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THE B.C. LUMB

ER WORKER

January 22, 1941

LETTERS

Camp and Mill

“Every Reader a Correspondent”

REPORTS

PROMISES REGULAR’

NEWS REPORTS

Hear Ye, Hear Ye, Hear Ye, Brothers and Cisterns (?) from Camp 4, of the Bloedel, Stewart & Welch operations at

Menzies Bay, comes to ye all faithful, |

greetings and season wishes for the New Year.

Camp 4 has been running the follow- ing until the 18th of-December and re- turned back to work on the 6th of

January. 8 Sides, ‘No. 1, No, 3 and No. 4 (Slack- line). 8 Cold-deckers with mostly one choker- man only,

9 sets of Power Saws, with a 5-man gang apiece.

2 sets of snag fallers.

5 track gangs.

8 and sometimes 4 Locys.

Join Your Friends at COURTENAY HOTEL

Headquarters” “The Loggers’ G. TATER PROP. Courtenay, V.1.

HASTINGS STEAM BATHS 764 EAST HASTINGS ST. Government Registered Masseurs ‘in Attendance J. WEPSALA, Prop. also Agent for Norwegian and Swedist

American Steamship Lines. —

Highland 0240 ALWAYS OPEN

Money To Loan On Men's Suits, Overcoats, Logging Boots and Sleeping Bags.

San Francisco Tailors 52 WEST HASTINGS ST. (4 Doors West of Beacon Theatre)

SEA FOODS ARE GOOD FoR YOU +++ and you'll like them at

THE “ONLY” FISH THEY ARE ALWAYS FRESH! 20 East Hastings Street 100% UNION HOUSE Se, TERS SR ET 7

“Styles for Young Men and Men who Stay Young”

Nice little bunch or men, hey! Cook- house is nothing to brag about and the word Variety does not seem to exist in the Cook’s vocabulary. The “Pastry

Cook” is just as bad, and the lunch maker is passing the buck onto the others. Bunkhouses have been reno- vated by roofing-in some of them and painting the inside as well as the out- side. A few spotlights which were urg- ently needed have finally made their appearance and are now in use, much to our satisfaction, and also a new power plant for better lights which are still turned off at 10 p.m. faithfully, seven days a week, In the dining-rooms, one has to be a born Superman in order to fly into his place, since we have to crawl and step over each other in order to get to our places. The dining-rooms are not wide enough and one bench is lining each wall, making it hard to have enough room to walk around the tables.

Operations are carried out by using the old Lamb’s mainline and part of the OR.T. mainline. Transportation is by use of “crummies” which are delayed faithfully once a. week, usually on mail- day (Friday) by a wreck on the Mainline. Wages are just average; Chokerman, | 540, Chaser 5.75, Rigging-slinger 6.60, | Hookertenders, ranging from 6.60 to 9.00 a day. All fallers are on bushel-work and they have to go like —— in order to make something, the Powersaws are hard on the scale and by the time the Bull-bucker has been through the fallen timbers there isn’t very much left. A recreational hall, which is mainly used to point out to visitors, has been left standing idle and no organization nor; papers of any kind from the Union Headquarters have ever appeared there. No sooner does one open his “yap,” down the road towards new horizons he goes. So, Brothers, read these lines and weep like I did many times,

Not enough “He Men” seems to be the main obstacle in building the I.W.A.

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Mart. Trends

‘The Douglas Fir market remains active and strong. Mills are pretty well supplied with business and sales managers look to no slackening of demand for some time to come. All mills in the B.C. coast area are operating although there has been a slight falling off in orders from the U.K. Promises of increased shipments into the U.S.A. for the gigantic defense program which is just getting under way are now heard. Already some B.C. lum- ber has made its appearance in Southern California, Shingle demand is reported not as brisk as it was but is expected to pick up in the near future as fresh stocks will be needed in the East for spring consumption. Market trends are report- ed below as recorded in the West Coast Lumberman, organ of the big lumber and logging interests.

BRITISH COLUMBIA LOG PRICES: Fir—$13, $18, $25. Peelers, $26-$33. Hemlock—$10-$12.

Cedar—Shingle, $10. Lumber, $19-§25. Yellow Fir—Camp run peelers $17-§21.

SEATTLE FIR LUMBER PRICES: Direct to Trade F.0.B. Mill

1x4 B&B V&G Flooring 1x4 C V G Flooring .. 1x4 B&B S G Flooring 1x4 CS G Flooring . 1x4 D S G Flooring 1x6 B&B S G Flooring . 1x6 C'S G Flooring 1x6 D S G Flooring . 5x4 B&B Ceiling %x4 Fir Ceiling . x4 D Fir Ceiling . 1x4 B&B Fir Ceiling 1x4 C Fir Ceiling . ix4 D Fir Ceiling 1x6 B&M Drop Siding (106) 1x6 B&B Drop Siding (all other) . 1x6 D Fir Drop Siding No. 1 Common Fir Boards

Pee uM Koo

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Dee, Shiplap same as boards

No. 1 Common Small Timbers

and Plank

3x8 & 6x6 to 30 ft.

12x12 8-20 ft. ...

12x12 20 ft. & up. No. 1 Dimension

out here. However, they tell me that | 2X4 v &14. z Vancouver was not built in a day, so eat af a - Iam still living in hopes of seeing a|ox6 12 & 14. 26.50 change for the better within the near |2x6 16 . 27.00 future. First Aid Equipment is up to |2*6 18-20 27.00 date but the Safety Meetings conducted |2*8 12 - oe here are just a joke all around. Small |9x3 1g | 26.50 Points are stretched out of bounds and |2x8 18 &'20 . f major points are ignored or not brought | 2x12 16-20 .. up at all. SEATTLE SHINGLE PRICES Whenever possible, it is with pleasure | Direct to the Trade that we will keep you posted on the PeRAE $2.85 - $3.00 latest news and scandals from this part !246” 5/2 1.80- 1.85 of the country, V. L, 3375, |3-16” 5/2 135- 1.40 Royals: 1-24” 4/2 410 224" 4/2 2.30~ 2.40 Join the I.W.A. and Help Boost nee ala 1.60- 1.65 erfection: Our Pay a Buck a Day 1:18” 5/2% 3.05- 3.10 218" 5/24, 2.00- 2.10 8-18” 5/2% 150- 1.51

Local Endorses istrict Program

cal 1-71 got off to a good start in when the first regular business he year was well attend, = members

CAMP ACTIVITY

All Association camps are running with the exception of Camps 3\and 6 at You- bou, reported to be starting March Ist. B.C. Pulp will start operating this week. It is reported that Rock -Bay fallers and buckers are not doing so well owing to poor shows; four gangs, having quit, left there on the last boat. It is also re- ported reliably that Pat Maloney is not going back to “push” at Allison Log, Q.CI. Most of the smaller camps are running full blast and camps trying to run below standard wage scale are find- ing it hard to get men. Not many fallers and buckers are left in town. Allison Log, Q.C.L, cut all “donkey punchers” wages 4%c per hour.

Ladysmith division of the Comox Log- ging and Railway Co. had a half million dollar payroll in 1940. The ten-day shut- down of operations over the Christmas- New Year holiday marked the first break in more than 16 months of continuous operation in the woods. Maintenance crews continued work and the big log roll that trundles the logs from the trucks to tidewater has been renewed.

Forest Branch collections for the month of November amounted to $379,- 647. Included in this figure were timber royalties totalling $246,639; timber sales, $73,098; and licenses and berths, $47,140.

Work hag been commenced by fallers of the Vedder Logging Co, on the area directly east of Cultus Lake Park, just across the Boundary road. Operations

were in full swing by the first week of January.

Difficulty has been experienced, accord- ing to reports, in collecting money from K. & W. Log at Port Neville. This small outfit is reported moving to a new claim, somewhere round Jervis Inlet,.so be on your guard.

Mill Gossip

FRASER MILLS BEING REMODELLED.

The Union has been assured by the Provincial Safety Dept, that the Fraser Mills Co, has agreed to have a blower system established and completed for use by the first of March, to take care of sawdust and residue throughout 4 plywood plant. We have heay

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