“GET OUT AND VOTE"

By JACK MacKENZIE

Chairman, Political Education
Committees, B.C. Federation of
Labour and IWA Regional Council

Recent staff conferences of
the B.C. Federation of Labour
as well as the IWA Regional
Council No. 1, confirmed the
fact that trade unionists are
determined to replace the So-
cial Credit Government with
a New Democratic Party Gov-
ernment on September 12th.

Organized labour’s choice
in this election campaign is
clear.

The Social Credit Govern-
ment has collaborated with
management to restrict legiti-
mate trade union activities
and withhold vital social
measures.

New Democrats have stead-
fastly continued to champion
labour’s rights and are pledg-
ed to accomplish labour’s leg-
islative objectives.

By their voting in the Legis-
lature, the Social Credit mem-
bers have shown where they
stand on labour’s aims. At
election time, it is well to re-
member that politicians should
be judged by their voting rec-
ord and not solely by their
promises.

It should also be noted that

THE WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER is 3

the New Democrats’ slate of
eandidates includes well-
known and trusted trade
unionists.

Any analysis of votes cast
in previous elections indicates
clearly that if trade unionists
muster and exercise their full

voting strength, they can win
their objectives in this elec-
tion.

Our experience for the past
year again raises this ques-
tion: “Why fight the boss on
the picket line and then vote
for him at the ballot box?”

“PEOPLE FIRST”

The New Democratic Party
is pledged to bring about in
Canada a society in which the
material and cultural needs
of humanity will be fulfilled,
in order that each individual
will be enabled to live a satis-
fying and meaningful life.

These aims will be attained
only by the creation of a new
society founded on the princi-
- of demoeratic socialism.

present and its

of democratically ad minis-

tered institutions in order to
bring under public ownership

or control, our natural re-
sources and our basic indus-
tries. Such institutions will be
a part of a general economic
plan, in which socialist and
co-operative principles will
ensure the widest possible
consultation with the workers
involved. ;

The great productive forces
which have been developed
by the efforts of science and
labour must be brought under
social ownership or adminis-
tration in order that its bene-
fits be distributed to meet the
social needs of all people.

The New Democratic Party
will utilize all democratic

means to put into full opera-

tion this program of socialist

NOTICE

IWA members are reminded that the British Colum-
bia Elections Act provides for provision for voting when

absent from polling division and time off for voting.
SECTION 117

(1) Provision for voting by voter absent from his polling

The organizing experience ~

of trade unionists is invaluable

during an election campaign.

This is why we say that trade

unionists, if they will, can

carry the day.

Instead of merely beefing
about the way the Social
Credit Government has treat-
ed the workers, let us organize
and win our own political gov-
ernment through the NDP.

The job can be done if we
unite to take the following
steps:

e Step up and take an active
part in our constituency
campaigns to elect the NDP
candidate.

© Organize on the job to con-
vince our fellow workers
that an NDP victory is a
victory for labour.

© Volunteer to assist in the
canvassing of trade union:
ists, and the distribution of
NDP campaign literature.

e Contribute according to our
ability, to provide the neces-
sary funds that our story
may not be drowned out by
management’s huge cam-
paign contributions in sup-
port of Social Credit can-
didates.

© GET OUT THE VOTE
SEPTEMBER 12.

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division.

For the purpose of exercising his franchise, any
voter whose name is on the list of voters for one
polling division of an electoral district, and who is
absent from that polling division on the day on which
the poll is held, may obtain a ballot-paper in any
polling-place of the same electoral district and may
recone his vote in the manner provided in this sec-
ion.

Procedure to be followed.

The voter shall apply to the Deputy Returning Of-
ficer at any time between the opening and the closing
of the poll, and upon his making an affidavit in the
prescribed form, to be signed and sworn before the
Deputy Returning Officer, the Deputy Returning Of-

ficer shall furnish to the voter an ordinary ballot-
paper.

SECTION 200 — TIME OFF FOR VOTING
(1) Every registered elector of the electoral district who

does not have four consecutive hours free from his
employment between the hours of the opening and
closing of the poll on polling-day shall be entitled
to have such time free from his employment, without
loss of pay therefor, as may be required to provide
him with four consecutive hours between the open-
ing and closing of the poll on polling-day in which
to cast his vote.

Said period cf time shall be granted to each em-
ployee at the time of day that best suits the con-
venience of the employer.

Every employer who, without reasonable - justifica-
tion fails to grant sufficient time off to.an empioyee
or, having granted such time off, makes a deduction
in pay therefor shall be liable, on summary convic-
tion, to a penalty, in the case of an individual, of not
more than one hundred dollars and, in the case of a

corporation, of not less than two hundred and fifty
dollars.

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