LETTERS “Every ra@=.0: LUMBER WORKER Camp Comments Reader a Correspondent” REPORTS PRESIDENT REPORTS SUCCESSFUL TRIP District President Harold Pritchett, who returned from a¢ speaking tour of the Queen Charlotte Islands this week, re- ports a highly successful month’s campaign.’ During his trip to the Islands he addressed twenty-one meetings, which cul- minated in a conference in Juskatla Headquarters camp of Aero Timber Products with twenty-seven delegates represent- Laur Wayne Leaves On ing the Aero Timber Products camps in Massett Inlet. This meeting adopted an agreement® based on the Batco agreement from Campbell River and elected a Negotiations Committee com- posed of Brother Pritchett, Secre- tary Dalskog of Local 1-71, Sandy Turner from the Aero Massett camps, Bill Baychuk from the Acro Cumshewa camps and Nigel Morgan. ‘The committee has already noti- fied Mr, Fillberg of their desire to open negotiations immediately and union officials believe that if the agreement is adopted, it will lay a sound basis for improved labor relations and increased coopera- tion between management and labor in this important spruce pro- duction field, Bro. Pritchett reports a highly successful Victory Bond Drive, in which the quota for the Queen Charlotte Island camps of $120,000 was over-subscribed by 35 percent and may possibly go as high as 50 percent over the quota. ‘Typical ex- ample of the support given by the Queen Charlotte Island loggers to Canada’s Fourth Victory Loan was that of the Church Creek operation of the Kelley Logging Company, where eighty men with a quota of $8,000 more than doubled that amount and raised nineteen thou- sand. Fanny Bay Elects Sub-local Officers Annual election of officers at the Fanny Bay Sub-Local was held on May 14th when Fred Olkavik was elected president, D, Leighton 1st vice-president; W. Timchuck, sec- ond vice-president; H. Willson, secretary; Bert Davis, recording secretary, and Fred Lund, N. Davis and Jack Myers, trustees. Inter- national Organizer Don Barbour addressed the meeting on Absen- teeism and the Importance of Pro- duction for Victory. President- Elect Fred Olkavick urged the members to help make the camp 100 percent union, Centrally - PAc. 8374 — 444 Carrall Street Hotel West Ltd. FRED R. MARCHESE, Mgr. Moderate Rates and Loeal 1-71 Asks Certification Im QCI Camps Application for sole collective bargaining agency for loggers in the Queen Charlotte Island spruce camps of the Kelley Logging Com- pany, the J. R. Morgan Logging Company, and Pacific Mills was made to the Provincial Depart- ment of Labor last week by Local 1-11. Since the amendments to the ICA Act were adopted in Febru- ary, question has been raised as|- to the extent to which collective bargaining provisions of the ICA Act are applicable in war indus- tries such as the Queen Charlotte Island camps and the mining in- dustry, where, by Federal order- in-council, the Industrial Disputes Investigation Act has been extend- ed to cover all war industries. Hope was expressed by Secretary Dalskog of Local 1-71 that the pro- vision of the Provincial Act would be made applicable to the spruce camps when Minister of Labor Pearson accepted the application of the union and labor department officials commenced this afternoon checking the union’s records to- ward that end. camps in the lower area of the lo- cal’s jurisdiction. ‘The Laura Wayne has been tied up for some months awaiting per- mission from the oil controller to purchase fuel oil with which to op- erate. The union has now secured enough oil to make approximately two trips through the lower camps. Organizational Voyage On Friday last the MV Laur Wayne, after mustering all the majesty she could, sailed proudly through the First Nar- rows to begin a long-awaited journey into the logging camps to carry her union message to the men on the job. At her helm was Ernie Dalskog, secretary of Local 1-71, who will be assisted in this first trip by Abbie Olson in organizing the The present trip is expected to con- tinue until the end of June and the Laur Wayne will be tied up up the coast and Brothers Dals- kog and Olson will be returning by coast steamship services, Here's wishing luck to the MV Laur Wayne and her crew on this voy- age. Loggers To Have Summer Meeting IWA Lacol] 1--71 has announced that it will be holding their semi- annual meeting on Friday, July 2, at 10 am. at Union headquarters. The following matters will come up for discussion and action in the meeting: rationing, cost of living, man-power problems, or- ganization, the election of dele- gates to the International Con- yention in August. All members in town at that time are urged to attend this meeting. Resolutions from the camps on various problems should be en- dorsed by camp meetings and sent in to the local union, Located PAc. 8375 Vancouver, B.C. John McCuish on board the MV Annart. This appointment of an interna- tional organizer for Local 1-71 is very timely in that at the present time a tremendous upsurge in the desire for organization has been noted among all woodworkers in British Columbia, It is expected that during the coming months several thousand~unorganized log- gers will find their way into the ranks of the IWA and it is hoped 5c per Issue International Organizer It was announced last week by Secretary Dalskog of Local 1-71 that word had been received from the International Office that John McCuish, veteran president of that Local, had been placed on the International payroll as an organizer.. President MeCuish has worked as an organizer amongst B.C. loggers Appointed for many years and is at present in the Queen Charlotte Islands © READ “THE PEOPLE” Published at 104 Shelly Bldg. — Vancouver, B.C. that under the amended Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act that agreements will be consum- mated before the summer is out. John McCuish, who is himself a logger, is known by practically every man working in the woods from Vancouver to the Queen Charlotte Islands and this fact places him in an excellent posi- tion to carry on the work which has now been assigned to him. $2.00 a Year CAMP ACTIVITY By ROVING REPORTER The Eagle Lake Sawmill at Gis- come has acquired through goyern- ment timber sale some three and a half million feet of timber, most- ly spruce, located southeast of Gis- come, in Northern British Colum- bia. Reports have it that full scale operations are now under way on the G.M.S, Logging Company's tim- ber stand on Haslem Lake. Mr. T, J. Easton, who recently travelled through the larger cities of the prairie provinces under su- pervision of the National Selective Service, reports having hired 150 Saskatchewan men to work at In- dustrial Timber Mills Ltd, at You- bou. An appropriation of $9,500 has been made by the federal govern- ment to remove snags and deepen the chanel of the Harrison River. North West Bay Logging Co. Ltd, Vancouver, have bouglit the Zoney logging camp at Pender Harbor. Logging equipment, camp build- ings, etc, belonging to W. Grum- bach have been sold to Overseas Wood Products Ltd. in Vancouver for $27,000 it is reported this week. Esperanza Logging Co, Ltd. Rock’ Bay, has offered for sale its camp buildings, logging trucks and other equipment and is going out of business. It is reported that the Selkirk Lumber Co, sawmill which burned down’ in Victoria last winter is now being rebuilt. The housing shortage is being felt by Alberni workers as well as Vancouver workers. We hear that Alberni Plywoods are having a hard time locating living quarters for their employees. It has come to our attention that @ rumor is being circulated that a collection had been taken among the boys in Pacific Mills Ltd., Camp A-35, at the time of the late Pete Brandstrom's death, and that this money had not been turned over to Mrs, Brandstrom. Accord- ing to our information from Camp A-35 no such collection was taken there, nor was a collection taken by IWA Local 1-71 in Vancouver. Such a rumor has absolutely no foundation, MODERN and OLD-TIME. DANCING EVERY SATURD. Hastings pete 828 Hast Hastings MODERATE RENTAL RATES SSE |