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WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER

“MOORE SPOTS ISSUES”

should prepare to share more
equitably in the enjoyment of
the goods and services which
will flow more abundantly
from automated production.

“We must also negotiate
better working conditions,
4dAhat every member of our
union may work with self-
respect, good health and
safety. We now have a good
agreement, but it is far from
perfection.

“When all this is said and
done, let us face the fact that
it profits nothing to negotiate
a higher wage and decent
working conditions for an
IWA member whose job is
cut from under him by a new
machine. How can that man
profit by a higher wage rate

MORE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS HAVE BEEN WON BY MEN WEARING DAYTON BOOTS

TROPHIES . . .

DAYTON

MANUFACTURING CO. (B.C.) LTD.

and better conditions in a
plant which has closed its
doors to his employment?

“Without mincing matters,
let us admit that we can’t
bargain for jobs that are van-
ishing before our eyes. Be-
fore it is too late, we must
make sure that jobs don’t
vanish.

“It can now be said that
the worker and his hand-
work is the basic surplus in
our affluent society. This man-
power surplus is our greatest
liability at a time when, as
a nation, we seek our rightful

place among the rival trading
blocs.

“There is no longer any
alternative to reduction of the
hours of work. In company

with other unions in Canada,
this must be one of our major
objectives.

OLD ARGUMENTS USED

“The AFL-CIO in the
United States has launched a
campaign for the 35-hour-
week to alleviate unemploy-
ment. As might be expected
this has met with determined
opposition from the powerful
employing interests. We
should consider AFL - CIO
policy as we make our own
plans in Canada.

“The arguments used
against any reduction in the
hours of work are word for
word the same which were
used against any reduction of
the 70-hour week, which we
worked not so long ago. The

employing corporations have
learned nothing from the fact
that they have grown pros-
perous with each successive
reduction of the work week,
until the 40-hour week be-
came the standard.

“T suggest that the IWA
should immediately link plans
in this respect with those of
all our affiliates on the con-
tinent and set a target year
for its achievement. As the
7-hour day becomes a _ bar-
gaining issue of every union,
the economic advantages will
be plainer to the general pub-
lic. In the meanwhile, the
IWA is committed to steps
which will reduce the work
schedules by longer vacations
and hence a shorter work
year.”

THAN ANY OTHER KNOWN MAKE!

BEAR THIS IN MIND NEXT TIME YOU

DANNY SAILOR, WORLD TREE CLIMBING CHAMPION SINCE 1953,
HOLDING HIS DAYTON’S, WHICH HELPED HIM WIN ALL THESE

SHOE

2250 EAST HASTINGS ST., VANCOUVER

A. F. HARTUNG
‘IWA International President

BUY BOOTS

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