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FACE FOR SNUFF CHEWING NOTE LARGE CAPACITY OF LOWER LP, GIVING GREATER MILEAGE PEFR RAR AND NO LOSS OF TIME IN RELOADING Now HERE WE HAvE A TYPE OF FACE THAT WOULD NOT BE A Success AT SNUFF CHEWING, BUT HAS AN IDEAR BREEzeR FOR SNUFFING SNUFF STYLE,, A OLD ENGLISH Always By INSIST ON IN-EVENT SNUFF LITTLE DRY 3USt ADD A FEW DROPS oF Ammonia To REFRESH IT. History of the I.W.A. Continued from previous page acted as secretary of the Unemployed Work- ers’ Association...(it) was called a ‘scab proof union,’ instead of scabbing on strikers, pick- ets were sent to assist men on strike. Every week during the summer of 1932 there were calls for pickets.”°” One such call came from the Fraser Mills strike, discussed in an earlier edition. That was fateful for I.W.A. history, because the young chairman of the strike committee there, Harold Pritchett, impressed by the ex- perience and ablity of the L.W.LU., joined up. “He (Arne) was a wonderful guy, and a great trade unonist. He signed me.up in the L.W.LU.” later said Pritchett.“ Arne became Secretary of the union, suc- ceeding Martin Palmgren, in July of 1932. Soon after, the union began laying plans for the strike, which was to take place in 1943. They chose the Bloedel, Stewart and Welch camp at Campbell River, because “it was the biggest but also the most hated in the province.” Ted (Trygve) Gunnerud, a logger from Al- berni, was assigned to do the spade work at the camp. A meeting was held in Vancouver, late in 1931, to draw up a set of demands and a wage scale, so that when early in 1934 a set of fallers was fired from the Bloedel camp, everything was in readiness. It was the strike that permanantly estab- lished the union on the B.C. Coast. Johnson recalled a veteran of earlier organizational ef- forts ‘feeling sorry’ for anyone who would try to organize Coast loggers.” After the 1934 strike, no one ever said anything like that again. It was conducted in the spirit of the original, militant, revolutionary Workers’ Uni- ty League, by a leadership well-suited to the task. Arne Johnson was a big, strong man, well-equipped for the brawling, rough and tumble of semi-legal strikes. Years after, Lum- ber Worker editor Al Parkin was to say of him that “he lent strength to many a picket line.” Harold Pritchett recalled a Vancouver Police- man who came to regret chasing Arne too closely at a demonstration of the unemployed in the 30s. The spirit of the day is captured by Arne, recalling a trip by Glen Lamont to a camp at Harrison Lake. After a few - unfriendly words, the old man said to Glen ‘you called me a Swede son of a bitch ten years ago on Carrol Street.’ Glen replied I don’t recall calling you that ten years ago, but I will do so now.’ One thing led to another, and the fight From Timberworker, September, 1936 was on. Lamont received quite a beating before it was over...the following morn- ing, at a strike comittee meeting, Lam- ont walks in covered from head to foot with blood and dirt and says ‘That is a hell of a camp committee you have at Harrison Lake!” This is not to suggest that Arne and the oth- er early organizers had only their physical toughness to recommend them. They were in- telligent, well-read men, trained in careful analysis, and able to write effectively in Eng- lish and their native languages. Arne’s letters especially show an enquiring, reflective and energetic intelligence. Within a year, the International Communist party dramatically changed course. Fascism was rising in Germany and elsewhere. Com- munist-led forces in countries where the party did not have a strong mass base, like Canada, were instructed to drop their accustomed hostility to “revisionist” and liberal organiza- tions like the A.Fof L. and Canada’s C.C.F, and work closely with them for the defeat of fascism. Arne had disagreed over strike strategy with W.U.L. leader George Drayton, and Hijal- mar Bergren wrote criticizing Tom McEwan. Maurice Rush, by the mid-30s a leading B.C. Communist, and author of the recently pub- lished “We had a Glowing Dream” (which everyone interested in B.C. Labour and left history should read), believes that the change in L.W.L.U. leadership was a “natural progres- sion” in which party leadership had no partic- ular role. “? For whatever reasons, (dissatisfaction at the top with the slowness of getting millwork- ers organized was apparently cited at the time), “? Arne was replaced in the 1935 con- vention, first by Peterson and then by Harold Pritchett. Ted Gunnerud, certainly one of the most gifted strike organizers of those days, who toiled for the union in B.C. and Northem Ontario, never again played a major role in the union. Editor’s Note: We hoped to include in this edition similiar sketches of Darshan Singh Sanga, Tulio Mior, and Bruce Magnusson. Space is a problem, and as we go to print it appears that new sources, especially for Dar- shan, may soon be available. The next issue will deal with the development of the “white bloc” in Canada, the events closely following the end of the Second World War, and especially the 1946 strike, which is widely regarded as the most successful in Canadian forest industry labour. References (J) R.C.M.P. records, 1920, p. 439. 1.W.A. CANADA Archives. (2) R.C.MP., op. cit. (8) Ontario Archives. 140196, Quoted in Lisa- Rose Betcherman, “The Little Band.” De- neau Publishers, Ottawa. (4) Interview by Clay Perry of Ernie Dalskog, 1980. I.W.A. CANADA Archives. (5) Interview of Syd Thompson in Coleen Bostwick, published in “Labour History, “Vol. 1, no. 4, Fall, 1978,” as part of her ar- ticle “The Hungry Thirtees.” (6) Bostwick, op. cit. (1 Interview of Syd Thompson by Clay Perry, 1983. .W.A. CANADA Archives. (8) Bostwick, op.cit. 9) Perry, op. cit. (10) Myrtle Bergren’s notes of interviews of Arne Johnson for “Tough Timber,” and let- ters from Arne to Bergren and Irene Howard. Howard, Irene., “Vancouver's Svenskar: A History of the Swedish Com- munity of Vancouver.” Vancouver Histori- cal Society, 1970. pp 72 - 83. (11) Interview of Harold Pritchett by Clay Per- ty, 1978. I.W.A. CANADA Archives. (12) Al Parkin’s History “Labor and Timber,” published in the B.C. Lumber Worker, 1946 (13) Interview of Maurice Rush by Clay Perry, Oct., 1996. Rush, a leading figure in B.C. Communist activities from the mid-thir- tees, has just published a book “We Had A Glowing Dream,” (Centre for Socialist Ed- ucation). Anyone interested in B.C. Left and labour history should read it. The chapter on the I.W.A. is especially interest- ing. (14) Myrtle Bergren material, op. cit.