B.C. LUMBER WORKER

“Talking About
The Weather”

By PEG STEWART

I was in Windsor a couple of weeks ago, where they’re
celebrating the hundredth anniversary of the town. They
have a lot of show-cases along the main street, containing
displays by everybody from the breweries to the garden
clubs. I spent some time looking at one featuring a col-
lection of dolls, dressed by school chidren, in various

national costumes.

‘The point of that display is the
origin of Windsor’s citizens.
Each doll has a little placard on
it, telling what proportion of the
population that particular nation-
ality contributes,

Canadian Climate

I wish I could hang around
for another hundred years or so,
to see if the mixture will have
a strong effect on our national
disposition, or whether our Ca-
nadian climate will make the
great-grandchildren of our new-
comers into the same sort of
people we are.

I read somewhere that climate
has a great deal to do with the
nature of people—the author had
to see if the mixture will have
a lot to say about the effect of
moisture on the people of the

_ British Isles. And I think there’s
something to it. Look at the
people who live in the Prairie
Provinees, where there’s almost
too much sunshine — it turns
everything brown in midsummer,
but it seems to keep the spirit
bright. They’re mostly a bunch
of cheerful, friendly gamblers
out there; you have to be some-

thing of a gambler to be a}

wheat farmer,

B.C. Gamblers
Across the mountains, B.C. is
quite different. They’re gam-
blers, too—look at the govern-

‘ments they elect—but you'd
never mistake someone from B.C.
‘for what we mean when we say
a Westerner.

| But in the East—what cau-
|tious, gloomy people we are! It
‘must be our weather. Most of
| the time we just endure it. And
when we get a really beautiful
| spell, we have an uneasy feeling
| we're going to have to pay for it
{sooner or later. And we apply
| the same feeling to any good for-

| tune.
Left Alone

| When summer comes, with
|warmth and sunshine, after our
|long cold winters, and slow, sog-
gy springs, we can’t take nice
weather for granted, and we're
so right. We don’t want to waste
| a minute of it—we know it won’t
last. We don’t want to go to
meetings, nor to read the papers
and worry about Asia and Eur-
| ope; we don’t want to hear what
| our own government is dreaming
|up, not even our local city or
|town council, We just want to

|be left alone in the sunshine,
| while it’s there to enjoy.

And even in summer, we can’t
|count on it. You know how it is
|—Thursday and Friday are won-

derful, but Daddy is working, so
|we plan to take the kids for an
outing on Saturday. So it rains.
| We comfort ourselves with the

Firms on the
“We Do Not Patronize List”
of the Victoria Labor
Council, CCL

Stewart & Hudwon Ltd., Victoria,

Firms on the

Firms on the
“We Do Not Patronize List”
of the Vancouver Trades
and Labor Council

RUSAURANTS:

Black Cat Coffee Shop.

Mayfair Caterers.

Stork Coffee Houne,
TAX)

Balmoral Taxt,
Broadway Taxi,
Forum

pa se Shilltvenck, B.C.
Vancouve r ers
Decorai

Charles David
David Hall Sign Co. Ltd.
TYPEWRITER COMPANIES:
Remington Rand Lt
Underwood Elliott Fisher Ltd.
Canada Dry Ginger Ale
Mitchell Printing & Publishing Co.

The Geo. H. Hewitt Co. Ltd.
Gordon Young (B,C. 5
Victoria Tile & Brick Supply Ltd.

RAMADIER
HEADS ILO

GENEVA (CPA) — M.
Paul Ramadier, one time
Premier of France, was un-
animously elected President
of the 1954 conference of
the International Labor Or-
ganization meeting here.

‘The conference is made up
of worker, employer and
goyernment delegates from

countries on hoth sides of the
‘iron curtain’.

Remadier, now 66 years
old, has been a Deputy of
the French Parliament since
1919. He has held a wide
ariety of Cabinet posts, in-
cluding that of Minister of
Labor for a period of three
years. In January 1947 he
was appointed Premier and
he occupied that position un-
til November of the same

thought that it may be nice on

Sunday. It isn’t so long ago that |

it was Sunday or nothing if you
wanted the whole family to-
gether. The five-day week has
changed that. eS
Big Change
Another big change is the idea
that a working man is entitled

to holidays. During the last boom, |

money was spent on all sorts of
things, but as I remember it, not
so much on cottages and tourist

cabins and motels—the things '
that indicate that a lot of people |

have not only a little money to
spend and a car to get around
in, but also time to go some-
place for a holiday. (But we take
our raincoats!)

We just dare not take very
pleasant things for granted. The
other day my husband and I
went in to the village to shop.
All girls and men were out in
bright summer clothes, after a
spell of cold weather. My hu:
band kept saying, “My, there’s
a pretty girl! , .. Did you see
that little honey? . . . Look at
that one—isn’t she pretty?
This town is crammed with lovely
girls to-day.”

Wary Canadian

He thought it over for a while |
and then he said, quite seriously, |
“T think T’d better get my eyes |
must need new |

examined. I
glasses.” Typical wary Canadian!
dian!

And when I see people on holi-
day, I find-myself hoping fer-
vently that it’s a real vacation,
and not the product of a lay-off.
T’m a typical wary Canadian,
too.

GIRLS
WORK
90 HRS.

BONN, Germany (CPA) —
A recent survey of working
conditions of German appren-
tices, carried out by the Ger-
man Trade Union Federation
(DGB), revealed a state of af-
fairs comparable to those
which existed widely one hun-
dred years ago.

Of the 300 apprentices ques-
tioned by DGB, 77 percent were
reported to be working be-
tween 50 and 72 hours each
week. Twenty of them got no
vacation at all and 16 were regu-
larly beaten by their employers.
Eyen the low wage to which the
apprentices are entitled is not al-
ways paid, reported DGB.

In the class of unskilled labor,
two-thirds of the apprentices re-
ported that they had to work for
a weekly average of 60 to 78
hours and in some industries,
girls were expected to work for
as long as 90 hours a week. The
worst industry for long hours
was found to be the grocery
trade,

Germany, it seems unnecessary
to add, has no youth labor legis-
lation.

Vancouver General

Sis
Busch of the W.A. Local 1-217,
IWA, visited the ‘following pa-
| tients in the Vancouver General
| Hospital, June 10, distributing

igarettes and copies of
| .C. Lumber Worker:
| WARD D z
(segbaths, Gane Balk be
jury.
Ress, Aiberta, Lumber — Stomach
trouble,

| WARD &
MacDonald, Prince George Plan-
ing Mill-Hip injury.

zowski, Queen Charlotte Is-

candy,
The

Jands—Leg injury.
Norman,

Brant Logging — Knee

Port Hardy—Leg injury.
‘Toth—Leg amputated,

Laktich, Port Alberni—Leg trou-

ble,

Korotash—Leg injury.

Libeon, Smithers—Toe injuries,
Williams, ‘Terrace—Knee injury
Huratt, Honeymoon Bay—Broken

lex.

MelKinnon—Back injury.
WARDS S$ and 'T

Campbell River—ill,

ex, Blind Bay—Leg tmjury.

Cranbrook—Back broken.

(—Leg injury
Martinson, Lamb—Broken r
Wiege,

Eburne—Hand injw
Hip injury.

Restmore—Iil,

nda—Ill,

Benz, Chamis ‘Leg injury
Sisters Gayle Simpson and }

garet Kamm of the W.A., Lo

1-217, IWA, visited the following

patients in’ the Vancouver Gen-

eral Hospital, June 15, distribut-

ing candy, cigarettes ‘and copies

of The B.C. Lumber Worker:

\.B. WARD

nan, Seymour Inlet—Fine.

ex, -Terrace—Up and around.

nyon—Pret-

m
H, In
L.

R » Great Central—Fine.
D. Austin, Burns Lake — Up and
around,

B. Ryzh, Alice Li

HEATED

Delaire—Arthrit
same,

ake—Fin'
AD

L

About the
LD, & HW. WARD
0. Krone, Prince George—Fine.
aner, Turner Logging—Fine.
Walsuk, Booth Logging—Im-
ving.

ns, Lakbrey Logging — Im-

proving.

Sister Margaret Kamm of the
W.A. Local 1-217, TWA, visited
the following patients in the Van-
couver General Hospital, June 22,
distributing candy, cigarettes and
copies of B.C,

Lumber Worker:

.B. WARD

©, Biman, Seymour Inlet—Fine.

H. Innes, Terrace—Fine.

L. Quinlan, Copper Canyon—Im-

proving.

Austin, Burns Lake—Fine.
ANNEX

Ducharme, Prince George

D.

Englewood,
h, Alice Lake—Fine.

Sisters Janzen and Shane of the
WA Local 1-405, 1WA., visited the
following patients in the St. Bu-
gene Hospital, June 14, distribut-
ing candy, cigarettes and copies
of the B.C, Lumber Worker.
St uk, Cranbrook,

Bekin, Perry Creek.
Lund, Cranbrook,
Mrs. Stan Dudka, Cranbrook.

Sisters Pinchak and Shane’
the WA Local IWA,

of

1-405, vis-

Fin. Sec, Ed. Linder of Local
1-80, IWA, visited the following
patients in the King's Daughte:
Hospital distributing candy, ci
arettes and copies of the B.
Lumber Worker:

Mr. Selwyn Fox, Port Renfrew.
Mr, Nell Morrison, Camp No. 3,

Youbou, B.C.

Mr, Larry Herbert, Victoria, B.C.
Mr. BUI Wilxou, Duncan, B.C,
Mr. Herb Williams, .Laice Cov

Sisters Lila Larsen and Alice
Olsen of the WA Local 1-405,
IWA.
tien

in

arettes and copies of
Lumber Worker:

's Alison Brown and Lucille |

King’s D:

|

visited the following pa-| Mrs. Mitchell, Gallow
the Fernie Memorial | Mrs. Johnson.
Hospital distributing candy, ER Mullins.
the’ B.C.

HEATHER ANNEX
Delnire—Arthritis. About
same.

the

LD. & WH. WARD —
W. Ganner, Turner Logging—Im-
Proving.’

Wal
provin;
W. Sim:
| proving.
| 0. Krone, Prince George—Fine,
| ‘Sisters’ Alison Brown and ‘Gu-

cille Busch of the W.A., Local 1-
217, TWA, visited the” following
patients in the Vancouver Gen-
eral Hospital, June 24, distribut-
ing candy, cigarettes ‘and copies
| of The B.C, Lumber Worker.

WARD D
Siolnnder, Courtenay — Back in-
jury.
| Ross, Alberta Lumber — Stomach
trouble,
Ramsey, Chamis Bay—Leg injury,
WARD E
oh , Queen Charlotte Is-
| is—Leg injury.
| Gallagher, Powell River Co—Leg

injury. P
MekKinnon—Back injury.
| Borer,” Queen Charottes — Leg

injury,
Pender, Port Hardy—Leg injury.
MacDonald, Prince George — Hip

injur
Wilkon—Arm injury.
Inktich, Port Alberni — Leg in-
jury,
‘Toth, Sechelt—Leg amputation.
Corrigan, Prince George—Leg’ In-
jury.
Libeon, Smithers- ‘oe injur:
WARD S. &
Mayo, Campbell River—Ill.
Roberts, Nelson Islands—Leg and

arm injury. +
Melnik, Kennedy

jury,

Kienk, Prince George—tl.
Quaye, Cranbrook—Broken back.
Martinson, Lamb—Rib injur
Wiese, Eburne—Hand_injur
Levine, Port Haney—Hip injury,
Cependa, Hburne—ill,
Donald—Leg injury,

Sister Gayle Simpson and Mar-
garet Kamm of the W.A. Local
1-217, IWA, visited the following
patients in the Vancoueyr Generali
Hospital, June 29th, distributing
candy, cigarettes and copies of
The B.C. Lumber Worker:

7.B. WARD
©, Elman, Seymour Inlet—ine.

Booth Logging—hn-

" Lakbrey Logging—Im-

Lake—Leg in-

. Innes, Terrace—Fine,

L. Quinlan, Copper Canyon—Much
bette:

D. Austin, Burns Lake—Up and
‘around,

ANNEX
N. Ducharme, Prince George
Better.
N. Lind, Englewood—rine.
G. Sutton, Prince George—Better.
D. Macdonald; Prince George —
Better.
G. Falknar, Booth Logging — Up
‘and around,
HEATHER ANNEX
Delaire—Arthritis, About
same.
LD. & H. WARD
0. Krone, Prince George—Fine.
A. Walsuck, Booth Logging—Very
cheerful.
W. Ganner, Turner Logging —
Much better,
W. Sims, Lakbrey Logging—Im-
proving steadily.

L. the

St. Eugene

ited the following patients in the
St. Bugene Hospital June 18th,
distributing candy, cigarettes and
copies of the B.C, Lumber Worker:

McLellan, Crenbrook-~
Steffanuk, Cranbrook.
Frank Stanley, Canal Flats,
Nordstrom, Cranbrook,

Jack MeDonald, Cranbrook,
‘Yom Lund, Cranbrook.
Skidmore, Cranbrook.

aughters

ichan.
Mr. Robert Walsh, Lake Cowichan,

Me, Qt Wilgiusicy, “Honeymoon
ay.

Mr. Robert ‘Trutck, Duncan, B,C,
Mrs, Ernest Towle, Lake 'Cow-
ichan, B.

Mrs. Harry Saunders.

Mrs. Earl Peters, Duncan, B.C,
Mrs. Stanley Clarke, Duncan, B.C.
Mra. Joxeph Zhoyoysky, Camp No.
, Youbou, -B.C,

Fernie Memorial

Ray Johnson, Elko.
Jack White, Waldo.

irs. Johnson,
Mrs. S, MelKay.

and kiddies’ special rides.

to 7 p.m.

members,

Lloyd Whalen, President of Local
Brown, President of the Women’s Aux!

Harry Bardsley is Chairman of
of Ceremonies is Charlie La March
Admission is by Union Card.

_ Postponed Picnic
Now July 24th

Local 1-217, IWA, will hold their 5th Amual Picnic, Satur-
day, July 24th, at the Swedish Park, North Vancouver.

Races and games will start at 1 p.m. and the local union
will supply tea coffee, milk, ice cream, soft drinks,

Pony rides,

Transportation arrangements have been made for mem-
bers who are without cars. Buses will leave Cassiar and Hast-
ings. every 15 minutes for the picnic grounds from 11 to 1
p.m. The return trip at night will be made from the Picnic
grounds to Cassiar and Hastings every 15 minutes, from 5

5

17, and Mrs. Allison
ry, will welcome the

the Committee and Master