4 ; B.C. LUMBER WORKER

EQUALITY

‘THE peed ae in the Southern Interior cannot
pe the logic of events. The settlement

those ni
the } Northern half of ae povines’s 2 ewer land.

I is continued reluctance to accept the
patte: evorked 0 ut in the North, the Southern
employers leave theftivelve open to grave sus-
picion. It will be said that they intend to grab an

e lumber workers in the Southern half

of the inte rior.

Failure to establish uniformity in wage stand-
ards and workin; iti

The Southern Interior operations have lagged
behind those in the Nor

vatablished } in Prince George and vicin'

The Southern operators are being ss ates to
repair this ¢ deficiency this year. If they do so, this
doce not provide a valid reason for omitting any
which the Northern

aeratsrs have now accepted.

ere are a number of minor variations that
must be expected. In the main contract features
such as wage ae statutory holidays, vacation
pay, etc., the Bae tolerate a differential
ee the ia ze ctio

e So uthern thar operators share i in the

e same exceptional prosper rity.
Their production costs are no prener Why then
should th mployees

he 4 peally no difference ete the
living requirem 0: 's in Northern cen-

tres as couaared't na the Southern. The same skills
re dema’ on the job and me hazards
are faced. empl n ju argument

x exactly the same condi-
tions, merely to ae the difference.

ith with

¥
h he Southern Section, both
bie “contracts ue be brought into approxi-
ma ity.
a is not without significance that negotiations
have lagged in that section of the Interior Pacts
there has pen ane greatest degree of trouble

tis Dees in ae Southern half that the Union
Yr

to vince employers t! ci
oblaned avant collective iyaeraiiiie must be
respect

Experience points to the fact fet many of the
eidnlovers have not yet realized
le Cae to live with the Union. T he Gnion is inane
to stay, and underhanded opposition to unioniza-
ater ae stores up trouble.

tive bargaining is an established demo-

ee
i=

=e}
aS
Ga
an oY

s by b
pa: mel Eee “od conflicts
are Nay in intensifie
The 1 the eas on the part of the
Southern Tnterion employers to accept ay obvi-
ously just settlement, the greater will be the de-
seta: in labor-management relations in the

WORKING CLASS SEEN
TO CHECK COLLAPSE

WINNIPEG (CPA)—The activities of social dem:
tic parties and the trade unions over the past few Scare
have forced the TetOnmanCy of the capitalism system and
hus, ironically, saved the system from the collapse which
formerly was SIE, according to a leading British
Labour Party intellectual who addressed me aoe national
cos convention at the Fort Garry Hotel h

fae coe East au

 Orosraaay Labor MP
SUPPORT OUR

‘The minister was telling
congrenetay bes, they

jed out of the church
Tater, the minister stopped the

“What was the reason for the
commotion during my sermon?”
he asked.

a » You see, revere Be
plained the man, “when y:
tioned ate and night cla pga Te.
membered where I left my um-
ella.”

dally newspaper, said that the
arly poogtaine of thes Taba ADVERTISERS
Party and the Manifesto | — es ;
of the COF grew out of depres- Be prs
Sion conditions, “We believed that o oe
the capitalist system want) ies Ke ss,
our work for us and i d ‘
But these prophecies wen! ae f g00 re
ee of the workings of dem- * i!
\ reasons ‘i
™ Bs

“calapse Averted se,

why your

‘have ee capitalism a toler-
sue item”,

ae factor, which had in-
fluenced the change in capitalism
was the increased measure of
Hate control, said Mr. Crossman.
Capitalism now accepts the need
for this control aad the need for

“welfare state’ is a

‘heresies
are changing to orthodoxies”.
No Failure Here

Nationalism was 08 a failure,
cited the

fact that when teuialst parties
are voted out of office, their suc-

Conservatives — retained nai
alized Bere He suggest,
any

e experi
ence of the Teabioits Party with
nationalization.

Among these rero@the seer
that nationalization and the ac-

eae Ee “hey ‘conrad
control of publicly-

ments of the eco: ee = nate
ffective in basic ind ies; that
the worker in such stries is

is advertisement is not

we in in
affected little more than any
other member of the community.

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