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THE B.C, LUMBER WORKER

Criticism Leveled At Last
Article On Safety Rules

‘The Editor:

I have a bone to pick with whoever
was responsible for the article in the last
Bulletin dealing with accidents in the
woods. I have not a bulletin here to
refer to, but the article was covering
a speech by Taylor, Our comment was
to the effect that Taylor's remedies were
Zood, if they were carried out, and all
we had to do now was get behind the
program, and, I suppose, help the Com-
pensation Board and the Department of
Labor put the employer on the spot and
thereby reduce accidents,

‘To my mind this is a hellish approach
for us to take. Surely by now we must
realize that the Department of Labor's
efforts to protect life and limb of the
loggers is a sham, and those of the
Compensation Board are little better.
The Compensation Board has at least
one practical method and that is to fine
the employer for accidents which the as-
sessment amounts to, but even in spite
of the high assesment, accidents and
fatalities increase. Without any inten-
tion of using a stock phrase, surely we
know that only through organization will
we cut down accidents. I think we
should try to produce facts to prove this
assertion, facts which will tell our read-
ers how life and limbs fn the woods can
be protected.

We should not even be carried away
with the safety “experts’” contention
that the hilly and rough country is re-
sponsible for the accident increase and,
as they say (the Super made the state-
ment here after the last fatality at this
camp), because the industry is getting
into tougher country all the time, acci-
dents will increase still more. This camp
operated a year on this claim without
a fatality, and with only one serious acci-
dent to a chokerman. Then two men
were killed, one a hook-on man on the
skyline, a lad new to the industry, who
had been in a log camp only a month
or so; who, except for an odd day now
and then when he set chokers to fill
a gap, worked on the gravel road, and
who was put on the skyline gang by the
foreman who took a fancy to him. That
man was killed either the first or sec-
ond day he was on the job, the first
time in his life he ever worked on such
a job.

The second man was killed in a crum-
mie accident, riding to work.

Can we blame the hillsides for these
accidents?

How many more of the 67 deaths last
year can be compared to these two?
Roy Lehman had a list of the fatalities
of last year. -A considerable amount of
them had the notation “through ignor-
ance or lack of care.” Can accidents
caused “through ignorance or lack of
care,” to use the bosses’ alibi, be pre-
vented? I think so, but only when we
get some measure of control over the
job. And certainly, accidents of other
categories, faulty gear, dangerous prac-
tices, ete., can be avoided when we have
a say in the matter, which narrows the
list of unpreventable accidents down
pretty small.

Statistics are not available to me here

and what I am going to write now is

SEy. 9401, SEy. 9402

Hotel West Ltd.

444 Carrall St., Vancouver, B.C.

Hello Everybody!

i = “a flies! It
we are again with news from “THE WEST.” How time
ccenbaed if I had just finished writing you but it really is two weeks ago—

and darned hot weather too.

e had a letter this morning from Jack Bellamy asking us
to Ee Tomtoultor hin dor the ist. ‘This may seem a little early to ask you
to drop us a line for reservations, but it looks like a lot of boys are going
to be in and I advise your letting us know early enough to save you a room.

Among our arrivals we find Bill McWilliams, Pete McCulloch (who, by
the way, is leaving us tonite), Ole Ruen, Paddy McDonald, and two old-timers
who dropped in for a day or two, namely, Tom Kosness and Hank Halen;
diso_2 last visit for a time, at least, from Ray Jenkins, who is leaving for

overseas.

th, John Simond, Gunnar Berger, Ted Goldie, Albin Fern, Bill
Ss Serie oarine Gorenal, and as I said before, Pete McCulloch, are among
those ‘who are out trying to get that ist of July stake. John McCuish was
also in for a few days but as usual only stayed long enough to say hello and

goodbye.
And that

emis AS EVER,

just about winds things up for this time, me lads. So until next

ROC eee

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from memory, but is so near correct,
if not correct, that there is no room
for argument,

The Vancouver longshoremen organ-
ized in the LL.A. in 1912, and remained
organized until 1923. In those ten or
eleven years 12 men (or less) were killed,
Between 1923 and 1933, during the Fink
Hall days (10 years), 60 men were killed.
The first included the warperiod, when
the waterfront was working day and
night and an entirely new and danger-
ous range of cargo was handled. Here
is concrete proof of the benefit of organ-
ization, and our ability to control indus-
try for the protection of our lives and
limbs, if we have the power to do so.

As I say, Mr. Editor, I have no way to
get statistics here, but I think you could
make a dandy article along this line.
Can we compare, to advantage, the per-
iod of organization in B.C. woods (IWW
and OBU days, etc.) with a similar per-
iod after the loss of the organization?
Can we get the figures, say, in Fraser
Mills, before, during and after organiza-
tion? What about Lake Log.? Regard-
ing the waterfront, the article I have
quoted from memory was printed, and
reprinted in different forms in two
waterfront papers, “Heavy Lift” and
“Ship and Dock.” The figures are authen-
tic in those papers, but the figures I
have given here from memory may not
be exactly right,

‘To sum it all up, what I set out to say,
was that it is a mistake for us to set
our bets on the bosses’ game, but at the
same time we cannot dispute the bosse
claims by merely shouting “Organize.”
We must give proof that organization
and what it implies—less fear of the
boss, of the blacklist, ete.—will cut down
accidents,

Well, I have wasted enough paper and
your time. I hope the urge strikes you
to call up here one of these days, when
boat connections are convenient,

Fraternally, “Unionist.”

Camp operations remain almost
changed, with as yet no signs of
down despite an unusually light
fall over the winter months which
some of us to expect an early “fire
son.” About the only bush fire of
in the coast region to date oe
about the end of May at M. & M.
Soderman’s crew were sent over to 5
fight and soon succeeded in gaining con-—
trol. Firefighters were paid $4.00 per
day regardless of whether they were
fallers, boommen or riggers. They left.
camp at 7 am, and returned about 8
in the evening with $3.19 cash as the
company insisted on deducting 80c for
board and Ic for compensation,

Oscar Soderman’s Camp at Havana
Channel has come down, as has also the
Vancouver Bay Log, where they are re-
ported to have finished the claim. Mar-
grot’s Camp at Seymour Inlet has sent
their fallers in, keeping only the coldeck
crew to work, Carstairs Camp at Wad-
ham reports about 64 men employed,
Kelly's Limestone operation is increas-
ing their crew in a short while and it is
expected that Headquarters will be
moved there.

Allisons, Q.C.L, report 275 men on the
payroll with about 190 at the beach, 60 at
the lake and 20 at the rafting camp.
They have 7 sets of fallers at the beach
and 7 at the lake camp, 2 track sides,
4 cold-deckers and an A-frame and a
cold-decker at the lake, The lake camp
is new with good accommodation and
good grub. The beach camp is not as
good as the lake, and neither are the
lunches or food. Rats play tag in the
bunkhouses and the dryhouse and wash-
house at the beach are a disgrace.

The J. R, Morgan camp at Pacifi,
Q.CIL,, reports average food; a few men
coming and going and a new shower in
the washroom, “which isn’t fit for the
pigeons to live in this year.”

Oscar Neimi’s camp reports a lot of
men coming and going with general dis-

satisfaction over conditions,

VICTORIA MILL WORKERS’ LOCAL MEETS
WEDNESDAY, JUNE TWENTY-SIXTH

VICTORIA, B.C.—Merger of two local
affiliated with International
Woodworkers of America was effected
at a meeting in Inland Boatmen’s union
hall here Monday. The amalgamation of
the former sawmill local 1-122 with local
1-118, Sawmill and Shingle Weavers, was

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completed following an address by Inter-
national Board Member Nigel Morgan,
who stressed the need for an aggressive
organization program.

Tom Harrison was elected president or
the strengthened union and George Wil-
Kinson secretary. Plans to invite Inter-

national Vice-President O, M, Orton to
the union's next meeting to be held at
the Labor Temple, 602 Broughton St.,
on Wednesday, June 26th, were maae, A
number of new members were initiated
into the union at the last meeting, wnich
was one of the best attended for some
time past, and an organization campaign
is being launched immediately.

NEW YORK—Wtih the shipping in-
dustry enjoying an unprecedented war-
time boom, union seamen on both coasts

won 2 $10 monthly increase, setting the
highest wage scales in 20 years,

EMPLOYERS CRY "WOLF, WOLF!’

DRUMMONDVILLE, Que.—(CUN).—Another striking example of
the speed with which Canadian capital
than share increased profits with workers, was shown here last week a
when Canadian Celanese locked out nearly 3,000 employees. They
asked for higher pay to make up for increased living costs. ‘

The company’s latest report showed that it earned $4.07 per share _
last year compared with $1.71, or a gain of 137%. Some of the
profit is believed due to orders paid for by the Canadian

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