Tells Of Company Actions

: To the Editor:

Your letter of the 5th instant finally received today (May 24th) after

y ing been mailed out for the second time. It managed to get up here
? first time, was opened by error (so to speak) and then returned to
"you at Vancouver without my having seen it. So apparently His Majesty's

‘ mails are not private any more in this camp.

THE B.C. LUMBER WORKER

ISLAND LOG CREW
COME TO TOWN

JORDAN RIVER, B.C.—The Island
Logging Company was left without a
crew last week when the men headed
into town in a dispute over Wages. Con-
siderable dissatisfaction had been ex-
pressed: over the fact that wages were

] Well, history is in the making these’

days and we're in on it. Mr. T. F. Daly| have to go home and change, for caulk
sure had me on the spot for the part 1| boots could not be included in the battle

played in defeating the purpose of the|4ress at the latter place.

petition the Personnel Manager of the| While I went home to change attire
‘company was circulation among the em-|Messers. Smith and Noble were in the
ployees. Before the audience ended, how-|hall, and superintendent Daly was

lower in this camp than in a number
of other logging operations on the Island.
Finally, a committee was elected to
interview manager Kissinger, who point-
ed to the fact that PC 8253 prevented him
from giving a wage increase and asked
for a day to get the matter straightened

ever, things sort of swapped ends. It|hounding the tired and weary employees
was Mr, Daly who was on the spot!|Out of the bunkhouses and up to the
‘When the Department of Labor repre-|Mmeeting. When I arrived at the hall,
sentatives were here on May 5th inter-|Superintendent Daly was on duty as
‘viewing the employees it was suggested | Outside guard I saluted him with, “Did)
if we would leave the Union out of our|You post notices for this meeting?” and
controversy and form an association of|he responded with a brief “No.”
the employees, the company would be| In I went and querled Mr. Smith, who
‘only too glad to comply with our requests| Was well on with his business by this

out.

Later he informed the crew that the
Regional War Labor Board wouldn't per-
mit him to give an increase in wages,
whereupon practically the entire crew
came to town and went out to other
camps where higher wage scales were
in effect.

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Van. Bay Log
Soon To Close

To the Editor:

Just a line from Vancouver Bay Log
to say hello to the boys, although I really
don’t think that they need anyone to
write, as there always is one or two
going on every boat. For every one
that comes up ,two go down. We sure
are short-handed here just now.

This camp will be finished this year
about August or September, I guess.
There is talk that there will be no July
1st shutdown here, but I don't think
they will be able to hold the crews till
the end.

The lunches are no hell, ham six times
a week and liver sausage and garlic
sausage for a change, which one gets
tired of after a while. Card No. 4166.

ONLY 21 MORE CHOPPING
DAYS TO THE LOGGERS’ BALL

providing they were fair and reasonable | time, as to whether he had posted notices
‘and we could get a majority vote of the | for this meeting, to which he replied that
employees on a properly conducted ballot; |he had not, I then pointed out, “the
with the intimation dragging between two applications of the employees for
the lines that they were confident such) Conciliation Commissioner to review
‘an accomplishment was impossible. A|their dispute had been lost principally
few of us accepted that challenge and|0m the grounds that in the first case
posted proper notices, with the result there were no notices posted calling the
that on Monday evening, May 18th, the|™eeting and stating its purposes, and
allot read: affirmative 185; negative,|in the second case, although notices had
6, with the company scrutineer calling | been posted, they were not posted by the
the only rejected ballot reading “yes” | Proper parties. So, while the employees
instead of “X” long after victory should| Were compelled to abide by the Depart-
have been conceded. “There's none so|™ent of Labor ruling as to how their
indian tigse who. won't!see.” meetings should be conducted it was

Friday, Mr. §. G. Smith, Vice-President, |Wite alright, apparently, for Bloedel,
Seeeiontinebacenotandiwhilelcwas| ot: td Welch Co. Ltd. to ignore
working overtime on the boom — one|#!! such rulings and do as they well saw
of the curses we hope to eliminate soon —| {lt to best suit their purpose. This meet-
he and Mr. Noble pulled a meeting |i and°the meeting at Camp 4, which

ibfitiie employees at Camp 4 without any |! °™ informed you held, are illegal.

fnotiees Having been posted, When 1 was |°2"7°t Stay and listen to your argument
pemine off tha boom that night, fatizued | 27°" Such conditions — good night,” and
and foot-weary, the timekeeper informed |1 W@!ked out and a bunch of the boys

me that Messers. Smith, Daly and Noble | Slowed “a :
were having a meeting in one of the |. ours Fraternally,
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tend. Practically “all in” from hard
worl: I was inclined to ignore it at first
and headed for home, but once there,
the urge of righteousness became so
acute thatI headed for the scene of
action — caulk boots and all. They
must have seen me coming for the
place of meeting was hurriedly changed
to the Community Hall. Then I did

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