To You

TO ALL IWA MEMBERS:

As this issue reaches you, the IWA District
Committee will be engaged in presenting the
ae coast contract demands to the lumber op-
erators. :

Whether you have been active in the Union, or
not, the bargaining undertaken by the Union will
determine the extent to which your living and
working standards may'be improved. This is a
matter of vital interest to you.

_it is the function of your Union to bargain
with the employers in order to establish the best
possible return for your labor consistent with the
resources of the industry.

It is the function of your union to take the side
of the workers, and maintain their fullrights. The
employers are well able to protect their own in-
terests, as they have in the past.

The Union is on your side, fighting for you,
and you should be whole-heartedly on the side of
the Union, without any hesitation, even if the talk
should get a little rough sometimes.

The contract demands originated with the rank
and file membership and not as the employers
would have you believe, with any official clique.
All the way from the job to the Local Unions, then
to the District Convention, and finally to the
Wages and Contract Conference, the proposals
were shaped by the membership.

The contract demands were finalized, only
after your delegates had carefully considered all
the available facts regarding conditions and pros-
pects in the lumber industry. Your Union is pre-
pared to justify the demands as being well within
the resources of the lumber industry in the for-
seeable future.

Your contract demands give full consideration
to all sections of the industry—the workers in the
sawmills, the loggers, the workers in the plywood
plants and those in the shingle mills.

; The whole negotiating program deals with the
most pressing problems in each and every section.
The bargaining strength of the Union is the com-
bined strength of the workers in all the four
major ‘sections, and will be exercised for each
section.

There is no question that the Negotiating Com-
mittee will bargain with might and main. The
oe of the moment is “What are you going
to do?”

_ If you feel like standing back with your hands
in your pockets, to criticize your Union’s policies,
you are likely to suffer disappointment.

Success in negotiations is not entirely depend-
ent on what happens at the bargaining table. To
an even more important extent it is dependent on
what you and your fellow-workers do and say on
the job and in the Local Unions.

From now on the really important part of the
Union’s battle for better contract conditions must
find its inspiration and strength in the attitudes
and actions of the workers on the job.

So if you are interested in these contract im-
provenients, and we believe that you are, get busy.
There are a thousand ways you can make it plain
to the operators that you mean what you say
about your demands. :

If we all put our backs into the job, we can win.

MORE CONTRACTS
HAVE CHECK-OFF

OTTAWA (CPA) — Nearly
three out of every four labor
management agreements in
Canadian manufacturing indus-
tries had provision for a check-
off of union dues, a recent
Labor Department survey re-
vealed. In non-manufacturing
industries the proportion was
60 percent with such a provi-
sion.

The study, coyering 910 collec-
tive agreements, found that in
plants manufacturing food and
beverages, textiles and wood pro-
ducts, a majority of contracts
provided for both the check-off
and membership clauses (em-
ployer’s freedom to hire and fire).
In other manufacturing indus-
tries covered by the survey, the

percentage containing both check-
off and membership provisions
was 30.

In paper manufacturing indus-
tries and printing and publishing
firms, membership provisions
were common but the check-off
was rare. The situation was re-
versed in the iron and steel,
transportation equipment and
| electrical apparatus industries.

Among non-manufacturing in-
dustries, the stiidy showed sub-
stantial proportions of the
agreements in mining and trans-
| portation included the check-off
with membership provisions oc-

ring less frequently, The sit-
ion was reversed in the con-
struction industry.

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CHAIN SAW

MANY STILL WITHOUT

OTTAWA (CPA) — More
Canadians are living in apart-
ments, more are paying higher
rents than a year ago and
many Canadians still have to
manage without basic house-
hold necessities. That is rough-
ly the picture revealed by the
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
annual sample survey of house-
hold facilities and equipment.

Of Canada’s estimated 3,-
743,000 households at the end of
September last, 2,506,000 were
detached houses, 932,000 were
apartments (up from 24%) and
296,000 were single attached
houses. °

The survey showed that 64%
of households (66% in 1953)
were without steam, hot water or
hot air furnaces; 36% (37% in
1958) were without a hot and
cold water supply; 29% (34%
a year earlier) were without
mechanical refrigerators; 61%
(65% in 1953) without electric
cooking stoves; 50% (compared
with 52%) without vacuum
cleaners; and 17%’ (18% in 1953)
without washing machines.

More Phones

The proportion of homes with
telephones grew from 67% to
69% while radio receivers were
in practically all (96%) homes.
Television showed a sharp in-
crease from 10% of households

25 MILLION
HEAR CIO

LOS ANGELES (CPA) —
John W. Vandercook, ABC ra-
dio network commentator spon-
sored by the Congress of In-
dustrial Organizations, is heard
by about 25 million listeners
every month, according to a
report presented to the 16th

Constitutional convention.

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|in 1958 to 22% this year—On-
tario had 37% of all homes with
TV sets.

Automobiles were found in
55% of households (compared
with 52%) and in Ontario the
proportion was 68%, while 65%
of Saskatchewan households also

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stration.

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A Luchy Break

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handicapped by an obsolete lens prescription.
Since human eyes change with use, abuse and age
. +. . periodic eye examinations are necessary to
detect any need for lens correction. Don’t wait
for broken glasses to give your eyes the break they
deserve. Schedule regular check-ups by your
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