THE B.C.

LUMBER WORKER

August 15, 1942

Hello, Boys: I got some news for you.
Yea, I just got bawled out and kind of
cross-examined by the well-known Prit-
chett and Morgan. Here I drop in their
office and Morgan just returned from
and Island trip and he is relating the
success of the IWA drive on the Island,
and he says to’me, “Well, old-timer, we
certainly got a good man organizing in
Port Alberni, We appointed Bergren to
lead the drive and he certainly is going
to town.”

So, just then I says: “Who in hell is
Bergren?” Well boys, you should have
seen Pritchett and Morgan. In a single
voice they said, “Why, you don’t know
who Bergren is?_ Don't you follow the
progress of the IWA? Don’t you read
the B.C, Lumber Worker?”

I had to admit here that I always
read my own column and did not pay
much attention to the news. This did
not help my prestige with these officious
officials. They both lashed at me in this
kind of lingo: “Of all the people in the
world not to know who Bergren is. Why
che is one of the builders of the IWA.
He was President of the B.C. District
for years. He is now an Int'l organizer,
appointed by the International Office, and
you don’t know him? Don’t ever m
tion this to any of our membership

Weel, I said I think I heard the name
quite often, but I never met him. I never
knew who this Bergren was, but now
if he is that kind of a big shot, I cer-
tainly will do my best to meet him. As a
matter of fact, I think I'll write to him
and get acquainted through correspond-
ence until I can meet him in person.

Believe me, boys, I certainly felt fool-
ish when I left that office. But believe
you and me, I won't be caught like this
again.

Some of these days Morgan is going
to tell me of the wonderful job the mill
organizers are doing at Fraser Mills
and the Plywoods, and when he tells me,
“Old-timer, these young mill organizers
are certainly going to’ town. I guess
you know Greenall, Bill Bennett and
Bert Melsness.” Y'll tell him something
and certainly surprise him. I'll say:
“Know them! Why I signed these boys
up in the union myself before you ever
met them, and am I proud of their
work .. . boy!”

Confidentially, boys, I think the TWA
officials have the right to have a com-
plex; they like to be known. So to
make sure you don’t get in the bite of the
line like I did, when anybody asks you
do you know so-and-so organizing in
such a place, bust out and say: ‘Cel
tainly I know him. He's that old o

ganizer that writes the Bullcook’s Col-
umn!”

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MURMANSK

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sians have been taught that you can’t
get something for nothing—particularly
from A, Hitler.

There is a heart-warming by-product
of the all out spirit in Russia, and that
is the comradeship which exists today
between human beings over there. There
seemed to me to be absolutely no sel-
fishness. One young fellow I met on the
docks was wearing a striped sailor’s
blouse. I admired it briefly, and the day
I was sailing he ran up to me, stripping
the blouse off. “I want you to take it,”
he said. “You liked it, and maybe you'll
be cold on the way back.” In Russia
these days, there's no clothing to spare,
believe me. Cloth is strictly rationed.
He wouldn't get another blouse soon.
But I was an ally, a friend, a guy in the
same boat as himself. And in Russia
you think in terms of the general good
—not in terms of individual comfort and
satisfaction. Incidentally, that’s the
only time I ever met anyone who actu-
ally gave me the shirt off his back!

Only a few days back I was talking
to a friend about sugar-rationing. He
winked slyly, “If you need a little ex-
tra,” he said, “come to me. I’ve got two
hundred pounds of the stuff stowed
away in my attic!” I didn’t report him,
although I wanted to. Over here, appar-
ently, it isn’t sporting to turn in a guy
like that. God knows why! In Mur-
mansk they don’t feel like that.

One thing more. In all the time I
spent in the USSR, I never heard a man
say, “Whee, my wife's pregnant! No
army for yours truly!” As a matter of
fact, I saw few males who weren’t in Red
Army regalia. And in that connection
you might be interested to hear about a
girl I met. She was a pretty thing, very
trim and graceful in her uniform. When
I was introduced to her, she'd just landed
her plane—yes, plane—after downing a
Messerschmidt over Murmansk Harbor
at 300 mp.h. She was a nice girl, too,
and a whiz on the balalaila.

Yes, it's a good safe feeling to stand
shoulder to shoulder with people like
that, and it’s comfortable to be in their
city. They're in the thick of the scrap
but they've got the situation in hand
very nicely. If I had less conscience,
I'd jump ship next time I hit, the place.

You see, it’s safer in Murmansk!

ees
JOHN STANTON.

Barrister, Solicitor, Notary

608 Holden Building
16 East Hastings St. MArine 5746

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Concerned with the grave crisis
presented by the present war situa-
tion, members of the Dock and Ship-
yard Workers’ Union, Local No. 2,
at their recent union meeting, in-
structed their executive to call a
conference to “fully consider what

labor can do to meet the present war
crisis and hasten the opening of a Sec-

ond Front in Western Europe,” on Sun-
day, August 23, in the Fishermen’s Hall,
138 E. Hastings St, Vancouver, at 7:30
pm.

Sent to all trade union officials and
shop stewards, the Conference call, un-
der the signatures of President Charles
Saunders and Secretary James Dobson,
declared that “it is now clearly the job
of all who cherish their freedom and
wish to see the speedy defeat of the Axis
to fully back up the agreement of the
three major powers and work together
with greater energy than ever to see that
the Second Front is opened without
delay.”

Since it would take too much valu-
able time to convene a delegate, confer-
ence, the Call states that “we have
decided to invite the participants as
individuals and not as elected dele-
gates from their organizations. The
conference will be of an informal
nature and no person will be bound by
the proceedings.”

All IWA shop stewards and camp del-
egates who are able to do so are asked
to attend this conference, whether in
receipt of an official call or not, to assist
finding ways and means to help our
country in the struggle for freedom
against Hitler.

CREOSOTE PLANT
WORKER KILLED

Total of fatalities in the lumber
industry this month was upped one

more by the death
37

of John’ Geo. Rus-
sell, 52, of 346 Pow-
ell Street, Vancou-

Woodworkers
ver, an employee of have been
Canada Creosoting | kitted in B.C’s
Company, at the lumber in-
foot of Pemberton | ustry since
Ave., North Van-| gan. 1, 1942

couver. Russell was
instantly killed when a pile of logs
on which he was working rolled on
him. He had been employed at the
plant for only three days.

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