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Corbin anniversary, a brilliant

By MINERVA MILLER

reminder o today s struggles

Among the anniversaries which have an honored place in B.C. labor history is April
17, a date when those who know the story pay tribute to the people of Corbin and par-
ticularly to its heroic women, Today Corbin is a ghost town, but in 1935 it was the
home of several hundred coal-miners and their families. A shack-town as ugly as most of

the mining villages that scar the
Peerless grandeur of the Crow's
Nest Pass. Not all the loveliness
Of April with its new green on
the wooded slopes of the moun-
‘tains could hide the squalor of
the miners’ homes which huddled
In the valley. The village bore
the unmistakable mark of a com-
Pany town in the remnants of
box-car red and battleship grey
Which still cling to the peeling
Walls of its houses, and in the
Open sewers which ran down its
Streets.

On April 17 grim expectation
hung in the air at Corbin. The

Miners had been on strike three |,

long ang bitter months, but they
Still held firm against the at-
tempts of the company to break
the strike and smash their union,
& stronghold of the Mineworkers’
Union of Canada.
The provincial police assigned
Smash the Corbin strike were
Under the command of Inspector
MacDonald, later to be come no-
torious as the police-czar of the
interior and protector of the
Blaylock millions. Day by day
they had become more provoca-
tive and rumors were persistent
On April 17 that they would try
smash the picket line and
_bring in scabs. The women were
urged to stay at home but hav-
ing refused to be used by the
Osses to weaken the resolution
Of their men, having stoog with
' them through all the long, grim
weeks of the strike, having
known as only women can,
the bitterness of watching the
Pinched and hungry faces of
their children, they jwere now
determined to be on the picket
line when the showdown came.
As the police approached the
Narrow road leading to the mine
they met the miners’ pickets and
their wives who had insisted on
Moving into the front ranks. In-
Spector MacDonald warned the
Picketers to disperse or he would
break through their lines with
a@ bull-dozer.. They refused to
Move. The machine, with the con-
trols tieq down lest the crew

Siieanona

Home Recipes

Now is the time when eggs
are plentiful and consequently
not quite so expensive as they
Might be. Here, then, is a sim-
ple dessert idea,” says Viva
Flood.

QUICK SPONGE CAKE
3 eggs
2 tablespoon cold water
%4 cup flour
Pinch of salt
% cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
% teaspoon baking powder

Beat whites of eggs separate-
ly until very stiff, then add,
separately, the yolks, alternate-
ly with portions of sugar until
all has been beaten into the
eggs, Add water and flavoring,
then beat again. (Beating is
important in this cake.) Mix
flour, baking powder and salt
€nd fold in carefully. Bake in
& hot oven for seven to ten min-
utes. This cake differs from
Most sponge cakes, in that it is
done in a hot oven—most of
them take a slow one. Can be
used for layer cake, with jam
Or filling, or a plain sponge
Cake, or Boston cream pie.

N.B. No shortening required,

and don’t grease the pan.

Pe

_ FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 1947

~ Corbin

Pushul studio
FVLOTA’ALL As 4

Now a ghost town but in 1935 one of B.C.’s
highest coal producers,

should weaken, was released, and
the steel monster bore down on
the women before the horrified
eyes of their men. Escape barred
by the buildings on either side
and the crowd behind, the women
in the front lines were knocked
down and dragged, their feet
caught in the pbull-dozer’ blade
anq “horribly mangled. The min-
ers leaped on the machine, bat-
tled with the crew and quickly
put both out of business,

A reign of terror followed in
the town of Corbin. Only the
threat of a thousand miners from
neighboring towns in the Crow’s
Nest gathering to march on Cor-
bin led to the release of the
miners’ leaders from the “black
holes” of the jail and a let-up
of the terror.

The use of police, combined
with the fact that the Patulla
government of the day. backed
the coal operators against the
miners, not only prolonged the
strike but deprived British Co-
lumbia of one of its richest coal
deposits.

‘In the long history of labor
struggles in B.C. the people of
Corbin must be given an honor-
ed place. The militant spirt of

the Crow Nest Pass has risen out
of such struggles and the whole
labor movement has drawn
strength from their courage.

In 1947, as in 1935, monopoly
is on the offensive against the
labor movement, against the
whole people’s movement made
stronger than ever in the face
of attack because of the struggles
of those who have gone before.
A tremendous effort is required

from all who want progress. The
energies of new thousands of
women are needed in the fight
for a united labor movement in
the fight for a coalition of the
people against monopoly’s offen-
sive.

The women of B.C. shared im
the battles and the victories of
1946. The struggle for. progress
in our province will continue to
produce worthy successors of the
brave women of Corbin.

cially opened the Saanich and,
Suburban Community Centre in
Mount View High School.

This is the first recreational
group to be formed around the
nucleus of a school and is making
good use of the school auditor-
ium, library and as many class-
rooms as are needed for the dif-
ferent studies. The centre is
formed to meet the requirements
of the whole family, and costs
$1.00 for wife, husbang and all
children under 18.

Organized with the help of Dr.
Henrietta Anderson, head of the
Victoria Recreation Council, it
has taken four months of hard
work to get the schoo} plan into

Saanich recreational
body sets fine example

By EVELYN GREENWELL

SAANICH, B.C.—“I am sure this center will play an im-
portant part in community affairs and I strongly urge all.
citizens of the municipality to give it their whole-hearted
support,” said Reeve E. C. Warren recently when he offi-

operation. Dr. Anderson has pled-

es

ged “every effort to securing the
teachers for any craft or hobby
that we can’t get from the com-
munity.”

An idea of the scope which the
centre will cover is shown by the
first meeting which opened with
community singing, followed. by a
motion picture, a Pro-Rec handi-
craft work exhibition and re-
freshments. Following . meetings
will open classes on carpentering,
dancing, boxing, discussion groups
and many other activities. -

The centre serves families of
Tillicum, Cloverdale, Tolmie and
Mount View. It is a plan similar
to a U.S. program, where the
slogan for such centres is “The

you looked forward to the end
of rationing ‘so the kids could
put lots of the health-giving stuff
on their bread? Well, rationing
will soon be over, but with butter
at 65 cents, there will be less on
the children’s bread, not more.
And with the removel of - subsi-
dies on all foods, there will also
be less bread and milk.

Even with the food they get
now, the amount of TB, cancer
and infantile paralysis among the

going to be when they get less
vitamins?

The government subsidies that
provided necessities for the chil-
dren are now being removed, and
at the same time, price controls
are being lifted. In 1946, money
voted for food subsidies amounted
to $51,431,529. But for 1947 the
figure is estimateq at only $2,030,-
500. -And already prices on essen-
tial foodstuffs have risen in
alarming amounts from August of
1939; for instance, tomato juice
has gone up 144 percent; shorten-
ing 140 percent; strawberry jam
100 percent;
grapefruit 50 percent; potatoes,
No. 1, 10 lbs., 128 percent; rump
roast, grade B, 233 percent; pot
roast, grade B, 266 percent; and
so on. Of 55 common staple
foods included in this survey, 29
increased in price by 100 percent
or more, 17 by 40 to 100 percent;
only nine by less than five per-
cent.

Food, clothing, ‘housing, ' fuel;
all the things people require just
to live have risen so high in
price that decent standards can
no longer be maintained. And
during the same period, wages
rose by only 35 percent. : ]

Are the health and happiness
of our people, especially the
children, to be sacrificed because
government officials arbitrarily
remove price controls and food

subsidies?

Representing many thousands
of organized people in the four
provinces and speaking on behalr
of other thousands still unorgan-
ized, 12 women delegates said no,
as they demanded of the federal
government in a recent interview,

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children is alarming. What is it}.

butter 80 perceni; -

school with the lighted window.”

Price racket scored _
as menace

By MONA:

OTTAWA—Now it’s butter! A little while ago it was
milk, fruit, beef. These are some~of the necessary foods our
children must go without because prices are so high, we
can’t buy them. Butter at 65 cents a pound. Remember how

to health

MORGAN

re-establishment of prive levels at
1945. figures, reimposition of price
controls, immediate restoration of
the milk subsidies ang retention
of present rent controls: -- »
*; Women recognize that thé
health. of the nation is their:
particular responsibility and
they know that with present.
high levels, health cannot be:
maintained but will grow worse’
and worse. oy
Women know, too, that rising
costs,: low. wages, excessive profits
all lead ,ta depression. They know
that the last, depression ended in
war, that another one can also
lead to war. They don’t want
this war and are therefore pre-
pared to fight for price controls;
for food,’ especially milk, subsi-
dies and for higher wages, so
that the buying power of the
people can be kept up and an-

other depression made less _ se-
vere,
Whatever the differences of

opinion on other matters, women
everywhere .can. and must unite
to avert the unspeakable suffer-
ing of another depression, an-
other war.

Let’s get busy now, before it is
too late! —

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