Editorial :

A MATTER
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PRINCIPLE

i [as IWA acted in the best trade union tradition when

__ it arranged air transportation for loggers who were
unwilling to travel on the strike-bound PWA.

Loggers who refused to cross the picket line of the
Flight Attendants’ Association upheld a long-recognized
principle of trade union conduct. It became the responsi-
bility of the IWA to assist them in observance of this
principle. Refusal to cross the picket line involved great
inconvenience and expense for many in their circumstan-
ces of employment.

It is a unique situation which required a unique
solution.

The importance of the step taken by the IWA in sup-
port of its logger members was demonstrated by the
action of the Air Transport Board in placing a ban on
IWA chartered flights. It became obvious that the IWA
action would defeat the strike-breaking tactics of PWA.
Pressure was exercised to secure the cancellation of the
IWA service. The order completely disregards the civil
rights of the IWA to charter planes from.a licensed air
line for its own purposes as legally permitted for all
individuals and companies engaged in lawful enterprise.

The IWA was subjected to rank discrimination only be- .

cause a strike situation existed.

The resulting stalemate raises a number of questions
for IWA.members for which there are simple and ob-
vious answers.

1. The PWA strike is a legitimate strike for wages
and working conditions on the part of an affiliated union.
Business interests have combined to defeat the strike.
The strikers required the support of ordinary PWA pas-
sengers to make their strike effective. Loggers, tavelling
to and from their employment, form a large percentage
of these passengers. Loggers could win or break the
strike.

2. A legitimate strike anywhere in B.C. indusiry is
of vital concern to workers anywhere in related opera-
tions. A strike is an indispensable weapon of last resort
in the struggle for better wages and working conditions.
This struggle must be won on a common front; it can
only be won by full working-class solidarity. Self-in-
terest alone demands that all workers rally to the sup-
port of any one group under attack. A defeat for one
union is a defeat for all unions. Today it is the PWA
workers, tomorrow it may be the IWA members. Victory
for the PWA workers is a victory for every member of

the IWA.
3. The slogan “ONE FOR ALL AND ALL FOR ONE”
embodies a principle even more important in modern

industry than in the early days of trade union struggle.
It must be given effect on-a larger scale because of the

closer inter-relation of industrial operations and employ- |

ers’ combinations.

Trade unions are all under a massive attack by the
organized employers, for no other purpose than to de-
stroy trade union strength and thereby cut wages. The
employers single out the weaker unions to accomplish
their purposes, so the strong must help to bear the bur-
dens of the weaker or the strong will soon be weakened.
The defeat of one union is a defeat for all unions.

The trade union movement is built on the ties of
brotherhood born under common oppression and in a
common struggle for economic rights and freedom. The
ideals of brotherhood are not to be trampled on in this
cynical age, for such ideals, when given expression,
realistically lighten the burden of the toilers.

In its support of PWA strikers, the IWA served the
economic self-interest of its own members. Underlying
the IWA action was genuine recognition of the principles
of a great brotherhood which stands strong and united
for the rights of all workers struggling for decent living

and working standards.

Money Entering Canada

The sum of $282,000,000 entered Canada in 1962 as a result
of stock and bond transactions between Canada and other
countries. More than seven-eighths of this came in the last
three months, on the heels of the financial crisis when confi-
dence was lost in the Progressive Conservative government.

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Fifth Annual Convention
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IWA, wish to apologize to
Brother Lloyd Lilje for incor-
rectly stating in their Hos- hospitalized
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