ee ‘Docked for time'in sky’ a miner =who “darn near lost his on life trying to save a fellow mer” at Pioneer gold mine in ne Bridge River has been award- the National Medal for Bravery in © Canadian Institute of Min- § and Metallurgy. ‘ Thitty-two-year-old John Luca, Ge enborn newcomer to t 4, 1S a staunch member of i uternational Union of Mine, with Ten Smelter Workers and was life cal 693 when he risked his join oe months ago. He had ibe the union at Yellowknife tio ase it was a good organiza- 2 for the working man.” say pone twist is given to Luca’s aa y the fact that he has never ee for the four days he ee underground at Pioneer— arrie ie celebrated driller of “The Sremae, Song,” who, following a fran ure blast, “was “docked for __,,1me he was up in the sky.” os on tgement, however, paid all ‘trip nome for his recent quick plane cere Toronto where the official Tees were held. at the september Luca took a job fourth. loneer gold mine. On his esa day of timberingup and x oF roken ore in a stope on ees O0-foot level, he warned Safety “worker Otto Washuber, the there ae and the shift boss, that Nothing © Vanger of a rockfall. But Wat was done. ae went down and was fox oie fall of rock. “I yelled lateq «22. the heroic miner re- iin and tried to drag Otto out.” his ak Cog himself between ~ loo wet and the overhanging ites and tugged vainly at complete, Miner. A second fall : ara buried both of them. Uber was killed. Luca suf- & broken back, broken hip, broken “te idney, broken arm, and Smasheq §. All his ribs were t know myself, how I am ay, Luca said with a. wry Weight is down to 90 h om 150. With great dif- 1€ ‘walks short distances, dramatic change from ‘aS Months ago, when he Sult of petely paralyzed as a re- Luca € accident. NOW receij we tisati ceived 75 percent d last, Whi ich is Some four " 10n or $247 a month, but nt know how long it will iz "He's b : friend 00" Playing with his lite | hulp Who lives in the quonset ‘ N Me bi + cash "ew Clothes and’ short of CRED), Use the HUB'S FREE | Week with AN. Pay a little each t. no extra charge for Pioneer miner gets award for bravery ‘Out though of his own safe- | JOHN LUCA. “Toronto Peace Council two days,* Ray Gardner, B.C. Peace Council chairman, said. “We appeal for volunteers to-take part in this vital work for peace by calling at our office (Room 41, . ‘1144 West Hastings) at any time on May 7 and May 14. “In 1951, 13,000 signatures to the ‘Five-Power Peace Pact Appeal were gathered in Vancouver on one day during a similar competi- tion with Toronto peace workers. Provided we have the support of seores of canvassers we can ex- ceed that total on May 7.” for service taking this action to maintain duce higher fares.” Street Railwaymen’s Union said Monday this week that the BCE had cut its Macdonald bus service from an eight to a 15-minute schedule after 7 p.m. The company claimed changes in service were made “in the nor- mal way” and argued that “cuts in service aren*t made “until peo- ple quit riding.” : A meeting between city council and BCE officials is being arrang- ed to discuss the issue. “B:C. Electric can’t get a fare boost because of public opposition, so the company plans to cut pub- lic service to the bone,” said Effie Jones. She urged citizens and organizations to bombard City Council with demands that transit service cuts be stopped and that the BCE “be compelled to live up to its franchise and provide ade~- quate service.” Civic Reform Association’ an- Effie goes after BCE cutbacks “B.C. Electric has started to carry through large scale cuts in transit service in Vancouver, and more are in the offing,” Effie Jones charged this week. k. “The company is its huge profits and to punish the people for defeating the company’s last attempt to intro- nounced this week the launching of a public campaign to raise funds to enable Mrs. Jones to carry forward her court battle against the B.C. Electric grab of $480,000 which transit users overpaid prior to the April de- cision of Court of Appeal dis- allowing the fare increase. B.C. Electric has announced it will fight the action taken by Mrs. Jones in the small debts court which opens June 6. In a statement backing the CRA appeal for funds, Mrs. Jones said: “The B.C. Electric will have a big legal staff; I will have the sup- port of the people who have been the victims of this monopoly. I neéd the financial support of all citizens to enable me to win the fight:’* _ All contributions should be sent to Civic Reform Association, 5038 Sherbrooke Street, Vancouver 16. May 8, Mother’s Day, will join issued here last week. “The ‘warning of Dr. James G. Foulkes, University of British Columbia ‘pharmacology professor, to the effect that there is no safe radiation level, should be taken to heart by every Canadian mother,” continued Mrs. Ferguson. i (Dr. Foulkes warned that radia- tion can cause mutation in human cells and restlt in deformed or mentally defective births in the future. “Any increase at all, how- ever slight, is going to increase the incidence of mutation,” he said.) : “The fact that Dr. Foulkes claims cattle have already been found with abnormal quantities of radio- active iodine in their thyroid glands, and that there is no safe level of radiation affecting fish in the Pacific, are things which alarm us all,” said Mrs. Ferguson. “Our own members of the Con- gress of Canadian Women report CCW Mother’s Day call: Work for peace _ TORONTO “We hope that every worshipper in Canadian churches on in our heartfelt work for peace and for the banning of nuclear weapons,” said Mrs. Margery Ferguson of the Congress of Canadian Women, in a statement deep concern among the public in all localities. Our women have already gathered thousands of sig- natures of citizens favoring the World Appeal Against the Prepar- ations for Atomic War, which de- mands that all stocks of atomic weapons be destroyed and no more made. ‘ “Not least is the work being’ done by our women across Canada from Vancouver to Montreal pre- paring for the World Congress of]. Mothers to be held this summer. They find great interest among social workers, artists, writers and scientific workers, as well as among mothers themselves. “Inspired by the work, and by the danger, two women have writ- ten poems, Plea of the Unborn and A Pledge of Canadian Mothers _| while others are working on a scroll to present to the World Congress of Mothers.” has accepted our challenge to In Vancouver, two mass street canvasses have been organized by the council to take place thig Saturday, May 7, and the next Saturday, May 14. On Saturday, April 30, a peace caravan toured the five: Fraser Valley -towns of Whalley, White Rock, Cloverdale, Langley and Ab- botsford. Here is a description of the caravan and the work it ac- complished written by one of the, participants. _ * * * The entry of our peace caravan into the beautiful Fraser Valley town of Abbotsford had been spec- tacular, and, as we left, an hour later, we knew we had been wel- come. . A friendly farewell attested to that. As we drove away, a work- - |er, dressed in overalls and begrim- ed with grease, waved and, smil- ing, shouted, “Thank you.” Drivers and passengers in other cars we passed smiled and nodded, as if to say, “We agree.” ae Agreed, that is, with our slogans, emblazoned on red-and-black signs atop each of our five cars: “Destroy the bombs, not the people. Sign the World Appeal Against Atomic War.” Our entry into Abbotsford -may not have been quite as spectacular as it seemed to us. Butt at least we were seen and heard by everyone. As.we reached the crest of the hill which leads downward into the main street of the-town, Milton McEachern, a Langley fisherman and skipper of the caravan, gave the signal from his lead car to the one behind, the sound ear. A voice boomed out over the loud-speaker: 7 “British Columbia Peace Coun- cil invites the people of Abbots- ford to sign the great World Ap- peal Against Atomic War. ... This appeal is circulating in all coun- tries and already 500 million peo- ple thave signed... . “Outlaw the atomic bomb! Out- law the hydrogen bomb! Live in peace!” , : Busy shoppers stopped to look up. Three mechanics, working over a car engine, stopped work for a moment and one of them waved. Three men and a woman, chatting on the street corner, in- terrupted their conversation to listen. And also to look, for the signs on our cars were making their own impression. ; ; It was an almost ideal spring day, with a bright sun, and those of us who toured with the sound car had ample opportunity to en- joy the beauty of the surrounding country — soft blue, snow-capped mountains, with fertile farm-land spread at their base. And time, too, to contrast this peaceful would be visited on Abbotsford and its people were an atomie wa to be let loose. ‘ ; x x x ' How many signatures we collect- ed in Abbotsford in the brief time ‘we were there, we don’t know. But in the five towns we collected, dur- country scene with the horrors that | ° a friendly competition on those Peace caravan gets response in valley ing the day, 568. And we dis- tributed more than 600 folders, each of which told the full story of the World Appeal. Mrs. May Tayler, of Vancouver, set the pace for the. canvassers with 111 signatures. When we stopped in Cloverdale for lunch, She gave her order to the waitress, and while she waited collected the signatures of other diners and then stood in front of the restaur- ant to gather more. Second highest signature eol- lector was Leo Brady, a erab fish- erman from White Rock, who gathered 65. An army veteran of the last war, Leo lost a leg in the fighting on the Western front. Third highest was Mrs. Walli Burnell, who, like her husband, Eric, driver of the sound car, was an RCAF sergeant in the Second World War. Other participants were Mrs., Viviane . McClelland, Lawrence: Gardner, Mrs. Elma Thurlow, Mrs. Winnie Olsoff, Laura Brady, Frank Tayler, Pete Cordoni, Milton Mc- Eachern, Danny Markow, Roy Burnell, Joe Ubell, Ben Chiste, and. eleven-year-old Leo Lukashuk, who collected 30 signatures. Ray Gardner, B.C. Peace Coun- cil chairman, was the announeer., During the, late thirties and’ early forties, Roy and Eric Bur- nell, fishermen brothers, were out-; standing amateur boxers, winners of many tournaments.:'°‘ — is OS EN work, under the chairmanship of | Christe, a well-known Langley fish- erman, had gone into the caravan. The travelling time and stop- overs in each town had been. close- ly timed by Milt McEachern — and though we started a little late, we finished.on the dot. eu The caravan was organized by the Langley and South Surrey peace councils. ° . The 17 participants also gave their support to the sending of Mrs. Mildred McLeod, of Nanaimo, to the World Peace Assembly. Be- fore they set out, a collection taken among them netted $17 for her delegate’s expenses. Later, an- other $25 was given by one of the canvassers. A well-known Fraser Valley businessman, unable to participate himself because of illness, loaned his car for the caravan and pledg- ed $50, and another $50 pledge came from Mrs. Winnie Oloff, on behalf of the New Westminster Federation of Russian Canadians. Finally, we all gathered in the home of a Langley businessman, Frank Ayres, to total up our Sig- natures — and to vote unanimous- ly that the Langley Peace Council - treasury be emptied for the dele- gate fund. This meant another $29.70 and a total in cash and pledges of $185.70. Lf -JOHNSON’S _ Everything For The Hunter And Fisherman : NANAIMO, B.C. HARDWARE ~ PACIFIC TRIBUNE — MAY 6, 1955 — PAGE 7 A’ great deal of’ organizational Signatures on appeal | fop 10,000 in province More than 10,000 people in British Columbia have already signed the World Appeal Against the Preparations for Atomic War, B.C. Peace Council announced this week. ’ ’