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THE B.C.

LUMBER WORKER

September 19, 1942

B.C. LUMBER WORKER

Bi-weekly Bulletin Published by
BC, DISTRICT COUNCIL
International Woodworkers of America

Editor
NIGEL MORGAN,
Room 504, Holden Bldg. Vancouver, B.O.
Phone, PAcific 9727
Make Payments to: “LW.A, B.C. D.C.”

Need Co-operation
For Maximum Output

Several momentous statements have
hit the press this week, not least among
them being that of President Mosher,
‘at the CCL Convention, when he stated:
“Not a single day's production of war
materials should be lost through any
action on the part of the workers.”

‘As an example of the willingness and
readiness of labor to step up production,
to do its part in the preparation for a
second front, it is the setting up of a
“Production for Victory” Committee in
the APL operation by the union and its
appeal to the company for co-operation,
printed elsewhere in the B.C. Lumber
Worker.

This is an effort on behalf of members
of the logging and sawmill industry
which will be greeted by workers every-
where. It is evidence of the sincere
endeavor by the men who produce the
goods to see that their end is kept up
in the tremendous battle raging now for
the survival of democracy.

The company, realizing what is. at
stake in this present war, cannot hesi-
tate to take up such an offer and assist
fn a joint march of employees and man-
agement towards maximum production.

Such an example was set by H. W.
Hunter of Lake Logging Company, who,
in a letter to the IWA B.C. District
Council, replying to a proposal for a
“Production for Victory” committee at
Lake Log, declared:

“We heartily agree with everything
you have said in this letter. It should
be done. We must have victory, so let's
proceed along the lines you suggest, and
if at any time either of us have further
thoughts on the subject, Jet us communi-
cate them to each other.

“With our boys at the front, labor
and capital working together, which
should be done at all times and not only
during a period of war, we will win.
Let us help in our small way to win.”

If a few more employers could be per-
suaded to echo those sentiments at this
crisis in our lives, we would be a lot
nearer to opening that Second Front,
and Victory in 1942,

Express Thanks
To the Editor:

We wish to take this opportunity to
thank all those who have so generously
contributed to the fund for Charles Carl-
son, an IWA member seriously hurt in an
automobile accident in August, 1941, The
total amount collected was $1000. Charlie
is doing well now and also sends his most
heartfelt thanks, John Soderman.

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A Commentary on Current Events

of character.
Teams of

girls — are all at work in the swampy,

lumber-jacks

young

mosquito-infested forests in the front
And girls
As re-

zone. Leningrad needs fuel.

have gone off to the forests.
cently as June 21, 1941, they were: still
university students, their hands were ac-
customed to the touch of textbooks, vol-
umes of poetry, flowers. July, 1941,
found them operating machine tools.
These girls helped to defend the city.
Today the war demands hands in the
forest, and once again the girls have
changed their occupation and have be-
come wood-cutters,

Their sheer enthusiasm helped to pro-
duce the daily average of a cubic meter
of timber each. The norm for a wood-
cutter — a full-fledged) seasoned, sturdy
northern wood-cutter — is three cubic’
meters, The girls were crestfallen . . -
and the team of Maria Yakovleva and
the four Krylov sisters too were sad,
brooding. Where were they to rise to
these standards .. . it was disgraceful
to lag behind! ... And the girls switched
from enthusiasm to persistence.

The mosquitoes were unbearable. Life
in the forest was not a bed of roses. But
the girls were determined to stick it out.
They learned from experienced wood-
cutters and gradually stepped up their
output.

Needless to add that work in the
Leningrad’ forests is indeed front work.
You leave your city apartment and on
your return, let us say some Sunday,
might find not your apartment ,but a
ghastly wreck with a lampshade in a
corner which has survived by some mir-
acle. All that is left as keepsake. The
Leningrader will not utter a word, but
all his fury into work, work with re-
doubled energy. . . .

In a word, the girls have now over-
taken and outstripped the experienced
lumber-jacks and are producing 9 to 10
cubic meters. Recently, at the leisure of
one of the wood-cutters, he read aloud
a chapter” from Nikolai Ostrovsky’s
“How Steel Was Tempered,” which de-
scribes a similar example from the days
of the Civil War. The girls listened
intently. Then one of them said quietly,
but not without pride, “Well, the Len-
ingraders had it harder.” . . .

Endless ,trainloads of timber stream
from the direction of the Neva River

VANCOUVER, B.C.

GRADERS’

LENINGRAD.—This is the second year of the siege of Leningrad. The
city has witnessed many an example of stoicism in the millions of daily
deeds. The Leningraders regard stoicism not as a flash of courage, not as a
beautiful, flitting action, but as a steady, persistent, lasting manifestation

and from Lake Ladoga, carrying fire-
wood for the fortress city.

One aspect of the projected second
front in Europe, that of the oppressed
peoples, is too often dismissed by some
commentators with the * comforting
thought that when the Allies launch
their invasion, be it this year or next,
the peoples ‘of occupied Europe will ¢on-
stitute strong allies. This is true, but
what these commentators tend to.ignore
is the fact that the third front of the
oppressed European peoples can be im-
measurably strengthened by immediate
action or seriously weakened by delay.

Every day the Nazis are left in con-
trol of the Continent is a day lost to the
United Nations. Through their diabolical
use of systematic starvation as a weapon
against revolt the Nazis daily rob the
Allies of hundreds of fighters. Daily
their execution squads deprive the op-
pressed peoples of courageous and ex-
perienced leaders, Every, day, despite
extensive sabotage, forced labor in the
arms factories of occupied Europe pro-
duces the weapons the Nazis need to
maintain and extend their tyranny.

What immediate opening of the second
front means to the peoples of Europé
is told in the Polish semi-monthly journ-
al, New Horizons, published at Kuiby-
shev, in an article entitled, “Poland and
the European Fronts.” It furnishes a
powerful answer to those who continue
to evade the widespread popular de-
mand for establishment of the second
front now.

The article states:

“The question of the second front in
Europe today holds the attention of the
public in England, the United States and
other countries of the world. Here it can
be said without exaggeration that this
question most deeply affects the peoples
of the occupied countries — Poland and
France, Norway and Greece, Belgium and
Holland.

“From the shores of France to the
eastern borders of Poland, from the
northern fjords of Norway to Crete, the
oppressed peoples are with growing im-
patience demanding the opening of the
second front. Fearing the growth of the
guerrilla movement and the people's re-
volt in Poland, the occupationists are
exterminating all elements capable of
fighting. Thousands of men are being
shot for no reason at all.

“Herein lies the explanation for the
recent events, when several thousand
reserve officers were shot only beause
in the eyes of the occupationists they
constituted a threat in the event of a
popular revolt. The country is being
ruthlessly plundered and’ even more bar-
barously devasted of the most precious

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LOGGING HAS HIGH
ACCIDENT RATE

Dr. G. F, Amyot, the provincial health
officer, in his monthly bulletin, devotes
the leading article to fatalities in indus-
try in the province. At the present time,
he says, with the pressure of emergency
work carried on often with inexpert
help, there might arise a tendency to re-
lax ordinary’ caution. “Such an attitude,”
the health officer adds emphatically,
“should not become widespread.”

British Columbia’s record of industrial
accidents is alarmingly large, for with
the fatalities—there were 169 in 1940,
goes a tremendous amount of physical
suffering and a huge loss of productive
power through temporary and perman-
ent disability.

The Public Health bulletin points out
that although the mining industry shows
some improvement in the matter of acci-
dents, during the past five years, there
is an increasing number of fatal as well
as non-fatal accidents in the logging in-
dustry. In 1940 the lumbering industry,
including logging and milling, accounted
for 94 out of the 169 fatal accidents.

There is, a comfortable theory abroad
in the province that accidents and log-
ging are inseparable, Dr. Amyot ans-
wers this by pointing out that while the
number of accidents in the industry as a
whole has increased, one firm was able
to reduce its accident rate 35 per cent,
and another 30 per cent.

He points, too, to the statement of the
Workmen's Compensation Board that an
analysis of the causes of accidents re-
ported to them indicates that over 90 per
cent of them could be classified as
avoidable.—Daily Province.

thing — manpower, which is treated as
if it were some low breed of cattle.

“The bulk of the country’s able-bodied
population has been sent to forced labor
jobs in Germany. Part of the population
has been mobilized -in the country
proper to build roads and fortifications
and to do other arduous jobs. An in-
creasing number of Polish youth are
being conscripted into the Hitlerite
army. 2

“Deprived of the greater part of the
adult population, starved, reduced to pov-
erty and hounded, we are paying a heavy
price for the protracted war.

“Hitlerite Germany, which has thrown
all its forces into the offensive on the
key centres of the Soviet Union, full well
realizes that its destiny now is in the
balance, and that it has staked its all in
this campaign. It is this Hitlerite Ger-
many that has run amok in the occupied
countries,

“And with every passing month, its
domination brings irremediable losses and
hardships for the people. We therefore
consider that all procrastination in bring-
ing this war to a victorious conclusion
is a national calamity.”

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