April 3, 1944 THE B.C. LUMBER WO REER Oc § 1 THE THE WOMAN SS. CORNER AUXILIARY REPORTS HOMEMAKER NEWS ASSOCIATE EDITOR: GLADYS SHUNAMAN Fe eT aon mon NTO ace oT GCA AL ae is here, flowers again ornament the lawns and re- mind us of our vitcory gardens. The fresh greenness of the grass makes us feel that our homes could do with a little brightening up, so out comes the scrub brush, paint and paper, With the surroundings fresh and new we feel it necessary to have new attire, so out we go for a new spring outfit. Most of us probably run into a few dijculties getting just exactly the materials and style we dreamed of for that new suit or coat, but we feel new and fresh and ready for another summer. I, personally, do not want our corner to be neglected in the spring enthusiasm for newness and would suggest we dress it up with ‘a few household hints, recipes, etc., and really make it a Homemaker’s corner, I’m not suggesting that the auxiliaries should not continue sending in reports and more re-| — Courtenay Ladies Thank Sister Barbour For Her Work ports but rather that we use this space for exchanging short suts n household duties and thereby al- Jowing more time for our auxiliary work and social life. The auxiliary and the home are very slosely linked together in the same man- ner that the Union and the home are, for if the Union is not strong the means of maintaining the home become ever weaker, so lets com- bine the two, in our “Corner.” Many of the women in industry are also Homemakers and I am sure that we would all be pleased to hear from them. Probably they can offer suugestions on their atti- tude to remaining in industry after the war, of how they keep house and work in a factory. Who will be first to write? Haye you ever tried. putting date or other jam on a plain cake. | covering with whipped cream to which has been added a_table- spoon of cocoa before whipping? It is good! How about some suggestions from our readers? Let us make this corner one to which all women turn before reading the Bulleook. LADYSMITH AUXILIARY GIVES $10 TO HOSPITAL ‘The Ladies’ Auxiliary of Lady- smith Local 92 have donated $10.00 to the Blood Bank to be installed. in the local hospital. At their regu- lar meeting held on Wednesday, March 22, there were eighteen members present and one! new member was initiated. It was decided to send a dele- gate to the Consumers board meet- ing regularly and the delegate was elected. "They are making a scrap book of all their activities printed in the local paper and in the Lumber Worker so as to have them to show as a record of the activities for the year. Every Member Get a Member! Camp 6, Auxiliary Local 80 re- ports that at the present time a travelling basket is going around the camp, proceeds going to the May Day Fund. The men’s sub- local is planning a big day for the kiddies that day and we are doing our best to assist them. Sister Malbon was unanimously elected to be our standing dele- gate to the District Council. At our next meeting we will elect our delegates to the meeting to be held at Lake Cowichan in April. The auxiliary was greatly en- couraged at the last meeting, five new members were initiated! The company proposed remov- ing the store from Camp 6 and the auxiliary immediately got busy and circulated a petition. It was! Auxiliary At Camp 6, Youbou Makes Plans For May Day signed by every housewife in Camp except one. A delegation from the Auxiliary and the sub- local met the company officials and up to date, we are pleased to report that the store is still in Camp 6. Most of the Camp 6 executive attended the organizational meet- ing of Youbou Auxiliary. We are pleased with this step forward and wish to congratulate the ladies of Youbou. Next month is our first anni- versary and we plan to make it one that will be remembered. Our zone (or shop) stewards are certainly doing fine work and we think it was a good step to elect them. They see that the members get to the meetings and keep their dues paid up. Local 91, Courtenay, B.C., report a grievous loss this month. Mr. and Mrs, Don Barbour are leaving us to take up residence in Vancouver. Sister Barbour has been the aux- iliaries secretary-treasurer for two years and during that time she has taken care of all the innumer- able details necessary to good management with the utmost pa- tience and dependability. “Well done, good and faithful servant.” We wish to give you many thanks and much appreciation for your excellent work. May you and Brother Barbour and the family have a happy and prosperous fu- {ture in your new home. The reports submitted at the regular monthly meeting were en- couraging. Sister Peterson re- ported that they had a real.good time and made $84.00 at the old time dance at Merville. The knit- ting for the Russian relief is com- ing along in fine style. A goodly number of sweaters and other arti- and more will be finished soon. Owing to the increase in our membership itewas decided to hold the next executive and regular membership meeting in the eve- ning, We hope that this arrange- ment will be convenient for all the members. be held on April 13th at 7:30 p.m. Box 100 — COURTENAY cles have already been completed j The next executive meeting will | : F.C. & K. “Complete Home Furnishers” Fawcett Stoves and Ranges ow | ‘and the regular meeting of April 20th at 7:30 p.m. in the Union Hall, Courtenay. As we have several important questions to discuss we earnestly request all members to be present. Duncan Auxiliary Sends Greetings Ladies Auxiliary Local 96 ex- tends to the Sisters at Youbou best wishes for a large and successful organization. Sisters Hauk and Custer attended the’ organizational meeting from which an applica- tion for a Charter for Youbou Auxiliary was made. At the bi-monthly meeting held on March 21 in the Union office 12 members were present. The small attendance was due no doubt to prevailing colds, however it is hoped that at the next meet- ing to be held in the evening of April 4th all members will be present. Remember fisters, the auxiliary is an important organ- ization. Sister Smith reported weekly pes had been made to the IWA patients in the local hospital. Sister Hauk attended the Wo- men’s Regional Advisory meeting where a Wartime Prives and Trade Board officer spoke on price ceil- ing of the present time. L. Pierce Phone 281 CUMBERLAND | SAFETY By JOE PAYNTER There are few, if any, Woodworkers who will argue with that state- ment. The lumber industry is the most important in British Columbia. Ig I remember my school lessons aright, twenty-five percent of the people in this province get their living from the woods or the saw- mills. (I’ve wondered if that figure includes the ‘friends’ a logger finds in Vancouver when he’s staky?), When you read figures like that you can easily see just how important lumber is to the economy of B.C. Have you ever stopped to figure just how important you are to the safety record of this province’s major industry? Of the last few years we have heard lots about safety in the woods. There are probably many posters on the walls about your camp. I know there are undoubtedly pamphlets on the shelf in the office. Maybe the camp you are in has had a speaker spiel off yards of figures about safety. And yet, what do we actually-understand about this safety busi- ness? The subject of safety is a big one. Like generosity it covers many things. You know, and I know, if we stand close to the turn when she is going in we are not very safe. If we find ourselves in the bight we know enough to get out of there, it’s dangerous. We keep well away from the stump when a big one is coming over and most of us are very careful to holler “Timber” in plenty of time for all sealers and bull-buckers to get out of the way. Although I’ve known sealers with sliding thumbs that I. . . Here, here Joseph, cut that out. This column is supposed to be about safety—not murder. So maybe, we can pat ourselves on the back about how safely we do our jobs Or can we? I once heard a well-known doctor -say that the big job for a safety program is to educate the employees to have every cut and seratch taken care of as soon as possible. He claimed that if a man fell and broke his leg someone else would see that he received First Aid for it, or if he slashed an artery, But if the same man gets a little scratch, it generally goes unattended, for one one else bothers, And it is the slight, almost unnoticeable scratches that are the killers. The other day I saw a poster that was particularly good. It merely showed a man digging a grave. These words appeared beneath: “A scratch one-sixteenth of an inch long can mean a grave six feet deep.” The whole world, not only our B.C. woods, seems to be getting “safety conscious.” Not so long ago a general safety survey was con- ducted in some fourteen states in the U.S. One fact that came to light was of particular interest. It was found that of every three hundred and thirty unsafe acts, there were twenty-nine accidents of a minor nature and one serious accident. The minor accidents would be ones requiring medical attention and hospitalization for a period of not more than fourteen days. The serious:one could be a death, or a person permanently crippled, but at the any rate it-would mean more than fourteen days in the hospital. Remember those facts. Today you may have been a bit careless about getting in the clear when the rigging-slinger sent that big one in. Yet tonight you are still O.K. You might do the same thing to- morrow and get away with it, too, But... these figures show—and it has been long a known truth that figures don’t lie (alas! all too true! Today I figured out my Income tax) the turn is not too far in the future when, if you insist on being careless you are going to find yourself another worker who “took a chance”—and was carried out on a stretcher. ff i i 1 ; | Searle's Shoes | | There Is No Substtute i | For QUALITY | ees | COURTENAY CUMBERLAND | Lowes Green Grocery Confectionery Tobaccos * COURTENAY, B.C. E Phone 357 Box 143