THE WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER |

MEMO
FROM
MATHER

SOUTH OF THE BORDER: The U.S. presidential election
and the almost equal division of the popular vote between the
two main candidates, offering little or no choice of program or
policy, points to the healthier situation this side of the border.
Here, in the NDP, there is a tangible alternative to the two old
parties, an alternative of a progressive nature. In the U.S. the

only alternative was even more reactionary than what was
offered by either old party.

ANTIDOTE TO DRUG PRICES: There is no doubt about
the reason for the high prices Canadians must pay for prescrip-
tion drugs. A. very well-organized moneyed group, the Phar-
maceutical Manufacturers Association of Canada enjoys
monopoly control over the drug industry ... PMAC members
simply charge all that the traffic will bear . . . NDP Solution —
Establishment of a crown corporation which would manufac-
ture and distribute certain important and basic prescription
drugs. It could achieve high economies of scale in production
by initially supplying all hospitals and public agencies in
Canada.

BARRY MATHER IS NDP-MP |
FOR THE RIDING OF SURREY _

BUCK PASSING ... Insurance companies will have to pay
more, (as for years the NDP has argued they should), under
the Benson budget. Or will they? The Finance Minister prac-
tically invited, if such an invitation was needed, the msurance
industry to pass on the increased taxes to the consumers, i.e.
their policy holders, in the form of higher premiums. Oil,
mining companies and land and stock speculators retain their
tax privileges .. . maybe because they are not so able to pass
the tax cost on? If the “private enterprise” system was really
competitive the taxpayers might benefit from, and the insur-
ance buyers might escape from the higher insurance taxes.
What will insurance cost this time next year?

DID YOU HEAR THIS ONE? A couple from California,
visiting Winnipeg, parked in front of the Manitoba Legislative
Buildings and used the electric outlets placed there for winter
car plugging, to run their electric shaver and electric toaster.
They were so pleased that they wrote the Manitoba Govern-
ment... “Nowhere have we encountered such thoughtfullness
for tourists such as you have provided in front of your Capitol
Building in the form of the electric convenience outlets for
plugging-in electric shavers.

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Critics of The Labour
Statesman, the Federation’s
bright and attractive news-
paper lost out in their bid to
have the paper fold.

The paper, formerly pub-
lished by the Vancouver La-
bour Council, was taken over
by the Federation a little over
a year ago. Since that time,
the circulation of the paper
has been boosted from 4,800
to 65,000 each issue and the
pages from eight to sixteen.

The main criticism directed
at the paper centred around
the political advertising ac-
cepted during the last federal
election. Numerous speakers
charged that the Federation
had no right to accept political

‘ads from the Liberals, Con-

servatives and Socreds, when
labour was committed to sup-
porting the New Democratic
Party.

Other speakers condemned
the publication’s financial
losses and its contents which
they stated were not topical.
They also scored the lack of
news coverage for other parts
of the province.

The majority of the dele-
gates, however, appeared un-
moved by the criticism and
endorsed an executive pro-

STATESMAN SURVIVES ATTACK

DEBATE ON THE LABOUR STATESMAN at the Fed-
eration Convention is closely watched by Fed’s top officers
and Statesman editor Jurgen Hesse. Group left, Hesse,
Ray Haynes, Jack Moore, Al Staley.

posal to keep the paper oper-
ating.

This proposal suggested that
affiliated unions buy the paper
at five cents per copy “on a
voluntary basis.” The paper

is now distributed free. The
executive stated by doing this,
and continuing the policy of
accepting all advertising at
the present time, the paper
could pay its own way.

LOCAL 1-357
SICK LIST

Sisters A. Archibald and K. Man-
sour of the LA of Local 1-357 IWA
New Westminster, visited the follow-
ing patients in hospital from October
19 to November 13, and distributed
candy, cigarettes and copies of the
Western Canadian Lumber Worker.

A. Jones, Fraser Mills; A. Elliott,
Crown Zellerbach; D. Ross, Pacific
Veneer; G. Moore, retired; K. Ander-
son, Shake & Plywood; V. Price, re-
tired; T. Gordan, Pitt Lake; P. L.
Gingus, Crown Zellerbach; G. Burden,
Vancouver Plywood; V. Yates, Paci-
fic Veneer, retired; E. Blundquist,
Rayonier, Marpole; Gelowitz, B.C,
Wedge; H. Hawreliuk, Crown Zeller-
bach; A. Sauve, Crown Zellerbach;
J. Bengtsson, Scott Paper; J. Mat-
thies, Pacific Veneer; N. Bananow,
Ocean Falls; J. Dirkson, Timberland;

A. Sundvick, Crown Zellerbach, re-

tired; H. Vato, Pacific Veneer; R.
Verrall, Kamloops Paper; L. Bou-
thot, Crown Zellerbach; E. Fraht,

Crown Zellerbach, retired; H. Henry,
Timberland; G. Thomas, B.C. Forest;
M. Sopel, Crown Zellerbach; E. Salo,
Industrial Services; D. Marshall,
Crown Zellerbach; W. Swartz, Rayon-
ier; C. Watts, Supreme Shingles; G.
Tibergbien, Nalos Lumber; C. Stam-
berg, Rayonier;’ R. McMyn, Flavelle
Cedar; T. Bryant, F. R. Flanagan; A.
Dicaire, Crown Zellerbach.

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MORE MEMBERS NEEDED
TO BOLSTER UNION RANKS

British Columbia unions
were told that they should
step-up their organizational
activities and enlist more new
members into union ranks.

The organizing committee
of the British Columbia Fed-
eration of Labour, in a report
to the annual convention, said
that, while the 44 per cent of
British Columbia workers
now in unions is well above
the national average it was
still far from satisfactory.

“Tf Canadians are really
serious about a ‘just society,’
much more attention must be

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paid to those thousands and
thousands of workers still un-
able to enjoy the benefits of
collective bargaining,” the

committee said.

While trade union member-
ship had grown, it barely kept
pace with increases in the la-
bour force. Present provincial
labour legislation was a seri-
ous roadblock in organizing
efforts.

The committee recommend-
ed the creation of a pro-
gramme which would enable
unions to move more quickly
and efficiently when organiz-
ing opportunities arose.

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