THE WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER

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THE holiday season has always been a

time of gift giving, good will and
merrymaking. On December 25 the
Romans celebrated the winter solstice:
that time after the dark days of winter
«when the sun began to shine for a longer
time each day. The ancient Teutonic
peoples observed the great mid-winter
festival of Yule with traditional feasts
and new year rites.

Then as now, work and business were
suspended for a time. Streets became
full of people moving with a holiday
spirit. Cries of season's greetings could
be heard everywhere, and gifts of all
sorts were exchanged.

Today for young and old alike the
custom of exchanging gifts is one of the
highpoints of the holiday season. Gifts of
all sorts, sizes and shapes have become
symbols of our affection for one another.
Everyone seems to share in the fun of

is one gift that is

But there
sometimes overlooked during the
holiday season that can mean the dif-

ference~ between life and death for
someone in need: the gift of life — blood.

For some people this holiday season
will be a time when they will need blood
desperately. Only with your help will
they receive the blood they need. They
may never know who you are or why you
decided to give your blood, but your gift
of life will be a Christmas present they
will never forget.

Remember to give your blood through
the Red Cross during this holiday
season. There’s no better way of sharing
the holiday spirit than by keeping
someone alive through your gift of blood.

If your gift of blood can mean the
difference between a Merry Christmas
and no Christmas at all for someone in
need, why not give? Blood is a gift that’s

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WRITER
SUPPORTS
HIS UNION

It is not without remorse that
I read in the Lumber Worker
report on the Convention that
the staggering sum of $21,000
had been spent to fight the
P.P.W.C, raids against the
IWA.

John Dickinson said: “By
uniting we stand, by dividing
we fall’. I have known
breakaway groups and they
are trouble. Let us — you and
me — make our union strong.
Our Local union is as much
Canadian as any Canadian
union. The only difference is
that we have the backing of the
International headquarters —
and the benefits of In-
ternational backing far offset
the menial sum we pay to the
International.

If we are not satisfied with
the way our Union is being run
then there are many things we
ean do. We could start by at-
tending the meetings. We have
the democratic right to vote
into office whoever we think fit

Vancouver Island.

Courses include:

Public Sector.

charge of the School.

CLC WINTER SCHOOL

The Canadian Labour Congress and B.C. Federation of
Labour’s joint Annual Winter School will be held January 30
to February 4, 1972, in the Island Hall Hotel, Parksville,

Shop Stewards’
Parliamentary Procedure and Public Speaking; Union
Administration (building your union); Industrial Relations
-and The Law Today; Political Action; Unionism In the

Ron Tweedie, CLC Regional Director of Education, is in

Training;

to do the job properly. But too
many of us, myself included,
are like the fool who, upon
finding a counterfeit dollar in
his wallet, threw away all his
money. We seem to be content
to sit on the sidelines and let
someone else run the show,
until something is not to our
liking — then listen to us bitch.
Oh yes, then we have all the
answers. Too bad we only
speak our minds in the lun-
chrooms and the can — and the
latter is the place where such
opinions belong. Why not go to
those meetings and say our
piece?

I feel that many of our
members are basically just
plain lazy. We would like to

know what is happening but.

we'd rather watch the TV and
let someone else do the work —
we'll just reap the benefits.
Let’s go to those meetings
fellows. We must let our of-
ficers know that we stand
behind them — especially now.
Times are critical now with the
upcoming negotiations.

And in conclusion I’d like to
say, let’s get to those meetings
and support our Union.

Gerry Massop
Local 1-85.

GRACE MaciNNIS WINS NEW HONOUR

_ Grace MacInnis, the New
Democratic Party MP for
-Vancouver-Kingsway, has
; named by the well-known
Paris magazine Marie-Claire
as one of the 50 most important
‘women in the world.

Mrs, was the only
Canadian among the 50 chosen
bya vote. among Marie-Claire

ce pondents in 30 countries.
~The selection was based on
1a — influence on the

life of their contemporaries,
and advancement of women’s
rights by success in a field
traditionally dominated by
men.

Other women on the list
range from publisher
Katharine Graham and an-
thropologist Margaret Mead to
national leaders like Indira
Ghandi, prime minister of
India, and Golda Meir, prime
minister of Israel.

Mrs. MacInnis is the only
woman in the House of Com-
mons, and she is well known as
an advocate of women’s rights
and a crusader for consumer
protection.

Last May Brock University
conferred an honorary LLD on
her and in November she won
the Woman of the Year Award
of the Toronto chapter of B’nai
B’rith.

LABOUR GROUPS WARN
CANADA FACING CRISIS

A joint conference of four
labor federations from western
Canada issued a ~ press
statement that Canada ‘is
facing the most serious
economic crisis since the 1930s
and that the federal govern-
ment under Prime Minister
Trudeau ‘‘deliberately created
the major part of the unem-
ployment from which so many
hundreds of thousands of
Canadian families are now
suffering.”

The conference was_ held

‘November 30th under the

sponsorship of the Canadian
Labor Congress in Vancouver.

Forty delegates attended
from the federations in
Manitoba, Saskatchewan,
Alberta and British Columbia.
These federations represent
about - 300,000 trade unionists.

The statement reminded the
public that the prime minister,
elected on a three percent
unemployment platform, later
boasted that he was prepared
to adopt policies which would
create an unemployment rate
of six percent. He succeeded.

Now the situation has been
worsened ‘‘by the adoption of
new economic policies by the
United States.”

The government’s ‘‘ill-
considered policies’? have
particularly affected the
young.

The conference quoted the
recent report of the Economic
Council of Canada that failure
to meet the job needs of young
Canadians ‘‘will produce
serious economic and social
strains in the 1970s.” ©

“As the Council points out,”
said the statement, ‘“‘Canada
with the fastest growing labor
force in the industrialized
world, will need 1% million
new jobs to provide work for
young people coming into the
labor force in the 1970-1975

continuing high
unemployment. gives little
hope of this objective being
achieved without major
changes in policies.

Organized labor supports the
EEC position that greatly
increased growth rates are
needed.

“The federal government, in—

consultation with the
provinces, should act without
further delay in doing
everything possible to relieve
the plight of those who are
already victims of unem-
ployment and instituting both
short and long term economic
policies and programs which
will protect the economic in-
dependence of Canada and
assure all Canadians of the
opportunity to work.”

February 4, 5 and 6.

LOCAL 1-367 NOTICE

Local 1-367, Haney is holding a Wages and
Contract Conference in the I.W.A. Hall in Haney,
January 8, 1972, at 10:00 a.m. to formulate Local
union contract demands and elect 5 delegates to
the Coast Wages and Contract Conference on

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