2 THE WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER ae _

> are here to stay with all the hardnesses and suspicions
| built into their adult personalities by the bitter resistance
= they encountered in their childhood .. .

|. “By now, and looked at with some attempt at ob-
= jectivity, a trade union occupies a place in our society
| somewhere between that of a trading corporation and

a public utility. Like a trading corporation, its central
purpose is to make the best bargain (the most profit)
it can for its members...

“ |. . They are social welfare organizations. They
collect money to be held in trust for pensions and death
benefits. And, like a public utility, they can strangle a
whole province, or a country, if they cut off the supply

MEETING OF THE OLIVER SUB-LOCAL members of Local 1-423. Centre picture shows they control.” —Ernest Watkins, Calgary lawyer, in
Sub-Local Secretary, Melvin Bousfield, left and Chairman Vic Fast officiating at the meet- CANADA MONTH, December 1963.
ing. Photos were taken by Local 1-423 Financial Secretary, S. A. “Bill” Muir. MOMMA

SE a nN eS ae

INDIAN CHIEFS OF THE
PACIFIC NORTHWEST

No. 4 of a unique series
of pioneer photographs by
PERCY BENTLEY, F.R.P.S., of
Dominion Photo Co., Van-
couver, taken around the
early 1920's at one of the
rare tribal summit meetings
of that era. Only two sets
of these COPYRIGHT photo-
graphs are in existence, and
we are grateful to Mr.
Bentley for permitting us to
reproduce them.

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_. ARTISTRY IN Cy // LEATHER

MAKERS OF THE FAMOUS “LIGHT CRUISER,” WINNER OF 11 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS