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B.C. LUMBER WORKER

2nd Issue, May

‘Cooperation spells ..

ON HAND fo greet Giacamo Clozza after his flight (in the helicopter shown in the background) from Langley to the WCB grounds for the Forest

Products Safety Week flag raising ceremony, were from left, IWA District President, Joe Morris; Clozza; Anthony F. Douglas, Chairman of the Joint

Forest Products Safety Committee.

Keep forests
green in B.C.

The most painstaking efforts
of government and industry to
protect our forest crop from fire
can be nullified by the action of
one thoughtless camper, hiker
or motorist, This thought is
behind the nation-wide “Forest
Conservation Week” program to
be celebrated by the Canadian
Forestry Association between
May 17 and 24.

Recent statistics recording a
substantial decrease in the percen-
tage of forest fires caused by care-

ess campers and smokers in
h Columbia indicate that the
public is responding in a most
gratifying way to the Associa-
tion's program, comments Hugh
J. Hodgins, president of the B.C.
Branch of the CFA.

In forest protection, however,
eternal vigilance is the price of
safety, and the Association is
again using Forest Conservation
Week as the opening salvo in an
intensive campaign aimed at all
sections of the public.

B.C. Forest Service

To assist in the promotion of
this campaign the Association en-

lists the aid of many agencies
reaching into every corner of the
province including the B.C. For-

est Service, the public school
system, the Junior Forest Ward-
ens, CFA membership, press,

radio and TY,

Assistance of service clubs and
other community organizations is
also an invaluable factor in
spreading the message of .forest
protection and fire prevention
throughout B.C.

Fire-Conscious

While: people are unquestion-
ably more fire-conscious today
the fact remains that hazard con
ditions are becoming increasingly
severe with the rapid growth of

tourist traffic and the opening up |

of many new camping and recre-
ation areas.

That this increase in the num-
ber of people using the woods for
recreation has not resulted in a
corresponding upswing in the per-
centage of fires charged’ to public
heedlessness is due in large
measure, CFA officials believe, to
the constant reminder that “Only
YOU can keep fire out of the
forest!”

First day
accidents

He escaped

Here’s one man who'll
never be without safety shoes
on-the-job. On the first day
of Safety Week Earl T. Cul-
bert, an employee of Canadian

THk MEO,

Western Lumber Co. Ltd. at
Fraser Mills was struck .on
the foot by a 12” by 12” tim-
ber. Fortunately for Mr. Cul-
bert he was wearing safety
shoes. The blow bent the
metal plate in his shoe but his
foot emerged from the boot
unscathed. Another example
of how safety equipment can
save you from serious injury.
Mr. Culbert and 12 fellow
employees in his department
are aproaching their 1,200th
day without an accident.

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He didn’t
Ironically enough on the

opening day of the campaign, a
forest products worker was pre-
paring the safety week no-acci-
dent flag for raising at one cere-
mony on Vancouver Island.

While he was doing so a heavy
gust of wind hurled the rope hang-

ing from the flag pole and a
wooden button used to affix the
flag to the rope struck the work-
man in the teeth resulting in the

loss of his two front teeth and a

bruised lip. Probably he was the

only worker in the province who
didn’t agree with the campaign.

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Our congratulations to

workers, union ang

in the forest products
Week, May 12-17.

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