o} 1st Issue, January

B.C. LUMBER WORKER :

‘tly at the Civic Centre in Prince
Holst, Safety Director of Local 1-
ind St. John Ambulance Associa-

ORCHIDS
SENT TO
JOHN T.

The following is a copy of the
letter received by IWA District
President Joe Morris from Ovid
L. Holmes, member of the Ameri-
can Society of Safety Engineers,
California, whose group District
Safety Director John T. Atkin-
son, recently addressed.

Dear Sir:

I hope you will express to your |

Council officers and members our

deep appreciation for Mr. Atkin- |)

son’s address at the American
Society of Safety Engineers’

meeting of November 14, 1955, |)

in Sacramento, California.

His address was most excellent
and well calculated to express the
woodworkers’ thinking with re-
gard to accident prevention. In
addition, his remarks should con-
vince safety engineers every-
where that the objectives of labor
in accident prevention are honest-
ly directed toward the benefit of
their membership, the general
advancement of safety program-
ming and engineering, and should
convince safety engineers that
we have a common objective, the
attainment of which permits no
disagreement in principles.
Further than that, Mr. Atkin-
son’s presentation was so effec-
tive that suggestions have been
made that he be asked to attend
the California Governor’s ‘Indus-
trial Safety Conference, Forest
Products Section, usually held in
February each year. If this sug-
gestion is well received, I am
sure that a personal invitation
will be extended via the Govern-
or’s office. Steps have been taken
to consider this matter.

May I again sincerely offer not
only the thanks of the Society,
but my own as well.

Fraternally and sincerely,

Ovid L. Holmes,
Safety Engineer.

FALLER
SENDS
HINT

The Editor:

May I offer a safety suggestion
to all interested fallers of the
IWA, regarding loose bark on
snags. As a former head faller,
it was my custom before falling
a bad snag to take about six
pieces of wood, roughly one inch
in diameter and eight inches in

length.

CHICAGO CAUCUS’

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SAFETY OFFICIALS Lloyd D. Utter (left) Director of Industrial Safety and Health for the United -
Automobile Workers; John T. Atkinson, IWA District 1 Safety Director; and Harry Read, National
Safety Council Vice-president for Labor, discuss the program of the Council’s new Labor Division
and Labor Conference during the recent Convention of the National Safety Council in Chicago.

National Council Expands

Labor’s Partici

pation

CHICAGO—A Labor Division has been established by

the National Safety Council

as part of its expanded pro-

gram of accident prevention in the field of organized labor.

The action was taken at a re- |

cent, meeting of the Council’s
board of directors, which elected
Harry Read, assistant to the sec-
retary-treasurer of the CIO-and
for several years a member of
the Council board, to the new
post of Vice-president for Labor.

Jesse Clark, president of the
Brotherhood of Railroad Signal-
men of America, and P. L. Sie-
miller, general vice-president of
the International Association of
Machinists, were re-elected to the
NSC board. :

Far-reaching Influence

In announcing the new division,

Ned H. Dearborn, president of
the Council, emphasized the far-
reaching influence that labor or-
ganizations have on the thought
and action of a large part of the
nation’s population.

“Labor organizations have a
large interest in all areas of
safety and they are willing to
participate in accident prevention
work in appropriate areas,” he
said. “These organizations com-
prise a multitude of capable, will-
ing volunteer leaders.”

Conference Status
The board of directors recom-

mended that the Labor Division
be given conference status, along
with industrial, traffic, farm,
home, school and other major
areas of Council activity. The
conferences, composed of repre-
sentative individuals in each field,
serve in a volunteer advisory ca-
pacity.

Dan Adair, who has been rep-
resenting the Council in relations
with labor unions and labor de-
partments, has been named direc-
tor of the Labor Division and will
administer the program from the
Council’s headquarters in Chi-
cago. Adair has had experience
with labor union safety programs
in the northwest lumber industry

and in state government.

* These I would sharpen at one
end and then drive them with the
side of the axe head through the

bark of the snag, into the hard
wood about two feet above where
my saw cut was going.

I would then cut the bark off |\

below the pegs before falling the

snag. Once this was done I could |.)

drop the snag in reasonable safe-
ty from the bark breaking loose
and hitting me.

R. Koebel.

AGE: 34
EXPERIENCE: 9 years.

“slack’ off” the line.

The top of a 40-foot hemlock log was bi
The rigging slinger relayed the “go ahead”
The butt swung towards the rigging slinger who signalled to

7 YARDING & LOADING

Dead...

OCCUPATION: Rigging Slinger

‘ied in mud and snow.
jignal,

The log came down almost vertical, pinning the riggi
against the stump. oe peti Hive tp
. Workman was not in the clear.