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“CTY TAXI

THE B.C.

LUMBER WORKER

July 28, 1939

LOGGERS" NAVY
PATROLS FRASER

By JOHN MacCUISH
President, Local 71, LW. of A.

A district wtih plenty of gyppo camps,
some of them folded up and owing
wages, overtime and Sunday work, and
conditions poor with a few exceptions—
that just about sums up the situation
in the Harrison

Lake area, which
was visited by your
reporter, Organizer
Ted Gunrud and the
“Loggers' Navy” last
week,

Two small outfits
—the Cascade Tim-
ber Company and/
the Ruby Creek
camp—folded re- Ted Gunrud
cently owing wages to the crews and
liens have been placed against the logs
for back money. The financial collapse
of these two companies brings the total
to three this month when we include the
one at Bella Coola—the Viking Log
Company, and indicates the need for the
Labor Department conducting a much
closer checkup on such operations. It
should also prove to the loggers that
it's not worth taking a chance with
‘these shaky outfits. When the first pay-
day goes by with no satisfaction from
the office, it’s time to turn the lunch
bucket in and hit for town, where the
matter can be taken up by the Union.

‘here are only three operations in the
Harrison Lake district employing over
20 men—the H, and R. Log Company
with a crew of 50; the Consolidated Log
Company, 50; and Hollenbach’s, 20. There
is one outfit under construction—
Clarke's—which will hire a crew of some
60 men when it’s ready to log, and one
other camp, Gust Larsen’s, with 18 men.
Otherwise all the others employ only a
small number.

Overtime and some Sunday work is
the rule rather than the exception in
most of the camps, with only the H. and
R, and Consolidated observing the “laws
of the land” in this regard. Last Sun-
day, for example, part of the crew was
working at Hollenbach’s and while we
were there two truckloads of logs were
dumped. -

Some trouble was experienced at the
Consolidated outfit in regards to hold-
ing a meeting of the crew, with the
management attempting to block the
crew from getting together. Finally the

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Camp and Mill

“EVERY READER A CORRESPONDENT”

REPORTS

VIKING CLOSED
TO GET WAGES

BELLA COOLA, B.C.—The Viking
Log Company, an outfit that started
operations in this district on the pro-
yerbial shoestring but plenty of promises
and considerable optimism, was finally
closed down by the crew several days
ago with some $14,000 in back wages
owing. When the men pulled the pin
there was approximately two million
feet of logs in the water, and a lien has
been placed against the logs for wages.

Several months ago the company,
which was apparently backed by three
or four groups, including some of the
farmers in Bella Coola, approached the
crew with a proposition that they let
a few paydays slide past without col-
lecting in order to give the firm a
chance to sell some logs and pay for
the machinery. They agreed reluctantly
to this suggestion with the result that
most of the crew received only a few
dollars over a period of several months.
Finally the men got fed up with the
setup and forced the operations to close
in the hope that they could at least
collect wages to date,

This would appear to be another of
those cases where the employees were
to blame to some extent. Having the
experience of other such layouts, in par-
ticular the mixup surrounding the dis-
pute at Campbell's Camp some time ago
over a similar situation, they should
have refused to go on working and
called for a settlement immediately.

If they had examined the backers of
the operation they would have had good
reason to be suspicious. At least four
separate groups had their fingers in the
financing, there was plenty of splash
made when the outfit opened, and by
all accounts it appeared as though it
was going to be “one of the biggest on
the Coast.”

boys took matters in their own hands
and came down to the float in a body,
where we held a meeting from the deck
of the Laur Wayne. General camp con-
ditions are fairly good, by the way, at
both Consolidated and H. and R.

One thing that struck us on the way
up the Fraser was the relatively small
number of logs on the storage grounds
in comparison with other’ years, Last
year, for example, there were so many
booms stored in the North Arm of the
Fraser that the channel was almost
blocked. This together with government
statistics would seem to indicate that
the mills are prettty well ahead on logs
and that the camps will be working
steady throughout the year.

CONGRESS REPORT
BY IWA DELEGATE

A report on “Impressions of the 1939
Canadian Youth Congress” held recently
at Winnipeg, will be, the subject of a
radio address by Lloyd Green over CKMO
Wednesday, August 2, at 8:30 p.m. Green
who travelled Hast as a delegate from the
IWA, BC District Council, is also a dele-
gate fo Vancouver Trades and Labor
Council,

MAYO MOVES FOR
IWA ORGANIZATION

Mayo ‘Lumber Co,,
Paldi, B.C.,
July 7, 1939.

Dear Brother Mac,—Just a line to let
you know I am still very much alive
and kicking. :

This old ball field has plenty of room
to kick, The wages are not so hot
Hooker gets $5.00 a day and the rest of
the rigging men get $3.60, that is the
choker men, Rigging slinger, $3.60, Men
are quitting every day.

Fallers are getting $3.20 and up to
$4.00. Section men get 27c¢ per hour.
Mill men get from 28¢ up to 87c per
hour, Grade men 50c¢ per hour.

She is a real haywire place. Would
make stock of this in the next bulletin.
I have signed up a number of men al-

there are plenty of stool pigeons here.
So I'll ring off for now, hoping you
are O.K.

Card VL 2463,

Jobless Convention

NANAIMO.—Organization of the un-
employed in B,C. has resulted in better
conditions than in any other province.

George Henderson, provincial organ-
izer of the B.C, Relief Project Workers
Union, in annual conference here
stressed this as his opinion before the
20 delegates, representing 17 relief
camps.

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