ee ‘ B.C. LUMBER WORKER CONFERENCE CALL-1953 In the call issued for the District Safety Conference, to be held in Vancouver, February 16, all 1WA members are reminded that the Conference is charged with the responsibility of planning the 1953 safety program for the union’s ratification at the District Convention which follows. The call states: “The Officers of the District Safety Council, District No. 1, IWA (CIO-CCL), issued this 4th Annual Call to the District Safety Conference to be held in the Medical Dental Auditorium, 925 West Georgia, Vancouver, B.C., on February 16, 1953, commencing at 9:30 a.m., and con- tinuing through the day until the business is completed. “Because of the amount of interest shown in our industry-wide safety program, a great deal of business will be undertaken at this conference. It will be the duty of the delegates to prepare a program for recommendation to the 16th Annual Constitutional Convention of District No. 1, for the coming year. “The Officers of the Council urge that Local Unions be fully represented, in order that we may have a full dis- cussion of the safety problems confronting our member- ship, and that delegates take special note of the starting time, which will be 9:30 a.m. Registration will take place on the same day, from 9 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. RESOLUTIONS “All resolutions dealing with safety and accident pre- vention, amendments to the Workmen’s Compensation |———— ———.—---________.._____ Regulations, and other safety matters should be sent to the District Secretary, Ste 4, 45 Kingsway, Vancouver, B.C., by February 6, 1958, ten (10) days prior to the conference. Resolutions received after this date will be placed on the floor only by majority vote of the delegates attending the conference. REPRESENTATION “Representation will be based upon Article 12 of the District Bylaws, and reads as follows: The Constituted Officers of the District Safety Council shall be: (a) Director (b) Secretary (c) First Vice-Director (a) Second Vice-Director (e) Third Vice-Director In addition to the elected officers of the Safety Council, each Local Union shall be entitled to one dele- gate for the first 1000 members or fraction thereof, plus their Safety Director; and one additional Dele- gate for each 1000 members thereafter, or major fraction thereof’.” Fraternally yours, District Safety Council, M. A. SKUZANSKI, Director JOHN T. ATKINSON, Ist Vice-Director F, FIEBER, 2nd Vice-Director L. STADNYK, 3rd Vice-Director WM. N. GRAY, Secretary. 1952 COAST LOGGING ACCIDENTS FALLING & BUCKING of sight of the falling team, Metin : OCCUPATION: BUCKER EXPERIENCE: SEVERAL YEARS AGE: 45 DATE: SEPTEMBE! Fallers last saw the bucker. . 1952. ©) tered into several pieces, é One piece killed the bucker who was working in a small draw ou! the clear near the gas cans (at. = “ “rhe tree did not take the intended direction and the top shat- |MOVEMBER OEAD 0 ACCIDENT | 1952 | TOLL INJURED 879\INJUREO 7873 || 1952 TOTAL || OEAO 75: | Eleven more fatal acci- Eleven More Dead in October and six in No- dents in the month of No- | vember. vember have been reported | Time-loss accidents report- by the Workmen’s Compen- | ¢4 for the same period were | i : . | 879. sation Board for the B.C. | ""Tstal fatalities to the end |] lumber industry. One oc- | of November are 75, with |] curring in September, four | 7873 injuries. | i iw d Too Lat Rider attached to the “acci- | As described in the evidence, dental death” verdict of the |six men were taking down the | Coroner’s jury dealing with the | rigging from the spar tree. Kruk circumstances surrounding the | death of K. Kruk, Campbell River, recommended that a warning line be attached to the slack puller or chunck, and that the chunck be of a standardized length of 8 feet. President J. Epp, Local 1-363, IWA, was in attendance at the inquest and brought out the evi- dence from company representa- tives that no warning line had been attached to the slack puller. |was immediately underneath the | looking for rigger was unspiking the line fastened from spar tree to stump 500 feet away. | The rigger shouted the warn-] ing that the slack puller was coming down. At that time Kruk | chunck and received a_heayy | blow on the head. i He was pronounced dead on | arrival at the hospital. Here lies the body of lineman Dunn. i A top-grade man he was—Al. The wire was hot; he passed away— All on a sultry summer’s day. Front office flurry; got to pause Just long enough to find the “cause”. Committee meets to investigate. pxcelleut move ... but a trifle ate. Committee chairman scratches head; His thoughts seem weighted down with lead. Till the brightest shouts, “Let's take a look At what it says in the little book.” Good idea—ah, that’s the place. Bye Y ay v Epitaph Why, it’s plain as the nose on your very face! Rule five, dash two—no—the one above, Says’he oughta worn his gloves. Committee nods in grave assent; See at once their time’s well spent. Cause is plain to all but fools: “He'd be here now if he’d follow- | ed the rules.” 'Committee’s conclusion: This case is sad. | He didn’t observe the rules . . . |_ TOO BAD! | Front office flurry soon is past; | Chance to get to work at last! ‘Well, that’s the story—sermon— text. Now Fate stands by and asks, Our purpose evé spread among the | manage and operati Columbia the reali strides can ke mad waste and distress We propose to practicable and req necessary to prevé We will show nority of operatioy advances that could upon by the majorit It is our aim te imagination, broad responsibility to the versal dissatisfactio ever-improving safe i Workmen's Cd ADAM BELL, F. P. ARCHIBA) CHRIS W. PRI} E. V. ABLETT, “WHO'S NEXT?”