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BC. Lun aeliWonxan
BULLETIN

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VOL. 9, No. 10.

VANCOUVER, B.C., JUNE 12, 1940

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No. 233

1.W.A. AND HOTEL
WEST SEEK STATION
FRIENDLIER TO LABOR

VANCOUVER, B.C.—Barred from the
air at Radio Station CJOR, “Green
Gold? popular I.W.A. weekly newscast,
last week was forced to temporarily sus-
pend service to B.C. loggers and mull-
workers, after 70 weeks of consecutive
broadcasting. ‘Termination of a 12-
month contract, which would not have
expired until the middle’ of next Janu-

ary, came in a letter to Fred Marchese, *

Manager of the Hotel West and sponsor
of Green Gold from G. C, Chandler, man-
ager of Station CJOR. -

No reason was given in the letter
for the sudden “blitzkrieg” by the Sta-
tion Manager on the broadcast, which
has long been the “pet peeve” of many a
boss logger, but of course, we have OUR
IDEAS about that, too! Later, when
phoned for an explanation, Mr. Chandler
said that “such programs were being
cut due to the serious developments of
the conflict.”

“Green Gold,” which has been on the
air for 70 consecutive broadcasts, bring-
ing B.C’s 30,000 woodworkers a weekly
newscast of logging camp and mill news,
log market quotations, lumber sales vol-
umes, cost of living trends, wages and
camp conditions and a smattering of
general trade unions news, has been
sponsored by Fred Marchese, or the
Hotel West in co-operation with the
I.W.A. B.C, District Council.

“We are busy now negotiating with
another station which is more friendly
to labor, and which incidently has a
wider coverage,” declared Nigel Morgan,
“Green Gold” commentator, this week.
“Station CJOR has taken an arbitrary
attitude toward our broadcast for some
time, censoring news items which have
been taken from the daily press and
some of which have even been broad-
‘cast by the Province and Sun reporter
With Mr, Marchese’s generous co-opera-
tion, of which we are assured, we hope
to be back on the air within a few

weeks.”

New Forest:

Protection
Plan Sought

VICTORIA, B.C. — A new and more
scientific approach to the problem of
protecting British Columbia’s _ forest
from the fire menace is being worked out
by the forest service.

Under a plan that will probably take
five years to complete, the branch is
‘making a complete check of its ranger
‘and lookout stations in relation to the
eccurrence of fires, studying closely the
types of “fuel” in the woods, and co-

“erdinating all the information available
from years of fire records.

(ELD SURVEY.

‘Phis will form the basis, ultimately,
“a possible revamping of the whole
“forest protection set-up so that it will
"give maximum efficiency. r

"A group of University under-graduates
im charge of Ian MeQueen is working on |

maps and next month

‘Green-Gold’ Suppressed By Station CJOR

FOUR MORE MEN
KILLED IN WOODS

With three additional deaths listed in
the Department of Labor's Safety Branch
Report, the death toll in B.C.’s basic 1a-
dustry Has risen to 44 already this year.

That means there is

only 23 more before H

last year’s record will
have been passed, The

additional deaths | Woodworkers
have been
which we were unable | seq in 33.0’s
to announce before lumber in-
because of lack or re- | dustry since
Jan. 1, 1940.

ports, includes Joun
Madej, who was killed
at the O'Brien Log operation in Febru-
ary; Ole Rimehaugen, of Malahat Log
at Port Renfrew, and Alvin Becker of
Olsen and Becker, who were killed in
March,

Elson “Dick” Lidgate died on May
26th on the U.S.S. “Venture” as a result
of an accident at Matheson ana Dougans
camp at Granite Bay. He was fataily
injured when a sapling fell on the cat
which he was driving, fracturing his
skull and breaking his left arm, 4th,
5th and 6th ribs, and his jaw. Lidgate
was 33 years of age and leaves aged
parents, a brother in Victoria, and 2 sis-
ters,

‘The death was also reported last week
of A. Swanson at Mcintyre’s camp.

LUMBER MARKET
AND LOG PRICES

According to Vancouver log brokers,
fir prices are holding better than had
been anticipated, although cedar and
hemlock have weakened somewhat. Fir
logs stocks have shown an increase and
prices remain at $12, $17 and $24 with
occasional premium of 50c to $1 on sel-
ected rafts,

The demand for cedar lumber logs
has weakened with market quotations
listed at $18 for No, 2 and $23 for No, 1.
Cedar shingle logs are being quoted at
$10, $16 and $22. Some of the operations
who are not “organized” with the boss

loggers, are taking as much as $2.00
lower. (See, it even pays the boss to be
organized, and maybe he doesn’t know
it.) Hemlock prices have dropped a dol-
lar to $11, with a few of the: gyppos
selling $1-to $1.50 below,

British Columbia's. exports to foreign
nations in 1939 totalled $109,000,000, one
of the highest per capita exports in the
world. Of this total, forest products ac-
counted for $56,000,0004 or more than
50%.

Lincoln Said...

“So long as there is one man
willing to work, but unable to find
employment, the hours of labor
are too long.”—Abraham Lincoln.

VANCOUVER, B.C.—Charges of rob-
bery with violence against Harry Mc-
Quillan, superintendent of Pioneer Tim-
ber Co., at Port McNeil, arising out of
the grabbing of a brief-case from Har-
nest Dalskog, Secretary of I.W.A. Local
1-71, came up for preliminary hearing in
Vancouver Police Court yesterday after-
noon. If the charges are sustained Mc-
Quillan may be committed to the Fall
Assizes,

Dalskog and John McCuish, both wit-
nesses for the Crown, were called to

1, Number and- frequency of fires in
a. forest area,

2. Location of these fires in relation
to forest lookouts.

8. Types of forest “fuel” in each area.

4, General year round fire hazards.

PREPARED. IN ADVANCE.
When this information is all gathered

and co-related, forest officials explain,

the branch will be in a position to dis-

Pose its forees to best possible advan-
tage.

PIONEER SUPERINTENDENT IS
UP FOR ROBBERY WITH VIOLENCE

the stand and after identifying the brief-
McQuillan,
gave details of their visit to the Pioneer
Camp and the affray that followed. Both
the accused with

case and Superintendent

witnesses charged
having been “very abusive all the way
through and calling us all the names
he could think of.
cials pushed us around and kicked our

The Company offi-

heels as we were leaving camp.” McCuish
told the court how McQuillan had
threatened him, saying, “McCuish, the
next time I see you here, I'll kill you.”
Later they described how McQuillan had
grabbed the briefcase and refused to re-
turn it,

Senator J. W. deB, Farris, appearing
for the accused who is at liberty on
$500.00 bail, admitted on his clients’ be-
half that the briefease had been turned
over to Provincial Police “by or on be-
{half of Mr. McQuillan.”

The case was adjourned until next
Friday, when legal argument on the,
charge will continue, i

I.W.A. Sponsored Wage Conference
To Declare War On Low Pay Scales

LAKE COWICHAN, B.C.—Plans for a
Wage Conference, to be held in Vancou-
ver over the summer shutdown, on Sun-
day, June 30, were made at the District
Council Executive Board méeting here
this week. At the meeting, which will
be held in Union Headquarters on the
fifth floor of the Holden Building, 16 #.
Hastings Street, discussion will take
place on the proposed “Union Scale”; any
adjustments which may be necessary,
made; and a program lined up for driv-
ing through to completion the job com-
menced by the IWA last January of
“Boosting Pay a Buck a Day.” “Already
the IWA has secured an agggregate an-
nual pay increase of better than $150,
000 and all it needs is a little intensive
work to put the wage hoist across in a
number of additional operations where
the management fear a rapidly growing
union organization and will grant in-
creases to stave it off,” stated District
Secretary, Nigel Morgan.

Invitations are being sent to all camp
delegates, Union Organizers and Local
Union Officials, as well as interested
members to participate in the informal
one-day gathering. A full discussion will
take place on wages and camp condi-
tions, and steps taken to mobilize and
better co-ordinate union forces to press
forward the union demands, With wages
in the neighboring states of Washington
and Oregon at least $1.50 a day higher
than in B.C, with the lumber market
expanding and log prices remaining
firm, the demand is a modest ong. SO
DON'T FORGET THE DATE, SUN-
DAY, JUNE 30; the time, 10 am.; and
the place, the Holden Building, 16 E.
Hastings Street, Vancouver,

SIGNS 1.W.A. i
MASTER CONTRACT
CENTRALIA, Wash—IWA Local 3-49
of this city has signed the “master con-.
tract” adopted by the International Exe- \
cutive Board with the Nielson Logging
Co., of Morton, Wash., it was announced
this week, The Master Contract was
concluded in its entirety except the
clause relating to fallers and buckers,
which continues under negotiations,

Under the terms of the Master Con-
tract, union hiring and a wage raise of
12% cents.an hour is provided. How
many men were effected by the contract
was not immediately known.

COURTENAY ORGANIZ!
FORCED TO RESIGN

It is with regret the IWA. hi

nounce the resignation of pees
Parkin, as Organizer in the Courter

District. Brother Parkin has been forced
to relinquish his position on doctors
orders as a result of an illness which will
necessitate a complete rest for at least
12 months. Long an active member of
the Loggers’ Union, and the first editor
of the B.C. Lumber Worker, he will be
difficult to replace,

While his resignation wil

immediately, no stipoiuttieng cal ee
made to his position, until after the
fire period, as a number of organizers
will be working in and out of the terri.
tory. However, recent union gains in
the Courtenay- Campbell River area will
necessitate the assignment of 4 perman-
ent organizer as soon as the operations
setile down after the usual summer shut.

down. We join with the host yf
that Brother Parkin has mae ia

camps along the B.C. ¢
ete 3.C. coast in wishing