Missing Logger D#42 Editor Mitch: You've been printing my tripewrit- ing’ for a while back. Just why, I wouldn’t know. Perhaps since one bad turn deserves a better, you'll give me a hand this trip. My pal, Bill, has been missing since Christmas. I’d like to con- tact him, with your help. I met him when he came off the boat, back from the shut- down. We hoisted a few, just to get in step with Santa Claus, and so on and so forth. Next thing I knew he was siz- zling like a rocket, away through space, with me dangling. Slipped my tail-hold like. I just can’t take it any more. Used to have a cast-iron lining in my gizzard, but it’s got cracked. He had the bright idea that he would top the Christmas tree on Eaton Square, and rig it-as a spar tree to yard in a few dames off Granville Street. Last I saw of him he was ex- plaining his plan to a rookie cop who didn’t know about rigging. Be fore he took off, he prom~- ised me that he would meet me at the Arcadian Hall for the meeting of the Loggers’ Locdl. Like a lot of other guys, he turned up missing. If you print his description, we might catch up with him and a few of the others that look just like him. + 8 8 Skookum Man MY picture of the “missing per- son” comes out like this: He’s probably about 35 years of age. Right now he probably looks like 60, He parts his hair and shaves sometimes, but he’s got that look in his eye that makes the women come all unglued. He’s as hard as nails, and is nobody’s fool. He’s got plenty on the ball and MITH BUSINESS GUIDE THE LADYSMITH CHRONICLE A Union Shop Society and Commercial Printing at Fair Prices Phone 23 LADYSMITH, B.C. ROLLSTON HARDWARE Hardware and Sporting Goods — We Deliver — Phone 54 LADYSMITH, B.C. LADYSMITH ELECTRIC co. LTD. Electrical Contractors Electrical Sales & Service First Aver Ladysmith, B.C Phone 284 W. W. WALKEM & CO. 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School Supplies Get Your City Cabs Phone 5 24-KJOUR SERVICE — 2-WAY RADIO CABS Proprietor Swan Torkko “Christmas Greetings to All Our Patrons” at “The Wigwam” “Plt Elec Missing Loggers Needed for Big Job in 1950 - between his ears. Smart on his job, and as quick on his feet as a cat. There’s not a job on rig- ging that can faze him. Sure of himself, too. He’s a right guy to work with and to party with. Nary a worry —give you his shirt off his back —always ready for work or fun, with a belly laugh, and a wise- crack, Brother, he’s a logger. jon ere Blind Spot BELMEVE it or not, when it comes to some things, this Joe is blind in one eye and can’t see out of the other. He’s got a silly pride. Been rustling since he was a kid, and thinks he should still rustle all on his own. . Always squawking about never being able to make a_ stake. Works hard, but never gets enough working-days to catch himself a real bankroll. Takes it right on the chin from the boss, unless he feels like going down the road. He packs an IWA card, but that’s all. Can’t see that the way to pressure the boss for more pay is by organized team-work with the rest of the boys. Can’t be bothered with Union meetings or camp committees. Spends his spare time sort of aimless like. Knows that he'll likely be burnt out in another ten years for the logging game, but what does he care. ‘Welfare or pension plans look sissy to him. What's going to happen, is going to happen, and who cares, sez he. “Let the other guy worry, I’m doing all right.” That’s the missing logger. ‘8 * Howdumsoever ['M here to tell you that the log- gers who did turn up did a good job for Local 1-71, the Log- gers’ Local. They checked up on the busi- ness for the past year, and found everything in order. Then they squared away to their plans to build a bigger and better Union in 1950. They heard Fadling, Alsbury, Mitchell, MacKenzie, Morris and Home line things up as they saw them, and then did some think- ing on their own account. The big job ahead is to get honest-to-God camp committees on every operation, and then drive for more wages and the Union They proved that a lot of the woodheads have got cockeyed no- tions, and have been riding on their backs. They’re going to get them off their backs and in proper harn- ess for the pull ahead. It’s the kind of job that every logger should be in on, and which would give him real satisfaction. Tf each logger put his back in- to the job, he’d get bigger divi- dends from his dues than if he invested in CPR stock. Believe me, Mitch, we’ve got to round up a few more of these missing loggers. Heard After Xmas LP a residential neighborhood, ~ in the wee sma’ hours, a po- liceman came across a drunken householder, who was having dif- ficulty fitting his key in the lock. “Sure this is your house?” asked the policeman. _, The householder assured him it was, so between them they got the door open. However, to make doubly sure, the policeman decided to enter with him, _“See,” said the householder, pointing into the darkness, “That’s my living-room, that’s ling himself up with d “Don’t be shilly. That’s me.’ Just then the real hou: wakened up. ’Nuff said. my kitchen in there”, and stag- gering to the door of a bedroom, “that’s my bedroom, and my lit- tle wife in bed.” | “Fine,” said the policeman, “ “but " in bed with} You go to your church and I hates ee go to mine, but we'll walk di “Officer,” said the drunk, draw-|the street together. THE LONG AND THE SHORT OF IT... 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