B.C. LUMBER WORKER

FRAPS.

DISTRICT SECRETARY- TREASURER, George Mitchell,

trict Officers,
Walker.

May 26th, in Vance

on behalf of the Dis-

ouver. Group from left, Cones Mitchells John T. rien James M. Milmore; Leo A. Stadnyk; G. Ee

Conference Urges Home Safety

solution calling for a Home Safety Program designed
active participation of the IWA Ladies’
assed by the delegates attending the
IWA District Safety Conference, May 26, in the Steel Hall,

Re
to encourag pithe
Auxiliaries,

solution:

5 lt

vith by the Conf to the Department of Railways

ae th by e Conference elena 7 after approval by the District
e Board.

trial Transportation Act, ue
Safety Council’

tions on.this section of the ene

portation Act will be submitted

“safet kk
The Conference was addr
by District Secretary-Treasurer
George Mitchell, representing the

District Officers, who in a)

epecehpraiseaiena

ork 03
members in helping a aa ats
eee Safety Week, the safest

oe

"r. , 8rd Vice-Director
he! Distiet Safety Council

vealed a growing interest and a
steady improvement in the eur-
tailment of accidents on the job.

The District Safety Director,
ayia me Atkinson, gave a descrip-
alk to

essed,

of

was elected to attend the first
Safety re June 17th, in
Portland, Ore;

ape
Reports faa the Local Unions

che forty delegates

in eee ai complaineswithithe
Workmen's Compensation Board,

when an employer refuses to rec-
fy ansarelesnateantl

Joint Ca

try association, labor unions

nearly 26 per
Completed figures for
ations in B.C. w
y Join ad-
quarters of. Forest Products
Safety Week. Association figures

: mpaign
Paid Dividends

VANCOUVER — Unaffiliated logging, sawmilling and spo
other forest products operations in British Columbia suf-} sho

and government es still
combined to give an over-all reduction in accidents of | 2
ent.

pele prdetes
By ciation and
one aaa the all-B.

the
all-B.C. campaign. closed,

me “indicated ‘a 79.48 percent re-

duction in accidents. Corrected
for th i

total of 120 accidents, as against
provide:

trative and advisory share, and
tie Wedel SnAbte Maneecrien
Co-operation Committee was ac-
tively represented.

Industry Spokesmen

Bien icenee oe the statistic:
wa

express'
nthusiasm generated among
all sareiationg: of B.C. by the
work and its result.

Earlier, Minister of Lab
Lyle Wicks ha said at Victova

cent.
B.C. associations whose activi-
ties earned substantial

Son to
0 effort put into the job” and
a paid tribute to the achieve-

Unsafe

Workers

:|\Charged

KITCHENER Sor Four

ine

chereeds by fiir Sale with
opt 4 press without a
sai fely. i See The charge, the
first of its ee in ee iol
lowed the suce
Han of the Soa a ton i

charge of operating an unsafe
factory.

Under the Ontario
Shop and Office Bi Building ras =
employ loyer, if convicted of operat

figures for the
aliow a/elehe chanees The total
for the week was a 74.36 percent
xeduction.

No peeport

Whil

in Secident rates eens Safety
ere: Northern Interior
45

promptly each day.of the May
to 11 campaign, paatietea a
erations did pee jort at all:

most 0; Rrained un~

Bee wnt claims pene on file
s Compensation

eae Bre "Final compiiation

of claims shows these figur:

Unaffiliated loggers, with an

ent
aed eats Gabe an n average of
85 accidents weekly, gids dur-
at os Le sat av-

total none nt cee: of
percent above “normal”.

Assoi id Ply Manu-
weeace Waereceuoae of B.C.
percent each; Interio:
ranteneriea

per Association o ie reel aay
Labor Uni

ents, oa their
se of 22,85 Ai
a G

Wor! rking in clos Se _CO-" o-opeaton
e

fohn “Ambul.

With four miscellaneous acci-
dents swelling the total to 100 for

19.05 percent was es |

ad Sena: thee wer

aaa of
orded,

sociation were important par-
aan also.

Headquarters, pra ip tical and
e

Workm«
contrition

safety committees throughout
B.C.’s biggest natural resource
industry. ‘

unsafe plant may, in
charge his employees if he com
Sidera that they

bes (:
r a great many years
empted to a b= |

“tony ”’ The very ace od

gel

monstrated, people continue to i

that eventully can end only in ‘ry
4

Our technical, social and @¢
high order of intelligence, skill
ingenuity, curiosity and profess
are sometimes the very factors th

The fact that the accident fe

hal
done a very good job of impressi
They have indulged in fine sou!
responsibilities and talked of hm

are natural and normal human ¢}

‘
It is time for safety men t

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Workmen's C0

trial
Relations ets took an adminis-

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