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THE BC LUMB

ER WORKER

LETTERS

Camp Comments

“Every Reader a Correspondent”

Dollar's Crew Requests
Support To Break Lockout

Fighting every inch of the way against the lockout strategy of the management
of the Canadian Robert Dollar Company’s camp at Nanoose, the Dollar Camp Com-
mittee this week Issued the following statement:

“The Camp Committee asks the cooperation of all loggers and workers offered
jobs at this operation not to accept them, until they have checked with the Camp
Committee or the I.W.A., and are assured that the lockout has been settled to the

satisfaction of the locked-out crew.

“Following an organizing campaign *

carried out in full compliance with the
Federal and Provincial Laws, covering
the organization of a Trade Union, a
meeting of Dollar’s employees was held
April 3rd and a Camp Committee elected
to bargain collectively for the employees,
The Committee called on Mr. H. D. Dol-
Jar, Jr., with a view to negotiating a set-
tlement of the following grievances:

“To get: 1, Guard rails on the log dump
at the beach, {

“2, Louder whistles on the donkeys. |

“3, Covers on the gravel trucks carry-
ing the men up and back from the woods.

“4, The reinstatement of two men al-
leged to have been laid off with the speci-
fic purpose of intimidating the remain-
der of the crew. |

“Dollar's answer to the Committee was
a complete lock-out and advice to tho
Committee to get jobs elsewhere. i

“Loggers, this lock-out can and must
be beaten.

“Many of these men have bought prop- |
erty and are building houses, DO NOT
‘TAKE THEIR JOB AND HELP DE-
PRIVE THEM OF THEIR ALL,

“The Committee, in its interview with
Minister of Labor Pearson, obtained from
him the statement that the crew had a
legal position.

“Any one, regardless of whether they
be foreman, side-push, bull-bucker or
worker, accepting a job at this opera-
tion until it is cleared by the Camp Com-
mittee, will brand themselves as ‘UN-
FAIR TO LABOR’ and will be considered
as @ tool of the employers.”

LOG PRICES

British Columbia Logs
Fir—$13-$18-$25; Peelers—$26-$33.
Hemlock—$10-$12,

Cedar—Shingle, $10; Lumber, $19-§25.
Yellow Fir—Camp run peelers, $17-§21.
(West Coast Lumberman—April, 1941)

5 Percent Wage Increase

SUPERIOR, Wis. — Superior’s second
C©.L.O. union, the I.W.A. pole and tie
workers of the Koppers Koke Company
‘Wood preserving plant, this week secured
a contract providing a five-cent per hour
increase for all laborers, and a raise for
the piece-rate workers amounting to $22
to $25 a month more in wages.

Join the 1.W.A. and Help Boost

Kelly’s Crew Donate
$234 To Boat Fund

With the receipt of $204 from the
crew of Kelly’s Camp, Cumshewa In-
let, and $30.00 from the boom crew,
the total to date of the Boat Fund
reached $435.00.

“If we could get as good response
elsewhere as we have here, the ‘An-
nart’ would be paid for in no time,”
says Ernie Dalskog, Secretary of
Local 1-71, in his letter which accom-
panied this fine contribution.

Kelly's crew is the first of the larger
camps to respond, and in thanking
the men there for this big boost, we
also want to acknowledge with thanks
contributions from the men in the fol-
dowing camps: Mcintyre’s, Gust Lun-
deen’s, Dumaresq Bros.; Seymour In-
let, Gibson Bros., Loose Lake Logging,
M, & M, Matheson Bros. O'Brien's,
North Coast Log, Seymour Log,
O'Malley's, and the former falling
crew at P.&O. Log., Harrison Lake,
members of which each donated $5.00.

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Makes Hit

To the Editor:

I suppose you'll laugh at this, but the
job’s been forced on me. You see, the
boys were having quite a time coming up
here to Kelly's Camp, Cumshewa Inlet,
and they ran out of songs so had to patch
up some old ones; and apparently it went
over so good that it was decided to send
some in to our paper, where we hope
you'll find space to print it.

Fraternally,
Card 80-349.

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“SOUTH OF THE NARROWS”
(Tune: “South of the Border”)
South of the Narrows, down Vancouver
way,

That's where I hired out, when Hicks
cried out,

“Get out of my way.”

And now that I'm working, my cheques
always stray,

South of the Narrows, down Vancouver
way.

South of the Narrows, I sailed back one
day,

But when I got tight and showed my
might

It didn’t pay !

‘The city bulls told me, that I mustn’t stay

South of the border, down Vancouver
way.

“The Screw-balls.”

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Spring Creek
Log Reports

To the Editor:

As I haven't seen any news from this
camp, Spring Creek Log, Harrison Lake,
will give you a few details for the in-
formation of our readers.

This is a new camp with good bunk
houses except for one bad draw-back,
which is that our only means of light-
ing is with coal oil lamps which are
anything but modern. We have no dry-
house, and the grub-served is not so
hot.

Following is the scale of wages being
paid here: Hooker $7.50; Head loader,
$7.00, Second loader $5.50; Rigging $6.00;
Chokers $5.00; Engineer (gas) $6.50, and
Loading Engineer $6.50.

We hope to be able start to start
collecting for the Boat Fund before long.
Fraternally yours, Card VL-413,

Urges Day’s Pay
For New Boat

To the Editor:
I am working at the Loose Lake camp,
Simoon sound, and want to say a few
words about our new boat. Now, when
we loggers get a new boat, it is up to
us to see to it that she gets paid for.
I want to make an appeal to the lumber
worker's along the B.C. coast to donate
as much as possible, I don’t think we
would be any poorer if we all donated a
day's pay to the Boat Fund. In fact I
think it would be the best investment
we loggers ever made, because we will
benefit from it for years to come,

So, what do you say, brothers, Let us
get a little highball about raising the
money for the boat right now.

Fraternally yours, Card CLL-155.

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CAMP ACTIVITY

PITT LAKE LOG, Pitt Lake —
camp with general camp conditions
Crew numbers about 60 men, Some
satisfaction regarding wages which
considered below the average.

SHONE’S CAMP, Jervis Inlet—Closed, —
believed temporary. While operating,
this camp, which is owned by the Acme _
Investment Company, became notorious
for paying low wages, and charging $1.50
per day for board. It is reported that
Mr. Shone is no longer associated with —
this outfit, so it may be that when it
reopens, it will be more in line with
the average camp in regards to wage
rates and board charges.

MILLER & ROBINSON, Blind Chan-
nel—Camp closed due to differences be-
tween the partners. Some of the crew
had difficulty collecting wages,

COMOX LAKE CAMP, Bevan. This
camp according to a recent correspond-
ent is reported to have pretty fair bunk-
houses and beds, but the board is real
tough. The camp has Chinese cooks,
They have all the cow’s milk they can
consume, “so between the hardtack and
the milk we are getting along,” the let-
ter concludes. About half the fallers
from this camp stay in Courtenay.

HIGHLAND LOG., O'Brien Bay.—Re-
ports good grub, the pay O.K,, “although
the bunkhouses are no hell.” The outfit
is “sky lining” about 80 iogs per day
from a pile,

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