. Canadian forest industries January-June 1920. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. January 15, 1920 CANADA LUMBERMAN AND WOODWORKER 53. On the left is seen the sixteen-months old son .of A. Blomberg, Superintendent of the Mainland Cedar Co., Vancouver, who is con- ducting a miniature log run on the chair. In the centre is a view of the high lead system of logging, so much in evidence in the West, and on the right are several contented "porkers," manufactured from the left-overs in the kitchen of the logging company. Deputation
. Canadian forest industries January-June 1920. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. January 15, 1920 CANADA LUMBERMAN AND WOODWORKER 53. On the left is seen the sixteen-months old son .of A. Blomberg, Superintendent of the Mainland Cedar Co., Vancouver, who is con- ducting a miniature log run on the chair. In the centre is a view of the high lead system of logging, so much in evidence in the West, and on the right are several contented "porkers," manufactured from the left-overs in the kitchen of the logging company. Deputation Urges Bonus for Shipbuilding Representatives of seventeen shipbuilding companies waited on the Government at Ottawa recently to urge assistance to shipbuild- ing in Canada. They requested that, for a term of ten years, the Government should grant a bonus of ten dollars per displacement ton and ten dollars per indicated horsepower on steel ships built in Canada and completed after April 1, 1920. Without this assistance, the delegation claimed, existing plants could not be continuously employed, and the breaking up of the organization would necessarily follow. This, it was added, would throw large numbers of men out of employment, and undo "much of the good which the Government had achieved by means of the en- couragement given to the shipbuilding industry and in the employ- ment of returned soldiers, and men previously at work on muni- ; Sir George Foster, on behalf of the Government, promised ear- nest consideration of the request for a bounty. It was agreed that the delegation should appoint a committee to confer further with members of Big Shipbuilding Plant Resumes Work has been resumed full blast at the shipyards of the Davie Shipbuilding Company at Lauzon, Que. Fifteen hundred men were employed there before closing, and now one thousand have been taken on. The balance of the men will gradually be taken back as opera- tions are resumed. There h
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