B.C. LUMBER WORKER Page 3 ATL. COWICHAN Teams representing the logging camps and mills in the Lake The sports program will be held in the Lake Cowichan High tember 3, Business Agent Ernie Boulet, and the Sub-Local officers have secured-the full cooperation of the local operators in the mat- ter of prize lists and the neces- sary equipment. ., If the event proves successful, it is planned to make it an annual affair, To this end suggestions are being sought as to a suitable name for the day’s festivities. Teams now entered are from Camp 3, Nitinat, Camp 6, Cay- euse, Grossley & Truman Log- ging Co., Meads Creek Camp, Oink. Logging Co., and Gor- lon River, WFI Camp. Sawmill “teams competing are from You- bou, -Hillerest, and Honeymoon Bay mills. Elimination contests are now being run off in each of the camps and mills to select the peony of the team upon which opes will be pinned for the Lake Cowichan championship, ae In the Labor Day finals, points will be awarded each event, five points for a first prize, three for second and one for third. The team with the highest aggregate of points at the end of the con- tests will receive the grand tro- phy. Loggers’ sports include: Power BOB NASH? Will Robert Nash, or anyone knowing his present where- abouts please communicate School grounds at 1:00 p.m., Sep- | _ Cowichan area will compete for a grand trophy to be awarded by Local 1-80 IWA and the Sub-Local to the team securing the shest aggregate of points in a lumber workers’ sports program Lake Cowichan, September 3rd. Cash and merchandise prizes Will also be awarded for each of the events, which include the traditional logging and mill contests. ( _Saw Bucking (two men); Power Saw Bucking (one man); Eye Splicing, Long Splicing, Tree | Climbing, Chopping Contest, | Choker Setting Race. A variety of contests for saw> competing mill teams. ~ BRO. BUNYAN AT PT. ALBERNI SOON Three days packed with fun, pageantry, and ‘thrills are prom- ised by Local 1-85, Port Alberni, for the Paul Bunyan Days, September 1-2-3. The program, which features loggers’ sports, also includes a wide variety of popular entertainment, and sports’ contests of outstanding quality. The first day, Saturday, Sep- tember 1, will combine children’s sports with a track and_ field meet, for which trophies and cash prizes will be awarded. One in- teresting feature of the day will be a children’s swimming com- petition. Track events include an open mile and open pole vaulting. A gala dance will be held the same evening in the Alberni Athletic Hall. Sunday afternoon will feature mill workers is also being plan-!a swim gala, in which the star ned with a special trophy for the | performers will be fromthe Van- |couver Swimming Club and the Interior scale, he stated. ‘The Président traced the de- velopment of the dispute and events which led up to an open strife, At no time had the com- pany pleaded inability to pay. The company’s argument rested exclusively on their desire to line up with the Northern Interior op- erators in the maintenance of a low wage area, In this the company had been governed by the Interior Lum- bermen’s Association and not by the needs and interests of the employees, When the plant first opened, wages offered in some categories were as high as in similar cate- gories in Vancouver, but were Subsequently scaled down to com- ply with the Interior rates. No with his mother, Mrs. Mar- garet Nash, Buffalo Gap, Sask, logic could be found in the com- pany’s arguments, he contended, as living costs are as high in Quesnel as at the Coast. - LECKIE’S - UNION MADE IN B.C. THE LECKIE LOGGER is manufactured in B.C. and is Union Made. Built of leather specially tanned in our Union Tannery in New West- minster—this de luxe boot is highly water resistant. It is comfortable and long-wearing. At better retail stores and commissaries everywhere. -Write us direct for the name of your nearest distributor, = 4 INABILITY TO PAY NO FACTOR AT QUZSNEL, SAYS ALSBURY Issues at stake in the IWA strike at Western Plywoods Ltd., Quesnel, were dodged in the majority report of the Conciliation Board, it was declared by District President J. S. Alsbury before a capacity audience in the Legion Hall, Quesnel, August 1. The demands of the plywood workers had not been dealt with on merit, because of the insistence upon conformity with the lower Log Prices Lower Although the company had ar- gued that Interior logs were in- ferior, nevertheless the plywood produced brought the same price on the open market, he pointed out, Also Interior logs cost much less. The strike committee had tain that the plant had fire pro- tection during the strike, he as- sured his audience. Decision as to when the strike would end rested with the com- pany, he asserted, as the IWA was prepared to discuss fair terms of settlement at any time. ' It was evident during the meeting that the sympathy of the audience was with the strik- ers. NEW HALL Report received by the Local Union from the camp commit- tee at Justkatla, Queen Char- lotte Islands, states that an immediate start will be made on the erection of a recreation hall. The crew members are donating their time and labor and the company is providing the material and equipment. CCF BACKED Resolution of the Executive Board of the B.C. Federation of Labor, August 4, tendered full support to and endorsed the CCF candidate in the Es- quimalt by-election, tentatively scheduled for October 1. The CCF candidate, Frank Mitchell, is a well-known trade unionist, a member of the Plasterers’ Union. TIMBER! ! A report of felling a giant Douglas fir in Washington’s Olympic Peninsula 12 feet at the butt, has brought B.C. loggers up with records of a monster fir dropped in 1895 in the Seymour Valley near Lynn Canyon in ‘North Vancouver by George Carey. The Washington fir is not even good second growth compared to this leviathan of the woods. It was 471 feet high and 25 feet { wide at the butt. From the butt 200 feet up it still measured nine rere t through with bark 16 inches The outside diameter was 19 feet with a net diameter of 17 feet, 6 inches at forty feet. From the butt to the 320 foot mark there was 181,640 board feet of lumber and an overall 200,000 board feet lumber value, It would have built twenty houses of modern design. ‘ Royal Life Saving Society, Van- couver, An evening concert will \be given by the RCAF Band un- der the -direction of Bandmaster Ed Gibney. At the concert the Labor Queen will be crowned against a background of’ labor tableaux, depicting lumbering scenes. Guest speaker on the oc- casion will be Miss Ruth Taylor, international authority on labor relations. A characteristic Paul Bunyan parade will usher in the special events on Monday, Labor Day. The program will include the Western Canada Championship in log burling for the B. C. Lumber Worker Challenge Cup. Other events scheduled are Men’s Hand Bucking, Ladies’ Hand Bucking, Men’s Power Saw Bucking, Men’s Chopping, Eye Splicing, Long Splicing, Championship Tree Climbing contest, Boys’ Bucking contest. The Paul Bunyan Parade will be led by the RCAF Band, sup- ported by the Vancouver Island Junior Band. Final event in the, three-day program is the Grand Paul Bun- yan Labor Day Ball, for which the dance music will be provided by the swing section of the RCAF Band. An unusual feature planned is the raising of the tree for the tree climbing contest, that the |spectators may witness rigging taken precautions to make cer-|m™en in action, The winner of the tree climbing contest will be in- vited to top a nearby standing fir. | 1-424 Pigeau Now Organizer Sixteen new certifications in the Williams Lake-Lac La Hache area were secured by the IWA during two months organization activity, it was reported by In- ternational Organizer Jack Be- thune, interviewed recently over the Green Gold radio program, He stated that in the first real attempt to organize the district, lumber workers were found to be eager for union affiliation, and welcomed the expansion drive of the IWA warmly. Membership potential in the area was estimated to be 500, mainly employed in small opera- tions. The basis has been laid for a thriving sub-local at a central point, he stated, There are 20 © mills now operating in the vicin- ity of 100-Mile House, he said, which gives some indication of the rapid expansion of lumbering in the Interior. The operators are reaching fairly big timber in some spots, especially at Likely, he said. Appointment of Ray Pigeau to the staff of the IWA Organiza- tion Department was announced - last week by IWA District Offi- cers. He is now engaged in the Burns Lake area, where numer- ous new operations require at- tention. The newly-appointed Interna- tional Organizer formerly served as an officer in Local 1-357, and at the time of his appointment he was Chairman of the Sub- Local_in Mohawk Handle Co., New Westminster. 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