baste

’ the west coast yards.

ing of contracts to the industry

Canadian yards, where it will
mean employment to Canadian
workers.”

Pointing: to the need fer gov-
emment responsibility in the
maintenance of i ship-
building, McLeod

government: apply
Pressure to force Canadian ship-
building companies to grant con-
tracts for new- ships to Canadian
yards Howe replied that ‘his de-
partment was no longer respon-

' sible for the granting of con-
tracts and the problem was there-
fore out of his. jurisdiction’. The

: fact remains, however, that un-
less pressure is applied, the CPR
and like companies will be con-
tent to continue with the use of
dilapidated ships in the coast
trade until they can place their
orders in Britain, to the detri-
ment of shipbuilding in this coun-
try.”

McLéod also told P.A. that the
maintenance and development of
Canadian shipbuilding is essen-
tial to the building of a strong
Canadian merchant navy and the
guarantee of employment for the
people of Canada. He accused
Canadian shipping operators ot
being content to “tag along at
the tail-end of the merchant ser.
vices of the world” in order to
guarantee maintenance of Bri-
tain’s position of a Major world
carrier. He pointed out that Ca-
nadian yards are well able to
build ships of all classes and
types, citing the example of the
wide range of ships, from land-
ing barges and China coast trans-
Ports to 14,000 ton ships built in

“The shipyard unions of Brit-
ish Columbia and our own organ.
ization will continue pressure for
the revitalizing of the west coast
shipbuilding industry. Govern-
ment pressure to assure grant-

here will assist in that fight, but
popular pressure will force the
CPR ‘and other operators to
grant contracts if it is sustained
and not sporadic”, :

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gant operators who refuse to
bargain collectively; of the ur-
gency of turning back the cur-
rent monopoly offensive against
wage standards and trade unions
and averting a return to the
“chaotic conditions of the nine-
teen thirties,”

But there -was recognition of
the fact that the union’s demands
would not be met without a broad
campaign reaching well outside
the boundaries of the province.

Delegate Nigel Morgan, Local
1-71, emphasized this in point-
ing out that one of the major
obstacles to wage boosts now was
the existence of PC 9384, the
wage-freezing order. °

“We will have to consider en-
listing the Support of the whole
labor movement: in having this
rotten legislation wiped off the
books,’ Morgan declared, stress-
ing too that since lumbering was
B.C’s_ major basic industry, the
IWA. would have to “get out
among the farmers and smal}
business people and show them
that our demand for wage in-
creases is one.of the keys ‘to
and their prosperity.”

Harold Pritchett, IWA district
president, struck the keynote of
the program discussion in a4
brief, fighting speech which ur-
ged the union membership to
chalk up the most overwhelming
strike vote in the history of the
IWA as a means of backing up
the negotiating committee.

“The program we're about to
vote on grows ont of the inter-

‘Dational war against fascism,”

Pritchett asserted. “We should
not forget that, nor should we
forget that what we are asking
is actually what the war was
fought around—no more unem-
ployment and semi-starvation for
our young people, with jobs for
everyone at good - Wages, de-
cent homes, social security from
the cradle to the grave.”

The IWA leader drew applause
as he affirmed that the wood-
workers of B.C. were prepared to
“lead the struggle of Canadian
labor for the winning of the
peace;” for the repeal of PC
9384, which he described as a
“bitter joke,” and for turning
back the offensive of the Cana-
dian Manufacturers Association

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“Let us now brace our feet for
the strugglee ahead, prepared to
withdraw our labor power if it
should become necessary. With
the proper fighting spirit, we can
not help but win,’ he concluded.

A few moments later the mo-
tion to. endorse the 1946 pro-
gram passed by a unariimous
standing vote and prolonged ap-
plause,

By this action of the 85 con-
vention delegates representing 14
local unions and scores of sub-
locals covering every lumbering
erea in the province, some 30,000
workers of B.C.’s major industry
stepped into the fight for jobs
and security .that will dir A
and indirectly affect the liveéli-
hood of at least one-third of the
Coast province’s population.-

It has long been a saying that
“as goes lumber, so goes the
province.” When lumber opera-
tions are booming, B.C.’s econo-
mic life is usually at a high level.
When a boom in lumber is ac-
complained by high wages, tens
of thousands of families on farms
and in small businesses benefit
in a very direct way.

Even more important, the
IWA, as the biggest union in
B.G., has long been regarded by
other unions as the leading
spokesman for organized labor
as a whole. In the case of the
struggle which the IWA_ launch-
ed this week, B.C. labor’s whole
program of reconversion of in-
dustry _full --employment _and
maintenance of wartime wage
standards will be at stake, and
the woodworkers are certain to
receive full support, and to even
act as the initiative force in
bringing the unions in other in-
dustries into action for their own
economic and political demands.

This was indicated when Har-
vey Murphy, international or-
ganizer of the CIO Mine, Mill
and Smelter Workers, speaking
to the convention, expressed the

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taneously on their wage demands.
FIGHT FOR PEACE
What was set in motion at the
IWA B.C. districtis ninth con-
vention—-which: incidentally was
by far the biggest and most pro-
ductive of all the annual parley’s
since unionism was reestablished
in lumbering back in 1929—wags
the second stage in Canadian la-
bor’s fight for the peace. The
first great struggle was initiated
by the biggest union in Eastern
Canada—the United Automobile
Workers of America—a struggle
that would have been completely,
instead of partially, successful
had the Windsor strikers not
by the Canadian
Congress of Labor top officials.
Now the fight has been taken
up by the most influential labor
group in Western Canada—the
International Woodworkers of
America—with its 20,000 mem-
bers and an experienced and
trusted leadership whose close

connection with the prob-
lems. of the working log-
ger and sawmill worker are

their biggest asset. Given the ac-
tive support of labor as a whole,
their fight for the 40-hour week
with no reduction in take-home
pay, a 25 cents an hour wage
boost across the board, and union
security, will be victorious. And
that will be a tremendous gain
for Canadian labor as a whole.

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