THE BC LUMBER WORKER October 25, 1941 Sponsors Lect Eiorkers’ Educational Ass‘n ures In B.C. Educational Association, Drummond Wren, general secretary, will here Saturday, October 25 to com. arrive | mence a series of lectures in British Columbia, explaining the functions! of the W.E.A., and the role labor must play to help develop educa- tional and information facilities.| Mr, Wren will speak on the government's war labor policy and the orders-in- council affecting labor, and will give some very interesting facts about the growth of labor education and the shop steward movement, Appointed general secretary of the Workers’ Educational Association in 1929 when it was merely an Ontario Associa- tion, Drummond Wren has become well- Imown and liked by labor leaders all across Canada. The Association with which he is connected has done some very valuable work for the trade union movement and has conducted research which is of Interest to every worker. Members of IWA Local 1-80 will have’ an opportunity to hear Drummond Wren speak at the annual meeting of the | Local on Sunday afternoon, October 26, in Nanaimo, and a public meeting has also been arranged at night. Full itinerary for Vancouver Island will be as follows: Suunday, October 26, Nanaimo; Mon- day, October 27, Lake Logging Co., Rounds; Tuesday, October 28, Lady- smith; Wednesday, October 29, Victoria; Thursday, October 30, Cumberland; Fri- day, October 31, Courtenay. Hotel East “Make It Home” 445 GORE AVENUE Vancouver, B.C. PAc. 0420 la “Styles for Young Men and Men who Stay Young” 301 West Hastings St. MALASPINA GARAGE (Opposite Malaspina Hotel) NANAIMO, B.C, eS Fleet of 10 New 1941 CHEV. U-DRIVES REASONABLE RATES . PROMPT SkRVICE i Concluding a tour across Canada, under the auspices of the Workers’ Funds Coming in For Loggers’ Navy Prompt response to the recent ap- peal sent out by, Local 1-71 for further support for the “Loggers’ Navy,” came in from Camp B-40, at Port Clement, and Gibson’s Camp, Chamis Bay. Gib- son’s now takes third place in total collections, having just sent in $76.50, to add to their former total of $72.90, folowed closely by Camp B-40, from which we received $73.40, bringing their grand total up to $143.40. We also acknowledge receipt of ad- ditional contributions as follows: Al- lison’s, $6.00; Morgan’s Camp 1, $5.00; Kelly’s, Church Creek, $2.00; Spry Camp, $5.00; Albert Moore's, $7.00, and York Log, $8.00, bringing the total collection to date to $2062.40. Reports tof lists going through the camps, and other preparations being made to build the Boat Fund, are coming in on nearly every boat, as the loggers, in their usual way, should- er their responsibility to finish the job of building the “Navy.” Another $1500 is needed, and needed fast, so, if there is no delegate in your camp to start the ball rolling, anyone can take the initiative in collecting this fund, or send your individual con- tribution direct to Local 1-71 office, 506 Holden Building, Vancouver, B.C. INVEST FOR YOUR SECURITY! MAKE YOUR CONTRIBUTION NOW! Loggers’ Ball December 30 The greatest social event staged in Van- couver, the Fifth Annual Loggers’ Ball, will be held this year on December 30, 1941, in the largest hall available, the Georgia Street Auditorium. Wilf Wylie’s nine-piece band will provide the music. Admission tickets are already on sale at $1, which will include two stubs for refreshments, so the actual admission price is no more than last year. For the benefit especially of those who will be unable to be present, there are three cash prizes, $100, $50 and $25. Net proceeds of the affair will be split three ways; one-third to the B.C. Lumber Worker, one-third to the District Council, one-third to be divided among the Locals on a pro-rata basis according to tickets sold. Cannery Workers Win Empress Agreement United Cannery and Agricultural Workers’ Union No. 1, CCL, has signed its first agreement with Empress Manu- facturing Company, giving wage in- creases over the present hourly rates, provision for overtime, seniority rights and union recognition. Further the com- pany agreed to “employ only members in good standing of the United Cannery and Agricultural Workers’ Union.” DENTISTS LLEWELLYN Dr. R. Douglas Phone PAc. 6949 Corner Richards and Hastings |ed down on the death of John J. Schmidt, ‘Harewood, who was 1.W.A. MEMBERS IN LOGGING ACCIDENTS Logging fatalities reached a total of 56 this month when Elmer Dutz, tractor driver employed by Errington Logging Company near Craig's Crossing, was killed on October 22. | Dutz was apparently trying to move an ob- structed log, which Woodworkers fell on him. Tan i etys.| _ Hit October 10 by a lumber in. | falling snag from a dustry since | snapped alder John! Jan. 1, 1941._| Saari employed by the | J. R. Morgan Logging | Co, in the QCI died about five hours later as a result of a fatal abdominal injury, a broken hip and shoulder and possible broken back. Saari, who is a native of Finland, joined the IWA-CIO during the last visit of the Loggers’ Navy to Morgan’s Huxley Island Camp, having been on the job about three weeks. He is the fifth logger to lose his life in the QCI this year. Howard Charles Estes an employee of Dalziel Box Company Ltd. Victoria, died in Jubilee Hospital after an accident in the plant at 2800 Bridge Street. Estes was operating a cut-off saw and ceived a severe cut from hand to elbow on his right arm. Herbert Ellingson, chokerman at Bloe- dell’s, Franklin River, was killed on Octo- ber 8 by a falling tree. Inquest was held in Port Alberni, Accidental death was the verdict hand- re- killed last weele when struck by a log at the B.K. Fraset Logging Company operations seven miles est of Lantaville. Members of the IWA will learn with regret that Brother Vie Strum, who lost his leg in a logging accident last year at the Comox Logging Company, is now in hospital with a very badly injured arm. He had been working under a car and the brakeman took the car on without an okay on it, so that the wheels passed over his arm. Before he lost consciousness Brother Strum said “Now look what they have done to me.” Re- ports from the hospital indicate that there is very little hope of saving his arm. 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