ict Council, room 504, Hol- den Building, Vancouver. Phone TRin. 4464, Acting secretary, Nigel Morgan. The executive meets first Sunday of each month at U.M.W.A. Hall, Nanaimo, at 10 am, and the third Saturday of each month at the District Office, Vancou- ver, at 2 pm. Local 71, I.W.A., meets in the head- quarters, room 505, Holden Bldg., Van- couver, on the second and fourth Friday of each month at 8 pm. Phone Trinity 4464. Secretary pro-tem, A. A, MacNeil. Local 74, I.W.aA., meets the first Friday of each month at 8 p.m. at room 517, Holden Bldg., 16 E. Hastings. Secretary, N. O, Arseneau, 1215 West 10th Avenue, ‘Vancouver. Phone Bay. 2269. Local 80, I.W.A., Cowichan Lake, meets third Sunday in each month. Box 51, Lake Cowcihan, B.C. Tod McLennan, secretary, Sub-local 1-80 meets first Thursday, 8 pan., New Finn Hall, Ladysmith. Organ- izer, P, E. Wennerlow, Box 329, Lady- smith, Local 85, I.W.A., Port Alberni, meets second Sunday of each month, Secretary, Ernie Dalskog, Box 746, Port Alberni. Local 118, LW.A., Shingleweavers, Vic- toria, meets the second Friday of each month at 8 p.m. at Labor Headquarters, 602 Broughton Street, Secretary, George Wilkinson, 2548 Blanshard Street, Vic- toria, Phone GArden 5763. Local 122, .W.A., meets on second and fourth Monday of each month at 8 p.m. in the 1.B.U, Hall, 602 Broughton Street, Victoria, B.C, Financial Secretary, V.' Pearson, 8148 Donald St, phone I 3901. Local 178, I.W.A., Royston, B.C., meets first and third Tuesday of each month in the U.M.W.A. hall, Cumberland, com- mencing at 7:30 p.m. F. G. Frew, secre- tary, P.O, Box 618 Cumberland. Local 186, I:W.A., Kelowna, B.C. Sec- retary, H. Chernoff, Box 161, Kelowna. Local 217, LW.A. Plywood and Veneer Workers meets every second Sunday evening, 7 p.m., at ILW.A. Hall, fifth floor, Holden Building. Business agent, 504 Holden Bldg., Vancouver, TRin. 4464, Local 2797, LW.A., Courtenay, B.C, meets first Sunday of each month at 2 pam, Office hours, 7 to 9 every Thurs- day night, and 7 to 10 every Saturday night, Ladies’ Auxiliary, No. 30, 1.W.A., Lake Cowichan, meets every second Thursday, 2 pm., at union office. Secretary, Mrs. Edna Brown; financial secretary, Miss Pearl Gravelle. We talk of democracy, but freedom of speech, press and religion cannot be en- Joyed on an empty stomach, —Mayor LaGuardia, Industrial |First Aid Classes Classes or Individual Instruction 3 Day or Evening Apply to First Aid Attendant at: 303-A West Pender Street | TRinity 3054 or F Air. 0533-L 2 OSE OSE OE OE OSES ED OED 0- SEED 0 SED 0S OED 0 GD 0) Gam 0 Gam GO GC COMFORT AND SERVICE AT I'm sometimes gently chided for a habit T’ve picked up of talking to myself, Some of my critics forget that after half a century of kicking around the woods a man can get a lot of satisfaction out of arguing with stumps and other inanimate objects. At least a stump can’t talk back with a lot of phoney excuses for not joining a union. ‘The reason I bring this up is some new information I got hold of the other day about the Viking Log Company at Bella Coola that set me talking to myself at some considerable length, and more in sorrow than in anger. My sorrow stems from the fact that apparently there are men still left in the world who figure they can beat the system by accepting highly embossed, gilt-edged stocks in a company in preference to the much more useful pay check, and expect to get anything but the stormy end of the deal. I figured myself that the logging game was free of such schemes after the disastrous re- sults of the cooperative system were demonstrated in the industry during the 1931-33 era, But it seems as though the men at Viking Log are all Missourians. Let’s hope it doesn’t take too long for them to be shown, Aside from the gloomy economic future facing the crew at Viking Log, there's still a few laughs for the men who can see the humorous side of the picture, A friend of mine just down from the Ocean Falls country was telling me there’s more bosses and siderods to the square foot on that claim than any ten camps on the coast, Since every man’s a “shareholder,” by a simple process of deduction he’s arrived at the conclusion that he’s also a boss, So now there's a camp boss, a woods boss, a cat boss, a truck boss and several assorted straw pushes, not to mention the “super,” who's been left with only the bulleook to superintend, The re- sult is a combination five-ringed Barnum , and Bailey circus and a sheep farm, and everybody's having such a good time bossing everybody else that such trifling (a “Styles for Young Men and Men who Stay Young” THE B.C. LUMBER WORKER September 19, 1939 matters as wages are shoved into the background. In some respects I don’t blame the crew for turning to the cooperative sys- tem, When the original company folded up it owed around $14,000 in wages, with not enough timber in the water to pay the shot, The proposal to “share the profits” must have looked good at the start, at least until they found out that they had to work as high as 12 hours a day to start the dividends rolling, but I hope by now that the Viking Log crew, as well as woodworkers everywhere, have profited by their bitter experience. There's another hard winter ahead, and pay checks will look better than divi- dend checks that aren't negotiable. aes ages It was a tiny herring that did the job that Old Man Neptune failed to accom- plish. Just an innocent little herring, picked up by the bow of the “Laur Wayne” and washed into the stern cock- pit where it flopped miserably for a few moments before the fascinated and miserable gaze of a member of the crew. It seems they were crossing the Hecate Straits, en route to the Queen Charlotte camps, and the flagship of the “Loggers’ Navy” was corkscrewing its way through a heavy sea. On the back deck a number of the crew, slightly green in color, clutched a hand rail and fought with his conscience and his stomach, wishing as the “Navy” lurched to starboard that the trip was over, hoping as she nosed into a big one that the god damn boat would sink and get it over with. Perhaps all would have been well, Maybe that last meal out of cans would have stayed where it should have. But that tiny herring upset everything — conscience, determination and the stomach. Just for a moment that mem- ber of the crew—who out of kindness shall remain anonymous—gazed in Slassy- eyed silence at that innocent little her- ring flopping around on the deck, He swallowed once—he swallowed twice—but the third time he swallowed the wrong way. In seafaring language, he suddenly remembered a previous appointment with the lee scuppers. Meantime that poor little herring, its mission in life accomplished, slid’ out through the scuppers on a following sea and went to join all the other little her- rings, unmindful of the fact that it had, completely exposed a man who had boasted that “he never got seasick.” PATRONIZE our ADVERTISERS 541 W. PENDER SEy. 0163 Rite-Spot Hamburger Ham and Eggs, Steaks, Sandwiches, Cooked the way you ask for them! “We Aim to Please” Jim McFarlane y ay | i ILABOR NEWS Sponsored by the People’s Advocate in cooperation with DR. BR. L. DOUGLAS ea eS SS Dr. Douglas, Dentist ». . has been temporarily discon- tinued under special regulations, but hope to return in the near/ future, REGENT Dance Correctly in 5 Private or 5 Class Lessons under the ex- pert and conscientious instructions of . . MR. & MRS. 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