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“DOUGLAS”

trade unions to change with
the changing times. The
battles of today cannot be
fought with the techniques of

yesterday, he added.
_ Trade unions must now

think in political terms be-
cause of many urgent prob-
lems that can only be dealt
with by legislation. “One
simple Act passed by the
Legislature or by Parliament
can take away the hard-won
gains of twenty-five years.”
Mr. Douglas appealed to
trade unionists to engage in
the war against poverty on

SICK LISTS

LOCAL 1-357 ~

Sisters Betty Skog ard Norma Eddie
of the Ladies’ Auxiliary of Local 1-357
IWA visited the following patients in
the Royal Columbian Hospital during
the period June 11 to September 18,
and distributed candy, cigarettes and
copies of the Western Canadian Lum-
ber Worker.

Earl Rennie, Pitt Lake; George
Moore; Ind’l Mill Service; Ora Can-
field, Crown Zellerbach; J. Slack,
Douglas Plywod; V. Arychuk, Vancou-
ver Plywood; Andy Smith, Pac. Pine;
Eric Bronquist, Rayonier; D. Krazler,
Brownsville; C. Johnston, Fraser
Mills; Charles Spooner, Fraser Mills;
Andy Smith, Regioral Council No. 1;
John Greenough, Weldwood; John
Gariepy, Lions Gate Lumber; Bekka
Singh, Rayonier; Jim Zibin, Fort
Langley; M. Andronyk, B.C.F.P.—Pitt
Lake; Omar Doucette, Fraser Mills;
J. Abrams, W.S.M. Division; W. Hop-
kins, Fraser Mills; C. Smith, Fraser
Mills; B. Singh, Rayonier.

LOCAL 1-80

Ed Linder, Financial Secretary of
Local 1-80 IWA, visited the following
patierts in the Chemairus ard Lady-
smith Hospitals and distributed candy,
cigarettes ard copies of the Western
Canadian Lumber Worker.

Mr. Bill Turok, Chemainus; Mr.
Hugh MacDonald, Chemairus; Mrs.
Glen Taylor, Ladysmith; Mrs. Mar-
garet Cherry, Chemainus; Mr. George
Jackson, Ladysmith; Mrs. Mina Rees,
Cedar; Mr. James Bradford, Lady-
smith; Mrs. John Conti, Ladysmith;
Mrs. Stan Allen, Ladysmith; Mr. Ross
Brister, Ladysmith; Mr. Irven Miller,
pany esniahy Mr. Jack Rodger, Lady-
smith.

LOCAL 1-80

Ed Lirder, Financial Secretary of
Local 1-80 IWA, visited the following
patients in the Nanaimo Hospital and
distributed candy, cigarettes and
copies of the Western Canadian Lum-
ber Worker.

Mr. Don_ Ellis, Errington; Mrs.
Clarence Beattie, Nanaimo; Mrs.
Doris White, Nanaimo; Mr. ‘‘Bob’’

Brown, Port Alberni; Mr. R. E.
Clark, Beaver Cove; Mr. M. F. Couef-
fin, Port Alberni; Mr. Chuck Lovett,
Parkeville.

behalf of the many unorgan-
ized workers; many are in dis-
tress, he said, because of soar-
ing living costs.

He accused the Trudeau
government of taking a cyni-
cal approach to the problem.

There can be no just society
in Canada unless we have a
just taxation system, he said.
The Carter Commission,
headed by a millionaire, stated
clearly that the lower income
groups are paying an inordi-
nately high share of the tax
burden.

The free-loaders such as the
mining companies, oil com-
panies, the speculators and the
banks, get special tax conces-
sions. “If they paid the same
taxes as you and I, the in-
creased revenue could reduce
taxes by 15% for all with in-
comes less than $10,000 a
year.”

Mr. Douglas quoted the
Economic Council of Canada,
which in its recent 5th report
stated that the extent of
poverty in Canada is a na-
tional disgrace.

Over 8 million persons live
below the poverty line, de-
fined as those who must spend
60% of their income for the
necessities of food, shelter
and clothing. 53% of this num-
ber live in Ontario and West-
ern Canada.

“As trade unionists we can-
not be content to say, ‘Well,
we've got a good contract.
What happens to four million

‘Canadians doesn’t matter to

me. I couldn’t care less.’ The
trade union movement was
founded by men who believed
that we were building a great
brotherhood, banded together
to make the world a better

place for everybody to live.”

LOCAL 1-184
HOSTS IWA
CONVENTION

Editor’s Note: The follow-
ing is the address given by
Alex Smith, President of Local
1-184 IWA Saskatchewan,
whose Local Union was the
host Local at the recent IWA
Regional Convention.

On behalf of the Officers
and members of Local 1-184,
IWA, Prince Albert, I warm-
ly appreciate this opportunity
to extend a Saskatchewan-

ALEX SMITH
Host Local President

type welcome to the delegates
and guests in attendance at
this convention. As this is the
first time our Local Union
has been granted this honour
you may be assured that we
are delighted to be recognized
as a Local Union that is grow-
ing in size and importance.

I am instructed to convey
to you our earnest wish that
your deliberations at this time
will bring even greater good

to the members of our Union

es has already been record-
ed.

You may be sure that IWA
members in Saskatchewan are

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Delegates of Local 1-71 (the Loggers’ Local)

following the proceedings of
this convention with close in-
terest. The IWA has substan-
tially improved the circum-
stances of Saskatchewan
woodworkers but we are forc-
ed to conduct our union ac-
tivities in an anti-union at-
mosphere recently imposed
upon us by Premier Ross
Thatcher.

At present we have been
forced to take strike action
against a Vancouver and
American-based operation de-
termined to maintain a low-
wage area to the disadvantage
of lumber workers in B.C. as
well as in Saskatchewan.

I hope I may carry back
with me your good wishes for
victory in our present strug-
gle with MacMillan Bloedel
Limited and Simpson Timber
Company.

We congratulate the Coast
Local Unions on their recent
settlement which places Coast
woodworkers in much more
affluent circumstances than we
have as yet achieved on the
union’s frontier.

Despite your greater afflu-

ence, we know in Saskatche-.

wan that at this convention
we have common problems
and aspirations. May we close
ranks and together move for-
ward to our common objec-
tives.

I now have great pleasure

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