THE B.c. LUM BER WORKER March 6, 1940 Hello, Boys! I remember when I was a kid back in New Brunswick, an aunt of mine whose thusband was well heeled, came to spend a few months with us and company. I brought her first letter from the post office three weeks after she landed home. ‘We all gathered around her when she anxiously opened the letter, With a cry ‘of joy she glances at the first line, pulls out an enclosed cheque, throws the letter away and cries out: “The sweetest words in the English language are, ‘Enclosed please find cheque’.” To this day I know she never read her letter. Here you can agree with me that re- ceiving extra money is rather pleasant. ‘Well, if the LW.A. at their last conven- tion ‘don’t coin the most appropriate slogan ever written, “Boost our pay a buck a day.” — Now this is what I call trade union sense, First of all every one knows that since the “different” war started, living costs increased 17 per cent, Everyone knows that the woodworking industrialists bought quite a chunk of the 3% per cent war bonds, Now that this is quite clear all you have to do to get an extra cheque every month, is to get behind our slogan, “Boost our pay a buck a day.” Just imagine getting an extra $26 every month. Says you: “It is not a question of imagin- ing, but it is a question of necessity, And how can we go right after it?” Well, T'll tell you, Get behind the 2000 LW.A. members in B.C.; join immediately with them by getting a membership card in your pocket. Get behind your camp or mill committee, who will present this reasonable and timely demand. Where no committee exists, discuss with the or- ganizers who visit your comp or mill how to enroll behind this slogan. By doing your bit towards this goal you will soon hear everyone sing, “Boost our pay a buck a day,” and will realize then that your Pit, along with yours and yours, has given you that extra much-needed 26 bucks, ‘Talking to a mill worker the other day, FEES SST TSS The News In Brief Royal City Sawmills Ltd. is building a new mill in Surrey, 2 miles east of the Pattullo Bridge, to replace the one de- stroyed by fire last November. Accord- ing to the plant manager, the new mill will cost $60,000 to construct and will employ about a hundred men. An addi- tional building permit covering comple- tion of the plywood mill of the Pacific Veneer Co. at New Westminster has just been issued. The company is also en- larging its dry kiln facilities. PITTSBURGH.—Wour glass compan- ies this week renewed agreements with the GIO Federation of Flat Glass Work- ers. It ds estimated the new contract will mean an annual pay boost of 250 thousand dolars for the workers in these plants, Besides wage increases the agree- ment provides for a preferential union shop, time and a half for maintenance work on Sundays and any work done on holidays, CHICAGO.—Successful outcome of ne- gotiations for an agreement with the Ar- mour Co, was announced this week by the CIO Packinghouse Workers Organiz- ing Committee. The agreement cover- ing 7000 employees carries a substantial improvement in working conditions, bet- ter seniority provisions, a 32-hour guar- antee and an improved vacation plan. Said President John L. Lewis, “This vic- tory will give renewed impetus to the I says, “Say, what do you think about the war news?” Says he, “Did you hear the prize story of the Liar Club for 1939? It appears that a man was re- shingling a roof for a farmer on the prairies and it was so foggy that he felt his way down after he thought the job was done, Next day when the fog lifted he realized he had shingled nine feet off the roof. Next year some of the news- paper articles are going to take the prize.” E> OED 0G 0 GED 0 GED 0D 0S 0S] 0S a Buys: . Regular $16.50 value for i 5.50 Besides your saving, for every pair sold the I.W.A. receives $1.00. Vancouver > (SED () ED () ED 0) ED 0). Fi JOHNSON’S LOGGERS 10563 West Pender Street aaa E> () > ()