“The Workers’ Friend’

Because.I own the Morning Press, it must be very clear,
That my advice is good advice, for working men to hear.
The fact that I’m a Millionaire, and will be to the end,
Just proves I have no axe to grind; I am the workers’ friend.
The kindly, honest toiler wouldn’t doubt where he belonged,
If selfish Union bosses didn’t tell him he’s been wronged.
—The workers’ good is understood by selfless men like me;
The owner class—not Union brass—will keep the worker free!
The right-to-work’s a goodly thing, ennobling to the soul,
To sanctify this hallowed right, is every owner’s goal;

Each man must be forever free to work where he is told,
And at what pay the owners say his labour should be sold.

From crass reflections on his wage, the worker must be saved;

Let him be pure, and long endure, by Mammon unenslaved;

The fact is known and can be shown, an increase is but dust;
Who gets a raise, he pays and pays—an economic “must.”

There was a time—another clime—when Unions had a place;
That time is passed, and now at last, let owners set the pace.
Who else would heed in thought and deed, the workers’ inmost

cause?

—And if they won’t accept this, LET’S TIGHTEN UP THE

LAWS!

Education Classes

Meet With Success

Local 1-417, IWA, Financial
Secretary, Cliff Michael, reports
that the three- local members
trained by the International Re-
search and Education Depart-
ment to act as education instruc-
tors in the Local Union, have
met with complete success in
their classes to date.

The members, Dick Larson,
Vavenby; R. Schlosser, Merritt;
and Cliff Michael, Salmon Arm,

state that they are holding their
classes in their own homes and
that the attending students appear
eager to see these courses con-
tinue.

The new instructors also praised
highly the splendid job the Re-
search and Education Department
is doing in training instructors
and the promptness in which the
Department sends out material
when requested.

Amendments
Approved By
Pipe Crew

Local 1-252, IWA, Financial
Secretary, Vic Forster reports
that a meeting of the crew of
the Pacific Coast Pipe Com-
pany Limited, unanimously
agreed on the proposed amend-
ments to the present contract.

These amendments include
seeking a wage increase of 25c
per hour, plus a reduction of the
five year period for the three
week vacation to three years, The
negotiating team will be com-
prised of Al. Anderson, John
Clancy and Financial Secretary,
Vie Forster.

Secretary Forster has _ also

added as an item of interest that

Printers of

THE B.C.
LUMBER WORKER

J.W. Bow & Co.

LIMITED
PRINTERS AND

‘the membership of Local 1-252,

IWA (formerly the B.C. Woaod-
workers) are commencing their
seventeenth year without having
a strike. He states that on the few
occasions that a strike vote was
necessary, the membership vote
has always been close to 100%.
This type of concentrated ac-
tion, Vie Forster

sponsible for bringing up the basic

stated, is re-
rate in the detail millwork, sash
and door, to $1.84 per hour.

Alaska Bears
Grow Big

Alaska’s brown bears are the
biggest meat-eating animals
that walk the earth. They are
a prominent feature of Katmai
National Monument, site of
the Valley of Ten Thousand
Smokes.

The male sometimes stand
nine feet tall and weigh 1,500
pounds — about three times
the size of a lion or a tiger.

|imatically adjusts itself to lighting

What's New

For You

YOU CAN CARRY your green-
house around if it’s made of poly-
ethylene film. The quonset-shaped
portable greenhouses come in two
commercial sizes—one is 8 ft.
wide, 3 ft. high and 5 ft. long, the
other 11 ft. by 3% ft. by 5 ft. —
and weigh about 25 Ibs. A 1-in.
air-space between two layers of
film acts as insulation. Greenhouse
permits three different field crops
to be brought in as much as two
weeks ahead of normal maturity
in each growing season, maker
says.

oo * *

FOCUS AND SHOOT: That's
all you need to do with a new 35
mm camera that has all the
features of a professional camera
without its complications. It auto-

conditions. An indicator in a com-
bined rangefinder and viewfinder
window shows you when there is
too much light or not enough
light for perfect pictures.

x * x

NO DUST gathers on a smooth
paint surface coated with a new
water-like fluid. The coating fills
in the microscopic pores of a
seemingly smooth surface, pro-
ducing a slickness which leaves
virtually nothing for dirt to
adhere to. It can be sprayed,
brushed, roller coated, mopped, or

wiped on, It’s been Held tested |
for industrial maintenance, but is |
not yet available for the home-|

owner, |
x

TIRE PRESSURE can be read]
any time if you have a German-
made guage. it’s screwed directly
to’ the tire valve left there
permanently. The gauge is
removed even when washing the}
car. It is small, inconspicuous,
and weights under % oz., so that
re-ballancing the tires is not
needed, the maker says.

and

‘k th

HI-FI HEARING AID offers a
98% greater range of reproduced
and amplified sounds than is pos-
sible through present transistor
hearing aids, maker says. It covers
four octaves, unvoiced consonants
SUCHMAS Maths mnt eSit ean dealin
yet weighs only 2 oz.

% * *

STOP SQUINTING at your old-
fashioned hard-to-read thermo-
meter every time you want the
right temperature, says Chicago
firm. It has a pocket-watch design
thermometer that can be clearly
read from across a room. It’s
encased in a _ simulated old-
fashioned pocket watch case with
a 24-in. matching chain. It
measures 714 in. .wide, 9% in.

|

Symbol of Good Baking

high; records temperatures from
-30 deg. to 120 deg. F.

not |--

pits B.C. LUMBER WORKER

re,

peepee Pr

Because some unknown thief
had been looting money from
parking meters police in Salt
Lake City asked citizens to
report anyone seen tampering
with the metal boxes.

EAMON PARK, Assistant National Director of the United Steelworkers,
instructs his class of students in ““Labour’s Position On Economic Issues
In Collective Bargaining,” during the CLC Staff Conference and Winter
School, January 25-29, in Parksville, Vancouver Island.

We Bet No Motorist
Called The Police

Uf,

Diligent citizens responded
so well that one authorized
meter collector was picked up -
for questioning three times in
the same day.

N

j
a

Nova Scotians are statistic-
ally shown to be the nation’s
best rum drinkers, but they are
among the worst consumers
when it comes to milk. Indeed,

Maybe We Like Rum Too

only the British Columbians,
for some unknown reason,
drink less of this nutritious
product than we do.

Halifax ChronicleHevrald

METAL SORTER can discrimin-
ate between different metals that
look alike without costly, time-
consuming and complicated test-
ing. It differentiates between
inconel and_ stainless _ steel,
zircaloy-2. and zironcium, and
zircaloy-2 and hafnium in the
twinkling of an eye. You rub a file
against the metal and this gener-
ates a tiny current which is
slightly different for each metal.
The machine detects the dif-
ference.
* * *

MUSICAL BIRD perch starts
to play when a pet bird alights on
a bar to admire itself in an
adjacent mirror. When it flies
away, an automatic shut-off stops
the music. The perch hangs in-
side a bird cage. Swiss musical
movement can be wound easily
from _ outside.

* ™ bd

SCIENTIFIC TOYS: Model
missile soars up 400 ft. and de-
scetids by parachute. The kit in-
cludes a missle, launcher and three
motors. Bumblebee kit makes a
true-to-life model of the insect,
but eight times life size. Electronic
computer circuit is assembled with
nuts and bolts, operates on a
single flashlight cell. Kit instruc-
tions can be grasped by a 12-

FRESH DAILY

at your favourite food store

GENERAL BAKERIES LIMITED
Kingsway & Boundary Rd., Vancouver

year-old, maker says.

ltems Of
Interest

By all geological standards, the
Mexican volcano Paricutin is dead
and will not become active again.

* * *

Providence Canyon, near
Lumpkin, Ga., is a miniature of
the Grand Canyon.

* x *

The U.S. Army has a crane
which can be parachuted from the
air and can lift more than its own
weight—which is eight tons.

* * * t

Britain had 1,258,000 visitors
from overseas in 1958, a seven-
per-cent increase over 1957.

ee * *

Anchorage, railroad and high-
way centre in Alaska, also has
French, Dutch and Scandinavian
airliners stopping on trans-Polar
flights. -

% * *

The tiny fig moth is the sole
agent by which the Smyrnia fig
is polinated.

* * Pa

Although it’s subtropical,
Bermuda is the most northerly
coral atoll in the world.

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CREDIT UNION DIRECTORY

IWA Credit Unions and other Credit Unions
supported by IWA Local Unions in B.C.

Alberni District Credit Union, 209 Argyle Street, Port Alberni
IWA 1-217 Savings, Broadway & Quebec Streets, Vancouver 10
IWA (N.W.) Credit Union, Room 21, 774 Columbia Street,

New Westminster

Local 1-118, IWA (Victoria), 904 Gordon Street, Victoria
Chemainus & District Credit Union, Box 229, Chemainus
Lake Cowichan and District Credit Union, Lake Cowichan, B.C.
Courtenay Credit Union, Box 952, Courtenay

Duncan & District Credit Union, Box 1717, Duncan

Prince George & District, 1046 -4th Avenue, Prince George
Nanaimo & District Credit Union, 499 Wallace St., Nanaimo
Ladysmith & District Credit Union, Box 154, Ladysmith, B.C.
United Lobour Credit Union, 1475 East 43rd, Vancouver