4 WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER GUEST EDITORIAL Guide For A World In Torment (tara Social Encyclical issued by Pope John XXIII provides highly significant signposts for human advancement at this most critical turn in the history of mankind. Humanity now possesss the scientific knowledge and technical know-how for eliminating poverty, ignorance and illness. But in the hands of Communist dictators, bent on world conquest, this very knowledge and remarkable industrial progress have tended to menace mankind with the limitless horrors and destruction of nuclear warfare. Whole peoples who once meekly submitted to a foreign yoke and degrading poverty no longer accept their plight as a matter of fate. They are determined to win freedom from oppression and hunger, eager to build modern economies and improve their con- ditions. But this very laudable struggle for national freedom and economic progress is endangered by hypocritical forces seeking to exploit its efforts and sacrifices in the interest of the new Soviet colonialism. These are the great opportunities and the grave dangers so characteristic of our times. It is against this background of devel- opments that the social encyclical must be viewed. Its calm analysis and constructive proposals for meeting such complex problems of our times as socialization, the elimination or reduction of economic imbalance within countries and the urgency of just relations between nations in different stages of economic development will attract much support among peoples of all faiths. Labour everywhere will be deeply impressed by the encyclical’s rejection of the belief held in certain quarters that “socialization, Erowone in extent and depth, necessarily reduces men to auto- matons.” In view of what has been happening behind the Iron Curtain, free labour throughout the world will welcome the conclusion of Pope John XXIII that “socialization can and ought to be realized in such a way as to draw from it the advantages contained therein and to remove or restrain the negative aspects.”. Even the most “rugged individualists’’ will have to see the soundness and justice of the encyclical in stressing that “private enterprise must contribute to effect economic and social balance among the different zones of the same country” and that “public authorities . . . must encourage and help private enterprise, en- trusting to it, as far as efficiently possble, the continuation of the economic development.” The Social encyclical will arouse fervent approyal, especially in the developing countries, for its forthright and sound considera- tion of “probably the most difficult problem of the modern world .—the relationship between the political communities that are economically advanced and those in the process of development.” We are confident that the peoples of the free world will view with full favor the indisputable conclusion of the encyclical that: “Given the growing interdependence among the peoples of the earth, it is not possible to preserve lasting peace if glaring econo- mic and social inequality among them persists . . . We are all equally responsible for the undernourished peoples. Therefore, it is necessary to educate one’s conscience to the sense of responsi- bility which weighs upon each and every one, especially upon those who are more blessed with this world’s goods. Wherever labour is free to express its own opinion, it will hail the encyclical’s eloquent plea for social justice and its insistence that the “workers should be paid a wage which allows them to live a truly human life and to face up with dignity to their family responsibilities.” The international free trade union movement will certainly not fail to see the significance of the encyclical’s forceful support of the worker’s right to an effective voice in the running of industry and public economic planning. The social encyclical should have a most salutary effect on the ranks of free world labour. It should go a long way toward remov- ing the debris of prejudice left over from the lay-clerical struggles of the nineteenth century. Once the air is thus cleared, a most serious obstacle to the greater unification of free labour, especially in Europe and Africa, shall have been removed. Such higher free world labour unity was never more urgent than it is today when the Soviet imperialist threat to human freedom, national independence and world peace is sO grave. —AFL-CIO News Publication date of the next issue of the WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER is August 3rd. Deadline for ad copy is July 27th, and for news copy July 28th, i Bae Sate i [e a ringlly TWICE MONTHLY ON THE FIRST THIRD THURSDAYS BY eR Woodworkers of America S09 (AFL-CIO-CLC) Regional Council No. 1 2 REGIONAL OFFICERS: hoes af ’ ..» Joe Morris Ist Vice President . Jack Moore 2n) e-Pri Bo! Oss 3rd Vice-President Taek MacKenzie Se ROAR M NUCL gc a chtcerp chs nails emnnirart red Fieber International Board Members ....... . 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District Council, July 14. * * * Over one thousand - delegates are expected to attend the 11th Annual Convention of the Ca- nadian Congress of Labour in Vancouver, September 17. x x * The record of penalties im- posed on employers for non- observance of the accident pre- vention or first aid regulations, as submitted to the Sloan Commis- sion, disclosed that 53 official stop orders had been issued in the period 1931-1950. Three plants were closed down in 1950 until serious accident hazards had been corrected. * * * Sales clerks in Eaton’s mam- moth Toronto department store have pushed their long drawn-out organizing drive through lengthy Labour Relations Board hearings to final certification of their CCL union as bargaining agent for 11,000 of Eaton’s Toronto em- ployees. Local 1-71 fect euaen a resolution at their Executive Board meeting which opposed the sale of horse meat for human consumption. 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