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'ywood industry —

ae i a e Union thas struggled ning

’_ raising the cry that me is pricing our country
out of world market:

What sta tement ‘ould be more untrue than
this, when all of-u

n
feudalistic system, where they wi e being denied
mentary freedom of aeeOaita aud determina-
Coming farther west, we have seen the Royal
Be scmutesion set up in the province of Ontario to
pee nto the nae ot eno ur unrest, and pre-
mably, make Teas respecting
reste Tetlation in cae
And here, of course, in oes ‘Calsinpie we
have seen a enactment of the Trade Union Act,

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REGIONAL OFFICERS:
President. ..... eee 08) Morria
Tat Viso-pesid ‘ack Moore
2nd Vieo-President eek, panos

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aid its maker:

Unions things that
they hitherto had been guaranteed by law.

This raises a question in the minds cn Trade
vos and their leaders as to where we go
fro Lee

a ace that our ven will mo idly
sit e ‘atid allow the hard-won freedoms of the
muet to be taken away from thent by the legislators

of the Pies tars or Se future. If we are to be giv

the choice between the freedoms fe
known in the on » aS against some small measure
of additional ae ity that ay in the

in
future, I am confident that our Deon will choose
the SRercetlen of their freedom.
We have seen, in ue last EN, a growing sup-
port for the idea o w political party in Can-
ada—a party that be adequa tely and accurately
reflect she needs of i eople—a pay broa
based on the rere industrial and white-
collar woes supporte: by large atone within
the educational and professional field.
t th

: Howard ®
To Aid
Rights

nk Howard, CCF-M.
from Skeena, amo en
that he wil fu
tl

ung 1
ae to aah ie
undustia Relations and Dispute:
vestigation Act in such a way as
to ee the sid Act applicable is}
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rile
lockout. These particles
are 21, 22, 23, 24, and 2
The Bill also provides that the
recommendations

Board for decision instead, as Mr.
Howard puts it, “having to follow
present ‘cap-in-hand’ ap

of a poliviea’ sneer whose purpose will 2 to
pr eserve ial and democratic principles

es of ne nation — a party whose objective will
be to return to the peop the means by which,
through the elected machinery of the nation, they
can con ae rol the destinies and policies of our gov-
ernm

ee are things of the past year
look to the coming year with the
i through our
union to create the moral force within the com-
munity that will he preservation of the
democratic process within our ae n.

We gether to deve-
lop a polic: ill be in
tune with the needs of oun members, ae will fit

live. We must always remember that
greatest single weapon we have for the fulfilment
of the needs and desires of ae people is through

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rine Sent to a oe on which our organiz

ation was founded, then I am confident that

will eventually achieve Bae ourselves the Eee

tha ee set so many yea:

Ss with this confidence & in the future that
d

eh,
the officers of be Regional Council to wish every
member of our organization and their families
a Happy New ‘Year,

Howard
effect on the

would come into
Ist of aie ne which is the
next Governmental

start “of the
fiscal ye:

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Board

The general counsel of the
National Labour Relations

unilaterally
ae ae conditions of ” jasalere

Alex B. Macdonald jam

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