b Talk | |New readers in Interior Ocar Reader: em new readers. ne readers Over picked up subs Thi ther Afford for that More ‘readers. Which ag Trail press ‘Plete Vembe: Words, . | be sold on the streets. > My trip to Natal, Fernie, Cran- : wee Nelson, Trail and other In- ‘lor points has resulted in 80 Subs to date, more than half of ; Most of the Credit for winning these subscrib- se belongs to our present Pacific in the above cities and towns. the weekend we 19 in Trail, and this week I’m returning to Nelson as our press workers An are confident we can sign Many more readers in the area. S tour has convinced me that € Is no place in B.C. we can to neglect in our campaign Extension of Paper’s circulation is a job Must be placed on a year- club, as decided to make a com- by Erne of its area on one ach month, has the right idea. Sand incidentally, some subs €xpired in October and No- pane not yet been picked t’s suit the action to the oe street and bundle sales . 4lso help to increase circula- 0: : “ga win regular readers. We this yo o28ed to receive an order Week from Cumberland for a bundle of 25 papers, which Rita Whyte = PENDER | AUDITORIUM g (Marine Workers) 339 West Pender = LARGE 2 SMALL HALLS FOR RENTALS oa Phone PA, 9481 MA —o gemma | :|that anyone else just isn’t capable Dr. Blumes denied this, and wrote in reply: “Mr, Eades has failed to dis- prove the fact that $10,500,000 of the monies voted for school build- ings in 1945-53 has to this very day still not been transformed into desperately needed classrooms, cafeterias and other school facili- ties. Why does not the school board admit that the fund they have been holding (part of which dates back to 1945) amounts to about $10,500,000. “Contrary to all charges, there has been no ‘twisting of figures’ by me. From the city’s financial re- ports, it can be seen that $4,000,- 000 is still available to the school board from bylaws passed since 1945. And from the school board’s own report there is approximately $6,500,000 available from the prov- incial government. “Simple arithmetic suggests that about $10,500,000 worth of classroom space is still coming to the children of Vancouver from monies taxed for and made available to the school board in the period 1945-53. “Mr. Eades would have us be- lieve that the situation is com- pletely under control and that the school board has ‘consistently faced up to its duty to the chil- dren, parents and taxpayers of Vancouver. He adds that ‘any candidate who seeks to be elect- ed as a_ school trustee should speak the truth,’ “Am I to be led to believe that the present clique which runs the school board has a monopoly on civic leadership qualifications and of speaking the truth? “This type of hypocritical talk is ‘a complete departure from the facts. The facts are that because of the building bungling of the school board, hundreds of children in Vancouver are today attending school on swing shifts, and that SUITE 515 Barristers - Solicitors - Notaries FORD BUILDING (Corner Main & Hastings Sts.) MARINE 5746 193 E. HASTINGS Schoo! Board bungling proven, claims Blumes Charge made by Vancouver school board candidate Dr. Joseph Blumes to the effect that the present school board has been “sitting on $10,500,000” which should have been used to build schools, has become the subject of wide debate among voters. Vancouver School Board member J. Edwin Eades wrote to local newspapers complaining that Dr. Blumes took information supplied to him by school board officials and “twisted it into false statements.” many more are being forced to take classes in gymnasiums and auditoriums. Can the school board speak so piously of its accomplish- ments when such a_ situation exists?” Referring to Eades’ charge that copies of Dr. Blumes’ radio speech mailed to organizations had been “revised,” Blumes declared that his broadcast and the copies mail- ed to various groups “are exactly identical.” Commenting on the money by- law facing voters December 9, Dr. Blumes said: “The Five Year Plan referendum is important and should be passed with an overwhelming Yes vote. But as we've seen, leadership is also necessary. Due to the in- creased cost of reinforced concrete and structural steel in the past seven years the $10,500,000 is al- ready greatly depreciated. 6 “Vancouver has had too much building bungling already. We need more schools and not less children.” Bloch to speak in city Dec. 16 Emanuel Bloch, attorney for Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, will speak in Pender Auditorium here on December 16, under auspices of the Rosenberg Memorial Commit- tee, it was announced this week. Bloch is now on tour to raise money for the trust fund set up to provide for the Rosenberg chil- dren, Robert and Michael. As the legal guardian for the orphaned children, Bloch will not, in his Vancouver meeting, analyse “the political or legal aspects of the Rosenberg case” but will seek to meet Canadians who are interest- ed in assisting the Rosenberg chil- dren financially. His meetings in Montreal, To- ronto, Hamilton and Windsor were well attended and raised a con- siderable sum of money for the trust fund. Interviewed in Montreal, Bloch reiterated his belief in the inno- ———— cence of the Rosenbergs. THURSDAY 9 to 2? RAL 138 East Cordova Good Orchestra F avors Smorgasbord NEW YEAR‘’S | Pacific Tribune Carabet Dance DECEMBER 31 FISHERMEN’S Doub eet art Ticket $3.50 E Vice LABOR BRIEFS A large delegation of fishermen and fishermen’s wives met Minister of Labor Lyle Wicks at the Court House here Monday this week and placed before him their demands that compensation coverage be ex- tended to include all regular com- mercial fishermen. ; The delegation represented Un- ited Fishermen and Allied Workers Union, the Native Brotherhood and Fishing Vessel Owners Association of B.C. : x x x CIO. International Woodwork- ers of America plan a “strike blockade” of the Interior strike- bound areas which will extend as far east as Winnipeg. “At every point where workers may be hired and entrained they will be told about the strike,” said IWA district president Joe Mor- ris. Morris and other IWA lead- ers met with Premier W. A. C. Bennett and representatives of Interior lumber operators in Vic- toria this week. x * * On September 15 a city swamper in South Vancouver yard, Eddie Buchert, was fired for refusing to stand on top of a load of garbage while the truck was in motion. Cause for dismissal: “Insubordina- Contests school board Mrs. Mona Morgan (above), widely known for her activity in city labor and community circles, is making her first bid for civic office in the December 9 elec- tions. She is contesting a seat om - Vancouver School Board. Urge Herridge act on Guiana NELSON, B.C. An appeal to H. W. Herridge, MF (CCF-Kootenay West), to bring pressure on the government to in- tercede in every way on behalf of the legally constituted government of British Guiana, has been made by the West Kootenay area com- mittee of the Labor-Progressive party. Pointing out that the People’s Progressive party of British Guiana won 18 out of 24 seats in the last , election and polled 77,000 votes as ‘against 5,000 votes for the United Democratic party, the LPP resolu- tion said: “We all know that the great tion and misconduct.” : Vancouver Civic Employees Un- ion, Outside Workers, took up his case and the matter went before an arbitration board. Result: Buchert has been order- ed reinstated without loss of sen- iority, : x * * Thousand of unemployed work- ers in the city have applied for Christmas-help postal jobs which hired. ly 3,000 will be * * x Court of Appeal is hearing an appeal by Myron Kuzych from an order of Mr. Justice Coady staying his action against the Boilermakers Union until he has. paid $14,154 costs incurred in his previous un- suecessful litigation. * x * Vancouver Labor Council (CCL) will urge that the Canadian Con- gress of Labor and the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada get to- gether to discuss feasibility of a federal - provincial conference on housing. * * Some 200 Shell Oil workers in Burnaby are waiting for orders to strike from the Oil Workers Inter- national Union (CIO-CCL) follow- ing a strike vote last week. A strike vote will be taken shortly at Standard Oil, while conciliation board machinery is being set up in the dispute with Imperial Oil. 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Approximate- | wealth of British Guiana is owned |not only by Britain, but also by |Canada and the United States, and , that when the PPP attempted to |put through legislation making [ ae union recognition com- | pulsory, Britain sent warships and |troops to maintain their ruthless colonial subjugation of the people \of British Guiana. “We therefore believe that no other course is open than to support in full the rights of the people of British Guiana, Any- one claiming belief -in demo- cratic principles and democratic tights for themselves, cannot deny these same principles and rights to other people at home and abroad.” Socreds ‘close’ Clemens case ) The Social Credit government considers “that no useful purpese will be served” by conducting any further inquiry in the Clarence Clemens case, the attorney gen- eral’s department informed B.C. Provincial Council of the Congress of Canadian Women recently. Since Clemens, a Negro long- shoreman, died in hospital here December 24, 1952, after remain- ing in a semi-paralysed state from the time of his arrest by two police- men on July 19, 1952, organizations and individuals have been demand- ing a government probe into the cause of his death and asking that — the evidence submitted at an in- quest be reviewed. ‘ Last May one of the constables | who arrested Clemens resigned from the police force. : CCW officials say they will contact the Negro Citizens League and the League for Dem- ocratic Rights to discuss what further actions these organiza- tions intend to take. : : | | : PACIFIC TRIBUNE — NOVEMBER 20, 1953 — PAGE i