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IWA Now
Holds 52

iContracts

= International Woodworkers
of America this week com-
pleted agreements affecting
24 mills and logging camps
in this province, bringing the
total of contracts now negoti-
ated to 52, and drive for

igned agreements undertaken
ter passage of ICA Act am-
#aendments and the winning of
a the Queen Charlotte Islands dis-
‘wiute over union recognition. At
‘jhe same time, according to Dis-
“srict President Harold Pritchett,
gue union is attracting large
 umbers of new members as re-
miected in applications for mem-
“ership cards. The growth of
“20 union’s membership, particu-
“Sarly among Chinese and East
fudian workers, is seen as a di-
‘ject result of union successes
‘s7hich illustrate benefits of col-
“e2ctive bargaining,
‘Among operators who will sign
- taster agreement are the Mo-
awk Lumber Company, Indus-
cial Timber Mills, Lid., Cana-
sjian Western Lumber Company,
Wiloedel, Stuart and Welch, Co-
§10x Logging and Railway Com-
"any, Victoria Lumber and Man-
‘siacturing Company, Alberni Pa-
‘@ific Lumber Company, and Al-
=n, Butler and McDougall.
iuatest agreements affecting 23
amps were negotiated this week
—at a meeting in Nanaimo be-
ween R. V. Stuart and IWA
i fticials.
Speaking to Nanaimo IwWA
j1embers, Nigel Mergan, Inter-
Jational Board ~Member, said:
The signing of the master agree-
ient marks a tremendous step
*orward in improving industrial
: lations in the timber industry.
“During 1943. wemave placed
},000 members under union con-

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me-act. By next spring | expect
re union will represent 30,000
iembers.

m “It will be a great political
@ictor for beneficial legislation
32 working conditions. Some of
ie benefits of the agreements
il] come from the stamping out
mf the transient nature of our
ibors. Transients will be dis-
suraged. We will establish sen-
wity rights and leave of absence
srmits. If operations are sSuSs-
ended by a company and new
scations are opened in another
egion, the old employees will
ave priority.”
Latest agreement negotiated
as with Allen, Butler and Mc-
iougall. The contract signed by
ert Hill, secretary and business
gent of Local 1-267, Dick Blay-
ack, president, Local 1-267 and
larry Butler for the company,
™crovides for wage increases in
45 categories.

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Pritchett Named LPP Candidate

Harold Pritchett, district president, International Wood-

ss

workers of America, was unanimously chosen as Labor-Pro-

gressive candidate in New Westminster federal riding,

at a

meeting of delegates from 14 LPP clubs in the constituency
held at New Westminster Legion Hall last Sunday.

Pritchett was nominated by Councillor Perey Smith of
Coquitlam, president of IWA Koeal 1-317.

Accepting the nomination, Pritchett told the meeting that
unity of labor and all progressive parties was a necessity in
the winning of the war. In order to earry out labor’s no-strike
pledge, he declared, signed agreements between managements
and legitimate trade unions must be obtained, and labor must
extend its activities to the political field .

“The CCF should amend its constitution so that labor
unions wishing to affiliate would be assured of entry. into a
federation on a democratic basis,” he said.

“At this time particularly, with big business waging a well-

planned campaign against labor, we must unite to earry .

through the people’s wishes.”

Trades Couneil

Protests

Order

Local AFL unions will “refuse to be governed by the new
federal wage laws” if they carry out the recommendation given
to them in a resolution passed at this week’s meeting of Van-
couver Trades and Tabor Council.

The question was brought to
the Council’s attention by dele-
gates from Street Railwaymen’s
Union in a resolution already
endorsed by its three locals 101,
104 and 109, asking that “this
council contact the officers of the
Trades and Tabor Congress of
Canada and request that they,
tegether with other groups of
erganized labor in the Dominion,
interview Prime Minister King
and cabinet ministers and inform
them definitely that organized la-
bor in Canada refuses to be gov-
erned by such dictatorial and
vicious legislation.

“We have been dilly-dallying
along for years, ever since Ot-
tawa started passing orders-in-

council,’ declared _ Robert Cor-
mack, of the New Westminster
division.

When it was proposed that the
question be left in abeyance un-
til Birt Showler, Council chair-
man, returned from meeting with
Congress officials in Ottawa,
Charles Stewart, of Division 101,
objected.

“Tabor has done more than its
share in carrying on the war,” he
declared. “I can’t say the same
for many industrialists who are
trying to drive labor back _to
pre-war conditions in violation
of the Atlantic Charter.”

In answer to a letter from Van-
couver Labor Council charging
the Dominion government with
formulating an anti-union policy,
delegates instructed the execu-
tive to plan a meeting of officers
of both labor councils to discuss
calling of a provincial confer-
ence to discuss the matter.

Barbara ‘Stewart, business
agent for Hotel and Restaurant
Employees Union, was delegated.

to: represent the council on the-

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Council of Social Agencies, which
has set up a committee to make
a special study of child labor. —

After listening to W. J. Coyle,
Montreal, vice-president of the
International Brotherhood of
Boilermakers, Iron Shipbuilders,
Welders and Helpers, who ad-
dressed delegates on the history.
of shipbuilding in Canada, the
council endorsed plans for a na-
tional campaign to continue the
shipbuilding industry after the
War and “restrict the coasting
trade of Canada to vessels now
registered in Canada or here-
aiter built in Canada.”

Coyle read from a petition ad-
dressed to Prime Minister King
asking that “parliament enact at
onee appropriate legislation for
the preservation of employment
in the Canadian shipbuilding and
allied industries.’ He declared
that such legislation was neces-
sary because in the past shipping
companies had bought ships in
the British Isles,
and Germany, and that Canada
as a maritime nation, should con-
struct its own ships.

“This petition will be signed
by thousands of workers across
Canada,” said Coyle, “and will be
placed before Prime Minister
King in January. . . We will
ask parliament to amend the
Canadian Shipping Act as a pro-
tection to Canadian workers and
Canadian industry.”

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HAROLD PRITCHETT

New YWugoslav
Gov't. Hailed

Local branches of the Croa-
tian Fraternal Union of America
have sent greetings to Marshall
Josip Broz and the recently es-
tablished Yugoslay provisional
government headed by Dr. Ivan
Ribar, it was announced ‘this
week,

Telegrams were also sent to
British, United States and Sovy-
iet governments welcoming their
announcements that more mater-
jal aid will be given to the
Partisans.

Oshawa Labor
Sponsors Slate

OSHAWA, ONT.—Under the
sponsorship of Oshawa and Dis-
trict Labor Council, 14 candi-
dates have been advanced for
Civie offices and are campaign-
ing on a broad civic reform pro-
gram.

The slate includes eight can-
didates for city council.

Twelve of the candidates are
members of Local 222, United
Auto Workers, one is a member
of Local 1817, United Steelwork-
ers, and one a member of Print-
ing Pressmen’s and Assistants’
Union (AFL).

Local 222, UAW-CIO; has en-
Labor -Progressive clubs here
dorsed the candidates, and the
have offered full assistance in
the campaign.

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Federation
Advocated
By Wilson

Stating that he spoke “as
a socialist and a CCF mem-
ber,” Fraser Wilson, presi-
dent of Vancouver News-
Paper Guild, Local No. 1, told
a Town Meeting held at John
Goss Studio last Friday, pro-

ceedings of which were broad-
Cast over radio station Cy OR Sat--
urday, he believed that “tru

political affiliation can be Behicy.
€d only on the basis of broad

federation of labor and socialist
bodies.”

The meeting was called to dis-
cuss the question: “Should trade
unions take political action that
would associate them with a
political party?” Speakers were:
Herbert Gargrave, CCF, MLA;
i. AL Jamieson, secretary of
Musicians Union, local 145;
James Robertson, organizer for
United Steelworkers ‘of America;
and Fraser Wilson. E

Declaring that “labor in itself
must become the labor party,”
Wilson stated:

“Iam not content that labor.
should join a political party and
be the dog wagged by the tail.

“Labor in Canada has been of-
fered political affiliation. TI be-
lieve that it will eventually ac-
cept political affiliation bu on the
broadest basis possible.

“I am’ convinced that no work-
ers’ government can succeed
without the support of organized
labor. |

“There is no reason to believe
that the leaders of a labor move-
ment are less sincere than party
leaders or more opportunistic
and therefore less able to repre-
sent labor in political federation.

“et us then at once investigate
how unity of purpose can he
obtained.

“lt is not for a political party
to hand down terms to organized
labor and say: ‘You must sign
this to affiliate with us.’ But
rather, as trade unionists, it is
for us to investigate and choose
and meet on equal terms with
the political movement of labor.
Together we can find common
ground and strength.”

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