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MEMBERS FIGHT = |Logger Complains About T
HILLCREST FIRE = | Conditions At Skookum Log |. ee

the camp in need of at least ant

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‘ Bees sods istbae: ini vont Mowat | Te, he Batter! dred. Camp One is running three si
Saete Sete ee T've just quit Skookum Log where I with eight married men living in
Brenton which has done a good deal of| |. vorking on the rigging. The hooker four tables with about 120 men eating

in camp and living in the thirty |

damage since it broke out last Monday,

. e - got canned so I quit also, along with A which ate now onlyilae aha
vee Dae se aed ieee GIBRE te ie Oey Jao eS Cs MORGAN SPEAK filled. The rest of the crew live
wee pas seed a real highball show, with rotten chuck Alberni and the Port and are

helping.

Too busy quenching the flames to
count its loss, the company could not yet
say exactly how much ground the fire
had covered, It had damaged three
cold-decking machines, however, con-
sumed two cold-deck piles of logs, and
licked its way over felled and bucked
timber, some of which may be salvage-
able.

Hillerest employees, members of the
IWA Hillerest Sub-Local, joined forestry |
officials in fighting the fire, and an in-
dication that it was slackening was the
fact that L. T. Traer, logging superin-
tendent, came out of the woods for the
first time since last Monday.

The fire struck in timber with which

and long ways to ride to work. The eae and out from work each day in r
aaraeees Hy Wie aioe: large trucks, paying 25 cents per day

“big noise” told the hooker “not enough| jt is about time you heard a report|transportation. Grub is the main
logs,” although we were getting 75 to|r,om this camp as there hasn't been one|ance in this camp, there bein;
120. I want to tell you boys, she’s a darn}, the B.C¢. Lumber Workers for quite|enough. It is very Poorly put up

good place to steer clear of. some time. lunches are a soeeee poor soa
"ré shipping ki : can't work and live on it. ers
And say, they're shipping kids from! o¢ course there is only one place to| otting a sliding scale of 80, 85, 90

Saskatoon and Edmonton and paying) jay the blame for that, and that is right|95 cents according to the timber,
different wages. According to what I) 4, the shoulders of us, the membership] Thompson and lark’s—Shut do
hear if they stay three months they at Lake Log. since July 1 because of shortage of men
; “igi i = APL mi 01
don’t have to pay fares. That "S.P.” Jack |” Wout, to start with Brother Nigel Mor-| 7/088 ate Piling up at # rian eee
O'Neil, who was at Camp 0, was running | 24 was up to this camp for two days on|yate on account of shortage of —
donkey. I think he sleeps with his little | jy 9, and gave us a very interesting | also.
finger in his mouth—he is in the office] tar. on the war situation and fhe neea| Nieml Log—Only about 30 men
Pilethentime.. wounk “cites miming les which 14 are married and have their
eon ft for everybody to pull together and do| ities in camp. Niemi’s are running one
eae, everything to lick Hitler. He also re-| old deck and a cat side with four gangs _
at is about all for now, except that| ported on the organizational progress be-| of fallers. The track side has not started _
there is no papers going to camp and I'm) ing made by our union in the other| Working yet.

E “-_ | hoping this issue will get out there. ‘i n B. & K. Sechelt—About 15 men work- —
the company had expected to be fin- Senate camps and particularly the mills, which)\i15 qepeot fo Have’ the! wxasentieeitia

ished in eight weeks, when it will move CARD No, 71:2933, | °crtainly: was very encouraging. The |inished in about a month or six wee
ie qaoetiony to Jig mac feraUenD (0. 71:2333. |yreport of progress of the IWA showed|and then there is no more timber dow
up our recent laxity a bit, so of course| Roberts Creek Log—Delegate reports

IWA Member Wamts [we are going to try and make up for be fs copaons are Dela
To Hear From Others|it ‘2st. Arrangements have z: Bre Fe ee ae

Honeymoon ‘Bay, Cowichan. Lake.

in camp,
been made for regular meetings of the| Olson’s Camp—Camp condition fair,
l To the Editor: Rounds Sub-Local of the TWA on the | food Very good, Bob Smith\casiam nets
Lae @ Thursday of each month at 7:30 |C@™P will be through in present show
‘ I want, through the columns of the | Secon¢ VRERIERZ Ce COE NUE the last of Sept. Reported that the camp
‘B.C, Lumber Worker,” to wish all my|P-m. in the Lake Log cookhouse. might be moyed to the Q.C.
fellow workers at Lake Log, Rounds, the| The following officers and union com-| Gibson’s Chamls Bay-Working about

DUNCAN, B.C—Death of two IWA|>est of luck and to urge them to carry | mittees were elected for the Rounds Sub-|22 men. Waiting for men to come up

¢ i ioe Chairmen: (from fown. Com; buildi i
: 7 ae : i pany building cam)
members of the new Hillerest Sub-Local |0n with the IWA. Now that I am in the | Local at our recent meeting: Chairman: | 7 cr and going to bring them: Ba

occurred last week when Rodney Marsh |@!™y I appreciate more than ever the|Hughie Wade; Vice-chairman, George | scows to be set up in the spruce timber
and Kenneth Saunders were killed by a| Value of a good trade union and I hope|Leach; Secretary, Roy Atchison; chief|on the west coast. The spruce camp will —

tree falling across the car in which they|that you boys will march forward and|Shop steward, Chuck Myhill; camp com-| consist of two gang faller and cat crew. _

were travelling to Lake Cowichan, Em-|™ake B.C. lumber one hundred per cent | mittee: Hughie Wade, Roy Atchison, presen) starting camp in the spruce

ployees of the Hillcrest Lumber Com-|Union, dex Shouldra, Joo Nick, J. Stetz, W. Wil-) albert Moore Camp, Winter Harbor—
pany, they had been called out to fight| I would like to hear from some of you| Son, V. Baer, H. Stout, Art Wayment, J.| Running cold deck and Acframe Woeke
fire last Monday and were returning to| fellows up in camp. We are sure as hell | Thomas, J. Galobar, F, Fosness, R. Wil-|ing short-handed. There has been a
the Lake when the accident occurred, | 80ing to win this war now that they have |liams, J. Pappenburger, Ed. O'Donnell, | Suetilla movement organized at Olson’,

: ; Gibson’ :
got me in it!!-?! I hope Brother Harry | Doolittle, H. Pearson, F. Lindquist, and mmiialtion ate rien”

Hawkins (the pride of Lake Log) sees|A. Nastisn. Safety committes: Tommy] It is reported that the O'Brien Loe Go
this and sends me something to eat, We | Roberts (chairman), Olaf Carlson (sec-|has bought out the North Coast Log Co,

Felled by loggers working at snag-
clearing operations at Hill 60 to reduce
fire hazards, the tree hit the car with

: : of Hardy Bay
such force that it drove the engine of the | "@ven’t got any too much up here. ety H, Israelson, George Leach, J.| fof op read ene ane ould and
car 10 inches through the pavement into| .#oPing I'l hear from some of you| Wallace, Joe Lemoine, George Maasanen, | wage cut there. FO ee ee

boys. Fraternally yours, H. Wade, Harry Stout, Jack Walker, H,

Hf - * Pearson, O, Wicklund, Jimmie Hunter,
pulted against the windshield and dash- ‘i JOE. " Z a eye)
board, eausing injuries from which they | Write to: 107961 Joe Gailus, A Com-|and Otto Forsman, Hospital and army| Coneiliator Named

Bat Waisaibetere they ‘could’ be’ taken to pany, 3rd Platoon, 112 C.A. (B), T.C., | Committee: C. Cullins, M, Willis, J. Nick. For Boundary Road

» the road, Saunders and Marsh were cata-

eas Chilliwack, B.C. Press committee: Joe Gosky, J. Solovich, 2
vat tee and ©. Frost, Word has been received from B. H. E.
oa ee falters. austere sine : This seems to cover all there is to|Goult, of the provincial department of
one Dan ed Bay ele SeERSEMES M ASPIN A report from Lake Log for the present, but |labor, that A. H. Dugdale, of Vancouver,
oe sieee ey eas 0 ea a Be Se we hope to have a more detailed report |has been appointed as Conciliation Com-
peepee ae oe ables Ait 8) ate in the next issue. missioner in the dispute between em-
ee Bea warnings to m Fraternally, Ployees of Bloedel, Stewart and Welch
ad been posted,
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