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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 “THE FEDERATIONIST” The CCK Paper Six Pages of Support for You, Mr. Worker! $2 Year — $1 Six Months — 60c 8 Mos. 704 - 16 East Hastings St, Vancouver Office & Stand: _ 404 COLUMBIA AVE. FRIEND Trin. 1000 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. 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