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INTOLERABLE TOM

in Ba, ahling, Burnaby, writes
yee At this time Vancouver,
civic “ah and new Westminster
Which orkers are out on strike
Worker Many of the affected
trived ; See as a cleverly con-
Becrct, master-minded
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Intolerable te, manipulator
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a pelea! answer to Archie
contra Msists on a two year
: Ct and a percentage

crease ;

Worke,, 1, Wages for the civic
, Ners, What

Union

accept
Wages

of $39 ae eroding his salary
Strike»: Per annum? He doesn’t
) Picket, or submit to com-
arbitration. Not he. He
aeband up in council
We ent lve me more’’; and
Salary. add $100 a month to his
“No »

‘$109 “4 a, Says Tom. “It isn’t
Venn: It is only 3 percent a
Brabb; r less than the money-
Will Ng civic workers are

Ng to settle for.”

Tom ae ae that Intolerable
More. uld probably earn far
Were to articularly if the CBC
the Fg Tun a Canadian “All in
Star, eullyee With him as the
Metic ig lf His Honor’s arith-
€quals ee and 3 percent
Civie a 0, then perhaps the
Perce kere Should accept 9
Undreq Ae two years. A three
~ Might ollar a month increase
Years © enough for several
What the - 0. Course this isn’t
© is sim je implies at all.
‘his pereant, USinE the press with
Daye age game to confuse
“TS and consumers.

And
and 3 foolish we taxpayers
~ Can Se ees of B.C. and
~ Percen to be taken in by this
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be. Yous Sane d the more unscrup-
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Md conc, Vorkers, taxpayers
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houlder to the wheel in a last

Letter to Billings

Faller ‘‘Shorty Undercut”’
recently wrote a letter to John
Billings, president of Forest
Industrial Relations. Here it is:

Dear Mr. Billings:

I made $12,000 last year. How
much did you make? I paid $2,000
income tax, how much did you
pay? I was hurt twice falling
timber, how often were you
hurt? My fingers freeze quick
from power saw vibrations, does
your pen do that to you?

" T am part deaf from power-
saw noise. Does your typist
deafen you? I am forced to keep
two homes, how many do you
keep? I very rarely see my
family, how often do you see
ours?

. Now you want to put me on $64
a day, and I only worked 100 days
last year, so I will only make
$6400. This is $5600 less than I

made last year.
Yours truly,

given across the board in dollars
so that both the highest paid and
the lowest paid receive the same
number of dollar increase. I
think it is time that John Q.
Public put a little pressure on
employers or unions that kick
around percentages rather than
dollars, and urge the various
press media to quote dollars, not
the elusive and manipulative
percentages. We need facts, not
fiction.

* * *

THE FALLER’S FIGHT

John McCuish, aieyeor-olt
logger, sends us this accou
ea days in the woods. John
held the first IWA card in
Loggers Local 171, and he knows
what the faller’s fight today is all
about because, as he says, he has
been that route ad ae

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The problems facing the
fallers and buckers are as old as
contract work (bushelling) that
started after World War 1, and it
will be a problem as long as
contract. work continues, but it
éan be modified by good clauses
in the master agreement.

When. bushelling first started
the boss omyuhad a very vague

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idea of what it cost per M to fall
and buck. As high-balling was
not done by day workers the
accident rate went up 20 percent
with the hand contrast faller and
when the power saws came in it
went up to 35 percent over day
work and the logging companies
started their chiselling game —
mostly short scaling, going from
straight scale rules to calliper
rules. The calliper would bend
easily to slim the log down two
inches with very little pressure.

Under the bonus system if a
quarter was finished and after it
was half cut the bullbucker
would ‘“‘ride’’ the fallers and
buckers so they would quit, and
lose from 10 cents to 25 cents per
M. That meant as much as $100
per month. Some bullbuckers
had a water scale contract
where the water scale overrun
the wood scale.

Very few fallers are working
now that worked in the dirty
thirties, but there is a framed
cheque in B.C. for less than $1.00
for 26 days work from the Lamb
Lumber Co., at Menzies Bay,
and the faller only bought socks,
gloves, snuff and tobacco at the
company store.

Most of the camps put the
logging on contract basis in the
Dirty 30’s but the riggingmen
soon gave that up. I am of the
opinion that this will never be

totally eliminated until a good —

day’s wages is established in the
woods, with clauses in the agree-
ment for time lost for wind and
weather and good strong clauses
i
AEE ember Senior Philip
Weyhauser’s dying words:
“Tower the stump and raise the

board!”

— :
June 11 ‘Sail-In
To widen the fight ee
ollution and to save B.C. Ss

fishing industry, the UFAWU

will be calling on all its members
to be part of a “flotilla of
concern’ along with other
mariners and citizens on Sunday,
June 11th at 1 p.m. In English

. The “gajl-in” will co-incide
ae the United Nations
Conference on Human
Environment being held in
Stockholm.

City youth to raise $5,000°°°~

for Vietnamese hospital

A children’s hospital financed
and built by youth around the
world will be constructed in
Hanoi as soon as funds are
available, according to Chris
Shelton, chairman of the
Vietnam Children’s Hospital
Fund in Vancouver.

The youth group here has
pledged to raise $5,000 and are
asking for donations from the
public. :

Shelton said ‘‘Children are
always the first and last victims
of war. In Indochina countless
thousands of children are
wounded and mutilated by
napalm bombs, poisoned by
chemical products affecting the
air, the water, livestock and
crops.”

As a symbol of the need of the
Vietnamese

children, the _

Hospital Fund has chosed to use
a drawing of Vo Thi Lien, 13
years old and one of three

survivors of the My Lai

massacre.

Many prominent Canadian
citizens have already lent their
support to the cause. In B.C. they
include Dr. Alan Inglis, Dr. W.
E. Willmott, Aldermen Harry
Rankin and George McKnight of
Alberni, Mayor Bob Prittie, and
nationally, Allan King and
Mordecai Richler.

Those wishing to donate to this
vital project are asked to send
cheques or money orders to the
Vietnam Children’s Hospital
Fund, 150 East 28th Ave.,
Vancouver 10, B.C. For further
information contact Fred
Wilson, 874-4937.

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