June 26, 1936 B.C. WORKERS’ NEWS Page Three <4 x PPP PPP FPUCVO UI GOING Y Nn Admission 25 Cents SSSSSSssssss -R. P. PETTIPIECE | ASKED TO EXPLAIN “®@ditor, B.C. Workers’ News: it has come to the notice of this 4) organization that Mr. R. P. Peiti-« ) piece, a member of the Parks Board, } voted for the closing of Staniey Park 'durine the Golden Jubilee and also |voted in favor of relief recipients working out their relief. Mr. Pettipiece was elected to the > Parks Board last fall on the C.C.F. ticket by the people of Vancouver to represent them. A large number of organizations such as CC... clubs, Ratepayers’ associations, and aany other bodies of all shades of opinion have protested againsc clos- -ing the park which is to be used for commercial purposes. yet here we have a man elected on a work- ing class ticket to public office vot- * ing in favor of-a measure of sratt and profit, helpins the Jubilee rack- ateers to exploit a park that is sup- @osed to belong to the people. We are asking Mr. Pettipiece sev- eral questions that we would like answered. Why did you vote in favor of closing Stanley Park when you must have been aware of the fact that the rank and file of your own party are opposed to it? Are you in favor of trade union rates of pay on relief jobs? Why Gid you vote in favor of relief recipients working out their relief when you know that the rank and file of the C-C.F. and all syvorkine class organizations are fightin= against it? This organization respectfully sug- >S gests to the €.C_F. clubs that this matter be taken up in their business meetings, and that he be asked toa give -public account of what he has done since he was elected to office. This organization invites Mr. Petti- Piece to come to one of our meet- Ings to give his views on the above question. Executive Committee, U.P.T.W.A. Basle University Spurns Heidelberg Invitation ZURICH, Switzerland, June 25.— (ALP)—Basle Ungversity, famous Swiss seat of learning, will not be St eae ee SOODO DOSS SESS LANTERN DANCE preps (Als oct : SEYMOUR PARK > TUESDAY, JUNE 30 - - - 9 P.M. to 1 A.M. (or longer) “4 Alf Carlson's Six-Piece Orchestra Trucks leave Cassiar & Hastings from 8:30 to 10:30 p.m. and return ‘a (10e Return Toll) represented at the anniversary cel- sbrations of the Wniversity of Hei- delberg, the ruline body has de- | cided. j The Educational Council of the Canton of the City of Basle has also turned down the invitation ‘from Heidelbere to attend the af- Throttling of free thought and research at the once renowned German ‘University, now under Nazi control, influenced the de- 2isions. 4 AS — ENGLISH TITLES AN amazing epic or one of the most ex- citing chapters of the Russian Revolu- tion. DPA DMD IDI PIP PIAL AIAG DI LDA DDS AAA SA, The Picture of the Year! . Bio00000000000000 ‘ ! 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Being just an ordinary voter with a will to betterment. and not sufficiently grounded in economies to presume judgment as to the cor- reetness of your analysis other than that your appeal to prevent a split within our movement stands out in SQ Vivid=a contrast as to merit our wholehéarted appreciation. While we here are far remoyed from the scene of recent co-operative hostili- ties and confess ignorance as_ to What it is all about, our experience With disruptive tactics make wus judges of results. C.C.Fler. ANNOUNCEMENTS The young people of the east end will hold a picnic on the flats (near Campbell avenue and Prior street) Sunday, July 12, at 1 p.m. We invite all youth and their Parents to participate. We pian on races for the children, soft bai tournaments, wrestling exhibitions. @ musical program, Singing, refresh- ments, etc. The picnic committee will meet Friday, July 3, at 7:30 p.m., at 805 East Pender. We extend an invita- tion to all youth and children’s clubs of Grandview and the east end to have one or more delegates present. Young People’s Picnic Committee, Per FF. Mabie and A. Herman. Y.S.L. ANNUAL CONVENTION The Young Socialist League an- nual convention is scheduled for Thursday, July 2, at Olympia Hail, Garden Drive and Hastings street. at 8 p.m. All ex-members of Y¥.S.L. are urgently asked to attend this im- portant Convention. Program for the coming year and election of of- ficers are featured on the agenda. SERBIAN WORKERS TO HOLD PICNIC The Serbian Workers’ Club will hold a picnic on the waterfront. north side of Hastings Park, Sun- day, July 5. Games, sports, ments. prizes, refresh- @00000000000000000000000000000000001 $20.00 in CASH $10.00 Every Tuesday $10.00 Every Thursday OWS IN ONE! £266000060000000000000000600 se, 10¢, 15¢ CAC A a ae 33 Phone Fair. 725 ES eee a eae ee ee a ene eB Be een peg gg ee eee ee Men’s Half Soles Men’s Heels —— 8OQ- lasies’ Half Soles Se ee soe ladies’ Heels, 15¢ - 20¢ --65¢ Boys’ and Girls’ in proportion. Sa —— 337 CARRALL STREET Police Batter Freight Riders Aberhart Gives Workers Work, But it is in Jail Editor, B.C. Workers’ News: From Port Mann to Edmonton there is nothing else but Mounted Police guarding the freight trains to keep employment seekers from riding to prospective points of em- ployment. Only with considerable caution was I able to make my way from Vancouver to Edmonton. The police are stationed at all division and stopping points on the railroad. Eyery stop the train makes the police are present to club and chase the workers. Kamloops was the only exception. There the police were all out of town quelling a riot in one of the extra gangs (relief extra gangs). In passing I wish to draw your attention to the fact that the goy- ernment are placing Mounties in all the work camps. In my opinion the exira gangs resemble a Georgia chain gang. At Red Pass my two partners were jailed for lipping one of the police. I managed to evade them at Red Pass and was contented to walk the tracks to Jasper. This is the first year I was ever denied the privilege-of walking out of B.C. It used to be that only after considerable explaining would the R.C.M.P’s allow one to walk into , the province. I was only off the train two hours in Edmonton when I was ap- proached to attend a meeting of the unemployed. There seemed to be discontent. At the meeting TI found out the reason for the discontent. Mr. Aberhart has failed to give the workers work and wages, or their inherited national dividend, and further, he-has just cut several hun- dred single unemployed off relief. These unemployed, when cut off relief and told to go look for work in the country, naturally go to the freight trains as a means of tray- elling. There they are met by the police, armed with pistols and clubs. The workers who are unable to es- cape the police are clubbed, arrested and sent to Fort Saskatchewan jail for sixty days, guilty of looking for work, the main plank of Mr. Aber- hart’s election platform. Mr. Aber- hart gives the workers work, the only objection being it is in prison, without pay. However, the workers are organ- ‘izing, and are soon going to ask Mr. Aberhart if his police terror and jail terms for looking for work is what he promised the people when he was elected to parliament to abolish poverty from Alberta. Camp Slave. Edmonton, Ailta., June 23. 1936. Real Estate Board Makes Fake Report “Sun’’ Editor Refuses to Publish Answer to Shark’ s Letter Editor, B.C. Workers’ News: The enclosed letter was sent to the editor of the “Sun” in answer to Statements made through that paper by the Real Estate Board. We have been informed that many more de- tails to the Real Estate WBoard’s statement have been written to the “Sun,” but apparently the ‘Sun’ does not intend to print *hem. The letter follows: Editor, B.C. Workers’ News: Sir,—In answer to the press state- ments made ragarding the rent sit- uation in this city in your paper on the 16th, we would like to deal with these “boiled down denials’ as Placed in the categories. Hotel rooms contrary to the state- ments made have in all of the cate- fories given been raised 20% or more. Class A hotels do not effect the housing situation for the major por- tion of thoss who live in hotels. Class I3 hotels previously were rented at the rate of $3.50 to $4.00 per week, which is quite different from the rate quoted of $1.50 per day and up. You can see this rate is mostly “up.’”’ Many small wage €armers are effected by this raise. Class ©, these rooms have in the past been rented for $2.00 per week. the majority of these rooms have been used by relief recipients who have been doubled up in order to cover the original charge of the room. Some three thousand men and women are affected by this raise and have been asked in the majority of these hotels to move. 2. Rooming houses and apart- ments rents are not remainine at 1935 levels or there certainly would not be the large number of notices and applications for eviction of ten- ants. 3. Our refuting of the Statements ALWAYS OPEN Private Baths, 50c SSE SS STEAM AND TURKISH BATHS Expert Masseur and Masseuses BAY. 9274 —_ 1235 WEST BROADWAY Apparently if we are to judge by the women’s columns, women’s pages in newspapers and the bulle of the contents of the women’s magazines at this time, the main topie of interest to our women and girls is that of June weddings, with their accompanying bridges, teas, showers, etc. The June brides of 1936, together with those who would like to be June brides and those of us who were the June brides of yesterday may here read of the rosy future that apparently faces the 1936 bride. Not to be out- done, we shall have to attempt a little splurge on this subject, al- though possibly from a slightly dif- ferent viewpoint. One would think What Should that every girl en- Be. tering upon mar- Tiage at this summer season could look forward to sets of Crawn Ducal or Aynsley china, silver tea services in patterns to her choice, curtain draperies in colors and designs to harmonize with her particuuar per- sonality and so on. The furniture store windows contain life-like models of brides in white satin and lace selecting their chesterfield suite, dining room suite and what- have-you. Electrical appliance shops display the bride also in white lace or satin selecting the latest model of refrigerator, washing machine, vacuum cleaner, ete. Every June bride should have all these things and a spice and span new home or apartment in which to place them, because, we have in this Canada of ours(?) all the materials, skilled labor and machinery necessary to supply them in abundance. How- ever, without being too possimistic, we can state that the average bride faces an entirely different future. We shall not deal at For a length with the few Few. who will enjoy all these things and more besides. They be- long in the class of those daughters of the wealthy who can afford such things or the girl whose prospective husband has a highly paid position (not a job), or should he Jose his position, the maternal or paternal parents can take care of the young eouple. Weither shall we deal with the few who will marry and face the future on a relief allowance. Theirs is the toughest proposition of all. The average Installments. bride, that is, one from the majority, should be con- sidered. What does she face? We mean the case where the girl has had a steady job (mot a position) at moderate wages and whose pros- pective bridegroom also has a job. ~ June Brides — She will wear the traditional white with veil and accessories because she has saved up for a long time from her earnings, and so have her parents, that she may be thus at- tired. Between her own efforts and those of her relatives she will have acquired by now part of an outfit of table linen, bed linen, silverware, and odd pieces of china. She expects to purchase the remainder bit by bit out of her husband's earnings. He likwise has saved or borrowed enough to take his bride on a honey- moon trip of at least a week-end in Victoria or a motor trip in a bor- rowed car. He will have bought possibly a bedroom suite and started to buy on the installment plan a radio, chesterfield suite, some rugs, ete. They will have to live in a rented house or apartment; to build a new home would be out of the question. Well, if hubby holds onto his job, the bride who has learned how to handle money and live carefully may make ends meet and keep up the installments for some time. = But what huppens The Bis next, that is in most Event. cases? You know the nhurses in the mater nity hospitals will be saying in March or April, 1937, that they are kept quite busy with the new mothers and babies, the brides of June, 1936. This has meant a tre- mendous drain on the family budget. Apart from the joy of thinkine of the wee son or daughter that is to come, whether to use pink or blue, and so on, there must be found the funds to finance the hig event. A very modest Jayette of clothing and woolly garments will cost at least $25.00, a buggy, second-hand at least rf 910.00 or new at three times the price, crib $10.00, doctor bill $50.00, hospital bill at least $40.00, and so on. At least $150.00 will be a modest Sum to usher the new life into the world. So by this time the bride will have found that these are her prob- lems and not the question of how to hold her man, how to retain her girlish figure and rosy bloom com- plexion as we would be deceived into believing by what we read in the ads. and articles in our newspapers and magazines. @f course marriage should be faced even under these conditions, also raising a not too large family. But a large dose of class conscious- ness and understanding of the eco- nomic conditions surrounding them will help the young couple to face the future with hope and weather the storms. INES Es JONES’ BOY KICKS THEIR CUSTOMERS VANCOUVER, June 22. — Gon Jones’ den of vice adjoining the City Hall was the scene of a brutal attack on one of the joint’s patrons Saturday night. The patron, who had had a few drinks, attempted to use his card to fain entrance to the upstairs part of the establishment, but ‘was stopped by the bouncer, who jostled [him out to the street and knocked him down, and then proceeded to kick his prostrate victim. A large crowd gathered, which soon attracted the attention of sev- eral police officers, who escorted the bouncer off to the police cells amid the jeers and boos of the crowd. are based on a careful survey made in the past two months of ex- isting housing conditons and be- cause “the first to kick’? are the permanent tenants and this can be proved by signed statements at our headquarters. We do not think the Statements made by Alderman Mac- Donald in regards to the present housing problem would’ have been made are based on a careful survey made if the conditions were normal as our Real Estate BGoard would have us believe, nor would such a scathins condemnation be mude by the Presbytery of the United Church, Qur survey records aré open to these gentlemen of our Jubilee Com- mittee and Real Estate Board in order that their ignorance of the housing conditions existing for the permanent residents can be clari- fied. We believe that this certainly should be a Jubilee year for resi- dents of this city, and we are goine to continue sponsoring the cause for a “Better Housing Program,’ one that will be of benefit to the com- munity at large, giving employment to the vast number of unemployed tradesmen, such a program would be more befitting a Jubilee. Hoping that these points will be given space in your paper, I remain, Unemployed and Part Time Workers’ Assn., James Beynon, Chairman. C.L.D.L. WEEKLY DANCE Ukrainian Branch of the Canadian Labor Defense League will hold a weekly dance ey Saturday at 805 Hast Pender street. Dancing from 9 to 12. Good floor. Good orchestra. EB iRIS HOSPITAL COTS The Cpa 3 / nt <> BALKAN CAFE TASTY MEALS — FROM ide UP Our Specialty Relief Vouchers Accepted = 779 EAST HASTINGS STREET Balkan-Hungarian and German Dishes ALOHMA BEACH SITE IS CHOICE 26,000 Feet of Water Frontage, 125 Acres In All Fifteen miles up Burrard Inlet, at Alohma Beach, approximately op- posite the Lake Buntzen power plant,. is the former Bamfielc Hstate, 125 acres in all, with 2600 feet of waterfrontage. Years azo Mr. Bamfield, after searching the coast for a favored spot chose this site. “The land was cleared, gardens and orchards planted, and a home and out houses built, water was piped from the hills in a 6-inch main. In later years the place was abandoned. ultimately reverted to the North Vancouver Municipality, and recent- ly put on the market. Early this year the Summer Camp Committee had chosen a Coombe for the future summer camp. Then the Bamfield Estate was put on the market and one day a week ago, the Summer Camp Committee, with sponsors and trus- tees, set out to inspect all available sites and make a final decision. The Bamfield Hstate was the un- animous choice of all the more than 30 delesates. A Beautiful Site On Saturday (tomorrow) a tag day will be held to raise funds to make the down payment and provide ac- comodations. The more that is sub- scribed the more material and fix- tures (labor has been volunteered) will be available, and consequently the more under-privileged children will get a holiday in camp this sum- mer. Qn Wednesday, the deal was made with the municipality of North Vancouver. The full price $2660, the taxes $200 a year. The water rif=hts are assured by law, the order navinge been secured by the Bamfield Bstate. It is the opinion of all who visited the site, that it is the pick of sum- mer camp sites in this locality. All agree that it will be developed into a large popular affair, providing ideal accommodation for many hun- dreds of under-privilezed children. Owing to the lateness of the season, extensive development cannot be un- dertaken this season, but what work will be done will be accordine to a Plan laid out to be followed in Suc- ceeding years. The rate of develsp- ment, the joy it will provide to the kiddies of Vancouver, will depend on support extended by the public. The initial responsibility has been Shouldered by a group of prominent, professional and busines men, and prominent trades unionists, and men and women of different walls of life. All that is necessary to win the sup- port of all the public, would be that all had the opportunity to visit the HASTINGS BAKERY 716 BAST HASTING ST: We deliver from house to house in Grandview and Tiastines town- site districts. Call High. 3244 and our driver will be at your door. Support Those Who Support You site at Soviet Army Peace Force “Dirt is Criminal In Soviet Union’’ Says Major Hooper VANCOUVER, June 22.— Disap- pointed crowds were turned away last night, unable to gain entrance to the Royal Theatre, where Major A. S. Hooper delivered an address to a packed audience on his 4000-mile trip through the Soviet Union. “The Red Army is an instrument for the benefit of peace,’ stated Major Hooper. Only workers who are willing to defend their country from outside attacks are accepted, but not before they are fiven a two-year course on the causes of war and why they should be ready. to defend their country. Transport of troops, tanks, motor lorries, and supplies by aircraft has reached such a point that entire full equipped divisions can be landed hbe- hind enemy lines, thus using the third dimension, where formerly only two were used in military man- oeuvers. Whole factories, mines and farms have been placed at the disposal of the Far Eastern Red Army, which would enable them to carry on an active campaign against their enemy for one year without moving one freight car. These were some of the major’s observations. On the back streets of nine cities he visited he did not find so much as a scrap of paper, no cigarette butts and very few burned matches. ‘Dirt is considered criminal in the Soviet Union,” said the speaker. Defense of peace rather than de- fense of the Soviet Union was more appropriate thought the speaker, when T. D. Hogan made an appeal for a collection. Miss Mildred Qsterhout presided over the meeting, which was called under Friends of Soviet Union auspices, INFORMATION WANTED Anyone knowing of the were- abouts of Shand Robertson is asked to communicate with Mr. J. West- Over at 2020 East 33rd Ave. He has some information from relatives. Mr. Robertson was in a relief camp when the walk-out started and continued to Regina, subse- quently returning to Vancouver. ‘HEALTH WEEK’ AND CHILDREN Editor, B.C. Workers’ News: This is ‘Health Week’ and .men and women will be drawn from all over the continent to sit in session on health matters. Existing conditions calls for meas- ures of preventive medicine having view that widespread economic security is the basis of individual and communal welfare. Waturally prevention of diseases is the aim of preventive medicine and perforee it is duty bound to press for removal of unhealthy con: ditions. When we are told that existing conditions are driving about 1,600 children into insanity in this city, then Vancouver must bow her head in Shame in this her year of Jubilee. Preventive medicine begins with Slum clearance and their rebuild- ing with healthy homes, we know that one of the greatest factors con- ducive to disease, insanity and erime is slum environment, which keeps the taxpayers busy providing the money to build hospitals, Sana— toriums, and jails in which the vic- tims of the above results are con- fined. Provision of facilities for the pro- motion of child welfare is a basis for public welfare, and is in the in- terests of humanty and economy. This brings me around to state that excellent facilities have been secured for a children’s summer camp where under privileged children can romp and play in happy abandon. A tag day has been granted for Saturday, June 27, to raise funds for this purpose, all will discern the necessity of doing what they can to put it over. EH. M. June 22. WHITE LAKE BEATS GLENEDEN CLUB WHITE LAKE, June 21.—An al- most errorless soft ball game was played today between the Sleneden and White Lake C.A.S.F. clubs on the latter’s grounds. The score was 14 to 12 in favor of White Lake, which shows the teams were evenly matched. Spectators were very much enthused ut the good field work and batting of both teams. On June 28 the teams will meet again here, at a picnic to be staged by the White Lake Club. Other field sports will be held, everyone is ex- pected out. There is no gate charge. Site and investigate details. On Saturday you will have your chance to participate in the estab- lishing of a permanent summer Camp for children. Don’t pass up the taggers. Fair. 1039 Pair. 2355-R NS Z SS = CLASSIFIED AD COLUMN HOTELS AND ROOMS UBILEE ROOMS—ALL NEWLY J renovated. Fully modern. Rates reasonable. Prop., Mrs. Hdith John- son. 244 Hast Hastings Street. G—o—n_ pe OTEL NEW LION, 122 BAST Hastings St., Vancouver. 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