B.C. LUMBER WORKER Libya piece of machin- diber that it takes more § lyeards, It’s not good ; ; a ewists ... youve ajazard is controlled. ‘a dierent to a loaded gun. rs fhe other. Learn what t 2) edfo im your occupation, : : ifensation Board mts x i i Ross Davis, Union Business Agent, John Col- well; Board Inspector, Charlie Whisk- ers; and Woods Foreman, Godfrey; made an on the scene investigation. Cedar'snag kills experienced faller Faller Adolf Mystrom, em- ployed at the Logging Opera- tion of the Mayo Lumber Com- pany Limited, MacKay Lake, Vancouver Island, was fatally injured June 17th, when struck on the head by a piece fron. a broken snag. Local 1-80’s Safety Director, jn* company with hemlock tree but was unable to drop it due to the repeated bind- ing of his saw. Leaving the hemlock, he went to a fir tree fifty feet away, which he proceeded to saw in a manner that when it fell, it would knock down the hemlock in its path. Unfortunately to the side of the fir tree was a dry cedar snag, which broke up when the fir tree started falling, and a piece of the snag struck Nystrom on the top of his head resulting in his death shortly afterwards. At the inquest held in Nan- Workmen’s Compensation Jim. Nystrom they learned was an experienced faller, with over fif-|aimo, the coroner’s jury returned teen years spent working in three | verdict of accidental death with man gangs. Recently however he|no blame attached to anyone but had switched over to a two man|added a recommendation, that “it gang working the early shift. be further stressed to all fallers From Nystrom’s partner, the|that when snags are felled that investigators learned that the| they be well cleared before fall- deceased had attempted to fell al ing continues.” Miles of cheques paid out by W.C.B. The five millionth compensa- tion cheque sent out by the Board since its inception Janu- ary 1, 1917 was sent through the mails Monday, July 14th. The cheque for $119.63 is made lion cheques would measure over 700 miles, or from the coast to beyond the rockies. The automatic machines which print these cheques at a rate of 1000 per hour are invaluable in out to 2 permanent partially dis-|keeping delays to a minimum. abled workman in receipt of a life pension. 1000 New Claims Compensation awarded during time Joss| with the steady flow of compen- processed daily. Several months ago over 1000 |new claims were received one 700 Miles day, although the average is If laid end to end the five mil-| about 350 per day. Modern business machine equip- | the past forty years amounts to|ment is necessary to keep pace $381,421,043.95. for compensation, pensions and medi-|sation claims cal treatment to B.C.’s injured workmen. dustry in 1950, at Crowe- Gonnason Lumber Company, at the youthful age of seventeen. In November, 1956, he was elected’ Local Safety Director for his active interest in Union af- His popularity with the other members of the Union soon saw safety director popular in local : Safety Director of Local 1- 118, IWA, Victoria, Cliff Mich- ael, started working in the in- him elected to the position of Two Year Trustee. In 1955 he was elected a delegate to the In- ternational Convention and other delegated conventions and con- ferences since that time. He holds the position of Job Steward at the B.C. Forest Pro- ducts Sawmill, in Victoria, and has served on both the Plant and Safety Committees as well. Local union wins W.CB. safety award Safety Award Certificate was presented by Chief Inspec- tor Arthur Francis, July 8th, to Ed Linder, Financial Sec- retary of Local 1-80, IWA, who accepted it on behalf of the IWA crew of the Chemain- us Sawmill of MacMillan & Bloedel, in the Chemainus Hall. The Certificate was then handed by Financial Secretary Linder to Safety . Committee member, W. T. Morgan. Following the presentations a safety meeting was held with everybody who was at the Pres- entation in attendance. “Tallest totem pole of misery you ever saw” Everyone is hot these days for missiles, satellites, anti- missile missiles, space ships, anti anti-missile missiles, Interna- tional Geophysical Year projects, and the like. Anything that is anything must have several. stages to it. A triple-stage debacle has been going on around us for years now — but no one raises an eyebrow. For example: If all the persons killed, mangled, and hurt on the job last year were placed end to end vertically, you would not only have the tallest totem pole of misery you ever saw but it could be classed as a three-stage extravaganza bigger than all the others. Stage one would begin with the 15 miles of corpses of those killed at work—or stretching about four times as high as Vanguard II went before it broke up. Stage two would take over for 100 miles of citizens with missing parts or disabled at work—approaching the nearest point of orbit of Sputnik I. . Stage three would cut in for 2,100 miles of those tempor- arily disabled at work. The top man on this totem pole would be able to spit down on Explorer I or Sputnik I at their farthest point of orbit. . You say, “What a stupid comparison.” But, we’ve been blasting off and orbiting in similar fashion for years now — and without meaning to make a pun, 2,215 miles of such mis- ery is “out of this world” no matter how you stack it or com- pare it. * If you prefer your miseries lying down, it would take over two days of steady driving just to pass this layout horizontally. And assuming you made it without having a wreck, you could come back by way of some 6,170 miles of the same type ‘of scenery caused by home (4,600mi.) and motor vehicle (1,570 mi.) accidents. Our mightiest ICBM’s wont range that far. The theme song of the space experts is, “If it works, it’s obsolescent.” If you don’t work safety into your orbit, you'll be obsolete!