Page Two Meet Your Friends at MANITOBA HOTEL 44 W. Cordova St. Outside Rooms — Elevator 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 mealtime 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.O. WE GUARANTEE A PERFECT FIT AND COMPLETE SATISFACTION! iG ~ “Styles for Young Men and Men who Stay Young” 301 West Hastings St. HORSESHOE BARBERS 102 East Hastings St. There is more to a haircut than cutting off the hair... Try the Horseshoe Barbers for an up-to- date stylish haircut, UNION SHOP DENTISTS LLEWELLYN Dr. R. Douglas Phone SEy. 5577 Corner Richards and Hastings HELP 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 Malahat Logger Reports Organizational Gains To the Bditor: I have not heard anything from this camp, the Malahat Log., and I am tired of waiting for somebody else to write, so I am going to try my hand, hoping that it will not land up in the waste paper basket. I will start with the good news. First, the LW. of A. is coming ahead here re- markably well. Representatives of the union have visited our camp at regular intervals and have been well received by the crew, with the exception of a few stoolies, but we have these birds pretty ;| well spotted, and we are all busy giving them the bum stear as best we can. Brearley, the superintendent, must be getting wise; he seems to be the most dissatisfied employee of this company; I surmise pretty soon he will start firing his “loyal” employees for being ineffi- cient, over which no tears will be shed. Personally I feel like puking every time I see them coming around snooping and rubber-necking. At the same time they are all jealously watching one another and when one is seen rushing for the office they all stampede and only God knows how many bum stears they have already given the “push” who, of course, 1s in accordance with the “Sup.” and is obliged to start shadow hunting. They will be a nervous wreck if the boys don’t hurry up and get organized so that the worry will be over with. Here is a swell bunch of boys in camp, all good log- gers; camp conditions are good and lots of logs are produced. The camp is effi- ciently operated and all equipment is first-class, What we need here is a union agreement, a boost in wages and every- thing will be hunkedory. This is all for now. Hope that some- body else will try their hand at writing for our paper next, Yours fraternally, “A NEW RECRUIT.” Improved working conditions, includ- ing one weel’s vacation with full pay, will result from an agreement signed recently between the International Broth- erhood of Pulp, Sulphite and Paper Mill Workers and the Powell River Co. Ltd. and the Pacific Mills Ltd. The agreement was reached after ne- gotiations lasting several days and was hailed as a forward step in the relations between workers and employers in the pulp and paper industry. Basic pay’ of 56 cents per hour, with corresponding Increase in all other rate classifications in the mills, was included in the agreement. SEy. 9401, SEy. 9402 Editor Offers Humble Apology In answer to a letter from A. G. Mc- Culloch, attorney for Mr. B. ‘Maloney, the Editor hereby tenders that gentleman his humble apologies for misleading statements contained in a letter which appeared in the last issue of the Union Bulletin, signed “Union Logger.” “Union Logger" said in part: “A.P.L. mill laid off some of the night shift a while back. ... One good joke they pulled was on the night sawyer, the notorious Maloney. He has been a faithful ‘stooge’ for many years, and when the company circulated their famous petition to break the union a couple of years back, he head- ed the list for them, But it seems the company’s memory is short—they canned him too. Such ingratitude! Needless to say, he squawked like hell.” We are now informed as follows: (1) Maloney is not notorious. (2) Maloney is not a “faithful stooge.” (3) Maloney did not try to break the union a couple of years back. (4) Maloney did not head off a petition, and (5) Maloney was not recently fired by A.P.L., or if he was, he did not squawk like hell. We ask our readers to take particu- larly careful note of the above. EDITOR. A new sawmill is now being built on the north arm of the Fraser River on the west side of Main Street for W. John- son Sash and Door Factory. The mill, which will cut for export trade, will cost apout 25 thousand dollars, and ex- pects to be in operation about the end of this month. B.C. Manufacturing Company at New Westminster reports good prog- ress being made with reconstruction of their box factory which was destroyed by fire on March 2nd. The new factory has been completed and machinery is now being installed, and this mill too expects to be in operation by the end of May. Pile-driving for the new sawmill commenced on May 6th. The Hammond Cedar Company at Hammond, reports the remodelling of their mill which is ex- pected will produce a maximum of ef- ficiency and economy. An agreement on the new pulpmill pipeline at Alberni is expected soon, according to a report by a mill executive Thursday. Cost of con- struction for the pipeline is $225,000 and the agreement is being gone over for final changes in Victoria. | CAMP ACTIVITY Outstanding feature of the log : in the Vancouver forest district ‘April was the increased productior hemlock, determined largely by the sl increase in the demand for pulp With an increase of twenty million f¢ in April, 1940, over April 1939, the of hemlock was increased from eight million to sixty million board feet this year, Bt Camp reports remain just about same as reported in our last issue, seven sets of fallers and another having been taken on at Lake Log, and a few additional gangs have been taken out to Industrial Timber Mills claim at Youbou, and to a number of smaller op- erations working on part time. A short- age of experienced fallers was noticeable in Vancouver last week, with the H.R. Morgan Log Company reportedly offer. _ ing to pay fare one way to the Queen Charlottes. Recent government timber sales include a stand of approximately 12 million feet — of cedar, hemlock and balsam on the west side of Pitt Lake to the Vasey Log Co. Another stand of 5 million, 300 thousand feet on the west side of Harri- son Lake was purchased by the H. and R. Timber Co. Vancouver Bay reports they are now through on the present claim. No one re- mains in camp except the watchman. M. and M., Log, scene of a serious accl- dent this week, laid off the trackside. Fallers and roadmen are still working. Port Neville Log has about 60 men employed — many with families up there, $1.25 charged for board which is very poor; no charge for hospital; wages paid are $1.00 less on the average than those paid elsewhere, Until after the two accidents recently they were using no mainline for tags, chokers and spreaders. Apart from that, equipment is fair. There is no safety com- — mittee functioning. Were using old tele phone wire for whistle wire, but now have some new wire. There is not much speed-up, Men take out their lunches, which are also very poor. Truck drivers receive $4.50 per day, and hook-tenders, $6.50. Twelve men came to town as a result of the last accident, The important expansion of Powell Riv- er Company's pulp plant is now being car ried out in order to supply greatly in- creased war-time demands, and it is ex- pected the new facilities will be ready for use early in the summer. These develop- ments should reflect favorably with an increased demand for pulp timber. ee mum of this area. Some men are still receiving only 40c per hour. 3 There is a company-promoted rumor being cireularized at Fraser Mills that a 5e an hour increase to counteract om ganization is to be given. ag Hotel West Ltd. 444 Carrall St., Vancouver, B.C. Canadian White Pine is going to put on a third shift in the sawmill division. The Alaska Pine employees after repre- sentations to the cothpany by a commit- tee received a wage increase of 5c per hour. The basic minimum in this plan,t however, is still below the accepted mini- CHRIS’S COFFEE SHOP. Tasty Home Cooked Meals | Ice Cream © Confectionery @ Tobacco (Opposite Casper's General Store) ALERT BAY, B.C. How'dy Boys! Hello Gang! i ‘Well here we are again. My, how time flies! It seems only yesterday that I was doping out this column, and now they tell me it was two weeks ago. ‘As you recall in last issue I was going for a little fishing. Well, instead took a day off and went for a gamo of golf, Alas and alack! I should have gone fishing! And speaking of golf, you lads in Ladysmith and way points Fon better be looking after your laurels as we have a new golfer in our midst —mone other than Olaf Orseth. I have never seen him in action yet, but he hits his irons a mile (more or less). aoa the lads who arrived here since last issue are Andy Kiskenen, Guanar Berger, Ted Goldie, Jack Hillstad, Roy McKie, Frank Gorenal and fast, but by no means least, our old friend and yours, John MeCuish. tt as most everybody is working, but if you are interested Fp ecraaes eons ‘pack to work are Ben Chute, Art Trites, Haakon Trobak, ‘ou may be sure make a typical Kravik exit). Harry ‘(whom y¢ Se ee oa a nice trip to Montreal and we won't see him for another month at least. I think that that just about winds up AS EVER, Ask for “GEORGE” WEST TAXI Cars Fully Insured . . . Reasonable Rates Office and Stand - = + West Hotel, 444 Carrall S! Seymour 0445 ’ 9401 the news for this time, so until Did thane have. next issue, DAA AAAS AA