ay 25, 1950

B.C. LUMBER WORKER

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so much going on around town this last three
‘hing down. There was the Conciliation Board,
od Morris and Bill Gray by Mr. Alfred Bull,
fe also had extra activity in our Local, due
Safety Committee.

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au] Worker and tooked at the safety page.
vO if that camp had an Accident Pre-

WEB inspectors called there.

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to thinking that we should have pictures of

ctures showing the correct way to have things
some camera fans in our ranks. Let's

Also how far

Auxiliaries visit the hospitals regularly
copies of the B.C. Lumber Worker and
chand injured loggers and sawmill workers.

e Enquiry

oS before Chief Justice Sloan for cross-

Submitted. They were cross-examined on
pensions, etc, but did a good job in

Don McRae was aimed at trying to show
of a certain company whose evidence
company.
d this out to Chief Justice Sloan by stating
were omitted wherever possible, and
A to put individual companies on trial
‘feplied that the Counsel for the companies
» dspite all attempts, the cross-examina-

at night. I wasn’t at the meeting, nor
the boys are working hard to get the
They send a representative to the B.C.
Safety Council. That's all for now.

Safety

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After an accident come the echoes.

“1 knew something like that was
going to happen sooner or Sater.”

“Why didn’t somebody warn him?”
“He should have known better.”

“The same thing almost happened
to me the other day.”

“That job should have been made
safer.

Sure. Whenever an accident hap-
pens, there’s likely to be at least one
guy who knew it was going to hap-
pen sooner or later. But it might not
have happened “sooner”, it might
never have happened if the knew-
somehting guy had been a do-some-
thing gu

“Why didn't somebody warn him?”
Yes—why didn't this question-asker
himyelf, warn the victim’that he was
working near a hazard? Why didn't
he report the hazard to his foreman?

“He should have known better,"
says a_wise guy. Maybe he should
have. Maybe also the wise guy should
have known enough to be a good guy
and go a little out of his way to help
protect his fellow workers.

Before and After

TSK EVE BEEN Mea
Bit YA ABOUT: Hay NG
SHAKY SCAFFOLDS

COUNCIL TO
MEET, JUNE 9

Next meeting of the IWA
District Safety Council will be
held June 9, at 0 p.m., in the
District Office, Vancouver.
Important matters relating to
the more widespread promotion
of the IWA Safety Campaign
will be under consideration.

A full report will be heard on
the presentation of the IWA
accident proposals to the Sloan
Commission.

“WORKMEN'S C

The manager of a plant was just
settling down to his new job, when a
foreman came in with bitter complaint
against another foreman. The manager
cailled in the second foreman and
asked the first foreman to repeat his
accusations, but the man fefused to

dose,

So the manager sent both of the
men outside to report again in 15
minutes, adding that if they could not

THINK SAFE...
ACT SAFE...
BE SAFE

OMPENSATION”

reach an agreement in that time, one

of them would have to go.
In five minutes they were back,
grinning, and that was that.
* 2

She had resisted his affectionate ad-
vances all evening, but finally, as he
was saying goodnight, she gave in and
favored him’ with a. restrained kiss.
; your reward for being a-gentle-
she murmured.

Fall my wasted labors,” he

groaned, “that's no reward—just work-

man’s compensation!”
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you like to mind your

ss. But safety is EVERY-

BODY'S business.
A

Judge: “Why did you steal that
350,000?

TUST TO
REMIMO YOU:

Page Seven

REACHED

were two other teen-agers. *

The three lads had just arrived from
Vancouver by plane and had checked
in with the timekeeper. They then
decided to make a tour of the opera-
tion, and were warned that blasting
was under way.

Warning Given

The hooktender and the donkey en-
gineer, who were doing the blasting,
saw no one in the area, and after
shouting warnings, lit the fuse.

The engineer went up the road,
while the hooktender went to a spot
where he had a view of the trail to
camp, and then took shelter behind a
log, about 100 feet away from the
blast.

Too Late

The three boys went along the trail.
and were on the way to the waterfall
when the blast went off. They ran
for cover in the timber but were all
struck by Aying debris. The deceased
suffered a fracture at the hase of the
skull, and died in the
pital three days later

SAVED!

|= MOOKTENDER LIT CKARGE @ - SHOUTED WARMING, KAN TO ® evERLcERNG
TRAIL FROM CAMP SHOUTED AGAIN AND TOOK COVER

‘1+ DECEASED £2 COMPANIONS WERE WALKING TOWARD WATERFALL

(© WHEN BLAST WENT OFF. RUSHED BACK TOWARDS
TIMBER, BUT STRUCK BY FLYING CHUNK AT ARROW.

Alert Bay hos: }

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Chokerman, 16 years of age, and with only brief experience
as whistle punk in 1948, was killed in the blasting accident de-
scribed above, on April 8, 1950. Injured in the, same accident

Safety Shoe
“Shoos”
Injury

Striking demonstration of
the protection afforded by ,
safety shoes has been reported
by Henry F. Switzer, chairman
of Fraser Mills Sub-Local 1-
357, IWA, to the IWA District
Safety Council, with the ac-
companying photograph of the
shoe after a recent escape in
the Fraser Mills.

A piece of shafting, weighing 300
Ibs., slipped off the end of a! truck,
and’ dropped four fect on the te of
John Sherlock, while he was helping
to unload the truck. °

The fact that he was wearing safety
shoes

saved him from any
-cap of the
ed. when removed th
J injury to his toes. The skin on his
foot was not even broken.

injury.
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Members of the Safety Committee
who considered the circumstances of
the near-accident estimated that if he
had not been wearing safety shoes, he
would have suffered the amputation
of his toes.

At the time of the incident, the
crew had 19 accident-free days with
two more to go to surpass the former

record of 20.

John Sherlock's safety shoes put
them over the top for the Safety. Jack-

}} pot.

See enone eeese

BE CAREFUL—THE LIFE
YOU SAVE MAY BE
YOUR OWN.

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