BA 6 RT nae etree gg aT TO rr oman nyt IE ta a B.C. WORKERS’ NEWS Page Three as Ordinary Beers > AGE AND PURITY GUARANTEED BY $10,000 BOND COAST BREWERIES LIMITED VANCOUVER - NEW WESTMINSTER ~ INCREASE WAGES Pay for Oyocume Up 50 Per Cent. PARIS, France. — (By Mail) —Actin= upon a decision of the smembers the Belgian Seamen’s Un- ion, seamen’s section of the Belgian *Transport-wWworkers’ Union, has served notice to terminate the agree- ment for the seamen on February 239th. The chief demands of the seamen to be negotiated in a new agreement were: 25 per cent wage dnmerease and 50 per cent extra pay for overtime. Negotiations with the shipowners -were broken off because the ship- owiers were unwilling to negotiate on the basis of the seamen’s de- mands. The state arbitrator had the dispute submitted to him, and thas now pronounced a ruling which thas been accepted by both parties. “The settlement has only termorary «wharacter. It provides for a wage dnerease by 15 per cent as from March ist and is to be valid for three months. Negotiations are to ‘be continued in the meantime with the object of arriving at a regula- tion for wages, overtime pay nad ‘the other working conditions for a longer period. PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS! This advertisement is not published or displayed by the Liquor Control Board or by the Government of British Columbia. BELGIAN SEAMEN | MINERS OF NOVA VICTORIA SCOTIA IN UNITY All May Go to United Mine Workers of America GLACE BAY, Nova Scotia, March -30—(ALP)—Unity among the em- battled Nova Scotia coal miners moved a long step closer this week end when leaders» of the Amalga- mated Mine Workers of Nova Scotia and the United Mine Work- ers of America conferred. Those two unions have been en- gZased in a fieht for jurisdiction for five years, ever since the A.M.W. broke away from the International. Union leaders desire a 100 per cent single union organization in the coal fields, so that the miners may present a solid front against the big coal operators. Under the unity plans discussed, the A.AT.W. will so out of business and its locals will join the United Mine Workers. Strone sections in both unions are demanding that, should the expected merger take place, that the U_M.W. in Nova Scotia be given sutonomy by the International. Representa- tions to this effect are now on their way to John L. Lewis, U-M.W. president and industrial union ehampion.- 5 RENDEZVOUS BALLROOM | AQ4 Homer Street DANCING EVERY NIGHT Admission 15c Week Nights | Saturday, Ladies 15c, Gents 20c Before 9 p.m., Every Night, Ladies 10c | 7 MUSIC BY | LeRoy Williams & His Rendezvous Orchestra | | OYSTER AND 304 MAIN STREET 3 APOLLO CAFE $4.50 MEAL TICKET for $4.00 CHOP HOUSE : Theo. Angell, Prop. z eee Men’s Half Soles Men’s Heels sonssesesices one Boys’ and Girls’ in proportion. foe! OQe@ Ladies’ Half Soles _.6 o¢ Ladies’ Heels, 15¢ - 204 337 CARRALL STREET = — 330 MAIN STREET | TONIGHT and SAT., Apr. 3, 4) MON., TUES., WED., Apr. 6, 7, 8 | (Wondrous new Tricolour | “HiOP-A-LONG Picture) MIRIAW HOPKINS in | 73 | CASSIDY . 5 | with ialuame= Boyd Jimmy ellison, with Frences Dee, Cedric Hard- | Paula Stone, Robert Warwick wicke! Billie Burke snd) Auson plus Skipworth “MOTIVE FOR “SECRETS OF a CHINATOWNRN’’ REVENGE esd | with Wick Stuart, Lucille Browne, * Donald Cook and Irene Hervey and Raymond Lawrence | Adults 10c Soe Ns : Children 5c | = 5 PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS! Kamloops Relief Strikers Win Several Concessions Increase Relief and Gain Improved Conditions WOMEN ASSISTED Relief strikers here have been offered terms from the fovernment to consider but there is still two points not agreed on. One is back time, and the other is the question of blankets and clothes. AJl other questions are xgreed upon. In future all men going to work in camps are to receive 25 per cent increase relief allowance in addition to work to cover the board in camp, and the 25 per cent to apply on all time in camp, whether back time, or time ahead. Transportation “will be supplied and trucks will come into town either Saturday night or Sunday morning as road conditions permit, and return Monday morning, men to be paid for traveling one way. The workers have representation on all questions governing camp and kitchen cenditions, and will have the right to inspect and audit food bills in order to see that no food is filched. Board rate is set at 20C a meal and if less will be re- turned to the men. Men are not to be expected to work in places where they are not properly clad ts do so, and fhe en- gineer is going to try and arranze for bjanisets. Wo discrimination for activity in the strike is agreed on by the gov- ernment representatives and if a foreman finds a man who he thinks is not doing enough work and fires him, the man will be allowed a transfer to another camp where he may get alone with the foreman, thus stopping any grudge fights and discrimination. The Women's Auxiliary to the Provincial Workers’ Association sent a delesation to see Mr. An- drews. the relief officer, on the question of clothing and medical at- tention, At first, the officer refused to see them, but the women held their ground although it was their first experience and the outcome Was that some questions regarding medical attention were cleared up and Andrews agreed to write Vic- toria for possible aid. Bosses Get Lion’s Share But Only the Miners Get Silicosis By H. SULA SUDBURY, Ont., Mar. 25 (ALP)— Here is another classic example of what “Labor’s share’’ happens to be when wealth is divided. According to the Hon. Paul Le- due, Ontario minister of mines, there were in 1935 some 44 gold mines in operation in the province, producing, through the toil of 12,000 miners, $77,000,000 worth of new wealth. Of this sum the workers received $17,000,000, and the sum of $24,787,56 went to the coupon clip- pers and stock-holders. Translated in another way, these figures show that the production of wealth was $6,417 per worker per year, out of which the worker re- eeived an average of $1,466 (or 22.8 per cent) in wages, while the capi- talists grabbed an average of $2,- 065.63 (or 32.2 per cent) in dividends per every worker. For every dollar paid in wages the eoupon clippers got $1.41. NEW YORK, N.Y¥—Five mem- bers of the Friends of the New Germany and allied pro-Nazi or- ganizations were arraigned in the felony court and each held on $5,000 bail for a hearing on the accusation of a fellow member that they had taken him from the liner Deutsch- land Saturday night just before sail- ing and kept him against his will at their headquarters, 49 Bast BHighty— third Street, until Monday night, holding private court on him in the manner of a Brown House proceed- ing in Germany. “They must be taught this is the United States, not Germany,” said Raymond Leo, assistant district at- torney, in asking Magistrate George DeLuca to set hich bail, since the charge was kidnapping. Geo. L. Donovan Typewriters and Adding Machines Supplies and Service Wew and Used Machines from $10.00 up — See US First 508 W. Pender St., Sey. 282 HASTINGS BAKERY 716 EAST HASTING ST. We deliver from house to house in Grandview and Hastings town- site districts. Call High. 3244 and our driver will be at your door. Support Those Who Support You 38 “Tt pays to look well” Visit The Oyster Bay Barber Shop 306 Carrall St. - . and wear one of our most up-to-date natural-looking hair- cuts, and a clean face devoid of hair and roughness. *“BOSS ADVICE ON HASHING GARBAGE -.-4S5 a general rule food should be seasoned during the process of cooking. Cooks must be careful in the use of salt, especially in the preparation of hashes, meat balls, and stews from left-over foods. The left-overs are from food which has previously been seasoned, and, un- less" care is taken, dishes subse- quently prepared from them will be too salty. “Even in well managed kitchens there is always a certain amount of left-overs—such should never be thrown away. Meat left over from meals or from the stock pot should be made into meat balls or cro- quettes and fried for breakfast or Supper. Left-over potatoes sheuld be fried or mixed with chopped onions and served as Lyonnaise po- tatoes. Left-over cabbage fried with a little bacon makes an excellent breakfast. .. .’—From “Feeding of Men in Camps,” being excerpts from the “Manua] of Commissariat Prac- tice” published in the magazine of national business, “Pulp & Paper.” SAANICH WOMEN WIN MORE RELIEF Reeve Plays a Foxy Game SAANICH, March 30.—Last Tues- day night a delegation of women composed of C.C.F. and other prog- ressive women of the district pre- sented proposals for increased re- lief to the Council. The request was for the same seale of relief as granted by the City of Victoria. This was not ac- ceded to by the Council, but it was voted to grant the maximum scale of relief as given by the Provincial Government. Only two dissenting votes were recorded, and these were from two representatives from farming areas. Two councillors, T. Warren and L. Passmore, moved two weeks ago that the City of Victoria scale of re- lief be granted by the Council but they were in a minority when the vote was taken. Reeve Crouch, who always works in the interests of the bondholders, was opposed to the re- quest, and has been opposed to any increases in relief right along, but when he saw the majority of the Council was for it, he let it be known that his generosity was re- sponsible for the increased scale be- ing granted. As a matter of fact it was solely due'to the determined ac- tion of the women and to mass pres- Sure that any amelioration of the plight was brought about. —Miss l.. H., Correspondent. SOVIET PLANES DARING FLIGHT Prelude to Trip Over North Pole to San Francisco MOSCOW, March 30.—(By Cable to ALP)—Two Soviet airplanes last night successfully completed the first lege of a flight from Moscow to Franz Josef land when they elided to a perfect landing at Archangel at 8:43 o'clock. Four planes from the Arehangel Flying Club met them in the air and escorted them to the snow—packed landing field. Here they will ex- change their wheels for skis and likely take off later in the Gay for Narian-Marlast, their Jast point on the Buropean mainland. “We were delayed by strone head winds and sometimes by snow,’ sard Michael Vodopianoy, who bears the title “Hero of the Soviet Union,’’ chief pilot of the flight, “Qur Soviet machines worled per- fectly and are fully adapted for flights under hard conditions in any kind of arctic weather.” “If the weather permits we will eontinue on the thirtieth and we intend to cover the distance between Archangel and Ustusa without land- ing.”’ “With favorable conditions we should reach TLeikhi within three or four days.” It is possible that flights of from 400 to 500 miles further within the arctic circle will be made to check ice conditions and to diagnose weather conditions and navigation for the coming summer when Levanevsky is expected to renew his effort to fly to San Francisco Via the north pole and down the Canadian coast line. ANNOUNCEMENT South Hill C.CF. Open Forum, 47th and Fraser Sts., Sunday, April 5th, 3 p.m. Speaker, Carl Schwartz; subject, ‘‘Conditions in Germany.” Rev. Sam. Bast will speak in the same hall on Monday, April 6th at 8 p-m. THE | ALWAYS OPEN Private Baths, 50c STEAM AND TURKISH BATHS Expert Masseur and Masseuses BAY. 9274 — 1235 WEST BROADWAY RAILROAD UNIONS IN CAMPAIGN AGAINST R.R. Pooling of C.P.R. and C.N.R. Would Throw 40,000 Out of Work REGINA, Sask. March 26.—({A LP) —Startinge in the local council of affiliated railway unions here, 2 movement for the repeal at this ses- sion of parliament of the dangerous Co-operation Railway Act of 1933 is likely to sweep. through the Cana- dian labor ranks. Moved lente Alderman Toothill, CG... in the city council, a resolu- tion endorsine the action of the railway unions and ecalline for the repeal of the Act has been passed and every city council in the coun- try is to be asked to take similar action. Copies of the resolution are to be sent to the govermment and to the Rerina AlP., DD; A. McNiven, I.C. Toothill member of the local lodge of the Gannates Brother- hood of Railway Employees. George Cockburn, secretary of the iS railway union council, outlined the ease against the Act to the city fathers and stated that the union body is to cirecularize all railway unions in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba with a four-page memorandum and a cir- cular resolution calling for repeal. Amalgamation is not being advo- cated for the good of the people as a whole, Alderman TVoothill points out. If carried into effect it will throw 40,000 railway workers in Canada out of work and will greatly increase the 1elief burden. “In the interests of railwaymeu who are our citizens and the tax- payers generally. this must not be allowed to happen,” the alderman Said. “We do not have to bow down to Sir Edward Beatty, Sir Herbert Holt, and others, whom I call Canada’s public enemies number one, in their efforts to sacrifice the livelihood of Canadian people so that foreign shareholders can reap a benefit.’ Co-operation of the Toronte Rail- way Council is to be sought to cir- cularize all the railway union locals in Ontario, officers of the Regina railway council said. NAZI WORKERS’ WAGES DECLINE Conditions of Paper Workers Lowered; Plenty Deductions The Forest Products Division of the Bureau of Foreign and Domes- tic Commerce, U.S. Department of Commerce, has recently released a report from Mr. W.S. Jesien, Ameri- ean Consulate General at Prank- fort, Germany. Mr. Jesien reports that: “Wages and working conditions dropped to lower level during 1935. Although wages are strictly con- trolied by the national socialistic labor officials, the existing system of wage scales lends itself to vari- ous adjustments, and such adjust- ments of late have invariably been downward. A survey of wages and earnings in the paper industry car- ried out in April, 1935, showed an average wage rate of 0.636 mark per hour for all workers. The ay- erage gross weekly earnings for a week of 48.39 hours was 30.75 marks (about $12.00 at the official rate of exchange). Hrom the gross earn- ings 11.5 per cent were deducted for social insurance and other com- pulsory deductions. Unofficial de- ductions for national socialist pur- poses are reported te bring the total taken out of the worker’s pay envelope up to nearly 20 per cent of his wages. Nord Seamen Win Victory Yearly Vacation; Dock- ers Included The transport workers in the North of Norway, amone them the dockers, have won a lew agree— ment for their district involving in all 1500 men. Sormerly there was no special agreement for this dis- trict and differences in rates of wages differed greatly in the differ- ent towns. This explains why the present agreement contains minor wage decreases for some dockers while it contains wage increases up to 35 per cent for others. The aver- age increase is 30 per cent. For overtime extras are being paid amounting to from 25 to 50 per cent. The question of annual vacation was also settled; the new agreement provides that all workers, perma- nently and casually employed, are entitled to vacation. The agreement runs for two years. IRIS HOSPITAL COTS Public Baths, 25c = SSS Just Open... Our Specialty BALKAN CAFE TASTY MEALS — FROM 15¢c UP Balkan-Hungarian and German Dishes 779 EAST HASTINGS STREET | correct, | capacity AMALGAMATION UP WITH WAGES; DOWN WITH TAXES WINNIPEG, Man., March 24— St. Boniface city council obtained provincial approval Monday of plans to restore wage cuts to civic em- ployees and school teachers should the fiscal year end with a surplus. The restoration must not amount to more than $15,000, which repre- sents about a 25 per cent restora- tion. If realized it will be retroactive to January 1. The budget brought down by the council Monday establishes for the coming fiseal year a three-mill] tax decrease in the St. Boniface school district and a two-mill decrease in the Norwood schoo] district. WE STAND CORRECTED I wish to correct a statement that appeared in the last issue of “The B.C. Workers’ News’ to the effect that When “Waiting for Lefty” was presented here, “the hall was packed, and there were hundreds tured away.’’ This is in- as the hall has 4 seating of 1500, and there were about 150 empty seats. AS many constant readers of “The B.C, Workers’ News'’ went to see “Lefty” such statements as the ubove do not tend to help increase the circulation of the paper. IT hope you will find space to pub- lish this correction. Comradely yours, C. Boden. Editors Note: Our story was based on reports from the Progressive Arts Club. Had we a correspondent on the job the error would not have been made. We are dependent on workers to write us the news and failing that, we are forced to rely on other sources for our news. Thanks for the correction. UNION S.S. CO.’S ALIBI IS FALSE VANCOUVER, April 1—F£Efforts on the part of the Seafarers’ In- dustrial Union to have forty-five Japanese seamen reinstated with the Union Steamship Go., met with a letter from that company stating in effect, that if these men were re- employed the company would be in danger of losing their mail con- tracts. This angle of the situation was taken up with G. G. MacNeil, M.P., who inquired if such a stipulation was made in the awarding of mail contracts. The Hon. J. C. Elliott, Postmaster- General, stated that “there are no contracts between the Post Office Department and the Union Steam- ship Company in regard to the car- riage of mail.” Since the letter was received by the Seafarers Industrial Union from the Union Steamships, four of the seamen in question have been re- employed. ANNOUNCEMENTS Children’s Easter Concert, Sun- day, April 12th, 8 pm., in German Workers’ Hall, 2237 Main Street. Sponsored by Mount Pleasant Pio- neer Group, in aid of “Always Ready.” Songs, recitations, music, plays. Collection at door. The District Executive Committee of the Canadian Labor Defence Ueague wishes to thank all mem-, bers, sympathizers and supporters for the efforts and contributions which went toward making the re- eent annual district bazaar a suc- cess. The sum of $303.45 was real- ized and the proceeds will be used to provide relief for labor prisoners and their dependents and for de- fence purposes. The winners of the drawing are as follews: First prize, $15, No. 382. Second prize, $10, No. 356G. Third prize, $5, Io. 4361. Fourth prize, $2, No. 192e. Fifth prize, $2, No. 206C. Sixth prize, $2) No. 112E. Seventh prize, $2, No. 272. Eighth prize, BH. Enquist. ‘7 ~ Phone SEY. 9501 New York Wave Shop Inquire about our Special Priced leases Prices on all Permanents 581 GRANVILLE ST. (Upstairs) Two doors from Dale’s. (7 +) MR. 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