B.C,

LUMBER WORKER

Its Easien Than You Think
TO BE AMONG 100,000
KILLED YEARLY BY ACCIDENT

by Bill Grog

(Facts and figures on accidents
in Canada and the U.S.A. in 1948.
Taken from Accident Facts, 1949
edition, National Safety Council.)

Accidents—Leading Cause of
Death?

In a sense, yes. Accidental
deaths cause more loss of work-
ing years than any disease. This
is a fact, attested by an outstand-
ing authority in the field of medi-
cal economics.

It is, of course, well recognized
that only heart diseases, cancer,
and cerebrovascular diseases take
more lives annually than do ac-
cidents. More startling though,
according to Frank G. Dickinson,
Director of the American Medi-
cal Association’s Bureau of Medi-
cal Economic Research, is the
fact that accidents affect national
economy MORE THAN AN¥
DISEASE.

And they cause more loss of
years of life (working and non-
working) than any disease ex-
cept heart disease.

The reason: Degenerative di-
seases strike principally the aged
or middle aged; ACCIDENTS
eee THEIR TOLL FROM ALL

This is the problem today,
viewed strictly as an economic
one. a

The prevention of accidents is
»a major challenge to public health
authorities. The pages of this
book offer ample support of this
assertion — 98,000 persons killed
in 1948, with an average of 18
working years, or almost 30 life
years, destroyed by each death.

Practically every one of these
deaths is preventable, as the cir-
cumstances described throughout
this book repeatedly prove. The
methods which have long been so
successful in combatting disease
will work just as effectively in
the war against accidents. They
include: (1) education or control
of potential victims; (2) elimina-
tion of harmful agents from the
environment, or their isolation in
such a way as to render them
harmless; and (3) the develop-
ment of new ways to render en-
vironments safe and persons less
susceptible to accidents.

The accident prevention pro-
vention program of the nation
and of each community stress
these elements. Every citizen has
a personal interest in the success
of these efforts.

Woods Worst

In the U.S.A. lumbering in
1948 showed the highest fre-
quency rate of 40 major indus-
tries, this was 49.04%. It had the

third highest severity rate of|”

4.64%, This, despite the fact that
lumbering and mining industries
had frequency rate reductions ex-
ceeding the reduction in the av-
erage rate for all industries com-
bined. However this still left
them with the highest rates, and
Tepbering with the highest rate

In 1947 in B.C. there were 176
deaths reported to the Compen-
sation Board, 33,483 injuries re-
ported costing the province $11,-
525,191 for compensation, and 1,-
765,467 dollars for medical ser-
vices, or a total of $13,290,658
dollars that could have been
saved, quite conceivably for wage
inereases to the workers in the
various industries. These com-
bined costs were a million and a
half more than Quebee which was
second to B.C, and only just un-
der four and a half million less
than Ontario.

Compensation and medical
costs in B. C. were on the average
some nine million more than in
Alberta or Manitoba, New Bruns-
wick, Nova Scotia, and Saskat-
chewan,

‘There is room for tremendous
improvement. The IWA can serve
both its membership and the
province as a whole in instituting
and Searing out a Mors and vi-
gorous accident prevention pro-

ae at os do this will need the

Home Mishaps

Just a reminder, your job is not
the most dangerous part of your
life, Accident Facts, 1949 edition,
National Safety Council, shows
that in the U.S.A. in the year
1948, accidental deaths in the
home led with 35,000. In second
place were motor vehicle deaths
with 32,000; public nonmotor ve-
hicle deaths, 17,000; occupational
deaths, 16,500; and occupational
motor vehicle deaths, duplication,
2,400. Figures on Canadian
deaths are not available to the
writer at the present time, but
it is quite safe to say that they
will bé in proportion. In the light
of these figures it would seem
that not only the workers in the
lumbering industry but also their
families need to get behind our
program to wipe out the painful
and costly accidents that occur
hourly, 365 days a year.

PAGING
PAUL DEVINETZ

Will Mr. Paul Devinetz, or
anyone knowing his where-

abouts, please contact Mrs.
Bennett at 47 West Hastings
Street, Vancouver. Mr. Dev-
inetz was formerly of Camp
5, Bloedel’s.

UNION STRENGTH
NEAR MILLION

Total trade union membership
in Canada is 977,594, a steady
increase since 1946. Trades and
Labor Congress of Canada heads
the list with a membership of
439,029 and 2,779 local unions in
affiliation.

Canadian Congress of Labor
comes second with 388,627 and
1,187 affiliated locals. Other or-
ganizations listed by Ottawa in-
clude Canadian Catholic Federa-
tion of Labor with 93,370 mem-
bers and 428 locals, and the In-
dependent International Railway
Brotherhoods with 41,126 mem-

ers.

Export Figures Up

The Pacific Lumber Inspection
Bureau shows export shipments
from Oregon and Washington
for June was 27,423,863 feet.
Oregon shipped 20,033,157 feet
and Washington 7,390,706 feet.

British Columbia continued to
enjoy the lion’s share of the June
export trade with shipments to-
taling 75,603,244 feet.

Total export business for the
first six months of 1949 comes to

480,289,456 feet, B.C. mills also
shipped 440,500,726 feet of do-
mestic cargo and U.S. mills 777,-!
428,068 feet for a total of 1,217,
923,789 feet in the first half of
1949.

SAFETY
.. » » Think

os ae Aled
ne
SAFETY
‘MENTAL’ SHIELD
IS TOUGHEST

By Bill Gray, Secretary
District Safety Council

“Metal safeguards are good,
but mental safeguards are bet-
ter,” so reads the National Safety
Council News Letter.

I want to say a few words
about a law. In the lumber indus-
try it is a most important one
when accident prevention is be-
ing considered,

For you gamblers, and most of
us gamble some time, it is the
Law of Averages.

A man may use an emery wheel
without goggles many times with

no injury to his eyes, but sooner |

or later he will receive some in-
jury, small or great, maybe even
the loss of his sight.

He may lift heavy weights,
while in an awkward position,
many times and suffer no ill ef-
fects, but again, if he makes this
a constant practice he may hurt
himself severely.

He may ignore warning signs
and get away with it for a while,
but that old Law of Averages is
going to catch up with him.

They have such refined and
delicate palates

That they can discover no
one worthy of their bal-

lots,

And then when someone ter-
rible gets elected

They say, There, that’s just
what I expected!

(Ogden Nash).

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ACCIDENTS CAN BE AVOIDED

When we join the International
Woodworkers of America we
undertake certain obligations to
ourselves and to our fellow mem-
bers. When we accept a position
on any committee we assume ad-
ditional responsibility for the
union. In becoming part of the
union or a member of Accident
Prevention Committee of a camp
or plant we must carrry out those
responsibilities to the best of our
ability or we are not true mem-
bers of the union.

‘A chain is only as strong as its
weakest link. So let each one of
us make sure we are not that
link, Get copies of the Accident
Prevention Regulations and the
First Aid Service. Study them so
that you know what your duties
are, and, so that you know what
constitutes your privileges and

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Phone 14

Ladysmith, B.C.

FLOUR
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FEED
FERTILIZER

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Everything in Ladies’ Wear

ANN’S STYLE SHOP

Phone 362
LADYSMITH, B.C.

Lunches

THE
LADYSMITH
CHRONICLE

A Union Shop

Society and Commercial
Printing at Fair Prices

Phone 23
LADYSMITH, B.C.

LADYSMITH ELECTRIC
co. LTD.
Electrical Contractors
Electrical Sales & Service
First Aver Ladysmith, B.C:
Phone 284

COCHRANE’S MARKET
& Cold Storage Lockers

LADYSMITH, B.C.

responsibilities to the member-
ship.

‘We call each other brothers,
Let’s put some meaning into that
word. If the camp or plant in
which you are working is not or-
ganized or has no Accident Pre-
vention Committe functioning, let
us know. We shall take steps to
remedy the situation.

Above all let each member of
the IWA promise himself or her-
self that they will work safely
and help their fellow workers to
work safely; promise that they
will do everything in their power
to remedy dangerous practices
and conditions. Let us make the
lumber industry a safe place in
which to work. IT CAN BE
DONE. IT MUST BE DONE. IT
IS UP TO ME AND YOU, AND
YOU, AND YOU.

SINESS GUID

J. R. CLARKSON

Accountant — Notary Public

37 Gatacre Street

LADYSMITH Phone 242
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127 First Avenue .
LADYSMITH, B. C.

Phone 69