B.C. LUMBER WORKER

December 18, 1952

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E officers and members of the B. C. District Coun-

cil extend to all officers and members of the IWA

Local Unions the Season’s Greetings. These greetings

carry with them the earnest wish that all may enjoy

a Merry Yuletide, and find a larger measure of happi-
ness and prosperity in the New Year.

Warm fraternal greetings are also extended to the
members of affiliated unions. The IWA wishes them
well. The IWA wishes for them, not merely a bright
and merry festive season for the next two weeks, but
the realization of their desires for happier living in
the year ahead.

Within the IWA we may relax from the round of
duties for a day or two, and join in the festive occa-
sions with a clear conscience.

The IWA has not failed in its mission to labor
unceasingly for the betterment of those who perform
the work of the lumber industry. This record may be
reviewed with pride and satisfaction.

We may well be joyful that, through the solidarity
of our Union, important progress has been made in
the betterment of conditions among our ranks. This
Solidarity served to overcome opposition to our pur-
poses. This solidarity harvested better wages, better
conditions and a better organization.

Uninformed critics might easily claim that the
IWA achievements might have been greater. We make
no pretence that the performance was perfect. We
know that hindsight is always clearer about these mat-
ters than foresight. We can say that we did our best,
Sometimes in situations that were not always clear.
We may say with pride that the best efforts of our
Union brought important and beneficial results for
those who rely upon our Union.

The past year’s work of the IWA not only attained
important results of positive value, but it also served
the welfare of its members well in a negative sense.
We know that conditions would now be much worse
had it not been for the vigilance and strength of our
organization.

Out of this experience, we have forged a weapon
that will serve us well in the future. We have ex-
panded organization over a wider area. We have
organized many more of the unorganized. We have
cemented the loyalty of many thousands through close
attention to their needs. We have won the grudging
respect of employers, and convinced the public that
our aims coincide with community welfare.

_ With this new-found strength, our responsibilities
increase. We have urgent problems before us in the
New Year. Our long-range objectives are still distant.
We must develop within our ranks leadership for
future years. We must look well to the conservation
of natural resources on which our employment depends.

With a good year behind us and an organization
that is solid and sound, we may face the New Year
with confidence. Its problems are a challenge, and at
the same time an opportunity. Our organization will
become bigger and better only as we manfully tackle
these bigger and better opportunities,

—IWA DISTRICT OFFICERS.

Labor Martyr

EWS of the brutal assasination of Mr. Farhat

Hached, general secretary of the Tunisian General
Federation of Labor, has shocked the Canadian labor
ae ent and the free trade union movement of the
world.

Through its activities in the International Con-
federation of Free Trade Unions, Canadian labor had
come to know and admire Mr. Hached who was a
Substitute member of the executive board of that
organization. His death is a great blow to democracy
and social progress throughout the whole of the strife-
torn areas of North Africa and the Middle East.

Mr, Hached was a man who fought vigorously for
the right of his people to govern their own affairs,
free from colonial domination. He was a person dedi-
cated to improving the lot of ‘his fellow workers
throughout the whole of the strife-torn areas of North
Africa and the Middle East.

But what is more important, Farhat Hached was

a pillar of sanity in an area of the world where extrem-

ism and conflict reign. In his struggles to satisfy the

> political aspirations of the Tunisian people and their

economic and social advancement, Mr. Hached stead-

fastly rejected the support and methods of fanatical

nationalists, on the one hand, and totalitarian Com-
munists, on the other, :

As head of the largest Arab trade union he repre-
sented a major force for moderation and reason in his
own country and in the whole of North Africa and the
Middle East.

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OSLO (CPA)—A permanent
price law bill affecting the
whole of. the Norwegian econ-
omy, laying down company di-
vidend limitation and maximum
and minimum pricesshas been

put before the Norwegian par-
liament by the Labor govern-

“would only lead to new price
increases, and in the next round,
the wage boost would be eaten
up faster than the last one.”

ducing the bill, have set as its

GETS PRICE LAW

aim, the maintenance of full em-
ployment, higher production and
a fair distribution of the national
product. The permanent price
law will also preserve Norway’s
internal financial stability and, it
is hoped, solve the balance of
payments problem.

Full Employment
The Finance Ministry in intro-

ment.

The bill aims “to assure a_so-
cially defensible price develop-
ment and to counteract unreason-
able prices and trade terms
through the control and regula-
tion of prices, costs, profits and
other economic factors.”

The Norwegian Finance Minis-
try says that the bill will “pro-
vide protection against unfair
competition and measures harm-
ing the public interest by un-
reasonable restraint of competi-
tion.”

Dividends on corporate stock
will be limited to 5% and the
government can fix maximum and
minimum prices for commodities
under the provisions of the bill.

Bill Protested

Business organizations and the
Conservative press have made
strong protests against the bill,
but Arbeiderbladet, the labor pa-
per, says: “The proposed price
law provides a tool both for in-
creasing production and for coun-
teracting price fluctuations.”
The Norwegian Federation of
Labor has recently had a series
of talks with the government on
ways of stabilizing prices. NFL
president, Konrad Nordahl, says
that’ wage, increases are not the
answer to the rising cost of liv-
ing. He said that wage increases

SASK. HAS
WHEAT GLUT

REGINA (CPA) — The big
Saskatchewan grain harvest is
causing a tie-up of the province’s
storage facilities and aircraft
hangars are being used for store-
houses,

The Saskatchewan Wheat Pool
has two-thirds of its 1,168 grain
elevators plugged with more than
52 million bushels of grain and is
looking for aircraft hangars to
ease the storage situation, °

The Pool has completed nego-
tiations for the use of two han-
gars at Mossbank to store 600,000
bushels of wheat. One hangar is
already in use.

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