THE B.C.

LUMBER WORKER

LETTERS

Camp and Mill

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policy of running their mill at the fastest
possible clip, forcing their employees to
keep up.”

Few adequate inspections are made of
the machines, so when they break down
they are repaired; run
them as long and as
fast as possible is the
boss’ slogan for both
machines and men. If
some one gets hurt in
the process he gets a
few soft words from
his boss to- his face
and when he has been
carted away to the
hospital, providing he
isn’t killed outright,
he then gets a gen-

eral panning for hav-
ing the affrontery to become ensnared
by the vicious speed-up and negligence,
which actually is often the part of the
company,

Should he recover from his injuries
sufficiently to apply himself again to
this industry, he has no assurance that
he will be given his former position or
ever again be hired by this company,
Thus millworkers face the following:

A painful period of time on reduced
“Compensation” pay; to be permanently
maimed in some degree; loss of an arm,
leg, hand or a number of fingers. Finally
he may lose his life, as so many do,
thus creating another sawmill widow,
with one ‘or more children, Providing
the family has made a sufficient number
of sacrifices in the past years, the wife
will have enough insurance money to bury
her man decently, and then she takes

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MILLWORKERS SHOULD FOLLOW LOGGERS

Yapon herself the responsibility for gar
nering for herself and her children suf-
ficient of the worldly goods and educa-
tional opportunities to prepare and en-
sure for her children a position in society
far remoyed from the dangers their
father was forced to tolerate. Due to the
company’s completely organized state in
this industry and the workers’ semi-or-
ganized state, we workers have been pay-
ing the piper for years and we will con-
tinue to pay to the fullest as long as the
workers’ organization remains the weaker
of the two and we neglect our obligations
to ourselves and our dependents. The
one and only solution then is unionism.
The employers have it today and have
had it for years, Today the employees
can get it and enjoy its benefits for years
to come and through this ‘will come the
many concessions which have been gained
elsewhere through unionization and
which are rightfully ours, The employers
have been gypping us out of them for
years by merely using the power of their
organization and we have neglected to
use the power of our union to counteract.
them.

Contrary to boss propaganda, estab-
lished industrial trade unionism has
proven to be the only solution. We shall
bring to the industry job security for
the worker, higher wages, rigid equip-
ment inspection, properly functioning
safety and first-aid committees, stability
to the industry through blanket wage and
hour agreements, thereby preventing
price cutting, All these are rightfully
ours, As the operators have organized
the industry on a national and interna-
tional scale with world-wide connections,
it is necessary for the workers to do like-
wise and this can only be done through
an international industrial union, In
order to do this, each worker must take
upon himself these national obligations.
Set for himself personally the objective
of a fully unionized woodworking in-
dustry. Keep this objective forever be-
fore your mind’s eye, Take advantage
of the present opportunity advanced by
the LW.A. Take out membership in, this
great International Union, Meet the
minor financial obligations, which will
eventually be returned many times over.
In the organizational stage whenever pos-
sible, without endangering your job, at-
tend as many union meetings as possible,
If it is unwise to speak of your union
in a laudatory manner, then refrain from
making detrimental remarks about it.
Consistency will bring this great change
to the industry. Constantly applying these
few rules to our daily routine will, within
a short time, win for ourselves and the
multitude of other slaves of the lumber-

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With the first month of the
not yet over, reports reaching
ver concerning the extent of o
throughout the industry reveal
or two of the main outfits and ;
gyppos not yet working,
On Vancouver Island, from ¢;
River south, crews are at work
Elk River Timber Co., Bloedels, M¢
Bay; and at the Vanisle Logging
formerly C.R.T. The Elk River Ti
Co. crew shipped out last week,
a number of gyppos are sub-contr
for Elk River, including Currans, Bro
and Joe Zanette.

Further south, the Comox Loggin
Company, after opening January 8,
working a full crew, numbering to
men all told, The Comox is running
skidders and is said to be planning to
in another skidder this week, There
35 sets of fallers at work. Gyppo camps.
operating in the Courtenay area include
Woods, Carney and Larson and Parkins,

At Fanny Bay, Camp 7, of the Victo
Lumber Manufacturing Co, is still shut
down but is believed ready to reopen
February 1, Tansky's outfit, which began.
handing out “rubber cheques” just be-
fore Christmas while the crew held the
bag for several weeks, is now ready to
reopen after having reportedly made good
on back wages. Most of the crew took
no chances and had a lien on two booms —
sent to town, 2

The Seymour Inlet camps started up
last week, and the fallers returned to
Salmon River also. Quite a number of
men have gone back to B.C. Pulp. Plo
neer Timber Co, is about the only asso
ciation up coast not yet reopened, and
most of the smaller up-coast camps are
reopening.

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tions do not jibe with the “no-boat!
stories,
Certainly the profits of Canadian in
dustry, which have increased 117
cent since 1934, as compared with a 35
Per cent increase in wages, demand the
Canadian workers receive a bigger sh
of the national income. And Canad
woodworkers in partioular, given the le
by the LW.A,, are believed ready to
take a stand for “A DOLLAR A D.
BOOST IN PAY.”

ing industry a veritable heaven comp
to our present lot. The loggers
shown the way—how much longer can

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