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THE B.CLUMBER WORKER

August 20, 1941

I met an old friend of mine the other
day; a well-known character in the B.C.

camps, “B.S.” Albert McLietell. When I
first heard of him I thought that Albert's
prefix meant Bachelor of Science. I soon
found out differently because he cer-
tainly can spread it.

To appreciate Albert one must really
see him. He has one of these double ex-
pression faces, if you know what I mean.
One half is serious, the other jovial. One
of his eyes looks like the poor lamb going
to slaughter, the other like the twinkling
of the North Star. You never know, when
Al is talking to you, what expression to
accept. Nature has endowed him with a
moving scalp and when he tells you
one of his fables his scalp moves to and
fro and one ear jumps up and down and
the other down and up. It’s really funny.

When we met, I said to Al: I thought
you were up in Queen Charlotte Island.
When did you come in? “Just come off
the boat this morning. Got fired for being
too aggressive.” Too bad, Al. I suppose
the Company caught up with you and
your good union work,

“ Oh, no,” says Al. “I suppose you
know of my public tour with the Doo-less
and Seemore Circus a few years back,
talting on all comers. Well, in this camp
I done the same and not a week passed |

without two or three wrists being broken,
or half a dozen fingers torn off. In every
case I put the boys wise to claiming com
pensation for injury on the job. A couple
of us would always be witness to a man
getting his finger caught in a block or
his wrist crushed between two logs. This
went on, oh, until the compensation
board began to wonder why there were
so many wrists broken and so many fin-
gers lost at that camp, and always from
the right hand. I suppose you remember
when I had my left wrist dislocated a
few years ago by the giant of Cinabar—
since that I only use my right hand.”

“At any rate, the compensation sends
an investigator and when he came into
our bunkhouse I mistook him for a fall-
er and challenged him. Imagine my sur-
prise when he told me he could not make
a claim as he was the Compensation
in person.”

Says I: Al, you were lucky you were
not prosecuted for fraud, “The only rea-
son I was not,” he said, “was that the
government and the company did not
Imow I was an I.W.A. delegate.”

While we were standing a millman
from Fraser Mills joins in and this
Frenchman likes to talk about his vege-
table garden and the big pumpkins he
grows. Eventually Al wriggles in and
says: ‘Say, do you know that there is a
piece of land in B.C. where you cannot
grow pumpkins. Yes, it’s on a very flat
Island at the mouth of Nass river. For
millions of years the river has deposited
a rich silt in this land and believe me,
it is certainly rich, Grow anything but
pumpkins, You see, the minute the plant
starts to grow and young pumpkins are
formed the vines creep so fast and furi-

| CAMP ACTIVITY

Most of the Queen Charlotte Islands
camps are finishing up old claims and
moving on to new ones.

MORGAN'S, Headquarters Camp at Se-
well Inlet, finished logging on August 5,
and the crew is moving to Burnaby
Island, Fallers are expected to ship out
on August 25, and as soon as a start is
made, they will cold-deck all fall.

MORGAN’s CAMP 2, at Cumshewa
will have finished in three or four
weeks.

KELLEY'S, Limestone Bay, will be
moving in a few weeks, as the present
claim is nearly finished.

KELLEY'S, Church Creek, camp is
running, with the fallers and road crew
working. They have not started to haul
with trucks yet. Have two A-frames,

CAMP B-40, Pacific Mills, is moving
from Queen Charlotte City to Masset
Inlet. The fallers have already located
at Massett.

ALLISON'S crew have received a
“bonus” of 50 cents per day. Fallers are
expected to ship out around the first of
September,

From all parts of the Queen Charlottes
the complaints continue to pour in
against conditions on the Union Steam-
ship boats. A new cause for complaints
is what is referred to as a “class” dis-

ous that it wears the pumpkins right
off.”

Can't get ahead of this boy and as a
delegate he is tops. If you are ever in
the same camp as he and not a member

of the LW.A,, he will sign you up.

tinction, practiced by the company now,
discriminating between the tourists and
the loggers, with the loggers getting the
rough end of things, all preference being
given to tourists. Attempts are made to
force the loggers to accept second class
accommodation, after paying first class
fares.

GIBSON’S new claim at Zeballos is
operating with a crew of about 12 men,
at present, with two sets of fallers. Al-
though the crew at this company's
Chamis Bay camp received a wage in-
crease, the men at Zeballos have not
done so,

DRURY LOG, O'Brien's Bay, has 20
men working, with one set of fallers who
are paid $7.00 per day. Board is good.

NORTH COAST LOG is reported to be
very haywire generally, even the sheets
are changed only once In two weeks in-
stead of weekly as was previously done,
Fallers are on the move, coming and
going all the time.

ASHLEY’S, Seymour Inlet, is rated
about average, though there is some room
for improvement in grub, There are two
two-men sets of fallers,

MOORE'S, Winter Harbor, is a pretty
fair outfit, with about 30 men in the
crew. One side has been shut down for
two weeks,

BEN WILLETT'S, Bond Sound; condi-
tlons are fair;-food is good but the new
cook spoils it. Twelve men in the crew,
with one set of fallers. The present claim
is finished and they will be moving the
rigging any day.

An end to millionaires’ profits

and luxuries! A decent life for
Tabor!

The Dean of Canterbury Greets The Red Army!

HAD THE Red Army, Red Navy and

Red Air Force, to Stalin and all
the heroic peoples of the great Soviet
Union, we send our greetings and sal-
utations,

“With ever-deepening admiration
we watch the magnificent struggle
with whch you meet the wanton and
brutal attack. Against the shock of
treacherous and unexpected blows you
stand firm, blunting the spearhead
of an army hitherto deemed invinc-
ible,

“You show for all the world to see
what free men and women, adequately
armed, skilfully led and inspired by
the noblest ideals can do in defense
of their country, their factories and
their fields,

“Nazi fascism sgned its death war-
rant when, beaten back in its vain
assaults on our island home, it flung
itself on you and your broad lands.

“With a pang TI learned that you
who had least deserved the blow were_
how to feel its fullest force. It was
a grim irony that permitted the people
whose only desire was peaceful con-
struction, whose sole ambition lay in
erecting a new, nobler society, where
exploitation ceases; classes are abol-
ished and equality between man and
man, race and race, prevails and
where science and invention serve the
manifold needs of man; it was irony
indeed that a people bent on those
high pursuits should be driven from
peaceful work by the deadliest foe
of all that is noble both old and new
in our civilized order.

“Not unnatural, however, is the fact
that you are chosen as the victims
of this culminating outrage. As cham~-
pion and chief exponent of those
hopes and aims which in every land
from China to Spain were arising to
fling off the chains of barbarism, you
‘stand as freedom's stoutest fortress.

Author of the splendid book, “The Socialist Sixth
of the World,”’ the Dean of Canterbury is well known
and respected for his sympathetic attitude towards the
Soviet Union and his enthusiasm over its achievements.

In the following message to the Soviet writer
Fadeyev, the Dean sets forth his admiration for the
magnificent way in which the Soviet people are defend-
ing their beloved fatherland, and the belief that they,

side by side with working

people in every country in

the world, will emerge triumphant over fascism.
ee

Against you the supreme assault must
inevitably be made. Has not Hitler
himself declared it?

“The world’s progressive peoples
saw in you their major friend, in the
Nazi Fascists their major enemy, Of
the outcome of your struggle there
ean be no queston now. Whether soon-
er or later, German fascism will fall
at your hands and ours, The evil spirit
that dominates the Germanic peoples
will lose its spell, and the German
worker, after this tyranny has passed
over, will stand free once more from
the fetters of the monstrous fascist
ideals and live to thank you for his
deliverance,

ee teers
eon soms of the Soviet Union,
for twelve months the peoples of
this country have borne alone the
brunt of the Nazi fascists’ air attack,
breaking the legend of the Germans’
air invincibility. 3

“Never once have our people
finched or doubted that right would
prevail, For nine months, London and
all the major cities of our land have
suffered merciless bombardment. The
small cities and villages receive their
blows.

“I send this message from what is
but the shell of my once lovely Dean-
ery. Yet never for a moment has the
courage of the common people broken

before the hail and fire of the bombs
or high eplosives.

“Like the heroic defenders of Ma-
drid whose memory we cherish, they
ery ‘No pasaran!? With proud plea-
sure we perceive the same faith ani-
mating every Soviet citizen. Your
dauntless resistance, the valor which
contests yard by yard the soil of your
precious fatherland, your ruthless
scorching of its earth when compelled
for a while to relinquish it, your heads
unbowed before the storms which
sweep around you, inspire us afresh
and bring hope to the subject peoples.
everywhere, * + ae
“Wy 7ITH breathless eagerness we fol-

low the sway of your armies
and observe your unbroken ranks,
You win the admiration of the whole
world for the skill, science and tén-
acity with which on land you break
the dread of German invincibilty as
we broke it in the air. Your common
people in Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev,
Minsk, your men and women and
children in every village and hamlet
in the mighty Soviet show the same
staunch faith in defense of the Soviet
heritage, In that faith they will win.

“As from the first days of this con-
flict I wrote for all to see, my own
personal confidence in your power to
resist_never fails me. It stands upon
the solid rock of your moral, social

and scientific achievement. In the
Imowledge of what you have done and
what you are doing, the British
masses rise In spontaneous enthus-
iasm to greet you as our valiant ally.
We are proud of you. Your destinies
and our are linked in a high endeavor,
Behind both stand the hearts and
hopes of freedom loving men in every
land. Dark days may yet awalt us.
We shall not waver. Nor will you.
We shall meet troubles with courage
and confidence and we pledge the
skill of our workers, the gallantry
of our fighters and the industry of
all ina comradeship sealed now by the
sacrifice of the living and the blood
of our dead,

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“opaE @ays will come when united,
We shall march together through
the continent not to subjugate but to
liberate. When the breath of freedom
shall sweep like ocean breezes across
Burope from Yugoslavia to Spain,
then shall we recite with you the
words of your great Pushkin: ‘The
heavy-hanging chains will fall, the
walls will crumble at the word and
freedom «greet you in the light, and
brothers give you back the sword.’

“And then by the graves of those
who fell and by the ruined lands of
those who live, we shall stand and
dedicate ourselves afresh to the task
of socialist construction, to the build-
ing of that new world where war and
exploitation will cease, where moral
forces will control production and
science direct it, where children will
grow up without fear to reach a rich
and varied maturity, where culture
Probes deep and opens its rich stores
for all, where the latent power of
every man upon the mightiest scale
shall enrich the common comrade-
ship, embracing every tongue and
every race throughout the world.”