JUNE-JULY, 1974

IWA

THE WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER

TOUR LOGGING SHOW
EY LOCAL UNION 1-367

By MAX SALTER
Regional Safety Director

A change of pace was in-
troduced into the regional
safety directors inspection tour
of logging operations, in the
Haney local union, when
financial secretary Erik Wood
completed arrangements with
New Westminster local 1-357 to
have their safety director,
Verna Ledger, and recording
secretary Marg Storm join the
tour which included Alice
Walsh, and Sandra Williamson
of the Haney office staff.

A complete examination of
the Millstream logging
operation near Stave Lake
provided the staff with a close
look at logging performance
from the “stump” to the
“dump’’, to familiarize and

provide better understanding
to staff responsible for han-
dling affairs of IWA members.

During a safety tour at-
Pretty’s Timber a_ semi-
isolated logging camp on the

east shore of Harrison Lake, I
discovered a ‘small “‘borrow”’
pit close to the edge of the main
logging road in one area of the
operation where ‘“‘man-made’’
hazards were created by a
combination of two situations.

Trees on the rim of the pit
had not been felled, but were
left ‘‘cut-up’’ or were im-
properly felled and were
‘“hung-up” by other standing
timber. To make it worse, the
bank on which these trees were
left, had been undermined by a
front end loader which
progressively dug gravel from
the bank of the pit. The
resulting hazard to the sole
workman in the immediate
area, and the imminent danger
to crew members in passing
the spot in buses and other
units was a totally unnecessary
hazard created by sloppy work
and poor supervision in several
areas.

On the same operation a
number of other poor and

unsafe work practises were

exposed, including violation of
yarding regulations, by failing
to situate the yarder properly,
and resulting in yarding lines
being improperly laid out, so
that ‘the rigging crew. were
forced to work in positions
extremely hazardous’. to
themselves.

This operation is one of
several in the area which is
normally reached by a road
which can only be _ best
described as a disgrace, and
adds further hazards to loggers
in the area, should an accident
occur when weather prohibits
air traffic from moving in the
area, which is a common oc-
currence.

Workers are urged to seek
safe work habits by reading
and following safety
regulations, and attending
their safety sessions for fur-
ther education, necessary to
safe performance of jobs which

are dangerous at the best of
times.

GROUP AT MILLSTREAM TIMBER log dump (L-R) Alice Walsh (1-367 bookkeeper),
Sandra Williamson (1-367 steno), financial secretary Erik Wood, Marg Storm (1-357
recording secretary) and Verna Ledger (1-357 safety director).

SOME OF THE EMPLOYEES of Borden & Penn, in Local 1-367, pose with Local Business
Agent Mike Campbell (left rear) and acting Safety Director Dennis Huber. The operation is
logging under snow conditions in the Skagit area near Hope.

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UNNECESSARY HAZARD to crew manibers at Pretty’s
Logging operation at- Harrison Lake is this tree left cut
through and hanging above the main road.

CATTERMOLE TIMBER dperation at Anderson River in
Local 1-367. Group left, Jim Strachan, Company Safety
Coordinator; Dennis Huber, Acting Safety Director; Mike
Campbell, Business Agent; Wayne Davies, Frist Aid At-
tendant; Mike Zacklan, Superintendent.

ON THE LIGHTER SIDE

‘ Ist Logger: “Does your new

girl friend shrink from
kissing?’’

2nd Logger: ‘‘Hell, if she did
she’d be nothing but skin and

bones!”’

Kamloops Katie
philosophizes that all it takes to

make a girl melt in a guy’s.

arms is to butter her up first.

The old logger came into the
general store and bought four
hammers. Later he returned
and bought two dozen. The
store keeper got curious and
asked him what he was doing
with all the hammers.

“Tm selling them,” said the
logger.

“What are you getting for
them?”

“Buck and a half.”

“But you’re paying two
bucks for them, you can’t
make any money that way,”
said the puzzled store keeper.

“Ya, I know,”’ said the old

fellow, ‘“‘but it sure as hell
beats logging!’’

Sawmill Sue says she has a
girl friend who is so homely
that she has to wait for the cold
weather to set in before she can
get a chap on her hands.

# * *

A bargain, according to Sam
the machinery salesman, is an
unusable item at an irresistible
price. -

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Kamloops Katie says that in
the old days a girl felt she had
to live down her past — today a
lot of them feel they have to
live up to it!

Wire rope salesman: “I’m
sorry but we can’t send along
that new order until you pay
for the last one.”’ ;

Logger: “Better cancel it
then, I can’t wait that long!”’