B.C. LUMBER WORKE

C Sick List

Pearson, Vancouver General,
Infectious Diseases and
Cambie Street Hospitals

Ladies’ Auxiliary of Local 1-217,
IWA, visited the ‘following patients
in the Pearson, Vancouver General,
<Infectious Diseases. and Cambie
Street Hospitals during March, dis-
tributing candy, cigarettes and cop-
ies of the B.C. Lumber Worker.
H. Schmidt, Alice Lake, 1-71—T.B.
Je Ireland, ‘Terrace, 1-71—T.B.
V, Anderson, Terrace, 1-71—D.B.
Yenglewood, 1-71—T.33.
en, Knight’ Inlet, 1-71—

1-71—T.B..

nie
J. Chong, Kelley Loggin;

©. Kasin, Booth Logging, 1-71—

L. Stephenson, Vancouver Bay,
—T.B.

F. Herrling, Perey Logging, 1-71—
TB.

E. Luoma, Queen Charlottes, 1-71—
T.B.

M. Matheson, Mahatta River, 1-71—
rs,

A, Rahko, Smith Inlet, 1-71—T.B.

D. Jeffrey, Kline Logging, 1-71—T.B.
W. Cochrane, Englewood, 1-71—T.B.
M. Arola, Queen Charlottes, 1-71 —

T.B.

T. Sinnes, Alice Lake, 1-71—T.B.

I, Sodergard, Englewood, 1-71—T.B.

X. Gisslen, Booth Logging, 1-71—T.B,

HH. Gooseen, Ellen Log, Port Hardy,
1-7i—Fraetured elbow.

A. Neilson, Englewood, 1-71—Broken
hip.

R. Leroux, Squamish, 1-71—Car ac-
cident.

G. Pruss, Alice Lake Logging, 1-71—
Foot. injury.

B. Kearns, Beaver Cove, 1-71— Les
injury.’

W. Pratt, Gibson Brothers, 1-71—T.B

W. Bradley, Alaska Pine, 1-71—T.B.

E, Ostler, Hudson Lumber, 1-71 —
Leg injury.

J. Kissack, Englewood, 1-71—T.B.

St. Paul’s, Cambie St., and

Infectious Diseases Hospitals

Ladies’ Auxiliariry of Local 1-217,
IWA, visited the following patients
in the St. Paul’s, Cambie St. and
Infectious Diseases Hospitals during
March and distributed candy, cigar-
ettes and copies of the B.C. Lumber
Worker.

Mike Strucely, Prince George, 1-424
—Knee injury.

Ivan Baudera, Revelstoke, 1-424 —
Leg injury.

D. L. Monsell, Williams Lake, 1-424
—Leg injury.

Irwin Zimmer, Williams Lake, 1-424
—Broken Tez.

Y. Marchi, Prince George, 1-424 —
Broken leg.

C. Sandstrom, Prince George, 1-424—

accident.

Krone, Prince George, 1-424—Spine
injury.
W. Inkstel, ‘Telegraph Creek, 1-421—
ic injury.

A, G. Thomas, 100 Mile House, 1-424

, 100 Mile House,
34—Broken neck.

Royal Columbian

Sisters P. Miller and M. Gobin of
the LA Local 1-357, IWA., visited
the following patients in the Royal
Columbian Hospital January 16th to
2ist, distributing candy, cigarettes
and copies of the B.C. Lumber
Worker.

B. Pollardo,

roday Sawmill, Local
‘Kk injury, Feeling bet-

Jo Estok, B.C. Mfg., Local 1-357—

Operation. Gone home.

J. McGibbon, Harrison Lake, Local
1-357—Broken leg. Feeling fine.

G. Wilson, Fraser Mills, Local 1-357
—Operation. Gone home.

D. Hachey, Fraser Mills, Local 1-357
Kidney trouble. Feeling fine.

W. Palmer, Fraser Mills, Local 1-;
—Operation. Feeling’ fine.

L. McManus, Mohawk, Local 1-357—
Hand injury. Not too well.

L. G. Manning, Alaska Pine, Local
1-357—Operation. Feeling’ fine.
Steve Chmelyk, Port Moody, Local
1-357—Operation. Feeling ine.
Haney, B.C.F.P., Jervis Inlet—

Blood poisoning. Gone home.

J. Spiordos, Haney, Local 1~
Stomach ulcers.
hell, Fraser Mills,

397—Heart condition.
J.P, Ryan, Fraser Mills, Local

—Cancer. Not too well.

Odhold, Fraser Mills, Local 1-
Feeling fine.
Moret, Chamiss Bay—Skin infec-
tion. Feeling fine.
Everrett, B.C. Forest Products,
Local 1-367—Dislocated shoulder.
A. Anderson, Retired lumber work-
er—Gone home.

R.

H.

Abra, Fraser Mills, Local 1-357—
Feeling fine.

R. Moravec, Retired, Local 1-357—
Cedar poisoning.

Sisters Willard and Rose of the LA
Local 1-357, IWA, visited the follow-
ing patients in the Royal Columbian
Hospital April 30th to May 8th, dis-
tributing candy, cigarettes and
copies of the B.C, Lumber Worker.

&. Anderson, Louise Bay—Shoulder

injury.

M. Lis, Pacific Pine—Operation.

Glen Mathew, ‘Timberland — Bye
trouble,

1, Beuthat, Braser’ ille—Rheumo-
old.

ams, B.C. Manufacturing.
W. Tonsaker, Alaska Pine — Asteo-

molitis.

C. Everett, B.C.F.P. — High Blood
pressure.

A. Danyleiv, B.C. Manufacturing —
Accident.

R. A. Perdue, Fraser Mills—Ulcer-

ated stomach.
Prestapaupa, F
* tired.

raser Mills — Re-

Ladysmith General

Financial Secretary Ed. Linder of
Local 1-80, IWA, visited the follow-
ing patients in the Ladysmith Gen-
eral Hospital May 1, distributing
candy, cigarettes and ‘copies of the
B.C, Lumber Worker.

Mr.
Mr.
Mr.
Mr.

Richard Nimmo, Ladysmith, B.C.
Peter: Jomrie, Ladysmith,’ B.C.
Elmer Sampson, Shell Beach.
Johnny Hill (boy), Ladysmith,
B.C.
Mrs. Julie Gereluk, Ladysmith, B.
Mrs. Jack Smythe, Ladysmith, B.
Mrs. Mary Knutson, Saitair, B.C.
Miss Shirley Cook (child), Lasqueti
Island, B.C. i
Mrs. Dollie Cathers, Ladysmith, B.C.
Mrs. W. Distant, Ladysmith, B.C.
Mrs. J. F. Gordon, R.R. No. i, Lady-
smith, B.C.
Mr. Fred Rumble, Ladysmith, B.C.
Mr. Percy Kidder, Saltair, B.C.
Mrs. Jean Madden, Ladysmith, B.C.
Mrs. Eino Kotillo, Ladysmith, B.C.
Mrs. Sam Cloke, Ladysmith, B.C.
Mrs. Andrew Fairbairn, Ladysmith,
B.C.

Mrs. Joe Grouhel, Ladysmith, B.C.

Auxiliaries Report
Service Program

(Officers of the Ladies’ Auxiliaries
Annual District Conference have ex-
plained that unavoidable circum-
stances prevented earlier release of
the full report of the conference
proceedings. This report now at
hand and includes the reports from
individual units. Many of these re-
ports have already been published i
various forms. The remainder will
be reprinted as space permits. A
summary of the province-wide activ-
ities of the auxiliaries was given to
the District Convention by Sister
Olsen, Local 1-405. For that reason a
verbatim report of her address is
now given below—Editor's Note.)

“It gives me great pleasure on
behalf of the Ladies’ Auxiliary to
thank you for the privilege of al-

lowing us to speak at this Annual
Convention.
“Our Auxiliary sends greetings

from our Annual Meeting to this
2lst District Convention.

Last year we were a member-
ship of 150, and this year we have
grown to 175, although our auxi
jaries have remained the same in
number.

“Hospital visiting is

ll our

in objective. Visits during 1957

mi
totalled appro: tely 2,000, Ban
on hospital visiting owing to flu
plus the fact that finances had to

be watched more closely and act-
ive membership lower caused a
drop in the total visits.

“Several auxiliaries have report-
ed that reimbursements have been
received from other locals, whose
members have been visited from
time to time.

“In addition to this our ladies’
auxiliaries are entering more and
more into community life. We
support such worthy endeavours
as March of Dimes, Adoptees of
various children's hospitals,
Brownie Packs, Civic elections,
old age pensioners, needy families
and one Sub-Local, namely, 1-405
at Jaffre, did the clerical work for
the T.B. mobile unit.

“We appeal to you again at this
time to take home to your local,
the great need for further increase
in membership of our auxiliaries
if we are to continue to meet the
growing need of our communities,

“In conclusion I have been
asked to thank the district for
their hospitality and entertain-
ment. We wish you every succe:

in the rest of your deliberations.’

International

New Laundry Union Organized
WASHINGTON — The AFL-CIO Laundry and Dry Cleaning
Union, which will replace the ousted Laundry Workers

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MEMBERS of the Ladies’ Auxiliary of Local 1-357, |WA, New Westminster, who were on hand at the official

opening of the Local’s new building May 3rd, to escort vis

itors through

the premises. Group from left, Mrs.

Jones, Mrs. Smith, Mrs. Miller, Mrs. Rebeyka, Mrs. Trineer, Mrs. Love, Mrs. Eddie, Mrs. Rose.

Fireside Argument De-Bunks
False Stories About Labour

By EILEEN ROBINS

What do you do when you meet anti-union, or anti-labor
people? I wasn’t quite sure, myself, when our new neigh-

bours vi

ited us for the evening.

It was almost inevitable

that our conversation. would get around to labor and unions,

and it turned out to be a most

“Well,” said our neighbour,
settling back in our best armchair
and accepting a cigarette from my
husband. “I guess I just don’t
like unions.” And he took a long
drink from the beer we'd just
handed him, He wasn’t reall
abusing our hospitality — we had
just asked him his opinion, and
he gave it honestly. A brave man,
really, for he knew from our pre-
vious conversation that we were
strong ‘labor’ people.

It Seems Silly

His wife smiled, as if to take
the sting from his words and said:
“They always scem to be on
strike. It seems silly — they must
lose such a lot of money.”

We agreed that strikes did cost
money; that in many, many cases,
terrible hardships are suffered by
workers who strike. But we
pointed out that most workers
feel, in the long run strike is
worthwhile, if it achieves a better
standard’ of living, more security
and a greater measure of happi-
ness. It's also true, as we quickly
added, that for every strike that’s
publicized, dozens, maybe hun-
dreds of contracts are negotiated
and settled without rancor — and
without publicity.

Our Point
To illustrate our point, we
found, hidden away among the

back pages of our local paper,
three stories of contracts recently
settled. Each contract was given
about two paragraphs of space.
There was no news of any strike,
but our neighbours couldn't’ help
but agree that if there had been,
it would have been splashed across
the front page — headline news.
“Anyway,” said our guest, “I
guess most of the strikes are or-
ganized by the racketeers.” It was
quite clear, from the he said

Looting
Approved

TORONTO (CPA) — Ac-
cording to the Toronto Tele-
gram “Financial men see
nothing untoward in the re-
sulting (from pipeline) stock
gains. They look on the si
uation as the full expression
of our free enterprise sys-

tem,”

timulating conversation.

it, that he thought most union
leaders were racketeers, and that
they were all dishonest.

Dishonest Bankers

My husband and I took long
breaths, counted ten and didn’t
lose our tempers. “Do you have
a bank accoun we asked, Our
neighbour readily admitted he did,
He also admitted that, of cour:
he hasn't stopped banking his
money just because the odd bank
official absconds with fands, And
he certainly wouldn't suggest that
all banking activities should be
suspended because of a handfull
of dishonest bankers. “Why then,”
I asked, rather heatedly, “do you
condemn the whole labor move-
ment because a few union officials
have been found dishonest?”
“Well,” he said, “I’m always
reading about them they seem
more than just a few.

“That's just it!” I exclaimed.
“You know about the ones you
read about. The ones you don’t
know about are the ones no-one

ever writes or reads about: the
honest, devoted, hardworking
ones! Thousands of them” My

husband gave me a look that dis-
approved of my sounding off, and
remarked quietly that Canadian
labor was free of the type of
racketeering and dishonesty that
had been found to exist, to a min-
ute degree, in the States.

Run By States

Our friend snorted. “That's a
good one!” he cried. “Why,
everyone knows that the unions in
Canada are really run by people
in the States.” He was surprised
when we both roared with laugh-
ter. We said that it was obvious
that he believed everything he
read in the newspapers. My hus-
band then promised to see if he
could arrange for our friend to
it a local union meeting, so he
could find out for himself who
runs the unions. “But,” warned
my husband, “don’t go suggesting
to the members there that anyone
else but them runs their union.
Under their constitution they elect
their officers, control spending and
decide policy, They run their own
show.”

The last thing I heard, as I went
to make the coffee, was our friend
enquiring about the particular
union to which he might belong
— “if,” he added darkly, “I hap-
pened to change my mind about
unions!” 5

Labour Records

It would have been nice if he
had joined a union. But things
like that just don’t happen over-
night. However, as a sort of fol-
low-up on our personal propa-
ganda, we loaned our ‘anti-union’
neighbour some of our labor rec-
ords: in themselves, a history of
our times and of the struggle that
ordinary people have had to give
themselves a place in the sun.

The records are our under-cover
agents. Between them and us,
our neighbour can't help ending
up where he belongs anyway — in
the “band of working men.”

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