PIONEER IN LABOR,

VETERANS *

MOVEMENTS

Tom Barnard dies in Nanaimo at age of 81

NAIMO

A lifetime of service to his
fellow
for Thomas Albert Barnard of
The
provincial figure
labor,
erans’ leader
to the end of his days died last
week in Nanaimo General Hos-

men ended last week

Nanaimo. man who ‘re-
mained a
successively as a vet-

and pensioners’

pital at the age of 81 years.

Best known to his close

friends and community associ-

ates as “Tommy” Barnard, his
passing removes one of Brit-
ish Columbia’s most colorful

and dynamic citizens. A self-
and keen stu-
affairs, Tom Bar-
e every human
unbounded vigor.

educated man

dent of soc
nard ta
cause with

Born in Norfolk, England, in
1876 of Tom
Barnard had to leave school at
taking

poor parents,
the age of nine years,
on his first job ¢
at 60 cents
hour day. His

a week for a 12-
next was learn-

ing a trade
millwright. Then the sea called
and Tom_shipped on,
then as stoker-oiler
the “glory hole” of
= Shor, =e:

finally rising
position of chief en-

as an apprentice
first as
eabin boy,
down in

tramp steamers,
to the

gineer.

During his life as a seaman

tried a stint in the British
navy,

Tom

but for a man of his

dynamic temperment it was

B.C. much

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to buy his “They

wouldn’t make me an admiral”

discharge.

quipped Tom, “so I quit.”

With his young wife and two
small children, Tom Barnard
emigrated togCanada in 1907,
settling first in New Westmin-
ster where he was a labor can-
didate for

years later he moved to Nana-

alderman. Sixteen
imo where he resided until his
death.

At the outbreak of the First
World War
joined the Canadian Navy, but

Tom Barnard

sitting around Esquimalt har-
bor wasn’t to his liking, so he
managed a transfer into the
army and went overseas in
1916. Severely wounded with
shrapnel in the stomach and
legs, he was invalided home in
1917.

In’ Winnipeg with 23 other
war veterans Tom Barnard
formed the first unit of the
Great War Veterans Associa-
tion. At the time of his death
he was the last surviving
charter member of the original
group. *

Over the years he held many
important provincial and fed-
eral posts in veterans’ organi-

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He the
Dominion Executive Council of
the GWVA _ for

During

zations. served on
over
the

World War he was appointed
the War

on which

seven
years. Second
vice-chairman of

Mobilization Board,
he served until 1945.

One of his happiest achieve-
ments was the organizing of
the Vimy pilgrimage of 6,000
veterans to

Canadian war

France, Belgium and England. :

During that trip he visited the
Soviet Unon, toured that coun-
try for some ten weeks, and

“was one of the first Canadians

to have a personal interview
with the late Joseph Stalin.

Ina tribute to the work of
Tom Barnard on behalf of war
veterans, F. G. Steeds, secre-
tary of Nanaimo Legion
Branch, said that “the vet-
erans’ legislation we have to-
day can be traced back to the
work Tom Barnard and his
buddies put into it... he
never spared himself in the
fight for others.”

In 1926 while he operated

the Nanaimo Book Store,
which continued under his
management for nearly 20

years, Tom Barnard was elect-
ed to Nanaimo City Council.
Twice before, in federal and

provincial elections, he

thrown his hat into the ring.
In the 1919 federal election, in
Victoria, he scored the biggest
opposition vote ever recorded
against the man who later be-
came Conservative premier of
B.C., the late Dr. S. F. Tol-

mie.

For. six years, he served as
president of Nanaimo Old Age
Pensioners Association and
played a leading part in organ-
izing the senior citizens’ pro-
ject.

Tom Barnard was a veteran
socialist of the old school, a
self-educated man with great
talent and ability, and possess-
ed of a high sense of duty to-
his For

many years he was a staunch

wards fellowmen.

supporter of the’ Pacific Tri-
bune, often a contributor with
hard-hitting letters and article”
and always giving that ready
financial help without which

no working class paper can
survive.

He is survived._by one
daughter, Mrs. Percy Camp-

bell of Kamloops, four grand-
children. and four great-grand-
children. His wife, Eliza Bar-
nard passed away in Nanaimo
in 1953, ending a happy mar-

had riage of close to 54 years.

Personally known to thou-
sands of readers through-
out the province for her inde-
fatigable efforts on behalf of

the Pacific Tribune, Rita
Whyte (above) business man-
ager for the past five years,
last week concluded her full-
time services with the paper.
With reduction of the paper’s
fulltime staff dictated by fin-
ancial difficulties, her post
will not be filled for the time
being, her duties being shar-
ed among remaining staff
‘members.

Civic workers
vote for strike

ROSSLAND, B.C.
Rossland’s .18 civic work-
ers have voted 100 percent
for strike after the city re-
jected a unanimous concilia-
tion board recommendation
that all wage rates be ad-
justed within two cents of
rates prevailing for Trail civic
employees, plus fringe bene-
fits.
Rossland civic employees
are members of Trail and Dis-
trict Civic Workers Union.

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JULY 7 — Soviet film “THE
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about the Cossacks in recent
times. To be shown at the
Russian People’s Home, 600
Campbell Ave.,. on Sunday,
July 7 at.8 p.m, English sub-
titles. Everyone welcome.

JULY 13 — A fund-raising

CONCERT and
DANCE for the Finnish-Can-
adian Festival delegate ‘Ozzie’
Lahti on Saturday, July 13, 9 -
12 p.m. Clinton Hall, 2605 East
Pender. Refreshments. Ad-
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Sold at Hotels and at
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Available for meetings, wed-
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Ave. TA. 9939.

CLINTON HALL, 2605 East
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