Journal Stories From The 2000's

L.U. No. 230 Victoria, B.C.
Editor:

The members of Local 230 have been asking their press secretary to get busy an write a letter to the Worker to show that we are still on the map, so here goes.

Indefatigable is the word with which Tunney floored the reporters with and I think it expresses the efforts of our hustling business agent, Brother Reid, who succeeded in getting the majority of the members of the Victoria Contractors Association to sign up a new agreement with the inside wiremen, giving them a substantial increase in wages and a five-day week.

Work at present is rather slack though the two utility companies are keeping their outside gangs busy.

As stated before, the BC Electric Light and Power Company were successful against keen competition in acquiring the water rights of the famous Campbell River Falls and their engineers are busy in making surveys and taking field notes in order to present a scheme of development, which will meet with the approval of the legislature when it meets in 1931. The following statement appeared in our two daily papers:

Campbell River Power Project of $20,000,000

Survey this spring starts plan to ultimately develop 150,000 horsepower. Tremendous industrial development necessary to provide fixed charges. The expenditure to be made in the next five years is conservatively placed at above $12,000,000 but the total investment in dams, machinery and transmission lines, to enable utilization of the full power output, will finally amount to more than $20,000,000.

One of the unavoidable facts of the situation about to be created will be the necessity of creating a market for the new power, in order that the operating and fixed charges may be met and this will require an annual income of at least $3,000,000 and will make necessary the attraction to Vancouver Island of new industries which will consume power on a vast scale, and result in the great expansion of existing towns and the creation of new communities. This, Mr. Editor, is a bright spot in the rather dreary outlook brought about by a few millionaires manipulating the finances of the country so as to add more gold to their already overflowing coffers at the expense of the masses.

Shappy.



	Published in July 1930 - I.B.E.W. Journal L.U. No. 230 Victoria, B.C. Editor: The members of Local 230 have been asking their press secretary to get busy an write a letter to the Worker to show that we are still on the map, so here goes. Indefatigable is the word with which Tunney floored the reporters with and I think it expresses the efforts of our hustling business agent, Brother Reid, who succeeded in getting the majority of the members of the Victoria Contractors Association to sign up a new agreement with the inside wiremen, giving them a substantial increase in wages and a five-day week. Work at present is rather slack though the two utility companies are keeping their outside gangs busy. As stated before, the BC Electric Light and Power Company were successful against keen competition in acquiring the water rights of the famous Campbell River Falls and their engineers are busy in making surveys and taking field notes in order to present a scheme of development, which will meet with the approval of the legislature when it meets in 1931. The following statement appeared in our two daily papers: Campbell River Power Project of $20,000,000 Survey this spring starts plan to ultimately develop 150,000 horsepower. Tremendous industrial development necessary to provide fixed charges. The expenditure to be made in the next five years is conservatively placed at above $12,000,000 but the total investment in dams, machinery and transmission lines, to enable utilization of the full power output, will finally amount to more than $20,000,000. One of the unavoidable facts of the situation about to be created will be the necessity of creating a market for the new power, in order that the operating and fixed charges may be met and this will require an annual income of at least $3,000,000 and will make necessary the attraction to Vancouver Island of new industries which will consume power on a vast scale, and result in the great expansion of existing towns and the creation of new communities. This, Mr. Editor, is a bright spot in the rather dreary outlook brought about by a few millionaires manipulating the finances of the country so as to add more gold to their already overflowing coffers at the expense of the masses. Shappy.