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THE BC.

LUMBER WORKER

LETTERS

CAMP ACTIVITY

By ROVING REPORTER

J. R. MORGAN LTD., CAMP 1,
CUMSHEWA INLET, B.C.

At the regular monthly meet-
ing of this sub-local, a vote was
taken on the three points to be
embodied into the 1946 agree-
ment. The members were unani-
mously in favor of this. Safety
and grievance committees were
formed as former members had
left the employ of the camp.
CRUCIL LOG CO., LTD.
SECHELT, B.C.

The members of this sub-local
endorsed the wages and contracts
committee’s reporh at theif
meeting held recently. Brothers
J. H. McGinley and Ben Salter
volunteered to act as auditors|
on the newly formed auditing
committee. 4
JERVIS INLET TIMBER CO.
LTD., JERVIS INLET, B.C.

Brother Mickey Collins was
elected Chairman and Brother
Bill Byers was elected Secretary
of the sub-local at the meeting
held February 4th, Grievance
Committee, Safety First Com-
mittee and a Press Committee
were also formed. It was M/S/C
that the management be asked
for a check off of union dues.
INTERNATIONAL _LUMBER-
ING ASSOCIATION, HOM-
FRAY CREEK ,B.C.

At the union meeting held
Feb. 4th, the members voted
unanimously to endorse the Dis-
trict Program, Wages & Con-
tract Committee’s report. The
safety committee suggested that
no blasting be carried out during
working hours, and that blankets
be provided for all stretchers in
the woods.

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602 HOLDEN BLDG.
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Camp Comments

“Every Reader a Correspondent”

Local 1-80 Swings Into

Action On 1946 Program

The unanimous approval of

the convention proposals for 1946

negotiations, was given by members of Local 1-80 at their annual
meeting held in the K of P Hall, Duncan, January 27th. This
included endorsation of the taking of a strike vote and the collec-
tion of a $100,000.00 Strike Fund. The officers were instructed to

start the campaign for collection

The meeting was opened by
Mayor Savage of Duncan who
spoke warmly on the construc-
tive work done by the IWA in
this District and complimented
the leaders and membership for
an outstanding record during the
war. Mr. Sam Guthrie, MLA,
gave a lively talk and pledged
his support to the IWA program

for higher wages, a forty-hour|

week and union security. Hjal-
mar Bergren, District Vice-
President, and one of the old-
time leaders and builders of Lo-
cal 1-80, spoke at some length
on the perspective of world la-
bor in the coming period and
the part that the IWA must
play. John McCuish, President of
Local 1-71, was also a very wel-
come visitor as was Mr. A. M.
Whisker, Safety Director of the
Department of Labor, who ad-
dressed the meeting and urged
greater safety measures in the
lumbering industry. Mrs. V.
Weaver represented the Ladies’
Auxiliaries and reported on the
activities of the Lake Cowichan
local. The importance of organ-
izing the Auxiliaries to assist
the union was her main theme.

Phe officers in their annual
report to the meeting, said that
“the efforts of organized labor
throughout the continent has de-
veloped into one of the greatest
crusades in the history of the
labor movement, with the united
efforts centered around the de-
mands for the 40-hour week, $2
per day increase in wages and
union security.”

“Labor is united as never be-
fore to forestall the attempts of
those who would smash wages,
which would in turn reduce our
nation to pre-war working and
living standards.” The report
stated that “if we are to main-
tain and increase the standards
set throughout the war period,
these demands must be won, and
unless labor is successful, the
peace for which this war was
fought and which all peoples
looked forward to, with hopes for
jobs and security for young and
old, would be lost.” >

Among the recommendations
in the officers’ report for the
achieving of these demands, were
that “labor must at every op-
portunity bring the real issues
before the public, and how the
success of our negotiations is a
vital concern to themselves. The
business men must know and
be made to understand that low
wages and unemployment means
fewer customers for all goods and
empty stores for the little busi-
ness man. That when depression
comes, he is the first to go bank-
rupt, and that higher basic
wages and salaries will give us
full employment, a rising stan-
dard of living, prosperity and
abundance,

“Second, we must tell the far-
mers that low wages and unem-
ployment means few customers

of this fund immediately.

Nominations

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For Local 1-80;
Nomination of officers by

Local 1-80 for the coming year
‘which will be submitted to the
membership by referendum vote
are as follows: president, Owen
G. Brown; first vice-president,
George Grafton; second vice-
president, J. Parkinson; third
vice-president, H. Hall and G.
A. McLeod; financial secretary,
W. Killeen; recording secretary,
F. Wilson; warden, V. Weaver
and P. McDonald; three year
trustee, J, Atkinson. Blected as
delegates to the Island Labor
Council were: A. Greenwell, F.
Wilson, W. Sutherland. 0. Ar-
buthnot, J. Parkinson, Wm. Me-

Martin, W. Killeen, and C.
Hadrell, alternate,

Delegates to the District
quarterly meetings were: 0.

Brown, D. Custer, J, Parkinson,
I J. Gibson, Geo. McLeod, Geo.
Crafton, L. Sumner, P, Weaver.
W. Killeen was elected as ex-
ecutive board member for B.C.
District Council No. 1.

A very representative Politi-
cal Action Committee was elect-
ed including the following mem-
bers: F. Dougan, D. Custer, C.
Haddrell, Geo. Grafton, W. Kil-
leen, 0. Brown, F. Wilson and
Wm. McMartin.

Sick And Injured
At Port Alberni

Folowing is a list of those
woodworkers sick or injured who
are patients in the West Coast
General Hospital during the past
week, submitted by Jimmy Bur
ton, Sick Committee.

Alfred Beauregard, Camp 3,
Sproat Lake; Caesar Branchi,
Camp 10. Sproat Lake; Harold
Dahl, Great Central Mill; Ru-
dolph Rost, Camp B Franklin
River. Choy Lay Lum, APL Mill;
James Rogers. McLean’s Mill;
Hary Lawson, Great Central
Mill; George Lloyd, P.L.I.B.; Joe
Frktich. Plywoods; Albert Mil-
Jer, BS&W Mill; Jack Muirhead.
Great Central Mill; Victor An-
derson, BS&W Mill; Steve Clym-
chuk, Camp B Franklin River;
Wm. Jackson. Camp 1 APL;
Louis Beaulieu, APL Mill.

for their piled up crops and their
farm products. That the indus-
trial worker is his biggest cus-
tomer. That unless wages are in-
ereased and jobs provided for
unemployed Canadian workers,
he will see the return of the days
when millions of bushels of
wheat were burned, while thous-
ands of Canadians were living
in a state of semi-starvation un-
able to buy the food he pro-
duced.”

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REPORTS

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A Letter From Finland

Dear Brother McCuish: : Ml
Was I a glad fellow this morning when I received your c#)

of Season’s Greetings from back home. I haven’t heard from any
of the old comrades from B.C. since 1989. I have intended to write
but to where? The addresses have been unknown since the Union
Headquarters was changed from the good old 180 W. Hastings
Street. ‘

I sure landed in a God forsaken country of pro fascists as
you are all aware. It is too bad that the comrades from the East
didn’t occupy the whole country and have a real clean out here
so the people could start by themselves as & new nation. There are
too many of the old ones left in the new government that should
be hanging on the highest tree tops.

Say, how are the other friends and brothers: H. Bergren, H.
McNeil, Gunrud, Dalskog, Johnson and Scotty; you know who
I mean. Are they still active members. I guess you are aware
that I got married here in 1938 and am a proud father of four kids
(two pairs of. twins), the oldest will be 7 years in April and the
youngest 4 years in April. The oldest ones are two girls and the
younger ones are one of each, so this is not far from a record
of each kind, or what do you think? ;

The worst of all is to raise a family here as you can’t buy 4
anything for yourselves or the kids. There is absolutely nothing,
no clothes, no food or anything else, An example: as simple a :
thing as a cup of coffee hasn’t been here since the war broke out;
but the government has promised some in the month of February
as the boat is loading now in South America. The price will be
1300 finnmarks a pound for it, and the best of wages here is
800 marks a dayiso that is that. This is only one example of the
standard of living for a working man here. The same goes for
everything else.

Will close now, with greetings, best wishes and happiness
throughout the coming year, and this goes for the rest of the
brothers also.

Hindersby, Lapptrask, Finland.

J. R. EKLOW.

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Contract Signed For
Silver Skagit Camp

The signing of an agreement
between Silver Skagit Logging
Company at Hope, B.C., and the
IWA, Local 1-367, was an-
nounced last week by Shelly
Rogers, IWA Business Agent.
The agreement is the standard
form and was negotiated by the
District IWA Committee and

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employers. The contract will be
re-opened on March 16th along
with all others in the industry,

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