October 22, 1945

THE BC. LUMBER WORKER

* A Column Of Comment *

Page 11

Flowers and Books
At Harrison Mills

TO THE EDITOR:

The Mobile Unit X-Ray, Divi-
sion of TB Control, Board of
Health was in the Deroche Dis-
trict, October 1. A good number
of the boys took advantage of
this and had the X-Ray examin-
ation.

Our President and Secretary
ttended the last Executive
necting of 1-367 at dlission. Tt
is a 60 mile drive, there and
back, but they consider it not
too far when engaged in the
work the Brothers assign them.
Our Secretary is Vice-President
of the Local and this trip is
taken every second week.

The library here is well pat-
ronized, and good books are
circulating among the Brothers.
The arrangements are 60c for
membership with be’ exchange
on each book. The entire pro-
ceeds go to the replenishing of
the library. We are thinking of
joining one of the monthly Book
Clubs to keep abreast on cur-
rent reading.

The road is now through to
Chehalis Lake and some of the

boys tall of the big ones that

get away, when they go fishing | |

over the week ends. Some paint
work has beem done around the
camp which makes an improve-
ment. The lawns, three of them,
Ihave been green all summer and
the rockeries and the flower
borders are ablaze with color.
There is a 70 foot row of sweet
peas that have been blooming all
summer. Believe it or not, they

average eight feet tall and were
still blooming on October 1.
Landscape gardening may be
unusual in a logging camp; but
we, at Chehalis think the ef-
fort well worth while. The First
Aid Attendant is the gardener,
The management put at our
disposal, a room to be used as
an office for our union business.
Now we are hoping to induce the
Management to
recreation room,

construct a

The Brother who was opposed
‘o dog rationing (two per per-
son) may have been worried lest
the butchers interpret it as Hot
Dogs. The picture show at the
Mission meeting was a good
one; but some of our Brothers
thought that it too much re-
duced the time that could have
been devoted to important bus-

ness, especially to the excellent

address and report of District
President, Harold Pritchett. We
had a good represtntation at
‘our local meeting on October 10,
including two sister members,

sent from work without sanc-
tion of the Company for a period
longer than twenty-four hours;
and often with no excuse other
than John Barleycorn. When
these brothers are dismissed for
such cause, we miss them around
the camp and the bunkhouse;
and it does not help the good re-
lationship we have with the
management,

HAROLD G. SHAW

Would Keep Politics

Out of Union
TO THE EDITOR:

I would like to express my
views regarding Union and
Politics. For the past two years,
I have notieed within our union
here in B.C., the activities of our
leaders towards politics.

I believe-a man should have
the privilege of choosing the
Political Party he likes; but I

become a member of any Pol-) agreed and warned our Leaders

itical Party at the same time, as
the mixing of union and politics
could only cause arguments and
disunity among the members.

I can well remember some-
time ago at one of our Local
metings, at which the late
President, of the IWA-CIO at-
tended, our President of B. C.
District No. 1 had spoken on

against Politics within the
Union. He suggested that we

should put all our efforts in the
building of the Union instead.

I fully agree with Brother
Lowery thati we should stick to
a straight Trade Union Policy,
and that atl outside interests and
activities should be kept apa
from the Union. \

“The need of politics within the Yours truly,
Canadian Forest Products|do not believe that any man|Labor movement”. The .late F. Lacasse, Fraser Mills.
Chehalis. _| holding office in a union should! Brother Worth Lowery dis- Local 1-357

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Lei’s Cut The Cackle

During the past se

repeatedly stressed

this period, a series
the title “Let's Cut

‘sion.

On behalf of the Se

responded,

Intelligence Office of the Combined Services

working as enemy agents were caught relaying
important information to the enemy across the
Pacific and elsewhre.

We weren't fooling when we published, during

public to beware of spreading any items’ of
secret information that came into their posses-

we take this opportunity to thank all those
citizens who so sensibly and _patriotically

veral years the Security

the fact that persons

of announcements under
the Cackle,” warning the

curity Intelligence Office

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