' November 6, 1936 B.C. WORKERS’ NEWS Page Thres ises. The New World MALCOLM BRUCE Tell of Soviet Russia’s 19 Years of Peace and Progress. Sun., Nov. Sth, S p.m. Orange Hall Gore at Hastings | Aid of Press Ausp. Unit 16 fez Eleven years’ experience in Permanent Waving | i Grey, White & Fine Hair.~ Call with con- fidence at— MR. DOWNING, Specialist Downing Beauty Shop 130 W. Hastings St - SEY. 241 Work & Wages for Vancouver Smart Values FALL & WINTER MATERIALS C Fo P-TO-THE-MINUTE Suits and Coats, custom built by Regent Vancouver craftsmen on the prem- E well dressed, at reasonable cost, in clothes fitted to your individual measurements . . . Tailored in Two Days if Necessary =.= DY. = = oP REGENT TAILOR 324 West Hastings St. = PATRONIZE NEW LION HOTEL 122 BAST HASTINGS STREET JOHN E. LINDER Passenger Agent for Scandinavian . . Passports Ar- Steamship Lines. . Fanged. Representing— «he Swedish American Line The Norwegian Lines The CPR. Cunard and ether lines. 14 W. Cordova St. Boug. 6215- HOTEL for WORKERS HASTINGS HOTEL i77 E. HASTINGS ST. Under New Management Thoroughly Cleaned and Redecorated ROOMS 50 CENTS PER NIGHT UP Men’s Half Soles Men’s Heels SY SLs cess 9Q@ Ladies’ Half Soles - - G5¢ ie ee 3b¢ Ladies’ Heels, 1 5¢@ - 202 ANNOUNCEMENTS “A lantern lecture showing views of Spain, with Rey. Andrew Roddan aS commentator, will be given in Victory Hail, Homer Street, between Pender and Dunsmuir Streets, on Friday, November 6, at § P.m., un- der the auspices of the Spanish De- fence Committee. Concert and Dance. “Current Events” will be the sub- ject of an address by Malcolm Bruce on Friday, November 6, at § P.m., at the Orange Hail. A good musical programme also be-a feature of the event. Wilt “A meeting will be held on Tues- day, November 10, at 2:00 p:m., O’Brien Tall, 404 Homer street, when or organization for Mothers’ Clinies for family resulation, will be formed. Action for this measure is long past due, when our sovern- ment Should be in line with many other progressive countries. Adl womien are invited whether as individuals or representin=e an or- Sanization who are interested in this Work. Several good speakers have been invited to discuss the Subject in its different aspects and it is hoped a permanent committee can carry on the work and arouse pub- lié opinion for this economic meas- ure. Supper and Dance Sponsored by the manarcement and staif of the Hastings Bakery on behalf of the Children’s Summer Camp, a supper and dance will be held at the Silver Slipper Ballroom ‘on Saturday night, November 7. Supper will be served at 8 p.m. “and a nominal charge of 35 cents is made, which entitles the purchaser to an evening of dancine. PUBLIC MEETING ON LIVING COSTS The Consumers League of B.C. organized to combat the high cost of living, is holding a mass public meeting in the Moose Hall, Sunday, Wov. 15th at 8 pm. A. Peterson, secretary of the B.C. Goast Vere- table Marketing Board, has been asked to attend and explain to the consuming public the reason, if any, for the exorbitant price of potatoes. Edwin Baker, of Bradner, will show how the B.C. Marketins Board robs the small growers and consum- ers. and the danger ot them in the Provincial Government’s proposal to set up a Milk Control Board. Other speakers will include Mrs. i. C. Tibbets, editor of the Rich- mond Review, and Arthur H. Hvans of the Consumers League of B.C. SEY. 4848 24-HOUR ELEVATOR SERVICE POOF IOD ®OMHMMAAL HADES Bp he Boys’ and Girls’ in proportion. Bes METHOD SHO 337 CARRALL STREET APOLLO CAFE 28 West Cordova St. OYSTER AND CHOP HOUSE iP F450 Meal Ticket for $4.00 THEO. ANGELL Prop. SOCIAL SERVICE COUNCIL ACTIVE Editor, B.C. Workers’ News: The Social Service Council held its résular meeting at the Highland Park Hall on Friday, October 23, with representatives from churches, prosressive women’s clubs, C.C.F., PTA SG Poh Grete: s It is expected that the Social Credit Groups will have delezates to represent them in the near future. The worl: of the S.:S.C. is to help the poor, to obtain their immediate needs of the necessities of life, relief increases, to prevent evictions, ana all Fascist methods in B.C. A letter of thanks from Mr. Clark for the support he received from the S$.S.G. in his eyic- tien case, which he won recently. A committee was elected to com- plete negotiations for the securing of a lot for a children’s playsround, which the council has been endeayor- ing to obtain for some time . Most petitions for the inerease in children’s reliefa Mowance has not yet been returned to the secretary, but it is believed that all organiza- tions imterested will do so imme- diately or will send them direct to Mrs. Steeves in Wictoria. A motion was carried that further inquiries of the Metropolitan Health Was received Unit be made before a final deci- sion on setting up such a unit in Burnaby. : Burnaby, Bic. Lad’s Tragic Death Under Freight Train A sordid story is told by Mr. A. Holtslander of North Vancouver, who has just been notified of the death of his son, John, killed under the wheels of a freight train, one mile east of Swift Current, Sask. The boy went east last April in search of work. He fought fires in Ontario, on returning seyeral weeks ago he was thrown off a freight near Nelson, B.C., by police, burst- ing an abcess on his hip in the fall. He dragged himself to the police Station, and from there was taken to the hospital where he stayed about three weeks. Police in North Wanecouyver were asked for identification. He ‘was brought to North Vancouver, and as his parents were not at home at the time he was lodged in jail, charzed wtih retaining stolen property. Badgered by police and a North Wancouver business man, who is a rotarian, with promises of a job and dropping of the charges, the boy confessed, and was sentenced to two years in the Industrial School, the magistrate Stating at the time that the sentence was for “education”” and that he “will be well looked after," ete. The father did not want his boy to have such an education, but wanted him home. Since October 8 he has not been in the Industrial School, nor did the officials of that institution deem it necessary to inform the parents. Nothing was heard of the boy until R-CALP. informed the parents on October 26 that their son was found chopped up near Swift Current. Oe of the ‘mounties’ added that the boy had mo business riding freight trains, and that it is their job to keep them off. Asked by the father if he was ever a boy, he Srutfly answered that he never rode freights. Frame-Up Cases Are Postponed OCAKLAND, Cal.— (BHP) — The murder trial of Baril King, Frank Conner and EF. . Ramsay, Ma- rine Hiremen’s Union members, Was postponed until November 4 as a2 result of defense charges against Judge Brank M. Ogden of bias and prejudice. The charges haye been referred to the judicial couneil. —— ee | SEE YOUR | FOOD PREPARED at the PALACE CAFE | | 47 West Cordova Street | WE SERVE oe BEST COFFEE IN TOWN 100% UNION HOUSE | > | | | | | | Company Executives Refused To Answer LOS ANGELES, — (FP)—Execu- tives of the American Potash & Chemical Co. at Los Angeles, up for a National Labor Relations Board hearing, refused to answer ques- tions as to whether they had em- ployed labor spies to fight unioniza- tion. Eddie Cantor Urges People To Organize LOS ANGELES. — (FP) —‘‘This time, I’m dead serious,’ said Eddie Cantor, banjo-eved coniedian, as he urged a huse Los Angeles audience tO organize to combat fascism and told how his life had been threat- ened if he dared criticize Hitler. Farmer Raises Valley farmer and a member of Ass’n., the Fraser Valley Milk Producers majority of the dairy farmers, can being. Not only would the placing of Burns’, Swiits & Co., and give the At a mass meeting held in the Orange Hall, Abbotsford, October 23, farmers by hundreds as- sembled to hear a joint discussion of the milk situation between Dr, L. Telford, president of the C.C.F., and Mr. Macken, president of the F.\y. M.P. Association. It was apparent the audience had come prepared for a lively time, and they were not disappointed. Excite- ment grew tense when Basil Gardom, president of the Independent Milk Association, during the question period sought to ask a question of Mr. Macken, who refused point blank to answer any question from Mr. Gardom. Though he expressed his willineness to answer any ques- tion from any other Independent. Mr. Gardom, with the support of a few in the meeting, demanded that vociferously refused to permit him to speak, and despite periodic at- tempts during the progress of the meeting to swing the meetine either into his favor or to break it up. He Succeeded in neither. On the whole the meeting got no where Dr. Tel- ford proved nothing, and the in- Sinuations which might have been taken, from his deductions from a number of comparative Statistics, were fully answered by Mr. Macken in respect to the spread between the producer and the consumer as absorbed by the F.V.M.P. Associa- tion. Mr. Macken in this instance showed that the 19 cents per sallon in which the Association operated Was lower than most other dis- tributing agencies in Canada. Two Statements made by Mr. Macken should be seriously weighed. He said that Dr. Telford’s insinua- tions in regard to the E.V.M.P.A. had seriously affected the Associa- tion’s sales. On the other hand the Independents were profiting by this Situation. We hold no personal brief for Mr. Macken, nor have we any personal animus toward Dr. Telford. In eur opinion, however, Mr. Priday, | he be heard. The meeting, however, | Objection To Dr. Telford’s Speech In publishing this interestin & contribution from a Fraser the Fraser Valiey Mili Producers the B.C. Workers’ News does not necessarily endorse all the views set forth. It does, however, endorse the principle that in the marketing of fluid millx and milk products, an organization such as Association, representing the great ana should be the main agency for the marketing of millx and millx products if and when such an agency contemplated in any new governmental marketing set-up comes into such an agency in control of the EVM.P.A. be un economical saving of several tens of thousands of dollars to the people of B.C. annually, it would also strengthen the dairy farmers’ organization in excluding monopolistic groups, such as dairy farmer a better price for his produce and the city consumer more for his money.—Editor. ; Macken is asolutely correct. |} as a CCE and a member of the EVM.P.A we ragard the tactic of Dr, Telford's campaign against the IV M.P.A as regrettable in the ex- treme, not because we are blindly loyal to the P.VW_M.P.A., but beenuse | from knowing and understanding , the milk problem more thorouechly | than the Doctor, we realize he is not serving the interests of either the majority milk producers who are | members of the Je V.M.P-A., nor yet of the consumers of dairy products. We state briefly on what 2rounds the Doctor is workine against the majority interests: 1. The F.V.MP LA. represents the majority of milk producers. The As- sociation has 4000 members and 2500 actual shippers, while the Independ- ents are mostly big producers and only number no more than 200. 2. It is the design of the Independ- ents and such interests as the Bunis Co. to smash the F.V.M.P_A. 3. Every loss in the market sus- , tained by the F.V.M.P.A. adversely affects the majority of milk pro- ducers, while it resisters gain to the few Independents. 4. If the F.V_M.P.A. were smashed the majority producers would be at the mercy of the bigs interests, and the chaos and Chiseline which ob- tained before the F.V.M.P.A. came into existence, would be rampant again. 5. It is the FLV.M.P.A. which as- Sures to the consumer honest grade and quality. Few who are not aware of the many improvements which could be made in the F.V.M.P.A. can not be effected by propaganda of the kind Dr. Telford has so far utilized, and we sincerely hope he will take time off to reconsidér the question’ more fully. The menace of his pres- ent handling of the subject is that he is playing the very game the In- dependents and big interests, more covertly and subtly, are playing against the ELV.M.P.A. Matsqui Farmer. | Writer Urges Farmers to Subscribe to Our Paper Editor, B.C. Workers’ News: The utter destitution of many growers throughout the extremely fertile Okanagan Valley is just ano- ther sample of the havoc wrought under the capitalist exploitation system. if the growers received a fair return for their produce, all would have modern homes equipped with baths, toilets, electric lights, refrigerators, washers and all the essential gadgets that make life worth while. Instead, we find a big percentage ally worried over taxes, water and household expenses despite the fact that they live frugally and work like slaves. Because of an implanted feeling of superiority (like the kKulaks of Russia), occasioned by the posses- sion of a house or shack and a small piece of land (even though everything is mortgaged), some or- chardists do not as yet realize they are really slaves to the financial CITY TAXI SEY. 988 The Loggers’ Friend |e New Westminster: Monday, November 9th All the Games of IN Columbia Hall Orchestra AID OF THE PRESS DRIVE KLONDYKE NITE Canadian Legion Hall the Klondyke Days GRAN DANCE Friday. Nov. 20th 9 p.m. to 2 HARRISO Ho a.m. SP POO OS 999 OOOOOD SPAIN’S DEMOCRACY TALES MEMORIAL HALL — DEWDNEY 320.00 Merchandise Given to PROCEEDS IN AID OF B.C. WORKERS’ NEWS-CLARION PRESS DRIVE NEW BOOKS x THE NATURE OF THE CAPITALIST N HOT SPRINGS ORCHESTRA of Lucky Tickets Admission 50 Cents Iders £%9900000OO600000 CRISIS—Strachey - $1.50 me a ei es ee ED) See ee er ee ee oe -35 TO AMERICA - - - - - 05 * CAPITAT—YVol. 1, Karl Marx FEURBACH—PFngels - - - - e NEW AGE BOOKSHOP 350 W. Pender Street Vancouver - B. CG. 1999999000004 9 of orchardists are on relief, perpetu- yj Destitution Rampant In Fertile Okanagan Valley i cuaues and other parasites who ex- ploit them. As a result of the profiteering by exploiters, growers do not receive Sufficient returns from their crops to enable them to properly fertilize, prune or irrigate their orchards. Inefficient care, coddling moths, drought spots, corky core and other pesky evils are making the life of the fruit-grower one of ever-increasing toil and worry. Orchardists who obtain worl in any of the packing houses consider themselves fortunate as this staves off applying for relief for some time, but as the race for monopoly control among capitalists is being speeded up to bring increased pro- fits, orchardists will every year re- ceive less and Jess for their produce. This will compel those with a superiority complex to organize. All oerchardists should subscribe to the B.C. Workers’ News and they will quickly learn they will never rid themselves of oOver-taxation, cod- dling moths and other parasites until they free themselves of the human parasite—the exploiter. Penticton, Oct. 30. J. E. Boyd. Rayon Workers Win Union Agreement CUMBERLAND, Md. (EP) Union recognition and the schedul- ing of a conference to work out an agreement on wages, hours and con- ditions have been won by 8,000 Celanese Corp. workers at Cumber- land. One of the largest rayon plants in the country, it was unoreanized up until a few months ago, accord ing to the United Textile Workers of America. (7 >) Complete Laundry Service... <= Phone: DRY ok EP Vy ANS SWEDISH-FINNISH WORKERS CLUB BINGO and DANCE Tuesday, Nov. 10th 8 to 12 p.m. Orange Hall Top Floor GOOD MUSIC IN AID OF JOINT CLARION- .C. WOREERS’ NEWS DEIVE RENEW TRIAL SUBS AT ONCE On Monday, November 16, the B.C, joint press drive will have con- cluded. From all indications this drive will be a huge success, both from a financial viewpoint as well as that of iInereased circulation. Five thousand additional copies of both the B.C. Workers’ News and Clarion Weekly haye been sold dur- ing the drive to date, 75 per cent of these trial subscriptions have been sold to new readers of our press. Ii we are to get full value from this drive a large increase of per- manent subscribers is necessary. This can be brought about only by approaching every holder of a trial subseription te become permanent a subseriber. The Central Press Drive Com- mittee appeals to all press com- mittees and members of mass or- ganizations to canvass all holders of trial subscription coupons sold by then for permanent subscrip - tions to either the B.C. Workers’ News or Clarion Weekly, or both. — \ J Tom Lewis: Passes On Old-Time Union Miner Was Well Known on Van- couver Island —— f CLASSIFIED - ADVERTISING ee HOTELS AND ROOMS LOGGERS — MINERS — PARR ers and Others — Stay,