n Published by The B.C. District Council, International Woodworkers of America, (CIO), Affiliated with Canadian Congress of Labor

VANCOUVER, B.C., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1942

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week, Bats ae Saaaeed
- of Local 1-71, informed us of

3 ~ enlistment in the Royal Ca-
“hadian Air Force for the “ground

course in training tor [a
a ee ee eintne or 3
Al is looking forward |
to completion of his!
training when he will |
be able to make his:
contribution to the {
drive to smash Hitler. |
"It's a swell course
and I think it's too bad
more young ~ people
don't know about it be-
cause we're learning a-

trade and when we come back we'll
have a whole lot of training that will
Prove useful,” said Al.

A well known member of Local 1-71
who represented the IWA local at the
Canadian Congress of Labor convention
last year, Feusi has worked at Kelley's,
Lake Logging, Englewood, C.&A., Pio-
neer, O'Brien's, and Rounds & Burdett.

He has‘one brother in the Navy and
two in the Royal Canadian Air Force.

Al Feusi

REQUEST FOR RAISE

KELLEY’S, Lagoon Bay, QCI—
Fallers at Kelley Log have asked for
a 25-cent increase per M for bushel
falling at Lagoon Bay, where tim-
ber is so poor they are unable to

make the same wages as last year.
‘The bullbucker in charge referred them

to the management and a wire was re-
ceived from the office of Kelley Logging
in Vancouver advising them that it was
out of the management's hands in ad-
justing the scale and referred them to
the National War Labor Board.
Officials of IWA Local 1-71 wired the
n in camp urging them to remain on
at job while attempts were made to
otiate with Kelley for an adjustment.
union sent a letter proposing three
whereby this grievance could
 reetified: (1) By a more liberal scale;
setting a basic guarantee; or (3)
raising the rate per M while the men
in poor show, so that they would
suffer an actual wage reduction as
» case at present. The poor show is
ted to last about three months.
date no reply has been received
n Mr. Kelley, In an interview with
. Harrison, western representative
Federal Department of Lebor, he
the union officers that this
would have come befgre the
2 Labor Board,
opinion of the union that this

d in PC 8253 and it
to work for an amicable

POOR SHOW CAUSES!

Employees Urge Continuation
(Of Comox Log Negotiations

National Conference Called For
_ Release Of All Interned Men

Declaring that this great penienteoan against fascism requires “the active

| participation of the entire labor mov:

ement in a full partnership, and of

every individual whose conviction and strength can contribute to our war
effort,” the National Council for Democratic Rights has issued a call for
a national conference on Democratic Rights, calling for the release of
interned anti-fascists, to be held on February 22 and 23 in the Chateau

Laurier at Ottawa.

Delegates will be attending this con-
ference from various organizations in
all parts of Canada, and the IWA in-
tends to send a representative to ac-
company the B.C. delegation. Among
those going to Ottawa from B.C. will
be Mrs, Fergie McKean and Mrs. Wil-
liam Rigby, whose husbands, avowed
militant anti-fascists, are still being held
in Hull jail, Quebec.

‘A collection appeal has gone out to
all locals and camp delegates of the IWA
to assist in tle raising of funds to send
our delegate to add to the growing
demand for the release of all_ interned
anti-fascists.

“The present government policy in per-
sisting in retaining trade union leaders,
anti-fascist patriotic citizens in intern-
ment camps and in prison, under the plea
that they are ‘Communists’ acts as a
serious brake to our national unity,” the
conference call states. “The refusal to
grant the Kirkland Lake miners the
right of collective bargaining, despite
a legal declaration guaranteeing this
right, weakens the entire war front and
makes it extremely difficult for the trade
union movement to organize fullest pro-

| District 48,

fatto inte eae Gl ee

Parliament will open on Feb. 21, it is
pointed out in the call, and the confer-
ence will be able to raise some of these
questions before the House in the hope
of assisting parliament solve some of
the problems at present impeding Can-
ada’s all-out war effort.

Many prominent trade unionists, well
known citizens, lawyers and clergymen
have endorsed the conference, among
them IWA International Executive Board
Member Nigel Morgan; Dewar Ferguson,
acting president, Canadian Seamen's
Union; John Stokaluk, vice-president,
MWA} George Harris, sec-
retary, District 5, UBRMWU; Tom Up-
hill, Fernie MLA; Hon, E. J. McMurray,
Winnipeg KC; Rev. M. Freeman, gen-
eral secretary, Fellowship for Christian
Social Order; Lieut. W. A. Kardash,
MLA, and Alderman J. Forkin, Winnipeg.

B.C. LOG PRICES
February 15, 1942:

FR . $13.50, $18.50, $25.50
HEMLOCK . $13.50
CEDAR

(Shingles) .... $13.50, $20.50, $26.50

Lend, Defend, Save!

Launch Second Victory Loan

On February 16th the Dominion

of Canada will launch the Second

Victory Loan, through which it is hoped to raise six hundred million
dollars to help defeat Hitlerism. Upon its success depends Canada’s con-

tribution toward the defeat of Hitler

in his efforts to reduce the peoples

of Britain, the Soviet Union and the other Allies to the condition of slavery

of Germany, Italy and Japan. Upon
of Canada’s Pacific Coast, our familie:

its success also depends the defense
s, our homes, our standard of living,

our civil rights as well as our unions and labor organizations.

The government is asking for a loan®
of the money to supply our forces. with
the modern implements of war and
render all assistance possible to the
democratic people in their heroic fight
to save the world from complete destruc-
tion and slavery. Therefore every one
of us is faced with a great responsibility
and should cooperate to the utmost by
buying Victory Bonds with every avail-
able dollar.

In the fifth annual convention of our
union, as well as in similar labor con-
ventions throughout Canada and the
United States, full support of the govern-
ment’s program to defeat Hitler and de-
fend our people, was unanimously
pledged.

Unless we win this war and stop fas-
cism dead in its march to world con-

quest, life won’t be worth living. This is
@ people’s war and calls for every ounce
of energy, every dollar and dime we can
muster for ships, planes and guns. Now
is the time to save our people from the
fate of Hong Kong and Singapore — it
can be done, but only if we all cooperate.

The officers of the IWA, carrying out
the democratic decision of the fifth an-
nual convention, have pledged the full
support of the organization in this drive.
That pledge of our union can only ma-|
terialize with your help and your sup-
port. Without victory there can be no
freedom. To help preserve freedom buy
Victory Bonds! And don’t forget, “A
VICTORY BOND in your bank is far
better than an AXIS BOMB in your
home.”

LADYSMITH, B.C B.C.—At a special
[tae of the employees of the
Comox Logging and Railway Com-
pany at Ladysmith on Feb. 5, a
lengthy discussion took place on
the memorandum handed to the
cuployses, Negotiating Committee
by Superintendent Sheasgreen, on
behalf of the management.

After hearing the report of the Ne-
gotiating Committee, the meeting voted
almost unanimously by secret ballot to
reject the company’s proposals and later
by unanimous vote instructed the chair-
man and secretary to forward the follow-
ing letter to the company outlining their

position and asking for further negotia-
tions.

To Mr. R. J. Fillberg, Vice-President,
Comox Logging & Railway Co.,
Ladysmith, B.C.

Re: Negotiations for an’ Employees’

Agreement

Dear Sir,—With further reference to
your communication of the 3ist instant,
which was accepted by our Negotiating
Committee and referred to a meeting of
your employees for their consideration;
the majority of your employees met in
Nicholson’s Hall, Ladysmith, on Feb. 5,
and after a full discussion of your
memorandum, decided by secret ballot
that your statement was not satisfactory
to them, and instructed their Negotiating
Committee to communicate with you for
the purpose of arranging another meet-
ing as soon as possible for further ne-
gotiations,

‘The opinion of your employees is that
your memorandum cannot be considered
in any sense an agreement, and: that it
is simply a recapitulation of past and
present policies of the company. We
notice a number of the proposals in our
draft agreement are embodied in your
memorandum, but had the present pol-
icies been satisfactory the question of
negotiations would never have arisen.
Our request is basically for the estab-
lishment of genuine collective bargain-
ing—the same as labor in other fields in
our country and province have, for ex-
ample the miners, fishermen, paper-
makers, shipyard workers, steel workers,

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First Logger
Killed im 1942
News of the first fatal accident in
B.C.'s hazardous lumber industry in 1942
were received with regret this week,
when it was an-
1 nounced from Fort

Alberni that John
|| Woodworker | Bergh, 29, faller, was
|| has been killed at Franklin
|| icttea in B.0’s | River. Bergh, who

was struck by a snag
from a tree he had
just fallen, died al-
most instantly. He
|is unmarried and as far as police have
been able to determine, has no relatives

lumber in-
dustry since
dan, 1, 1942

in Canada,