District 1 Board Member ¥ November 1, 1943 Morgan Re-elected As ‘Nigel Morgan, who has served as tion to the CCL. The outcome of the International Board Member these negotiatons will then be sub- for District One for the last four mitted to the B.C. membership in years, was re-elected almost unan-'a referendum vote for acceptance imously for the ensuing two years, or rejection. : THE B.C. LUMBER roe LETTERS TO THE EDITOR... SAY WHAT YOU PLEASE { Not Enough Grub To the Editor: Reading your paper every time it was reported to the last execu-| return about the 10th of November. tive board meeting by the district tabulating committee, E. Dalskog, Doreen McCorkindale, and B. J. Melsness. Unofficial reports on the Inter- national Referendum show re-elec- tion of all former officers, Presi- dent Lowery, Vice-President Fadl- ing and Ballard, and Secretary: treasurer Ed. Benedict. Wilf. Kil- leen, who was nominated for the position of trustee, was defeated. International Board tend the C.LO. convention in Phila- delphia. Brother Morgan was elected from the convention of the} International Woodworkers, which was held in Sacramento recently. While in Philadelphia Brother Morgan will meet with officials of the CIO, the CCL and IWA inter- national officers to work out the basis for the B.C. locals reaffilia- Member | Nigel Morgan left last week to at-/ Brother Morgan is expected to!r can get hold of it. I see that the boys from different companies write you letters to be published. I hope you will find room in one corner of your paper for this let- ter of mine. Up here at the North Coast Tim- ber Company is a gang of men over a hundred in number. There are young and middle aged men. But all of them willing to do their best to help to keep the production up. So here I come to the point, we are willing to work, but how? If I have ever seen a shortage of food in all my time I put up in Camps in B.C.,I sure can see it up here. Of course there are things that are rationed, and we are only supposed to get so much of the rationed goods but I can’t see why we don’t get some of it. There is no jam, no syrup, no fruit. Now, we know that it is hard to get canned fruit but there should be. some of it any- NIGEL MORGAN way. New Westminster Unions Participate In Elections Decision to participate’ in the municipal elections of Coquit- lam and New Westminster was made at the last meeting of the New Westminster United Trade Union Committee on Tuesday, This Camp is new and it is hard to put everything in a first class condition at once. But what is more important then anything else is that there should be a refriger- ator. But there isn’t any. We eat rotten meat all summer long and are still eating the same right now. Our meat is full of maggots and when we ask the cook to take better care of the meat the answer is this: "] have no refrigerator.” When we ask the manager to get a refrig- ator the answer is: “I can’t get it as the war is on.” It is impossible to get the old one fixed as the parts aren’t available. At the last meeting we had the manager come with one’ whole book of orders. Orders for food. He read it to us. There was almost nothing came of the food which was ordered. Well, I don't know how long we will keep up like this, There is still one hundred of some honest to goodness men will- ing to work but I“don’t know how much longer they can stand it and live on promises. ONE OF THE FALLERS, Book No. 6285. Officers Elected Dear Editor: Hello, Brothers and Sisters of the LW.A. This is the first time you have heard from us. But let us hastily assure you it shan’t be the last time. Pardon us while we introduce ourselves. We are employees of “Pacific Vaneer Co. Logging Divi- sion” Chehalis Crossing, B.C. In this camp, as in most others, the IWA union went over the top! We are proud to say that we are 100% organized. We held only three meetings and the results go to show that the working man is waking up to the fact that he has to be organized and fight for his rights. Officers of our Organization are: John Monks—Chairman. Ray McKamey, Secretary. Committees formed were: Safety Committee—Chairman, Bob Morin. Grievance Committee — Chair- man, George Yeoman. Welfare Committee—Lead by Renie Salmon. Also a press committee was formed. We are proud to state that we haye the only woman Job Steward in the logging industry. Brothers and Sisters, we present Sister Lenora Jackson. We close, offering our congrat- ulations to the Queen Charlotte Island Loggers. (Signed) PRESS COMMITTEE. First Meeting Bloedel, B.C. To the Editor: Held first meeting Tuesday, Oc- tober 26, elected officers and set a date for next meeting (Novem- ber 9th). The following brothers elected to conduct meeting in the future: William Kahki, chairman; George Schick, secretary; Ben Burns, warden; Fred Kingston, trustee; Jake Elias, trustee. We hope to have some news of interest to the many readers at a later date. (Signed) GEO. SCHICK October 26th. A Trade Union Conference is being called on Wednesday, November 10th, to discuss participation of labor candidates in the forthcoming elections for both municipalities and an attempt will be made to find enough candidates to run a full slate. The aims and objects of the Com-¢ mittee were clarified as follows: 5 mee bring about the greatest degree of unity possible around any issue that may arise of importance to labor and wotk- ing people generally, without interfering with the functions of existing AF of L or CCL Coun- cils. : a be responsible for setting up committees for any pur- pose that may be endorsed. To sit actively in any dispute involving local unions, when and if called upon. A new and permanent slate of officers for the committee was elected at this meeting, which in- cluded: Jack Greenall of IWA Lo- eal 1-357 as Chairman; J. Francis ADMISSION--50¢ Dance and Bond Raffle AUSPICES: I.W.A. LOCAL 1-217 IN AID OF LW.A. STRIKE FUND e e e FORESTERS HALL — BROADWAY & SCOTIA C) FRIDAY, NQVEMBER 5, 1943 9 to 1 AM. e e e of the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, Vice-Chairman; R. J. Le Comte of the Amalgamated Build- ing Workers of Cagada, Secretary, and three trustees; Mrs. O. Percy of the . Aeronautical Mechanics Lodge 1749; F. Ostrakoff of the Boilermakers Union Local No. 5 and F. Blixt of IWA Local 1-357. It is expected that Rene Gamache from Fraser Mills will run_ this year as Councillor in the Coquif- Jam area; a position presently held by Percy Smith, Business Agent of the New Westminster IWA Lo- eal. 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