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SAYS CONDITIONS AT CAMP EIGHT, V.L.M.
BAD; MEN SHOULD DEMAND CHANGE

Interfere With
Union Meeting

The Editor: Port Renfrew, B.C.

I would like to have the opportunity
of stating my experiences as a duly elect-
ed member of a committee representing
the employees of the Malahat Log. Co.

I was elected on the committee by a
majority vote of the employees of the
above-mentioned company at meetings
held in both camps. The meeting in
Camp 2 or the upper camp was on Sun-

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Phone SEy. 9417

@ay, February 4th, and in the beach
camp on Tuesday, February 6th. Every
employee of. the company was given the
full opportunity to vote on the election
of this committee, composed of four
members of the crew and two outside
representatives.

Since the committee was elected every
obstruction has been placed in the way

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by the company, assisted by a constable

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committee from carrying out the instruc-
tions of the meetings. The superinten-
dent and policeman have gone to the
extent of unceremoniously breaking in-
to a committee meeting in spite of the
fact that permission had been granted
to hold this meeting. The policeman, in
full uniform, seems to be ready to obey

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every instruction of the management,

even after I had explained to him the

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provisions of the ICA Act and my right
to function on the committee. Needless
to say, after I had been all-but vio-
lently ejected, it was impossible to carry
on the meeting in the face of such in-
timidation.

Personally, I feel that it is the respon-
sibility of the Department of Labor and
the Department of Justice to look into
this matter and take steps to prevent
any further occurances of this nature,

Fred Wilson, Pres. Local 1-80
and member of Malahat Employees
Negotiating Committee,

ALLISON SHOWS
DISCRIMINATION

‘The Editor:
Allison’s have re-opened but the work-
ers who signed a petition last summer
for better food have been discriminated
against and are unable to get back.

The food was poor at this camp last
summer, not because of the lack of it,
but due to the fault of the cook. A
meeting wasn't held but a petition was
drawn up and signed by over a hundred
men, only a small minority refusing to
sign. This petition was brought before

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To the Editor: It has been a consider-
able time since I have seen anything
mentioned about this outfit in the LUM-
BER WORKER, so I will try and give
you an idea of how things are in this
neck of the woods.

This outfit is working two skidders
and a cold-decker, and about twelve sets
of fallers, about 100 men in all. The
ground is quite broken and the going
tough. This outfit has the honor of
paying the lowest wages around the
Lake; chokermen getting $4.65 a day;
board being $1.40 (and nothing to write
home about at that).

Fallers have developed a habit of com-
ing and going here. Price rates are 65c
per thousand, timber poor on the aver-
age and ground badly broken. Of course,
coming and going is not going to solve
the fallers’ problem; the only solution
is to get together and demand that the
condition be changed in order that he
will be guaranteed a decent return for
his labor,

Speaking of wages. something cer-
tainly should be done to give wages a
boost here. I see, according to a recent
issue of the LUMBER WORKER, that
the IWA is going after a dollar a day
boost in pay. It certainly needs organi-
zation here so that we will be able to
get what is coming to us. Look at the
Youbou camps. They got a wage in-
crease because they were interested in
organizing; there is no reason why the
same can’t be done here. It is hard t
get a LUMBER WORKER here. Don't
you think that the Union could make
some arrangement to get them in here?

I don’t know how long the camp will

be operating, suppose we will work untit
the snow shuts us down.

Well, that seems about all that I have
to say fon now, but come on, boys, let’s
all get into the union and get what's
coming to us,

For a bigger and better IWA,

Card No, 80-880.

Mr. Allison but no action came out of it
at that time. However, the names of the
men were kept on file and workers try-
ing to get back to camp were told by
Mr. Allison they were not wanted as
they had signed the petition.
Nevertheless the petition wasn’t in
vain as there is a new cook in camp
this season. This. is ‘all right but the
discriminatory attitude of Mr. Allison
shows the need of a union committee is
this camp, Card No. 80-1211,

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Reports reaching this office

one or two of the main outfits =
Byppos not yet working, On
Island from Campbell River south
are at work. Lake Log has not mt
reopened with only a portion of
eration at work. The Seymour
camps have reopened and the fallers
back at Salmon River. In the H
Lake area camps are operating as
also the Queen Charlotte camps, whi
the last batch of men returned this
Two boats left for the Queen Charlo
this week-end with a large number o
loggers for Kelly's, Allison’s and Morgan's,
All camps now have full crews, B
Gustavson’s Bros, crew at Jervis Inlet
went out on the 15th. Three groups o
men have gone out to Vancouver Bay
since the 13th, Swanberg and Johnson
at Knight Inlet have one side running
and expect the rest of the crew out on
the 15th, Some of the crew at Dumaresq—
Bros. on Seymour Inlet have already gone
and the balance are expécting to leave
on February 16th. Thurlow Island Log
Co. are reported starting soon, with
rumor around town that Moran and A
‘Trethway are now definitely “out” of this _

outfit.

At Soderman’s camp the firemen have
had wages raised from $3.75 to $4.00 per
day, and the chokermen from $4.15 to
$4.50 per day. At O’Brien Log the fallers
have been raised 5c per thousand on the
sidebills—fallers on the level remaining
the same at 65¢ per’ thousand.

Work is proceeding on the new Dollar
‘o operation just north of Nanaimo, where
another truck operation is expected to
be running before the end of March,
Roads are going in and fallers are ex-
pecting to start shortly on the newly
acquired stand, which is reported to be
the last really large available stand of
fir on the Island. Export Log’s new
claim at Ladysmith is also expecting to
start working weekly. E

Reports have it that Morgan's of Queen
Charlotte Island have taken over a stand
of 200 million feet on the Sechelt Pen-
insula, They are planning on putting in
roads for cats and a gas donkey.

H. R. MacMillan, listed as one of
Canada’s “Fifty Big Shots” and leading
B.C. lumber baron, added two more con-
quests to his credit as an industrial —
octopus recently when he was made a
director of International Nickel, and only _
a few days earlier gained control of the

Thomsen Clark Timber Co. The Thomsen

Clark operation will be managed by Ross
Pendleton, of A-P.L, (another McMillan —
outfit) and will continue on the present —

claim on the Alberni side of the Beaufort

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