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THE B.C.

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MANITOBA
HOTEL

44 W. Cordova St.

Outside Rooms — Blevator Service
Steam Heat — Reasonable Rates
Centrally Located

SEy. 8580 N. J. THOMPSON, Mgr.
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JOHN STANTON

Barrister, Solicitor, Notary

503 Holden Building
16 East Hastings St.. TRin. 4464

“The greater the difficulties are, are
stronger we resist, ‘The final victory
must be ours.’—Dr, P, D. Chang, in
“China Today.”

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Phone SEy. 9417 Vancouver, B.C,

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102 East Hastings St.
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LLEWELLYN

Dr. R. Douglas

Phone SEy. 5577
Corner

| Richards and Hastings

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for QUALITY, VALUE, SERVICE

— try —

UTTERSTROM'S
MEN'S WEAR |

Argyle Street Port Alberni

Hyah Boys:

out in the cold, or should I say heat.

quite a list of arrivals.

Pe eee D LTT LE TLE LEE LEELAAEEL LEAT LEE LED

CAMP ACTIVITY

There are seven sides working at
G.R.T. and Bloedel’s Menzies Bay camp,
which were recently amalgamated under
Bloedel management. Crews are report-
ed coming in on the 28th{ and it is said
the holiday will only last two or “three
days,

Merrill-Ring-Wilson at Rock Bay had
about two hundred men working until
the crew came in on the 2ist for apout
a two-week shut down. Repair work is
going on during the holiday. Salmon
River Log. will be running over the holi-
day and expects to come down for a fort-
night about the middle or July,

Englewood, C.&A. Log., Carson Log.,
and Pioneer Timber Company at Port
MacNeil are reported running through
the holiday also. Maigrot’s Log. at Sey-
mour Inlet; Mielty Log. at Knight's In-
let; M. & M, Log. at Forward Bay and
Wilson Log. on Minstrel Island are all
reported down.

Bloedel, Stewart & Welch's camps at
Central Lake are down for fifteen days
with repair work going on. Youbou log-
gers have also come in for a holiday and
AP.L’s crew are reported in for a short
shut down. The boys from Lake Log.
are coming in on the 28th and expect to
return on the 2nd of July. The general
outlook for the camps on the lower

coast regions seem to be for a short shut- |

down. THe Queen Charlotte Island
camps are reported running at full blast
with Allison Log. reported working their
rigging and boom crews nine hours per
day. The operators claim that they have
been requested by the Federal Depart-
ment of Labor to do this, but as yet con-
firmation of this statement cannot be
obtained by the union.

In a conference wih Provincial Minis-
ter of Labor George Pearson yesterday,
Nigel Morgan, District Council secretary,
was informed that Provincial Hours or
Work and Minimum Wage Regulations
are still in effect and that the Provin-
cial Government also will be refusing
permits to any operations until the lists
of unemployed men suitable for employ-
ment in this industry have been ex-
hausted.

Further enquiries are being made im-
mediately by union officials into the situ-
ation in some Queen Charlotte Island
camps and camp delegates or members
are requested to report any information
to union headquarters.

According to Vancouver log brokers,
cedar prices are remaining high, al-
though the turnover in recent weeks has
been swiall, Hemlock sales for pulp
have been active recently with the
Powell River Company paying 50c per
thousand less than they did 40 days ago.
It was reported there are small stocks
of pulp logs in the water.

Fir logs are moving well; prices re-
maining firm,

Spruce logs are in big demand. High
grade logs were fetching, for number
one grade, $28, and for selected number
two, $19. The lower grade for box man-
ufacturing is trading slowly with mar-
ket prices listed at $12 per thousand.
Prospects are bright for a continued
good fir market for better grade logs,

SEy. 9401, SEy. 9402

Hotel West Ltd.

444 Carrall St., Vancouver, B.C.

Well, lads, as the ist is just around the corner, once more let me remind
you to write in if possible for your room reservation as the gang are sure be-
ginning to flock in, and we don’t want to see any of the old timers being left

For instance, to show you how things are, our departure column contains
only three names, Jack Hillstad, Geo. Barron, and Paul Sands, while we have

Jack Bellamy, Nels Erikson, Eddie Stromberg, Uno Berg, Bill Enbom, and
Nils Kravik are among those who have come to town along with Eric West-
man, Albin Peterson, and Martin Rauma. Hjalmar Bergen and partner J.
McCuish are at present with us for a day or two, and both looking very fit.

It is really too hot to try to say very much right now, once again remember
to write for your room, so until then I remain, as ever,

DONO n

LUMBER WORKER

WHO SAYS PROFITS AREN'T RI
OR THEY CAN'T PAY HIGHER WAG

From “Economic Notes”

Three months’ profits: A compilation
of first quarter net profits of 240 “leading
corporations” by National City Bank of
New York showed a rise of 74 per cent
over the net profits of same companies
in comparable period last year. It says
in its May bulletin that “the sharpest
gains were registered in such lines as
metals, machinery and equipment, paper
and petroleum, ... A number of repre-
sentative companies in certain lines, how-
ever, had the largest first quarter earn-
ings in their history.”

And La Rue Applegate, writing in “The
Analist” (May 9) says: “Industrial profits
in the first quarter of this year made an
unusually good showing, especially when
it is considered that general business de-
clined from 110 per cent of estimated
normal in December to only 97.5 per cent
in March.”

A compilation of first quarter net
profits by “Wall Street Journal” (May 3)
brought out the big jumps in specific
industries. “Betterment in profits was
naturally more pronounced, as a rule,
in those industries benefitting directly or
indirectly from the European conflict,”
says the article. It found the following
rises over first quarter (1939) profits:

12 Machine and tool companies...... 490.7%
9 railway equipment companies... 425-156
16 oil companies - 145.656

20 building supplies companies... 93.5%
7 paper and pulp companies ..... 87.8%

10 electric equipment and supply... 81.6%

A million in dividends: Hand-outs to
stockholders continued to rise in April.
“New York Times” compilation showed
that $190,123,760 was declared by 833
companies in April this year compared
with $163,266,568 in April last year. This
brings the total dividends declared by
this list of companies to over a billion
dollars in the first four months of this
year, The rise was from $914,264,158 in
first four months of last year to $1,042,-
025,562 in like period this year—an in-
crease of 13 per cent.

SHINGLE IMPORT DUTY
WASHINGTON, June 24—The Sen-
ate passed and sent to the White House
Saturday a measure permitting the pres-
ident to place a duty of 25 cents a square
on red cedar shingles when importations
from Canada exceed 30 per cent of the
domestic consumption. The duty is the
highest permitted under the Canadian
trade agreement. The measure was in-

troduced by Representative Wallgreen
(D.-Wash.).

as with shipping problems now pretty
well settled, mill production proceeding
at a high peak, some brokers hold out 2
possibility of a log shortage if the sire
season forces prolonged curtailment of
log production.

The Kelley Log. Company in the
Queen Charlotte Islands reports head-
quarters have moved to Limestone Bay,
where they expect to have the road fin-
ished in about a month's time. At the
present time there is a cold decker, a
slackline and three sides of fallers at

work, the cold decker being on double
shift.

Reports from Camp B40, Queen Char-
lotte City, state the fallers are not mak-
ing out as well as they had expected ana
there is a great deal of dissatisfaction
with the cook. Camp conditions are
fairly good. The men are looking for-

ward to a visit from the Navy as soon
as possible,

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GROWING USE
OF POWER-SAW
BRINGS PROBLEMS

PORTLAND, Ore.—The felling ¢
ber by means of power saws—a
by no means widespread as ¥
fir belt but gaining ground yearly in #
California redwood region — present
problems that may some day be of
greatest importance for the IWA to
solve.

Lightweight drag saws have been
cessfully used in certain sections of ti
redwood country for both falling an
bucking for the past ten years, accord-
ing to the April issue of the Timberman —
magazine. About 80 percent of the fall-
ing done on the extensive Hammond
holdings is done by saws of this
it.is claimed. Mr. Evans, of the Grays-
Evans Co. is quoted in another issue
of the same magazine as saying that
power felling works better than hand
methods.

Even when considerable time is ex-
pended in rigging up the power saw,
there is still a big saving over hand me-
thods, the magazine states. Of course
this means a Saving in wages paid out
by the operators, but the Timberman
does not make this clear,

NOT FIGHTING PROGRESS.

‘The IWA is not concerned with setting
back the clock hands of progress but
does intend to see to it that labor _
saving devices are used to shorten the
hours of work and not merely to pile
up additional profits for the boss.

“Many saws are frequently owned by
the choppers and serviced by the com-
pany,” the Timberman goes on to say,
‘This is another practice frowned on by
the IWA, as illustrated in the celebrated
refusal of Scotty Shand, manager of the
IWA hiring hall in Portland, to send a
“woodsplitter with tools” out to a cer-
tain camp recently,

The story goes that a gyppo contractor
who was cutting the wood for the don-
keys in a certain logging operation sent
in for a “woodcutter, $5.00 a day, and
furnish his own tools,”

In one minute flat, Scotty's classic reply
was burning up the wire: “We have
plenty of woodsplitters, but none of them
with any tools.”

The day of the worker who had to fur
nish his own tools went out with the
bindle stiff and the old straw bunk.

J. & J. Log Camp
Gives Wage List ¢

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To the Editor:

This is a small camp about ten miles
up the inlet from Minstrel Island. At
present there are about twenty-five men
in camp. There are three machines
working, two A-frames and one cold-
deck. According to all reports, this camp
is due to close down about July ist.
There is no bull cook or first aid man
here, other than that, camp conditions
and food are O.K.

Wages are as follows: Punk, $4.50,
chokerman, $4.50. I don’t seem to be able
to get any accuracy on the rest, so I'll _
leave it out. There are a number of —
union men in camp and the B.C, Lum-
ber Worker is getting in all right. The
radio reception is poor here and it was
hard to get “Green Gold” on CJOR.

Yours for an organized industry and a
successful dance,

Vv. L. 1840. .
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