Page Two — Meet Your Friends at - | MANITOBA HOTEL 44 W. Cordova St. Outside Rooms — Blevator Service . Steam Heat — Reasonable Rates Centrally Located SEy. 8580 N. J. THOMPSON, Mer. SCANDIA CAFE 217 Carrall St. “The place to meet your chums at meal-time in town” “The greater the difficulties are, are stronger we resist, The final victory must be ours.’—Dr, P, D, Chang, in “China Today.” HANEY TAILORS 62 East Hastings St. Phone SEy. 9417 Vancouver, B.C. WE GUARANTEE A PERFECT FIT AND COMPLETE SATISFACTION! = “Styles for Young Men and Men who Stay Young” ) 301 West Hastings St. . THE BARBER SHOP in Balmoral Hotel 159 East Hastings St. UNION: Hotz 10x osiex Aup sod anoo ‘DENTISTS LLEWELLYN Dr. R. Douglas Phone SEy. 5577 Corner Richards and Hastings HELE eles) : The Advocate ‘A staunch and consistent Trade Union Supporter. Help us become more ef- fective. SUBSCRIBE! DONATE! Room 20, 163 West Hastings Vancouver, B.C. THE B.C. LUMBER WORKER To the Editor: Enclosed is a list of some of the wages of the crew at the B.&K. Logging Com pany at Roberts Creek. It has been diffi- cult to.get the exact wages of the others as some of the boys have not been round much this week. Most of them listen to your radio broadcast and are feeling very bitter towards the management of the camp for the way they are trying to obstruct their democratic rights to organize in- to our union. Ever since you were up the company has had a cop and a nightwatchman at camp to stop any organizers from coming in. The food is very poor, Here's hoping you will have better luck next time you come up this way. We'll let you know when the coast is clear, so until then keep up the good work. “UNION SYMPATHIZER.” (Ba. note: This letter comes from Roberts Creek where IWA organizers Nigel Morgan and John MacCuish were evicted by Provincial Police about the middle of April. Company Stooge Takes The Gong To the Editor: I was working for a gyppo.at Sproat Lake but am laid off again now. All the fallers atCamp 3, Sproat Lake, have been laid off, also at Camp 4. They are still double-shifting, ” A.P.L, mill laid off some of the night shift a while back. They picked over the two crews and laid off mostly young fellows, regardless of seniority, One good joke they pulled was on the night saw- yer, the notorious Maloney. He has been a faithful “stooge” for many years, and when the company circulated their fam- ous petition to break the union a couple of years back, he headed off the list for them. But it seems the company’s me- mory is short—they have canned him too. Such ingratitude! Needless to say, he squawked like hell! Yours for job security through working agreements, “UNION LOGGER.” Hotel West Ltd. 444 Carrall St., Vancouver, B.0. not a great dea} has ocurred to give you boys any without many of you fellows around I think I'l go got no fish but I did get powerful tired walking How'dy Boys! During this last while, news of moment, In fact fishing. Last time I went I around. ‘We have had a line Bay, and they seem hi ‘Adolf Holm was again Queen Charlotte. Viking (the Terrible Swe following Fred Litzenberger, gave us his trap line and went to work. ‘SEy. 9401, SHy. 9402 from Eric Westman and Albin Peterson from Rock ealthy enough from what they say. poured on board and left with Nels Johnson for Otto Asplund finally got away after two or three tries. de) Hagvik did his usual stuff and scrammed too, who was in for a short spell. Nick Hudemka to take another look at the city lights; didn’t like it much Paddy McDonald developed a slight nostalia for the ewhat hilarious bender took his departure with ym woods as well and after a some™ Tr put not least, Bill McWilliams. None of Jack Bellamy, Fred Barry, an you boys stayed maybe they coul: Our present guest namely, Hjalmar Bergren, developing into quite a golfer: of all people to pop ts include a few "Snuff for now, 80, in town long enough to even see it, dn’t, I wouldn’t know. if you should ask me— arrivals in case you are interested, ‘Elmer Robbins, Gunnar Beck (who, by the way, is ), Art Trites, Ben Chute, Wally Lillquist, and fn_-our old friend Albin Fern after a week's sojourn at work, AS EVER, ) el Rein. B.& K. Has “Bull” Await Organizers’ Return BROYLES & MOORE MEALS VERY POOR To the Editor: . Now for a line up on this outfit. Of course, in the first place I think you are aware that it’s a gyppo layout with some home guards and a few men from Sointula or whatever you call that place. There are two sets of fallers here; in al there is a crew of fifteen men and 2 woman cook who is worse than poor. We have all complained of the poor meals she puts up, which I think is be- cause she doesn’t know how to cook. The lunch table is terrible but it’s use- less to complain because the boss is de- termined to keep her. One man working on the boom came in for dinner and by all-accounts there was little or nothing to eat on the table, so he asked Broyles if he could get something to eat for din- ner. So he told him he could get all kinds of good eats at Echo Bay, so the boom man said it was O.K,, that he had better go there and get it. He told Broyles this board was not fit to eat. ‘As for myself, I’ve got to stay and make the best of it. I don't like it, Mac, but you know what I’m up against and I ave someone else to think of, too. ‘There is only one thing here that is any good; that is the machines. Out- side of this there is nothing to praise the outfit for at all. The fallers are living from hand to mouth as it were. They have nothing and by the way he logs, I am not surprised. I believe he has al- ways paid his wage bill but sometimes a man has to wait for a while. The bunkhouses are packed like sar- dines. The washhouse and bath house are not bad. The food is here and good food too, if he only had someone to put it up. It's easy seen that he don’t want to get rid of her and we have our opin- ions why. But this will be my last show- ing here. We are all anxious to get out but we are all broke, like most loggers, when they come to any camp. Therefore we have to stay for a while, ‘This is all just now. If there is any- thing in way of any improvement comes up, I'll sure report. We are short of lights here so my writing is done in mostly darkness. Fraternally, CARD V.L. 1931. OYSTER RIVER HIRES CRT MEN CAMPBELL RIVER, B.C.—The new Oyster River camp of Buck and Turner will provide jobs for a good number of married men now employed at CRT but who have been given notice to vacate their homes at Garrett by June 30, it is reported here. The Buck and Turner camp is said to have already hired a number of those being let out at CRT, and some of these heads of families have already begun to locate. for their new home and make preparations to build. Many married families now living -at Garrett have built and own their own homes, but it is believed likely they will have, lost title with the change in the camp ownership last week. SOUTH GREENSBERG, Pa—(FP)— Up to 7-cent hourly wage increases are provided in a new union shop contract between Local 606, United lectrical, Radio and Machine Workers (CIO), and the Porcelier Mfg. Co. Ask for “GEORGE” WEST TAXI Cars Fully Insured . . . Reasonable Rates Office and Stand Bien cc Phone seymour V445 940 1 | CAMP ACT Enquiries have been coming as status of Camp 8, V.L. & M, at Lake Co ichan, and we are informed by the sec tary of IWA Local 1-80 that the remains unchanged. There are still fix of the former employees not reh until they are back on the job and» amp is “cleared by the Union” no should hire out. Anyone who does, meet with the opposition of the U and be liable to action under the I¢ Act. Reports state that Bloedel Stewart Welch mills at both Alberni and Great Central are back on full time, with a lineup of ships to provide for. Legal _ counsels are working on final details of _ the pipeline agreement for Bloedel's new _ pulp mill at Alberni, Final agreement — is expected daily. At Englewood the fallers laid in fo ‘two days as they considered the boom- stick they had to walk on to and from work was not safe. It was loose logs and some men fell in carrying their tools that morning. They also demanded 5 cents per M, and a trail from the shore line to where they are working as it is an hour’s walk to get to the timber and uphill at that. All of the demands were granted by the company. These men realized that only by taking militant action that results can be had, Bot Courtenay reports the operations re- main pretty well the same as last re ported. The Comox and E.R.T, are still down, with Bloedel’s, C.R.T,, Rock Bay and others ‘hard at it.” The Tanskey Log Co., closed for several months, is now reopened on a reduced scale. A few more loggers are round town the last week, but there are still a few men going out to Kelly's, Allison's and Morgan's in the Q.G.1. A report from Hammond and Evans, at Squamish states the 30 odd employeas are having difficulty in collecting pay, After receiving no answer to their let ee snes April 1, they elected a commit- ee to place the matter in a lay hands, Fallers are getting 75 conte M, and doing own filing. Rigging sling- ers get $5.50 and chokermen $4.50. Trucie érivers are paid $6.00 per day and ar Working all hours. Keely (Empire Mills) is handling the falling and bucking and it is reported he may take over the rig- ging end too. Union men are advised to Keep clear of this camp also, until clear- ance is given by the TWA. eee SEATTLE, Wash.—As a basis for de mands for higher wages in the lumber _ industry, officials of the International _ Woodworkers of America cited a profit _ increase of 106 per cent, for manufac: turers of wood products duri year ing tl 1939, ne According to the latest statistics of the — National City: Bank of New York, thé Manufacturers reaped a profit of $4,738 000 in 1939 as compared to $2,303,000 dur ing 1938, West Hotel, 444 Carrall Stre