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THE B.C.

LUMBER WORKER

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PUBLISHED BI-WEEKLY BY

‘B.C, DISTRICT COUNCIL
national Woodworkers of America
H. Bergren
E. Dalskog
Nigel Morgan
Don Cameron

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for war materials instead. That is the
challenge! Labor must give an unmis-
takable answer, and that answer must
be “ABSOLUTELY NO MORE CON-

" GESSIONS TO REACTION.” :

Canadian labor has the strength and
the organization to beat back the at-
tack and to tum it into a sweeping
victorious advance to win higher wages
‘and better working conditions. Already
some woodworkers in B.C. the lumber
workers of Ontario, the fishermen and
fish-handlers of Nova Scotia, the gold-

"miners of Ontario, the coal miners of
Saskatchewan, Alberta and the Mari-
times, the building-trade workers of
‘Montreal, the seamen and longshoremen
of the Great Lakes, the Quebec textile
workers, the Ontarlo automobile work-
ers, and the steel workers have ham-
mered out their demands and are com-
ing out on top successful. A Dominion
wide crusade is under way! What are
we to do about our responsibility in
B.C, lumber?

Tho issue is plain and clear: Higher
wages to meet the rising cost of living!
‘The safeguarding and improvement of
working conditions! The carrying for-
ward of powerful organizing campaigns
to organize the unorganized! These
things will only be tackled and accom-
plished when the active spirits in each
local union, in each camp or mill, in
each department or subdivision and in
the final analysis HACH INDIVIDUAL
WORKER, throws himself with all his
courage, energy and determination into
the crusade.

‘This crusade has to be organized from
down below, from the heart and body
of labor, by the stalwart champions of
labor in the camps and mills.

Fellow-woodworkers, let us stop think-
ing and acting in terms of “I’—LET
US THINK AND ACT IN TERMS OF
“WE.” Let us march forward, let us
organize and unite, let us hammer out
our program and objectives and most
important of all, LET US GALVANIZE
THR POWERFUL FORCE THAT IS
WITHIN OUR REACH WHEN WE ACT
COLLECTIVELY, to gain for B.C’s 26-
000 woodworkers the standard of wages
and conditions that it is our firm con-
viction we are entitled to. Lumber pro-
fits are up; living costs also, What aobut
wages?

Clerks’ Union Considers
Legal Action In Firings

Prosecution of the Vancouver
branch of Army and Navy depart-
ment stores under section 502A of the
Criminal Code loomed this week as
Retail Clerks union charged that
three employees were fired after a
union meeting attended by about a
quarter of the staff had been held.
Secretary Don Maxwell stated that an-
other four employees were discharged
last weekend, and said his union was
gathering evidence for contemplated
legal action,

Support of the International Wood-
workers of America, the Inland Boat-
men’s Union, the Fishermen’s Union
and the Miners’ Union was expressed
by the sending of a delegation to in-
terview the management of the Army
and Navy Stores. Members and
Union sympathizers should follow up
this action and express their disappro-
val of such vicious anti-labor, open
shop policies.

HEMLOCK: hemlock
continues firm, with production increas-

Demand for

ing but no visible accumulation of stocks
as yet. Increased production to supply
the mounting war-market demands, and
construction of a new pulp plant at Al-
berni, hold out good promise for the
future. Market quotations listed by the
Dominion Bureau of Statistics show an
average increase of approximately 50%
for the first six months of the war, over
the corresponding six month period of
the previous year. Hemlock prices show

a gain of better than 17% over the past
six months.

LADIES’ AUX.
TO SPONSOR
MAY 31 DANCE

A “Hard Times Dance” will be
held in the Ladysmith New Finn
Hall on Friday, May 31. Admis-
sion to the Novelty Dance, which
is being held under the auspices
of the Ladysmith Sub-Local of
LW.A. Ladies’ Auxiliary 1-30, will
be fifty cents. Prizes and novel-
ties will be given, and dancing
will be from 10 p.m. to 2 am.
ILW.A. members particularly are
urged to get behind the ladies to
help in making the dance an out-
Standing success.

(MAYOR TELFORD

s of our fellows.

GREETINGS

The following May Day message was this week released to the
trade unions and labor press by Mayor J. Lyle Telford:

“As this May Day nears we are all conscious of the heavy burdens
forced upon humanity in general and the workers such as yourselves,
in particular. Our only consolation lies in the fact that from this
maelstrom may emerge a brighter world for us all, since man only
‘seems to learn and progress through suffering.

“We are slowly but all too slowly, approaching the idea that

and international tragedies which bring privation and death

SENDS MAY DAY

tion, not competition, we may avert these great

BULLETIN |Discusses Effect Of Power
Saws On Cutting Crews

By JAMES FREEMAN, Sec'y
Int'l Anti-Busheling Committee

What does the power-saw mean to the
cutting crews in the industry?

Basing my answer to the above ques-
tion on the experience we are having
with five of them operating at the Sno-
qualmie Falls Lumber Co. I am firmly
of the opinion that they are here to stay.
That they mean a curtailment of falling
jobs is beyond question. To what de-
gree they will apply depends largely
upon union action to enforce the de-
mand made by the Northern Washing-
ton District Council Anti-Bushelling
Committee that there will be no bushel-

perienced fallers and buckers be em-
ployed on them.
THREE OUT OF FOUR.

The makers claim that one saw plus
three men will do the work of four
fallers is, I believe, a reasonable one,
provided they are used on reasonably
level ground. That means that one out
of every four falling jobs will be elimin-
ated. However, that only tells part of
the story, for there is actually only
one experienced faller needed per crew.
That means the possibility of three out
of four falling jobs being eliminated.

Undoubtedly there are rough shows
where they will not attempt to use them
and that brings up the question of by
whom the cutting will be done. There
cannot be much question but what exper-
ienced fallers will do that work and
how they do it is also a union job. The
elimination of busheling will mean the
elimination of much of the hazard of
working in such shows as well as the
continual fight to obtain a price con-
sistent with such shows.

END BUSHELING,

In other words, if we have to compete
with power-saws, let us at least compete
on a day basis rather than on a bushel
basis, with the power-saws in the good
shows and the hand fallers in the Poor
ones,

There is also a very good Possibility
of the workers gaining some real ad-
vantages from them. For instance, by
shortening hours any one crew could
work on them. However, keep this
thought firmly in mind: to gain any
benefits from this technological advance
and, in fact, to keep them from putting
about 50 per cent of the fallers on the
bricks, we must eliminate busheling, ©

MARCH EXPORTS
SLIGHTLY DOWN

Pacific Coast Lumber Inspection
Bureau figures reported for the
month of March reflected a slight
curtailment in lumber production in
B.C. Believed to be chiefly respon-
sible for the decline was the normal
balancing vetween production and
demand as a result of the completion
of the first quota of British war or-
ders, a much needed shutdown to fac-
ilitate repairs, and difficulty in ob-
taining shipping facilities, as well as
a desire on the part of the operators
to protect thelr greatly increased
profits through spreading a fear of
insecurity and lay-offs amongst the
workers. About 62 million feet was
exported in March as compared with
82 million feet the month previous.
However, South Africa showed a
sharp increase, with nearly 8 million —
feet, being exported. Atlantic coast
shipments also were up nearly 12 mil-

lion feet above February.

ing done with them and that only ex-!

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