B.C. LUMBER WORKER

Page Seven

1 LOCAL 1-80 IWA

INDUSTRY 1948

COMPARATIVE MILL iw B.C for /949
) COWICHAN DIVISION for 1949.

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SLEPT

OCT

GEC

s Home;
fresses All

Frankly, I don’t like to
ber of the IWA should
id them.

» which would have pre-
sparks from the burner
light to anything. It
be there from now on.

cond, my wife had hung a
of clothes in front of the
as she has done for the
five years. This won’t be
again,

Three, when my friend called
I could have extinguished
fire had I had a quart Py-

extinguisher, or a 2%,
CO-2 extinguisher. There
| going to be one in my home
now on.
So it cost me over $2,000 dol-
lars plus days of work lost, weeks

‘inconvenience, and disruption

ur normal lives, NOT to learn
safety off the job, but to
CE IT.

My Reform

going to be right behind
IWA program of Safety on
job and off the job in 1950.
Year's safety campaign is
ng to start with ME.
ould appeal to everyone who
the B.C. Lumber Worker
follow my lead.
‘ many hazards are
UR home, fire, falls, ete.?
a are YOU doing about

fore about such hazards in fu-
,issues of the B.C. Lumber
» If you have ideas, send

in

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end of the first week
home on a new job,
husband wrote to his
de foreman—feather in

the second week he

je manager—another
cap.”

of the third week

|—send money for

ch young wife cold-
replied: “Use feathers,

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NEW TYPE
SAFETY BOOT

A Vancouver shoe manufac-
turer, well known to readers of
this publication through his ad-
vertisements, has demonstrated
his belief in safety precautions
by investment in the production
of hand-made work shoes and log-
gers boots with safety toes.

At the same time he has in-
vented a new type of caulk which,
he claims, is less likely to pick
up loose bark.

Cost of installation for the dies
required for safety toes in log-
gers’ boots, all sizes, has cost
him over $1,500 to launch the ex-
periment.

The flange of the safety toe
is so designed that it rests on the
sole, and will not cut through the
sole leather, to which it is firmly
attached.

The metal toe cap is tempered
in order that it will not shatter
under a heavy blow. It is encased
in leather on both sides to avoid
friction or discomfort to the
wearer,

It is also cushioned by felt so
as to make the addition of metal
in the boot almost imperceptible
to the wearer.

A further interesting feature
of this manufacturer’s plans in-
cludes an offer under which log-
gers’ boots may be retailed
through company stores at a 20
percent reduction.

Loggers who may be interested
can secure full information by

applying to the District Safety
Council, IWA.

It was after midnight, but a
late reveller decided to knock on
a certain door.

The man of the house threw
open an upstairs window and
yelled angrily, “Go way, you’ve
got the wrong house.”

“Go ’way yourself,” replied the
reveller, “You’re lookin’ out the
wrong window.”

“The man o’ independent mind
Is King o’ men for a’ that.”

—Robert Burns.

The right of labor to organize
must endure for all time,

—Franklin D. Roosevelt.

“|, . SAFETY is not only
the hard helmet on a loggers’
head. Rather it is the impor-
tant something under that hard
helmet which causes the logger
to act instinctively with cau-
tion when trees are being
felled, when chokers are flying
back from the landing, when
loading booms are swinging,
and when a thousand and one
other things are happening in
the woods.

SAFETY is not only a pair of
steel-toed safety shoes, but also
the common sense habit of work-
ing in those safety shoes.

SAFETY is’ not only the best
pair of goggles man can make,
but also the care and wisddm
which insist that the goggles al-
ways be worn whenever and
wherever there is the slightest
hazard to the eyesight.

SAFETY is not a contest be-
tween different logging camps.

It is a contest waged by each of
us against the ambulance, the
hospital, and the funeral.

SAFETY is not a sleeping pill
to make us forgetful of respons-
ibilities. It is an alarm clock to
awaken us to our individual re-
sponsibility to our own life and
limb, and the life and limb of the
other fellow.

SAFETY is not a crutch. It
is a shield.

SAFETY is not only a system
jof red, green and orange traffic
lights working at busy street in-
tersections or dangerous high-
|Way crossings. Rather it is an en-
lightened human obedience to the
meanings of those traffic lights.

SAFETY is not a state or fed-
Jeral safety inspector who rides
the circuit to see how safety is
being treated. It is the thinking
and doing of safe things regard-
}less of whether a safety inspec-
tor ever comes around.

IF IT CAN HAPPEN —IT WILL!

Hard Hats Save The Skulls
But Don’t Substitute for Brains

| SAFETY is not a set of statis-
ties, for statistics are only a ther-
mometer, measuring the degree
of our safety performance.

SAFETY is not something
we can leave for the other fel-
low to do something about. It
is a combination of all these
things and more. But safety is
not going- to be worth last
year’s bird nest unless its ban-
ners and shields are held high
by everyone on the payroll —
from the president of the com-
pany, and the manager of the
division, to the man who drives
a truck, sets chokers, or pushes
a broom.

|. IF SAFETY is to cut deeply in-
to the unnecessary funerals, the
wheelchairs, the tears and sorrow,
and the terrifically high cost of
accident, injury and death, then
it must become a religion for all
those who face even the simplest
| hazards.”

|

W. D. Welsh.

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wa GY IS

As a safety measure, the Dis-
trict Executive Board, IWA,
on Jan. 21, requested discon-
tinuance of temporary permits
for engineers, enabling them to
handle a higher horsepower
rating than specified on their

tickets,

In support of the resolution, it
was stated that the practice
hitherto followed by the Boiler

Inspection Department had been
abused.

Temporary permits had been in
use for unduly extended periods,
without good reason and with
considerable risk to employees in
the vicinity. A sufficient number
of qualified engineers are now
available, it was contended.

Constant Attendance

Regulation which would
quire a qualified engineer to
in attendance at all times whi
boilers

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A FATAL ACCIDENT REPORT

perimental’ solid. cedar

COMES DOWN

lope.

Haul-back block fastened to standing tree at approximately same level as skyline.
Turn hangs up on stump.

Tight line used in attempt to clear hang up.
Tree came down, KILLING TWO MEN.

ENGINEERS’ TICKETS

line valves are closed.

The resolution points to the
fact that the engineer in charze
of the shift is responsible for any
accident that might occur due to
acts of inexperienced workers.

Eat Safely
There was a young fellow
named Ned
pihoidined before going to

e

On lobster and ham

And pickles and jam,

And when he awoke he was
dead,

New Uses B.C. Cedar

An attractive, colorful, 12-page
booklet entitled “Solid Cedar
Construction’ has now been re-
leased by the B.C. Coast Woods
Trade Extension Bureau. The
ele will be aiyen. wide Pa

ution throughout Canada,

resent indications are that a

market for lower grade
is about to be develo)

Results obtained from

ex-

34° STANDING TREE

ABUSED

THERE’S A

RIGHT WA.

fa

built on the Fraserview Project
have proved that this system of
construction offers many advan-
bin to the contractor. This new
bi technique is treated in
detail the new booklet, and

houses | may be obtained on application. i