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for a flock of cougars,’ opined
Paul. ‘It must be a woman. I’ll go
back and see.”’ Sure enough, it was
Carrie, splitting rails to fence in
the homestead and singing at the
top of her voice.

With Paul and Carrie it was love -

at first sight. She was just about his
height and not exactly what you’d
call petite. It took 13 Hudson’s Bay
blankets to make her a skirt, and
all the canvas of a full-rigged ship
for a blouse. Paul did not begrudge
her the cost of her wedding en-
semble. He had got himself a real
logger’s wife who knew logging
and loggers inside out. Carrie
could split rails, birl logs and drop
a big timber on any chalk-line the
boys marked out.

Naturally as the technique of
logging developed and new ideas
became the vogue, instituted
mainly by the skinflint outfits who
logged with the single idea of

‘Babe, the blue ox.

making money, some slanderous
rumors were aimed at Paul. Some
said that he only set up the nor-
thern lights so his gangs could see

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of the

~ Season

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This Christmas, tho

usands of

Chilean exiles will not be able
to spend the holiday with

their families.

In Chile, more than

2,500

persons have been kidnapped and
their whereabouts are unknown.

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care. Send your greetings to:
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Paul Bunyan: story of a legend

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to work in the dark. Other spread
the slander that he pushed up the
high mountains so that he could use
them as lookouts to see that his
outfits did not dawdle on the job.
Some even went so far as to say
that Paul’s head timekeeper made
his own ink from the snow that fell
in the winter of the blue snow.
When the spring drive was over
and the boys drew their time, the
timekeeper’s entries had vanished
with the blue snow. Stories like that
didn’t do anyone any good and no
self-respecting logger would
believe them.

The volume is endless. It is
Ulysses in Homer’s Odyssey, told
in the spirit of the great forests of
North America. From it have
sprung other legends such as the
great steelworker, Joe Magaroc,
who sits atop the blast furnaces in
Pittsburgh, in Sydney, Nova Scotia

or down at the Algoma mill and, as ~

a cook savors the bouillon, so Joe
tastes. the steel to see if it is right
for pouring. Sometimes, too, irked
by the slow tempo of the rolling
mill, Joe will grab a chunk of hot
steel and roll it out with his
powerful hands as a candy maker
would pull taffy.

In the century that has seen the
frontiers rolled back and a vast
continent: transformed from a

virgin wilderness of untold natural

wealth into a great industrial
potential for human progress, the
legendary name of Paul Bunyan
symbolizes the pride of labor in
this titanic achievement.

We met Paul Bunyan many
years ago, among the great har-
vester treks of the “last great
West’. When we thought we had
done a good day’s threshing and
the drone of the separator had
quietened into the October night,
along came Paul to tell us of a
better tally on some other outfit.

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West End Club CPC
South Fraser Region CPC

Greetings

to all our Friends

and supporters

We have met him in the logging
camps of British Columbia. He can
be found among the hard rock
miners, among the fishermen,
among building tradesmen and
piledrivers, among workers
everywhere in whom the pride of
craftsmanship and instinctive joy Ie &
in creative labor had not been =!

destroyed by the modern scramble ia
for profits. ee Canada GDR
Under more auspicious cir- a %
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cumstances we have seen him at
work in lands where labor is
honored as the highest attainment
of human endeavor; where men
and women, young and old, regard
their work, not as drudgery or
merely as something they must
give in exchange for food, clothing
and shelter, but something that
lifts man to a new pinnacle of
social progress and achievement.

Paul Bunyan was the most in-
ventive logger of his day. No job of
work was insurmountable and
every job thus tackled brought a
sense of pride, emulation and
achievement. That is what makes
work, and the right to work, a basic
condition of social progress. That
is why the legendary folklore that
has been woven around Paul | ~ BSSOCIATION .

Bunyan still fires the pride of the ?
Grandview Tenants

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artisan, and inspires the hope that
some day there will be in this ao
country a social system that will _ Association

allow free reign to creative labor.

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around the

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