THE WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER

UNIONISTS THANKED FOR SUPPORT

Dear Sisters and Brothers:

We wish to convey our ap-
preciation to all members of
affiliated organizations who
have contributed to our cam-
paign to bring a HEALTH
CHARTER FOR CANA-
DIANS closer to reality. Ef-
forts to date have had the im-
mediate effect of publicizing
the campaign to a wider
audience but the need now
is to enroll more people and
more organizations into active
support for the objective.

As we had anticipated, the
medical associations and in-

Surance companies have been
lobbying to win support from
various provincial govern-
ments for the introduction of
legislation that protects their
own private and selfish inter-
ests. Such legislation can only
have a detrimental effect on
the overall urgent need for a

HEALTH CHARTER FOR
CANADIANS.

In the meantime we are de-
sirous of having signed post-
cards returned to this office
as quickly as possible. The
number returned as of April
21 was 37,593. We are aware

that in addition a number of.

cards have been mailed di-
rectly to the Prime Minister,
but this is still obviously not
a large enough number to
really impress the Govern-
ment with the importance of
this matter. We are hoping,
therefore, that you will do
everything in your power to
step up the campaign and
bring it to a successful con-
clusion as quickly as possible.

Again, thanking you for
your co-operation and enlist-

ing your continued support,
GEORGE HOME, Director,
Political Education Dept.

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NEW SALVATION

By M. J. FENWICK
Vice-President, Ontario Federation of Labor

| | haa eee has become synonymous with salvation

— collective and individual,” an adult education
journal affirms. How many in the labor movement are
prepared to accept this new maxim?

We are told workers of the future will continue to
require higher and higher levels of skill and technical
knowledge. They can look forward to constant retraining,
upgrading and learning of new skills and even new
occupations.

Federal-provincial worker training programs have
been available for the past five years. Yet few union
leaders and their unions are aware of their existence. The
10 joint programs are vegetating from lack of use. Even
though the programs are largely subsidized by federal

funds, their acceptance by labor and industry has been
negligible.

To rescue the training programs from their doldrums,
the Canadian Labor Congress Advisory Committee on
Manpower Training is recommending to congress officers
that they call a conference of top union leaders which
would decide on official policy for the labor movement
to pursue.

The CLC advisory committee believes the labor
movement must declare itself in this important area ac-
tivity. The poser boils down to this — to train or not to
train industrial workers whose jobs have become obso-
lete, the unskilled, the semi-skilled and the youth enter-
ing the labor market?

Some craft unions are openly hostile to training ac-
tivities believing they can result in a surplus of trades-
men which would upset the fine balance in the labor
market between supply and demand. Industrial unions
have barely scratched the surface in implementing skill
development programs.

If labor is interested in the job future of the Cana-
dian worker, it must begin grappling with the problems
arising out of our emerging technological revolution.
Workers are the chief victims of mechanization and auto-

+mation. They are the ones who-are losing jobs. . .

The union movement must put its own house in
order and establish a positive relationship with the vari-
ous worker training programs. Otherwise, it cannot suc-
cessfully indict government and employers for doing
little or nothing in the area of worker training.

DODOGoS

NOT FREE TRADE

“In the modern tradition of misleading labels, it’s no
wonder then that we are all talking about the ‘free trade’
scheme in autos and parts being thrashed out by Canada,
the U.S. and the big automakers...

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mania)

“It is a beginning, but won’t be free trade. It won’t be
anything close to free trade. It shouldn’t be called free trade
by any one with any regard for accuracy.

“It apparently will be — if it comes off — a government-
directed attempt to rig auto prices and markets, without
benefit of tariffs and taxes. In short, a government-sponsored
cartel.”

UNION MADE

—Jack McArthur in Toronto Star. Januarv 14. 1965

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