ices, 5 By WILLIAM KASHTAN :

P Busing 500,000 workers involved in bargaining this year, Eriove SS is doing everything in its power to dissippate Rect ee Weaken and divide it, and open the door for a ack on workers’ living standards:

In ¢ : tC © Current negotiations in the woodworking industry in . € com ha ]

Th ce Woodworkers of America for a dollar.a day- increase,

fen Bente of their own, ranging from a reduction of 20 Bhe oont hour for some ‘categories of workers, to changes ~ tact directed towards weakening the union.

I a nur. j if meee of industries the employers have been success-|

~ Posing wage freezes on the workers. .

Rereas; Big Bee the demand is being raised amongst sections

r +, Mess “that now is the time for a showdown with aWorkin being rumoured in B.C. that employers in >the FRE do & industry are out to provoke a strike so as to % 6~°WN on the IWA. | #* %

ers iy May 16 deadline. approaches when the railway hour y ay Strike unless granted their demand for a 14 cent m, age Increase, a similar threat is being directed against

And as the

heres Wepe No doubt that monopoly is using mass unemploy- REY on en with which is impose its kind of “wage 0 far ie working class. And if it has been partially success- Piha responsibility rests on thé shoulders of the 1 to Bi. tp of the Canadian Labor Congress which has Able the € the kind of direction and leadership which would sive, fate union movement to beat back the employer to Bobi, year, particularly, there was an over-riding Orne, uBate the efforts of all unions, whether within the ; es. as to defeat the strategy of Big Business. Failure S made it difficult for the trade union movement

2 tO o¢ Set off the ground in its negotiations.

CS ee _~ 'S still time to correct this.

the pas

rE unless VY workers and their unions have already declared He Will eel Just demands are met by the middle of May, j "xDressag €. “14 cents or strke—no contract—no work’ — ™Ss how the railway workers feel.

Oren a Minds ber’ labor movement needs to help them win their Sor pase a victory for the railway workers would open Pd on ee rest of the trade union movement to move r © Wage and bargaining front.

| ees ha 4; “8'ment understands this. The employers under-

alg ani he entire trade union movement needs to grasp iP kers, Go all out in solidarity support of the railway

* Be NS j ; : 1 Ces a being written two significant wage policy con- © being held — one in Hamilton, the other in

ptton, @nnual Steel policy conference being held in Both . lle the auto workers are meeting in Detroit.

Hh st . a are in a position to become pattern setters for { ‘ the batty trade union movement and were they to under- ho le for reduced hours of work with no reduction (Oy ang ay, it would transform the entire picture over A trom, .°, 't possible for the trade union movement to : © str Stensive struggle to an all out offensive. ike h maul for reduced hours of work with no reduction POns ° me Pay has now become the central issue for all : trade union movement. Either they face uP ip eee an active and united struggle to achieve il, i See and mechanization will increasingly throw ®tS on to the scrap heap, as it is in fact doing

YOu take. 2 © fitting indeed were these two conferences, first &ce on the eve of May Day, the day when the Ours +7824 to raise the demand for eight hours work, tee toe and eight hours rest, to now set the workers Hin 8Y cage achieve. :

ty Clear Whatever the outcome of these conferences, one nd Sliqg es” the employer threat of a showdown, giver aatity, the workers have the strength to defeat

J mo : Figy, “ome ang Puy AS in everything else, struggle decides f @ Rew o. i here too, if the workers stand firm they -will Je ae Rs in their negotiations this year.

Panies have countered the demand of-the- Inter-}

$2000

JUST AFEW DAYS LEFT

With YOUR HELP We (Can Make It

Heave - Ho and Over The Top

Needed

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posted above. Next figures will be

Tribune. DRIVE

Greater Vancouver

Club Quota Achieved Advance ---------- $350 $256.50 Bavwiew ooo 225 «193.00 Broadway -------- 400 565.55* Rrothers: 2. == 150 109.00 Dry Dock. 400 405.02% Raat Eno 275 —-275.00* Electrical __------- 400 409.58* Frank Rogers ----- 325 184.00 Georgia ---------- 150 142.00 Grandview -------- 500 533.50* Hastings East ---- 500 563.25* Kensington ------- 350 431.20* Mt. Pleasant ------ 275 218.25 Niilo Makela ---- 150 103.20 Norquay ---------- 300 277.57 Olgin ------------- 200 164.25 Point Grey -------- 350 350.00% Wigid tee! ook 150 164.00* Seamen. 2: 2. + >- 300 434.00* Strathcona —------- 325 406.80* Victory Square ---- 750 868.50* Waterfront ------- 400: 313.13 West End _------- 275 128.62 North Burnaby ---- 425 376.25 South Burnaby ---- 215 606.50

Edmonds (Burnaby) 215 152.65 North Van City --- 350 273.55 North Van District - 400 348.07 City Miscellaneous er 1007.39

Unpledged -------- 2 31.00 Dewdney

Haney ----------- 15 77.57

Maple Ridge ------ 1% 95.90

ecial Congratulations go to the 13 Vancouver Clubs and 11 Provincial ohibs who made their quotas by May Day. You will see their figures

the final standings in May 18 Pacific

QUOTAS

Delta Fort Langley __---- 250 $250.54* Ea@ners ahs =: Ys To” «335-00 Steveston. ~______- 100 38.00 South Surrey ____- 100 107.03* North Surrey ___—- 250 271.03* Whalley: se0 2S =s5 200 134.04 Vancouver Island Albernis 2228 2--.4 $275 264.85 Campbell River -_- 200 93.50 Cumberland |= 2-- == 200 79.20 Gowichan.- =: ss 300 320.50 Nandimo eS 550 Spat * Parkeviue 2S is 40.00 Wactoria co. 500 449.35 Okanagan Region Kaniloops See $175 77.00 - NStGh Hal = 5 150 118.00 Marni ens seas oe i 175 181.00* Province General Michel-Fernie _____ $125 60.00 Mission o's 100 120.30* INeISOn foie 5t 15.00 New Westminster __ 325 326.29* Powell River _____- 200 218.75* Prince Rupert ___-- 100 46.00 Sointula ~_--_--_--_ 75 83.00* Trail-Rossland _____ 300 300.75* Correspondence ____ 200 163.00 Provincial Miss. ___ 200

T. McEwen’s column 100 88.50

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