2nd Issue, April B.C. LUMBER WORKER

TOUR OF PITT LAKE CAMP

IWA Officials Attend Camp Meetings At BCFP Camp

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GENERAL VIEW of the Comp Neekin toward the head of ret Teker The building s CRE AND MANAGEMENT of the Br itish Columbia Forest Product's Pitt Lake
Cal il Uy Lee ental fain the een the bunk- ittendin: held there April 16th, which was addressed
fe IWA ses Safety Director John T. Atkinson.

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BUNKHOUSE in which IWA Officials of Loca 1-367, President Warren
lagen 1h and Financial Secretary

tion back down the lake, is as Beene as any hotel room.

ae IRS AID ATTENDANT Ernie Freeze in his modern and fully e EH a Aid
Ros:

Then! eee —

Letter from an un-named logger ae around
1900, and quoted in “This Was Log.

" IN ADDITION TO ALL PRESENT )
“First I worked for a lumber company in the Hoh rain ie UNION-GAINED BENEFITS

This was pack? in 1900 and in those days did we have snow? e

had to take our shovels to our bunks vith us so as to be able to LOOK TO eee

shovel o: . way out of the bunk house in the morning and it was

so cold that when you spit Ir

°
iz id i it hi ground. gg
“At 4 in the morning the acon Beaded old boss would stick
i h house door and yell “Day li $
nd the uth fit ea it was two hors till daylight but that boss.
vasn't to be argued with and out we all rolled and got on our
Brakes. We would all gang into the grub house FOR THE ..
t about 5 A.M. At 6 o'clock that sai

me boss would yell “All o1

a
woods.” We wi v eabeny
vlight we woul rrived at our picnic ground and logging in @ n us
edar out of the swamp. Along about noon the cook and his crew
vould show up with a flat log drawn by a horse with our pork and STONE
bean; :

n it and we would brush the sno ff
down fa) eat in weather around erie

ave known since how snail pork and beans tasted and by the eat
of the pork after careful Seamuitelon I sometimes onic if the
hog wasn't boil ve as ee

acuier prondes Ifthe Kemewlert
ay.

ood any
in the winter the boss

fs

eal were NOW .

Boe didalteaive! eee and in the
nl yu i]

s the wi

you but even better da
aS Well ain we got back | ys
‘cl as iad 2-or 3 miles to walk, we
h up and get into the grub house at 6 su - ahead
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T i f
fa y
ometimes used them be eure
ae Batwa ciecuihinn Atte grub ou con
i un jouse d
i d

wae
mn take q 9

p our old corncobs ga fresh chew of plug
cards, some would p! 5, p lies and say
peat pioods lies some of the old Guiers. Saul Nell andithelcest
of us would keep busy Pechigceiasaerdian ster bs hi

ir gran
a

2

and then someone
Sou blow out the lig! the t ed up lanterns and we
ould all hit ane hee ea be ready ie. eae a bigger day to-
( morrow.
"Our one day was S ¢ worked six days a week and
c washed our clothes and nee and erally our razors on dried
flapjacks on Sundays. Pay day wasn't looke forward to because
( we didn’t give a money till spring as we had no way
pend it until we quit work in the spring, t! ice many a fool
( lumberjack apa | his whole pines woe by noon the first day
‘ town. Ho ! Some palmy day:

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