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THE B.C. LUMBER WORKER

April 4, 1930

LETTERS

Camp and Mill —

“EVERY READER A

CORRESPONDENT”

REPORTS
—

Another Fatal
Accident .

A belated report records the death of
Barney Sundby, in a logging accident at
Salmon River on March 1, last. No de-
tails of the accident

accompanied the re-
port. The death of
Sundby brings the to-

tal of deaths due to | Wogkers have

logging accidents eee yah

since January 1 to| guvis in BC.

seven, since January
In one case only | Ist, 1939.

have full details of
the accident reached this office. Mem-
bers are urged to make immediate use
of the accident report forms whenever
an accident occurs, however slight the
accident may e.

We regret to xeport the accidental
drowning of a logget at Port McNeill.
Lanis Lutz, 60, employed-by the Pioneer
Timber Co., at Port McNeill, was found
drowned in the Harbor there.

Douglas Baird, 22, of 333 W. Seventh
Ave., Vancouver, injured while working
at the Overseas Wood Products plant,
Granville Island, on March 16, died later
as a result of his injuries. He was struck
on the head by the end of a cable which
snapped while hauling a log.

H. Harrison, a faller employed at the
B. & K. Logging camp at Roberts Creek,
was rushed forty miles by car to St.

iry’s Hospital at Pender Harbor, for

REPORT OF ISLAND
JOINT CONFERENCE

On Sunday, March 26, a joint confer-
ence was held in the U.M.W.A. Hall in
Nanaimo, by the United Mine Workers
of America (Cumberland and Nanaimo
locals), the Fishermen’s Union and the
B.C. Coast District Council, International
Woodworkers of America and their af-
filiated locals.

The conference dealt primarily with
the situation confronting the workers in
the various branches of the basic in-
dustries, particularly the hard rock
miners, fishermen and lumber workers,
in connection with the absentee ballot
and registration of their names to facili-
tate using of their franchise in the com-
ing elections.

A political welfare committee is to be
set up in each local participating in the
conference to assist those who have not
as yet taken out their citizenship papers,
but who are eligible to do so; and also
to assist them in becoming registered as
a voter,

The recent revision of the Federal
Election Act, 1938, in which provisions
for absentee ballots are only provided
for professional men, has left those work-
ing in the basic industries, such as lum-
ber workers, fishermen and hard rock
miners out of the picture. This will
mean that thousands of them will be dis-
franchised because of the elimination of
the absentee ballot. There is only rea-
son to believe that persons working hun-
dreds of miles away, in some cases, from
their constituency, would not and in
many cases could not leave their place

ent for a broken pelvis and pos-

le internal injuries suffered on March

when he slipped from a snow-covered

‘and fell several feet to another log
‘len in the snow. No further reports

0 his condition have been received,
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of employment and travel back to their
own constituency to exercise their fran-
chise,

Public meetings will be held in protest
and results will be forwarded to mem-
hers of Parliament in Ottawa dealing
with this question,

The time has now arrived when trade
unionists must organize, not only eco-
nomically, but politically, because we
realize .that political action is a key
note to the organization of the basic in-
dustries and other trade unions.

W. Atkinson, of the United Mine Work-
ers of America, spoke briefly of a meet-
ing which was addressed by Hon. G. S.
Pearson, Minister of Labor in Nanaimo
recently. The trend in Mr, Pearson's ad-
dress was towards securing an amend-
ment to the IC.A. Act to provide for
compulsory arbitration. The present form
of the ILC.A. Act and the compulsory
measures contained therein are very
unsatisfactory to organized labor as a

In Hollywood and Pasadena even the
ministers are taking part in the boy-
cott, showing thel: sympathy for the
Chinese, (Hollywood, Apy

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‘On dates to be announced in the near
future a series of entertainments and
dances will be given in various localities
throughout the province.

Each locality will organize its own
entertainment and the proceeds of these
entertainments will be divided among
the local, the B.C. Coast Distreit Council,
and the B.C. Lumber Worker. All these
entertainments will be covered by one
master ticket to which a stub is attached.
These stubs ill be retained by the vendor
of the ticket and turned in to the Dis-
trict Council office to participate in the
grand drawing at the final dance and
rally to be held in Hastings Auditorium,
on July 4 next,

Therefore, the ticket you purchase
locally not only gains you admission to
the entertainment in your locality, but

whole and we cannot subscribe to any
further compulsory measures which will
have a tendency to stifle organization.

If compulsory measures are to be
used, we believe these measures should
also be applied to the employers as well,
as past example such as the Woman’s
Bakery, Blubber Bay and Port Alberni
have proven beyond any doubt that the
workers involved submitted to compul-
sory measures and in any case where the
Arbitration Board handed down a de-
cision in their favor, then the employers
refused to abide by the decisions. There-
fore in this field, some further compul-
sory measures to enforce the laws are
more necessary than to enact any fur-
ther compulsory measures jn arbitration
on the part of trade unions, =

Mr. Atkinson also explained the serious
@rop in the pay-rolls in the mining in-
dustry and of the effect on the em-
ployees. The number employed in the
mining industry in Nanaimo in its hey-
day was in th» neighborhood of 5,000
while today there are a bare 1,500. The
payroll has dropped from seven million
to three million dollars per year.

One point stressed particularly by Mr.

Atkinson was that the operators or own-
érs were more concerned with dealing
in shares in connection with their mines
than they were in mining coal. He spoke
briefly on the various by-products which
can be manufactured from coal, men-
tioning perfume, silk stockings and
various other products,
A committee is also to be set up, hay-
ing in mind the ultimate plan of setting
up a permanent Trades and Labor Coun-
cil, effecting the City of Nanaimo and
districts. No details were gone into in
this respect, for it is expected that this
committee will meet again within the
next two weeks to discuss ways and
means of inaugurating this important
step towards organizing in its entirety,
the whole of Vancouver Island,

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All money received from this source
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The tickets will be in your locality
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IMPORTANT MEETING.

the Fishermen’s Union, the Interna-
tional Woodworkers of America, the In-
land Boatmen’s Union, and the Interna-
tional Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter
Workers, will be held in the Moose Hall,

8 pm.

The purpose of the meeting is to dis
cuss the amendment to the Dominion
Elections Act, 1938, as introduced by C.
Grant MacNeil (North Vancouver) in
the present session of the Federal House.

Under the act as it now stands the
majority of the loggers, fishermen, min-
ers and seamen are virtually disfran-
chised in Federal election. Mr, MacNeil’s
amendment would introduce into the Do-

lowing these vocations would be enabjed
to exercise their democratic right to
vote in a Federal election.

Cameron, C.C.F. (Comox-Alberni) and
others. It is expected that several
speakers from the above organizations
will present their views on this import-
ant matter.

The importance of the question in-
volved makes it imperative that we
throw as much weight and influence as
Possible behind Mr. MacNeil with a view
to insuring the incorporation of his
amendment into the Dominion Elections
Act.

Hear the woodworkers’ broadcast,
“Green Gold,” every Tuesday, 7:45
to 8 p.m. over CJOR.

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