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Unwarranted

Tom Boylan, Vancouver, B.C.,
writes: A meeting of Canadian
White Pine workers was held at
Woodworkers’ House recently
The announced purpose of the
meeting was to discuss “Plant
Problems.” A good thing in it-
self especially when it concerns
the interest of the union. This
unfortunately was not the case.
What actually took place was an
unwarranted attack on the plant
chairman. He was accused of
violating democratic procedure,
being arbitrary and bureaucratic,
failing to live up to the constitu-
tion, denying rank and file voice
in policy, accepting direction by
conforming to a plan cooked up
behind the backs of the member-
ships, usurping the authority of
the plant committee by failing to
consult with them, etc, etc.

It is worthy of note that this
type of action took place although
the plant chairman in his report
mentioned a number of items
facing the plant committee of con-
siderable interest to the mem-
bership, Not a single one of the
items was discussed. As far as
the interests of the members
were concerned they got zero,
As soon as the plant chairman’s
report was on the floor for dis-
Cussion the fireworks started.

He was questioned as though he
were some kind of hidden agent.
Everything he did was wrong.
Nothing was said about the unity
and militancy of the member-

Ship that brought home its best

Contract, Nothing was said about
the militant leadership given by
the plant chairman that undoubt-
edly contributed to the winning of
this agreement. Nothing that is

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by his critics who ought to be
ashamed of themselves, He did
have firm support from active
union members who voiced strong
support, and rightly so, for his
conduct in the fight against the
empldyers,

Developments in
pulp and sulphite

Walter Tickson, Nanaimo, B.C,
writes:— The recent development
in the pulp & sulphite union have
placed on the agenda numerous
questions that require urgent
treatment, At the Harmac mill at
Nanaimo the workers walked out
of the International by almost an
unanimous decision, Rumblings
are heard at other mills,

In talking to the workers in-
volved in this move one finds
that they did not walk out because
of any outside agitation or raiding,
but it was the lack of democracy
within the International union that
caused it all, The Harmac work-

-ers, in the majority are not op-

posed to the principle of inter-
national trade unionism, to inter-
national co-operation.

What they are opposed to is the
dictatorship of the international
office, the made in U.S.A. policy
of interference. It is awell known
fact that the International rep-
resentatives who are appointed
by the U.S. side, do use their of-
fices to water down the workers’
demands for more money, shorter
hours & better working condi-
tions,

When asked the question,
“would it not be better in the
interest of trade union™unity to
remain in the International and
fight for Canadian autonomy, the
right to elect Canadian represent-
atives by Canadians to interna-
tional office?”

The replies of course are
varied but in the main, amount
to this; that there must be unity

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of purpose for real unity to pre-
vail; that there must be democ-
racy. Anything short of this is
acquiescence, Secondly, the con-
ditions obtaining in the Interna-
tional made it difficult if not
impossible to win the demands
by a normal trade union demo-
cratic process as the elections
were not conducted by areferen-
dum ballot.

Thirdly, the walkout of the
Harmac workers cannot be con-
sidered a split in the pulp in-
dustry as there were for
some time now two unions in the
industry (29 locals in the U.S.
and 5 in B.C.) This is only an
extension of the action taken by
the 30 locals previously, 30,000
members have pulled out of the
International union, yet the In-
ternational, while mouthing
phrases of unity, has failed to
date to invite the breakaway union
to sit down and negotiate a unity
agreement,

More than that they have failed
to grant the demand for Canadian
Autonomy and democratic rights
to the locals that have remained
within the International, This can
only lead to further disafillia-
tions, :

It is generally agreed by pro-
gressive trade unionists thatitis
not that International trade union-
ism is wrong, but the lack of
democracy and Canadian auton-
omy that is wrong, :

It is also agreed that division
in the trade union movement is
bad, But now is not the time to
argue whether the 30,000 pulp
mill workers should have disafil-
liated or not, Itis a living reality,
Now is the time to set the stage
for unity of all woodworkers,

The first step should be tocall
on their local, regional and in-
ternational officials to convene
meetings of all unions in the
woodworking industry with the
view of affecting a merger,
Further steps can be taken by
calling joint membership meet-
ings of Pulp & Sulphite, (Inde-
pendent) Paper Makers, I,W.A.,
Pulp & Sulphite (International),
Carpenters etc., to discuss
mutual problems,

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