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- B.C. LUMBER WORKER

Higher Taxes
On Bosses Urged

OTTAWA — Renewed demands
for a re-imposition of price con-
trol, revival of excess profits
taxes and higher corporation
taxes were made by the Congress
in a recent submission to the
Royal Commission on Prices. The
Commission has not completed its
hearings and is preparing a re-
port, ‘The Congress brief, pre-
sented by Dr. E. A. Forsey, Dir-
ector of Research, said tax reduc-
tions alone were not enough to
meet current problems.

“We are in a ‘cold war’, a state
of, continuous emergency,” the
brief said. “We have triumphed
over one aggressor only to be
threatened by another, at least as
dangerous, and in some ways
more 60, If we really want to pre-
serve our free society we must
stop inflation. Price control is
the way to do it.”

Backed by a mass of official
statistics, the 10,000-word docu-
ment outlined clearly conditions
which Canadian workers face and
constituted a strong case for the
re-imposition of controls,

As MacMillan’s declare a
profit of $814 mililon, lum-
ber industry spokesmen are
painting a gloomy picture of
the future of the industry in
B.C.

But MacMillan also reassured
his shareholders of his confidence
that markets would be found to
replace that of Britain.

The Financial Post also seems
more optimistic than most British
Columbia operators and reports
that “many leaders in the indus-
try expect that Britain will even-
tually buy as much this year as
last.’

But whether or not the British
people are able to buy B.C. lum-
ber there is a market right at our
door for all the industry can pro-
duce for many years to come.

The Curtis Committee on Re-
construction, set up by. the gov-
ernment, reported in 1943 that
Canada would require 700,000
new houses in the first 10 years
after the war, in order merely to
cut the housing shortage in half.

ANNUAL MEETING

“WIUC” Stooges, Spies, Take
And Break IWA Oath

The annual meeting of Local 1-71, held in the Arcadian
Hall, 7th & Main, December 27th, was the object of a

great deal of attention from
Not only did they attempt

the LPP-WIUC.
to sabotage the meeting by

cancelling the hall by phone and spreading the story along
the skidroad that it had been cancelled, but they sent

stooges along to take notes.

When members voiced the sus-
picion that “WIUC” spies were
present, everyone in attendance
‘was called to take the oath of
membership in the TWA. Every-
one present did so without protest
of any sort.

Three days later, eight of
them, including two who had
accepted nomination, wrote to
the secretary of Local 1-71 to
resign, admitting that two days
after the meeting of Local 71
they had attended a meeting of
the “WIUC”.

The meeting on the 27th heard
addresses by International Presi-
dent’ Fadling, Vice-president Al
Hi and Bro, George Home,
President of the Vancouver Labor
Council and Secretary of the B. C.
Federation of Labor.

Following their addresses, Dis-
trict_President Stewart Alsbury
and Bro. Tom Bradley gave a re-
port on the: situation at Iron
River.

The following were nominated
to hold office for the coming year:
President, J. McEwan; vice-presi-
dent, Art Bush; Secretary-treas-
urer, Leo Young; trustees, Foley,
Hobson and Howard; Conductor,
g Beamer; Warden, Dave Dona-

ue,

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Stanfield’s Underwear

SICK LIST

INJURED MEN
NOT FORGOTTEN

Hospital visiting committee re-
ports that cigarettes, magazines
and Iron River leaflets have been
distributed to the following bro-
thers, who are in hospital:

+ General Hospital—Jan. 1949

Mike Popoff—Expects to be out
soon.

Calyin Marshall—Doing fine.

T. Prediger —Evans Products.
Back injury.

Ewald Reusch —Eburne Saw-
mills. Appendix operation, out
soon.

George MacCallum— Bloedels.
Just arrived Saturday, doing fine.

Arthur Delorme — Northern
Pulpwood, Sandspit, Q.C.I. Hurt
in July, doing fine,

Sam Waykin—Brother Waykin
has been in hospital for some
time with a leg injury and will
be in for a few weeks yet. He is
doing nicely.

George Shantz — Leg coming
along fine.

Leonard Hopton—Doing nicely,
will be in for a short while yet.

Leo Corrivean — Gordon River.
Broken knee cap.

_Wm. Roberts — Progressing
nicely.

Kenneth Maclyor—Doing well,
expects to be out this week.

Robert MacLeod — Expected to
have operation January 6th on
his knee.

St. Paul’s Hospital—Jan. 1949
Erickson — B,C, Forest Pro-
ducts. Hand injuries,

McBurney—Sash & Door. Hand
injuries.

Mordus — Prince George. Foot
trouble.

W, Jones—Hole Logging Cam
Foot better. a a

If an attempt were made to
provide only enough houses to
accommodate the couples getting

married each year authorities | /
state 100,000 units would be re-

quired.
To build them would take over

a billion board feet of lumber—
just the amount that has been

going to the British market from

British Columbia,

“If the government will act
and if Mr. MacMillan and his fel-
low lumber operators will accept
a cut in their present exorbitant
profits so as to bring costs with-
in reason, there is no need for a
slump in the B.C. lumber indus-
try,” said an IWA spokesman.
The lumberworkers can be kept
busy for years supplying the ma-
terials for the houses the people
in Canada so badly need.

IWA Men Die
In Train Smash

Woodworkers in B.C. learned
with the deepest regret of the deaths
of two members of Local 1-217 in
the shocking interurban-car smash
on New Year's Day.

They were Alfred J. Howard, 30,
731 Blundell Road, Steveston, whose
wife, Mrs. Margaret Howard, also
died in the crash, and William
Coundley, 30, 840 Helmcken.

The three unfortunate people were
in a car when it collided with an
interurban train at Twelfth and
Arbutus.

From all members to the relatives
of the bereaved goes out the deepest |
sympathy over the shocking happen- |
ing.

Squalls Ahead
For Politicians

OTTAWA—Expectations are that
the next session of the House of
Commons, opening January 26th,
wil be a lively one, Pre-election
sessions are notoriously brisk and
it is likely that when the mem-
bers return to Ottawa late next
month they will be reporting for
the final session before a 1949
general election.

George Drew will take his seat
for the first time as new leader
of the Conservative Party and
parliamentary observers are won-
dering whether he will show in
the Commons the same display'of
bad temper that marked his par-
ticipation in the Carleton and
Digby-Annapolis-Kings by - elec-
tions. No sooner had he won the
traditionally Conservative seat of
Carleton than he bustled off to
the West Indies for a Christmas
holiday. Leaders of other parties
spent their Christmas in Canada.

From a Labor standpoint, one
of the most important matters to
come before parliament will be
the question of whether or not
rent control is to be continued.
CCF members will take a leading
part in the battle to retain con-
trols and protect families from
still further drastie increases in
living costs,

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Submit Your News
And Views To
The Editor

" MacMILLAN EXPORT 1948 NET PROFIT — $8,484,000!

__ AND INDUSTRY BOSSES SEE “GLOOMY YEAR” —FOR WHOM?

‘Profit and Price Control,
Cheap Housing, Is IWA Reply

MacMILLAN — SNOWMAKER

SAFETY NOTE

HARD HATS A ‘MUST’ AT
POWELL RIVER CAMPS

Fallers and buckers at Kelly Logging, Alice Lake,
O’Brien’s, Bell & Campbell, and Moh Creek Camps will have
to wear hard hats in the future, as a condition of employ-

ment.

Bruce Low, safety director of
the Powell River Co., made this
announcement at a conference on
safety measures on Monday, at-
tended by Bros, Jim McEwan and
Leo Young, President and Secre-
tary of Local 1-71.

When these camps re-open
fallers, buckers, bull buckers and
sealers will be required to sign
an undertaking that they will
wear safety hats at all times
while working. Failure to do so
will constitute grounds for dis-
missal.

Explaining the reasons for this
new policy, Low reported that 25
percent of the fatalities which
have occurred to date in the
woods could have been prevented
by the use of hard hats, and that
the Powell River Co. is deter-
mined to cut down the fatality
rate of the camps supplying tim-
ber to its mill.

A lengthy discussion took
place between the representa-
tives of the employers and the
union on the whole question of
safety measures in the woods.
It was reported that in the first
nine months of 1948 accidents
had been occurring at the rate
of 155 for every 500 men in the
woods, and that 68 men had
been killed in the course of the
year. "

Union representatives pledged
their support to a campaign to
make the membership safety-
conscious and to have safety com-
mittees of experienced men in
every camp working on the prob-
lem of reducing the accident rate.

The employers’ representatives
undertook to impress on the op-
erators the necessity of observing
safety regulations and maintain-
ing adequate safety equipment.

All parties agreed that the
presence in the logging camps of
young, inexperienced men created
a danger for all workers, and
stressed the necessity for older
men, and those in positions of
authority accepting responsibility
for training these young men in
the principles of safety.

1-217 ELECTS
DELEGATES

Meeting of Local 1-217 IWA,
Vancouver, in the Arcadian Hall,
Jan, 9, elected 2i delegates to
attend the B.C. District Conven-
tion,

The same meeting named Bro-
thers A. Busch, John Busch, Cyril
Clarkson, Tony Gargrave, Tom
MacKenzie, R. Watters and Lloyd
Whalen as delegates to the Van-
couver Labor Council for the en-
suing year.

These delegates were seated at
the general meeting of the Van-
couver Labor Council on Jan. 11.

A number of important reso-
lutions were endorsed for con-
sideration of the B.C. District
Convention, Jan. 15 and 16.

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B. C. DISTRICT CONVENTION
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