B.C. LUMBER WORKER Warning Timely warning has been given by IWA Di: eiict Secretary-Treasurer George H. Mitche steps must be taken nyenent’ in Sheds to eae the designs of the organized em- ployer: It Ves now become obvious that after the pro- aganda presse Soret upon thi 'S prepare to de- mand a Jarger share of Ais rapidly retiaatie profits now in sight. The TWA Officer said in par « 2 5 & es 5 5 Q 3 3 g ° (ei S 3 5 ® g 3 co = =a ® eo s a nine various ade and other employer-controlled organ- izations, and understand the menacing threat in store for the unions. once, but many times, these organizations ounced the intention “to ‘curb the By they: have existed as ach ue more ee, a century r the Balivciples ¢ of ‘British justice. months takes on all the unreasoning Lanes ree dencies of the 1937-39 attack of Hitler oe fis col- untries well, e olitic: chaeianains has been fo i measures to rdestroy: trade unions. wp phe employers’ campaign against the t: The Arbitrary Wage Line Act next session in order to curb labor’s existing ‘ights. Not one of these Employers’ political parties hav: shown any understanding of the fact that conlective bargaining is established national policy. Collective bargaining is the onli sane and democratic way to j ing conditions enone nat a modern indus’ (f labor is deprived of the right at Bits collective bargaining will become a mocker. Serie only possible result would be, with the empl Pais i dace Cyesait mood, that organized Jabor Weal be co: omnpletale at the mercy of employers’ arbitrary dictates, when they sit down at the bargaining table. Against the use of the employers’ superior econo- mic ania the organized Workers would be compelled to 0 accept whatever terms might be offered without any it, an- £ 6 = cI is é a =| They we eve that they have influenced a sufficient body of cunion in support of nesttichive legislation to compel nm by the party in hay suaded all the political parties t the CCF, to adopt their ideas and plans for the ftroduction of legislation to ee trade unions at the next session of the legis- unify and inten- sity their struggle o ront to ensure that wage income esens pace with 3 rising productivity, profits, and price-fixing. a ‘ial convention of the conserya: to indicate any fr ‘iendly attitude toward organized fe bor’s established x ‘ights. ent days members of the Social Credit Pro- vincial Cabinet have made known privately and pub- icly their intentions to re-open the Labor Relations Sporadic illegal Brotests would be inevitable, and surely not one of our most arrogant industrialists wot ould propose that ihe: aire working force ao be sent to work on the employers’ terms at the it of the bayonet or under threat of police bat Lona Trades Union Congress ;| Has 9 Million Members ee LAZARUS URNEMOUTH ‘PA)—The first thing that im- again, it has become the acta pone of a pass to entence men idl of the street- Dorn ee: ae Issue A Gallup poll on unemploymen ousted Ay the News Chronicle n the first day of the convention prewea that this is the key issue in the public mind at the present time. to 75 per cent of all P none at as present time. general election is called Sika the next year, as the Labor Party expects, General Election Labor Dae chairman Tom Dri- berg told the convention in his fraternal address that it BO 1- pressed me immediately iG the opening session of the 90th] oct certain a east Conference of the British Trades Union Congress bere WAS |tion would be fought before the the oe ee of the a legates. next © TUG) convention | rolled The convention of und and that “despite the ups t featerial Hes ates from, the 4 A and downs of newspaper polls, a | Tuc ie aitendal the 195s CLG] composite Resolittion: aaa am sure that Labor can and will nyention in Winnipeg, as print- A composite resolution adopted | win.” , | by the convention declared “its At the saa Prime Minister to Hetonst econ pularity has recov- | made iby ithe (Couneties Hen ish e of Apparently the con’ the conduct of the two conven- UMBER WORKER is October 2nd. 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Rae chief ecnestp of the trad unions in Britai ©) be made moreibis for them to of Bole hig and increasing unempley-|¢p say fn atnce in Canada, there has been a sexing resistance by employ- | v and pee supported by He gov- A recent report by a|be the Cohen Council has virtually urged a return to old-fashioned economics whereby oblesiness is er the chief brake agains wage|ment bigger thas box since the war.