ist Issue, January B.C. LUMBER WORKER FROM PAGE 1 “SHOT” vices which they used to make deductions for rents, water, light, and groceries, that left the great majority of the workers with little or nothing for other necessities. Pay Cheque For $ .00 In a number of instances cheques were furnished the Union where the recipients were credited with net pay en- tered as $ .00. The McGowin Brothers who own the W. T. Smith Lumber Co. Ltd., are rated as million- aires, and the corporation is reputed to be worth over five million dollars. The reason openly given by the owners for fighting the Union is that un- less it is smashed at this time, all the sawmills in the State of Alabama will sooner or later be unionized. Naked Terrorism In a comprehensive ~ state- ment directed to the Governor of the State, and Senators, as well as the heads of the AFL- CIO, A. O. McKinney, Assist- ant Southern Director of Or- ganization, has charged the Company and the local authori- ties dominated by the Company with the following acts. Guards from a detective agency, imported to act as International President A. F, Hartung has issued an urgent appeal to all IWA Local Unions to extend fin- ancial aid to [WA members and their families involved in the strike against the W. T. Smith Co, Ltd. .Chapman and Greenville, Alabama. This appeal was given sup- port by District Secretary- Treasurer George Mitchell in a recent Green Gold radio program, President Hartung stressed the urgent need of the strik- ers who require aid immedi- ately, that they may with- stand the vicious attacks of HARTUNG APPEALS TO ALL IWA LOCALS the employers and local law- enforcement authorities. The anti-union and ruth- less policies pursued by the employer in this instance, he described as a reversion to the middle ages, and as being instigated by the Southern Pine Association to block all further unionization of the lumber industry in the Deep South. He described the courage- ous fight of the Smith work- ers as one that will rank as high as any yet waged by the trade union movement on the continent. strike-breakers have been de- putized by the Sheriff, and are escorting workers across the picket lines, with a display of arms, using tactics of intimida- tion. These disguised law-enforce- ment officers are roaming through the community arrest- ing strikers and members of their families on trivial and trumped-up charges. They are also insisting upon the right of search unreasonably, thus negating all citizenship rights. Sentences are being imposed on persons so arrested by a Printers of The B.C. LUMBER WORKER ABOVE GD LIMITED Judge, who is a company of- ficial. Penalties are imposed requiring the yictims to work on the public streets, without any defence in court. Armed hoodlums, protected by the State uniform are roam- ing the workers’ communities threatening them with further arrests unless they repudiate their Union, the IWA. Cold-blooded Murder Attempt The story of the attempted murder is related in the report to the Governor as follows: “At about 3:00 a.m. Decem- ber 24, 1955, Willie Union was driving a pick-up truck owned by his father-in-law, Oscar Hasley, Sr. Oscar Hasley, Jr. was riding with him. They were going to the home of Jimmie Lee Lester in Hickory Hill Community. Willie Union was going by his house in Happy Hollow section of Chap- man. After leaving paved road and travelling on dirt road, a car overtook this truck and stopped the driver. Willie Union was asked by a person reported to be a special Butler County De- puty and Town Marshall of Chapman, Ellis Crabtree, where he was going. Union told him he was going to his home and then to the home of Jimmie Lee Lester to pick up his mother-in-law and her daugh- ter (his wife or sister-in-law). There was at least one other person in the car with Crab- tree. Crabtree then told Union he was under arrest. Union asked Crabtree what the charges were. Crabtree did not name any charge but left the vicinity of the truck and went back to the patrol car. Union then drove off and proceeded ee xa me i : CHILD VICTIMS of the reign of. terror instituted by the McGowin brothers in Chapman and Green- ville, whose plant has been struck by IWA members, receive school supplies to continue their studies from IWA and CIO union members across the continent. to his home, turned around and headed back through the town of Chapman. At a point several yards away from the Clock-house of W. T. Smith Lumber Co. plant his truck was overtaken by this patrol car again. There were several shots from a pistol or rifle and shotgun fired from the patrol car. The Victim Was Unarmed Union stopped the truck. Crabtree came up on the left side of the truck and told Union that he was under arrest and to get out with his hands up. Union opened the door on driver’s side of truck and raised his hands and had start- ed to get out of truck when Ellis Crabtree shot him with a pistol. The bullet entered Union's left side and penetrated into his stomach opening seven holes in his intestines. Union reports that he feared death at the hands of these men and immediately started the truck in motion and proceeded on County road through sawmill operation in direction of Georg- jana, Alabama. After passing through mill he became so sick from the shot he was.forced to stop the truck, He told Oscar Hasley, Jr. that he was shot and needed medical attention and asked him to go get someone to take him to a hospital. Oscar Hasley, Jr. proceeded on foot to locate someone to get Willie Union to-a doctor. He located a man at the Union Hall of Local S-426, Chapman. This man took him back to the truck and learned that Union had been carried to Greenville to Stabler Clinic by a car of the special deputies.” NO CHANGE OTTAWA (CPA)—Canada’s cost of living showed no change during the last three months of 1955, the Dominion Bureau of Statistics reports, The cost price index remained stable during October, November and December at 116.9 (1949 prices equal 100) with a decrease in food during November offset- ting increases in three of the other four indexes, 180 West Hastings Street INSTRUCTION IN INDUSTRIAL FIRST AID ayallable, throw poreeenscenes Courses fending to Industria? approved 1 Wor ¥ Board of nee Also Carrespondance ‘Course. in Timekeeping and THE INDUSTRIAL FIRST AID ATTENDANTS ASSN. OF B.C. Compensation - ‘Vancouver 8, B.C. From Page 1 “BOOMMEN” the workers concerned. Terms of the agreement were as follows: The Parties hereto agree as follows: 1, THAT wage rates for Boom crew categories shall be revised as set out below: (a) An increase of 7/;¢ per hour to the base contract rate for Boommen of $1,644;, pro- vided that no Boomman shall receive an increase which would establish a rate in excess of $1.72 per hour. (b) An increase of 744c per hour on the present contract rate in each manufacturing plant involved for Head Boom- man, Second Boomman, Well- man, Raceway Man, and Slip- man, (c) An increase of 7c per hour on the present contract rates for all categories in the Boom crews at the Plumper Bay operation of B.C. Forest Products Ltd. the MacMillan & Bloedel Log Supply Division, and the Tahsis Company, Ltd. at Port Alberni. 2. THAT wage rates for all other categories in the Boom crew shall be adjusted to main- tain the present established dif- ferential within the plant. 8. THAT the revision as set out herein shall apply only to manufacturing plants as set out below: : % MacMillan & Bloedel Ltd. — Alberni Pacific Division, Alberni Plywood Division, Chemainus Di- vision, Canadian White Pine Diyi- sion, Vancouver Plywood Division See “BOOMMEN” Page 9 _ GROCERIES NEEDED FINANCIAL AID from Canadian and American members to IWA strikers at Chapman and Greenville, Alabama, is providing $2,000.00 per week for food.