B.C. LUMBER WORKER CANDIDATES FOR IWA DISTRICT OFFICES — For District President Before his service on the Dis- tyict staff, Joe Morris was on the International Organization staff for 2% years. He has been active on the Dis- trict Negotiating Committees both in the Coast Region and in the Interior, since 1949. In addition to his trade union "|| activities, and while resident in ' ‘| Ladysmith, he served three terms JOE MORRIS Candidate for Office of District President Joe. Morris has been an active trade unionist since first joining the Lumber and Sawmill Work- ers’ Union in the mid-thirties and has been prominently associated with the IWA before and since demobilization from combatant service in World War II. Prior to his war service, he was a member of the group that in- troduced IWA organization into the logging operations of the Comox Logging and Railway Co. Ltd. Upon his return from ser- vice, he was elected Chairman of the Ladysmith Sub-Local, 1-80 IWA. Upon re-organization of Local 1-80 IWA in 1948 he was elected President, and was continuously re-elected to that post until his election as District President in 1953. In 1951, he was elected District 1st Vice-President, and held: that office until elected District Pre- sident. _|as alderman in that city. He is First Vice-President of ,| the B.C. Federation of Labor. FROM PAGE 3 “Ready” convention, the following names were authorized to be placed on the ballot, now being submitted to the membership in a referendum vote. For District President: Morris (unopposed). For District 1st Vice-President: Wm. N. Gray and Joe Madden. For District Second Vice-Presi- dent: Stuart M. Hodgson and Henry Switzer. For District Third Vice-Presi- dent: Fred Fieber and Carl Ans- helm. For District Secretary-Treas- urer: George H. Mitchell and Alex Archibald. For Six-year Trustee: Jacob Epp and Ed Haw. For International Board Mem- ber: Walter Allen and Charles Lamarche. Voting must be completed and the returns tabulated within 70 days from the date of convention adjournment. Joe Productive forests extend over some 764,000 square miles or 22 percent of the total land area of Canada, About two-thirds of this is accessible for economic ex- ploitation. HANEY INESS GUID “ESQUIRE” MEN’S WEAR (Graham Mowatt) Complete Stock of Work and Dress Clothing “THE STORE WITH THE POPULAR BRANDS’ HANEY BRITISH COLUMBIA For District : Ist Vice-President WILLIAM N. GRAY Candidate for Office of District 1st Vice-President William N. Gray, although an honor graduate of the Alberta School of Agriculture, turned to employment in logging operations in the Interior and on Vancouver Island, when he migrated to Bri- tish Columbia in 1937. He served overseas with the RCAF until September 1942, when as a result of injuries, he spent 22 months in hospital. Upon recovery, he returned to the RCAF as an instructor. When released from the ser- vice, he gained employment at the Canadian White Pine Mill, Vancouver, and immediately joined the IWA. He became a member of the Plant Committee in 1947, and later was elected as its Chairman. In 1949, he-was elected 2nd Vice-President of Local 1-217 IWA and First Vice-President in 1950. He also served as Secretary of the District Safety Committee, from 1949 till 1953. In 1951, he was élected Inter- national Board Member for Dis- trict I, and during his term of office, also acted as full-time re- presentative in the Interior, and appeared for the Union, before the Sloan Commission dealing with Workmen’s Compensation. In 1953 he was elected as Dis- trict First Vice-President, and is the present incumbent of that office. - JOE MADDEN Candidate for Office of District 1st Vice-President Joe Madden’s membership in the IWA dates back to 1941, but was interrupted almost immedi- ately by his service in the Royal Canadian Navy. He was discharged from the Navy in time to take an active part in the 1946 strike. Later he was elected to the offices of Plant Committee Chairman, and Grievance Committee Chairman in the Pacific Veneer and Ply- wood Division of Canadian Forest Products Ltd., New Westminster, where his seniority extends back 12% years. In Local Union 1-357, he has held the offices of 2nd and 1st Vice-Presidents, and in 1954 was elected to the Presidency of that Local Union. His general experience in the work of the IWA includes a period of service as International Organizer (1% years) in the Fraser Valley and in Eastern Canada. He was active in Local 1-217 IWA, just prior to the period of the attempted disaffiliation, and later assisted in the rebuilding of the Union, covering operations in Locals 1-80, 1-85, 1-363, and also some of the large logging camps in Local 1-71. He is now the President of Local 1-357, New Westminster. DUNCAN BUSINESS GUIDE J, LINDSAY LOUTET (C. Bradshaw & Co.) 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The convention heard this ra- ther significant declaration from the joint AFL-CIO Committee: “The members of the joint AFL- CIO Unity Committee proudly and unanimously submit and rec- ommend the foregoing agreement to both federations. The adoption of the agreement will bring about honorable, organic labor unity. It will contribute to the strength and effectiveness of the trade union movement and to the eco- nomic well-being of working men and women throughout the land. It will materially benefit the en- tire nation. It will add strength to the free trade union movement of the world. It will realize a long- cherished goal. IRA BECKER & SON Vancouver Island Distributors LE.L. POWER CHAIN SAWS PARTS ‘Nanaimo Phone 1515 SERVICE Campbell River - Phone 94H From Page 3 “Hartung” continued use of armed geet ‘The only way, he said, by the democracies might win the confidence of Asian people would be by a genuine effort to feed the hungry from our surplus supplies. The feeling throughout Asia, he said, is now mounting in hatred, because of unwise policies adyo- cated in the West. a Pate 4 urged labor’s suppo! ‘or eco- ian aid, as the safe method to contain Communism. Abolish Differential Canadian woodworkers cheered their President, when he declared that wage rates in Canada should be placed on a parity with those now paid in the United States. He reminded them of the inter- locking interests, in the ownership of the industry in both countries, and pointed to the fact that Can- adian operators enjoy distinct ad- vantages in competing with the American producers in their own domestic market, as the use of foreign bottoms for their off- shore markets. Organization Potential The view was urged by the In- ternational official that the great responsibility before the Union was the “organization of the un- organized”. He informed the con- vention that the organizational potential before the IWA was in the working force of 1,600,000 in the continental lumber industry. Of this number fewer than 300,- 000 are now organized, he stated. Those outside organization out- number the organized by three to one in many areas, he claimed. In graphic language, he told the story of the continued strug- gle to organize the Deep South as well as the Eastern Canadian Region. Wages at many points have been held as low as an ayer- age of 85 cents an hour, He drew the moral that such sub-standard conditions gravely threaten the standards won in the Pacific Northwest. Northwest Strike The President expressed warm praise of the financial aid extended by the B.C. Local Unions in the recent strike throughout the Pacific North- west States. Without this aid, he declared, it might not have been possible to win. The gains won added up to another 74; cents on the hourly rate, he explained, as he gave assurance that now the Inter- national Officers would, be free to devote more time to the in- terests of District No. 1, when required, Unity Near _The speaker told the convention of the various steps whiclt had already been taken to promote the AFL-CIO merger, and outlined the basis of the agreement signed between the two bodies. He ex- pressed a fervent support of the merger, while he assured his Union’s members that the integ- rity of the IWA, and its prin- ciples of industrial unionism would be protected, $9.25 per share, : :