THE WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER IWA EAST INDIAN MEMBERS on strike at K.P. Products (Avola) | a subsidiary of Weyerhaeuser, standing on the picket line with their belongings after being evicted from the company bunkhouse by the manager and R.C.M.P. The evictions took place following an attempt by the manager to have the strikers cross the picket line in exchange for use of the bunkhouse. They informed him to “drop dead.” Local 1-417 has made temporary arrangements to have the men housed, B.C. UNIONISTS BACKED The 1,400 delegates attend- ing the Canadian Labour Con- gress convention in Toronto widely backed B.C. trade unionists in their stand against Bill 33. They approved a resolution calling on the CLC executive council to “assist the B.C. Federation of Labour in every way possible to prevent the B.C. government denying B.C. trade unions the right to free collective bargaining, in- cluding the right to strike.” TOP POSTS FOR IWA MEN Two IWA members were elected to top posts at the Canadian Labour Congress convention in Toronto May 10. PARDON NEAR Vancouver Labour Council secretary C. P. (Paddy) Neale reported during the CLC con- vention that Solicitor General John Turner has promised to review the jail sentences of -UFAWU President H. Steve Stavenes and Secretary Homer Stevens. The two unionists were jailed for a year each for con- tempt arising out of last year’s trawl-longline dispute. § IF I ie 221 Carrall Street T’S MONEY YOU WANT TO MAKE & THEN USE THE ““ALL-NEW SABRE WIDE-CUT CHAIN" helps your saw make money faster. High quality, low priced, fully guar- anteed. MADE IN CANADA, USED THROUGHOUT SELLS BROS. SALES LTD. CANADIEN CHAIN SAWS — Distributors for ALL-NEW SABRE WIDE-CUT CHAIN Telephone MU. 4-7758 The former secretary-treas- urer of Congress, Donald MacDonald, a member of Lo- cal 1-217 Vancouver, was elected president by acclama- tion. Joe Morris, the former re- gional president of the IWA and a member of Local 1-80 Duncan, was re-elected execu- tive vice-president by over 1,300 votes out of 1,400 cast. Others elected to top offices were Bill Dodge who was un- opposed to succeed MacDon- ald as secretary-treasurer and Gerard Rancourt, who scored an upset victory over admin- istration candidate Romeo Mathieu for the other execu- tive vice-president position. 27.95 36” Canadien Vancouver 3, B.C. NEW CLC PRESIDENT STATES “WORKERS CAUGHT IN ECONOMIC SQUEEZE” Canadian trade unions will use their economic strength to get the best possible col- lective agreements, Donald MacDonald, acting president of the Canadian Labour Con- gress, Canada’s major labour organization, stated. In an address at the open- ing of the CLC’s biennial na- tional convention MacDonald said Canadian workers were being caught in an economic squeeze. The country was ex- periencing an economic slow- down that resulted in large measure from government mismanagement. “There are more unem- ployed workers at this mo- ment in Canada than for the past number of years,” Mac- Donald said. “The goal of not more than three per cent un- employment, which the Eco- nomic Council of Canada set for 1970, seems now more re- mote than ever. “ . . The Economic Council also set a goal of five per cent per annum in the growth of our national product, not by 1970 but now. This appeared to be an entirely realistic goal, because in previous years we had achieved as much as six or seven per cent in a given year, But in 1967, our gross national product in- creased by only two and one- half per cent, a catastrophic drop.” There had been a retreat from the war on poverty and the purchasing power of the Canadian people was daily being eroded by rising prices. “One of the major chal- lenges facing our country to- day is the distribution, or more precisely the more equitable distribution, of the national income,” MacDonald went on. Suggestions for a wage freeze were “the perfect solu- tion for a government which is either unprepared for, or unwilling to face up to the basic causes of. unemploy- ment, rising prices, poverty and regional. inequalities.” ECONOMIC GROWTH LAGGING Canada’s economic growth in 1968 will not provide the 240,000 additional jobs the Economic Council says are needed to accommodate a rapidly-growing labour force and thus unemployment will continue to creep upward, the Canadian Labour Congress predicts. HANEY When SANDS OF FOOT-HAPPY VANCOUVER CUSTOMERS COULD TELL YOU WHY. HANEY BUSINESS GUIDE ESQUIRE MEN’S WEAR (Graham Mowatt) Complete Stock of Work and Dress Clothing “THE STORE WITH THE POPULAR BRANDS” Your Feet Give You Plain Hell... 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