* THE WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER

EDITORIAL

MR. CLYNE!

THERE'S a graver threat to trade union interests in the
Port Alberni situation than meets the eye.

If Mr. Clyne, head of MacMillan, Bloedel and Powell
River Ltd., has his way, four thousand workers will be
forced to cross a legitimate picket line they have hon-
ored up to this point. He proposes to shatter their trade
union principles with the power of the courts. His dic-
tum, in effect, is that men must obey him or go to jail.
He helped to make the law for this purpose, and he now
proposes to invoke its punitive powers.

He is prepared to pay a high price to achieve his
ultimate purpose. If he can crush support for the OEIU
strike, he can establish a precedent that will aid him to
break strikes in the future. If all unions are to be pro-
hibited action in support of strikes called by their af-
filiates, the strike weapon will be blunted. ~

For this purpose, Mr. Clyne is prepared to throw
away millions in lost production. He is indifferent to
the disastrous effects on the business activity in the Al-
berni Valley. Apparently he has never heard about good
employee morale based on mutuality and good will.

Mr. Clyne is dictatorily using the economic power,
placed in his hands by the people of the province,
to set new rules for collective bargaining. His attack
on union security means nothing less. For a prom-
inent jurist, the inconsistency of his legal logic is amaz-
ing. He denies to a small union the union security which
he is pledged to uphold in business relations with larger

unions. ae

In his book the ends justify the means. His purpose
stands exposed. He is the self-appointed champion of
business interests who are determined to wipe out the
union shop in B.C. If he can succeed in destroying the
union shop by the combined use of his economic and
political powers, he can seriously impair the power of
trade unions to bargain effectively for better wages and

conditions.

Mr. Clyne has a long-range plan to accumulate still
greater profits for the corporation as thereby he ac-
cumulates greater personal wealth. He evidently esti-
mates that he can afford to drop a few millions now
to make ten times that amount later by ridding himself
of any trade union interference in his profit making
plans. He hopes to get it out of the sweat of the workers.

It is now quite obvious that Mr. Clyne hates trade
unions, despite the amiability which he tries so hard
to display on television. He is now giving vent to his
hatred. The manner in which he has instructed legal
counsel to proceed against the unions in Port Alberni
leaves no room for doubt on this question. He evidently
plans to use the law to smash them, even though there

has been no breach of the peace.

Once we said that the Social Credit amendments to
the Labour Relations Act and the Trade Unions Act were
framed for just this purpose. Mr. Clyne was aware of
this and has taken full advantage of the legal shackles
jointly prepared in advance by big business and govern-
ment. His present course is to compel obedience to his
will or he will attempt to wreck-the unions financially.

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I WANT YA TO LOWER TH’ PILE BETWEEN THIS MACHINE AN’ ME OFFICE...
TH’ LITTLE GUY THAT OPERATES IT KEEPS SLIPPIN’ OUT FOR A SMOKE!

If he gets his way, his orders will become court
orders. Workers will obey or face heavy fines or jail
sentences. Unions will face the possibility of action to
recover for Mr. Clyne the production losses for which
he has. been mainly responsible. :

Mr. Clyne hopes to turn back the clock to the eight-
eenth century when trade union organization was all
but exterminated as a conspiracy against the state. Un-
ionists were then shot, jailed, transported and executed.
It is well to remember that the trade union movement
was cradled in such a climate, but free men fought for
their rights. Facing the brutality of 18th century em-
ployers, they said “we are many, they are few” and laid
the foundations of industrial democracy.

Mr. Clyne cannot always coerce men into acceptance
of his terms. He cannot operate his profit-producing ma-
chine without labour. He eventually must reckon with
the spirit of freedom which is alive among his twelve
thousand employees. He will yet be forced to realize that
good-will is essential to top efficiency in production.

Men who hate the boss, may go through all the mo-
tions of work but will never be inspired to give that
extra ounce of loyal service that counts in modern pro-

duction.
As in the past, the spirit of freedom will defeat Mr.

Clyne.

More Organizing Needed
Morris Tells Council

ing strength unless
step up recruiting.
Continuing growth
white collar segment of the
labor force where unions
have achieved the least or-
ganizing results underlined
the need for an all-out organ-
~ izing drive, he said.
Morris told the annual James Stowe was elected to

unions

of the

HAMILTON — Canadian
trade unionists must return
to the days of 30 years ago
when every worker on the
job was an organizer, Joseph
Morris, executive vice-presi-
dent of the Canadian Labor
Congress, declared here.

meeting of the Hamilton and his ei
District Labor Council that
labor faces a period of declin-

ghth term as president
of the Hamilton Labor Coun-

cil.

Oliver Auxiliary
Offers Bursary

100 bursary will be of-
fered by the Ladies Auxiliary
of Local 1-423, IWA, Oliver,
to a deserving student in
Grade 12 or 13 whose average
is not less than 70% and who
is a son, daughter or legal
ward of a member of Local
1-423, IWA.

The candidate will be sel-
ected on the basis of need,
academic standing or out-

standing ability in some par-
ticular field. The successful
applicant must also continue
his or her education but not
necessarily at a university.
Technical or vocational stu-
dents are also eligible.

Application forms are avail-
able in the Principal’s office at
the Oliver High School. The
forms must be submitted
April 15, 1965.

Canada
Records
Deficit

OTTAWA — Canada_ has
recorded a big deficit of $341,-
000,000 for the first three
months of 1964 in trade, tour-
ist spending, interest on for-
eign capital and dividends.

This amount is 40 per cent
higher than a year ago and
more than three times the
deficit in the final three
months of last year.

Dealings with the United
States were entirely respon-
sible for the re-emergence of
this chronic problem. Can-
ada’s deficit with that coun-
try, while down last year, has
been running about $1,000,-
000,000 annually.

Deficits in January, Febru-
ary and March with the US.
on trade and other payments
more than offset heavy Rus-
sian payments for wheat and
other surpluses with other
countries.

Traffic from the United
States in the first two months
of 1964 was up sharply—by
14.1 per cent at 926,400 veh-
icles.

A Story of the
Logging Camps
in 1900

WOODSMEN
OF THE WEST

By Martin A. Grainger

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