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March 22, 1943

Aero Camp Holds Union
Meeting With McCuish

On Saturday, March 6th, th

“annart” with the president of our Feenfrew Camp

local aboard, sailed boldly into the
bay and tied up at the dock. This
was a welcome sight to all the
union men in camp,

‘The same night John McCuish
visited the boys in the bunkhouses,
met many of his old friends and
talked over union business.

On Sunday, March 7th, permis-
sion was asked for the use of the
cookhouse to hold the regular
monthly union meeting. It was
granted on the condition that no
“outsider” be invited to attend.
This meant the exclusion of our
president. The camp committee im-
mediately interviewed the superin-
tendent. They stated that they
thought it was rather unfair to
ban their president from the regu-
Jar monthly meéting. They told
him that if McCuish were not
alolwed to attend they would call
a special meeting the following day.
. Because of the firm stand taken
by the members the matter was
settled satisfactorily, The meeting
was held with an exceptionally
large number in attendance. John
McCuish was the guest of honor.

After the regular business was
atended to and all the grievances
discussed the floor was given to
McCuish. He immediately thanked
the members for the stand they
had taken in enabling him to at-
tend the meeting. He reviewed the
work of the organization and stress-
ed the point that every man in the
lumbering industry should be a
union member. He told of condi-
tions in the other Aero Timber
camps in Masset Inlet.

‘The meeting closed with a vote
of thanks to John McCuish. He
left the following day for Morgan’s
Camp at the head of Cumshewa
Inlet.

Press Committee,
Aero Timber Products,
Cumshewa Inlet, B.C.

Writer Denies

Feb. 8th Letter

To the Editor:

In reply to the complaints of the
camp foreman in your paper of
February 8, you stated that there
had been quite a number of men
fired lately. In fact, I have been
foreman there for seven months
and there has only been one man
fired in the seven months. I have
been in logging camps on this coast
steady since 1919 and I always be-
lieved your paper printed the truth
up till now. I can prove in court,
if necessary, that only one~ man
has been fired here and I had a
reason that even you would say
Thad the right to do it. I want you
to retract that statement you made
in your February 8 paper and also
send me a copy of your next paper.

Yours truly,
BOB ERICKSON,
Lang Bay, B.C.

LETTERS

Conditions Poor
‘To the Editor:

Reporting on Hemmingsen and
Cameron Logging Camp at Port
Renfrew . .. Men are going out
on every boat. Two cold-deck
crews walked off the job, owing
to the foreman leaving off an en-
gineer and putting him running
speeder; this engineer was a union
man, Bunkhouses are very poor;
no dry-room; no bathroom; poor
food and no potatoes or vegetables
for two weeks, A few union men
here, but we are badly in need of
an organizer. Shovel man was
given seven days’ notice the first
day he went to work.

Yours truly,
“ONE OF THE FALLERS”

Camp Comments

“Ever Reader a Correspondent”
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EPORTS

Loggers’ Navy Will Be Tied Up_—
In April Unless Permit Granted

Several weeks ago Local 1-71
was informed by the manager of
the regional office of the oll con-
troller of Canada that the com-
mercial purchasing permit for garo-
line for the M.V. Annart Jast year
would expire on April 1, and fur
ther, that diesel oll is now also
being controlled, and, as the M.V.
Laur Wayne would not be classi-
fied as a commercial vessel, the
local would not be able to purchase
diesel oil. He advised the local to
take this up with the oil controller
of Canada and an airmail letter
making application for a permit
was sent immediately. Ten days
later, having received no reply, the
local officers wired the oil con-
troller asking for his decision and
March 9 received the following
telegram:

os H. & C. Logging Co.

“Regret to advise present acute

With the My “Laur Wayne”
(pictured above with its skipper,
Ernie Dalskog), already stranded
in Vancouver without diesel fuel,
and continuatio nof the MV “An-
nart” on the QCI run impossible

SOS — “CALLING ALL LOGGERS !”

after April 30, the B.C.’ District
Council lost no time in appealing
to the Federal government. The
resolution printed below has al-
ready been forwarded and EVERY
camp affected is urged to do like-
wise.

workers of America, Local 1-71,

WHEREAS: These boats are

RESOLVED: That we urge

in line with their requirements.

WHEREAS: The application made by International Wood-

their two boats ("V.M. Annart” and “M.V. Laur Wayne”) has
been refused by the Oil Controller for Canada; and

for the four field representatives of this organization between
camps to help continue their worthwhile efforts in rallying some
4,000 loggers in these isolated and scattered camps to increase
production and get behind the country,s war effort, Victory Bond
drives, Red Cross, etc; and by getting thelr grievances adjusted
bring about greater harmony and co-operation, and consequently

reduce the possibility of strife and unrest, and in pencral build
the workers’ morale; therefore be it

Supply, the Hon. C. D, Howe, to use his influence in having the
Oil Controller reconsider this decision and grant this organiza-
tion the permits necessary to obtain gasoline and diesel fuel

to purchase gasoline and oil for

the only means of transportation

the Minister of Munitions and

shortage of both gasoline and die- 9

sel do not permit special allow-
ance for your field representa-
tive to visit camps by boats.
(Signed) A. S. Morgan, executive
assistant to the oil controller.”

This means that if the decision

is not’ reconsidered and a permit

granted to purchase gasoline and
diesel oil, the boats will be tied up
for the duration of the war.

Both the Laur Wayne and the
Annart were bought by subscrip-
tions from a majority of the log-
gers who work in the coast camps
and are an absolute necessity to
our organization, inasmuch-as this
is the only means for union business
agents to get around to the camps
to conduct the union’s business and
attend to the welfare of the log-
gers. More than ever, they are
needed in the field during this war
period to rally the workers for
greater production, They are neces-
sary to help in settling grievances
of the workers on the job so that
a minimum of frition and a maxi-
mum of harmony can be established
in the logging industry, which, in
turn, will help build up the morale
of the loggers and bring them
unitedly behind Canada’s war ef-
fort.

Because of all this every Job
Steward and sub-local secretary is
urged to immediately send tele-
grams and have resolutions ‘passed
by meetings in camp urging the oil
controller to reconsider his deci-
sion, and grant the local the right
to purchase gasoline and diesel oil
in line with its requirements as
essential to the war effort.

Send Resolutions and Wires to:
The Oil Controller, Marine Division,

| Office of the Oil Controller for

Canada, 15 King Street West, Tor-
onto, Ontario; to Hon. C. D. Howe,

Minister of Munitions and Supply,! Pacific Mills, Camp A35 .

Hon, Ian Mackenzie, Minister of
Pensions and Health, Parliament
Buildings, Ottawa, Canada; to A.
W. Neil, MP, Olaf Hanson, MP,,
Angus MacInnis, M. Parliament
Buildings, Ottawa, Canada.

Please send copies of all com-;

munications to the union office in
Vancouver.

IMMEDIATE ACTION IS NE-
CESSARY. The speed with which
you act may be the deciding factor
as to whether or not the M.V.
Annart and Laur Wayne will be
in the field for the duration!

KEEP ’EM SAILING!

CAMP ACTIVITY

By ROVING REPORTER

Aero Timber Products, Juskatla
. Held their sub-local meeting
on Feb, 10. The question of getting
a doctor in Massett Inlet and hos-
pital facilities was raised. Local
1-71 office was instructed to con-
tact Aero Timber Products in thig
matter.

Aero Timber Products, Shannon
Bay ... Reports in show that a
number of grievances have been
taken care of. Answering the com-
plaint of too infrequent changes of
bedclothes, the management stated
that they can’t get laundry back
from town. i

Aero Timber Products, Sunrise
Camp . . . Held special meeting to
discuss request for doctor in Mas-
sett Inlet.

Secretary Dalskog states that
Aero Timber Products manage-
oment informed him that the board
of directors have agreed to this and
are now attempting to engage a
doctor for Massett Inlet.

Gildersleeve’s Camp, Provincial
Cannery, Rivers Inlet . . . Held
membership meeting on March 6
where grievance and press com-
mittees were set up. The election
of a safety committee was tabled
until the next meeting.

Pacific Mills Camp C42... A

grievance that has arisen in this
camp is that injured and sick men
have to go to Ocean Falls instead
of being allowed to go to Bella
Coola which is a great deal nearer.
(We are investigating possibilities
of having this changed.)
‘The
same conditions prevail here with
regard to hospitalization as at C42,
Although there is a hospital nearby
at Queen Charlotte City, sick and
injured men are transported to
Ocean Falls.

Chilliwack Sub-Local 1-71 . . .
Held their regular membership
‘meeting on Monday, March 8. Very
poor attendance.

DON’T FORGET TO ATTEND
YOUR UNION MEETINGS!

|Buy Bonds for Victory !
Beat the Axis in ’43!

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