< ane a VOTE Vote on June 18th! Vote for the New Democratic Party candidates! This is the considered advice of the IWA and the B.C. Federation of Labour in membership conven- tions. Never has it been so important that trade unionists nee demonstrate their political strength at the polls. The reasons are plainly to be seen. Support of the New Democratic Party will give the trade unions an opportunity to gain objectives which year after year are fought for at the bargaining table and on the picket lines. The New Democratic Party is the only party in this election campaign which is pledged to eradicate the evils of unemployment by definite plans to introduce a full employment program with both immediate and DE Ranee projects to give everyone the right to a job. The New Democratic Party is the only party which will uphold labour’s rights in regard to free collective bargaining and fair labour codes. Because labour shared in the creation of the New Democratic Party, and the development of its policies, the protection of labour’s rights are thus guaranteed. Support of the New Democratic Party is the most effective means of fighting anti-labour legislation. The New Democratic Party is the only party which has kept its promises about comprehensive medical care. Witness the stand taken by the Saskatchewan government, and the fact that the other parties have promised medical care for years without action. In addition, the New Democratic Party is pledged to introduce immediately a complete social security plan with portable and adequate benefits upon retire- ment from active employment. The New Democratic Party is the only party which clearly expresses the aims of organized labour opposed to the use of nuclear arms on Canadian soil and by Canadian forces. At labour’s suggestion the New Democratic Party proposes to enact a Consumers’ Bill of Rights. It is the only party which is prepared to protect con- sumers’ rights by safeguarding them against fixed or inflated prices, and unscrupulous victimization by high interest rates. ; The New Democratic Party offers new leadership in the person of T. C. (Tommy) Douglas. Tommy Douglas led Canada with the first Bill of Rights, the first hospital insurance, low-cost public auto-insur- ance, comprehensive medical care and the greatest co-operative movement in Canada. He is the only political leader in this campaign who has made good on all his promises. He is the only political leader who can give the trade unions freedom from employer-dominated gov- ernments and economic rule by the corporate elite. These are all sound reasons why every trade union- ist should vote on June 18 and persuade all his fellow- workers to vote. When at the ballot-box, consider your own interests and you will vote for your New Democratic Party candidate. Publication date of the next issue of the WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER is June 7. Deadline for ad copy is May 24, and for news copy May 25. WLU SI PUBLISHED TWICE MONTHLY ON THE FIRST AND THIRD THURSDAYS BY International Woodworkers of America (AFL-CIO-CLC) Regional Council No. 1 REGIONAL OFFICERS: Py CER th brat anced etcetera ve encircle Ist Vice-President .. 2nd Vice-President .. 3rd Vice-President .. Secretary-Treasurer ... ie gst, International Board Members 2.0.0.0 .000. 20 0 teens «Joe Morris . Jack Moore DS ss Bob Ross . Jack MacKenzie atntenvninen Fred Fieber couve» Joe Madden Jack Holst Address all communications to FRED FIEBER, Secretary-Treasurer 2859 Commercial Drive, Vancouver, B.C. TR 4-5261 -2 Subscription Rates ................$2.00 per annum Advertising Representative.........G. A. Spencer horized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Dept., Ottawa, aaa ae and for Payment of Postage in Cash, f 27.500 COPIES PRINTED IN. THIS ISSUE ee on sVAYS ment, global disarmament. Only Radiation Danger Stopping War Now A Norwegian physicist has told the Canadian Nuclear Association that there is no chance at all of banning nuclear arms by international agree- Only effective contro] of the H-Bomb, he said, was through complete Dr. Gunnar Randers, a leading nuclear scientist and managing director of the Norwegian Institute of Atomic Energy, said the only thing stopping immediate use of nuclear weapons was the after-effects of radiation. ILGWU Backs New Party Election The International Ladies’ Gar- ment Workers Union in convention here endorsed Canada’s New Demo- cratic Party and the union’s Cana- dian wing will contribute $11,000 to the party in the current election drive. Of this amount, $5,000 will come from the ILGWU’s Canadian funds and $6,000 from the Canadian membership. The union’s Canadian co-ordinating conference, meeting here during the ILGWU’s 31st con- vention, pledged wholehearted moral and financial support to the New Democratic Party and called on the 18,000 Canadian members to work for the party during the election campaign. Major Role Addressing the convention, Cana- dian Labour Congress President Claude Jodoin, predicted the New Democrats would play a major role in Ottawa after the election. Unions in Canada, he said, had found it necessary to involve themselves in politics because of increasing legis- lative repression as exemplified by revised labour codes enacted in British Columbia, Alberta and New- foundland. Si Bresner, of Montreal, ILGWU organization director, charged that British Columbia’s Social Credit government had “crucified the lab- our movement to the point that em- ployers are able to use the province’s Jabour laws to smash unions almost at will.” Bresner reported that ILGWU organizing efforts were being foc- ussed on the Canadian lingerie and C. J. MURDOCH Please Contact Jackson at Suite 6 — 855 Thurlow St. Vancouver 5, MU 4-6045 children’s wear industries where the largest segment of the country’s 16,000 unorganized garment workers were represented. He described these industries, centred chiefly in Quebec and Ontario, as the “sweat- shops of 1962.” Okanagan-Revelstoke. FRANK HOWARD (IWA), Skeena. TOM BERGER, Vancouver-Burrard, MRS. MARGARET ERICKSON, Vancouver-Centre. HAROLD WINCH, Vancouver-East, ARNOLD WEBSTER, Vancouver-Kingsway. PHIL. WADDELL, — WVancouver-Quadra. ’ CLIFF GREER, Vancouver-South. HARRY FANTHORPE, Victoria. 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