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ment for the main reason that
the recommendations of Commis-
sioner A. E. Lord did not provide
for any recognized form of Union
security. %

The IWA members on strike in
the Northern Interior will be
given an immediate opportunity
to declare their wishes in the
matter by secret ballot.

In the meantime the IWA
Strike Committees in the area
will be alerted to counsel workers
against any employer-organized
‘back-to-work’ movement until
the majority opinion has been
determined by the ballot.

Representatives of the strikers
in all sections of the Interior
were in attendance at today’s ses-
sions of the Committee and re-
ported on the views held by the
strikers regarding possible terms
of settlement. The decision of the
Committtee was unanimous and
emphatic.

No Protection Offered

At the conclusion of the Com-
mittee’s day-long session, Dis-
trict President Joe Morris stated
that all the IWA representatives
from the Interior were bitterly

disappointed that the proposals |

of Judge Lord failed to offer the
strikers adequate protection in
the exercise of collective bargain-
ing rights. “It is unfortunate,”
said the President, that His Hon-
or endorsed limitations placed by
the employers upon Union recog-
nition which have never been
Imown to achieve improved labor-
management relations.” “It was
felt that if the strikers surrender
this point, they will be exposed to
vindictive reprisals on the part of
the employers when the picket

~ “REJECTED”

lines were withdrawn. It should
be noted that the employers can
concede this point without incur-
ring any additional costs.”

“We deeply regret that His
Honor saw fit to criticize the
Union’s conduct of the strike
without a thorough probe into all
phases of the situation. He ad-
vised the Union’s representatives
that he would not deal with this
phase of the strike, otherwise
evidence would have been sub-
mitted to show that the Union
did not condone any act of law-
lessness.

We have offered evidence in
these matters in the courts, when
permitted’ the opportunity to ap-
peal against ex parte injunctions
granted solely on the employers’
evidence, We: were advised that
the Union was not on trial dur-
ing the mediation proceedings,
and therefore we did not attempt
to answer charges originating
with the employers.”

Guilt Not Proved

“We regret that His Honor in
saying that the Labor Relations

‘Board has given permission to

prosecute Local 1-424, IWA, did
not point out that this was a
formality and in no sense a find-
ing of guilt. Further we regret
that His Honor blamed the Union
because “a majority of injunc-
tions are in force and no attempt
has been made to set them aside.”
Since these injunctions allow the
Union to conduct peaceful pick-
eting, which is all the law «llows
in any case, the IWA, on legal
advice has had no reason to con-
test these injunctions before
trial.”

FROM PAGE 1

“SAYS LORD”

plant basis. It was not a recog-
nized form of union security, and
could not possibly be accepted as
offering any protection to the
strikers,

The Commissioner also recom-
mended a 5%-cent-an-hour wage
increase, in contrast with the
Conciliation Board report which
had proposed a 6-cent-an-hour
hike.

Employers Accepted

The employers promptly indi-
cated that they would accept the
Commissioner’s proposals, which
were:

Recommendations

“The following will be my
recommendations to the Honor-
able The Minister of Labor as a
possible settlement in the above
dispute:

1, UNION SECURITY — As
recommended by the Asso-
ciation terms of offer dated
December 5th, with the ad-
dition of the following as
Clause (F):

(F) The company pledges,
undertakes and agrees that
no employee, being a mem-
ber of the Local Union,
heretofore employed by the
Company, or by any other
company, shall be discrimi-
nated against or refused
employment by reason of
such employee having been
involved in the strike of
employees of the Union im-
mediately preceding the
signing of this agreement.
Any such employee, claim-

“OLD DOC”

Dr. R. Llewellyn Douglas has

ing to be aggrieved by rea-
son of refusal of employ-
ment, for the reason afore-
said, may, within thirty
days of such refusal, de-
mand in writing, addressed
to the Local Union and the
Company, that his griev-
ance be heard at a joint
meeting of the officers of
the Local Union and the
Management of the Com-
pany. Such meeting shall
be held within ten days of
the receipt of the said de-
mand. If no satisfactory
settlement is reached the
matter shall be dealt with
by arbitration as provided
for in this agreement.
WAGES—AIl rates in the
agreement to be increased
by 5¥-cents-per-hour effec-
tive immediately.
VACATIONS WITH PAY
— The qualifying time for
two weeks’ vacation with
pay to be reduced from 1250
working days to 1000 work-
ing days.
GRIEVANCE PROCED-
URE—As contained in the
© Conciliation Board Report.
5. DURATION OF AGREE-
MENT — Contract termina-
tion date to be the 31st day
of August, 1954, and that
notice shall be given on or
before June Ist, 1954.”

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“No ‘Haywire’ Settlement

After 3 Mos. Strike” ...1WA

Statement issued to the strikers in the Northern

Interior by the IWA District

Policy Committee comment-

ing on Judge Lord’s report declared:
“It is to be recognized that Judge Lord accepted the operators’
phony arguments against the Union, as a reason for denying any

genuine union security.

The proposed union security is |
not union security. It is the trick
form of niaintenance of member- |
ship previously offered by the
employers, to be applied on a)
single plant basis. From the,
standpoint of security for union
organization it is a complete
farce and was so intended by the
operators.

Kicked Around

The Union knows that if an
agreement is signed on the terms
proposed by Judge Lord, the
strikers returning to work will
be kicked around as they have
been for years. They will be
without the protection of a strong
organization on the job.

This strike has exposed the
real intentions of the operators.
They want to boot the Union out
of the industry, so that they can
do as they like with their em-
ployees. For what other reason
would they oppose union secur-
ity so bitterly when it costs them
nothing?

The strikers have seen this is- |
sue clearly, and have been fight- |
ing for the fundamental demo-

cratic right to organize and bar-
gain collectively with the same
protected status in the industry
as has already been granted to
20 million workers on this con-
tinent.

Judge Lord admitted that“ the
main difference between the par-
ties is union security”. He knew,
therefore, that the strike could
be quickly settled, if, in addition
to his other recommendations, he
had urged the operators to ac-
cept union security. He chose to
side with the operators, and thus
made settlement on his terms
impossible for the Union.

Good Citizens

The Union cannot possibly
agree with Judge Lord, that the
men now on strike are not good

| citizens, unworthy of being

granted responsibility for the
conduct of their own affairs,
A “Spanking”

In his report, Judge Lord at-
tempted to give the strikers a
public “spanking” for their be-
havior during the strike. He
closed his eyes to the deliberate

provocation endured by the strik-
ers since the strike vote. He con-
veniently overlooked the threats
made by the employers, when
they thought that they could
force their employees to accept
the 1951 contract terms.

The employers can no longer be
trusted to give their employees a
fair deal. The only way in which
the workers may be sure of jus-
tice in their future relations with
the Interior lumber operators is
through full’ recognition of their
trade union rights,

THIS STRIKE WILL NOT BE
WON UNTIL UNION SECUR-
ITY IS WRITTEN INTO THE
CONRACT.”

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to other-countries in the form of
grants and loans totalled $4,100,-
000,000, and up to the end of
1952 net repayments amounted to
$3,900,000,000. Post-war aid to-
talled $2,600,000,000, against
which net repayments amounted
to $2,100,000,000 at the close of
1952. In other words, net repay-
ments represented“about 69 per
cent of the gross war and post-
war aid extended,

THE D.B.S. SAYS...

Foreign Trade: Per capita va-
lue rose $52 to $640 (U.S. funds)
in 1952, was topped only by New
Zealand’s $707.

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Earnings in manufacturing av-
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from rural districts.

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patients in 1951, but more mar-
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