YOUBOU MEETINGS DISCUSS
CA. ACT AMENDMENTS

A series of three successful meetings of camps in the Youbou
area were held recently to discuss labor’s war policy, the need
for Production Committees, the IWA’s campaign for amend-
ment of the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act. The
meetings, which were addressed by International Executive
Board Member Nigel Morgan and George Grafton, Business
Agent for Local 1-80, had practically 100 percent attendance.

In each camp Shop Stewards
pledged themselves to work for
100 per cent organization, to help
the Sub-District Negotiations Com-
mittee and achieving signed union
agreements during the coming
spring. Marked organization] pro-

gress has been made in the Cow-
Nigel Morgan

ichan Lake area.

Continued

New Charter

central point of the Local's new
jurisdiction, Attractive offices have
been opened up through the co-
operation of the Duncan Sub-Local.
Secretary Valley and Business
Agent George Grafton, who are the
two full-time officials of Local
1-80, are now working out of the
new office, which is situated on
the corner of Craig and Station
Streets, directly opposite the Cow-
ichan Merchants and above the
Island Drug Store. The new postal
address is P.O, Box 430, Duncan,
B.C,, and the new telephone number
is Duncan 388,

commented that Sub-Local meetings
in the Youbou camps are amongst
the best organized and most effici-
ently conducted anywhere in our
union, Chairman of the Camp 9
meeting was Dick Custer; Camp 3,
Don Tait, and Camp 6, Dunc Mar-
shall, At the Camp 6 meeting, an
invitation was extended to wives
of union members to attend. Fol-
lowing the meeting a Ladies’ Aux-
iliary was organized and Charter
application completed.

Known Member
Recovers Illmess

Ernie Witso, well known mem-
ber of the International Wood-
workers of Amercia (CIO), who
has been ill in the Vancouver
General Hospital for the past
few weeks, is now on the road
to recovery. We hope this re-
covery will be speedy and that
he will be back with us soon.

Q.C.1. Arbitration
Again Postponed

Sittings of the Queen Charlotte
Island Arbitration Board hearing
evidence in a dispute between the
QCI Logging Operators and their
employees has been postponed until
Saturday, March 13,

At the last session held on Sat-
urday, Feb, 27, very little progress
was made. The company called
H. R. Anderson, company’s legal
adviser. Mr. Anderson, under ex-
amination by C, H. Locke, KC,
stated that he recommended to his
clients that they should not sign an
agreement with the IWA. His only
apparent reason was the fact that
he personally considered the lead-
ership of the IWA as foolish, He

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Mr. Anderson suggested also that
the companies had refused to sign
an agreement due to the fact that
the IWA appeared to support the
Communists. When asked by Mr.
Stanton, IWA counsel, as to
whether he thought this was a
reasonable attitude and further, if
he considered the recent agreement
between Churchill and Stalin
should not have been signed, Mr.
Anderson replied that Mr. Stalin
was not a Communist. This
brought laughs from the entire
court room, It is hoped that at
the next session more progress
can be made,

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- Camp Comments

“Every Reader a Correspondent”

a@ B.C. LUMBER WORKER d

March 8, 1943

“REPORTS

Does Your

Bunkhouse

Display This Label?

THIS BUNKHOUSE

100%

Authorized by the International

The cards, a replica of which is
shown above, which were recently

|printed and distributed by the Dis-

trict Couricil, are beginning to

show results.

First notification that every
bunkhouse in camps is displaying
the IWA’s new one hundred per
cent union card, was received in a
telegram from Secretary Joe Mal-
bon of Camp 6, Youbou. In order
to display the union card, every
worker in the bunkhouse must be

UNION

Woodworkers of America (CIO)

@ paid-up member of the IWA.
Congratulations to the brothers of
Camp 6, Youbou, for their initiative
in getting every bunkhouse display-
ing the union card.

Second notiifcation was received
a few hours later from Brother
Amer Singh, delegate in the Hast
Indian bunkhouse at Youbou.

Camp 6 has shown the way. Who
is going to be next to display this
ecard on every bunkhouse door in
camp?

Wage Scale
Spruce Cam

We are printing the following

wage scale, which is in effect at
Aero Timber Products Limited at
Queen Charlotte
response to requests
from many of our members:
Baker, day rate, $6.00 and board;
with Industrial A
Ticket, $6.50; Blacksmith, day rate,
$8.50; Blacksmith’s helper, day rate,
$6.50; Boatman, monthly rate, $150
and board; Boom-man, head, day
rate, $8.00; Boom-man, second, day
rate, $6.50;.Bullcook, day rate, $4.00
and board; Cat driver, day rate,
$9.20; Chaser, day rate, $6.75; Chok-
erman, day rate, $6.50; Cook, day
rate, $8.00 and board; Cook, second,
day rate, $6.50 and board; Dish-
washer, day rate, $4.00 and board;

Shannon Bay,

Islands, in

Bed-maker,

) | Engineers, cold deck, 9 hours, $8.50;

Fallers and Buckers, contract, 80c
and 85¢ per M; Fallers and Buck-
ers, day rate, $10.00; Fallers and
Buckers, right-of-way, $7.50; Fire-
man, donkey, day rate, $6.00; Filer,

At Aero
ps Fair

head, day rate, $8.50; First Aid
Man, A Ticket, $6.50; Flunkey, day
rate, $4.00 and board; Handyman,
day rate, $8.00; Hook and Rigger,
cold deck, day rate, $9.50; Hook
Tender, cats, day rate, $9.00; Hook
Tender, gas, day rate, $8.50; Hook
Tender, rate, $8.50;
Leverman, barge, 9 hours, $8.50;
Loader, barge, day rate, $9.50; Me-
chanics, day rate, $8.00; Mechanics,
cats, day rate, $9.50; Pitman, day
rate, $7.50; Powderman on Grades,
day rate, $7.00; Rigging Slinger,
$7.50; Scaler, boom, monthly rate,
$250 and board; Signal’Man, cold
deck, day rate, $6.00; Gas Shovel
Engineers, day rate, $10.00; Un-
hookman, day rate, $6.75; Wood-
bucker, day rate, $5.75; Woodscaler,
day rate, $7.00; Woodsplitter, day
rate, $5.75; Towboat Skipper,
monthly rate, $175 and board.

Charge for board and blankets,
$1.35. Approximate number em-
ployed, 250.

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CAMP ACTIVITY

By ROVING REPORTER

Aero Timber Products, Johnson’s
Camp, Shannon Bay, held their
regular monthy sub-local meeting
on Feb. 9, where, among other
things, the brief presented to the
provincial cabinet by the Joint
Labor Delegation on amendments
to the ICA Act was endorsed. A
petition has also been circulated
requesting a doctor or some kind
of out-post hospital for the Massett
Inlet area, The management of
this camp has been requested by
their employees to establish a reg-
ular payday each month.

Aero Timber Products, Sorn’s
Camp. At a general meeting held
Jan. 28, at which 95 percent of the
crew were present, the following
committees were elected: Camp,
Safety and Recreation. Camp con-
ditions are not too good but the
j™en are out for 100 percent war
production. A petition requesting
hospital facilities in the Masset
Inlet area has also been circulated
‘at this camp.

Gibson’s Spruce Camp, Ucluelet.
Camp conditions here are terrible;
sheets and pillow slips have not
been changed since last January
and the blankets never seem to get
washed. The wash house is poor
and there is no dry-room yet, al-
though we are promised one. How-
ever, the grub is good.

Englewood. This is a B.&K.
Camp and the conditions are typ-
ical of the B.&K, camps, Cooks
are Chinese and not any too good.
Wages are low in comparison with
other camps.

K.& W. Logging-Company, For-
ward Bay. We are having a little
difficulty in this camp. There are
days when we work only a few-
hours but we notice that we are
charged with a full day's Defense
Tax. For example, if the wages are
$7.00 per day, the defense tax de-
ductions come to $1.73. But if we
work only two hours that day the
defense tax deductions still amount
to $1.75. Personally, I think it is
rather unfair. We would like to
know if it is legal.

Pacific Mills, Camp C42. At the
time of writing there are only 15
men in camp, one cold-deck crew
and a couple of cat drivers. Ex
pect to have about 50 men in camp
when the company starts full op-
erations. No committees set up as
yet but will do so as soon as the
rest of the men arrive. The weather
has been very bad but it is getting
warmer. Grub is good.

Landing, Rivers Inlet. They have

Doc Gildersleve’s Camp, Dawson
been stuck at Dawson's Landing
for two whole weeks on account of
ice in the inlet. The snow is all
gone by now but theré is still ice
at the head of the Inlet where the
camp is going to be moved.

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