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THE BC LUMBER WORKER

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New Burnswick Loggers
Want To Organize IWA

To All Supporters of Labor Unionism:

Greetings, Brothers! I write to inform you of some of the problems
of New Brunswick loggers and to ask for your help. We produce spruce
lumber and pulp wood for the Canadian, British and American markets.

The piece-work or “bushel system”
contractors are everywhere.

largely prevails in the woods; small

“Our” forest lands are largely monopolized

in the hands of a few corporations, many of them American (International
Paper, Seaboard). These companies own ee lands in part; in part they

hold them on long term leases from “

” provincial government. This

government, composed mainly of taraker operators and the lawyers,
agents and suckers of these interests, looks after its own. We might

learn from them.

Canadian G.M. Head
Draws Huge Salary

OSHAWA, Ont—Canadian auto work-
ers seeking higher wages to meet in-
creased living costs and a share in the
profits on goods they produce were given
some idea of how profitable President
R. S. McLaughlin’s interest in General
Motors Corp. has been last week, through
stock returns made to the S.E.C, at Wash-
ington. Through a holding company, Mc-
Laughlin has been the beneficiary of
more than 75,000 shares of G.M. which
gave his holding company dividends last
year of $281,250. McLaughlin’s salary as
head of General Motors of Canada has
been estimated at no less than $100,000
yearly. He reported selling 25,000 shares
of G.M. which would give him $1,000,000
cash at the prevailing price.

POWER-FALLERS MUST
USE “HARD HATS”

Many more loggers in coast camps are
wearing “hard hats” this week than
ever before as the result of an order
of the Workmen’s Compensation Board
which became effective July 1.

Wearing of the aluminum or bakelite
hats, similar to the “tin” hats of soliders
and firemen, has been common in many
of the larger camps, but has not been
obligatory in any case until now.

‘The new order provides that employers
must provide and men must wear the
protective hats where power saws are
used for falling.

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Some regulations are made from a
health standpoint, relative to the con-
struction and care of camps, but these
remain on paper, because there are no
inspectors and we have no union to fight
for better conditions. The blacklist
awaits the individual hero who makes
public complaint. The minimm wage law
is broken with impunity by the employ-
ers, The 10-hour day is regular, pay
days not. The employers control the
scalers because they hire them and pay
them. We find the old adage that “he
who pays the piper calls the tune” a
very true saying.

I believe the conditions that are here
but faintly outlined to be in effect be-
cause we do not ,as yet, stand and fight
together, we are unorganized. Large num-
bers of men from our ranks have joined
the armed services to fight Hitlerism
abroad. Do-we not owe. them a fight
against employer-Hitlerism here in Can-
ada? I think we do. What will the situa-
tion be like here in Canada when the
great war market fizzles out and the de-
mobilized troops are thrown back on an
overstocked labor market? Surely New
Brunswick's lumber and general workers
need in the worst way a real mass or-
ganization, a strong industrial union as
THE TOOL to fight for a better life for
ourselves, our families, our class. What
union? To me the only answer can be
the International Woodworkers of Amer-
ica, CLO, Any purely provincial affair,
starting from scratch, would likely prove
too weak to contest matters with the well-
entrenched lumber companies, This is
what killed the Farmer Labor Union.

I write this’ open ietter, in. part, as
an appeal to all officers and members
of the IWA in B.C. to consider carefully
the advantages—for you in the west as
well as for us in the east—of extending
the IWA to the Atlantic. Let us, in our
mutual interest, unite our workers’ hands
across the continent.

Fraternally yours,
NEW BRUNSWICKER.

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Our Pay a Buck a Day!

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Dumaresq Camp Gets 50c
Hoist Across The Board

To the Editor,—This camp did not shut down for the holidays, but is
running right through the season, We have received a 50 cents per day —

increase in wages, which came into

board and blankets were raised to $1.50 per day.
‘® Following is the scale belng paid now,

| CAMP ACTIVITY

There is little to report in the way of
camp movements except that practically
all camps on Vancouver Island and the
Lower Mainland after working about
seven or eight days since the midsum-
mer shutdown, have again been closed
as a result of some of the hottest weather
on record. As a result of the government
ban, all camps on Vancouver Island
south of Torquart Harbor on the West
Coast, and south of Suquash on the Hast
Coast—and on the Mainland south of
Wells Pass and Kingcome Inlet are
closed, Crews reaching Vancouver Thurs-
day afternoon were greeted with rain
and today were called back to work as
the government ban Was lifted.

Members of the crew of Gunnar Ander-
son's camp at Ceepeecee have placed liens
on his logs and equipment in order to
collect their wages.

The crew was left stranded, without
even their fares to Vancouver, when
Anderson left the camp, promising to
return by July 5; and he has not yet
gone back. He left one member of the
crew in charge of camp, and instructed
the cook to stay on the job to feed the
crew, but the grub ran out.

In addition to there being no money
for wages, several of the cheques which
Anderson had issued for wages previ-
ously have since bounced.

The crew got in touch with the IWA
and the union immediately placed the
matter in the hands of the IWA attorney,
John Stanton. The union is backing the
men financially and will see that every-
thing is done to protect the crew's in-

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effect on June 16; at the same time

since the increase:
Hookers ..
HiRiggers .
Engineers (9 hours) .
Rigging slingers .
Boommen ..
Chasers
Chokermen .
Firemen ..
Signalmen
Wood buckers .
Wood splitters .
Flunkeys ..
Blacksmith

General camp conditions here are fair,
the bathhouse was in bad shape but is
now being remodelled, The cookhouse is
all right, and the only kick on the grub
is not enough variety, too much all the
same. However, since they have raised
the rate for board, maybe we will get
some improvements along these lines,

Fraternally yours—Card VL-L171,

terest. Meanwhile, the men are still on
the job at Ceepeecee, pending settlement
of the case.

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