am PRICES UP Calked Boots Jump $2.00 a Pair; Johnson Forced To Increase Higher prices for leather and other materials used in making calk boots, due to war conditions and subsequent profit- eering, this week forced V. Johnson, maker of Johnson's “Best for Less” log- ging boots, to increase retail prices to $15.50 for 10-inch tops and $16.50 for 12- inch tops, the Union Bulletin has been informed. ‘The above prices will be in effect until further notice, since it is possible that within the next month the cost of leath- er will mount higher. In his statement to I.W.A. officials ex- plaining the increase, Mr. Johnson pointed out that sole leather has been raised 45 cents a pound and top leather 10 cents a foot, while other materials such as nails, calks, wax and threads have increased by at least 20 percent in price, During the last war, prices on loggers’ boots went as high as $18 and $20 a pair. Johnson emphasizes, however, and hundreds of satisfed wearers of the Johnson Boot will bear him out, that his product Is actually $1.00 to $1.50 cheaper than competetive products of an infer- jor grade. Prices on all other popular makes have also increased, WAGE INCREASE (Continued from Page 1) with a number of new. workers being ini- tiated. Lake Log is 100 percent union at the time of writing and we are looking forward to seeing other operations en- joying the same status. The camp is operating at full capacity in both the rig- ging and falling divisions. Jens Johnson, 2 member of the steel gang ,was fatally injured while lighting slashing fires in the camp on Sept. 26. The verdict of the jury was accidental death with no blame attached to anyone. A number of brothers from the camp at- tended the funeral held in Duncan on Friday, Sept, 29, The crew in Lake Log have endorsed the union’s appeal to “buy Johnson's shoes” and the camp committee has been intsructed to obtain a number of pairs. The entire crew is united behind the slogan for a 100 percent unionized indus- try and a successful international con- vetio. 2 See Since Hitler came to power, there have been double the number of deaths from diphtheria, dysentry, scarlet fever, men- ingitis, infantile paralysis and food poison-| \ ing—according to Nazi official statistics, Hitler's Department of Health says that the main causes are underfeeding and overwork.—The New Republic, Tune a on “Green Gold” Tuesday, 7:45 to 8 p.m. CJOR. every over Station COMFORT AND SERVICE AT MODERATE PRICES D> 0 EEC THE B.C. eee LUMBER WORKER Green Disrupts Canadian Labor; CIO Union Suspension Upheld Canadian unions affiliated with the Congress of Industrial Organization are still under suspension from the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada following the decision of last week’s 55th annual convention in London, Ontario. Despite a strong fight waged to reinstate the ousted CIO unions and thus preserve trade union unity in Canada, the resolution urging con- tinuance of the suspension was passed by a vote of 230 to 97. Sharp debate featured passage of thee main resolution placing the Trades Con- gress in support of the Canadian and British governments in their fight against aggression, with many delegates taking the position that the resolution did not clearly state the need for labor Prosecuting the fight against fascism and reaction at home as well as abroad. “If the government expects our loyal- ty, then that government must be loyal to us. The right to organize must be protected,” declared Grant McLeod, Winnipeg Trades Council president. “The surest guarantee for defeat of Hitlerism abroad is to prevent its flour- ishing at home,” emphasized Delegate Fred Collins, Other delegates took the position that the resolution should urge the govern- ment to guarantee the right to organize in wartime as in peacetime, warning against the danger of profiteering which would follow lack of union organization. Delegates endorsed a resolution pre- sented by the Vancouver Jewelry Work- ers’ Union that more Canadian youth be brought into industry. Also approved was a resolution pre- sented by the Vancouver Hotel and Res- taurant Employees’ Union urging strict governmental supervision of all private detective agencies as a means of pre- ventng labor espionage in the trade union movement. Tom Moore, Trades Congress president in former years, was elected president for the coming term to replace P, M. “Paddy” Draper, who was forced to send in his resignation through ill health. IWA CONVENTION (Continued from Page 1) in San Francisco on October 10. Follow- ing this meeting he will head back for Klamath Falls in time to attend the meeting of the international executive board three days before the I.W.A. con- vention opens. Expected to continue for four days, the T.W.A. convention will wind up with a ‘Build the Union” Ball. One of the major questions facing the sessions will be the mapping out of a program for a general wage increase to meet the sharp increase in living costs during past weeks, U. S. locals have already advanced the slogan “Boost Our Pay a Dollar a Day” and loca lunions in B.C., following the lead given by Local 80 in Cowichan Lake, are also expected to get behind a general slogan for a 20 percent wage increase all round, iG “Styles for Young Men and Men who Stay Young” Sa ee 301 West Hastings St. REGENT Plywood Unemployed List Exhausted ABERDEEN, Wash—For the first time in several years the unemployed list of IWA Local 9-2521 is exhausted, permit- ting the plywood mills in this area which are running full time, it is reported, to hire outside men. Local 2521, it is learned, will send six delegates to the IWA’s Third Annual convention in Klamath Falls, The dele- gates are: Gene Miller, local union presi- dent; Charles Grant, John Hawkins, Henry Morris, Dell Perry and Agnes Bower, The Big Shot’s Dream He dreamed he died and was taken to the funeral parlor for a couple of days where he lay in state and was viewed by many, Came the day of the funeral and, bedecked with wreaths and flowers, he was about to be carried out to the waiting hearse, But the big shot’s soul was not at ease, He sat up and asked the funeral director: “How many pallbearers are there?” “Six,” he was told, “Put the coffin on wheels and lay off four,” he commanded and collapsed con- tented, faithful to his task even unto the end, Hear the woodworkers’ broadcast, “Green Gold,” every Tuesday, 7:45 to 8 p.m. over CJOR. 541 W. 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