CCL SCANS AUTOMATION ADVENT AND PLANS CONTRACT CHANGES Vol, XXII, No. 20 <> * 2nd ISSUE, OCT. 1955 - VANCOUVER, B.C. Ge 5c PER CQ?Y CCL Peace Policy Stirs Interest Lively discussions are reported in IWA Local Unions across the province caused by delegates’ reports dealing with the statement on foreign policy adopted at the recent CCL conyention in Toronto. This statement expressed the view that further negotiations should not be regarded as useless, or as a sign of weakness. Special interest is being taken in the convention’s response to the call of the British Trade Unions for support of their plan proposing international agree- ment on the abolition of stocks, | and the prohibition of manufac- ture of H-bombs and A-bombs. The full text of the statement follows: “The Congress welcomes the relaxation of international ten- sion which has followed the Aus- trian Treaty, the Soviet-Yugoslav Agreement, Geneva Conference, and other recent international events. What has happened in the last year is proof that war is not inevitable, and that negotiations are neither useless nor a sign of weakness. The Congress regrets, however, that the concrete results of the Geneva Conference were so small. Most of the problems still face the meeting of Foreign Ministers unchanged; and the Disarmament Committee of the United Nations has made lamentably little prog- ress. The Congress endorses the con- tinued efforts of the Canadian Government to secure 2 Disarma- ment Agreement, and urges that they be pursued unrelentingly, in spite of discouragements. It en- POJE DENIES RUMOUR Statement appearing in a Vancouver daily suggesting that two officials of Local 1-80, Duncan, had resigned because of conflict with the International Union of Oper- ating Engineers, was brand- ed this week as wholly un- true by President Tony Poje. In a statement to The B.C. Lumber Worker, President Poje declared that both resig- nations had been submitted to the Local Union earlier, and for purely personal rea- sons. Both were accepted with deepest’ regret by the officers and members of the Local Union, WHAT'S INSIDE dorses also the efforts of the Western Powers for a reunited Germany, based on genuinely free elections, and free to follow a foreign policy of its own choos- ing. It endorses the British Trades Union Congress’ call to ‘the trade union movement in all countries to urge upon their respective governments the necessity for firm international agreement on the abolition of all stocks of atomic and hydro- gen weapons and on the prohi- bition of the manufacture and use of such weapons’. With the ICFTU and TUG, this Congress ‘gives its whole support to the establishment of international control to implement this pol- icy’, and ‘calls upon the Gov- ernment to take the initiative in obtaining agreement to put an end to further tests of atomic weapons.’ = Pending effective agreement on disarmament in general, and on nuclear weapons in particular, the Congress urges the Canadian Government not to falter or fail in its support of NATO, Western European Union and other meas- ures of self-protection against Communist aggression.’ Defence and negotiation must go hand in hand. Neither can safely be jet- tisoned in favor of the other. But defence is not simply a matter of guns and planes and bombs, of armies, navies and air See “PEACE” Page 3 FALLERS RESIST RATE CUT No-work protést which paralyzed the Gordon River operation of Alaska Pine for one week, was ended Octo- ber 24, when the Local Union officials negotiated a satis- factory settlement of a dis- pute concerning fallers and buckers’ rates. The crew members reported to the Local Union that they were unwilling to work without a con- tract, and that they considered the signing of such a document had been unduly delayed because of an act of bad faith on the part of management. At conferences attended by President Tony Poje, in an effort to reach a settlement of the dis- pute, it was disclosed that the Company had failed to live up to an agreement reached in 1954. At that time the. Company had made certain reservations with regard to the master agreement negotiated in the Coast dispute in respect of fallers’ and buckers? rates. Finally the dispute was ironed out at a conference attended by the Local Union and District Of- ficials, and at which Mr. Walter Koerner, President of the Com- pany, joined in the assurance that the basic minimum for the operation would be $1.20. At the conclusion of the maés- ter contract negotiations this year, the Local Union received advice that the Company was prepared to renew the contract See “FALLERS” Page 3 wwe & wk & ww ow Increased Production ww *& Demands More Income kok ek eed Policy adopted by the recent convention of the Cana- dian Congress of Labor with regard to the imminent ap- proach of automation in industry called for early action within the individual unions and on the Federal field col- lectively, it is now disclosed. IWA delegates reporting to their Local Unions- have expressed confidence that the impact of automation can be met without disastrous un- employment, if CCL policy is followed. The views declared in Toronto followed closely the line of reas- oning developed by IWA Re- search Director E. W. Kenney at the last IWA International Con- vention, and submitted to that body. CIO's President Walter Reuther summed up the view of the CIO on this subject, when he stated: Meet It Sanely “Automation must be met sanely and constructively so that the miracle of mass pro- duction—and the ever greater economic abundance made pos- sible by automation—can find expression in the lives of the people through improved eco- nomic security and a fuller share of happiness and human dignity. Sensibly, rationally scientifically, we intend to har- ness this radical new force in our lives, using its potential to produce an era in which justice, well-being, and peace will be the universal possession of all mankind.” The Kenney report, as tabled at the IWA International Conven- tion, is now meeting with aroused interest in trade union circles, as included in the report are various proposed measures now being ex- amined by the CIO, and the clauses now finding incorporation elsewhere in collective agree- ments to protect industrial work- ers against the consequences of abrupt displacement. The CCL resolution stated: WHEREAS automation is trans- forming Canadian factories and offices, and ~ WHEREAS the Canadian Con- gress of Labor favors every technological change which light- ens human toil, and WHEREAS automation’ will mean doing more work with fewer workers, and WHEREAS this can mean either unprecedented abundance and leisure for all, or greater wealth for the few and unemployment for the many, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLY- ED that this Convention call upon the Government of Canada to convene a conference of repre- sentatives of Government, Man- agement and Labor to plan the introduction of automation so as to provide the abundance and prevent the unemployment, and, specifically: 1. to introduce the guaranteed annual wage, or other forms of regular and rising income, without which automation will break down; 2. to shorten the work-week without loss of take-home pay as fast as the increased productivity makes possible and as the maintenance of full employment makes neces- sary; to maintain general full em- ployment, so that workers displaced from one job or one industry will have others to Bo to; 4. to provide severance pay for displaced workers; to provide re-training for displaced workers wherever possible; to direct the location of in- dustry so as to avoid ghost towns or distressed areas; or, where this is not possible, to assist the movement of labor from such areas to areas of full and expanding employ- ment; 7. to lower the qualifying age for Old Age Security pay- See “AUTOMATION” Page 3 a LISTEN TO Green Gold—CJOR AUSPICES OF LOCAL 1-357,-IWA 7.00 p.m. 4 CANW 7:05 p.m. Sat., CJAV 6:30 p.m. Thur. ‘Thursday > CKPG - Ist and 3rd Thursday- 6 p.m.