W. F. ALLEN President, Local 1-85, IWA, Port Alberni Upon discharge from the RCN, Walter Allen secured employment in the plywood section of the lumber industry, and was soon named an IWA Job Steward. In October, 1948, he was elect- ed Trustee, Local Union 1-85, IWA, Port Alberni. In the follow- ing year he was elected District Executive Board member and has since served his Local Union con- tinuously in that capacity. He has been a member of the District Negotiating Committee for 10 years. Local 1-85, IWA, elected him President in 1950, a post he now holds, having been re-elected in each subsequent election. He was elected an International Executive Board member from 1953 to 1960. REGIONAL CANDIDATES FOR INTERNATIONAL - EXECUTIVE BOARD MEMBERS FOR SIX-YEAR TRUSTEE ate y ae Fale ed JOE MADDEN International Board Member and. President, Local 1-357, IWA Joe Madden was discharged from the Navy in time to take an active part in the IWA strike in 1946. As a result, he was named Chairman of the IWA plant com- mittee in Pacific Veneer and Ply- wood Division, Canadian Forest Products, New Westminster. He served as International Organizer 1948-49. After holding the offices of 2nd and ist Vice-Presidents, he was elected President of Local 1-357, IWA, in 1954, and has occupied that post for each succeeding term. In 1957, he was elected District 1st Vice-President.’ He was elected an International Executive Board member in 1960. J. S. SQUIRE Regional Trustee and Recording Secretary, Local 1-85, TWA . John Squire joined the IWA in 1942, while working as a machinist at A.P.L. He was elected Finan- cial Secretary of Local 1-85, IWA, Port Alberni, in 1948. He resigned this position in 1951, and was elected Local Vice-President in 1952. Following the IWA 1948 revolu- tion, he was appointed District 2nd Vice-President. He also served on the Port Alberni City Council from 1950 to 1953. In 1956 he was elected Record- ing Secretary of his Local Union and has retained this position ever since. : He was elected CCF-MLA for the riding of Alberni in 1952, and re-elected in 1953, 1956, and 1960. Publication date of the next issue of the WESTERN CANA- upsurge in the United States earlier this year. Since that time United States industrial production has made very slight gains, reflected in the unemployment figure of 5.3% of the American work force. Housing starts fell sharply during the summer, as they have in Canada. Retail sales are sagging in both countries, when allowance is made for seasonal factors. “In Canada there has been a similar pause in growth. In- dustrial production rose dur- ing May but has failed to make any comparable gains since. In midsummer the av- erage weekly hours worked were below the higher levels touched in previous months. “The Diefenbaker austerity policies have only aggravated the plight of the Canadian workers.’ Not only is unem- ployment greater in Canada than in the United States but we suffer from restricted credit due to the tight money policy. Business failures are becoming more common. “Tariff surcharges placed on imports have raised the cost of living, now rapidly climbing. This is placing a curb on consumer b Still worse, Canada’s trade policies have invited retalia- tory measures on the part of United States. We lumber workers may be the chief vic- tims. A powerful lobby of American lumber producers at Washington has forced dis- cussion between the two gov- ernments of quotas on Cana- dian lumber. As the United States is our best customer, we well know what will hap- pen to our jobs if lumber ex- ports are cut back.” LUMBER EXPORTS TO THE U.S. “As a Union, we have op- posed quotas on Canadian lumber shipped to the United States. The imposition of such quotas on Canadian lumber would enormously increase unemployment in our ranks, and would not increase em- ployment for our brothers across -the line. “The tremendous publicity campaign put on by the large lumber interests in the Paci- fic Northwest to convince the American people that the im- “The large ber producers of the Northwest are fomen antagonism towards Cana- dian lumber importation as they eventually want to create a situation by which they can force the federal government of the United States to turn over for their exploitation the remaining forest wealth of the Pacific Northwest which is now pro- tected in the form of National Parks and National Forest Reserves. “Tt is true that through the outright purchasing by large companies of smaller ones and by the large companies fore- ing their smaller competitors out of business that many of the smaller and more ineffic- ient mills in the Pacific Northwest have closed down but this has not really meant See “MOORE” — Page 6 REWARD YOURSELF DIAN LUMBER WORKER is October 18. 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