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THE B.C. LUMB

ER WORKER

LETTERS

“Every Reader

Camp and Mill

a Correspondent”

Reports Conditions Bad At

Sorns Camp, Thompson Sd.

Editor, B.C. Lumber Worker:

Robert Sorn’s Camp, Thompson Sound.

After spending a few weeks working at the above camp, I can truthfully say
that she's a good place to stay away from on account of general all-round rotten

conditions,

‘Wages paid are below standard, and if you are lucky enough to get paid by a
cheque drawn on a special “savings” account, then you get your money, but some
cheques arevissued from a different account, and they bounce right back at you.

Even the Union Steamship Company will

not cash cheques of this company. Some

of the boys coming down from there had their baggage held by the Union Steam-
ship until they could get their cheques cashed in town.

Besides the money question, general conditions are just as bad, as there are
practically no lights, and the so-called dryhouse is in reality a wet one—for there's

no heat in it to dry your clothes,

Coming down on the boat, I heard that the Bordman outfit at Knights Inlet
4s also issuing rubber cheques, which the Union Steamship refuses to handle. So,
I'd like to warn all the loggers to keep away from these two places.

¥Fraternally,

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Camp “Haywire”

Editor, B.C. Lumber Worker:

‘This camp certainly takes the cake for
being Haywire No. 1. It is just about
the worst ever, and that’s no exaggera-
tion. Even the grub is very bad.

‘And as for wages among the fallers
and buckers, well, you have to almost
pay the company for the privilege of
falling their timber. The rate is 65 and
7% cents per thousand, but to prove what
chance you have of making a living here,
one gang worked for five days, and at
the end of that time had One Dollar
coming. Eight gangs worked on one
quarter. Needless to say the falling
crews don’t last long here, are changing
all the time, either getting fired or quit-
ting in disgust.

Is it any wonder I call it Haywire
No. 1?

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Says Allison’s

Mr. Editor:
up here. This outfit is running two
crews.

told that there’s good timber ahead.

sure of themselves, because, according
to very reliable reports, some sets, and
good sets too, are handed scale slips as low
as twenty thousands, which gives them
the magnificent sum of $5.00 for a day
of hard bushel work. So I wish to re-
mind you fallers in town to think twice
before you sign up for this outfit.

The boys seem to be quite satisfied
with the grub, although the lunches are
very poor.

Camp conditions are rotten, it takes
a hooktender’s vocabulary to describe
them it’s really too much of a job for
my inkslinging ability.

So you see, fellow workers, we have
quite a case of “employer trouble”
around here, but we hope to find ways
and means of curing it.

Fraternally,

“A LOGGER,”

“allison Logging Co.,
“Cumshewa Inlet, Q.C.1.”

BOARD CHARGES
ARE EXORBITANT

To the Editor:

“A Buck a Day Raise in Pay” sounds
fine. But another thing, I figure a buck
a day for board should be the most that
anyone ought to pay, There may be a
few camps where one would get near
a dollar value in the line of eats, but
they are very, very few. The majority
of camps—war or no war—should charge
about 65 or 70 cents.

The price of board was raised in the
1918 war, but though the wages went
down soon after, the price of board re-
mained high up ever since. If there were
17 wars on, that would not justify the
board price through the depression, or
right now. Look up the price of eggs, and
the papers tell us that wheat is stored
to the utmost. If a city restaurant served
as many meals as many big camps do in
a day it would get rich. The camp does
not pay for water, rent or such like,

That 15 cents a day blanket tax 15
sure a joke in most camps. . . . Think
of it—$4.50 for a thirty-day month...
in ten months you pay $45.00 for so-
called “laundry.”

Let us reason together, and wake up.
What do you think, Mr. Editor?

HARDY BAY.

* WEST

Office and Stand

Phone
SEymour

adly Needs Improvement

Thought I'd drop you a line to give you an idea how things are goit
present. Twenty-two sets of fallers, the rest being cold-deck and A-fi
The fallers are having a very poor show right now, but are of com

enough to find out the truth about that “pie in the sky” story. .
It seems like the big slots feel pretty®

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camps, employing about 200 men

Quite a few sets may not stay long

CAMP ACTIVITY |

B. & K, Log, Roberts Creek: Running
close to full capacity with a crew of
about 90 men, many of them hired from
Gibson’s Landing’ district, Fallers coming
and going due to poor timber, though it
is believed they are beginning to get
into better shows in recent weeks. Wages
are below the average scale, particularly
for the Association camps, with choker-
men getting $4.85 a day.

Gustafson Bros, Jervis Inlet: Only a
few men working moving the main camp
about two miles up the inlet to new loca~
tion. Fallers are expected by the First
of March and the operation will be work-
ing full blast early in April. At full
strength, the crew will number aboutt
sixty men.

Smith & Osborne, Palmer Bay: Rated
as fair for a small camp. Average wages
are paid, and the fallers are on bushel
work, The crew numbers about 65 men.
McIntyre’s Camp, O'Brien Bay: Faulty
equipment here, no safety straps and the
guy-lines are hooked up with screw
shackles. One man was fired, accused of
being an agitator, and McIntyre stated
that he had nothing against his work.
Witnesses were present at the time.

. Rounds é& Burchett, Ramsay Arm: Will
finish the claim in another three or four
weeks.

Some sets of fallers left town on Sun-
day for Camps 3 and 6, Youbou, which
was scheduled to reopen on March 3rd.

Jobs are now posted at Hicks’ office,
for work at H, & R, Log, Soderman’s,
Bendrickson's, Mielty Brothers, Niemi
Log, Maple Bay Log, Broyles & Moore,
Milton Adams, W. Gruenback, Highland’s
and M. & M, The majority of jobs open
are for fallers and buckers.

WARNS OF UNFAIR
BUSINESS PRACTICES
To the Editor:

I feel it is my responsibility to in-
form your eight thousand readers in the
camps along the B.C. coast, through the
medium of your paper, of certain busi-
ness practices that are being carried on
amongst the loggers by a coast salesman,
Harry Dickson.

Last September he took an order from
me for a suit and overcoat priced at
$75.00, for which I paid him in cash at
the time ‘and for which I am now un-
able to get my goods.

I have referred the matter to Mr. Dick-
son and to the tailor shop from which
he operates, and am unable to obtain
satisfaction. I don’t want to see any
other loggers left in the unfortunate pre-
dicament I find myself in.

Ask for “GEORGE”

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Yours sincerely—Charles MacKinen,

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