June 12, 1940 THE B.C. LUMBER WORKER Page Three UNION BULLETIN PUBLISHED BI-WEEKLY BY B.v, DISTRICT COUNCIL International Woodworkers of America President = - - H. Bergren Vice-President - - E. Dalskog Secretary - Nigel Morgan Mill Organizer - Don Cameron MANAGING EDITOR NIGEL MORGAN Room 506, HOLDEN Btoc., VANcouver, B.C. Puone TRmury 4464 ‘MAKE PAYMENTS To: “B.C. LUMBER WORKER” Out of the hellfire of war in Europe have come words and ideas that have bitten deep into Canadian soil like spat- tering shrapnel. Blitzkrieg, parachutist, fifth columnist —these are a few samples of the verbal ammunition now used over here for pur- poses of domestic annihilation. One of the advantages of this new type of invective is that most people don’t know the origin of the terms. So if you can get in first and outshout everyone else, you can apply them to almost anyone you don’t like—and people will say, “Tsk, tsk, is he as bad as that!” A a Take the expression “fifth columnist.” Our “information please” department re- ceived this one: “My local paper has six columnists. How am Ito know which is the fifth, since they frequently appear in a dif- ferent order? “Or does the expression refer to the order of the draft? If so, why shouldn’t newspapermen be in the first column sent over, instead of the fifth? Or am I wrong?” ae ee This was a puzzler. To be pedantic and purely technical, the term “fifth col- umn” came into general use in the clvil war in Spain. Franco had four columns attacking Madrid, and the name “fifth column” was given to Franco supporters behind the Loyalist lines. In the present war, it has been applied to the military leaders and other high- placed people in Norway who betrayea that country from within; to the people who did-a similar job in Holland; and to others of the same ill elsewhere. But it will probably be applied increas- ingly to workers who organize—just like the old word “agitator’—by the people who can outshout everyone else because they own the most papers, politicians and radio stations, Actually the people who can do most harm by attacking us from within (like the Greeks did to the Trojans when they jumped out of their wooden horse) are mot workers at all, ‘They are the financiers, industrialists and politicians who pounce out from be- hind on the Canadian people (while our minds are fixed on defending this coun- try) and attack labor's rights, civil lib- erties and democracy itself, As for blitzkriegs and parachutists, we have many domestic varieties. And we don’t have to go to an amusement park either to shoot the chutists, Meanwhile from a beclouded sky drop union-smashing empléyers, labor spies, profiteers, sweatshoppers and other sab- oteurs. They disguise themselves as patriots while they go about their vile work of destroying the right to organize, attacking social legislation and other wise seeking to demoralize and disunite the Canadian people, Let's not be tricked by the name- calling propaganda which people in the phony uniform of patrioteers import from Europe, Canadian labor is the most genuinely patriotic element in our country today. Tt has most at stake in preserving our Peace, welfare and democratic institu- tions. But labor’s conception of national de- fense includes defense both of this coun- try and its institutions, its great mass of Working people; their health, welfare and morale, Join Your Friends at COURTENAY HOTEL Woodworkers’ Dance, June 22 And July 4 Final arrangements are now completed for the big annual Woodworkers Sum- mer Ball, which will be held on July 4th next in the Hastings Auditorium; also at Lake Cowichan Community Hall, on Saturday, June 22nd. A first rate dance floor and the best of music have been arranged for. Valuable prizes are to be given away and provision has been made for serving refreshments. In fact, everything is being done to: make this outstanding social event even more spec- tacular than ever before—and we are confident anyone who attended the Log- gers Ball sponsored and arranged by the LW.A, last Christmas will be looking forward to this ball, and will not want to miss this opportunity of celebrating in in the traditional “Logger” fashion over the summer shut-down. Preparations are being pushed forward by the Union to entertain loggers and millworkers and to make this affair bigger and bet- ter than ever before, and we are going to ask your help in obtaining the only thing we now need, a real good crowd. Tickets will admit you to either the Lake Cowichan or Vancouver dance. ‘The price per ticket is fifty cents, and full details and the list of prizes are printed on the ticket. With prizes valued at more than $200.00 being given away, tickets should be at a premium—and: of course, there is the cash prize of fifteen dollars ($15.00) for the seller of the win- ning ticket. May we urge you to go into action im- mediately as the time is short; just a little more than a month ! We shail need every bit of support you can give us, if this drive is to be made worth while —and that means you, and you,,and you. Last Christmas we raised over a thous- and dollars to help finance our bi-weekly bulletin, the B.C. Lumber Worker; {o help provide legal and statistical- coun- sels for the Union and to help us drive forward our program for organizing B.C. lumber to improve wages and work- ing conditions, May we have your sup- port in our campaign to Boost Pay A Buck A Day—if you support the dance, you can give us sonte very practical help, and remember, all stubs must bé in not later than July ist. ‘FALLERS AND BUCKERS’ By WHISTLE PUNK Oh, hear that noise on the mountain spur, : It's the ring of the axe on the stately fir, For the fallers are chopping the under- cut, Upon their spring-board, sunk in the butt, And they're not working by the day And they've got to hustle to make it pay. See the flash of the silver saw And the tree is falling in the draw. They cast aside the saw so limber, The head faller crys, “Watch it, timber.” And now they're leaping for their lives, For limbs sail downward sharp as knives, They cannot hear the limbs at all, So swift and silently they fall. And the bucker below is playing tag And dodging from the deadly snag. Or hearkening to some grim reminder And watching for the cruel sidewinder. For he knows as sure as he draws a breath If he doesn’t watch close, it’s sudden death, But the tree is down, and all is still As it lays eross-wise down the hill, Now is a rustle, and sign of faces As men step from their hiding places, And once again the axe swings free | As they start on another tree, It is reported that good progress is being made by Timber Preservers Ltd, at South Westminster. The plant, which is being erected on the old Royal City Sawmills site, is expected to be in oper- ation shortly and will include a 50,000 foot capacity sawmill, and a two- machine shingle mill. It will employ about 90 men on a two-shift basis, According to P.L.LB. reports, water- borne lumber shipments from the Pacific Northwest gained 9.7% in the first quar- ter of 1940, with a total of 983,143,676 feet. Increased demand is expected in the shingle orders as the good construction weather prevails.’ A number of mills have been operating on a single shift basis, with rumors of further curtail- ment, Ocean Falls hired a crew of sawmill Robertson and Hackets are reported put- ting on a 12-man shift in the planer mill shortly, Long summer days, and again the talk and wishful thinking of sawmill workers for holidays with or without pay. A lengthy discussion took place at Robert- son & Hackett’s last week on this sub- ject and while discussions are good, if only the mill workers would realize that one man organized is worth 10 men un- organized in the gaining of these objec- tives, HOLIDAYS WITH PAY could be gained here just as they have been in Washington. A strong union is the only answer. IWA Obtains Reinstatement Of 4 Weyerhaeuser Men LONGVIEW, Wash—The Weyer- haueser Timber Co, this week agreed to reinstate the two sets of fallers which IWA Local 36 maintained were discharged last February for union activity. The agreement of the gigan- tic timber company to reinstate the men was completely without quualifi- cation. Weyerhaeuser’s also agree, it is re- ported, to pay back wages to the men for the time lost through the discri- mination if the National Labor Rela- tions Board so orders, On another point of the charges of the IWA against the company, that of permitting union officials in their camps, the firm agreed to leave en- tirely to the Labor Board for decision. The propelling forward of the IWés in a powerful drive to completely or- ganize the employees of Weyerhaeu- ser’s was seen as the immediate result of the victory. CHRIS’S COFFEE SHOP Tasty Home Cooked Meals Ice Cream © Confectionery © Tobacco (Opposite Casper's General Store) ALERT BAY, B.C. Buy... 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