THE B.C. LUMBER WORKER May 9, 1942 I used to think that the Boss Loggers were the most jittery people on the continent when their employees got to- gether to form a union, Now comes the millworkers challenging their bosses for the right of collective bargaining at the B.C. Plywoods Ltd., and boys, you should have seen these big men jitter when they had to meet their employees. I stood on the side-lines the other day,; when every employee of the Plywood walked out and held a meeting at the company's office. After the IWA organ- izers had addressed the crew, the man- ager came out to address the boys and apparently to tell them a few things. He braced himself, fect apart, hands behind his back, and said: “Boys, I want you to go back to work!” Just then he surveyed the crowd and realized that ail his employees were facing him, and he became panicky. His knees began to wobble, so he pulled his legs together, He tried to cough but his throat was too dry. He then mumbled a few sen- tences that no one could hear. He then figured he had spoken for quite a while so he pulls his right wrist to check up on the time, and his watch was on his left wrist. He then looks around for support from some of his office man- agement, but finds himself alone on the steps of his own office, He reaches in his vest pocket for his comb and pulls out a fountain pen and tries to comb his turnip ball-head. He finally bows and disappears behind his office door. ea Here is a man who manages one of our main war industries, and when it comes to answering a few plain questions to his employees he becomes moré frightened than if Hitler’s hordes were invading his plant. I wonder if this manager knows we are at war and that the people are trying to protect the democratic rights that we now have. The right of collecting bargaining is one of the main features of our democracy. Speaking of war, here is one I just read in the first days of the war, an officer in @ small British outpost in Africa received 2 communique from the war office: War is declared; arrest all alien enemies in your territory! The officer sent hack the following message: “Have arrested 4 Germans, 5, Spaniards, 2 French, $ Swedes, 5 Belgians, 1 Argen- tinian and 1 American, Please let me Imow with whom we are at war.” aie Now, here is one of my own: Mr. Jones Was pacing up and down a maternity hospital corridor, The nurse finally comes and said to him: “You may now go in and speak to your wife.” “I do not wish to speak to her at all,” said Jones, “Why I have not spoken a born; I don’t imagine it's yours,” “In this case,” said the nurse, “you are not interested in seeing the newly- born, I don't immagine its yours,” “Of course I am interested,” said Mr. Jones, “after all, I was not that mad at her!” How About a Donation to The Boat Fund? CITY Office & Stand: COMFORT AND SERVICE AT MODERATE PRICES ALWAYS AT YOUR SERVICE THE LOGGERS’ RADIO CARS ) E> SD OSD C LOGGING DEATHS REACH NEW HIGH Deaths not previously reported bring the total for the year up to a new high total of 22. 22 Woodworkers | at Jas. Douglas Baird was killed on Feb. 13 while unloading logs Enderby.. When have been | the load started to Killed in B.0/’5 | ™°Ve Baird went with Iumber in. | the logs and his back dustry since | Was crushed. * dan, 1, 1942 Uchido Yoshiro was killed on Vancouver jIsland on Feb. 5. Log rolled from above jhim on cold deck pile. As he was running away he tripped against another log where he was jammed by the rolling log. Sasuga Tsunaksi was killed on Feb. 13; 59 years of age. Weight of a tree he had felled broke one of the prongs of a’snag, causing it to swing back; one of the Pieces deflected and caught him on the back. Arthur Clark, truck driver, killed at Nanaimo; 29 years of age. He was driv- ing a truck down the hill, went over a hump at too great a speed. The truck was found wrecked, his body underneath badly mangled. The truck brakes were checked over by mechanics and the jury and found to be in order. Ronald Rider was killed at the Robert Dollar operation at Northwest Bay on Vancouver Island, March 31. He was 37 years of age. Antti Reiyonen, 60 years of age, was felling a tree when he was hit with the side winder leaning against the tree be- ing felled. Side winder came down and struck him, seriously injuring him. He died on March 23. Olof Nesbo was injured at ©. & A. Log operation on March 14 and died on March 30. He was falling a tree when it struck another tree. The limbs flew back and threw Nesbo into the air, causing injury, Jang Bing was killed at Cowichan Lake on April 16. He had felled a tree over the suspended end of a log, which made the other end of the log bounce up and strike the victim a fatal blow. Carl Peterson was killed on April 23 while working at Grant Bay. He was in the woods at the side line tree when a Sapling caught on curve and struck him in small of back. ————$—$— “The greater the difficulties are, tho stronger we resist. The final victory must be ours.’—Dr, P, D. Chang, in “China Today.’t HANEY TAILORS 62 East Hastings St. Phone MA. 5884 ‘Vancouver, B.O. WE GUARANTEE A PERFECT FIT AND COMPLETE SATISFACTION! TAXI © FRIEND PAc. 6151 Red Cross Society Appeals for Funds Announcement was made by the Van- couver Branch of the Canadian Red Cross Society this week of a drive for $414,000 in British Columbia as part of the National Red Cross campaign for $9,000,000. The committee, in asking for the sup- port of organized labor, stated that it hoped “every union member will con- tribute as generously as possible and will speak warmly to his friends on behalf of the Red Cross.” Harold J. Pritchett, secretary of the Vancouver Labor Council and president of the IWA B.C. 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