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July 10, 1944

WHAT YOU PLEASE

get seven or efght
and form a com-
the purpose of discuss-
for cooks. There is no
there will be a num-
ber of cooks in Vancouver for the
First of July, and it should be a
good time to get them up to the
hall.

Here is what I think the wages
should be for all cooks. One dol-

Jar per hour. An eight-hour day,
and time and a half for all over-
time. Ten men to be the limit for
one cook to handle without a
flunkie. One day off in seven. I
sure would like to see some com-
ments on the above suggestions
from some other cook or cooks.
This camp is one hundred percent
union,
CARD 12690.

Editor’s Note: The problems
of cookhouse crews will be dealt
with in negotiations this fall for
a new contract. Suggestions
should be sent in to focal unions
for discussions and also to The
Lumber Worker,

STRONGEST BULWARK

Every thoughtful American
knows today that a strong labor
movement is one of our strongest
bulwarks against the growth of
fascistic tendencies, and conse-
quently is necessary for our demo-
cratic way of life—Wendell Will-
kie,

A LESSON LEARNED

At first, we American business-
men misunderstood your new So-
viet Socialism. We thought it was
merely to distribute whatever
wealth was already existing. Now
we know that one of your aims
is to increase the total wealth
and every year to distribute more.
—Erie Johnson, head of the U.S.
Chamber of Commerce, in Moscow

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Organized labor should discard
the optmoded concept of returning
representatives of labor to the
Federal House merely to sit on
the Opposition benches,

The anti-national unity, anti-in-
ternational accord, anti-reform and
anti-progressive stand adopted by
certain political parties can only
defeat the cause of labor.

Labor must prepare now to par-
ticipate in the formation of the
next Government; must prepare to
elect representatives of labor
wherever possible; and must ad-
vance the demand that labor re-
presentatves share Cabinet posts.
—The Main Deck, organ of the
Shipyard Workers’ Federation
(CCL), Vancouver, B.C.

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B. & W. Log Camp

Is Organized
B. & W. Log Co.
Port Hard, B.C.
June 25, 1944 ~
To the Editor: This camp is sit-
uated at Port Hardy, B.C., about
five miles distance from town. It
is a truck logging operation, work-
ing one side, fifteen men em-
ployed including two gangs of fall-
ers and buckers, filer and boom
man. A new operation since April.
Camp conditions are fair, with a
ood cook, but a very unsatisfac-
tory wash house and bath house.
The union representative paid us
a visit on June 23. A meeting was
held and a committee of three
elected including a secretary, a
chairman and job steward. The
majority of the crew here were
already members while the re-
mainder are being initiated on the
first of the month. The work here

USSR Postwar Markets
Ease World Unemployment,
States Soviet Economist

By RAYMOND ARTHUR DAVIS

MOSCOW.—(ALN),—The Soviet Union will require vast supplies of
imported commodities after the war “which can ensure employment to
large bodies of labor power in a number of countries,” V. Gayev, prom-
inent Soviet economist, asserts in an article entitled “Plans For Full
Post-War Employment” in the trade union journal “War and the Work-
ing Class.” The successful development of economic relations with the
USSR by the Allied Nations is, therefore, “one of the most essential
ways of effectively easing unemployment,” he adds.

After analyzing proposals for full employment put forth by the
British and American governments and by sections of industry in those
countries, Gayev notes that none of these plans “propose the complete
abolition of unemployment. On the contrary,” he says, “the preserva-
tion of a reserve army of labor within certain limits is one of the
characteristic features of these projects.”

All the big industrial countries are closely connected in the world
market, and a crisis in one country inevitably spreads to the others,
Gayev asserts, adding that all plans for full utilization of labor power
should “cross the boundaries of the individual countries.” The longer
——————————— } the war lasts, he says, “the greater
will be its damage to the founda-
tions of the national economies
and the more difficult will be the
task of providing post-war em-
ployment for millions of people.”
The shrinking of national wealth

is by the day-(no contract) with
average rates of pay. Have col-
lected dues and init. to the extent
of $69.50.
Fraternally,
CAMP COMMITTEE.

Mills Loading Boom
h Lake, B.C.

Nimpkis

= =

and the continued destruction of
production machinery in Europe
“cannot but worsen the prospects
for the fight against unemploy-
ment,” he states.

One condition without which
there is no hope of preventing
widespread unemployment, Gayev
continues, is “an established, firm
and lasting peace.” Another pre-
requisite, he notes, is “the creation
of firm political foundations for
friendly relations between the
peace-loving countries, big and
small.”

Continued

Deaths

Judson Dan Lamarsha died in
the Duncan Hospital July 3, 1944,
following a fall from a 25-foot
timber conveyor at the Lake Log-
ging Company operations at Hon-
eymoon Bay, Cowichan Lake.

Clarence Ballance of East Wel-
lington died in the Victoria hos-

Pictured above is the mill’s loading boom handy gadget invented
by Russell Mills and used for the first time in B.C. at the Nimpkish
Lake camp Canadian Forest Products. The loading device is used
in a cat show and is considered by the crew to be one of the safest
loading mechanisms yet invented. Pictured with the machine is
the crew from the cat side at Nimpkish Lake.

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pital July 6 as a result of an
accident at the Eileen McGarrigle
logging operations at Nanoose, of
which he is foreman. He is sur-
vived by his widow, at present in
hospital with pneumonia, and 10
children. An inquest will be held
Monday. 5

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