a " ereates a high percentage of fatigue resulting in dissatisfaction E « July 12, 1943 THE B.C. LUMBER WORKER Page Eleven B.C. LUMBER WORKER Published Bi-Weekly, Every Second Monday by B.C. DISTRICT COUNCIL, International Woodworkers of America Editor; NIGEL MORGAN Managing Editor: B, J. MELSNESS Room 504 Holden Building — Phone PAcifie 4151 — Vancouver, B.C. Make Payments to: “I.W.A., B.C, District Council” Midsumer Conference ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FOUR delegates elected from eight chartered Locals representing ten thousand organized woodworkers in the province of British Columbia converged on the city of Nanaimo and in an all-day session re- viewed the work of the International Woodworkers of America for the last six months and laid plans to organize the remaining unorganized woodworkers in this province this year, to estab- lish functioning Production Committees in every plant and camp and unanimously agreed that the United Nations must and shall be victorious over Hitlerism this year, . Resolutions adopted in our Midsummer Conference are a continuation of the war policy adopted in the Sixth Annual Con- vention of our District and International. With tremendous organizational gains recorded and the establishment of labor’s Bill of Rights, overtime pay, union-government hiring, with three new Ladies’ Auxiliary charters granted, it can be defin- itely stated that District No. 1 of the International Woodworkers of America is a strong, powerful, well-knit Canadian labor in- Stitution, taking its place in the community life of the province. And with these tremendous gains and increased member- ship come added responsibilities: the responsibility to every worker that holds membership in our union, to every officer honored with official capacity; the responsibility not only to ourselves, our families and our children, but to our nation to diligently work to improve the relations between labor, man- agement and government by strengthening our organizational position and commanding the respect that is rightfully ours. Hitlerism must and will be destroyed this year. It will never be said that the International Woodworkers of America faltered in its duty. Therefore, the union’s decisions in convention must be carried into every shop, camp and mill, to assure the utmost ‘harmony and labor relations, productivity and full war part- nership. Vacations With Pay Se A TULATIONS are in order to the United Steel _ Workers of America in the Dominion Bridge Plant who have recently successfully negotiated vacations with pay. More and more unions throughout Canada are winning the vacation plan. More and more far-sighted employers are including this principle in their labor policy, which is as it should be. The woodworking jndustry is heavy, basic and exacting, which and absenteeism. It is not unreasonable for workers to be given this privilege, for it was the Hon. Winston Churchill who once said that workers produce the best in the interests of the war effort when they are permitted one day’s rest in seven and one week’s vacation in 52. Employers have always enjoyed their periods of rest and relaxation and it is logical that the workers who produce everything from a safety pin to an aeroplane should be given equal consideration; and while they are enjoy- ing their vacation period to have the assurance that on their return to their job refreshed their pay cheques will be waiting for them. Vacations with pay based on faithful service is the order of the day for the IWA. Spar No. 4 HUNTER’S SPECIAL Lake Cowichan, B.C. It's good to be back on a logging claim = And to hear the donkey's hum; To watch the logs plough thru the slash— Look out, lads, here they come! The humming cold-decker on the hill— The loader by the tree— The “toot-toot” of the yarder Sing sweet music to me. The thrum of a loaded diesel Trucking logs down.to the dump; And the way the whistles echo From every surrounding hump! Yes, it's nice to be back in the bush again And to watch those logs roll in, The spar with it’s web of cables And the chokers that whip and spin! Small trucks with their loads of gravel ‘That makes for a solid road, Big trucks that wait at the turn- out, Till they back under the hy- draulic pre-load. The sailing stumps and the pow- der smell As they blast a new right-o-way. The shovel and air compressor There’s lots to be done in a day! Yes, if I were a man that’s where Td be, Out where the trees grow tall; Out where men and machinery Start the logs on their long, long haul. ¢ Out where the cold-decking Skag- ett Sits high on the mountain side— Yes, if I were a man that’s where Td go And be content to abide! —E.MT. In Ceylon there are 324 rural schools where, besides the ordin- ary~school subjects, the children are taught practical agriculture, house-building and carpentry. Waste paper collected in the United Kingdom from Nov. 1, 1939, to August 31, 1942, amounted to nearly 2% million tons. It would have required 450 ships, each of 5,000 tons cargo capacity, to trans- Port it. 3 “STAMP OUT THE U-BOAT” ... BUY WAR SAVINGS STAMPS! GORDON’S STORE GROCERIES —— MEATS at LAKE COWICHAN, B.C. and YOUBOU, B.C. JOHN STANTON Barrister, Solicitor, Notary 503 Holden Bldg. 16 East Hastings MAr. 5746 Meet Your Friends at MANITOBA HOTEL 44 West Cordova St. e Outside Rooms — Elevator Serv-| ice — Steam Heat — Reasonable Rates — Centrally Located PA. 0267. N. J. Thompson, Mgr. vestment to me. You young guys sure got an opportunity today and take it from an old-timer, don’t {let it go by. A good strong, mili- tant union—with 30,000 members instead of 10,000 is the answer! An you, Brother Bullcoock, can help to make ’er. Skoll, and again I sez congratulashuns!” This week | received some fan mail, and by the holy old blue ox, if it wasn’t birthday greetings from an old-timer to yer ole’ bull- cook. My admirer (and | hope the editor doesn’t “blue-pencil” that last word) writes as follows: “By gum! I jest learned that you wuz hevin’ a birthday. Az I heppens to be a long-time admirer of yers, shore am happy to send you con- gratulashuns and thru you to the “lumberjacks” and “lumberjanes” (an animal unheard of in my days) for the great headway there-a- makin out in B.C. Course when I first worked thru yore country there wuzn’t much labor, organ- ized or unorganized. When I first hit the woods things sure wuz different to today. Filthy camps, very crowded and poorly ventilat- ed, one skylight in each bunkhouse and one door. Fifty men to a bunkhouse, double decked muzzle loadin bunks, beds all wired-up with haywire, bedelothes washed once or twice a season. Big holes in the floors and poor water. About the only thing that was fair was the grub and even the grub weren’t so fair when you look back on it now! In some outfits you were refused wood to heat water for washin’ clothes, baths unheard of, and in one camp L hit... pigs fed ten feet from the bunkhouse, with a good mix- ture of vermin thrown in to en- tertain you at nite. “And just think of it, a few short yers, and thet wild god for sakin country transformed into a pretty fair sort of a lay-out, and to hoot you got a Labor Movement to git the workers their share of the take. The monguls who doesn’t work, always wanted to wear the war-paint and ride the ponies. But there ain’t no reason why you can’t have a pony if you stick to- gether. This ten to eleven thousand union men in the B.C’s woods sure sounds like what the doctor ord- ered, to me. When I thinks back on all the hours, weeks and months I turned in and all I got left for it today—these here im- Proved conditions, overtime pay, ete. sounds like a pretty good i Always the BEST ° Ask for them in the Cor Or Order Direct from A. W. JOHNSON & CO. 63 West Cordova St. MAr. 7612 JOHNSON’S LIGHT CRUISERS . Vancouver Quite a line, eh, boys? And a whole pack of good sense as | sees it. The other day our editor was complaining about too many jokes in my column and asking why I didn’t try to write about some- thing a little more serious and important—such as international affairs. So here’s one to meet the demand: A new Hungarian ambassador recently presented his credentials to the president of a South Ameri- can State. “What country do you repre- sent?” asked the president. “The kingdom of Hungary.” “Oh, so you have a king?” “No, we are ruled by Admiral Horthy.” “An admiral? fleet?” “No, we have no fleet.” “I see! And is.your country neu- tral?” “No, your excellency. We are at war with Russia.” “I see. Why are you at war with Russia?” “Because, your excellency, want Transylvania.” “Oh. And Russia has Transyl- vania?” “No, Rumania has Transylvania.” “So you are at war with Ru- mania, too?” “No, your excellency. Rumania is our ally.” The president picked up the telephone. “Give me the lunatic asylum,” he said. So you have a we In the year that war broke out Britain imported more than 1,890,- 000 tons of paper-making materials. Today her imports are negligible and paper is being made from saly- aged paper and sometimes from cotton rags. Damage done to Malta up to the end of 1942 includes 5,000 houses completely destroyed, 5,000 ruined and awaiting demolition, a similar number unfit for habitation until repaired and 13,000 houses dam- aged by blast.