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MARCHESE, Mer. —wS _ Moderate Rates and Centrally Located a Phone: SEy. 9401 and SEy. 9402 444 Carrall Street THE B.C. LUMBER WORKER ‘ Fraser Mills Workers Need Im Lunch Rooms And San A short while ago I met an assistant superintenderft of one of the de- partments at Fraser Mills. Being interested in the sawmill industry, I asked him a few questions about things there. One of the questions was regarding vacations for the employees. I was told that though the men were entitled to two weeks holidays each year, they liked their work and their mill so much they seldom Now this struck me as something out¢ of the ordinary, so I thought I'd have a look at this mill where the boys are too happy to leave for even two weeks. So I paid an unofficial visit. By unofficial I mean I, wasn’t conducted on a tour by one of the bosses, showing me just what he wanted me to see and no more. No, I went unobtrusively on my own tour to see how the men really were doing. One of the conditions which struck me as being far from perfect in this “per- fect” mill, was the complete absence of sanitary accommodation for the men. No wash rooms, no lunch rooms, no lava- tories. Oh, yes! . . . there were lavatories —about four out-door shacks for the use of between eight hundred and nine hun- dred men. Some of these must surely have been there since the year one, AS to lunch rooms, the boys had used odds and ends of lumber to throw up rude shelters from the sun or rain, but these could hold only a few of the men on a shift, The ground surrounding these took vacations. _ “lunch rooms,” apparently, has been used in lieu of the “shacks.” So that’s the unappetizing but bald picture of some of the conditions in the place which, according to their bosses, the boys can't bear to leave! I also found that the men are now working seven days a week, Surely this is a step backwards instead of forward! If the lumbering industry is doing so well, why not employ more men instead of taking away the one day of rest of those already em- ployed? Well, Mr. Editor, I am disappointed that I didn’t find the “Utopia” I was led to belleve existed at Fraser Mills, but I did find a field for some real co-operative work on the part of the workers in the lumbering industry. How about it, boys? The I.W.A. is your organization. Join in and make your mill really the best place to work in. A TRADE UNIONIST, ‘IWA Local 1-71 Organizes (Continuea from Page 1) in great demand. ,Theré are now over 800 loggers working on the islands, : The camp conditions are mostly good as far as board and bunkhouse accommodations are concerned. At Allison’s camps commendable improvements have been made in the form of one new bunkhouse in each camp consisting of two stories, 40 rooms each, giving accommodation to 80 me The new camp of Ocean Falls at n. Q.C. City is newly built and employs about 50 men. There was some complaint about the board in this operation. In Morgan’s camps, where the bunkhouses are old, some improvements could be made. JOHN McCUISH H. BERGREN. Wants Orqanization At Bloedels, Menzies Bay To the Editor: I’m sending you some dope on an acci- dent at Camp 4, Bloedels, in the form of a letter, and I’m hoping you'll grant space and that every logger in the Campbell River district reads it. On Friday, August 9, a hooktender by the name of E. Warner, working on the slackline was injured by a snag. This man was badly injured and yet it took two hours to bring him in to the hos- PALACE CAFE 47 WEST CORDOVA STREET 9388 GRANVILLE ST. A Satisfied Customer is Our Best Advertisement 100% UNION HOUSE Vancouver, B.C. pital at Campbell River. Part of the way, approximately 11 miles, he was brought in a delivery truck owned by Oscar Tulin, as the only ambulance in the dis- trict is privately owned and was not available. Now, fellow loggers in this district, how many more of us are going to come out of the woods injured and then be hauled around the same as a piece of broken machinery? I think this instance shows the need of organization in this district so that we can work for better condi- tions. Let’s bring in the I.W.A. and start to think in terms of “we” instead of in terms of Fraternally yours, C.L,442 and C.L.50. NOTICE! ARE YOU GOING AWAY?—Sults or Overcoats stored, 25¢ a month. Pressing done while you wait. Buy your next Suit or Overcoat from us. Bargains in New and Left-over Clothing. SEVEN LITTLE TAILORS 336 Carrall St. Seymour 1134 Ask for “GEORGE” WEST TAXI . - Reasonable Rates Cars Fully Insured . Office and Stand - Sees Phone seymour O44, 5 94 oO 1 itary Fixtures prov CAMP ACTIVE All branches of the industry ¢ crating under the stimulus of - mental demands, both domestic abroad. Logging continued through th usual fire-period, mills are working o time and the industry generally is being geared for increased prodi to satisfy demands. No shipping dif culties are being experienced now. ; Pulp and paper mills also are very — active and one B.C, company in its an- nual report has shown a 65 per cent in-— crease in production for the year ending — April 1940, with profits almost doubled, Sprys Camp at Quatsind’ reports small timber, with some fallers having to work for two weeks to make their fare, al. though a few sets are making out OK, Gibson Bros. Camp, Chamis Bay, re- ports camp conditions good. Boys held meetings recently and signed up new members. Will be 100 per cent union Merrill, Ring and Wilson's Camp at Rock Bay hired out last week, leaving the Lake Log about the only large camp on the lower coast not in operation, Part of the crew at Great Central Lake have been hired on. Additional reports of wage increases in the Courtenay areas are still coming | in, with most of the gyppos having raised 50 cents per day generally with some of the key men getting a buck. Comox Log and Buck’s fallers are reported making about $8 per day. Money difficulties are giving part of the 17-man crew of Middleton's Jervis Inlet Camp a headache in town. Some of the boys were in to see the Union about putting a lien on the boom. Recent organization of the Vancouver Creosote Company workers into a union, and presentation of union demands to the company officials at North Vancouver has already brought a 5 cents per hour general raise retroactive to August 1, A few of the crew got a 10 cents and 15 cents hoist and negotiations of an agree- ment is proceeding at present. FOUR LOGGERS DROWNED : To the Editor: I am sorry to report there were four loggers drowned here close to the camp on Sunday morning, August 11. They had been up to Esperanza for the evening; on the way home they ran the gasboat ashore, then started to back it out again. "The boat sank in 250 feet of water. Only two of the men could swim in to shore. The names of those drowned are: EB. Berg, Allan Dakon, Allan Bark- ley, Jack Brown. EB, Berg, a Swede, was working with E. Johnson and Joe An- derson this winter. He had a union card. — These men were working on the rigging here. There-is only a small crew in this camp; only 32 men, i Say hello to the boys. This will be all for now. ¥ Gibsons Camp 2, Nootka. CAMP DELEGATE. West Hotel, 444 Carrall Street |