B.C. LUMBER WORKER

First-Footin’

EAR Bill: Too many gags—

play it staight, sez you. I

see your point, and stand cor-
rected. An overdose of wise-
eracks is like too much hootch.

It’s okay by me, Bill. I may
be all out of soap, but I can still
haul out my soap-box, and play
tunes on the old mouth organ.

And as you say, we’ve got to
worry once in a while, like about
the price of rum.

Just so long as you don't ex-
pect me to join the Salvation
Army. It’s geting close to
Christmas, and after all, it’s
mighty easy to be tempted. Es-
pecially when I meet another old

timberwolf flashing a roll, and|

raring to howl.

The skidroad is tamer than it
used to be, but it has its mo-
ments still.

But you want to know what we
beat our gums about when we
take life serious like, even though
we're taking the rest cure.

Some of you sons of biscuit-
eaters are hogs for punishment.
If you can take it, I’ll dish it out.

Pee ee

More Moolah

MOSTLY we wrangle about
how to make more dough,
and get a stake ahead. The’stuff
we use for money is not so plenti-
ful this Christmas. A lot of the
boys didn’t have such a good
year, what with one thing or an-
other. 2

This is about the time when the
log punchers start checking up on
what’s left in the kitty. By the
time everybody has been nicked
for board, caulk boots, tin pants,
and whatnot, not to mention the
odd trip on the Union tubs or air

Printing Trades Unions.

full seniority rights.

together.

Au

A. nnouncement

from the

LT.U. Printers

A complete and harmonious settlement has been
reached in our long dispute with the Vancouver Daily
. Province. On Friday, November 4, the publisher of the
Daily Province reached agreement with the three Allied

The terms of settlement are completely satisfactory
to our membership and the International Typographical
Union. All available I.T.U. men who formerly worked in
the composing room of The Province will be restored their

Agreements satisfactory to the Stereotypers Union
and Vancouver Mailers Union, an affiliate of the I.T.U.,
haye been completed and all three unions return to work

Negotiations were carried on harmoniously and in good
faith with a sincere desire on the part of both parties to
reach a satisfactory settlement. i

fice buildings
bosses do their cooking.

Lochin'’ Around -

“HI” RAPS FREE RIDERS;
ALL TALK, NO FIGHT .

taxi, seems like we did a lot of
sweating for damn little,

Makes you wonder when you
see the Buicks and Packards
parked outside the bosses’ offices.

The plush-bottomed, baldheads
who do their fancy drinking in
the best clubs, love to rant about
the high wages loggers make
(“perfectly absurd, doncherknow,
old boy. Those roughneck log-
gers just throw money around
like drunken sailors’).

They never mention the pay
that loggers make and turn baci
to the boss for board bills, while
at the same time they must try
and keep a home together in
town.

They never mention the time
lost on the job, for fire season or
winter shutdowns, Jeaving only
about 170 days inthe year to
earn anything.

They never mention what the
loggers pay to get to and from
the job, at some godforsaken
spot, where there is nothing but
to work, eat and sleep.

The bindle-stiff gets soaked
both coming and going.

The old greasy wallet is slim-
mer for most of the fellows this
Christmas, thanks to , Abbott,
Anscomb and the storekeepers.

Everybody says the answer is
higher wages next year. Of
course, every last Mother’s son
is talking about how he needs
and wants, more pay.

They all want what they
need and need what they want,
but the catch is that not all
want and need hard enough to
do anything about it, yet in
the only way that counts.

There are 12,000 loggers on
the Coast. If 12,000 loggers all
made up their minds to be as
smart about organization as
they are about tossing logs
around, they’d soon get what
they want and need.

Believe it or not, that’s what
the Union is for.

Just bellyaching in the bunk-
houses and the beer parlors
won’t turn the trick.

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Raise Hell

D° you know what I’d like to
see? I’d like to see the Ar-
cadian Hall packed to the doors
on the afternoon of Dec. 28, when
the Loggers’ Local 1-71 holds its
Annual Membership Meeting.
There'll be enough IWA log-
gers from waypoints along the
Coast in town that day to bulge
out the walls of any hall.
I'd like to hear them all raising

hell and putting a chip under it.

Loud enough to rock the tall of-
where the , big

A few thousand hell-raising

loggers in one meeting could put

enough steam into a program to
get a higher wage scale, when the

new agreement comes up.

Til bet my last nickel, that if

Our Sincere Thanks - .

The support given the officers and members of the

three Allied Printing Trades involved by numerous friends
and supporters all over British Columbia will never be
forgotten—and our sincere thanks and appreciation is
once more expressed. We return now to work as the rec-
ognized and legal bargaining agency for The Province
composing room, with all the provisions of a fully-
approved I.T.U. contract. We will endeavor to maintain
the traditions of No, 226 and the L.T.U., and let bygones
be bygones; accept in good faith the agreements again
renewed, and strive to preserve and maintain the mutual
contractual relationship that had existed since the found-
ing of The Proyince 50 years ago.

A. Bevis
President, No. 226, 1.T.U.

R. H. Neelands
Secretary-Treasurer No, 226, I.T.U.

into every camp.
June 16, the boys everywhere
would be all set for action.

a few thousand loggers got their
heads together, just once, things
would happen. They'd add up all
those bunkhouse beefs, and slap
?em down on the bosses. desks

hard.

They'd rig their own set-up,

for that’s what the IWA asks
them to do. It’s no longer like
the old comic days in the IWA
when Harold Pritchett rigged the
lines his way. Now t he boys call
the shots from the floor.

They’d push IWA organization
Comes next

They’d lay it on the line to the

bosses and no bluffing.

They'd say, “Good pay, better

working conditions, Mister, or no
work,”

They could call the big bulls’

|bluff, for who would hold better
cards than they would have,

It’s" just a matter of deciding

whether we’re smart or dumb.

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Shacks or Homes
DO a lot of wondering

up and make enough jobs to go
round, in the next few years.

That brings up another little
propostition that the Union can
push, I got the idea from the
bosses who have rigged up a bur-
eau to push lumber sales in Ca-
nada, They’re a little late start-
ing, but the easy pickings used
to be in other countries,

They’ve built a sample house
all out of B.C. lumber. It’s not
framed like houses used to be
framed, for they have used a lot
of two-inch cedar which frames
and panels the walls at the same
time.

Upright cedar siding on the
outside looks real classy, and the
insulation is perfect. Believe it
or not, they can make it almost
fireproof, compared to the ordin-
ary house, and that’s something
with cedar. They do tricks with
hemlock, too.

The point is that a five-room
bungalow, fully modern, can be
built, all complete, for a_little
better than four thousand. It has
more class and comfort than a
lot of the jerry-built cottages
for which people , have been
soaked twice that money. And
they can still make a profit.

Take a look at the dumps that
thousands of the working stiffs
are living in now. A helluva lot
of them would. build their own
houses if they could build at the
right price, and on decent terms.

They could easily be built and
rented at half the rent now
charged for slums, and tumble-
down shacks,

If the dim-wits who run the
show in Ottawa and Victoria took
time off from politicking to or-
ganize things so people who need
houses could get them, we'd be
hustling logs down the road till
our legs and backs wore out.

Reon oe

OP Debbil Accident

HAYE you noticed how many

loggers have been snuffed out
in accidents this last few weeks?
This last month has been one of
the worst on record for deaths in
the woods, they say.

From what the boys tell me,
this slaughter is going to put the
safety committees on their toes,
We'd feel a lot better, if more
was done to stop accidents rather
than investigating them after-
wards,

‘I hear a lot of argument about
what causes accidents. It used

By “High Rigg

‘0 be the old commie line that it

oe the speed-up, high-ball drive —
the bosses. i,

oF think we went overboard fo

that line, and didn’t stop to make

a proper breakdown of the facts,

Sure, we should pin it on the,

company when it is to blame.

But you and I know, that if th
crews organize their safety com-
mittees, and know their rights,
there’d be no more unsafe speed-
up than the crew would stan

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A young fellow was killed on
the Island the other day in a cold-
deck pile. When they gave their
stories at the inquest, somebody
was doing a lot of fancy lying,
to cover up and it wasn’t the
boss,

‘The lad was down in the pile
trying to set a choker, and yelled
that it wouldn’t reach. The slinger
gave the signal to move the rig-
ging back slow. One choker was
still set, and when the rigging
came back it jarred the pil
causing it to settle.

The kid was caught between
two logs so he couldn’t breathegm
and before they could get ‘hi )
out, he’d choked to death,

We all know darn well who wa:
to blame, and what we've got to
do to stop that sort of thing.

We've got to do it among our
selves ‘and drill some sense into
our own crew members to stop
and think of the other fellow.
They’ve got to quit acting er: 4
in the head and taking wil
chances.

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Riding the Brake

EVERY now and then I run
across a guy who sarts yap-
ping about the LWA. Why didn’t
it do this, and why doesn’t it. do
something else. g
There’s just one thing wrong ~
with that picture. I’m going to ~
point my finger right at one of
those that’s helping to stop us
getting better results, 4
He’s ‘logging at spitting dis-
tance from town. Drives his own
ear and is comfortably at home
about five every evening.

He’s got time and money for ~
shows, and the odd evening’s
beering. He hasn’t got time or
money for the Union. 7

He’s one of the guys that help a
to make it hard for the Union to
do a job, because they want
everything for nothing. And they
have the nerve to criticize the

Union, bad cess to them.

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