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INTERNATIONAL, WOODWORKERS OA eg ea GIS) Again the_B.C. Lumber Worker goes to ee carrying the news
Editor: BERT MELSNESS (on leave, Scan Army) ABU Meni Os Wes Gaia RCN
Managing Editor: JACK GREENALL alol
Room 504 Holden Building — Phone PAcific 4151 — Vancouver, B.C.

The deadline for stories for the att issue is 4 p.m. Thursday,
September 14.

in Cranbrook in the interior of
read with interest in New Zeala
some day tell

B.C. I also note our paper is
ind as we Reraes mes Balton wl

ae Boys:
am sometimes gently chided
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|for a habit I have picked -np
‘ of the IWA procee: eding as it is, it may be in the near future it will be talking to myself, Some of my
y . Tr easier for the Editor to tell us where it is NOT critics forget that half a century
Unemploym t Insu fd nce Never having worked in the “short log” ae = B.C. (my early fekingare ods
f inin;
loggers are asking the question, as should the loggers be} Wick which is part
Insuran i

r, if the source of a ntamin: ni Ido
si is dangerous to all users of ae wate and rothers,|I have very good reason. First
ee that the loggers were meen at the time of the geveuration of| we all use jobs! Recently Vancouver's water suppl chlorinated like to
for ntam:
The

aa and ae same prin-

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; in the Iumber inst the a being applied via the ee me Like to steno
B ‘ Union Hiring Hall AFTER i f bef
and that the fluctuation was so great in the industry that it -would

Imagine (I can't),
It would not be beyond ine ous of Posies fe ie nies oe pseu cae
the Interior camps and mills in the futur
a ;

itl Rion a igust 100 per cent over the average of any two m«
" ‘ 8 to July 1, but still this is aoe anor Ea to fill
try, this stabilization will increase as the industry becomes more ae justify the establishing n Hiring Hall. mn is more than any puzzle
di (© GENTE) TEU Ge ently I gone a iis from a brothér out in camp a ae pices:

below standard which will eliminate the causes of flunctuation of. the te states in part, “I wish every logger would hire oat through the| On the job in B.C. the Wood-
mn His 2 Ha 1.” As the on is father to the deed, I trust that every | Workers have a reputation for do-
Although the present scheme is not all that we desire and contains ange woes peeicee) wits who have already hired out the Union Ha theif, ‘share, of anything ee

many clauses not acceptable to labor, the best way to get the kind of | Wa¥» are wishing
social insurance that is sek is aie us fig

cluded under the sche

onths previous the union members
the demands, although it have o te them and do nothing
un

be done
hh seldom will you find a mill
hnting to get the loggers in- the scares 206 Holden Building. Phone: daytime, MA.| tan ‘or logger who will allow his
e, and together with all other organizea_054 evenings Dees fellow worker to do his work for
labor in the Dominion of bee tek for amendments to the U; an en

: 2 Ba sae] ; dim
Our arguments for revision of the scheme wi a much sounder + aN Nov
basis when the Unemployment Insurance is Ae eae to the ‘eels

industry.

Th

given country is to the degree that
the nation provides social feeaciey measures to its
nt do ni

alright, or that he will join if so
people. In times al so joins, an
of unemploym« we renct the bogies, th from shouldering his part of the _
relief camps, and the relief line-ups. Measures to provide for main- “ load during the heat of the day is ©
of decent standard of living in times of industrial slump and Just letting “George do it for him,”

‘ciety. Unemployment is a social problem and must be a national

and George can do a hell of a lot

if Tom, Di
respousibility. Unemployment insurance is a step forward on the road
to progress. : :

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Re 9 Tass erotics tee

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w boys, I was going to wind
w ‘with a good story, but to be

Representative Gov't

think of one that would do jus-

ice 2 my reputation; and, after

Onee a year our local unions are required to send democratically- E ual Work, Eq ual Pa a Oe sae a ie ou nt o

elected delegates to the annual conventions of the International Wood- eptember 13 in Ottawa the ye ring q! fore the National War| writing this column; :

workers of America * the Canadian of Labor to hammer ae Board in ae case of the IWA versus the Hammond Cedar Co.|not jealous of the aeons at

eut the program for the future, review our past, ae peerciee neces-| over the question of certain categories in the Hammond Mill, the

sary, amend our constitution for- greater Soe dom. important of which is the question of al pay for e about the weather either, in spite
In the process of electing these oop che. ar aS ar some mis-| WOrk, will commence: IWA Local 1-367, under whose jurisdiction this|of the insinuations of the editor, -

aes member objecting to sendin; lected, representatives to | °S¢ has been fought, is the smallest IWA Local in British Columbia, |who suggests he might take a trip

conventions on ee grounds bat: it costs ae mut eh or r we pons spare | 2nd has faced one ae the hardest struggles to confront any local of the|up there “prospecting.” That Bull-

the brother or t hh 0 be taken | }WA duri es this past year. ook up there may be a weather

ark Gh And _at times you hear excuses advanced ee eaten Members of this eal ‘when asked to choose between signing an|Pfophet, but he will have to go

is packed g is is cut and dried, serement vith all a ee benefits shat this wi wuld entail even iteueh some to keep up to.a husky old
so why bother going anyway. e question of wom ot settled entirely to taste satis-|fimer like me. If Greenall shot)

uses are pega to say the least. Our democratic tae tion, fend a oe show Sab a Bae ae
yi ake geearnvantaf cur country, | 25 this azue was sate, nso ie the latter one ‘nd pant B fellow bulleook
SeenPicaiioni Npiiing is “ever pa rather heavil The issue being fought is one | not to believe all he hears. There
ays have to fight for it. that concerns ae oe at sp aR ees is one of the basic principles |'8 2 of good material in e
Romtaye teeta intone the | Of our organizz zation. ‘The Soma lost no opportunity to make these an fellow yet. Not only that,

but
mt e making in an eet to alesse hink of ae ee fellows have
ie war against fascism. Our Mer in wee organizational crete That thes

oe have met est to stick: tox
ob city of the Frankly bene er my in-
pst nai at maintain workers at Hammond. Geter spirations aren’t so good toward
thi 1H
je future youn of labor takes on Every member in British Columbia will join with the District ea ee aa pear ee ie re
sin to be gui ed and security ob- ache in eae tribute these workers ss the ae manner lieve that the iar! pandieeht
ifs song of “eee 2 sey con-| in which phew: have carried their burden. oe see will be spared o1
be returned a thousand-fold in the for ow
the interests ze ea and the ecu of ecianade

out B.C. i ee have as their slogan “One oun
of this case, the winning of which will as s Boat fe which | 9 day keeps cheerfulness wae
3 we are all deeply concerned. So long, boys.

September 4, 1944