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Refrigeration Needed On|MV Laur Wayne Reports
Boats Carrying Foodstuff|Good Response To Date

The question of refrigeration on the boats carrying perish-
able foods to up-coast logging camps is again coming into
the limelight. It will be remembered that last year the union
was successful in arranging to have refrigeration installed on

the boats to the Queen Charlotte Islands. Reports coming into
the union office state that meat arriving in camp is not fit to

SOINTULA, B.C.—The MV “Laur Wayne” arrived in this
port on Sunday, June 5, with Ernie Dalskog, secretary of IWA
Local 1-71, and Abby Olson on board. Secretary Dalskog re-
ports that his trip through the lower camps under the juris-

diction of his Local had to date

been very successful. Meetings

have been held in a large number of camps and the union has

eat and furthermore the men feel?
that there is a tremendous waste
which should be stopped, especially
in view of the rationing regula-
tions which we have today.

The pleas has the support of the
operators.

‘Typical resolutions have been
passed in all camps and forward-
ed to the union office, the govern-
ment and the Ration Board, The
resolution passed unanimously by
the crew of the K & W Logging
Company reads as follows:

Whereas: Because of the ration-
ing of meat it has become of ex-

treme importance that every pos-
sible precaution be taken to pre-
serve meats and other perishable
foods from spoiling while in tran-
sit, as the small rations will not
allow any waste.

Therefore be it resolved: That
we in meeting assembled, strongly
urge immediate installation of re-
frigeration or cold storage for
meats and perishable foods, on

and foods for coast camps and
communities.

And be it further resolved: That
we charge the Government and the
Ration Board with the responsib-
ility to see to it that such refrig-
eration is installed,

Kelsey Bay
Logger Passes

‘Word was received this week of
the death of Nykola Turchyn, 58-
year-old faller, at the Salmon Riy-
er Logging Company's operation at
Kelsey Bay. Turchyn died at 8:00
o'clock on the morning of June
7, while travelling from camp to

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most important“industry, pulp and
paper, of which it is the world’s
largest producer.

Since the outbreak of the war
wood has become still more vital to
Canadians. It has replaced critical
materials in huhdreds of products,
war as well as civilian, As a re-
sult, production has increased from
less than four billion feet. of lum-
ber sawn in 1939 to more than five
billion in 1941.

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of the main sources of supply for
Canada’s military explosives indus-
try. Scores of new war plants,
such as the huge Boeing aircraft
factory in Vancouver, are of woo-
den construction throughout. The
Department of Munitions and Sup-
ply’s four sprawling administration
buildings in Ottawa are also of
wooden construction, - including
girders and framework.

Most remarkable development
has been the use of wood in air-
craft construction. Several types of
planes now being produced in Can-
ada contain a large proportion of
wood in their framework, others
are built almost entirely from
wood. The new Anson V, a Cana-
dian plane, is one of these, The
De Havilland Mosquito, world’s
fastest and most manoeuvrable war
plane, now in quantity production
in Canada, is ‘another. Its multi-

been successful not only in sign-
ing up a large number of new
members, but also in bringing a
number of old members into good
standing and consolidating the or-
ganization in general.

Secretary Dalskog further re-
ports that the M.V. “Laur Wayne”

and her crew have received a good
welcome at most camps from em-
ployers as well as from the crew.
The only camp where any opposi-
tion was met was at Pioneer Lake,
where the superintendent refuses
to allow the union organizer to go
into camp. The “Laur Wayne” and
her crew are expected to return to
Vancouver about the end of June,
when there will be further and
more complete rgport carried in
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Logger Asks
Refrigeration

To the Editor:

I am employed at one of the
Aero Timber Company's vital
spruce logging camps in Massett
Inlet, Queen Charlotte Islands. I
belong to the International Wood-
workers of America and am proud
to say that I and all other good
union members here are 100 per-
cent behind Canada’s war effort
for the defeat of fascism. What I
can’t understand is why our food-
stuffs, and particularly, our ra-
tioned foodstuffs, should be de-
livered to camp in such a condition
that it is not fit to eat. After all,
this war calls for Mosquito bomb-
ers—Mosquito bombers call for
spruce—spruce calls for skilled
workmen and skilled workmen
cannot combat fascism on a stom-
ach full of rotten meat, Come on
public, let’s put some pressure on
the Union Steamship Company and
get our foodstuffs delivered fresh.

. Fraternally, CARD A-216.

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perior in many respects to metal
construction. Wood propellers are
also being manufactured here in
large quantities.

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CAMP ACTIVITY

By ROVING REPORTER

Smith & Osborne, Palmer Bay:
Reports from this camp say that
work there will soon be finished.
About 35 men have been logging
there.

Western Logging Co. Forward
Harbor: From all reports this a
very good camp, The crew are very
concerned about the- question of
refrigeration on the boats in order
to keep fresh the small amount
of meat allowed them.

Port Neville Log. Port Neville,
B.O, We have it on good authority
that this is a haywire camp and
wages are very low. There are only
about 25 or 30 men there at pres-
ent.

It is reported that Grosskleg &
Trueman have commenced logging
operations on Widow Creek near
Lake Cowichan. The old logging
railroad grade will soon be ready
;for trucks and a bridge has al-
ready been built over Cottonwood
creek. About two years work is
anticipated,

Ont. Loggers
Discuss Wages

PORT ARTHUR, Ont.—At the
invitation of the Regional War
Labor Board and the provincial
government, a labor-management
conference will be held here on
June 8 attended by operators and
the Lumber and Sawmill Workers
Union in the logging districts of
‘Thunder Bay, Kenora, Fort Fran-
ces, Rainy River and Alboma.

In a letter to the union Louis
Fine, chief conciliation officer for
Ontario, says “the. conference is
for the purpose of discussing prob-
lems in relation to P.C, 5963 and
the application and administration
of wage ceilings under this Order.”

Bruce Magnuson, union secre-
tary, has sent a call to all camp
stewards to have the conference
discussed in the various camps and
arrangements made for union rep-
resentatives to be present.

Union delegates will: confer a
day before the conference “to work
out proposals on behalf of the lum-
ber workers,” at which it is ex-
pected the question of wage rates
will head the agenda.

Metal Miners Ask

Conciliation Board
PORT COLBORNE, Ont.—Local

637 of the Mine, Mill and Snielter
Workers’ Union, representing the
overwhelming majority of the em-
ployees of the International Nickel
Co., refinery plant here, has ap-
plied for a government concillation
board to bring the management to
negotiate an agreement.

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