“The Workers’ Friend’

Because.I own the Morning Press, it must be very clear, That my advice is good advice, for working men to hear. The fact that I’m a Millionaire, and will be to the end, Just proves I have no axe to grind; I am the workers’ friend. The kindly, honest toiler wouldn’t doubt where he belonged, If selfish Union bosses didn’t tell him he’s been wronged. —The workers’ good is understood by selfless men like me; The owner class—not Union brass—will keep the worker free! The right-to-work’s a goodly thing, ennobling to the soul, To sanctify this hallowed right, is every owner’s goal;

Each man must be forever free to work where he is told, And at what pay the owners say his labour should be sold.

From crass reflections on his wage, the worker must be saved;

Let him be pure, and long endure, by Mammon unenslaved;

The fact is known and can be shown, an increase is but dust; Who gets a raise, he pays and pays—an economic “must.”

There was a time—another clime—when Unions had a place; That time is passed, and now at last, let owners set the pace. Who else would heed in thought and deed, the workers’ inmost

cause?

—And if they won’t accept this, LET’S TIGHTEN UP THE

LAWS!

Education Classes

Meet With Success

Local 1-417, IWA, Financial Secretary, Cliff Michael, reports that the three- local members trained by the International Re- search and Education Depart- ment to act as education instruc- tors in the Local Union, have met with complete success in their classes to date.

The members, Dick Larson, Vavenby; R. Schlosser, Merritt; and Cliff Michael, Salmon Arm,

state that they are holding their classes in their own homes and that the attending students appear eager to see these courses con- tinue.

The new instructors also praised highly the splendid job the Re- search and Education Department is doing in training instructors and the promptness in which the Department sends out material when requested.

Amendments Approved By Pipe Crew

Local 1-252, IWA, Financial Secretary, Vic Forster reports that a meeting of the crew of the Pacific Coast Pipe Com- pany Limited, unanimously agreed on the proposed amend- ments to the present contract.

These amendments include seeking a wage increase of 25c per hour, plus a reduction of the five year period for the three week vacation to three years, The negotiating team will be com- prised of Al. Anderson, John Clancy and Financial Secretary, Vie Forster.

Secretary Forster has _ also

added as an item of interest that

Printers of

THE B.C. LUMBER WORKER

J.W. Bow & Co.

LIMITED PRINTERS AND

‘the membership of Local 1-252,

IWA (formerly the B.C. Woaod- workers) are commencing their seventeenth year without having a strike. He states that on the few occasions that a strike vote was necessary, the membership vote has always been close to 100%. This type of concentrated ac- tion, Vie Forster

sponsible for bringing up the basic

stated, is re- rate in the detail millwork, sash and door, to $1.84 per hour.

Alaska Bears Grow Big

Alaska’s brown bears are the biggest meat-eating animals that walk the earth. They are a prominent feature of Katmai National Monument, site of the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes.

The male sometimes stand nine feet tall and weigh 1,500 pounds — about three times the size of a lion or a tiger.

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What's New

For You

YOU CAN CARRY your green- house around if it’s made of poly- ethylene film. The quonset-shaped portable greenhouses come in two commercial sizes—one is 8 ft. wide, 3 ft. high and 5 ft. long, the other 11 ft. by 3% ft. by 5 ft. — and weigh about 25 Ibs. A 1-in. air-space between two layers of film acts as insulation. Greenhouse permits three different field crops to be brought in as much as two weeks ahead of normal maturity in each growing season, maker says.

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FOCUS AND SHOOT: That's all you need to do with a new 35 mm camera that has all the features of a professional camera without its complications. It auto-

conditions. An indicator in a com- bined rangefinder and viewfinder window shows you when there is too much light or not enough light for perfect pictures.

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NO DUST gathers on a smooth paint surface coated with a new water-like fluid. The coating fills in the microscopic pores of a seemingly smooth surface, pro- ducing a slickness which leaves virtually nothing for dirt to adhere to. It can be sprayed, brushed, roller coated, mopped, or

wiped on, It’s been Held tested | for industrial maintenance, but is | not yet available for the home-|

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TIRE PRESSURE can be read] any time if you have a German- made guage. it’s screwed directly to’ the tire valve left there permanently. The gauge is removed even when washing the} car. It is small, inconspicuous, and weights under % oz., so that re-ballancing the tires is not needed, the maker says.

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HI-FI HEARING AID offers a 98% greater range of reproduced and amplified sounds than is pos- sible through present transistor hearing aids, maker says. It covers four octaves, unvoiced consonants SUCHMAS Maths mnt eSit ean dealin yet weighs only 2 oz.

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STOP SQUINTING at your old- fashioned hard-to-read thermo- meter every time you want the right temperature, says Chicago firm. It has a pocket-watch design thermometer that can be clearly read from across a room. It’s encased in a _ simulated old- fashioned pocket watch case with a 24-in. matching chain. It measures 714 in. .wide, 9% in.

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high; records temperatures from -30 deg. to 120 deg. F.

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Because some unknown thief had been looting money from parking meters police in Salt Lake City asked citizens to report anyone seen tampering with the metal boxes.

EAMON PARK, Assistant National Director of the United Steelworkers, instructs his class of students in ““Labour’s Position On Economic Issues In Collective Bargaining,” during the CLC Staff Conference and Winter School, January 25-29, in Parksville, Vancouver Island.

We Bet No Motorist Called The Police

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Diligent citizens responded so well that one authorized meter collector was picked up - for questioning three times in the same day.

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Nova Scotians are statistic- ally shown to be the nation’s best rum drinkers, but they are among the worst consumers when it comes to milk. Indeed,

Maybe We Like Rum Too

only the British Columbians, for some unknown reason, drink less of this nutritious product than we do.

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METAL SORTER can discrimin- ate between different metals that look alike without costly, time- consuming and complicated test- ing. It differentiates between inconel and_ stainless _ steel, zircaloy-2. and zironcium, and zircaloy-2 and hafnium in the twinkling of an eye. You rub a file against the metal and this gener- ates a tiny current which is slightly different for each metal. The machine detects the dif- ference. * * *

MUSICAL BIRD perch starts to play when a pet bird alights on a bar to admire itself in an adjacent mirror. When it flies away, an automatic shut-off stops the music. The perch hangs in- side a bird cage. Swiss musical movement can be wound easily from _ outside.

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SCIENTIFIC TOYS: Model missile soars up 400 ft. and de- scetids by parachute. The kit in- cludes a missle, launcher and three motors. Bumblebee kit makes a true-to-life model of the insect, but eight times life size. Electronic computer circuit is assembled with nuts and bolts, operates on a single flashlight cell. Kit instruc- tions can be grasped by a 12-

FRESH DAILY

at your favourite food store

GENERAL BAKERIES LIMITED Kingsway & Boundary Rd., Vancouver

year-old, maker says.

ltems Of Interest

By all geological standards, the Mexican volcano Paricutin is dead and will not become active again.

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Providence Canyon, near Lumpkin, Ga., is a miniature of the Grand Canyon.

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The U.S. Army has a crane which can be parachuted from the air and can lift more than its own weight—which is eight tons.

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Britain had 1,258,000 visitors from overseas in 1958, a seven- per-cent increase over 1957.

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Anchorage, railroad and high- way centre in Alaska, also has French, Dutch and Scandinavian airliners stopping on trans-Polar flights. -

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The tiny fig moth is the sole agent by which the Smyrnia fig is polinated.

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Although it’s subtropical, Bermuda is the most northerly coral atoll in the world.

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CREDIT UNION DIRECTORY

IWA Credit Unions and other Credit Unions supported by IWA Local Unions in B.C.

Alberni District Credit Union, 209 Argyle Street, Port Alberni IWA 1-217 Savings, Broadway & Quebec Streets, Vancouver 10 IWA (N.W.) Credit Union, Room 21, 774 Columbia Street,

New Westminster

Local 1-118, IWA (Victoria), 904 Gordon Street, Victoria Chemainus & District Credit Union, Box 229, Chemainus Lake Cowichan and District Credit Union, Lake Cowichan, B.C. Courtenay Credit Union, Box 952, Courtenay

Duncan & District Credit Union, Box 1717, Duncan

Prince George & District, 1046 -4th Avenue, Prince George Nanaimo & District Credit Union, 499 Wallace St., Nanaimo Ladysmith & District Credit Union, Box 154, Ladysmith, B.C. United Lobour Credit Union, 1475 East 43rd, Vancouver