THE WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER SASKATCHEWAN IWA A referendum ballot will be held by Local 1-184 IWA, Saskatchewan, to decide the members’ wishes on a pro- posed $1.00 per member per month dues increase. The proposal was approved by the delegates attending the Sixth Annual Delegated Meeting of the Local August 15, in Prince Albert, follow- ing the Officers’ Report which showed the lack of finances was hampering the proper servicing of the Local. Approximately forty dele- gates attended the conference. Guest speakers included IWA International president A. F. ‘Hartung and regional presi- dent Jack Moore. NOMINATIONS In the nominations held for local officers three positions were contested. Following is the list of those nominated and whose names will go out on the referendum ballot: President — G. M. Thomp- son, Roy Milligan; 1st Vice- President — J. Campbell, A. Powell; 2nd Vice-President — H. Doig, F. Sawicki; , Fi- nancial Secretary — S. Amos, (unopposed); Recording Sec- retary — H. Messenger (un- opposed); Warden — A. Pahlke, (unopposed); Con- ductor — J. Rosenfeldt (un- opposed); Six-Year Trustee — G. Miller (unopposed) ; Balloting Committee — W. Kowal, A. Laing, L. Thiessen. Other business of the meet- ing.included election of dele- gates to attend the IWA In- ternational and Regional Con- ventions and the Saskatche- wan Federation of Labour Convention. Delegates elected to the Regional . Convention were: H. Brigham, H. Doig, A. Pahlke. Delegates elected to the Saskatchewan Labour Con- vention were: E. Warnock, W. Potts, A. Laing. Glen Thompson was elected to attend the International Constitutional Convention in Toronto if the Local has the _available finances. HARTUNG President Hartung, guest speaker at the Local’s Ban- quet and Dance held on the evening of the 14th, spoke in support of the proposed dues increase for the Local. He stated that the money paid into the IWA has a greater job of servicing to do than that of the large unions such as the auto and steel unions. He pointed out that these unions can negotiate a con- tract for the whole industry but the IWA must negotiate with numerous small inde- REPORT pendent operators over a wide area. He added, “there is no better place to invest your money than in your un- ion so it ean function prop- erly.” MOORE As the main speaker at the meeting, regional president Moore also stressed the need for a union to have a healthy financial structure. In his ad- dress he reviewed the years beginning in 1924 when peo- ple were buying marginal shares in the Stock Market. Everyone was making money on paper until the great Stock Market crash of 1929 which set the pattern for the de- pression throughout the ’30’s when people quit buying and factories closed down. The Wagner Act which came into being then in the United States under Franklin D. Roosevelt forced employers to meet .with employees to bargain collectively. PATTERN This produced favorable conditions for organization of Trade Unions and thus unions sprang up in the United States, setting the pattern for Canada. Through the process of collective bargaining, such benefits as. annual vacations, paid statutory holidays, com- pensation and shorter work hours were achieved. Now we are faced with automation which is produc- ing greater wealth and ways and means must be found to share this wealth with the working people. Today, as the big corporations are building and merging, so must the working people join together to be strong. If we are.to meet the chal- lenges of the future, we must build our union stronger and merge with other unions in order to compete with these large corporations. A union can only function if it is healthy in mind and in finances. The IWA is a democratic union, Members have their choice of whom they want in office, but they must supply their officers with enough finances to do the work that is required of them. EE ee QUOTE As you go. along, the first things you reach are the bridges you weren’t going to cross until you came to them. —Baird, Texas, Star, quoted in The National Observer. FALLER \_ 7ree wilh ms Age SF. - Experien ¢ ve undercut \ Sages FELLED AND BUCKED x TREE BROKE oveR sloeways KULLING THE OTHER TREE - DISTANCE BETWEEN TREES side ways ' \ slump rol THE e - yrs ia asl and Salenor BC. 3whs, on BL. Coash FALLER WORKING AT 122 FEET Diagram showing the area where faller Romeo Label was killed August 31 while working at the Skoglund Logging Company’s Nass River camp. oe PROPAGANDA CAMPAIGN “A purposeful piece of campaign propaganda” is the way the Globe and Mail has labeled an 8-col. page-depth newspaper advertisement headed “The Canada Pension Plan and its Benefits.” With everyone conceding that the calling of a federal election is only days away, the advertisement looked like blatant electioneering paid for by public funds, according to opposition party organizers here, agreeing with the morn- ing paper’s viewpoint. The Globe and Mail editor- ial was headed “A campaign contribution” and was run below a! two-column cartoon caricaturing Prime Minister Lester Pearson. The cartoon, DID YOU SAY THESE BINOCULARS ARE A GIFT FROM COMMON- WEALTH TRUST, BOB? like the Liberal advertise- ment, was headed “The Can- ada Pension and its Benefits.” Paraphrasing the advertising copy, it went on, “Here is what the Canada Pension Plan will do for people like Lester Pearson, a 68-year-old Prime Minister who earns $865 a week ($45,000 a year) .” The original advertisement, “Gssued by the authority of the Minister of National Health and Welfare, Canada, The Honorable Judy La- Marsh”, pictured a steel- worker called Steve Saw- chuk. It started out by say- ing, “If Steve works full time until age 65 he can look for- ward to a monthly retirement income of $104.17 from the THAT'S RIGHT— BECAUSE 1 Just MOVED $2500 THERE...FOR MY MONEY COMMONWEALTH TRUST 1S THE PLACE FOR SAVINGS fh —HIGHER INTEREST RATES AND SENSIBLE WORK- | THINK 1'D BE WISE TO MOVE A7yY SAVINGS TO COMMON- WEALTH TRUST / A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE DOING JusT THAT, JOuN! 1 COULD GET A SONY TV FoR My BOAT! GO IN AND TALK TO THEM? Canada Pension Plan and $75 from Old Age Security — a total of $179.17 a month... . None of the information was new, it was already made available by the Department in pamphlets which received nationwide distribution. The G and M editorial said that the advertisement should have been paid for out of party funds, “not out of the pockets of people through general revenue. The use of party propaganda literature, masquerading as a public an- nouncement, is becoming a bad Government habit. If it does not stop, it will be diffi- cult to deny the right of Op- position parties to equal space at the expense of the com- mon purse.” TAKE A LOOK AT THIS— EVERY ONE OF THESE PREMIUMS IS WORTH HAVING! VANCOUVER: 562 Burrard, Hastings & Richards, Main & — Pender, 6373 Fraser, 1299 Kingsway. And in Victoria, — Kelowna, Kamloops, Prince George.