Page Two THE B.C LUMBER WORKER

‘ ae | Union Hiring Depends BC Lowe iw \Worker oe ts * On Your Support INTERNATIONA HsIRICR COUNCIL NO oF ee (CIO)

pr By DON BARBOUR, Hiring Hall Manager

GREE. a pects although he has been back here for quite some fime, 504 $5 —Vs , BC. » quite : Room Wolden Butane rae WE) Log Oe EEN is ‘ived a unique post card from Nigel Morgan date ene ath 3 1945, mailed from et portraying a picture of “a very Oa GER Ss sie fr th the eat! issue is 4 p.m., Pont ular monument” used as a fountain. The little statue in bronze veel s the work of J. Duque oy. Different legends have given to th

fountain a gre However, ins important is he message that Nigel write whieh in my opinion Con gratu atio ns concerns everyone ees in the lumber industry in B.C.

organ wrote as eae “all mee boys I’ve run into ara j

hed Every Second Monday

ave b 1 Legislature 1; ++ employers who | Still being done the old, ‘old way a will they be able to g Me eceenreiio Goan ths hea cit ae ee shop to-union | through the Union Hiring Hall when they return to B.O2” Bro sinployess are retunid” “Despite the progress of trade uniohism,”|the answer to that quest is in your e Assembly, plo ould have moze each do, your hest to anue) LHe anand ooh Grae n be keeping confidence inthe government audi emplovess) hdl sell do mob aucee fi ‘5 ai GgnU Oe qoute nuiaul to) tandinp ft oeentminelee? Keele Ae faith with the boys over there” by making the answer yes and two 0:

st two ye: ie by lumber operators in the province had vowed never to sign a union e lumber inden, en one more oan that could ‘help win aoe peace shall have been discarded. lL hit

: 3 5 a 4 g a ot is oo § 2 2, iy & 8 a s x 8 Pa

rd words, but the Mini or i ighly How we sha with an; commended for his forthright, realistic statement. The check-off has} employer in any i fens an any industry in B.C. show tell already been mate re) effect by jminny, CMDIGy StS) including a sub-| more eeueestats or > divested pee eed than our own lumber

ima] or. septate Bee ‘old timer,” opinion that the truth |I wi: tory bonds, red cross, Cite ONG, Ge ce, oe And there | shout Ting, cannes jeeend * dtould give to the Union CTS A OS ee UE Hiring El, ‘lke Boag little bronze statue pictured on the post card i i ere

ae hard to judge just how much popularity the Union 3 “fescue Cer ee eee wing pall has aieh oe majority of IWA members beeause the inion security provisions, including closed shop, number of those who have utili a i i

maintenance of membership clauses, are already aerate success- | date pany aes paioeacce Ma FIL esa yd

Rance ae ie A ayaa r sua only seen one er to our pape: ressin} i i = printing, ae OMEailsGrd waneee Ta teay ond any others. | jjehi ‘ n Hiring. Sbressing satisfaction with the idea of ert a matter of fact, according to i United States Government ate eae of Labor Stati ssHes three million organized workers in the | j a! Gni a Sa , whil F ni United States In 1969 worked ner coed shop agreements: By the aoe Gon tik i, while some, of courses Elana the UAtearan ing of 1948 this number had more than doubled.

i 0 grievances iat would have been there regardless of bs beginni iam 2 oe where one hired out and t be obvious that operators who deal | there are a few thousand wood- Labor has grown numerically during recent § yeas. ae other | with the Uni nion n Hiring Hall Ww sacl deal more readily with a ca workers up in the interior.

pr to impro’ a and the jab hint brden tos maintain erode oes Sitally needed Tumber | ai ition” when it Sean itie iat responsible trade unions in Canada, have nlbdpenncatoeserieas tor [areal re cel seat

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v7 e, 8 more centralized control a hiring in which organized | gor ia Hone hepds vanes lal the duration of the war, ae genuine responsibility in the full: | labor had-an equal responsibility I rights with any other | Buneook wants 4 , i fillment of that pledge. ctor in the lumbering industry. Mang man-hours now being lost | a4 Ven A Cater at eae q Our eoplenwane dhe: to union security clauses in their | could be used profitably to all concerned and give an added impetus | *itance in helping the pees agreement; More than that, ee will achieve our goal and the “Don |to war and civilian requirements of Iumber. ‘The duty we owe to|UP there sprees a hours, mnixotes’” in the ae of raj pidly, developing labor relations, who | our armed forces and ae feeueral public merits our deepest concern | W#ges and cont

lind, will be pyoassed by history. Labor today | on this very vital q

ibilittes, the like of which it has never had before. Labor The article ae states shown by ne constructive, Rat eomenliieg policies it has ad- Again, from purely an ue vanced in war, it is prepared and capable of accepting those responsi- | be obtained by | ek aiaination of some ten mee of reece vag bilities, Vancouver, and as the hiring concerns only the two contracting sisting all efforts As Minister of Labor Pearson so correctly pointed out, Cana- | parties, no other party has any moral right to set up a ig shop,|raised. ‘That again will be a isn mignsgement should accept bee as a full partner in our eom- ek eee ate ich, We Poet ee come ston pee Parf|means to organize; for under tablish a peaceful, secure and prosperous Cal of the ring in as 'Yy_ expenses an Sortie ones ea easily be diverted to an increase in wages. Think it oves fellow shee very untale raa eye workers and see just how popular the Union Hiring Hall can be made. ae employers’ point of view,

Family Allowances pepe oe ,

course ae ones jue ganizati racketed in 0 of the main concerns of organized labor, apart from im- ah ‘Bhex iG see nti lower mediate economic gains and improved yaaa conditions on % the job, is the building of social security for working people as a $ After reading the account of whole. Most of the security legislation ever proushe dpgwn by gov- Interior "3 C. vcouditionss I can * ernments has -been the result of pressure fron a trade union groups. rstand why the old bull ‘ Workmen’s compensation, minimum wages and hours; safety legis- puncher did not stay it lation, and so forth are all included under this healing, éérior on hinares eee ft The labor movement today hails as a major step forward the and when /abeod cen ooo Family Allowances A ging put ints operation in the Domin- pcmcia wes CIEE! Che ion of Canada. It was always r: it for fair-minded people ha

ig pul ather diffie to understand why it should be that, hile governments were willing to spend thousands of dollars of public funds to educate child, re- serving the Tight to conseript that chil id, when he became of military i i a ras as a: at ec

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Sr ve ite fact that 0 child should be condemmed to sub- standard ood and insufficient clothing because he or she happened

c lifornia.” The boss replied, e bo’ a large and poor family is accorded in this latest. social ‘You had a long hat Satie fon Th rent i Canada’s future depends on its children, They ai re the coun- i

try’s greatest asset. Baeany and happy children, xeared in an atmosphere of si take their place as active Soa ‘productive members of Eee = ond der present conditions, the major burden of raising the nation’s enutren falls on'less than one-fiftn the working population. The value of the child to the communitz bear: no relation to the father’s work or income, Hach child in the family means increased expenses without providing additional fends wheres by, the expenses can he-met,

at a who is receiving some assistance in cari ing for his “Guildren is aa A going to be driven to the same extent towar rds? undermining the : bring a cant hi iti ah is . aes Lae é Mi the. iat anata “Well lowances are. , fair an iv ‘oni 3 sure a wenenie Peers of ‘yell: ee to Canadian, penal of the YOO-HOO, BERTA/ WAS oe shIP EVER’ COME ING Bras

future. Family allowances are an installment in Aodiokese security.