April 16, 1941

THE B.C LUMBER WORKER

Page Three

INJURED LOGGERS
GET EASTER GIFTS

LAKE COWICHAN—Tho question of
visiting the Chemainus and Duncan Hos-
pitals and taking Waster gifts to the log-
ger patients confined there was the main
business conduced at the regular Wom-
en’s Auxiliary meeting held here on April
. In order to defray expenses of the
trips, a special social affair in the form
of a bingo and dance has been arranged
to be held on Saturday, April 19th, in the
I.W.A. Hall,

Arrangements are also under way to
sponsor a card party and dance in aid of
the “B,C, Lumber Worker.”

[CAMP ACTIVITY |

JOHNSON’S CAMP, Nugent Sound. —
‘ Visiting this camp was a real experience
i for Secretary Dalskog, on board the
3 “Laur Wayne,” for he claims it is the
best camp as far as general conditions
: go, that he has ever seen or heard of.
a Every effort has been made to make it
as homelike as possible; spotless floors
in bunkhouse and dining room, bright
colored blankets on the bunks, and a
dry-room has been built, doing away with
wet and dirty clothes hanging around
‘where the men sleep, As Dalskog states,
“It is only a small camp, but there is no
reason why some of the big outfits, mak-
ing a lot of money, couldn't provide as
good conditions.”

OLSON'S CAMP, Olson’s Landing. —
fallers here are reported having a hard
time making $6.00 a day on bushel work,

SPRY’S CAMP, — Running full ca-
pacity. Fallers are being paid 75 and 85
cents per M and get a fair scale. Other
wages paid are about average paid in
other camps. Board is good, and there is
a Safety Committee on the job.

NITINAT LAKE LOG, Clo-oose, — Re-
ported to be a pretty fair little camp
of 40 men, but wages paid on the rigging
are low. Fallers and buckers are the only
‘ones who make about equal to the higher
paid camps,

SHONE'S CAMP, Jervis Inlet. — Com-
‘plaints continue to pour in regarding
‘wages and conditions at this camp. A
whistle-punk and first aid man hired
out for $8.75 per day, and $1.35 per day
board. Upon receiving his pay he learned
he was being paid on $3.20 per day, and
$1.50 per day was deducted for board.
‘The same rates apply to the road monkey.

Wage Comparisons
Show Gap Too Big

Editor, B.C. Lumber Worker:

The whole day shift was down on Mon-
day, March 30, at Fraser Mills, due to a
breakdown in the power house. The
night shift was not affected.

The publication of the comparisons in
wages between us and our brothers
across the line has not passed over
lightly out at the mill, where there is
great unrest, due to the small wages and
the difference paid in the different kinds
of work, The graders think that four
cents an hour above the rest of the men
is not sufficient for having to work
under poor lights that are always glaring
in your eyes, causing headaches and bad
eyes, and breathing in all the dust from
the trim saws, which haven’t even got
a blow-pipe on them.

When the foreman, Mr. Tabor, is asked
for more money, he tells the boys there
is nothing he can do about it. The night
shift foreman has been having the same
troubles, even to the point where the
Men get so fed up on it all they shut
down the machines and go out around
the mill to find him.

I.W.A. PROPOSALS
ADOPTED IN U.S.

SEATTLE, Wash. International
Woodworkers of America, its officers
and membership join with all progressive
forces and the general public in com-
mending the Joint Congressional Commit-
tee on Forestry in its report to the
United States Government.

It is gratifying to note that in spite
of the war hysteria the Congressional
Committee on Forestry, in accepting the
recommendations of the International
Woodworkers of America, set forth con-
structive proposals that will rehabilitate
the woodworkikng industry on a sound
and continued basis.

Embodied in the proposals of the Con-
gressional Committee are all the recom-
mendations which were submitted to the
Committee during its hearing Portland,
December, 1939, by former international
president Harold J. Pritchett of Van-
couver, B.C,

The International Woodworkers of
America is happy in the establishment
of a real forestry economy and in the
farsightedness of the Congressional Com-
mittee in the acceptance of our recom-
mendations which, if carried into life,
will benefit the entire nation.

Join the IWA and Help Boost
Our Pay a Buck a Day!

Card 1-217.

Profits Before Life,
Is Cameron’s Code

To the Editor:

Here we are at Camerons Mill working
under the worst conditions and for the
lowest wages we could possibly think of.
We are merely existing, not living as
hard working men should, but what are
you doing about it? Are you going to con-
tinue pouring money into Mr. Cameron’s
pocket without any return? I have here
a few of the many every-day occurrences
in our mill. In one place in the planing
mill a big trim saw is held secure by a
chain attached to a nail. If this nail
bends or comes out the saw would jump
out and probably result in a serious acci-
dent. I also recall on one occasion where
some long timbers were being run and
a load happened to be directly behind
the table at the end of the machine. In
@ rush as usual our honorable Superin-
tendent shouted at the men to continue
operations. There a man could easily be
crushed but that's all right, there are
lots more men available, Then consider-
ing our wages, which are actually lower
now than before the war, the cost of liv-
ing thas risen 20 percent and our wage
increase has been approximately five per-
cent, so why not get wise, men, join the
LW.A. and better conditions for yourself,

—A Union Man.

JOHN STANTON

Barrister, Solicitor, Notary

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To the Editor:

Office of the IWA.

membership of the I.W.A. have met with
some success, which can be verified by
anyone entitled to know the affairs of
our Union. There is yet much more to
be done and perhaps it is not so much
the ability of the seller to sell as the
readiness of the buyer to buy that counts,
Let me state clearly that for the sum
of five cents per day each individual en-
gaged in the lumber industry can “buy”
full rights and privileges to participate
in the activities of some 100,000 men on
the American continent affiliated to the
LW.A. in their endeavor to increase
the standard of living by getting a fairer
return for their labor.

To all those who have helped in what-
ever way to build up our organization, to
them goes out our heart-felt thanks, The
ones who have not yet accepted the ideas
of unionism remind me of a story of the
old colored gentleman who was trying
to sell a blind mule, While trying to
prove the good points of the mule to the
prospective buyer, the mule got all
tangled up in a fence, “Isn't that mule
blind?” asked the buyer. “No, no,” was
the reply, “that mule just don’t give a
damn.”

Now I claim that any one who will not
avail himself of the benefits of organ-
ized labor is either blind to the perils
that lie ahead or just doesn’t give a damn.

Now, Brother Editor, I feel that the
future will prove that men are not blind
or careless and all will do their share
‘to ‘safeguard and improve all the rights
labor has fought for down the ages. Just
look at any country where labor has been
careless and allowed the trade unions
to be trampled under the iron heel of a
dictator.

Eternal vigilance is the price of free-
dom, it has often been said, and that or-
ganized labor has ever been vigilant can
be proven time without number. That
labor has not always been successful in
its fight against the abrogation of these
rights lies in the fact that all labor was
not in the trade unions to help in the
fight.

In conclusion I wish to point out that
pre-historic man was beset by huge ani-
ma! known as “earth shakers.” That
prehistoric man had both the courage
and brains to overcome the “earth shak-
ers” lies in the fact that man is still here
and the “earth shakers” are gone. Now
the “earth shaker” of today is the in-
dustrial system manned by labor, which
labor must control to a greater extent
or produce such men as instanced by
Mr. Howe, Minister of Supply in the
House, wherein out of 93,000 Canadians
21 years old, 33 percent were physically
unfit for war services and 50 percent
of the remainder did not have enough
education to pass the air force test.

Now a little bit of arithmetic. Those
2i-year-olds of today were 12-year-olds
of 1932. So let us all join together in the
labor movément and demand and make
sure that history does not repeat itself,
that the appalling death rate in the in-

“Tho greater the difficulties are, the
stronger we resist, ‘The final victory
must be ours.”—Dr, P. D, Chang, in
“China Today.”

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Phone SHy. 9417 Vancouver, B.0,

WE GUARANTEE A PERFECT FIT
AND COMPLETE SATISFACTION!

Since then my efforts to increase the|

Barbour Thanks Supporters;
Invites Greater Cooperation

Box 458, Courtenay, B.C.

Quite some time ago I was appointed organizer for the IWA by the
unanimous approval of delegates assembled in regular business meeting
of Local 1-80. This appointment was also endorsed by the International

dustry shall be lowered and a sustained
yield from the forests of B.C. secured for
all time. Wishful thinking will not do all
this, only a united effort of all of us
engaged in the lumbering industry.

The office of the LW.A. in Courtenay
is located at the corner of Cumberland
Road and Walter Street, open every Sat-
urday evening from 6:00 p.m, till... -
So any one interested and working in the
industry is invited to call at the office.

Fraternally yours—

(Sgd.) D, M, Barbour,
Vice-President of Local 1-80,
Organizer for the I:W.A.

‘Safety’ Not First
At Fraser Mills
To the Editor:

A great deal of controversy has arisen
from time to time about safety first reg-
lations, but nothing much seems to have
been done concerning them,

I wish to call to your attention some-
thing of importance which took place in
the sawmill out here at Fraser Mills.

A short while ago, a worker on the big
rip saw had some of his fingernails
removed by. getting them caught in the
rollers while trying to clear a chip, This
man was very lucky in only losing the
nails, had his hand caught, there is
nothing to prevent him from losing his
arm and maybe his life by being drawn
in, There are no safety devices on these
rollers, and I think that it is high time
something was done about this.

—A Circle F Worker.

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