Pensions snub angers vets: plan ‘walk’ Bitter over the federal govern- ment’s refusal to consider upping pensions for “burned out’ vets, © British Columbia’s 65 delegates “have been instructed to walk out of Canadian Legion’s national con- vention in Toronto if Veterans’ Af- fairs Minister Lapointe is invited to speak. ; This decision was made last Sat- urday by the Legion’s B.C. execu- tive council, and the national of- fice has been asked not to invite the minister to address the con- vention in the first week in August. A member of the government has always been invited as a guest speaker at past conventions. The Legion ‘action is aimed at Prime Minister St. Laurent more. than at the Hon. Hughues Lapointe. “We realize that Lapointe was pow- erless after the high-handed atti- tude taken by the prime minister when he refused to allow any time for a discussion of the plight of veterans trying to live on less than $720 a year,” said a Legion official here. The provincial council is asking all service clubs and labor groups - to unite with them in a battle for “a better break” -for burned out vets and a complete probe into the whole sittation. _ This week three LPP combat veterans who contested two Bur- rard provincial seats and one federal seat in the 1953 elec- tions—Alan Rankin, Bert Whyte and Sid Ziotnik—issued a state- ment denouncing St. Laurent’s. stand and calling for increased Pensions for burned out vets. PGE southern link held vital NORTH VANCOUVER, B.C. “The . Labor-Progressive party will vigorously oppose any attempt to abandon the Squamish-North Vancouver link in development of the PGE,” Charles Caron, North Vancouver LPP organizer, said this _ week in commenting on press re- ports from Victoria, denied by Premier Bennett, that the Socred government might drop the ex- tension. “Such a move would be deeply resented by the people of this con- stituency as a cowardly retreat be- fore a small but noisy opposition,” Caron continued. “It would con- stitute a betrayal of their interests, of. their right to job opportunities and security. — “Extension of the PGE south- ward from Squamish to North Van- couver is yital to development of this province’s great northland, just as it is to North Vancouver.” TED HARRIS Painters’ and Paperhangers’ y . Supplies : Sunworthy Wallpaper - reg. 45¢ — Now 19¢ a roll | 757 E. HASTINGS HA. 2973 S. H. BROWN PLUMBING & HEATING : _ 371 Johnson Road» R.R.1 White Rock - Phone 5661 \ PACIFIC ROOFING — Company Limited CE. 2733 2509 West Broadway N. Bitz B. Kostyk LABOR BRIEFS Fisherman Ben Chiste has just returned from a trip to the Soviet Union—he was-sent as a delegate of the United Fishermen and Al- lied Workers Union—and is pre- paring to describe his experiences in a series of articles in The Fish- | erman, During his three weeks in the USSR Chiste managed to visit Azov, a fishing port on the Don River, where he saw co-op fishermen catch- ing and processing sturgeon, carp, sardines, and making caviar. While in Moscow the B.C. fisher- man watched the May Day parade, visited the Bolshoi Theatre, inspect- ed the new Moscow University and. went to a soccer game along with 100,000 native fans. * * x Some 3,000 members of Street Railwaymen’s Union in Vancouver, Victoria and New Westminster wil! vote June 18 on acceptance of a new contract which includes:a gen- eral wage hike ‘thought to be nine cents hourly and fringe benefits. The agreement is believed to be patterned on settlement terms reached between the SRU and op- erators of the West Vancouver bus service. Drivers there got nine cents am hour on a 19-month agree- ment. : * * ae lf the processed marble for the new Vancouver Post Office is imported from Italy, some 20 local marble workers will lose seven months work, says R. R. Baker, secretary, Cement Mas- ons, Local 919. Contractors say it is up to Ottawa to decide the marble Policy. Indications are that Htalian marble will be imported. * * ok A dispute between B.C. Auto Workers Union and nine Lower Mainland trucking firms will go to conciliation. The union wants a 10-cent hourly wage increase. Pres- ent basic rate 1S) $1.75: : * * * R. K. Gervin, secretary of the Vancouver, New. Westminster and District Trades and Labor Council, phoned Vancouver Civic Employ- ees Union, Outside Workers, to protest an item in the union news bulletin which labelled-his support for the six-day shopping week “a disgrace.” : . Gervin said that he had never given his personal opinion on this ; question, but only the position of the council. : Z “It would be interesting to know what Gervin’s personal opinion is,” commented the next issue of the union bulletin. It then restated its support of Wednesday closing. “Certain business interests are out to end Wednesday closing and to re-establish the six-day shopping week. They glibly talk about stag- gering the work week and protect- ing the five-day week for employ- ees. Such guarantées by employ- ers, in a field where the majority of employees are not organized and where in many cases there ‘is a company union. set-up, are next to worthless.” : x * * Application for appointment of a conciliation officer for shore- worker groups in the B.C. fishing industry was forwarded to Vic- toria last week by UFAWU busi- ness agent Alex Gordon follow- ing a deadlock in negotiations be- tween the union and B.C. Fish- eries Association. Resenen 1 iiag gs B.C. School Trustees’ Association last week approved in principle a provincial Teachers’ Federation proposal providing for progressive- ly higher salaries for teachers tak- ing additional or specialized train- ing. The “incentive scale’ would guarantee teachers an increase be- fore their studies are completed. Union weekly charges Seaway doublecros Under thé heading “Seaway Double Cross,” Joe Kenny, columnist for the UAW Guardian, we' fe ly paper of the big United Auto Workers union locals in Windsor, Ont., deckares: ‘Windsor stand wind up holding the bag if Canada contents herself with going along with the St. Lawrence Seaway ® as far as the United States wants it.” ; it had: been a 25-year dream around Windsor, he writes, that say ocean-going ships travelling UP and down the Detroit River. Had the Seaway been built 10 years ago, heavy industry could have been kept in Windsor. ’ “Even at this late date, the dream seaway could turn Windsor into a steel processing industry area — but all hope is out the window if the St. Laurent government con- siders the American seaway plan sufficient.” Kenney, quoting from a column by the Washington columnist Drew Pearson, said two of Presi-- dent Eisenhower’s closest friends wanted the Seaway, because they represent big U.S. steel interests that want Labrador’s iron. “These facts,” he continues, “are enough to sicken most of us who try our best to believe the men we elect to government office have the public welfare first and foremost in mind. “But since Columnist Pearson hasn’t been sued for these remarks, we must consider them the truth: “YU —Secretary of the U.S. Treas- ury George Humphrey, most potent adviser of Eisenhower, is now head of the giant Han- na holding company, also head of National Steel, Hol- linger Steel and a big gun in Wheeling Steel — and his firms have bought up huge tracts of Labrador land. “2—James Black, a close friend of Ike, gets over $100,000 a year to act as Washington representative of Republican Steel Corporation, just be- cause he has access to the White House at almost any hour of the day or night. “3—Humphrey’s firms have paid out $25,000 in lobbying fees in the first three months of this year — a new record. (Congress forces such inter- ests to register the amounts of their lobbying fees)... S TORONTO the dream seaway at all! ““Tt approves. work on the St. Lawrence only to the point where ocean-going vessels can lug their cargoes to the steel industry cen- tres of Buffalo, Cleveland and Youngstown! “Going farther west than mid- Lake Erie does not interest the steel interests — and Windsor is further west than mid-Lake Erie. “As it stands, if Canada doesn’t tackle the job herself, she’s in this position: @ “Virtually all Canada’s millions spent on past develop- ment of the St. Lawrence would benefit American interests prim- arily. @ “The U.S. will escape with @ minimum amount of expense. @ “Lake Ontario ports in Ontario will gain an even greater advantage to industry over Wind- sor and Western and Northern Ontario.” Gas takes its 38th victim Death of John MacGregor, 56, # resident of a roominghousé e Homer Street, raised Vancouvet * gas fatalities total to 38 for te first five months of 1954. : Pensioner H. Myers, who liv in a Powell Street room house, narrowly escaped be F the 39th victim. He was fount unconscious on his bed by a nel! — boring roomer, and investigatio? showed that gas had been leakine from a newly-installed “safety vice.” : fee Representatives of the Roomibé , house Operators were sched to meet with provincial authoritié this week to lodge a compl. against the high carbon monox content of B.C. Electric gas. _ of*Canadian Confederation, to re- place the present designation ‘Do- minion Day.” ~ It urged that parliament “adopt legislation in favor of a distinctive Canadian national flag, with ap- propriate measures for its adop- tion.” ; The EPP’s’ leading committee told the prime minister: “We believe that public opinion in every’ part of our country — “The American seaway is not French Canada, Ontario, the West, Adopt flag, proclaim Canada Day -- LPP TORONTO Proclaiming of July 1 as Canada Day — officially — and legislatio? for a distinctive Canadian flag, has been urged upon the governme by the national executive committee of the Labor-Progressive party: In a letter to Prime Minister St. Laurent, the LPP recommed : that the present session of parliament introduce: legislation “proclaim ing July 1 as ‘Canada Day,’ the national anniversary and celebralie™ ded British Columbia, the Atlant! provinces and the Northwest, is * favor of these measures. ile “We make these proposals accord with the national policy vocated by the LPP—to Put Ca? ada First, to strengthen by means the national pride and oth triotism of our people in the caU® of Canadian independence, ; against the domination of 9 country by U.S. imperialism.” CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING _ A charge of 50 cents for each insertion of five lines or less with COME TO WHITE ROCK. 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