‘THE officers and members of District. Council

No. 1 extend the Season’s Greetings to the
officers and members of the IWA Local Unions
in British Columbia and Alberta. With these
greetings goes the earnest wish that all IWA
members and their families may experience
every joy in their observance of the Yuletide
Season.

Fraternal greetings appropriate to the sea-
son, are also extended to affiliated unions with-
in the Canadian Labor Congress. The IWA
wishes for them, not merely a bright and merry
festive season, but the full realization now of
their desires for happier living.

All those who maintain IWA_ activities,
whether on the job, or in the Local Union, may
relax from their round of union duties for a day
or so with a clear conscience.

The IWA has not failed in its mission to ac-
complish the betterment of their circumstances
for those who produce the forest wealth in Brit-
ish Columbia. The record may be scanned with
pride and satisfaction.

IWA greetings at this season have meaning,
because the deed has backed the word in a
greater and more effective ministration to the
well-being of the lumber workers.

The solidarity maintained by the Union’s
members has served to overcome opposition to
the Union’s purposes. This solidarity, based on
mutual service, has harvested better working
conditions, and in many sections, better income.

The Union has recorded a year of notable
progress. It may be said with pride, that many
thousands of the workers. represented have
gained important and beneficial results from
the Union’s championship.

The negative as well as the more positive
values should here be mentioned. It is clear that
the conditions now enjoyed, might easily have
been lost, but for the vigorous defense made by
the organization.

As a result of the merger, the Union now
shares the greater possibilities before the trade
union movement-in Canada. We have forged a
weapon that will serve us well in the future. We
are expanding organization over a wider area.
We are organizing more of the unorganized. We
have cemented the loyalty of thousands through
close attention to their needs.

We have won the grudging respect of the
employers. We have convinced the general pub-
lic that our aims are identical with those of
community welfare.

With this new-found strength our responsi-
bilities expand. Urgent problems still await
solutions. Objectives that were described as
Jong-range objectives a year ago, have moved
with startling rapidity into the foreground.
Revolutionary changes are on our doorstep, by
reason of automation.

We must develop in our ranks the leadership

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B.C. LUMBER WORKE

required for changing conditions in the years
ahead. The conservation of the resources on
which our employment depends will require
that we act with vision.

Notwithstanding the formidable nature of
these problems, we may engage in the Yuletide
celebration without undue anxiety. Our Union

lems of an era of rapid change.

As an organization we have earned the right
to speak of the Christmas spirit, because
throughout the year we have devoted ourselves
to the deeds which give reality to the sentiment
of the’season’s greetings.

All of which we mention to prove that our
hearty wishes for a Merry Christmas are some-

was never better equipped to meet the new prob- _

thing more than the conventional word-saying. -

RANDOM SHOTS —

From London, Associated Press reports that when Anthony
Eden spoke to a2 Young Conservative rally on his Suez policy,
one heckler was “hustled off by detectives” and two others were
“rushed out”, while Eden observed from the platform: “It
would be a dull world if we all thought the same way.”

ness is preferred.

At the same meeting, Eden accused the Russians of “nau-
seating hypocrisy” over the Middle East. We couldn’t agree
more—but we would prefer to see the kettle reproached by a
somewhat less tarnished pot.

For sheer, unadulterated gall, however, this month’s prize
goes to Pravda, which has rebuked President Tito of Yugo-
slavia as “a man showing tendencies to interfere in the affairs
of other Communist states”.

We have been trying for an hour to think of an appropriate,
printable comment on that one. Unfortunately, none of the ap-
propriate words are printable, and none of the printable ones
hegin to do it justice.

Apparently at Young Conservative-rallies, however, dull-.

‘The child prodigy finished he
piano selection and her do
father foolishly asked a b
visitor. “And what do you
of her execution?”

“When is it going to be?”
the eager reply.

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