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September 20, 1943

LETTERS

“Kvery

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Reader a Correspondent”

REPORTS

NEWS FROM LADYSMITH

Fs By “JEEP”

A large turnout of members attended the regular monthly
meeting of Sub-Local 1-80 held in Nicholson’s Hall, Ladysmith,
on Sept. 13th at 7:30 p.m., Bro. J. Atkinson in the Chair. At the
start of the meeting, Pres. Atkinson asked the members to
arise an dobserve one minute’s silence for our late Brother
W. Moore who was killed recently. :

_ It was resported that Bros, Pete Tenoz and J. Gallagher wer

progressing favorably ingthe local:

Local 1-85 Pledaes Aid
In QCI Loggers’ Dispute

After hearing a report on the dispute between Local 1-71,
IWA and the operators on the Queen Charlotte Islands, given
by Al Dewhurst, Secretary of Local 1-85, members of Local
1-85, IWA unanimously pledged their support to the Queen
Charlotte Island loggers.

The meeting also endorsed the Queen Charlotte Special
Emergency Fund and elected Owens Copely, Geo. Dowling

hospital. Both were hurt recently
in the local camp.

Bro. Sec. J. Gilchrist gave a
report on the Dance Labor Day,
this was accepted and the entire
profits, $21.35, were forwarded to
Local 1-80 to help defray the ex-
penses of our delegates to the In-
ternational Convention at Sacra-
mento, Cal. e

Two members were elected to
replace Bros, W. Miller and W.
Moore on the Safety Committee.
Bros. H. Pollock and M. Lovrod
were elected. A support commit-
tee was elected to handle sub-local
assistance to the Queen Charlotte
Island loggers. The elected were
Bros. Atkinson, Lewis Parta, C.
Pollock and J. Ulinder.

It was then reported that the
next quarterly meeting of Local
1-80 would be held in Ladysmith.
Brother George Maynard, one of
Local 1-80’s delegates to the IWA
convention at Sacramento ad-
dressed the meeting and reported
on the convention proceedings.
Bro. Maynard gave a grand report
on how the situation was across
the line in general. He explained
the different changes in our con-
stitution to the satisfaction of the
members present. He told us of
the high cost of living across the
line, using as an example a break-
fast consisting of a dish of prunes,
two slices of toast and a dish of
mush (price 50c). Personally I
think George did all right for four
bits, when you consider Scotland’s
National dish was included. “You
know, George, over in in Scotland
there is a bridge, known as the
Forth Bridge. It separates Scot-
land and Fife. The Jerries, this
Jast three years have been trying
to knock it over but it still stands.
The reason, I understand, is the
legend that the foundation was
built on Mush. So you see, George,

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Bro. Maynard’s report was ac-
cepted and he was heartily ap-
plauded when finished.

Balloting on the amendments to
the International Constitution, and
on the Election of International
officers was the next order of busi-
ness and, after all the members
present had voted, the meeting ad-
journed.

Three More
Arbitration
Boards Set Up

Establishment of three more ar-
bitration boards was announced
last week when John Stanton was
named as the union’s representa-
tive for the dispute with the Vic-
toria Lumber Manufacturing Com-
pany and Fred Anderson, Vancou-
ver lawyer associated with the’ J.
R. Morgan Logging Company as
the’ company’s representative

In the case of the Industrial
Timber Mills of Youbou, William
Stewart, president of the Boiler-
makers Union, has been appointed
by the Minister of Labor, George
Pearson, as the union’s nominee on
the board and Walter Owen, Van-
couver lawyer, as the company rep-
resentative.

In the case of the Comox Log-
ging Company of Ladysmith, Birt
Showler, president of the Vancou-
ver Labor Council (AFL) and
vice-president of the Trades and
Labor Congress of Canada, a man
who deserves a great deal of credit
for the adoption of the amend-
ments to the ICA Act, has been
named to represent the union; and
C. H. Locke, K.C., counsel for the
Queen Charlotte Island companies
in their recent arbitration board,
has been named as the company
representative.

Vancouver, B.C.

and Albert Johnson as a special®
committee to be known as the
Queen Charlotte Emergency Com-
mittee.

The meeting also sharply criti-

Former Member
Greets Progress

Pictured here while visiting the
District Office recently is Jack
Hole, secretary of the former
Blubber Bay _
Local 1-163, { ew |
who is now Bee
with the Royal |
Canadian Navy. |
Jack, who was |
blacklisted for
his activities |
during the
Blubber Bay}
strike, joined
the Navy early |
in the war and |_
has certainly
not lost any of
his enthusiasm in the fight against
fascism and reaction. He expressed
particular interest in the good
Progress being made in organizing
the lumber industry and asked The
Lumber Worker to extend to the
membership of the IWA his best
wishes for the union’s continued
success. Jack has left for some-
where in the Atlantic, where he is
engaged in combatting the Nazi
submarine menace.

Jack Hole

IWA-CIO Member
Is Killed im QCI

The toll of death in the wood-
working industry this week rose
to forty-two
with another

death reported 42
from the Queen | wooaworken
Charlotte have been
Islands. killed in B.C’s
Brother Fred lumber in-
Hutchinson, cat | dustry since
operator for the Jan. 1, 1943

Allison Log Co.
at Sandspit in the QCI, was injured
on Sept 00 and succumbed at the
Alliford Bay Hospital the next day,
Both legs were broken and inter-
nal injuries suffered, Blood trans-
fusions failed. He is survived by
his wife, his father and one brother.
The body was removed to Van-
couver for burial.

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cized the federal government in
dismissing Mr. J. L. Cohen, labor
representative on the National War
Labor Board. In a wire to Prime
Minister King, the union urged the
reinstatement of Mr. Cohen, point-
ing out that organized labor had
every confidence in Mr. Cohen, and
calling for a comprehensive Labor
Code.

‘The wire read:

Local 1-85, IWA, representing

some 1,200 woodworkers in the
Alberni area, protests the dismis-
sal of J. L. Cohen, Labor Repre-
sentative of the National War
Labor Board. We have every con-
fidence in Mr. Cohen and urge
his immediate reinstatement.

The union also elected a special
committee known as the civic elec-
tions committee. This committee
whose members are Walter Yates,
Owens Copely, Jeff Ferguson, Geo.
Dowling, Jim Saxby, Clay Gillis,
and Al Dewhurst, will investigate
the possibility of united labor ac-
tion in the coming civic elections,
The committee will also see that
all union members who have the
right to vote are registered.

IWA Victory
Gardener

CAMP ACTIVITY

By ROVING REPORTER

Log production in the Courtenay-
Campbell River area and the Har-
rison Lake camps was brought
practically to a standstill last week
by a serious outbreak of fires.
Crews at the Comox Log’s head-
quarters camp and Comox Lake
camp were called out of the woods
last Monday noon and had re-
turned to work at the time of
latest reports,

Several crews from the Harrison
Lake district checked into Vancou-
ver Thursday, expecting to reopen
on Monday, providing the humidity
has risen.

Serious blazes were also report-
ed at the Bateo Camp at Oyster
River where fire spread into the
Comox claim and is reported to
hhave destroyed two machines and
about 6,000 cold-decked logs. At
Bloedels, Menzies Bay, fire is re-
ported to have taken out two
two trestle bridges and done con-
siderable damage also.

According to an address made
by A. H. Williamson, Canadian
Timber Controller to the National
Hardwood Lumberman’s Associa-
tion in Ccicago on September 17
last “Sitka spruce is being logged
so intensively in Canada that the
total supply of standing timber of
this type will be exhausted in
three years. Canada has become

the major supplier of Sitka spruce
to’Brtain as a result.”

“Canadian lumber production
would amount to 42 billion feet
in 1943,” he said—“a drop of about
17 percent below the 1941 level.

This production would be provided

- as follows: 1,500,000,000 feet from

B.C. coastal areas; 650,000,000 from
Western Canada; 500,000,000 from

, Ontario; 1,000,000,000 from Quebec

and 550,000,000 feet from the Mari-

, times.

The above picture shows Bro.
Don Barbor in his brand new Vic-
tory Garden at Courtenay. By the
look of the vegetables, Don appar-
ently has given them very tender
care. This, however, will not be a
surprise to the members around

the Island as Bro. Barbour is
known as a man who finishes any
job which he starts. Good picking
Bro. Don. And we hope that you
have as much luck in rounding
up the rest of those stray loggers
around Courtenay and bringing
them into the IWA.

Three bodies, the Comox Log-
ging and Railway Company, the
Powell River Company and the B.C.
Forest Service have joined forces
to test the feasibility of recovering
logging debris for conversion into
pulp, and preliminary findings in-
dicate that the waste from logged-
over areas on the test site yield
about 20 cords per acre of material

5 that has hitherto had no mechant-

able value because it was too small
for the sawmills or for ordinary
pulping processes.

Results of the experiment now in
Progress at Ladysmith may prove
of great importance to the logging
industry of British Columbia in

achieving fuller utilization of the
forest crop.

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