B.C. LUMBER WORKER

Job Talk On The
Right To Strike

ope TOLD BY PETE THE PUNK
‘ht, after I had given the front page

of The San tee a ‘once-ove!
“This will fix your eae wise guy, The Holy Joes say that

Sez he, Ss so
‘Oh, some big shot sky pilot, called Mutchmor, ae be eh nee
e politicians that strikes, aes this uy schemozzle with General |
stor should be washed out. Too many folks get hurt, and nobody
is, he says here.”

ms ‘Say, I at in got a point. What would I get out of it, if
the Union said we had to hit the pee comes next. negotiations?”

“Give me that paper, punk, Where is it? Oh, yes, I see, The
same old malarkey. Why don’t you fase up Bus quit ae for the
started taking low-

grade morons like you into #l the quent

Then Big bencr Taid it 0

“Im the first place, I don’t el Sieve tl the Church will go for
Mutchmor’s wild and frightened talk. they still hope to a their
pews with trade unionists and their wives. Some one has taken the

the neck with notions about the terrible faite unions, ee ie
a forgotten that trade unions are people, and mighty nice people
at that.

“Now 1 spine is in the right spot. If you're

like a lot of the ves ey so-and-so’s we sometimes get in this

d pee to mnolier fa aeedeaieetonigAieeniin

wet behind the ears—and you want
ay

SAFETY WEEK (May 7- 1) | pla 1

ns d by Dan Adair, s of t
Safety Council with IWA officials. From left, Di atviet er Joe Stor, Reet Safety Director
‘ct Secretary-Treasuret George Mitchell; and Dan

John T. Atkinson; Distri

SAFETY IS THE TOPIC

are here diseu:

tafé member he National

to tell us to nee it chieken. guy.
“Before you start sounding off about your lousy ee suppose

, all nice

can imagine how you" rd | bellyache if you were made to
we used to, with it rammed

sjgoe thins’etiaigntened

id pretty. I

is a free country, and we + right to work 0:
ha

1-80 Elects Delegations

Completed tabulation of vot- tes to Isla fal
ing conducted at the Annual councils “Tony Poje, Na
Meeting of Local 1-80, IWA, SEs Heys, vad sok
as announced last week, report- Colwell, La dys (of
ed the following members Piere, Nanaimo; a Siogh
elected i Ene the Local | Nanaimo; Leonard aes, Cay-
Union for the coming year. cuse Beach, ect George Zi-
Delegates 6 ie ‘Canadian he. zac, Ladysmi
jor Congre: vention in elegates im District Confer

mto: T Nanaimo, ences: Tony Poje, Nanaimo; Ed.
Linder, Lalvani illiam Cox, | Linder, Ladysmith; Tatied ae

Cowichan; Alex Nets, Milmo: ore, one ats nus; Stanley
Abercrombie, evs, Lad; William Cox,

he says ll give us work or lay us off as he c

“Now if you have anything between the e ape epsul see this
point. Suppose we have the right to strike reken: ENE from the
Unions. Then suppose that after that we try to negotiate a w:
raise, and a better deal travel ti

“So the Union starts arguing with FIR about | it, and why we

to keep the

off, on account of bills and more bills and no fun for tl
the high-priced talent i

in hock a the big bosses would ‘st ae ee
with such sweet smiles say, ‘Very sorry, boys, no peas
d then, you simple sant rehab would

cor at soften them up with a lot of sweet ta tk? ee ead
tough, you tell me where in the world we would have anything
ack up our ‘argument. We'd be on the low end of the totem pol ae
ei wind.
“You'd better get the facts about life, the way it is lived in the
lumber naar "We don't want a strike, anytime, but it’s a lot be 2

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1-405
/ELECTS
‘SLATE

Recent announcement made by
the Interior Regio: nel Office on
behalf of the Cranbrook Local
Union, 1-405, states fom the fol-
lowing have been declares elect-
ed as officers for the ensuing

year by the eine commit-
ee :
rreeay

‘anbroo!

te Armstrong,
et,

aed 3rd

ter to go on short rations for a few weeks and bring the bos:
mn our ees a ad pe ae
bargain about, and that’s
ie eae offered by the boss,
as take it, we’d soon be

only one thing y
p isos MEE ree cena ave’
Galton: amy ate G9 om ia sabiae sell
wor Ts for our keep and nothing m
“Wake up, punk. Even Dr.
aie use, to say, ‘Trust in God and keep your powder Ae That’s

HEAD’S

Courtsaas Local
[Holds Election

ual meeting of Local

ae vTWA, March 10, pees
the following, whose names will
be submitted to the membership
by referendum Belles

President, E. Lid) Wn.

Granoukos; 1st Vie cosas
G. Wadland, N. Chernoff; 2nd
Vice-President, R. OBr ‘en, F

Dunnigan; 3rd_Vice-President,
Wm. Cowden, H. Schillin; aa Fie
nancial Secretary, J.

P, No
opposition; Recording ree’
ary, Wm. Gurney, no opposi-
tion; Conductor, G. Prain, E.
er Warden, A. Sprogis,
no opposition; Trustee, J.
Beres, S. Wessberg.

ist. Exec. Boa
e Towne Gal.

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Vai ee perenenes locals
haye taken s toward affili-

and
are now ively-checered if
ie ie nadian Congress

Newspaper Guilds
Now Affiliated

was ao to

the ANG.
bout 250 employees of the
iones have set mid-April as a

“| tentative date for a vote on af-

juestion Bad a up at
rachinery. The question Lie re-

xr Congress, Jurisdiction

ates newspaper

ae oh the Sun Sees:

year
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