THE B.c. LUM

BER WORKER

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_ EDITORIAL

LW.A, experience during the last week
with the workings of Order No. 49 of
the Minimum Wage Act, which gives
operators of woodworking plants an
opening to employ one-third of their
erews at less than the 40-cent minimum,
serves to emphasize again the need for
@n amendment to this union-busting
piece of legislation.

Aside from the fact that youths under
21 years of age can be employed for 30
eents and even 25 cents an hour yet
forced to do a man’s work, the legisla-
tion has given the operators an import-
ant weapon against unionism.

Take the example of the present dis-
pute at the B.C. Plywoods Limited, Mr.
H. R. MacMillan was aware that steps
were being taken by the crew to improve
their wages and job conditions. Not
sure as to the identity of those respon-

ible, the company turned to the con-
venient, and peculiar Order No. 49 as an
excuse for discharging some 51 employ-
ees over the age of 21, believing that
among those discharged would be a cer-
tain number of so-called “agitators.” The
fact that among those fired were a large
humber of married men with dependants
had no bearing on the matter. Business
‘is business and the men must go, even
though in taking the step it did, the
company violated both provincial and
‘federal labor legislation.

It is clear that changes in this parti-
eular section of the Minimum Wage Act
are immediately necessary. The prin-
ciple of equal pay for equal work
should apply in the plywood and sash
and door plants equally as it does in
the logging end of the industry.

How can the change be effected? Bas-
feally, union organization on the job is
the only answer. When the I.W.A. es-
tablishes union committees in mills and
camps, with the employees working
under union agreements which specifi-
eally guarantee job security and rights
of seniority, present loopholes in the
Minimum Wage Act will be blocked by
the workers’ own economic power, and
by the same token, the B.C. Labor De-
partment will be forced into action to
change the legislation,

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‘Tree Men’ Unable To
Look At ‘Desolation’

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VICTORIA, July 17—Because he
wants to spare the feelings of the
members of the party, tree-lovers all,
Captain Richard St. Barbe Baker,
founder of the international organ-
ization as “The Mon of the Trees,”
and well-lmown forestry adviser and
silviculturist, is passing up the for-
ests of Vancouver Island on a visit
here with a deputation of British
menibers of the society.

“The desolation would hurt them
too much,” he said here Sunday. “I
visited these areas a few years ago
and was upset by the destruction of
Douglas Fir caused by the present
highlead system of logging. It is most
“uneconomic and destructive.”

LOOKING 'EM OVER

M. & M. Log Company, Forward Bay—
Camp conditions reported to be good but
too little variety in the grub. Wages on
the rigging are somewhat below the
usual minimum, ranging from $3.50 a
Gay and up. Plenty of bushelers coming
and going due to tough timber. This out-
fit pays 50 cents per M for hemlock and
70 cents per M for cedar, with the cedar
big and rotten,

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©. & A. Logging Company, Port Mac-
Neil—This is a truck outfit employing a
crew of about 65 men. Some dissatisfac-
tion with the grub, in particular the
lunches. Truck drivers here have no
Kick on the wages—$6.50 a day—but one
of the crew who quit over a week ago
claims that the truck road is unsafe,
being only two planks wide, with no
guard rails. In addition, the trucks are
not equipped with bulkheads or spare
vacuum tanks.

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Merrill and Ring, Squamish—Member
of the crew who came in this week due
to a shutdown on account of fire haz-
ard reports a freak accident that oc-
curred recently when a log slid down a
sidehill endways, went through the steel
cab of a truck and carried the cab away.
‘The driver, who in the cab at the time,
escaped with only a broken arm. The
log was an old spar tree, unbucked,
which was evidently jarred loose by re-
moval of other logs from the landing,
causing it to slide “end on” down the
hill.

Hear the woodworkers’ broadcast,
“Green Gold,” every Tuesday, 7:45

to 8 p.m. over CJOR.

am,

“BEST - FOR - LESS”
LOGGERS’ BOOTS

Regular $14.50 Value

Best of material - hand made - full vamp cut - leather
lined - heavy leather insole - light weight - guaran-
teed against any manufacturer’s default.

10” top 13.50 12” top 14.50

Price includes postage, etc. ‘
(Money order must accompany Orders.)

CAMP ACTIVITY |

UP COAST—Pioneer Log, Cyr’s and
Allen's at Port MacNeil, O’Brien Log,
Well's Pass and Stillwater—all operat-
ing.

Merrill, Ring and Wilson at Rock Bay
is shipping fallers out on July 31. Cold
deck crews in town but tracksides still
working. Merrill and Ring at Squafish
is reported closed down due to weather
conditions.

Salmon River operating. Bloedel’s at
Menzies Bay reopened after a brief
shutdown.

In the Jervis Inlet district Gustavson
Brothers and Vancouver Bay Log are
shut down. Export Log has closed down
the trackside for a short period while
a new road is being built.

Most of the other small operations on
the mainland coast are still running.

VANCOUVER ISLAND—AP.L. and
Great Central Lake camps shout down
five days ago. Franklin River was due
to open but the move was cancelled this
week. In the Cowichan Lake area,
Camp 8 and Camp 3 and Lake Logging!
are operating. All West Coast camps
are in full operation.

BERGREN ACTIVE
AT PORT RENFREW

Good reports are reaching the Dis-
trict Office of the excellent organiza-
tion work being accomplished at Mala-
hat Log. by Hjal-
mar Bergren, Pre-
sident of the B.C.
District Council.
Bergren, who is
well known for his
fearless and ag-
gressive work, is
establishing the
LW.A. in spite of
company intimida-
dation and at
tempted strong-
arm tactics to
oust him, Malahat
Log. will be one of
the biggest operations in B.C. shortly,
with a heavy investment in, equipment
to get at what is recognized as “the
only real stand of Douglas fir left in
B.C.” Logs from this operation are
being shipped to Port Angeles mills
which are all organized into the LW.A.

“Let’s-Bring the New Deal to America”
— HEAR — :
HOWARD COSTIGAN

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