1st Issue, September

B.C. LUMBER WORKER

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‘AFL-CIO’

Distillery Workers received
money in connection with. union
welfare funds and the AFL-CIO
ethical practices committee said
that published reports provided
reason to believe that the union
“may be dominated, controlled or
substantially influenced in the
conduct of its affairs by corrupt
influences”. The executive council
adopted the committee’s report
and ordered the Distillery Work-
ers to show cause “forthwith”
why it should not be suspended.
The case against the other two
unions was felt to be not so
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Other measures dealt with by es
the council included an order to
all affiliates to stop issuing char- 4
ters to “paper” locals. Both the} %
Teamsters Union and the Allied| {,
Industrial Workers are among
unions which have issued such
charters in the past. Such char-
ters, the council stated, can be| | S
used to “shake down” employers]. _, en
and they give “a black eye to the
labor movement”.

The 96,000 - member Brother-
hood of Locomotive Firemen and
Enginemen were accepted into
the AFL-CIO despite its practice
of discriminating against Ne-
groes. AFL-CIO President George
Meany said at a news conference
that he realized that such dis-
crimination violated the AFL-
~CIO constitution and that the rail’
union had not changed its policy
as a condition of admission but

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“We shall not be moved”, was
a two-hour CBC radio production
broadcast last Oct. 1. It told of
the life and struggles and finally
of the judicial murder of Joseph
Hillstrom (Hill’s real name) by
the authorities of the State of
Utah earlier in 1915. The brilliant
production was applauded by or-
ganized labor. Communist publica-
tions, claiming that Hill—a mem-
ber of the Industrial Workers of
the World—was a spiritual fore-
bear of their party also were loud
in their praise of the program.

- “lll Never Die”

OTTAWA (CPA)—Reference to a Canadian Broadcast-
ing Corporation dramatized play on the life of labor mar-
tyr Joe Hill led to a heated argument between CCF and
Social Credit members in the Commons just before Parlia-
ment was prorogued for the summer. The play was de-
scribed by Socred Leader Solon Low as “Communist in-
spired” and “Communist in every way”.

Shot to Death

Commenting on the CBC de-
scription of the play, Solon Low
said that a suggestion that Hill
did not commit the crime for
which he was shot to death—
despite appeals for clemency from
the President of the United States
and many other oustanding in-
ternational figures—was subvers-
ive. Low, who with his fellow
Social Credit member John Black-
more (Lethbridge) have been

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routing out “reds” and “Turkic-
Mongolian red conspiracies” for

many’ years said: “The courts

said he committed it. The courts
gave him a fair trial. He was
convicted and his appeals were
heard and his sentence was car-
ried out, a sentence of death for
murder.”

At this point, CCF trade union-
ist M.P. Harold Winch (Vancou-
ver East) asked: “Are you talk-
ing about Joe Hill ... You are
not fit to lick his boots.” Replied
Low: “My hon, friend naturally,
being a communist, would say
that here.” Later both members
agreed to withdraw their state-
ments from the record.

Early Martyrs

Clarie Gillis, coal miner M.P.
from Cape Breton, also came to
the defence of Joe Hill. “Joe Hill
was one of the early American
martyrs in the establishment of
unionism,” he said. “. .. I am
convinced that Joe Hill was not
guilty of the crime he was sup-
posed to have committed.”

He said that if Low was look-
ing for subversives in the CBC he
would find them there. “If you
are looking for stars you look up
and you see them. My interpre-
tation of that play wotild be this:
First, the Joe Hill incident took
place before there was a commun-
ist party, but the communists are
smart in fastening on to anything
that has propaganda value.

Sacrificed His Life

“My view of that program
would be that during the period
in which the Joe Hill incident
too kplace, certain maladministra-
tions of justice could be perpe-
trated. People were not allowed -
freedom of speech; they were not
allowed to organize and, as a re-

sult, Joe Hill was one of the peo-

pl¢é who sacrificed his life in or-
der that freedom, the right to or-
ganize and democracy in industry
should take place.

Today in the United States the
things he visualized have become
legal. It is impossible today in
any part of the civilized world to
commit what I think was a mis-
carriage of justice on the same
grounds that it was committed at
that time. One has only to look
back and compare the conditions
of those days with progress at
the present time, Me