2nd Issue
December, 1961

WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER

$500 Million A Year:
Nutritional Quacks

Milking The Public

A disturbing increase in quackery involving false and misleading
claims for a great variety of vitamins, minerals, and other food
supplements has taken place in recent years.

As a result, millions of Americans are dosing themselves with
nutritional nostrums of every description, the Food and Drug Ad-
ministration reports.

Exploitation of this market is the most widespread and expensive
form of medical quackery in the country today. It is estimated that
this racket is costing 10 million Americans more than $500 million
a year.

Vitamin and mineral food supplements may of course serve a
useful purpose when for some special reason the diet requires this
kind of supplement.

But when unknowing or unscrupulous promoters distort the facts
and claim benefits against diseases or symptoms which are not caused
by a dietary deficiency at all—the results can be tragic. People who
have serious medical problems are being misled by these false claims
to rely on products which do not help. —

It is not true that the American food supply is deficient in vita-
mins, minerals and other essential nutrients. This is the “big lie” of
nutrition quackery. It is the theme song of a persistent propaganda
campaign to undermine public confidence in the nutritional adequacy
of staple foods, and thereby to “soften up the market” for special
dietary products, according to FDA. é

The truth is that the American food supply is unsurpassed
throughout the world in both quantity and nutritional value. Farming
and food processing industries have provided the American people
with an ever-increasing variety of wholesale and nutritious foods.

Important staple foods such as flour, bread, milk, margarine, corn
meal, and rice contain added vitamins and minerals under standards
set by the Food and Drug Administration. The so-called “protective
foods”—fruits, leafy vegetables, dairy products, etc.—have become
widely used in the national diet. As a result of such developments,
coupled with nutrition education in the schools, the once prevalent
diet-deficiency diseases such as rickets and pellagra have virtually
disappeared in America.

Persons in good health who eat a variety of foods have no need to
worry about nutritional deficiences. Foods, not pills, are the best
sources of vitamins, minerals and other nutrients.

Beware of promoters who rush to cash in on new developments in
medicine and science to get attention for their products and their
exaggerated claims.

A good example is the attempted exploitation of legitimate medi-
cal research which seeks to determine the relationship, if any, be-
tween certain heart ailments and the kind of fats consumed in the
diet.

Much more research is needed on this question. But numerous
promoters are taking advantage of incomplete research and are offer-
ing products which are claimed to protect against heart disease but
which actually have not been proved of value for that purpose.

Similarly, the great public and scientific interest in the problems
wf aging has brought forth a rash of unwarranted claims for nos-
trums for older people. A recent example is the promotion of pro-
ducts containing so-called “royal jelly” for rejuvenation. Royal jelly
is the special food prepared and given by worker bees to those whom
they select to become queens.

For bees, royal jelly is indeed a miracle food, but it has no prac-
tical value for humans as a food, drug, or cosmetic. The claims made
for it are groundless, says FDA.

Schemes such as these are often difficult to stop through enforce-
ment action alone. To a large extent they can be thwarted only
through widespread public understanding of the facts—so that pros-
pective customers will recognize the false claims of self-styled food

experts and promoters.
AFL-CIO-News

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work. With electricity, modern men
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writer, in 1885, when the use of
electricity was in its infancy, had a

that men may use it at their will as
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States, man 15%, machines only 6%.
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LONG SERVICE EMPLOYEE Marcel Delahaye pickets at Langley Branch of Taylor
Pearson & Carson while Home Oil truck scabs picket line.

More Pay—

Less Hours

Still Labour's Goal

Higher wages and shorter hours will continue to be the bargaining
goals of the trade union movement, it was determined by the AFL-
CIO convention reported IWA Regional President Joe Morris on
his return from the five-day session at Miami Beach, Fla.

The convention declared that a better wage income is “vitally
needed” for the necessary stimulation of buying power and econo-

mic growth.
A reduction in hours was declared
to be necessary to convert the rapid

technological growth into a boon,

rather than a burden.

The delegates firmly rejected
efforts to bind bargaining by nation-
al formulas, by ceilings and other
restraints. The resolution on this sub-
ject stated that the public interest
cannot be served by throttling gen-
uine collective bargaining. Strong
unions are necessary for meaningful
and responsible bargaining and the
warning was issued that at many
points management has adopted a
policy of inflexibility as an anti-
labour weapon.

Bargaining in good faith can ad-
vance the interests of both labour
and management, the Convention
declared.

In addition to the demand for
higher wages and shorter hours, the
Convention advocated collective bar-
gaining advances on the following
points:

(1) Security of year-round em-
ployment—in effect, either a full-
time job or its equivalent for laid-
off workers.

(2) Improved health, welfare and
pension programs.

(3) Measures to minimize ill
effects for workers displaced by
technological changes.

Steel Asks Early Vote
In Sudbury Dispute

The United Steelworkers of America bid for a quick vote among
the 15,000 Sudbury employees of the International Nickel Co. of
Canada to resolve the struggle with the International Union of

Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers.

The steel union in a hearing be-
fore the Ontario Labour Relations
Board contended an early vote in
Sudbury was essential to determine
which union will represent the work-

.ers in currently stalled negotiations

with the huge nickel company.

Three-Man Board

The three-man labour board panel
headed by Professor Jacob Finkel-
man reserved decision but was ex-
pected to order a vote by the end
of January. Under revised provincial
legislation, such a pre-hearing vote
can be held before a formal certifica-
tion hearing is conducted.

The Steelworkers have already
ousted Mine-Mill in the 1,900-mem-
ber local at Inco’s Port Colborne
refinery. The steel union also threat-
ens Mine-Mill’s hold on locals in
Thompson, Manitoba, and Uranium
City in Saskatchewan.

In the key hearing on the Sudbury
case, lawyers representing groups of
Sudbury employees having the tacit
support of the Communist-inclined

Sudbury vote for a year or even two
years,

Suspend Board

He charged they were suggesting
the processes of the labour board be
suspended until a final court decision
was achieved in another case or until
an executive satisfactory to someone
else was installed.

“They are asking this board to
relinquish its duty under the labour
act,” Lewis said.

“They are so afraid of the results
of a vote that they are ready to take
any line to push it off—I was going
to say to eternity .. .”

Lewis said he was not impressed
with the argument that the workers
were so confused, naive and unin-
telligent that they didn’t know what
they wanted.

Royal York
Rebuffs
Strikers

The CPR-owned Royal York
Hotel rebuffed two new attempts to
resolve the ecight-month-old strike
against the hotel by the Hotel and
Restaurant Employees Union.

Officers of the CPR met hotel
union officials and Claude Jodoin,
president of the Canadian Labour
Congress, in Montreal but they re-
fused to alter their surrender-or-else
terms.

The Royal York, largest hotel in
the British Commonwealth, has in-
sisted it will only rehire strikers as
openings become available and it
will dictate which strikers may be
re-employed.

The hotel management also turned
aside an attempt to mediate the dis-
pute by Toronto City Council after
the union had indicated it would
accept such a move.

Strike Crushed?

The hotel in previous meetings
with union negotiators headed by A.
R. Johnstone, Canadian vice-presi-
dent, and Onofrio Zambri, Local 299
business agent, has made it clear it
considers the strike crushed.

As a result, it has refused to
modify its position on wages where
its offer is below that of other major
hotels. The hotel has also continued
to stand firm on its proposals for
sweeping new contract exclusions
and for serious weakening of layoff
provisions.

Union vice-president Johnstone re-
newed his proposal to submit all out-
standing issues to arbitration. But the
CPR turned a deaf ear to that too.

The union continued to picket the
hotel which operates with the aid of
supervisory personnel, strikebreakers
and some strikers who returned to
work under company pressure.
About 600 of the original 1,200
strikers remain on the union rolls.
Others have been placed in alterna-
tive hotel employment.

Australian

Labour Polls
Most Votes

The Australian Labour party has
nearly toppled the intrenched con-
servative government of Robert
Menzies.

In December’s general election,
the Labourites came within one seat
of breaking the back of the Men-
zies administration. A new election
is expected this year.

Arthur Calwell, the new Labour
Party leader, caught the imagination
of Australian voters who cast 500,-
000 more votes for the Labour party
than they did for Mr. Menzies.

Big Swing

Mr. Menzies went into the cam-
paign as the favourite. Hitting hard
at the fumbling economic policies of.
the government, the Labour Party
won new support and a big swing
in public opinion occurred.

Only two seats separate the con-
tenders in the lower house—a major-
ity that will not stand up for long,
observers believe.

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Local 1-71 Draw Winners

Following are the winners in the door prize draw conducted by
Local 1-71, IWA, at their Annual Loggers’ Ball December 28, in
the Canadian Legion, Vancouver.

Calvin Wrist Watch (Donated by Crown Zellerbach): D. Rankin, Norman
Road, R.R. 1, Port Coquitlam; Rogers Majestic Clock Radio (Donated by
Rayonier Canada Ltd.): W. Crowther, 4213 Castlewood, S. Burnaby; One
Pair Dayton’s Logging Boots (Donated by Dayton’s Shoe Co.): A. Clark, 3374

Bast 25th Ave., Vancouver; Gladstone Luggage (Donated by Canadian Forest
Products): Carl W. Start, Allison Harbour, B.C.; Sony TR75 Transistor

oe Radio (Donated by S. Madill Ltd.): Wm. Doren, Neile Hotel, No. 34, Van-

Transisto’ die (Donated by MacMillan, Bloedel and Powell River):
natn aetand mae > tg B.C.; Skilsaw Model 533 (Donated by B.C.
Forest Products): Alan Thomson, Box 785, Ladner; Pair Heads’ Light Cruiser

“Boots (Donated by W. J. Heads’ Boot Factory): John Lapin, 869 E. Pender
St, Vancouver; Pioneer Brand Cruiser Coat (Donated by Jones Tent and
Awning): J. Petershofer, Carlton Hotel, B.C. Pair Caulked, Work or Dress

(Donated by Pierre Paris and Sons Ltd.): Geo. Barron, Beaver Cove;
Credit Note on McCulloch Product (Donated by McCulloch of Can-
W. Kurdziel, 3086 Charles St., Vancouver; Round trip pass between
om RC. Airlines Base—Class 3 Shuttle Service (Donated by
_ Airlines): Paul Platsko, 4924 Main St., Vancouver; Something Wet

by Dave
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been disposed of.

The two Jawyers and John P.
Nelligan, counsel for Thomas Tay-
lor, a former Local 598 executive
member, suggested the membership
in Sudbury was confused and unable
to fight the steel drive because its
own local executive was fostering
the Steelworker campaign.

Nelligan even contended there
could be a free election only after
an executive Joyal to national Mine-
Mill had been installed.

But David Lewis, counsel for the
Steelworkers, maintained that all of
the proposals submitted by opposing

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