Page Six THE B,C. LUMBER WORKER . November 20, 1944 Letters to the Editor _ © SAY WHAT YOU PLEASE Cedar Log. Co. Improves Camp To the Editor: ‘Thanks for the Lumber Workers you have been sending us. The former K & W Logg. Co. is now owned and operated by the Cedar Logg. Co., so in future please address the Lumber Worker to this address, The Cedar Logg. Co. took it over in August. We have only a road gang of seven men, a carpen- ter, a mechanic and a handy man here yet. Everything had to be rebuilt and fixed up to make the camp fit for men to live in. A new cookhouse will be started within a week or 10 days. Pete Lindstrom came up to cook today so we should have some good grub on the table from now on, OSCAR JOHNSON, Card 2571. Cedar Logg. Co, , Forward Bay, B.C. Relations Good ’ At OBrien Log - To the Editor: This is our first endeayor to get into the Lumber Worker. Our camp conditions are slowly ‘improving since Brother Fraser was here in August. One of the improvements is an enclosed erummie which previously was like the BCE Railway summer ob- servation car. A new wash-house has been built with a first class dry-room. This building is some- thing to be pleased about. The meals here are good, but the lunches could be improved. At our last regular monthly meeting the attendance was very good and we discussed many things in the line of camp improvements such as sanitary conditions and safety first. The Victory Bond salesmen were up here and with them was Bro. Thompson, president of the Paper- Attention £ We Carry a complete Line of High Class GENTS’ CLOTHING Head to Toe CLEANING. AND PRESSING We exchange old suits for new WINDSOR TAILORING & CLOTHING 32 E. Hastings - Vancouver, B.C. ee | Syd Harrison HARRISON CLOTHES SHOP Stylists for Ladies’ and Gentlemen's Smartly Tailored Clothes 16 East Hastings St. PAc. 7047 Vancouver | Discuss Return Of Servicemen To the Editor: At a recent meeting of our sub- local there was interjected a thought that-gave a new angle to the returning soldier seeking his former occupation. The discussion arose during the debate on the Un- employed Insurance Bill. members considered it the respon- sibility of the government to re- habilitate the soldier in a manner compensable to his sacrifice. To those who “are giving all, daring all, enduring all, to the utmost, to the end” needs more considera- tion than offering him his old job back, which perhaps was that of a dishwasher, flunkey, or a choker- man. Such gracious action on the part of our employers and our na- tion to hold such jobs open would immediately relieve our govern- ment of further responsibility on that individual soldier's behalf, and at the same time relegate the employee who was removed to make way for the hero, to the ten- der mercies of our municipal fathers, at least after he used up his quota of benefits under the Act — if he had any coming. As a union we have a greater responsibility to the soldier than offering him his job back, which often was a discouraging and thankless one. It is the duty of organized labor to see that on our soldiers’ return from the blood baths of Europe and Asia, the government shall not escape the responsibility of rehabilitating the soldier in conformity with the Four Freedoms. In view of the daily press giv- ing publicity to the IWA conven- tion in the Hotel Vancouver, and of the elaboration of the contenti- ous subjects, it is thought among some of our members that a full report be published of the whole proceedings in the next issue or Our issues of The B.C. Lumber | Worker. * There has not been much im- Provement on the tidyness of the camp “grounds.” Odd bits of paper and beer bottles are still thrown around. The majority are trying to make this camp as home- like as it is possible to make a camp, so. . . well, go ahead and |}do as you are doing if it makes you feel at home. The press committee chairman got mildly censured by our kindly editor on the length of these re- ports, so we stop right here. : Harrison Mills. Cameron Workers Receive Pennant To the Editor: On Tuesday, November 7th, em- ployees of the Cameron Lumber Co., Victoria, B.C., received the emblem of the Seventh Victory Loan to add to the flag won last time. ‘With.it was the white pen- pant, signifying purchases of bonds amount to 17% percent of the payroll or $26,200. Brother Roy Whittle accepted the flag on behalf of the men, after congratu- latory speeches by I. O. Cameron and Lieut. McRae, RCN. The boys are looking forward to the annual banquet and dance on November 23rd to be held at the Crystal Gardens. Evidently the committee chose to ignore the hazard of ‘the nearby pool of water, probably figuring that any- one who got that drunk these days deserved to drown. Attention of sub-local 1-118 is drawn to the evening of Wednes- day, November 29th, when the regular meeting will be held. The time is 8 p.m. sharp, and the meeting breaks up no later than 9:30 p.m. Make an effort to be there, PRESS COMMITTEE. makers’ Union from Powell River. He gave us a very interesting talk on organized labor and promoting the sale of Victory Bonds. We will close for now and in the near future we will let you know how things are progressing here at camp. PRESS COMMITTEE, O'BRIEN LOG CO. LTD. Stillwater, B.C. _ Green Lantern Cafe M. B, DAYMAN (Member IWA) ° Where the Boys All Meet! ° @ CHEMAINUS, B.C. William “Red” Wallace Visits Local 1-217 William “Red” Wallace, guest speaker at the meeting of Local 1-217 on Sunday Novy. 12, outlined to the members some of the his. tory of attempts that have been made by President Lowery to ex- pel him from the IWA. He urged all members to get be- hind the petition now being cir- culated for removal of the con- tentious clauses in the constitution. Secretary Benedict also spoke to the meeting and urged the local to turn down the petition. The petition was- endorsed by an overwhelming majority. GREEN German Union Leader — Says People Share Guilt MOSCOW (ALN).—tThe resolution adopted recently by the British Trades Union Congress charging the German people with war guilt was heartily endorsed this week by M. Nieder- kirchner, veteran German trade union leader now in the USSR. In an exclusive interview with Allied Labor News, Nieder- kirchner stated: “As a German and an old trade union worker, I endorse and approve the decisions of the Blackpool Congress. The whole German people cannot evade its political, moral and material responsibility for the atrocities and destructions per- petrated by the Fascist vandals.” Continued PRESIDENT company has acquired assets .of $69,000,000 and reserves of $53,000,- 000, a total of $122,000,000 against liabilities of only $15,000,000. At the outbreak of the war the com- pany secured 250 new, modern street cars so there is no trans- portation problem in Toronto. In addition to providing modern transportation service the Toronto Commission has a complete post- war construction program ready, which includes the building ofa whole number of rapid transit lines radiating from the city cen- tre which will enable them to ab- olish street car lines and replace them with buses. The Commission has already plans to introduce helicopters to provide feeder lines to their bus services. The arguments raised by private enterprisers are completely routed by the concrete examples such as the foregoing. ‘ Publicly owned ‘transportation and hydro electric utilities do op- erate more profitably and effici- ently than privately owned ones. If B.C. is going to take its right- ful place in the nation and if Canada is going to take its right- ful place in the postwar and pro- vide jobs at higher rates of wages, security and everything that guar- antees the winning of the peace it will depend upon the develop- men of our natural resources and electrification is one of the im- portant keys not only to provide cheap electricity to householders but rural electrification for our farmers, irrigation to bring thous- ands of acres of virgin land into production and to provide the ne- cessary cheap power to develop basic and secondary industries to provide these jobs and this se- curity. 5 B.C. must be changed from a backward hydro electric province to a foremost hydro electric prov- ince with the development of our great hydro electric potential. — B,C. has the second greatest hy- dro electric resources of any Can- adian province with the possibility of 7,000,000 horse power. Quebec leads with 8,459,000 horse power with 70 percent already developed under public ownership, while B.C. has only 10 percent of its seven million horsepower developed. If jobs, progress and security are to be guaranteed in the peace that must follow this war, .B.C’s power and light, gas and transportation must be developed and the only possible way that this can be done is under the joint ownership of the province and municipal gov- ernments. Local officers and members are urged to immediately write to the provincial government and let them know your sentiments in this mat- ter. HAVEN | Light Lunches 4 Confectionery — Souvenirs — Magazines — Tobaccos DUNCAN — B.C. ‘Although Hitler is trying to “parade as the protector of the German people” in urging that “every house become a fortress” against the armies of the United Nations, he continued, “every man of sense knows that the destruc- tion of Fascism and the punish- ment of the Fascist bandits for the monstrous crimes they have committed, far from leading to the destruction of the German peo- ple, will create the conditions for saving them from further exter- mination by the Nazis.” Citing the enormous toll of German lives taken on the Rus- sian and western fronts, Nieder- kirchner pointed out that in ad- dition ::hundreds of thousands ‘of the best sons and daughters of the German people were put to death in concentration camps and in prisons.” The recent attempts of the German leaders to force the whole population to resist, he added, only proved that “they have lost faith in the present Ger- man army and in the real fort- resses, say the Siegfried Line or the East Prussian Wall.” The new divisions organized by closing down the last theaters, concert halls and circuses Niederkirchner described as “so much cannon fodder.” DRAW FOR HOME ON DECEMBER 24 The Workers’ Educational Asso- ciation announces that the draw- ing which was to have taken place on Oct. 21 has had to be post- poned. Owing to the shortage of build- ing materials, WEA students and volunteer workers gave up their weekends and vacation time to work in brickyards and lumber- yards, to speed the building. A clause hidden in the original title deed barred “Jews and other un- desirable nationalities” making the purchase of another lot a ‘must.’ So, on October 2{, Percy Ben- gough, president of the Trades and Labor Congress, laid the cor- nerstone. The drawing will be def- initely and finally on the 24th of December. It will make a nice Christmas gift for someone, it or $5,000 in cash. ‘One person will get a house for a dollar, and the others will have made a worthwhile investment in a permanent office and a labor college here in B.C. "Styles for Young Men and Men who Stay Young” 301 West Hastings St.