jstrar of Companies announced this week

“the registration of two new companies
te help take care of British Columbia's
expanding lumber market.

"The new firms were the Egmont Tim-
ber Co, of Vancouver with a capitaliza-
tion of $500,000 and the Sawarmi Lum-
ber Co, Ltd., also of Vancouver, capital-
ized at $25,000.

Piling was also being driven this week
for the new addition to the Pacific Ven-
eer Co.’s plant at Sapperton, where the

. present plant capacity will be about
doubled and a modern hot-bed press in-
stalled,

NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. — The
leng dock at Canadian- Western Lumber
Co, at Fraser Mills was filled with three
large deep-sea freighters last week-end,
all engaged in loading the lumber which
has been accumulating and which has
been a source of worry to the mill oper-
ators during recent weeks. With the
increased war orders from the United
Kingdom, shipping facilities are being
taxed to carry away the record produc-
tion which is proceeding at practically
capacity,

VANCOUVER, B.0—According to a
leading financial journal, dividends

to be made by Canadian corporation
during January will total approxi-
mately $22,178,671. This represents a
gain of $2,217,974 or about 11.1% over
\ the total of $19,680,896 paid in January
; of last year,

MONTREAL, QUE.—Quebec's lumber
sales in the U:S. probably will be in-
creased as a result of foreign exchange
rates favorable to Canadian industry,
Hon, Georges Dansereau stated this
week, Mr, Dansereau, a lumber mer-
chant, reported the United States market
already showing increased interest in
Canadian Jumber,

_ For the second time in history the
Pacific Logging Congress will be held
in B.C. This congress, which is the or-
ganization pf the bossloggers’ own
choice, is representative of the “interna
tional logging industry” according to a
press statement of Fred Brown, its Van-
couver President. Five years ago the
Congress met in Vancouver.

PORT ALBERNI — Lumber exports
from this Island lumber centre during
1939 established an all time record. 239
deepsea boats loaded approximately 297,-
000,000 feet of lumber and 6,000,000 feet
of unsawn logs for the West Coast port.
Shortage of boats in November and De-
pa Ssmber held the record down, but even
at that it was 25,000,000 feet ahead of
1938,

manne nn eneeeennenneseeeeees

Ladysmith Sub-Local 80

LW.A.

Meets the first Thursday of each
month in the Finnish Hall at
8 pm,

Poocccccees

’
Ed. Wennerlow, Organizer. #

THE B.C, LUMBER WORKER

LOGGERS’ ANNUAL
MEET SUCCESSFUL

Highlight of the Annual Meeting of
LW.A. Local 1-71 was the decision to
concentrate all efforts toward gaining

additional wage in-
creases, and to press

for greater job se-

curity during the

coming year by

working agreements

such as are in force
> on the Island,

The officers re-
ports showed a year
of successful activ-
ity, culminating in
a wage hoist at En-
glewood, and a recognition of the need

for greater concentration of effort and
further co-ordination with the other or-_
ganizational forces
in the district.

In the election of
officers John Mc-
Cuish, skipper of
the Loggers’ Navy,
was re-elected pres-
ident by acclama-
tion. Brother Ted
Gunrud, also an or-
ganizer on the Laur
Wayne was elected
vice-president. Bro-
ther A, A. McNeil after culminating a
year of efficient and effective work for
the Local as secretary-treasurer, found
= it necessary to re-
fe tire on account of
; his health, and Er-
nie Dalskog was
elected to fill the
post for the coming
year.

"The Annual Meet-
ing which was well
attended and was al-
so addressed by In-
ternational Presi-
dent Harold Pritch-
ett and International Board Member Ni-
gel Morgan. Don Barbour, Vice-Presi-
dent of Cowichan Local 1-80 extended
fraternal greetings and best wishes for
success during the coming season from
his Local.

John McCuish

E. Dalskog

T. Gunrud

Hear the Woodworkers’ broadcast
“Green Gold” over CJOR, every
Tuesday at 7:45 p.m. Sponsor: Fred
Marchese, “Hotel West.”

“WASTE HERITAGE”

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=

The written history of Canada is in-
complete unless it records the heroic
struggles of the unemployed youth of
British Columbia against the inhuman
starvation policy of the financial
oligarchy, . . . These struggles will be
further impressed on the national
consciousness now that they have been
utilized by Irene Baird as the back-
ground for her well-named novel,
“WASTE HERITAGE.”

New Age
Bookshop

— Note New Address —
Room 14 — 163 W. Hastings St.
Vancouver, B.C.

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It was on the evening of the 29th ul-
timo, about 8:30 p.m., that after having
partially recovered from the defects of
the Xmas wetivities, I stumbled into the
Embassy Ballroom.’ It was about the
time scheduled for the “Ball” to com-
mence and from the look of the place
at that hour it appeared as if not more
than two or three score would gather
to celebrate the occasion—the “THIRD
ANNUAL LOGGERS BALL.”

My keepers must have had the same
opinion and when they suggested that
we retire to an adjacent Granville Street
irrigation project to await develop-
ments, need I state—I agreed.

Returning to the Embassy about an
hour later we found a great change had
taken place. What a mass of immigra-
tion had taken place in the intervening
sixty minutes! An extra purveyor of
entrance fees had been placed on the
job to handle the demand of the multi-
tude. We were warned that the place
was somewhat crowded which made us
all the more hell bent to gain entrance.
And what a scene presented itself in-
side. They tell me the checkroom had
to start “bulleooking” at 10:15 in order
to try and accommodate a few more
drybacks and snoose-tins which the beer
slingers insisted would not mix with re-
freshments, The orchestra were pound-
ing their tom-toms, or whatever it is that
they pound, Bazookas, bull fiddles,
swinets and other sundry instruments of
the “heavenly Muse” blared in synchro-
nized ecstasy, rising in cresendo to the
Shay—pardon me—Climax, and falling
in an avalanche of co-ordinated sound,
which is my idea of swing in any coun-
try.

Keeping time to the melodies, on a
couple acres of hardwood were all the
whirling Dervishes from Cumshewa In-
let to Cape Mudge and points south, east
and west, including a few from
Victoria, counting also Chief Nigel Mor-
gan, who spent quite half the night try-
ing to figure out how he could squeeze
in another fifty cents’ worth of customers.

I am not @ connoissuer of music nor
of dancing, which you have no doubt
guessed by this time, and consequently I
cannot say just what the name of the
‘Terpsichorean drag that was going by
when we stumbled in; but if I had to, I
would say it was a “Flying Par-bucisle.”
To be factual about the thing I couldn’t
really swear about what went on up-
stairs, after the first minute, because my
attention was attracted by a stream
of thirsting humanity heading for the
lower regions, and by following my nose
and a rising crescendo of bull-like roars,
I stumbled into an enormous space fully
occupied by a horde of thirsty citizens
pursuing the men with the refreshment
tickets and making a fairly successful
job of it, From then on everything’s
pretty hazy and I refuse to be quoted,
however, ever since I came to all I've
heard is what a ruddy fine time every-
one had, and everyone's talking about
‘the one that’s going to be held next year.

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