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AROUND THEDISTRICT UNIONWALKThe Walking man contest ' has ihfiucnced- certain People. Quadoesqveiy thing but right by the working peopl^ 'It’s dead sexi-v ous though ‘ when; trade unionists elected to conference utilize seri-\ cus gatherings to give the news-aborTeapots neauunes wnicn uo no v,good. Some of these people, ^rho really like to dish it out are not bigs^enough to take It; ;In this affair at the labor lobby ills ■names were, mentioned in my remarks, but the press has been publicizing n am eg for weekst—As-for yours truly, Valking out is the (ast thing I wilt do. I have 'advised - Uie-GongressVpfllcial that if he disagrees with1'ffi^remarks and considers them in violation of trdde union principles\then ■ charges can be laid and taken _up according to the procedures\f of our unions. That is the pi,-open way to deal with the ffuestlons,I have since learnedXjorr} thepregs that, such charges \vill. be laid and I welcome .the op tunity to be able to present'facts' on which I based my i;earksSCABBING ON HLADUN?uuj letters as constituents askingThem to take up -a matter lt;f concern :to us. We would like jo m tthose members again whorrt they represent in Ottawa, the (people who elected them, or the mine operators who want to get; rid of Reid Robinson.’ We will remember their hiding behind the state-unionofficials o”n' a matter thaf concern this union. .One MP has ir;ven gone to thX extent of advising the. union ‘whom to “elect to ‘office. We are keeping‘these letters. on file.walkouts/BEFORE WAGESByrne, Ken Smith, and myself, who were, delegates to the wage conference at Calgary, after presenting three reports from this district, wore surprised to hear /fofh one. of the eastern delegates who later, toqk a walk, thaLthese reports were riot authentic. “He knew better,” he said over the rnicrophone. He also fold John ClWk that he knew more thaii theXpresident about what was going on in the International. It/as only afterwards .that weX.\- The Vancouver Sun is not sat-\ isfietl. with its scaring, news stor-\ rd “to frighten people, so it has gone to the length of establishinga; column, for the outright agentof-theStuaitReseareh-Ltd. which These—lb—reports—hod—bfound out that, some pf those who walked out had ;only\walked into thermion within -the 'last three months?-^ ’vfo'VirWe listened to r reports from each of the 15 delegates f r fin Timmins but it was only: afteriiW-ereil that we found-'out from delegate i outside -that he was. working for .79 cents ah hour. Thase'brothers were supposed to come prepared to participate in a wage policy conference.represents all the sawmills and lurnbercompanies and the voice .of-The western mine operators;This fellow Morflsoti is really an okpert.\- Remember him during the IWA strlke, when he was telling the workers and everybody else how . to conduct the union, how to save the industry by. doing what the boss 'says? The IWA won their strike, the companies continued to'make- theiX -*• v . , . - , ,, . ■■ , JjiationaKnnit.Xiii£Lwmch_has done i rv,rrecord-breaking, profits, and Bob' . TX. - : tii„X i-so much to vinprove the conditions ! forwitHost of the conference way the Sudbury local union. We-met in ttjmr union hall and couldn’t help flunking how this local, now the laigbst local union in 'the Inter-turned to ttve.metailot—the- workersminers, stawm clearly that if one dollar afr houiNwks ever ,paid to miners the, industry would be ^jvrecked, all . mineS/XypuId shut down. aritT the grass^/wouM^grow -Well, :-they ...are payhig moreXtian members, sent down 15 delegates;nessing in their mill a scene of | , jst such anti-union -actiorXas a walk-! a(jaout from a wagejscale conference.-! .^ ■*** V VTimmins local,1 rcpresenting'TOO L- ^ muone dollar an hour now in mok - gold mines, smgAforrison turned♦ i- r, *i i T JVX--* 1 i 1 m 1 1his attention' T6 the -coal mines, again broadcasting for the operators on how thc^minirig industry on the Island would be ruined. 'It doesn’t matter what industry or management labor gets- into dispute with, Bob Morrison. Is there to give ihis jtalents. Thisman who knows all these indus-. tries has finally turned hisatten--— tion to The Jugoslavs, Has become V an expert on dead cats; and the \ management of John Hladun.\ Now he has become a newspaperman,’ a columnist. a The Vancou-Xver Sun does This in the interests of frge. speech, It says/ In one^ iKsue alone there were 33 aiTlclea on the Ted terror and menace.' That ;was Thews.'' But it wasn't enough, so they-got .Morrison as a'columnist. Wonder If he gets 25 cents a word, which Hladun claims is his own pi'ibe. oris Mor-, •rison scabbing? •of which nine walked out., The 'Sfidbury local with about 2,000 duX^paymg members,— had 2- delegates; of which seven walked but.FULL TIME BTalk about it bemg tough! All of us at this conferencXwere im pressed by the reports frbrxj tliii province ~of Quebec whei'e plessis is really putting on the heat. Up to the time of the conference we had been Informed by. the press thakVancouver was the hotbed of communism, but at the conference we found out that according to -the local press Rouyn and Noranda are. In fact I hey-have organized ant lcommun-ist week tbere, parades and all, to culminpte in a demonstration orf the 2nd of May-r --- - - -ONE FOR THE BOOK. Ypu may have the impression that'In rimmips the i^suc is American .irganizers. * Well, the organize* who w*ds up there. Brother Barlow Wildman, is back inToveiacrlt;Trapl.UlnovtnuiJtBillandha^ingNovto ;We received quite a few rerilie.-/vf ^ - - «'* - *
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Vancouver BC District Union News
Vancouver, British Columbia, CA
Mon, Apr 12, 1948
Page 5
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Clipped by
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