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Says Solution Of LUMBER WORKER B.C: Loggers’ Problems Is Unionization By H. VALLEY, Organizezr Local 1-719: The LW.A. ‘s here to stay and the} sooner we realize it and help to establish it firmly the better it is going to be for all, Don't let the confused tell you that the loggers can’t be organized for in the last two years the loggers have begun to realize the value of organiza tion and are beginning to join up in large numbers. In the camps where unions have been been established, better living and working conditions, higher wages and improved safety conditions have been gained, The cost of living is rising sharply, but wages are only rising in those camps where the union has an active member- ship. On the other hand the price of logs has gone up to a new level so that if the operators could pay those wages be- fore they can well afford to do a whole lot better now. If you don’t get a wage hoist the present price increase is pure velvet for the boss. Why should not the logger on the rough end of the stick, where all the dirty work has“to be done, receive his rightful share of this profit? The workers already have greatly in- creased taxes to pay and we're brazenly told there’s more to come. Then again, look at the dangers to life and limb to which the logger is exposed daily. This year already 60 woodwork- ers’ lives have been chalked up to the credit of the lumber industryy. And this doesn’t take into consideration the high percentage of serious accidents, which run into the thousands annually. The Compensation say they are doing the best they can to reduce the rate but let us look the facts straight in the face. Investigators are sent out to check up on working conditions and faulty equip- ment and they say “This should not be done,” and “That should be done,” and “This or that should be made safe’—but the Compensation Board’s man can’t be there all the time so as soon as his back’s turned all these instructions are for- gotten. The Compensation Board has to make the best of a bad job as far as saving lives and limbs are concerned; unless the workers in that camp are organizezd and back up the actions of the Investigator enforced. ‘There is more truth than poetry in that old saying, “AN-OUNCE OF PREVEN- TION IS WORTH A POUND OF CURE.” Until the loggers collectively realize that and, more important, do something about it, it will be a case of when a logger loses a leg he will be given a wooden one —when he loses an eye he will get a glass one—and when he loses his life they will as quietly and quickly as pos- sible give him a wooden overcoat and store him away out of his misery. The LW.A. has a solution, which has been tried and proved successful in the organ- ized camps, where fatal accidents have been reduced to practically nil; where the wooden legs, cork arms, glass eyes and wooden overcoats are still on the shelves. In these organized camps the loggers work through their own democratically elected Safety Committee, on which they place their best men. This Committee (Continued on Page 3) #tHotel West Ltd. FRED R. MARCHESE, Mer. SS Moderate Rates and Centrally Located a Phone: SEy. 9401 and SEy. 9402 444 Carrall Street Vancouver, B.C. and see that they are| 503 Holden 16 East Hastings St. To the Editor: ‘The last issue of the Bulletin mentioned the varying wage scale in Great Central Sawmills, also the poor first aid and the speedup. Glad to see these points given the light of day in the woodworkers’ paper. I have one or two points I would like to bring out myself. The grub here is far from being the best and when you are paying $135 a day for board and CAMP ACTIVITY Gustafson Bros. at Jervis Inlet are re- ported to have a new claim with about 100 to 120 million feet of timber. A few men are working on construction jobs. Smith and Osbornes at Palmer Bay are also preparing to start operating, with a few men engaged in construction. Car stairs Log Co. at Wadhams took out a crew on the 28th of last month with about six sets of fallers, Gus Lundeens and Maigrot's Camp on Seymour Inlet are hiring crews also. The “Tzar” of the Salmon River Val- ley, Dewey Anderson, had a bad fire re- cently in which he is reported to have lost 2 donkeys, a skidder, a unit, several cold-deck piles, some fallen timber and about 1500 acres of his claim. Quite a number of his crew quit recently, claim- ing that while they worked fighting fire for 10 hours, they only received pay for eight. Pioneer Log at Port McNeil granted their crew a 5% raise on July 22nd— Harry McQuillan must have feared an- other visit from the Loggers Navy! Car- |son Log’s fallers have been working a | little over a week and the rigging crew |went wp last Monday. Lake Log opened camp yesterday, the fallers gaining a 4c per M. raise, bringing their bushel rate up to 74e per M. Trouble has been experienced by some of the crew recently in collecting wages from Middletons on Jervis Inlet, and the Long Beach Logging Co. on Texada |Island, which had the misfortune to be burnt out a couple of weeks ago. Mem- bers are urged to report all difficulties in this regard to Union Headquarters immediately. Free legal advice is avail- able from the I.W.A. Attorney, and a lot of trouble saved for others. Reports from Cameron & Hemming- sons Camp at Port Renfrew, state the bunkhouses are very poor, and full of bed- bugs. The lights are very poor, blan- kets dirty, grub bum and although the country is pretty rough the scale is fair. Contact says camp needs a visit from the Union. Plenty of complaints from Upper Coast points re Union Steamship service. Re- frigeration is badly needed to stop meats and foodstuffs from going bad as is happening at present. Boats are badly overcrowded sometimes and recently an injured workman coming down to a doc- tor, reported that although he paid the regular fare and should have been lay- ing on his back, couldn’t get a berth and had to sit up all the way. Several re- quests have come in recently for the LW.A. to take these matters up with the Union Steamship Co. Cars Fully Insured . Office and Stand Phone Wants Organizational Drive Launched In Alberni District — gblankets you should certainly Ae: but the best. Extremely salt b brand of tea, and a monotony beef are a few examples. Another thing that is griping a } the employees here is the om any statement with the pay check, 7 is no check-up on the rate of Pay, ductions for compensation, taxes, ete. You are handed the check — it or leave it. However, myself and others can on bellyaching this way, but very will come of it unless we build Union, and that is a job that we h on the job will have to do; the boss do it for us, An organizing campaign is needed, no only -here but throughout the whole berni district. Lake Cowichan, Port R frew are examples of what unio means to the loggers and millworkers, why not have it here? Fraternally yours, UNIONIST, — Victoria Mill Local reports a tidy te increase in membership as a result of President Pritchett’s recent meeting there, Sawmills in that district, as the case throughout the province, | working full blast. Here are a few of the hours: _ CAMERONS: 7 a.m, to 12 am.; 1 p.m, to 5 p.m. with 5 hours on Saturdays, mak- ing a 50-hour week, Lemon Gonnasons have been working 10 hours sometimes and all of Saturday. Down now for re- pairs and alterations. WILFREDS is working 10 hours, all of Saturday and sometimes half days. Something novel—and greatly appreci- ated—they are providing free hot coffee at lunch hour, MOORE WHITINGTONS is working 9 hours and 40 minutes daily .Some Sat- urdays 4 hours and 40 minutes and some — the Same hours as week-days. In keep- ing with the reputation of this mill, work- ers are getting the best wages in that — area, with a minimum of 45c per hour. THE SELKIRK LUMBER CO., which — has mostly Hindu crew, is working 60 hours per week. 3 Huntington & Merritts Shingle Mill i ‘Vancouver is guaranteeing sawyers 9 per hour and 60c for packers, Boundary Road Mill is paying 26¢ per No. 1 and 24¢ for Nos. 2 and 3. Packers there getting 16c. Acme Mill is paying sa 26c and packers 15¢c. Malo-Wayne is paying their sawyers 26c for di and 27c for nights; 15¢ for day pack a the Ask for “GEORGE” ‘ WEST TAXI Fhone 0445 9401 | crew and 16c for the night shift. - - Reasonable Rates West Hotel, 444 Carrall S