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Bi-monthly Bulletin Published by The B.C. District Council, International W oodworkers of America, Affiliated to Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)

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Vol. XIV, No. 15

VANCOUVER, B.C., July 16, 1945

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Island Fires Cause Devastation;
Lower Coast Camps Shut Down

37 Million Bd. Feet of Timber =
Burned, Log Shortage Serious

Alberni and Cowichan

ke a to the Aes oF Manes la Wee y a as tempera-| timber destroyed in the forest
tures ranged upward from 75. degrees and humi lity con- ne has to be caught up
tinued to fall. With usand members of the Inter-|'Open market mills are estimated
ational Woodworkers reported ing fire since last week-| working with a 30 to 40 da 2
end, conflagrations are now in hand everywhere, except at ply. ‘The fire will mean it will
Rounds, where the blaze is still roaring through felled and Eatenurinlethay end of tie reat
bucked tim with over thousand acres blackene

nine miles of logging railroad destroyed and 37 million ae
of felled timber burned.

At Rounds, women and chil-} The cure fire outbreak, one
‘ ae fe ‘to be icpaugted early | of the wo: recent years, is
F ishmen Win Sunday, July 8 and taken to} a serious aa The Interna-
“ Honeymoon Bay on the ee tional Woodworkers of: America
A R d corner of Cowichan Lake. . As| joins wi i
F; joins with the Minister of Fo
irst oun vA much furniture and belongings] cstry, r, Kenney and hi:
> s x Which it was possible to move} deparimeiit, in appealing for the
Seinieri Next were rapidly bundled into box] ¢o.0, fall those in
Vancouver seine fleet js|°8%S and taken out of the fire| woo fovexercine the ut’
an Bee anal ng akira wih eee .
Teave Zor the fishing grounds-un- | oi" wmian members were news| “Remember, the forest
til the question of the price for MN Q i res in our future live-
. almost completely surrounde
fall cl is in Johnstone : i - lihood. Let’s protect them!” ap-
Beaitateren ie ‘finalised i the little logging community of pA
Row Fortunately they got | Peale broadcast “Gre

“is union agreement.
Olson and Andy Paskv: an,

‘0 catch up
have been atten

ne losses that

imber, ia

bat Bes suction ok pee
if the will in be re

The mane of Rounds from the air,

uildings were saved

eks and equipment raises doubt

QCI Wages

r Islan

‘Was made came f
ing of the Vancouver coe of the | fire.
United Fisherm and Allied
Workers’ Union Wednesday he Ladys saath fire, ne De ath Toll
night and was unanimous. The |S! in operations 0: Roa
eeting rejected a proposal to h
leave the issue of fall prices| Ver thousand acres sad sey- Reae es 29
to be settled by negotiations at eral znilion ‘et ee a
ne 1 in B.C. bysods
Alert Bay at the end of August. ac se rae Tek at Comox are The death toll in B.C. wo
AY mel mi sal-| reported a total loss, with pos:
on canning prices for 1945 was pay as peeing fines all the of 29 this week erith but half
reached on June 29 and all Unio oe mocgerrs :Pro7| Ps
one enone eae Sun] ‘That blaze, as well as the one 29 septate to
see okt, July 1: This yeora|xt the Ach River operations of Woodworkers | announce the
minimum prices for canning sal-| tte Alberni Pacific Lumber Com-|| “pave been | death of Don-
mon show increases all along the] P27Y at Port Alberni; a sma ed in BC’s | ld McLean, 17-
line. Sockeye are increased one Blaze at Extension and one on|| lumber in- | Yeat-old son of
cual the Adams River on Northern dustry sin Chief Petty Of-
“oath This year will be the first | V@teouver Island, are now pretty || yan. 7, 19. icer and He
time ‘nat Pinks and Chums will] Well under control. Nevertheless, = W. McLeai
he bought by the pound, ‘This forestry officials in Victoria| who died in Port Alberni Monday
cf ted that forest fire hazard on|night as a result of injuries s

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in prices over those of last ‘year. 5

Rooms Wanted

u
prevailing,

fee eciae ee

val futher ‘complicate ape situ-
a for jeans: cutting

n | when
tnexpeced dine. ae che was
mp to

with a pene
APL’s

Last Thursday Young Yov
Chow was sinost instantly killed
while workin ae ce & W log-
ging

while working at

opera’ oa moose,

a tree he had oh fell in an

unable t
From te in the

mee
rth interi

seven million feet. ae stocks

rior comes news
that ee _Sraneon, sawmill op-
is killed on nd

to} ago start 0}
ae: or is a "oe of se veel

flew
meee ue aetoy and fam-

lay
ing pe with the union
is | ¢1

rv
QCI camps has been threatened
by the Region until

as well a:
of obtaining fresh foods and the
act 21

ties anywhere aoe Sher of the
Q.C.1. camps.

The operators are co- -operat-
a aa

fFort to hi a nes xisting

‘ily in S:

million feet of felled and bucked

eas negotiated for the
have been paid

e s Questioned;
To Present Joint Scale

0 Gol over CJOR Dotaeasey at

logging camps last

ee ee
should be a rejection by the Re-
far

gional War Labor Board, an
appeal will be sramediataly, made
to the National Boa:

pau matter is adjusted.
ntime representatives of #
operators, Bans Research, a1 ij .
Local 7. Inter seus 1G | Vi
Woakvorera)-< America; are atlus ictim
preparing a brief asking for ap- a
proval of the existin seale, Of Forest Fire ‘
which is 50 to 90c a day higher “
than oe ceiling rates for Van-| Fi
couver Island. against forest fires on Vancouver
It is ae union’s and operators’ | Island e Gailus, member
somtcuini that rates in the|of IWA 1 1 10 died in
Ques Charlottes have always|Duncan Hospital. Wednesday,
hig! gle: seen thes pate on} July 11. Gailus was working
Veo retty | with a crew near Rout when
Geiied enue conta peaute the fire started nearby. The men
of the extremely hea Hale stripped the rigging from the
peavl pane ibe ont an sect ialized | trees, en Bea 0 flee. Gailus
Ype of logging ran
country; as well as the difficulty deal old water

Sie logge rs caught up
n

er’s Teave” ra the
mploy:

by Lake Logging Company
before cular His parents live

as Bepoate last fall, catutatn
ed; and in hs event that there

in Nan: