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Editorial

Vital Question

THE incisive remarks of Senator Wayne Morse during his

recent visit to Vancouver to open Woodworkers’ House
made a profound impression on all who heard him. His
words regarding international tensions had all the greater
significance because of the important role he has played on
the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee investigating
the U-2 incident, and the Summit Conference failure.

His warning that nuclear war will destroy civilization
within the next decade unless world statesmanship takes a
new course cannot pass unheeded. Ultimatums and counter-

ultimatums will not bring peace.

He pointed to the fact that a small group of men either
by design, accident or carelessness can trigger the holocust.
“There will not then be time to avoid general destruction,”
he said, as he called for a moratorium on war.

He dedicated Woodworkers’ House to the cause and

challenge of human freedom, and spoke of the need for:

citizen statesmanship.

Such appeals together with the pressure of events have
stirred people in the Western World to consider just how
much freedom they really have, how much love they confer
upon it, and what faith they really have in it.

Governments elected by the people as responsible to
the people have not held themselves as accountable to the

people. Incidents which illustrates this tendency on the part
of Governments are too numerous to mention. Recent fiascos
relating to the security of the country make this lesson plain.
Essential information is withheld from Parliamentary bodies

without which they cannot govern intelligently.

In Provincial affairs, where national security is not at
stake, the most astounding indifference has been shown
toward public responsibility in such matters as electric
power, and the northern railway development. Members of
the Legislature are expected to function merely as rubber

stamps.

No section of the public has greater cause for alarm than
the trade unions. Governments have set aside time-worn

principles of freedom to satisfy the clamour of the organized
employers.

A nation cannot speak effectively in the cause of freedom
while denying it within its borders. A people cannot be ex-
pected to gird themselves against dictatorship, while sub-
jected to dictatorial methods.

The vital question of the day is whether we as a people
will in fear fail to preserve democracy, or whether in
accordance with our traditions we have the confidence and
courage to exercise our rightful freedom.

Morse Bill Proposes
Senate Pay Cut

United States Senator, Wayne Morse who recently opened the
new IWA Regional headquarters Woodworkers’ House, has
proposed to the American Congress that the members take a pay

cut to 53c per hour from their $22,500 a year plus extras.
Morse told the Senate that he was going to introduce such a

bill because the Senate labour committee did not approve a $1.00-
an-hour minium wage for laundry workers.

Publication date of the next issue of the WESTERN CANADIAN
LUMBER WORKER is July 6th. Deadline for ad copy is June 23rd

and for news copy July Ist.

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“Perhaps A Good War
Would Help”

The following are the first two paragraphs of a story carried
on the financial page of the May 28 Ottawa Journal, under the
heading TORONTO BROKERS FED UP—

Toronto brokers are fed up.

Even the failure of the summit conference and the darkening
international situation did not shake any life into the stock market
this last week, and those who were optimistic about the market’s
near prospects now are beginning to change their minds.

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