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THE B.C, LUMBER WORKER

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

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New IWA Organization At
Island Log Gets Results

Fleas, bedbugs, goats, foul latrines, un-
safe transportation facilities and just
ordinary wages were the basis on whicn
active IWA workers called two meetings

on October th and 15th, at the Island
Logging Company, Jordan’ River.

At the meeting on the 4th, President
Bergren spoke on conditions and gave
details of other camps. He pointed out
teh value of organization and urged all
to join the IWA. A camp negtiating com-
mittee of five was then elected, also a
Safety First Committee of seven. The
Camp Committee was authorized to

"raw up an agreement in keeping with

teh evening’s discussion, “which it did
within two days, and presented a copy
to the “push.” A few days later it was
learned Manager Kissinger had received
it unfavorably, so another meeting was
called for October 15 and announced by
posters. The meeting was “talked up”
and showed a better attendance and
more interest than the first, partly due
to a great increase in the number of
union members in camp who were signed
up after the first meeting. Local resi-
dents were concentrated upon and the
percentage increased to about 95 per-
cent.

The Camp Committee's report was ac-
cepted and brought a lot of discussion
of Arbitration, the boss’ attitude, as well
as wages and conditions, New members
were elected to the Committee (resident
employees) to replace those who left, and
the Committee was instructed to again
try to reach the management by October
21, otherwise to prepare to institute Ar-
bitration proceedings. A lay-in for Octo-
ber 22 was proposed for further discus-
sion if Manager Kissinger did not ap-
pear.

However, he appeared all rgiht, on
October 21 and agreed to recognize the
Committees and to provide free board
when weather conditions forced a lay-in.
He stalled on the rest of the demands,
saying he needed two weeks in which
to reach the rest of the C.P.S, directors.
Demands of the crew included Commit-
tee recognition, 67%4¢ minimum wage,
seniority rights, time and one-half for
overtime,

Wholesale price index of the Dominion
Bureau of Statistics was 83.5 in the week
ended October 25, compared with 83.3 in
the previous week, and 79.0 for the cor-
responding week last year.

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159 East Hastings St.

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Moderate Rates and
Centrally Located

Phone: SEy. 9401 and SEy. 9402

444 Carrall Street

Vancouver, B.C.

Gibson’s Camp
75% Organized

Editor:

We would like to report that in the
past three months, this camp has be-
come seventy-five percent organized. At
present we have elected a Safety First
Committee and a Camp Committee. Con-
ditions in camp are on a par with most
sub-standard camps, and that includes
wages, chokermen getting $5.00.

There are three sides, operating an A-
frame, cold deck and cat. The cold deck
and cat sides have lost considerable time
due to break downs and the difficulty
of replacing broken parts.

The fare up here is $18.75 by boat,
$27.75 by plane; most of the crew come
in by plane.

We remain, for a 100 percent organized
industry,

The Camp Committee,
Gibsons Bros., Chamis Bay,
Cards: VL-3792, VL-567,
VL-2961, and 80-1972.

CAMP ACTIVITY

Bloedel Stewart Welchs' Camp 4, at
Menzies Bay, seems to be having a tough
lime keeping fallers and buckers on the
job. Crews are quitting all the time,
claiming they are not able to make any-
thing there. The show is said to be poor
and when one gang in partcular recently
hired out there for 85¢ per M ana 10c
bonus, they were told when they went
out on their quarter that they would
get that much.

Reports from Kelly's Camp at Cum-
shewa Inlet are to the effect that most
of the boys are anticipating a Christmas
holiday, but expecting the operation up
there to repoen just as soon as the
snow clears, The snow-line is getting
closer to the shore every day. The
“Navy” reports weather so dirty, with
strong winds and blinding rains, that
even the tugs have been tied up about
two-thirds of the time lately.

Acquisition of a big tract of timber
in the Chehalis Valley near Harrison,
which was formerly operated by the Rat
Portage Lumber Co, and Clifford Sifton,
was announced last week by the Vedder
Logging Co. Work will commence im-
mediately restoring the old railroad,
which together with some new trackage
will keep a small crew on the job all
winter. The operation, which will not
start until after the New Year, will em-
ploy between 150 and 175 men, according
to reports. The tract holds about 640
millign feet of timber, with about 40
percent fir, 40 percent cedar, 10 percent
hemlock and the rest mostly spruce.

It was reported in a recent issue of

the government's official paper, the B.C,
Gazette, that the name of the “Manquam

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Good news for the mi
seen in the statement this week

McMillan, Timber Controller
Federal Government, when he
erators not to make any
and expressed confidence that tl
mand for lumber will continue
heavy, Advising the industry
laying-off to cut a little above norn
he went on to state, “Anticipated m
requirements next year include an es
pected continued demand for exportable
timber and a domestic market equal to
or better than this year's.”

It is reported that B.C. Plywoods is —
now turning out 350,000 square feet at
their spreaders every twenty-four hours
with rumors current in the plant that an
extention is being planned with a pos-
sibility of them entering the Hardwood
‘Veneer line,

Shortly after wage scales of the ply-
wood industry in the states of Washing-
ton and Oregon, which are organized
100 percent into the IWA, were circu-
lated at the Pacific Veneer by the IWA
Organizer, Don Cameron, wage increases
were given there, ranging from 2c, Se,
Se, and 10c, and a few dc.

LAKE LOG'S CREW
GETS BETTER FOOD

Real consolidation of organization and
renewal of activity has been shown re-
cently in union work at Rounds, B.C,
Functioning Camp Committees have
been re-established at Lake Log, and a
number of long-standing grievances
taken up with the management.

Recently at a camp meetng, which was
held in the cookhouse and addressed by
International President Harold Prit-
chett, twelve delegates were elected to
represent Rounds Sub-Local 1-80 at the
annual meeting of the Cowichan Local.

Poorly prepared grub, which has been
quite a beef with the crew for some time
past, was finally straightened out when
the Camp Committee interviewed man-
ager Hunter who agreed to replace the
cook. Demands for a wage increase to
bring the Lake Log scale up in line with
other “top camps,” which is provided for
in the Employer-Employee Agreement
signed by the Company last year, are
now under consideration. Negotiations
were opened by the Camp Committee,
which have now instructed International
Representative Nigel Morgan to meet
with the management further and pre-
sent the Union’s case.

Logging Co, Ltd. has been changed to
the “Queens Reach Timber Co. Ltd.”

Quite a few of the boys have been to
town in the last few weeks, particularly
from the up-coast camps, and as a result
jobs at present around the slave market
seem to be pretty few and far between.

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