by the district council. The resolution echoed charges already voiced in many camps when it stated: © “The union in British Colum- bia is now in danger, An attack has been iaunched on its exist- ence as an autonomous organiza- tion. This attack has not come directly from the employers—it has come from people within our own ranks, namely, from the international officers headed by James FE. Fadling and their stooges here in B.C. “These individuals have used our funds against our member- ship; appointed organizers whose job it has been to disorganize; failed to use organizing funds do- nated by the B.C. membership for the purpose of organizing Quebec woodworkers; made slan- derous charges concerning finan- cial shortages and attacked our district council in the boss press during critical moments in our recent negotiations.” The preamble to the resolution declared: ber industry of British Columbia belongs to us, the woodworkers. We will. not allow the bosses, the agencies of the government, nor the labor fakers to lay hands on it. We are determined that it shall remain autonomous through: “1Maintaining our right to de- eide union policies in Canada. “2-Holding our right to choose and direct local and district of- ficens. “3—Assuming full control over dian membership.” * * x? The district council’s decision to disaffiliate from the IWA and con- stitute the WIUC forestalled a plot involving’ the Coalition govern- ment, through its ICA Act, the op- erators and the Fadling clique, to .betray the union to the operators. Outline of this plot, as it is now becoming clear, hinged upon the outcome of recent conciliation ‘proceedings. The operators had fully anticipated that there would SOO BEOSOS SOL Port Alberni DIRECTORY - GOOD EATS CAFE 2nd Ave. South of Argyle There working people meet” 24 HOUR SERVICE UNION TAXI Phone 137 Frank Harris, Ist & Argyle R. D. TASSIE CHIROPRACTOR l17-Ist Ave. South ISLAND TAILORS Lowest Price in Town M. Yesowick, Manager : _ 103-Ist Ave. North MAS fag baa ‘OOD — SAWDUST — CO For all your fuel supplies ne 1187 — McGregor Bl (Continued from Front Page). built the ‘union—over the red-baiting, Wall Street-inspired: policies of the Fadling clique. As the Pacific Tribune went to press, several locals had voted in special meetings to disaffiliate from the IWA and join the Canadian union, with the membership of entire sub-locals unanimously endorsing the action in many places. This sentiment of workers on the job, numbers of whom had already approved resolutions. refusing per capita pay- ments to the international because of its policies, was a strong factor in shaping the disaffiliation resolution adopted “The existing union in the lum-! 4¥y preparation the funds contributed by the Cana- . 5 SUH ‘Stay on job’ The B.C. Lumber Worker re- ported this week that the “first action ofthe new Woodworkers’ Industrial Union of Canada wil be directed to removal of the re cent increase in board rates in Coast logging camps, backed by a, pledge of ‘tull moral and finan- cial support to any woodworkers who find it necessary to take ac tion to safeguard 1948 wage gains’.” : Union members affected were advised to “stay in camp where taney can most effectively pursue this struggie against the increase and bring it to a successful con- ciusion.” cll? iit NAR i be no settlement, and the fact that there are now more log booms in the water, the operators’ custom- tor strike, than there have been for years, points this up. The Fadling clique would use the financial charges that are now being given such prominence in the collaborating daily press, de- spite their being retuted by the audit of a firm of chartered ac- countants, and move to suspend the B.C. district and instal an ad- ministration in the course of the strike it was expected would fol- low collapse of conciliation. Then the ICA Act would be in- voked to secure government rec- oguition of the arbitrarily instaii- ed administration, clearing the way for enforcement of a settle- ment dictated by the operators. How closely the Fadling clique is linked. with the operatons is shown by the developments at Mis- sion this week which were com- pletely falsified and headlined by the Vancouver daily press, and the Vancouver Sun in particular, to give the impression that the Fad- ling clique had a majority support among the woodworkers. Officers of Mission Local 367 called a “stop work” meeting to discuss the action of operators ini raising board charges’ in logging | camps, thus wiping out the recently ; won wage increase, The question of | disaffiliation. from the IWA was not on the agenda because discus-' sion of this question required that all members be given special no- tice, as in locals where ‘dis- affiliation has been approved, But at Hammond, one of the very few strongholds of the Fad- ling clique which has spent a considerable amount of the Cana- dian membership’s funds “organ- izing’ a mill already organized some 300 workers were given the day off and they proceeded to Mission in specially arranged bus and taxi transportation. In the meeting when Mike Frey- linger, business agent, ruled dis- cussion of disaffiliation out of order, he was attacked and, thrown down the stairs after he refused to remain on the platform. Subsequently, Neil Shaw, IWA international organizer, announced through the Vancouver Sun that he had been appointed as business agent, that Scotty Dawson, Ham- mond, was the new temporary Rmemes RAST. 0340 Hastings Steam Baths Expert ifasseurs In Attendance GPEN DAY and NIGH! Vancouver, B.C. 766 E. HASTINGS chairman, and that Stuart Alsbury, | sadling’s chief lieutenant in Can-| ada, would act as adviser to the iocal “until new elections are held.” Actual fact is that affairs of the local, which has some 1,200 mem- bers, are being conducted from the union’s Mission office by Freyling- er and that the issue of disaffilia- tion will be decided at a properly called meeting, according to WIUC officials. Indication of how the vote will go has already been given by the unanimous decision of two Silver Skagit camps to join the wit. * * * How woodworkers are respond- ing to the call to disaffiliate from the IWA is shown by this partial picture obtained at press time: _ Local 80 (Duncan): Vote in three sub-locals 96 percent for the Wwiuc, Local 85 (Port Alberni): APL Camp 1 unanimous for WIUC, electing four delegates to constit- nent convention Sarita Bav camp also unanimors. Local 118 (Victoria): Majority > of sawmill workers already in WIUC, with logging camps ex- pected to follow. Local 71 (Coast): Has already disaffiliated, with question now before camps for endorsation. Two camps at Holberg, center of a bitter dispute around the board increase, have approved the disaffiliation resolution, Sand- spit, biggest camp in Queen Char- lottes, unanimous for WIUC. Of the two big sawmill locals, 217 in Vancouver and 357 in New Westminster, Local 217 has voted to disaffiliate and thousands of its members are bing signed up in the WIUC. In North Vancouver, the entire crews of three mills have re- voked their check-off to the TWA. Even in New _ Westminster, where the Fadling clique boasts its greatest strength, night shift mem- bers of the Fraser Mills sub-local have rejected Stuart Alsbury’s re- port on the district council meet- ing and voted to defer a decision on disaffilie tion, WIUC calls constituent convention their way into Vancouver daily newspapers which have. given over columns to Fadling’s slan- derous financial charges. Ty- Pical of their headlines was this in Wednesday’s Vancouver Sun; “Log- gers Voting To Remain With IWA” based on Fadling’s unsub- stantiated claims. These claims to have carried meetings involving less than a thousand men produced the Sun’s opening sentence, “Van- couver Island loggers and sawmill workers are voting over whelming- ly to remain with the IWA... .” The unprincipled role of the daily newspapers is matched only by the provocative and hostile attitude of some of the reporters and photo-. graphers assigned to cover besieged union offices, one of whom has been voluntarily acting as “finger- man” for sheriff’s deputies wait- ing to serve papers, As Bert Melsness, one of 41 un- ion officials named in injunction writs, was leaving the offices un- challenged, the photographer call- Few of these facts have found ed; “Hey, Melsness,” thus identify- ing him for a waiting deputy. They can’t fool you -- - it you read the Pacitic Tribune SV DSNOT COMPANY} RR ETI | res | ‘on7 | 99-8 (94-9 1950 | Iobe } SS sana y hte di “Be sensible man—we can’t possibly raise wages : until production increases, otherwise we'll have infla- tion. All this talk about high profits is just communist propaganda. You should be more discerning in the choice of papers you read”, : The Pacific Tribune is your paper... help it to grow | GE] A NEW READER TODAY! PACIFIC TRIBUNE—OCTOBER 8, 1943—PAGE 12.