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EXECUTIVE BOARD OF LOCAL 1-
dent (centre) and Clayton Walls,

THE WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER

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right), at the Local’s meeting in Cranbrook February 15.

405, IWA, with visitors Jack Moore, Regional Presi-
International Assistant Director of Organization (front row,

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1

"Strikers Face New Intimidation’

yours. The same Company
pays a base rate of $1.49 an
hour in its plywood plant in
Grande Prairie.

“The Company has tried to
operate its plant with scabs,
some of them imported. The
scabs are herded into the

plant with RCMP protection..-

ANOTHER shift may now
use more scabs.

“Our pickets have been on
duty every working day from
6 a.m. till 6 p.m., often in
below-zero weather.

“This desperate fight in a
low-wage area is being fought
by a few men against starva-
tion wages. We don’t want to
work at such low wages to
produce lumber in competi-
tion with the lumber you pro-

duce in B.C. If we do, we are
hindering your fight for bet-
ter wages. When your em-
ployer scabs against us, he is
scabbing against you.

“Remind Canadian Forest
Products Ltd. in your present
negotiations that you can’t

trust a company that scabs
the IWA anywhere!”

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1

“Negotiations.

plants, new machines. This

raise living and working stan-
dards to acceptable levels.

“Everything hinges on the
united determination dis-
played by the Union’s mem-
bership”, said the spokesman
for the Negotiating Commit-
tee, Regional President, Jack
Moore. “The need for our
proposed contract improve-
ments is glaringly evident.
We have the facts which
prove that the industry’s pros-
perity warrants more gener-
ous treatment of the workers.
We must now convince the
employers that the workers
to a man mean business about
these demands. Before we are
through we must demonstrate
that the employers are not
dealing merely with ten men
but with twenty-six thousand
workers who will go the limit
to gain a square deal.”

It is learned that the high-
priced advertising agency ex-
perts at the service of the
employers are preparing a
propaganda barrage to preju-
dice public opinion against
the Union. As they lack the
usual poverty plea, they say
that the huge accumulated
profits are required for fur-
ther capital expansion—new

means, in effect, says the Un-
ion, that the lumber workers
are expected to continue sub-
sidizimg such expansion out
of their low wages.

The net worth of all com-
panies, representing capital
gains has already expanded
enormously out of undistri-
buted profits. Notwithstand-
ing the increase value of the
investment made largely out
of profits, the surplus earn-
ings are now at a record high.
Capital expansion and a rea~
sonable return on investment
is still possible after the
workers get their just share,
it is argued by the Union.

The Union ’s negotiators
have pointed out that the em-
ployers have an advantage
in their use of the press, radio
and television. The most ef-
fective counter-propaganda
must be the constantly stated
opinion of IWA members on
the job and in their commun-
ities. “Watch for the employ-
ers’ stooges on the job”, they
warn.

All told, this year’s nego-
tiations will make history for
the IWA.

ESTROUS TTT

income for tax purposes!

HULU

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HANEY

Prosperous Canada?

“In 1961, the last year for which figures are available,
only one out of four Canadians earned enough to report

“With an acknowledged work force of 6,500,000, this
would leave two million not earning enough to pay an
income tax — or nearly one in three.

“Of those who did earn enough, almost 900,000 re-
ported incomes of between $2,000 and $3,000, a pitiful
earning level in today’s high-cost Canada.”

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