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May 28, 1937

Must Maintain Democratic

Control By School Boards

Consolidation of the $26 school
loss of present democratic
eorrespondingly should also

secretary, this week.

districts in British Columbia without

control through the school boards which
be consolidated, is the position of the Com-
munist party of BC in its published program, stated Tom Ewen, party

Progressive
Bloc Vital
Need

TZAMLOOPS, BC, May 27.—Need
for a strong progressive bloe at
Wietoria to assist jabor in its fight
for better conditions iS evidenced
by conditions at a CPR te camp
at Cherry Creek, near here.

After four days work at this
camp, 2 man was forced to quit be-
cause of lacerated shoulders, due to
the high speed required by the
company in packin= 500 green ties
per day, weighing up to 200 pounds.
Only the strongest could survive
these loads and pace.

Truckers can barely make eX
penses after travelling 15 miles from
mill to siding and paying 2 swamper
from the contract price of 325 for
joading a boxcar with ties.

A road gang is paid 35 cents per
hour and charged $1.25 a4 day
board.

The GPR chisels 15 eents a day,
per man, for transportation to the
prush and company profits are
swelled by the sale of slab wood to
truckers, to be hauled to the round-
houses for fuel.

Union Plans To
Present Demands

PAS

KIRKLAND LAKE, Ont., May
— (FP) — Within two months the
Amalgamated Association of Iron,
Steel and Tin Workers will make de-

mands to mining companies, accord-
ing to George Anderson, organizer.
They will include 15 per cent pay

working conditions,
choice of

jnereases, better
strorter hours and miners
their own physician.

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Consolidation would permit of bet-
ter administration, sehool equip-
ment and curricula and at the
same time would raise the standard
and status of teachers, he said-

The Communist party, said Ewen,
opposes total centralization of edu-
eation into the hands of the depart-
ment of education as it would abol-
ish democratic control now exercised
by the school boards and give ad-
vantage to small groups of reac-
tionaries who would seel to restrict
needed finances and unduly influ-
ence students by their particular
brand of propaganda.

Ewen proposed that educa-
tional directors, responsible both to
the school boards and the depart-
ment of education. should also he
appointed.

Jobless Rap
Ctte. Findings

VICTORIA, BC, May 27.—Irocod
prices haye risen only 5 per cent
Since January, 1936, said a commit-
tee appointed by the provincial gov-
ermment to investigate the cost of
living, to a delegation of unem-
ployed, accompanied by the Mayor
of the city and the chairman of the
city relief committee, which visited
parliament buildings, requesting an
increase in the food allowance.

The delegation was further in-
formed by an official that the unem-
ployed were not expected to live on
the relief allowance; that it was
possible to secure sufficient work
to make up the balance necessary
to live properly. He also promised
to bring the delegation’s requests
before the Liberal cabinet.

Great dissatisfaction among the
unemployed shown at the find-
ings of the government committee
as every householder knows the
sreatly increased costs of food
staples. Mass metings will be held

also

is

every week to acquaint the public
with the conditions endured by nre-
lief recipients and to win support.

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Burrard Candidates —

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Striking London busmen parade in Hyde Park. Failure to obtain an
agreement satisfactorily to the rank and file is attributed to poor
leadership of reactionary Ernest Bevin, union secretary.

Tory-Constructive Meeting,
But Chairman Favors CCF

NANAIMO, BC, May °27.—To the New Masses series of cartoons on
“Wodern Political Gontretemps” might well be added the incident at
Lantzville in this riding last week when BC Gonstructive and Conseryva-

tive meetings clashed.

The Constructive candidate had arranged for a meeting in Lantz-
ville’s only hall and paid a deposit accordingly. A little later, the €on-
servative candidate also arranged for a meeting, the same night, the
same place, at the same time, without first ascertaining if the hall

were available.

When the candidates turned up;

for their mieetine they decided the
only way out was holding of a joint
meeting. They obtained Bob Werry,
local resident, as chairman.

To an amused audience Chairman
Ferry, in his opening remarks,
stated that, while he was appearing
as chairman at the Constructive-
Conservative joint meeting, he wish-
ed to make it quite clear he was a
strong supporter of A. MM. Stephen,
the CCF candidate.

Mrs. Steeves

Is Endorsed

‘Domestic Servants’ Federal Union,
No. 91, unanimously endorsed the
eandidature of Mrs. Dorothy Steeves,

MLA, CCF, North Vancouver, as
champion of their mghts, union

members on the North Shore pledge-
ing themselves to work for her re-
election, last Thursday at a business
meeting.

At a recent union meeting, some
candidates, along with trade union
speakers and Tim Buck, spoke on
questions of minimum wase lepisla-
tion, compensation and health insur-
ance for domestic workers.

A letter from Jack Price, MLA,
BC Constructives, which asked the
union to support him in Vancouver
Fast, was flatly turned down on the
grounds that he was out to split the
progressive vote.

Britain Buys
Swedish Guns

COPENHAGEN, Denmark, May.
27—Reliable sources here report
that the British government has ar-
ranged to buy from the famous Bo-
fors Works in Sweden its entire
output of anti-aircraft guns.

Committees of British experts
have experimented with this type
of gun for months and proven it
superior to anything else of its
kind known to British jnvesti-
gators.

The Swedish company will build
a special factory to make ammuni-
tion for the British government and
the entire contract will cost British
taxpayers $35,000,000.

CUTS DOWN MALARIA.
MOSCOW. — GF P)—Malaria in the
USSR has been cut down 30 per cent
in less than a year, according to the
health

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MAY 30 - 8 P.M.
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Speakers:
MALCOLM BRUCE
BECKY EWEN

REV. E. BAKER

Communist Candidate
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Doors Open 7:00 P.M.

— Ali Welcome

Maxwell, Cox

At Nanaimo

NANAIMO, BC, May 27.—Filling
the breach for A. M. Stephen here
Jast week-end, when the popular
CCF candidate, A. M. Stephen,
scholar and poet, was prevented by
iliness from speaking, were Don
Maxwell, CCF candidate in Vancou-
yer-Burrard, whose own chances of
election are considered excellent,
and James Cox, leading exponent of
unity within the CCF.

A Jargse audience heard them at
Port Alberni and several smaller
meetings were well attended.

Permission was refused the CCE
to hold a meeting at Bluebell Camp,

Franklin River, where a large pic-
ture of George Pearson, Liberal
candidate, is displayed im a prom-
inent position in the company’s
offices.

Geo. Pearson

Anti- Labor

CUMBERLAND, BC, May 24.
Duplicity of George Pearson, minis-
ter of labor, whose seat in Nanaimo
is seriously threatened by A. M.
Stephen, popular CCF candidate,
was revealed here last week when,
iin an address to an audience com-
posed principally of union men and
those sympathetic to union organiza-
tions, he declared himself in favor

Ald. Favor)

Bus Service

Despite its efforts to quash srow-
ine demands of Vancouver citizens
for better transportation services,
the BC Blectric failed last Tuesday
to stampede the civic utilities com-
mittee, which instructed its chair-
man. Alderman H. BD. Wiuison, to
continue present efforts to meet
city requirement of a bus service in
South Vancouver and to investigate
an offer to operate such a sSeryice
by a private citizen of Vancouver.

Demand for an east-west bus ser-
vice in the South Section of the city
js very popular among residents in
this area, who have for years put
up with great inconvenience when
travelling. Their representations to
the city and BC Blectriec are con-
sistently supported by a majority of
aldermen.

i. W. Arnott, transportation man-
ager of the BC Hlectric, which re-
fuses to instal this bus service, was
ordered by the city to produce esti-
mated costs and revenue. In a let-
ter to the civic utilities committee,
he said that the proposed service
was far ahead of its time and would

lose $1vv,000 annually, as fares
would bring less than $5000.
Aldermen Gornett and Walson

questioned the company’s figures on
both counts. Once the service was
inaugurated, said Ald. Cornett, rev-
enue would far exceed the com-
pany’s estimates, and Ald. Wilson
ridiculed the amount of loss inti-
mated in Arnott’s letter as grossly
overestimated. z

A letter from Thomas Little, 516
Bast Forty-fourth Ave., to the com-
mittee, which contained an offer to
operate this badly needed bus service
and stated the sender’s qualifications
for the job, was referred to corpora-
tion counsel to ascertain the right
of the city to accept this offer.

Gampaign for this bus service was
started by the Communist Party of
South Wancouver and with the
assistance of various church bodies
and community associations obtain-
ed more than 4000 signatures to a
petition.

Sam Shearer
Popular At
Cranbrook

CRANBROOK, BC, May
There is every possibility that, after
June 1, this riding will be repre-
sented by Sam Shearer, dynamic
young CCP candidate, widely known
in Vancouver a trade union
leader. -

Shearer is president of the Van-
eouver local, Railroad Carmen of
America, and an ardent advocate ‘ot
unity.

Born in Barrow-in-Furness, Ens-
jand, he received his early training
in ILP cireles and has been asso-
ciated with the labor movement
since coming to Canada in 1919. For
the past 12 years he has been a

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delezates to Vancouver and New
Westminster Trades and Labor
Council.

Progressives are rallying to sup-
port Shearer and voters here have
been particularly impressed by the
clarity of his speeches as compared
with the confused line advanced by
his sole opponent, Hon. E. M. Mac-
Pherson, Liberal candidate.

Rowe Holland

For Democracy

When granting the request of the
Communist party for the use of the
erounds at Lumbermen’s Arch,
Stanley Park for a Spanish memo-
rial meeting, Rowe Holland, chair
man of the parks board, expressed

of unionism.

Speaking at Alberni later, Pearson
reversed his stand, stated: “The
Cumberland miners are always stir-
ring up trouble. T stand for indus-
trial peace.”

himself to the delegation 4s being
a supporter of Spanish democracy,
stating that all civilized nations
naturally revolted at Fascist agsres-
sion in that eountry.

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A. M. STEPHEN, NOW RECOV-
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RIDING THIS WEEK-END.

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ald wrote again to the purchasing
agent informing him, “At an execu-
tive meeting held last night I have
been instructed to write to you
withdrawing my letter of the 15th
instant, particularly in reference to
Hartle Bros., as they have given us
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ins of April 20?
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ald and informed that “‘the union is
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hall at 9:30 a.m., where McDonald
reported that Hartle was “fair” and
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ery. This was “the executive meet-
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Wan the Tailor, robbed of his
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bers and officials, and to the press,
stating that McDonald refuses now
to put him on the “fair” list and
elaiming that were the city prop-
erly informed of the circumstances
Hiartle would never have been given
the contract, in spite of McDonald's
recommendations.

Trade unionists are not overly
concerned about the problems of
these struggling businessmen- What
angers them is the conduct of their
president and they intend to take
action. Tt is understood that
Hartl Bros. was also awarded the
contract for BC Electric uniforms.

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PITT MEADOWS, BC, May 27-—
Men on an extra gang on the CPR
here were forced to pool their last
few nickels to buy a bale of straw
in lieu of mattresses not furnished
by this powerful company which
also demands that the men shall
pack their own blankets, a rever-
sion to the notorious methods used
by the company when the railroad
was built across Canada.

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