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THE B.C. LUMB

ER WORKER

January 22, 1941

LETTERS

Camp and Mill

“Every Reader a Correspondent”

REPORTS

PROMISES REGULAR’

NEWS REPORTS

Hear Ye, Hear Ye, Hear Ye, Brothers
and Cisterns (?) from Camp 4, of the
Bloedel, Stewart & Welch operations at

Menzies Bay, comes to ye all faithful, |

greetings and season wishes for the New
Year.

Camp 4 has been running the follow-
ing until the 18th of-December and re-
turned back to work on the 6th of

January.
8 Sides, ‘No. 1, No, 3 and No. 4 (Slack-
line).
8 Cold-deckers with mostly one choker-
man only,

9 sets of Power Saws, with a 5-man
gang apiece.

2 sets of snag fallers.

5 track gangs.

8 and sometimes 4 Locys.

Join Your Friends at
COURTENAY HOTEL

Headquarters”
“The Loggers’
G. TATER PROP.
Courtenay, V.1.

HASTINGS STEAM BATHS
764 EAST HASTINGS ST.
Government Registered Masseurs
‘in Attendance
J. WEPSALA, Prop.
also Agent for Norwegian and Swedist

American Steamship Lines. —

Highland 0240 ALWAYS OPEN

Money To Loan
On Men's Suits, Overcoats, Logging
Boots and Sleeping Bags.

San Francisco Tailors
52 WEST HASTINGS ST.
(4 Doors West of Beacon Theatre)

SEA FOODS ARE GOOD FoR YOU
+++ and you'll like them at

THE “ONLY” FISH
THEY ARE ALWAYS FRESH!
20 East Hastings Street
100% UNION HOUSE
Se, TERS SR ET
7

“Styles for Young Men and
Men who Stay Young”

Nice little bunch or men, hey! Cook-
house is nothing to brag about and the
word Variety does not seem to exist in
the Cook’s vocabulary. The “Pastry

Cook” is just as bad, and the lunch
maker is passing the buck onto the
others. Bunkhouses have been reno-
vated by roofing-in some of them and
painting the inside as well as the out-
side. A few spotlights which were urg-
ently needed have finally made their
appearance and are now in use, much to
our satisfaction, and also a new power
plant for better lights which are still
turned off at 10 p.m. faithfully, seven
days a week, In the dining-rooms, one
has to be a born Superman in order to
fly into his place, since we have to
crawl and step over each other in order
to get to our places. The dining-rooms
are not wide enough and one bench is
lining each wall, making it hard to have
enough room to walk around the tables.

Operations are carried out by using
the old Lamb’s mainline and part of
the OR.T. mainline. Transportation is
by use of “crummies” which are delayed
faithfully once a. week, usually on mail-
day (Friday) by a wreck on the Mainline.
Wages are just average; Chokerman, |
540, Chaser 5.75, Rigging-slinger 6.60, |
Hookertenders, ranging from 6.60 to 9.00
a day. All fallers are on bushel-work
and they have to go like —— in order
to make something, the Powersaws are
hard on the scale and by the time the
Bull-bucker has been through the fallen
timbers there isn’t very much left. A
recreational hall, which is mainly used
to point out to visitors, has been left
standing idle and no organization nor;
papers of any kind from the Union
Headquarters have ever appeared there.
No sooner does one open his “yap,” down
the road towards new horizons he goes.
So, Brothers, read these lines and weep
like I did many times,

Not enough “He Men” seems to be
the main obstacle in building the I.W.A.

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Mart. Trends

‘The Douglas Fir market remains active
and strong. Mills are pretty well supplied
with business and sales managers look
to no slackening of demand for some
time to come. All mills in the B.C. coast
area are operating although there has
been a slight falling off in orders from
the U.K. Promises of increased shipments
into the U.S.A. for the gigantic defense
program which is just getting under way
are now heard. Already some B.C. lum-
ber has made its appearance in Southern
California, Shingle demand is reported
not as brisk as it was but is expected to
pick up in the near future as fresh stocks
will be needed in the East for spring
consumption. Market trends are report-
ed below as recorded in the West Coast
Lumberman, organ of the big lumber
and logging interests.

BRITISH COLUMBIA LOG PRICES:
Fir—$13, $18, $25. Peelers, $26-$33.
Hemlock—$10-$12.

Cedar—Shingle, $10. Lumber, $19-§25.
Yellow Fir—Camp run peelers $17-§21.

SEATTLE FIR LUMBER PRICES:
Direct to Trade F.0.B. Mill

1x4 B&B V&G Flooring
1x4 C V G Flooring ..
1x4 B&B S G Flooring
1x4 CS G Flooring .
1x4 D S G Flooring
1x6 B&B S G Flooring .
1x6 C'S G Flooring
1x6 D S G Flooring .
5x4 B&B Ceiling
%x4 Fir Ceiling .
x4 D Fir Ceiling .
1x4 B&B Fir Ceiling
1x4 C Fir Ceiling .
ix4 D Fir Ceiling
1x6 B&M Drop Siding (106)
1x6 B&B Drop Siding (all other) .
1x6 D Fir Drop Siding
No. 1 Common Fir Boards

Pee
uM
Koo

Oo.

Dee,
Shiplap same as boards

No. 1 Common Small Timbers

and Plank

3x8 & 6x6 to 30 ft.

12x12 8-20 ft. ...

12x12 20 ft. & up.
No. 1 Dimension

out here. However, they tell me that | 2X4 v &14. z
Vancouver was not built in a day, so eat af a -
Iam still living in hopes of seeing a|ox6 12 & 14. 26.50
change for the better within the near |2x6 16 . 27.00
future. First Aid Equipment is up to |2*6 18-20 27.00
date but the Safety Meetings conducted |2*8 12 - oe
here are just a joke all around. Small |9x3 1g | 26.50
Points are stretched out of bounds and |2x8 18 &'20 . f
major points are ignored or not brought | 2x12 16-20 ..
up at all. SEATTLE SHINGLE PRICES
Whenever possible, it is with pleasure | Direct to the Trade
that we will keep you posted on the PeRAE $2.85 - $3.00
latest news and scandals from this part !246” 5/2 1.80- 1.85
of the country, V. L, 3375, |3-16” 5/2 135- 1.40
Royals:
1-24” 4/2 410
224" 4/2 2.30~ 2.40
Join the I.W.A. and Help Boost nee ala 1.60- 1.65
erfection:
Our Pay a Buck a Day 1:18” 5/2% 3.05- 3.10
218" 5/24, 2.00- 2.10
8-18” 5/2% 150- 1.51

Local Endorses
istrict Program

cal 1-71 got off to a good start in
when the first regular business
he year was well attend,
= members

CAMP ACTIVITY

All Association camps are running with
the exception of Camps 3\and 6 at You-
bou, reported to be starting March Ist.
B.C. Pulp will start operating this week.
It is reported that Rock -Bay fallers
and buckers are not doing so well owing
to poor shows; four gangs, having quit,
left there on the last boat. It is also re-
ported reliably that Pat Maloney is not
going back to “push” at Allison Log,
Q.CI. Most of the smaller camps are
running full blast and camps trying to
run below standard wage scale are find-
ing it hard to get men. Not many fallers
and buckers are left in town. Allison Log,
Q.C.L, cut all “donkey punchers” wages
4%c per hour.

Ladysmith division of the Comox Log-
ging and Railway Co. had a half million
dollar payroll in 1940. The ten-day shut-
down of operations over the Christmas-
New Year holiday marked the first break
in more than 16 months of continuous
operation in the woods. Maintenance
crews continued work and the big log
roll that trundles the logs from the
trucks to tidewater has been renewed.

Forest Branch collections for the
month of November amounted to $379,-
647. Included in this figure were timber
royalties totalling $246,639; timber sales,
$73,098; and licenses and berths, $47,140.

Work hag been commenced by fallers
of the Vedder Logging Co, on the area
directly east of Cultus Lake Park, just
across the Boundary road. Operations

were in full swing by the first week of
January.

Difficulty has been experienced, accord-
ing to reports, in collecting money from
K. & W. Log at Port Neville. This small
outfit is reported moving to a new claim,
somewhere round Jervis Inlet,.so be on
your guard.

Mill Gossip

FRASER MILLS BEING
REMODELLED.

The Union has been assured by the
Provincial Safety Dept, that the Fraser
Mills Co, has agreed to have a blower
system established and completed for
use by the first of March, to take care
of sawdust and residue throughout 4
plywood plant. We have heay

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