B.C. LUMBER WORKER “Page Five No Baked Wind Dear Bill: ) PHOOEY on you, If you’re not satisfied with my tripewrit- ing, get yourself another punk. Y'll be a such of a which if I haven’t been making like a gandy-dancer to get the angles for you bunkies. Don’t get hard- nosed because I can’t dish out the baked wind like some of these cacklers on the plush, My bore and stroke may not match Walter Winchell’s, but it is my own. You haven’t caught a miss in my motor yet. I’ll lay it on the line the way I see things and not in yours or anybody else’s Choctaw, If you want straight woofin- whiffle, buy me a good brand of pine-top. * Riding the Saw you bindle-stiffs have been viding the saw, and I don’t mean maybe. Nothing but woof and gabber about how the IWA should do this and the IWA should do that. Not so much about how you would help the IWA do this and do ‘that. Just like a bunch of ignuts. You'll put your backs into it now, or pull in your belt when the gut-hammer sounds, You thought everything on the board rates was all nicely wrap- ped up in a neat package for you to enjoy for ever and forever at $2.25 a day and no more. These seam-squirrels that work the pitch for the bosses have fig- ured out new angles, on how to make stew bums out of the gut- burglars, __ 1 got the low-down when I sat in on the doings of the IWA Dis- trict Council the other day. The boys were really steamed up be- cause they had caught the shan- ty-kings dealing from the bottom of the deck, and brother, the guns were out on the table. Looked for a while like another bad case of strikeitis. * * 8 * Flag’s' Up ow MAN Stuart, who fronts for the big bulls must have got himself caught in the bight of the line. A few weeks back, he said we could all go along with board rates fixed at $2.25 a day and no more. Naturally, everyone thought that meant that all the woodheads would pay no more anywhere for another year, any- way. * : Leohin'’ Areund By “High Rigger” “Hi” Warns Board Battle Not Over; Watch For Welchers Now some of his big-shot cus- tomers who juggle the payrolls, have jumped the fence. They’ve come up with some neat tricks to beat the rap. This is the way they hope to work it if they are not stopped in their tracks by the IWA. In the interim agreement they got the boys all cooled down on the board rates with nice simple words:— board and lodging shall cost no more than the $2.25 a day. - :. Now they’ve been trying to write into the agreement, “when board is furnished, it'll be $2.25”. If they don’t choose to “furnish” board, they will be free to turn you over to a new set of belly- robbers. * Robbersary Style (NE fandango they've sprung in some of the camps is this collar and shoulder style of feed- ing—cafeterias where you pay as you eat. If you’re eye is as big as your tummy you're quite likely to get a check for each meal which will add up closer to $3.75 a day than $2.25. ‘At the same time they put in a fancy dishwasher, running on steam, and cut the pay for the flunkeys. What would make me sore is og that one pays for every second | helping and you remember my failing at the old cookhouse table. The idea is that you cut down on breakfast, take one sandwich less if you pack a lunch, and then you might be able to pay the check ‘for a decent feed, with sir- loin steak at night. Otherwise, you stick to bread and gravy if you want to-break even at. the end of the month. cookhouse crew are going to pay part of this new deal, if they don’t take IWA job action. According to the new rules in some of the camps, the cook gets a foreman’s badge or something to make him czar like the old days. Everybody else in the cookhouse rates as flunkey, and must scramble out onto any job that is ordered. It’s enough to give a hard- working stiff the snozzle-wobbles. ee ok Beer Barrel Logic "THIS social life is really get- _ ting me down—especially get- ting thrown out of beer parlors. Gus has been springing what he thinks is a hot line. After samp- ling the brew, he'll go up to the head man, and ask: “How many kegs of beer a peek do you sell here?” ey'll say, “Oh, maybe al ae y; » maybe about Says Gus, “I can tell you a way to sell 100.” “How?” they'll come back. “That's simple,” says Gus, “Fill up your glasses.” is We then adjourn to the side- walk, but fast. No wonder Marge broke off the engagement, She sent all her ‘letters back, marked, “Fourth If you squawk about the agree-' ment, all the boss says is that he’s ‘not responsible. The cafe- teria owner ‘must make a living, and anyway, loggers eat too much for their health, * Girth Control you don’t know it yet, but you're going to be placed on a diet so that you can practice girth control. You need vitamins, enzymes, and male hormones instead of rare steaks, pork chops and ham and eggs. So the orders have gone out in a lot of camps to cut down on the rations, and give the boys just like the dietitians ad- vise in hospitals. Less variety and less of everything. Just so if you don’t pay more for board, the boss won’t be out of pocket. * 6 The prize stunt is that the Johnson's Boots Hand-Made to the Highest Quality Specifications. UNRIVALED FOR © Comfort @ Wear © Safety Ask for them at your commissary and at all Leading Stores. A. W. JOHNSON 63 W. Cordova St. Vancouver, B.C. ing resumed in for a visit. I wish to announce the opening of my NEW DENTAL OFFICE at 9 East Hastings Steet, corner Carrall, hav- after an extended holiday. A cordial invitation is extended to all old friends to come Dr. R. Llewellyn Douglas | | ; Class Male”. 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