You‘re a ‘Red’ if you touch their profits! A study of the profits being made by British Colum- bia lumber barons shows why they are exerting every effort, both inside and outside of the IWA, to destroy the leadership of the union of the woodworkers. For IWA district president Ernie Dals- i kog, vice-president Harold Canada of 18.3 percent in 1946. Pritchett, second vice-president CANADIAN WESTERN Hjalmar Bergren, secretary- LUMBER CO, LTD. treasurer Jack Forbes and other: 1947 profit before tax was militant leaders are speaking $856,566 compared to $2,519,- for the membership in demand- | 428 in 1946, or an increase of 219 ing a bigger share’of those pro- | percent. Return on capital and } fits to ensure that the wood- Surplus ($5,142,229) was 157 per- workers who produce them will cent. be able to live at least on mini-|B-C. FOREST mum standards of health and , PRODUCTS LTD. decency 1947 profit before tax was ., | $4,545,380 compared to $1,037,958 Employees of H. R. MacMil- in 1946 or an increase of 371 per- lan Export Co., Ltd., for ex-| ‘cent. (Since this company only ample, produced an average net! onerated for eight months in profit before tax of $3,112 for 1946 the 1946 figure quoted is for the Boek pst Nea cince ayoraee ‘comparison purposes only and wage js close to $1,574.41 it ds | Was obtained by multiplying the Ses, to see that the rate Of eX-' 4 -tual profit by three halves. ploitation approximates 200 ee) Return on capital and surplus cent ' $7,886,972) was 57.6 percent. In other words a MacMillan powELL RIVER CO. employee, out of an eight hour| 4947 profit before tax was shift, works two hours and 40 , $10,591,349 compared with $6,- minutes for himself and five 06,078 in 1946 or an increase of ' hours and 20 minutes for Mac- 56 percent, Return on capital Millan. and surplus ($20,948,696) was This is twice the average rate 506 percent. of exploitation in Canadian in- go. PULP AND dustry as a whole. PAPER COMPANY Here is a brief summary Of | 1947 profit before tax was te the profit position of the lumber | $5,155,932 compared with $1,991,- monopolies as listed by the |/230 in 1946, or an increase of Trade Union Research Bureau 459 percent. (1946 profits were for the [WA's conciliation brief. | 49g percent above. 1945 profits). Small wonder the operators Net profit in 1947 represented have not attempted to claim in-', return on capital and sur- ability to pay, but have stalled plus $5,499,986)‘ off 93.7 per- A legitimate ‘beef’ In the U.S. as in Canada the people protest against the meat profiteers whose daily price rack- eteering is driving down living standards. The adove picture is a mass demonstration in front of the American Meat Institute headquarters in New York. Warsaw youth meet declares struggle for peace prime task — By ROBIN DENTON WARSAW—tTwenty-four Canadian delegates and observers carried the banner of Canada’s youth proudly through the streets of Warsaw on August 8 in a great parade of delegates from 45 million organized youth from 46 nations. Cheers resounded through the war-torn streets of this Polish capital as the parade marched to the flag-bedecked Roma Hall where Guy de Boisson, presi- dent of the World Federation of Democratic Youth and Member of the French Chamber of Deputies, opened this great International Conference of Working Youth. Among the most noteworthy Speeches was that delivered by Alexis Klimov, leader of the So- viet delegation, who compared the full, worthwhile lives of Russian youth with the insecurity and fear for the future which threatens young people in the capitalist countries. An American delegate castigated U.S reactionaries and warmongers and declared that the party of Henry Wallace was the hope of all progressive Americans in this pe- riod. Rousing cheers greeted men- tion of Wallace’s name. During the conference week the Canadians joined in the recon- struction work, and helped pull down ruins on the site of what will be the new Polish Youth Centre in the heart of Warsaw. They also interviewed the Ministry of Infor- mation and met with leaders of the Polish trade unions and coop- eratives. The delegation also paid a visit to an area covering two OOOO OoLy FOR PURITY. AND QUALITY Buy Hastings Bread Cakes, Pastries aerate ~ HASTINGS BAKERY 716 E. Hastings St. HA. 3244 : BRANCHES AT 4191 MAIN ST. 864 DENMAN ST. PA, 2874 SOO OOOOPPOQOOOcTrnwsr 4 square miles of rubble, which was once the Warsaw Ghetto. Here 300,- 000 Jews died in the heroic upris- ing against Nazi occupation in 1943, “The Marshal] plan is nothing less than a plan of agression to subordinate the economy of Eu- ropean independence” is the opin- ion of the 472 delegates who attend- ed the International Young Work- ers’ Conference. bs : Stephen Endicott, correspondent for the‘ Canadian delegation at- tending the Conference writes: “the working youth of the world are determined not to allow the enormous sacrifices which they made during the war against fas- cism to have been in vain.” “Many of the delegates were alarmed by the large and increas- ing war expenditures in the capi- talistic countries, such as 66% of the budget in the United States, 30% in France and 20% in Britain. The American delegate stated that the war expenditures are 29 times higher than in 1939. With the draft in full operation, the armed forces of the U.S. will total more than five million people. Nokos Stergen, young Greek par- tisan, stirred the conference when he stated “my country has been turned into hell and similarly as in the whole world, two forces are |fighting one with another; Tru- man dollars on one side and the tendency of the Greek nation to- ward liberty and independence and democracy on the other.” Tan Lian, a young Chinese girl youth leader likewise spoke bit- terly against the open aid given by the United States imperialists for the brutal and terroristic sup- pression of the youth and the work- ing people of China. “Representatives of the fighting colonial youth of Viet Nam, Mal- aya and Indonesia decried the refu- sal of the imperialists to allow the colonial countries to gain their freedom and drew attention to the terrible conditions in their coun- tries where wages are at rock bot- tom and the mortality rate is very high. Slave labor actually prevails ' in many cases.” The conference outlined the fol-! lowing as urgent tasks of working | youth: | @ To take an active part in the struggle for a stable and just. peace, for democracy and progress, |! for political and economic rights, | for national independence, to ex- pose and reject the propagandists of a new world war; to fight for the reduction of war expenditures. e@ To fight indomitably for the realization of the political rights of the working youth, @ To fight consistently for econ- omic rights. @ To take an active part in the work of trade unions, Following the conference the 400 delegates boarded the train for a three-day tour of Poland. The Canadians were especially struck by the enthusiastic welcome and friendliness of the people we met in the half-dozen cities which we visited. “No matter whether we arrived at eight in the morning or eight) in the evening,” says Stephen Endicott, ‘the whole population seemed to turn out to the station and the streets to cheer and see the representatives of international working youth.” “It was an inspiration,” he add- ed, “to all the delegates to see the working People of Poland, un- doubtedly the most war-damaged country in the world, rebuilding their economy and more than that, rebuilding their economy so that a predominantly agricultural coun- try will become industralized and thus insure a secure and. increasing standard of living for all its -peo- ple.” B.C. young people at this his- toric conference include Jackie Robson, National Federation of La- bor Youth; Elsie Brandon and Carl Ketola of the Finnish Organization; Dusty Greenwill, a member of the United Mine Workers of America and the Vancouver Island Council; Dick Allen, Student Christian Move- ment, Gerry Kennedy, Internation- al Woodworkers of America, and Robin Denton, International Union Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers. four months while relying on the “white bloc’ and ICA Act to destroy the union leader- ship! H. R. MACMILLAN EXPORT GO. LTD. Profits before tax increased from $5,319,780 in 1946 to $14,632,- 410 in 1947, or by 175 percent. (1946 profits had already in- creased by 53.8 percent over 1945.) The 1947 net profit repre- sents a return on capital and surplus” ($12,734,867) of 115 per- cent. Compare this with the average return for 709 com- panies reporting to the Bank of standards and cent. — Cut these figures out and put them on your union bulletin board, brother. Remember, every jollar was sweated out of a woodworker, Remember, the more profits they get the more they want. And remember why the boss wants to destroy a lea- dership that built a union from the ground up in the teeth of blacklist and police persecution. Red-baiting is worth scores of millions to the bosses, Defeat of red-baiting is worth even more to’ the worker whose living family welfare jepend on that defeat. Heed workers’ inventions, say Soviet newspapers MOSCOW-—Soviet industry last year received 145 sug- gestions for new inventions and production short-cuts. from every thousand workers and technicians it employs, a survey published here reveals. seven Soviet wage-earners made some suggestion or improvement of this kind. _ Pravda, the country’s leading newspaper, stated in an editorial August 24 that such rank-and-file inventiveness has “become one of the sources of technical progress in our industry.” It commended the Gorki auto-; mobile plant, where “all sugges-| tions for increasing efficiency were reduced to a master plan, compris- ing several thousand technical and organization measures.” The re- This means that one out of every sult was a saving of over $1 million in production Costs. Pravda castigated some indus- tries for not giving workers’ sug- gestions “the attention they de- serve.” In iron and steel, it com- plained, a quarter of such sug- gestions capabable of producing better work were nevér applied. ‘All new procedures devised should be publicized throughout the coun- try, Pravda said, so that industries can borrow from each other’s ex | perience. 63 West Cordova Street - - - ‘ HIGH QUALITY LOGGERS AND WORK BOOTS HAND-MADE JOHNSON’S ‘ BOOTS -'- - Phone MArine 7612 Vancouver Office 501 Holden Building 16 East Hastings Street MArine 5746 STANTON & MUNRO BARRISTERS, SOLICITORS, NOTARIES Nanaimo Office Room 2, Palace Building Skinner Street 1780 ——ee PACIFIC TRIBUNE—SEPTEMBER 10, 1948—PAGE ”