=== BC Lenore Wornen NION BULLETI Published Bi-Weekly by the B.C. Coast District Council, L.W.of A. VOL. I. No. 6, VANCOUVER, B.C., JULY 11, 1939 OS No. 212 VAN. CAMPAIGNS TO BUILD MORE AND BIGGER UNIONS Lumber Industry Beats All-Time Trad OVERSEAS PRICES REPORTED AT PEAK British Columbia’s lumber exporters gave industry a big push last month to- wards a new all-time record for sales overseas when they added nearly 119 million board feet to the year’s total— the heaviest monthly shipment in the trade's history. With the United Kingdom still dom- inating the export markets of the world, British Columbia lumbermen now seem i e Record SAFETY VIOLATIO CAUSE DEATHS ‘A belated report reaching the office his week brought the exceptionally high death toll in B.C. woods two lives higher. Fagerland, who was a faller, was killed by a snag which fell 34 fairly certain of bettering last year's || worcars have | Packwards, killing record performance when they shipped |] been killed in | him instantly by 1,036,377,562 board feet overseas. logging accl- | crushing On With June's figures included, B.C. || dents in B.C. | guly 5, Peter John- milis have shipped nearly 600 million feet || SMCS 2aMM27Y | con, aged 68, was so far this year, compared with §16,890,- (se killed in an accident 000 feet at this time in 1938. of } at Chehalis, about w jfive miles from Harrison Lake. Accord- EXPORT BRISK Water-borne lumber shipments from | British Columbia reached an all-time | high for a single month during June, ac- | cording to figures issued here today by | Paelfic lumber inspection bureau. | The total was 118,884,002 board feet, more than 3,000,000 feet higher than in May, the previous record month, In June, 1938, the total was 78,500,000 feet. PRICES FIRM The Douglas fir list price remains at $11, $16 and $22, and in spite of heavy production market, log stocks show only 14,000,000 feet increase, with unsold logs in loggers’ hands only 16,000,000 feet, compared with 47,000,000 feet at this time last year, Surplus of cedar, on the other hand, is 10 per cent higher. Demand is strong for hemlock and the market price is firm at $9.50, with log stocks below normal. Unsold logs are only about one-third of those at June, 1938. Log exports of all species were the heaviest in June of any month so_far, totalling more than 26,000,000 feet. Most of the timber went to the United States, hemlock and balsam for pulp being in most demand. ORDERS WELL AHEAD Government requirements have been the chief factor in hoisting prices re- cently, Order files have been plugged to the end of August, with some October- September business done, Well Known Logger Passes Gunner Eagle, well-known B.C, logger, died on July 3 at the General Hospital. ing to reports, Johnson was falling cedar with Emile Hagen, and while bringing down 2 large tree was also crushed by a snag, As the tree fell it struck the top of another tree, which flew back and hit a third tree, the top of which struck Johnson. Poor equipment and speed-up con- tinues to take its toll. Last week a crew of men came in from the Phil- lips Arm Log. Co, and made a declara- tion that: (1) Six spring-boards were made with spikes instead of belts; (2) Fallers were ordered to work only 20 feet apart; (3) Fallers were instructed to fall big trees to cléar snags and smaller growth. Orders were given by the foreman that men were not to Ed. Fagerlund died at Salmon River. Trades Council Shows Progressive Lead By CHARLES STEWART, Chairman Trades Council Organization Committee Recently the Trades and Labor Council sponsored an organization 'drive and appealed to all affiliated locals to take part—to build their unions up to full strength by organizing thousands of new members into the existing unions, and in helping to set up many additional federal and international unions—by bringing influence to bear on those unions which are eligible to become affiliated to the Trades and Labor Council, and have not, up to this time, seen their way clear to shoulder their just share of ‘the responsibility for building and strengthening the trade union move- ment, to immediately make application for affiliation. Before making these proposals, the Trades and Labor Council fully real- ized that never at any time was there 2 better opportunity to carry on 2 suc- cessful organizational drive than the present. It is a long time since the entir\ union movement in our district partici- pated in such a drive, and to carry on such a campaign successfully requires the active support of each and every member. The unorganized will not be organized, nor will the unions be built up by wishful thinking, but by hard persistent work on our part, Neither will they be built up by the Industrial Con- ciliation and Arbitration Act, nor by the récently enacted amendment to the Criminal Code making it an offence pun- ishable by imprisonment for an employer to discriminate against workers for joining a trade union of their own choice; but if properly utilized both of these acts can be of great assistance to vs at this time. For the past 17 years the Trades and Labor Congress of Can- ada has demanded this legislation. Year after year Mr. Woodsworth has brought clear snags first; (4) “Mushroomed” wedges were used ;(5) No first-aid equipment within 35 minutes walk and no stretcher was in sight in camp. (Continued on Page 3) 1 marx as (collec- Div, 101, Street Railwaymen Progressive Children’s Camp Deserves Contracting Plasterers’ Ass'n (collec- tion), $8.50; Tailors, Local 178 (donation), $3.50; Retail Clerks, Local 279 (donation), $10.00; Machinists, Local 692, $5.00; Em- ployees, Lake Log. Co, Rounds, B.C, (collection), $26.50; Carpenters, Local 452 (collection), $17.10; Bricklayers, Local 1 (donation), $3.00; Painters, Local 138, $10.00; Kerr Rd, Housewives’ League, $5.00. Total, $293.95. The City Council has granted a tag day for the Jubilee Children’s Summer Camp. This camp as the foregoing list of contributions would denote, is sup- ported and sponsored’ by the labor “unions and numerous other progres- sive individuals and associations. Everyone who is footloose on Situ day, July 15, should volunteer their service in order to make the tag day the success this camp deserves. Report to Room 12, Flack Block, 163 West | Hastings street. The tag day will be conducted from Hall No. 1, Labor Headquarters, 529 Support $25.00; (donation), Workers, Local 213 Building Trades Council (donation) $5.00; Beatty street, Saturday, July 15, from A big representation of loggers and ‘ e ition), $101.60; Brewery Workers, Local u many friends attended the funeral which | 399 D atnaiion), $8600, wire Wighters, | Floorlayers, Local 452 (collection), $1525;| 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Your help and support took place at Dewdney on July 6. Leeal 18 (donation), $15.00; Blectrical Plumbers, Local 170 (collection), $9.59, | will be greatly appreciated. |