B.C. LUMBER WORKER men know al safety yON... <) 3 a job. b up situations. mba wensation Board Valentines for Careless Workers @Piolet are bi Roses are red. Guards out of place Mean trouble ahead / @aisys are white Lilies are too. Work safer or some Will be planted on you / Mine Rules Revised TORONTO (CPA) — The United Steelworkers has sug- gested that mine safety be the joint responsibility of labor and management rather than that of management alone as is presently the case under pro- yincial mine safety laws. The suggestion was made in a union brief to the Ontario Depart- ment of Mines. A review of safety rules in mining was triggered following the death of miner Joseph Hor- tubise, a Steelworkers member at Matachewan in 1955. TO ALL LOCALS OF THE INTERNATIONAL WOODWORKERS OF AMERICA, DISTRICT COUNCIL NO. 1: Greetings! The Officers of District Council No. 1, IWA, AFL- CIO, CLC, issue this 8th Annual Call to the District Safety Conference to be held in the York Room, Hotel Georgia, Vancouver, B.C., on February 20, 1957, com- mencing at 9:30 a.m., and continuing through the day until the business is completed. The high standard of our safety program which has been developed over the past year and the tremendous job ahead of us to still further our program will be a matter for the Conference to give deep consideration to. It will be the duty of the delegates to prepare a program for recommendation to the Twentieth 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 discussion of the saféty problems confronting our membership, 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 9:00 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. Resolutions: All resolutions dealing with safety and accident prevention, amendments to the Workmen’s Compensation Regulations, and other safety matters should be sent to the District Secretary, Ste. 4, 45 Kingsway, Vancouver 10, B.C., by January 31, 1957, twenty (20) 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 XII of the District By-laws, and reads as follows: “The Constituted Officers of the District Safety Coun- cil shall be: (a) Director (b) Secretary (c) First Vice-Director (d) Second Vice-Director (e) Third Vice-Director In addition to the elected Officers of the Safety Coun- cil, each Local Union shall be entitled to one (1) delegate for the first one thousand (1000) members or fraction thereof, plus their Safety Director; and one additional Delegate for each one thousand (1000) members there- after, or major fraction thereof.” Your Local Union is entitled to............ Delegates, credentials for which are herewith enclosed. Fraternally yours, DISTRICT COUNCIL NO. 1, IWA J. Morris, President Wm. N. Gray,- 1st Vice-President S. M. Hodgson, 2nd Vice-President F. Fieber, 3rd Vice-President TAKE A LESSOW FROM THE Wor-s0-00me Awimats / Director Hinton, Alberta, following a The District Safety Director spent from Jan, 3 to 16 visiting the various camps of the com- pany, where he helped organize safety ‘committees and lectured on the hazards of power-driven machinery. Lack Experience The majority of the more than 1,000 employees of the company are new to logging and lack ex- perience around power machin- ery. The extreme cold in which the men work in’ is an added hazard and very difficult to cope with, the director stated. In one of the camps John T. visited, he found that quite a few of the crew were not wearing hard hats. When he inquired into the reason for this, he was told that the company had provided s Tour. Peps Program Improved safety conditions have resulted for the em- ployees of the North Western Pulp & Power Company, tour there recently by IWA District Safety Director John T. Atkinson. the men with hard hats, but the type ordered failed to stand up in the bitter weather. This forced some member's of the crew to go without who had worn this type of hat until others could:be obtained. Man Injured Recently John T. received a letter from this camp which stated that the new hats had ar- rived and the next day one of the crew had dropped-a tree on his mate. Fortunately, the victim of the accident was wearing a hard hat and the only injuries he received were head lacerations and a sore shoulder. The letter added that the acci- dent had made the injured man a firm devotee of hard hat wear a rule fér life. TRAFFIC DEATHS UP OTTAWA (CPA) — Deaths and injuries resulting from motor vehicle accidents both showed an increase during the first six months of this year compared with the first half of 1955. Deaths from vehicle accidents were 862 in the first half-year (excluding Quebec) against 806 last year and the number of Geo. H. Mitchell, Secretary-Treasurer | = persons injured was 22,398 compared with 20,185. The total number of reported accidents in the first six months of 1956 was 67,269 against 62,899 last year. OCCUPATIO: EXPERIENC AGE: 57 Years. The rigging was brought and uprooted two saplings. 0 Years. instantly. Highrigger. back when the carriage struck The workman was standing with his back turned, and did not see the saplings swing towards him. The workman was struck by one of the saplings and killed