, and there Com-
munism was strong because it
built its power out of that social
injustice.

“Our Wheat Surplus”

“You know how much wheat
surplus we have got this year,
when all of the Canadian wheat
is harvested, and the wheatfields
on the United States side of the
border are harvested? There will
be a wheat surplus—this is not
total production, this is what we
are going to ‘have in surplus of
wheat to say nothing about corn
and oats and barley and other
grains—United States and Can-
ada, we will have 2,729,000,000
bushels of wheat more than we
need, and half of the world is
hungry!

If we had the vision and the
courage to use those food sur-
pluses in terms of long range
economic programs of construc-
tion, not just as give-away pro-
grams, a long range economic
plan to help build the economic
resources of those under-de-
veloped countries, to help them
to help themselves.

“I say that the intelligent
and courageous use of that
food surplus will give the free
world a weapon more powerful
than a stockpile of H-hombs
in the struggle against world
Communism, if we have the
courage to use it.

“Trickle Down” Theory

“Our problem is the fact that
science and technology have
given us wonderful tools of pro-
duction, tools with which for the
first time in the history of human

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{UTHER STATES
ORLD TASK

civilization we can conquer pov-
erty and hunger and ignorance
and disease and man’s ancient
enemies. But what we need to do
is to develop our distribution
Imow-how, the same as we de-
veloped our production know-how.

“One of the problems is that
too many people believe in what
they call the trickle down theory
of economics, the theory: that if
you have a banquet table and you
load that banquet table with more
and more of the good things of
life, for a few wealthy people on
top, that they will brush enough
crumbs off the table for the peo-
ple down below.

“Now, that theory is wrong.
You can only build prosperity
not from the top down, but
from the bottom up, by giving
the great mass of people
enough purchasing power to
buy the things we know how to
produce in our factories, in our
mines, and in our mills, and
grow on our farms.

“What we need to do is to
find a way to broaden the pur-
chasing power base of our eco-
nomic systems so that that pur-
chasing power in the hands of
people will balance our produc-
tive power in terms of these
new tools that we are finding
and science and technology is
giving us every day of the year.

The Challenge

“The real tragedy of the world
in which we live is the fact that
to date the pages of history tell
us graphically and tragically that
the human family, that human
society has been able to make
heroic efforts in terms of war.

“Nations and people have
worked and fought and sacri-
ficed and died in war time, weld-
ed together because they. had
common fears, and hatreds.

“Yet we have never found a
way to achieve that unity of
purpose, that willingness to
work together and fight to-
gether and build together and
sacrifice together, because peo-
ple have common hopes and
common: aspirations in peace
time.

“The great challenge of Jead-
ership in our free world is to
find a way, to develop the tech-
niques by which we can tap the
tremendous reservoir of spir-
itual power that resides within
the free people of the world.

“Qut of that power, get the
free world committed to a
total mobilization of working
and fighting and sacrificing to-
gether because we do believe
in positive human yalues, be-

cause we do share common
hopes and aspirations.

news copy October 30th.

Publication date of the next issue of the B.C. LUMBER WORKER
is November 5th. Deadline for ad copy is October 29th and for

AND ‘THIRD

President. ei
Ist. Vice-President ..
Vice-President
Vice-President
Seeretary-Treasurer
International Board Member

Representing the Orponzed Loggers and Mill Workers of B.C.

PUBLISHED TWICE MONTHLY ON THE FIRST

a International Woodworkers of Ameriea (CIO-CCL)
B.C, District Council No. 1

DISTRICT OFFICERS:

Address all communications to
GEORGE H. MITCHELL, Secretary-Treasurer
45 Kingsway - Phone FAirmont 8807-8
‘ogai B.C,

ive ng 50 per

ron ataoes IN THIS ISSUE

THURSDAYS BY.

. Joe Morris
William N, Gray

wrt M, Hodgson

Fred Fieber
George H. Mitchell
.~ William N. Gray

per annum
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STANDARD COAT
Note the “‘tailored’? de-

sign, giving maximum
comfort and freedoms the
cape and sleeves all’ one
Piece, and seams only un-
deratm. Note also the
more generous use of ma-
terials with _interlisting
away down at back. (Also
made without interlin-
ing.)

STANDARD PANTS
See the extra depth of
double thickness, front
and back, and intetlining
down entire front.

of pockers, to. (Also
me without interlin-
ing.

THE THINGS YOU SHOULD LOOK FOR IN

CANVAS sigs, bia eee

YOU WILL FIND IN

‘DRY- BAK’:

From Your Local Dealer or Commissary
IT IS MADE IN VANCOUVER, B.C., BY JONES TENT & AWNING LTD. ,

CRUISER'S COAT
Notice how it is moulded
to fit with comfort and
freedom. Double thick-
ness over shoulders,
chest,, back and sleeves.
Look’ at the four roomy
‘outside pockets and pen-

jocker., and sce the
faside brease evap pocket,
then look at the back and
see the large pack pocket
&> ‘with openings both sides.
(This design of coat
comes in featherweight
olive drab water repellent
poplin, too.)

FALLER’S SHIRT

. REGISTERED

&

You will find that it is
substantial and water re-

‘The fallers’ and buckers’
Eee soft, *oltable, shire is an original “Pio- + ;
and fight in figbe neer Brand” design, built
to give full freedom with 5
BUY ONLY GENUINE OE aiaaec Une
“PIONEER BRAND” needed, and with extra

Jong skirt at back. (This
comes in olive drab
featherweight water=
repellent poplin.)

“DRY-BAK”’

Home
Bakery
“Unfair”

The Editor:

We advised IWA Locals some
time ago of the dispute taking
place between the Home Bakery
(makers of HOM’ADE bread)
and our Union.

‘As a result of the open hos-
tility toward organized labor, this
firm had been placed on the “We
Do Not Patronize List”.

Since our last letter to you,
Home Bakery has put on a de-
termined campaign to offset the
bad publicity not only suffered
through our previous letters, but
by the story carried in the daily
papers when we won a court case
against the company after charg-
ing them under the ICA Act. A
door-to-door canvass is being
made throughout the whole city
and in particular the working
class districts.

We understand about seven
new trucks have been added
now making about 35 in all.
Bread and other bakery products
are being offered at the door and
at the going rate, that is 15¢ per
loaf.

The impression is being left
that the salesman is in business
for himself and that you are ac-
tually- buying home baked pro-
ducts. Nothing could be further
from the truth.

Hom’ade bread is produced in
the Home Bakery under sweat
shop conditions. The rates of
pay now average 80c per hour
under those paid in union shops,
and other conditions of work are
deplorable.

‘We need your help to win this
fight. You can assist us by tell-
ing your members the facts about
Hom’ade bread and by asking
them to tell their friends.

Fraternally Yours,
Melyin J. Kemmis,
Secretary,
Bakery & Confectionery
Workers’, I.U.A.,
Local 468.

A widow attached the follow-
ing note to one of the many
forms she had filled out for the
insurance company:

“You have asked me to fill out
so many proofs of claim and I
have had so much trouble in get-
ting my money that I sometimes

wish my husband hadn't died.”

BLOW AIMED AT STRIKE : }

PRESTON, Ont. (CPA)—Latest move in the strike of
United Packinghouse Workers at the Savage Shoe plant
here, now approaching its sixth month, is an attempt to

have the union de-certified.
A petition was circulated from
house to house in Preston urging
employees to sign for de-certifi-
cation of the union. The case was
heard by the Ontario Labor Rela-
tions Board on September 30, and
the Board reserved its decision.

Board Chairman, J. B. Finkleman,
said it was the first time he had
been faced with the problem of
being requested to order a de-
certification yote when the work-
ers were on strike.

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