THS B.C.

LUMBER’ WORKER

June 29, 1940

_ Why We’ re For

Unionism:
= “Slump & Starve”

CATS

PROFITS VS. WAGES
Gain in net profits of 1939 over 1938
for the 2,480 companies reporting to Wall

Street combined, after deducting net
losses, was 639%.
We may contrast this tremendous pro-
fit Increase with the 22% increase in
_ U.S. industrial production in 1939 over
1938; the 5% increase in national income
paid out; the 5% increase in cash farm
income; and the 5% increase in total
salaries and wages paid in the same per-
iod.

KANSAS CITY, June 15.—Return of
20 union men to their former jobs with
full seniority and the payment of §27,-
500 in back wages to these and other
claimants was agreed to this week by
the St. Louis Smelting & Refining Co,
subsidiary of National Lead, in a stipu-
lated settlement of a long-pending Labor
Board case filed in 1936 by five Tri-State
locals of the International Union of
Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers.

GET BACK PAY.

RICHMOND, Va.—(FP) — Restitution
of $260,000 in back wages under the
Wwage-hour law to 3,500 employees of the
Atlantic Coast Line railroad was ordered
in federal district court.

CLOSED SHOP IN OHIO PLANT

CINCINNATI, June 15. — Check-off,
closed shop, higher wages and shorter
hours mark the contract just won by
Lincoln Local Industrial Union 531, CIO,
with the Chemical Products Corp, here,
it is reported by Paul W. Fuller, CIO re-
gional director in this area.

The contract also secures sole collec-
tivé bargaining recognition for the CIO
union, as well as guarantees of no coer-
sion or intimidation of union members,
seniority, grievance adjustment machin-
ery and paid vacations.

TOKYO.—Since the start of the war
against China living costs have increased
86 percent. Banks of Japan report real
wages have declined 10.5 percent since
1937.
VACATIONS WITH PAY
SEATTLE.—Wayne L. Morse, arbitra-
tor under the coast longshore working
agreement, last week handed down a ten-
tative decision granting 650 ships clerks
in San Francisco, members of the ILWU,
vacations with pay for men working out
of the hiring hall and a 40-hour redue-

COMFORT AND
SERVICE AT
MODERATE PRICES

445 GORE AVE,

Alberni Reports

Dissatisfaction

To the Hditor,—Just a few lines to let
you know how things are going.

Last Friday, June 21, a mill worker at
Bloedel’s, Port Alberni, died of injuries
received at work the Friday before, June
14, He was struck by a piece of lumber,
in the stomach. His name was Nels
Jacobson, age 46, married, with three
grown-up children.

The mills have been sending quite a
few to the hospital lately. Great Central
sent in five in three days.

The pulp mill project of Bloedel’s has
been called off for an indefinite period.
‘The reason given is the unsettled condi-
tions.

‘When are our organizers coming up?

The fallers at Camp 1 are pretty dis-
gusted and some of the old time gangs
have quit.

‘The fallers at Franklin River say al-
though they have got a raise in rate per
bushel, the cheating stick apparently
slips a little more, because it does not
show on the pay check.

Well, will sign off now,

Fraternally yours,
ALBERNI LOGGER.

PIONEER LOG
CASE DISMISSED

The charge of “robbery with violence”
against Harry McQuillan, Pioneer Timber
Company Superintendent, who admitted-
ly seized and hel a briefcase belonging
to Ernie Dalskog, Secretary of IWA
Local 1-71, was dismissed in District
Police Court last week, by Magistrate
Fillmore.

After stating at a previous session
of the court that he was convinced
“the boys had been treated illegally” he
dismissed the charge saying, “I am
satisfied there was no evidence of either
violence or theft in the taking of the
suitcase.” At this point, Wendall B. Far-
ris, K.C., who defended McQuillan in the
absense of Senator Farris, charged the
prosecution was an abuse of the court
and that the accused had been put to
a great deal of inconvenience and ex-
pense—asserting the accused was only
half the size the complainent, Ernie
Dalskog, whom he abusively called “a
big PUG-UGLY.”

Some IWA members have been asking
What would happen if they snatched for-
cibly and held for several weeks, Mr.
McQuillan’s or Mr. Farris’s briefcase,
containing important documents. Suffi-
cient to say—IF YOU KNOW WHAT'S
GOOD FOR YOUR HEALTH, YOU
WON'T TRY IT!

A new charge of “Common Assult”
is going to be laid this week by Ernie
Dalskog against McQuillan for his al-
leged action in interfering and abusing

the organizers during a recent visit to
the Port McNeil camp.

DULUTH—Word was received today
that a raise from 6c to 12c for jack pine
cutting has been won by the workers

at the Cut Foot Sioux Camp near Inger,
Mi

Attention, Loggers!

Jack Matsui, formerly of the New
Lion Hotel, has moved to take over
Personal management of the popu-
lar HOTEL EAST.

All communications regarding the
New Lion should be directed to Mr.
Matsui at the

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WASHINGTON, June 15.—An intensive
drive to organize unorganized lumber
workers will be undertaken by the CIO
in the immediate future, it was an-
nounced here. Main concentration points
will be in the Pacific northwest, where
the International Woodworkers of Amer-
ica, CIO, has its headquarters and main
base.

The drive will be coordinated by a
representative from the national office
of the CIO, who will have charge of a
number of new organizers to be added
to the present staff and who will work
out plans with the officers of the Wood-
workers union. Adolph Germer, CIO re-
gional director in New York City, will
be given a six months leave from his
present post to undertake this work.

‘Asst. Director Widman reports that

such a drive, if carried on intensively |,

over a period of months, should bring
a doubling of the present membership
of the International Woodworkers by
January 1, 1941. He also reports a high
degree of enthusiasm and loyalty for the
CIO throughout the areas he visited,
which should make the task of organiz-
ing the thousands of unorganized work-
ers easier.

ClO UNION COUNCIL

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the Council; -James
Robertson, Seretary of
Cumberland UM-
WA was elected Vicc
President and Jame: |”
Thompson, Sereta1 |
the IBU, B.C. Division
was elected Seretary-
Treasurer. Additional}
members of the Execu |
tive include: Hyjalmay
Bergren (IWA), John}
M. “Digger” Smitl |
(IBU), John MePeakc
(MM&SWU), and
Thomas Ostle (UMWA)

The objectives of the
Council are “to extend
and establish _a_united

Nigel Morgan

labor movement
througho ut
Province; to co-
ordinate the acti-
vities of and as-
sist all affiliates in
gaining recogni-
tion of and en-
foreing collective
bargaining; to gain
the support and
united organi za-
tion of farm labor
through education
and co-operative
effort; and to
Oe work for legisla-
James Thompson tive reforms and
legislative acts in the interests of labor

and social advancement and security
for all people.

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