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y Bulletin Published by The B.C. District Council, International Woodworkers of America, (CIO), Affiliated with Canadian Congress of Labor

10, No. 5

VANCOUVER, B.C., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 1941

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Reaching thousands of unorganized work- ers with the C.LO.'s message of demo- cratic industrial unionism, the LW.A- G.LO. received 2070 votes against 1017 for the A.F.L, craft unions all put to- gether, and 465 who voted against having any union. The vote covered the two largest sawmills in the world, namely the Long-Bell mill, Weyerhaeusers mill and Weyerhaeuser’s camp.

Evidence of the employer-AFL collu- sion was noted in the rigid censorship of a 1600-word IWA broadcast by radio sta- tion KWLK. The station struck nearly 400 words from the talk, words which established the craft character of the AFL as outworn and bureaucratic. The station also blue-pencilled all references to the 1935 Abe Muir sell-out,

Sunday, however, the same radio sta- tion permitted the AFL to broadcast a 15-minute speech attacking the TWA and

Long Bell Mill Victory One Of Most Outstanding

LONGVIEW, Wash.—Despite apparent collusion between employer forces and the A.F.L. as well as internal disruption on the part of the so- called “opposition block,” which all tended to help deliver the Long-Bell

its pre-election organization drive to a successful conclusion this week.

the CIO with discredited falsehoods,

company union, the I.W.A. brought

Influential in the policies of KWLK is a Longview newspaper publisher who re- portedly has close connections with the Long-Bell management.

Meanwhile the IWA redoubled its or- ganizing efforts through other channels under the leadership of organizational chairman Roy Senn, a Weyerhaeuser mill employee.

IWA headquarters at 82 Main Street in Kelso were a roar of activity as organiz- ers moved in and out on personal contact and house-to-house assignments. Num- bers of autos on Kelso and Longview streets carried IWA and CIO banners.

The 82 Main Street offices were crowd- ed continually with Long-Bell and Wey- erhaeuser employees coming in to sign IWA cards, and organizational leaflets went out in a stream.

Every copy of the Timber Worker's Special Longview lection Edition was distributed, with calls out. for more.

Miners Demanding More Pay,

Shorter Hours,

NEW YORK.—Negotiations on the nation’s biggest union contract— covering 500,000 bituminous coal miners—got under way here March 11. Led by President John L. Lewis, the United Mine Workers will present

its demands for a new Appalachian go into effect on April 1. Formulation of the U.M.W.'s specific demands were to be made at a meeting of the union’s International Policy Com- mittee on March 10—a day before the first meeting with the coal operators as- sociation. s ~

What those demands were to be is as yet unknown, But the United Mine Workers’ Journal said that “it is gen-

"erally believed that the policy commit- tee on March 10 will decide upon specific proposals embodying the following gen- eral objectives among others: An increase in wages, shortening of the hours of labor, improvement in working condi- tions, ironing out of inequitable differ- entials in and between districts, and the establishment of the principle of vaca- tions with pay.”

_ The Appalachian Joint Wage Confer-

. In Victoria Mill

VICTORIA.—One of Victoria’s most ex- ve fires in several years occurred week in the Horton Shingle Mill, $30,000 worth of damage was done. ral thousand bundles were destroyed,

1ough they are reported to be covered y insurance. The two kilns were com-

; destroyed, although a third one r construction and the other part

Holiday Pay

Joint Wage agreement scheduled to

ence is the largest collective bargaining unit in the country. Some 350,000 miners are employed by mines represented in the conference, and another 150,000 mine workers in outlying districts are covered by agreements based on the Appalachian pact.

Negotiations for the anthracite coal miners will begin next month, since the present anthracite agreement runs until

ORLD’S TWO LARGEST SAWMILLS — OTE OVERWHELMINGLY FOR IWA

Uniform Dues of $1.50 | Carried in all B.C. Locals

VICE-PRES. ILMAR KOIVUNEN PLEDGES CONTINUED HELP

In a letter of commendation for the recent action taken by the B.C. Dis- trict Council in regard to the Organiz- ation Fund, Vice-President Koivunen said in part:

“ft is such co-operation that will en- able the International Union to broad- en our organizational campaign and fulfill our obligation to organize the unorganized and improve the hours, wages and conditions of the workers in the lumber industry.

“For your information, the two org- anizers-now op. the International. pay- roll in the B.C. District can be re- tained. The degree to which we can further extend the campaign must, of necessity, be determined by the amount of assessment collected. For that reason I urge you to make every effort to complete the payment of the assessment in every Local.”

Not only have all Local and Sub- locals in B.C. voted to complete the Organization Assessment, and en- dorsed the action of the International Officers and Executive Board, but they have now voted overwhelmingly to voluntarily increase the Per Capita Tax to the International to 50c so that additional funds will be provided to carry on this work after the Assess- ment Fund is exhausted. The Assess- ment was only in effect for the months from August 1st, 1940, to January 3ist, 1941.

LOGGERS’ NAVY NOR eee

Off on her 3000-mile trip which will take

the “Laur Wayne” weighed anchor with “Skipper” McCuish, Organizer Valley and Ernie Dalskog, Secretary of Local 1-71 on board. Secretary Dalskog expects to be away a month or more, so has left someone in his place, and all members are reminded

to carry on business with the Local Office

THWARD BOUND sate

her as far north as the Queen Charlottes,

just the same as if he were in town.

DISTRICT OFFICERS ARE RE-ELECTED

An almost unanimous vote in favor of the members nominated for office at the recent District Council Convention, and a four-to-one majority in favor of increas- ing the union membership dues was an- nounced by the Balloting Committee as the votes were counted at the conclusion of the referendum just completed.

President Hjalmar Bergren, Vice-Presi- dent Ernie Dalskog, and Secretary-Treas- urer Nigel Morgan were returned to of- fice for another year, and three Trustees, Ernie Boulet, of Local 1-80; Al Parkin of Local 1-71, and a millworker from . Local 1-217 were elected.

When the increase will come into effect will be decided at the next meeting of the District” Council which will take place on Sunday, March 30,.where the. sugges- tion of making it applicable as from May 1, will be considered.

Four More Die In Lbr. Industry

Three loggers and one millworker have been killed during the past two weeks, bringing the total number killed in the industry since January 1st to fourteen.

John Neres, 46 year-old snag faller, was killed at Alli- son’s Camp on March

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S. Ortlies met his death on March 8, when he fell from a boomstick at O’Mal- ley’s Camp, Drury Inlet.

First millworker to be killed this year was Norman D. Godfrey, crane operator, who was fatally injured at the veneer plant of Canadian Western Lumber Co. Ltd. (Fraser Mills) when a log slipped and rolled over his hip, on March 10th.

Canada Already Has Inflation, Financier Says WINNIPEG.—The fact that bank notes in circulation in the Dominion have in- creased by 70 per cent is proof that Canada already has inflation, according to D. Bruce Shaw, former chairman of the financial bureau of the Board of

‘Trade. “From now on,” Shaw said, “any in-

crease in the amount of money available will mean higher prices.”

The Bank of Canada has already ad- justed money in circulation to the de- mands of increasing business, Shaw said. “Let us place ous faith in the bank offi- clals to go on doing so.”