FROM PAGE 1 THE WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER "13 YEARS" brings the log to the saw, . Judge when to stop it at the proper length for sawing the log and at the same time check its length and breadth for foreign objects. ~~~ ~~ MIKE WENINGER The Officers further con- tend that the log in question was handled by others in the Mill when it was trucked in and dumped in the “pond.” They suggest that if the metal and spikes on the log were so noticeable, they should have been spotted and the log rejected by the bush or “pond” erew working in the daylight. The Workmen’s Compensa- tion Board Logging Regula- tion No. 802 states: “Spikes, drift bolts, nails, or other metal of any kind shall not be left in any recoverable log.” And yet, the Officers say, Weninger working in inade- quate light at top speed was supposed to see the spikes missed by everybody else in the Mill. All this, the Officers state, is reason enough for anyone to have such an accident. But, they add, there is no excuse for a Company to fire an em- ployee after 13 years service for such an accident when its own unrealistic production demand is the contributing factor. VIEW of the conveyor from the front end. Company argues Weninger should have rejected log because of drift bolts on the end of the log. It ignores the fact that the smallness and angle of the log, plus the speed the operator _had to maintain, would only allow a couple of seconds view. THIS is the normal view the saw operator sees through glass of control box. The glass is difficult to see through because of the dirt and sawdust from the mill. Baeacceuee THIS PICTURE of the cut-off saw at the S. M. Simpson Sawmill shows the actual log that damaged the saw. Metal plate was on the bottom side of the log. In left hand corner of picture is the mirror provided for the operator to see back of log. Note mirror has been broken and a small piece of it has been tacked up. This picture was taken immediately to the right of the control box from which the operator works saw. HI YA FELLAS . SPIKES... . . | COME UP FROM TH’ BUT | SEE YA FOUND ’EM ... BOOM TA WARN YA ABOUT CONVENTION DELEGATES Local 1-118 IWA Victoria delegates elected to attend the IWA Regional Conven- tion, September 13, in Van- couver, are as follows: Murray Drew, Dick Emer- son, J. Groves, Ed Haw, Al Carle, J. Burt, G. Reader. Delegates elected to attend. the International Constitu- tional Convention to be held in Toronto in October, were: Murray Drew, J. Fowler, J. Groves, J. W. Hess, H. A. Jacobson, Ed Haw. U.S. INFLUENCE “Mir. Luce (owner of Time- Life Inc.) gave us a vivid demonstration of his influ- ence in Canada when he suc- ceeded in forcing the Pearson government to exempt the Canadian editions of Time and Reader’s Digest from the new legislation designed to assist national magazines and newspapers ... “Luce of course didn’t pressure the Canadian gov- ernment directly. He simply twisted the arm of the USS. State Department officials... “Ottawa offieials were re- ported to have been shocked by the intensity of the State Department opposition to any action aimed at Time and the Digest. “Political columnist Peter Newman quoted a senior civil servant as saying that he had never seen the American gov- ernment so unyielding. ‘There seems nothing we could do that would upset Washington more,’ he re- marked. ‘I had the impres- sion that if we touched Cana- dian operations of Time and Digest, the State Department would view it as far more serious than if, for instance, we sold tanks to Castro.’” —From Canadian Transport. —