ling the attendance record for
‘previous Mid-summer Loggers’ Ball,
he July 4th Dance this year proved to
e exceedingly successful. Loggers and
from practically all wood-

Ist prize, $50 cash, Andy Enlund, Lake
Cowichan, B.C., No. 3018; 2nd prize,

__-wrist watch, Ed Sederose, 762 Hamilton
prize, General Blectric Radio, Gus Knop,
107 W. Cordova Street, Vancouver, B.C,
No, 913; 5th prize, Waterman pen and
"pencil set, Lee Turner, Youbou, B.C., No.
4291; 7th prize, “little bit of Irish,” Meu
Neilson, Strand Rooms, Vancouver, B.C.,
No, 2189,
The second prize, a valuable $35.00
camera, has not yet been claimed. The
winning ticket No. 6435, has no name at-
tached, so we are having to hold the
prize until the ticket-holder communi-
cates with us. Proceeds of the dance will
go one-third to the B.C. District Council
for organizational work, one-third to the
$ B.C, Lumber Worker and one-third to the
Locals, May we take this opportunity
of expressing to all those -who con-
tributed to make the dance so successful,
our sincere appreciation. And don’t for-
get it’s just 161 more “chopping days”
until the next Loggers’ Ball in Decem-
ber,

_ Defence of Collective
Bargaining Campaign
Is Launched

Workers in such widely-separated cities
at Sydney, N.S., and Vancouver, B.C,
began wearing quarter-size buttons on
black and white bearing the inscription,
“I Defend COLLECTIVE BARGAINING
Through the G.E, Workers” this weel.
The buttons are being distributed by the
Committee in Defence of Collective Bar-

s gaining of Local 507, United Electriéal,
Radio and Machine Workers’ Union to
defray court costs of 14 C.G.E. workers
facing the first charges ever laid in the
34 years of the Industrial Disputes In-
vestigation Act’s history and the cam-
paign for the release of interned Viée-
President C. S. Jackson.

Buttons, receipt books and other sup-
plies may be had on application to the
secretary, IWA-CIO, B.C, District Coun-

eg

THE BC. LUMBER WORKER

Page Three

Union Sponsored Children’s
Summer Camp Opened.

‘The Jubilee children’s summer camp at Orlohma Beach, Burrard Inlet, will be
the home of many children during the summer months. Youngsters from the age
of 7 to 14 years from all parts of the city will enjoy hiking, fishing and swimming
under qualified directors. This camp, sponsored by trade union groups, will be

open until the end of August.

Further information may be obtained from Mrs. R. Fordham, DExter 1581¥.
Registrations can also be made at Youth ouncil Office, 445 Granville Street.

43 WOODWORKERS
KILLED IN 1941

James Craigmyle, millworker,
was killed under a pile of heavy
timbers at Cameron’s Mill, Victoria,
on Thursday, July 17, bringing the
total nuniber of loggers and mill-
workers killed since the first of this
year to forty-three.

K. (Kelly) Kosarevich, was instantly
killed on July 7, when he was hit by a
log when tight lining on the steam cold-
decker, at Kelly’s Camp, Limestone Bay.
Brother Kosarevich was a member of

the IWA since its in-

ception, He was
buried at Queen Char-

lotte City.

F. W. B. Elster- Woodworkers
mann, 39-year-old | jor Peon.
bucker, died on June | jumber in-
28 from injuries re-| dustry since
ceived the previous |_dan. 1, 1941.

day while bucking a

log at the camp of A. Ring, Lowe Inlet.
He got hit on the forehead, puncturing
his brain. He was taken to Prince Ru-
pert hospital in the company boat.

Belated reports have been received of
two loggers who lost their lives last
month, David Robertson, a hooktender,
was killed on June 13, at W. E. Yeo's
Camp. They were yarding piles and the
chain dog muzzle slipped off the end of
the piling and struck him in the abdomen.

James Gordon, a faller, was killed at
the operation of Baikie Brothers at Co-

cil, 504 Holden Building, Vancouver,

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Kardash Speaks
In Van. July 30

William Kardash, Workers’ Committee
member-elect of the Manitoba Legis-
lature, and Sam Guthrie, CCF M.L.A. for
Cowichan-Newcastle, will be the prin-
ciple speakers at a public meeting to
be held in the Auditorium, Denman
Street, at 8:00 pm., Wednesday, July
30,

Others who will address the meeting,
to be held under auspices of the recently
formed Anti-Fascist Mobilization Com-
mittee for Ald to the Soviet Union, will
be Rev. R. N. Matheson; Nigel Morgan,
International Board Member of the In-
ternational Woodworkers of America and
Fred Lowe. John Goss, noted English
singer, who leads the Committee, will be
chairman.

Sponsored by a number of prominent
citizens, the Anti-Fascist Mobilization
Committee has issued a manifesto urging
full alliance and collaboration between
the Canadian and Soviet Governments
and declaring that Hitlerism can be
crushed by immediate and unrestricted
Canadian, British and American aid to

mox Lake,-while he was falling a tree
which struck a windfall that. flew up,
striking him in the neck and chest.

UNION ACTIVE IN
0.C. ISLAND CAMPS

Firm in their determination to back
up their union organizers and assure
them entry into camp to transact union
business, the union members in the
Queen Charlotte Islands camps are tak-
ing steps in this direction,

From Allison’s Lake Camp, comes the
following invitation:

To the Organizers of the TWA:

Dear Brothers,—At a meeting held at
the Lake Camp, Allison Logging Co.,
Cumshewa Inlet, July 8, 1941, at 7 pm.
D.S-T:, attended by % per cent of the
crew, of was moved and seconded and
unanimously carried’ that we invite the
organizers of the IWA to visit us at
the Lake Camp at their earliest con-
venience.

(Signed) Camp Committee,
per Card No. VI-8190.

And at a meeting in Morgan's Head-
quarters Camp on July 6, it was moved
and seconded and carried unanimously
that the committee draft a letter to the
organizers requesting them to visit this
camp to attend to union business on our
behalf as soon as possible.

Concluding his report of the camp
meeting, the secretary at Morgan’s
stressed the desire of the members there
for a visit from the organizers, stating,
“We wish again to extend our hearty
greetings to our friends and officials in
IWA-CIO Local 1-71 and request that they
visit this camp at once.”

the ‘Soviet Union,
“The Committee welcomes the new
Anglo-Soviet pact providing for full mili-
tary and economic collaboration as con-
vincing assurance of co-operation between
the British and Soviet governments,”
the manifesto states. “We believe the
King government can best assure the
Canadian people of its readiness to give
equal co-operation in the fight to destroy
Hitlerism by concluding a parallel agree-
ment with the Soviet government.”
Announced aims of the Committee are:

1.To unite all anti-fascists in the com-
mon fight against Hitlerism and fasc-
ism and to support all peoples strug-
gling to free themselves from fascist op-
pression,

2.To express the popular demand and
support for full aid to the Soviet Union
in the struggle to defeat and crush
Hitlerism.

3.To promote a wider knowledge and
understanding of the Soviet Union and
to strengthen the friendship between
the Canadlan and Soviet peoples,

LOGGERS’ FLAGSHIP

LEFT FOR NEW PERMANENT POST

"M.V. ANNART"

The “M.V. Annart,” under command of “Admiral”
for its new base in the Q.C.I, this week.
Navy, which has been procured specially for work in this are:

. a “movable base” from which a Q.O.1. Sub-Local of TWA, Local 1-1 wil

John McCuish, left
The new addition to the Loggers’

2, Will provide
function. Immediate aim of the Q.C.I. Sub-Local will be negotiation of a

dollar-arday increase in wages, a union agreement, ¢;
months work and both ways after six months,’  "® WY after three