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Western Canada’s Leading Progressive
VANCOUVER, B.C., FRIDAY, AUGUST 13, 1937

Single Copies: 5 Cents VOL. Il. No. 31

- FULL No. 135 <= Published Weekly

75 CITY VETERANS ARRESTED FOR BEGGING

- Miller Apes \Pettipiece Stalks Out When Jobless Rap Unpopular Scheme

had originally gone to Victoria with son, who claimed that the
a proposal of a 4-day-week works | financed 20 per cent of costs.

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by Alderman P. Pettipiece as

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Jail Is City’s Answer To

Jobless Seeking
Relief

130 ARE JAILED

One hundred and thirty
men, veterans and single job-
less, are in jail this week and
there are at least 200 more
who will be forced to take ac-
tion which ‘will land them
there, unless civic and provincial
governments. adopt proposals put
forward by the men themselves.

At the beginning of the week 55
young jobless men were arrested,
and on Thursday 75 veterans were
jailed.

Hor six weeks now there have
been all kinds of peaceful deleza_
tions to relief and civic authorities
asking for suitable provision for
their maintenance in the absence
of regular employment, and from
every source they have been re-
buffed.

Wednesday, August 1], was the
deadline for stopping of relief of
any kind. More than 100 ex-service
men went to the relief authorities
with their request for maintenance
and were offered a warehouse in
which to crowd, at a subsistence
level computed at ii cents per day.
The men refused to £0, maintaining
they had every right to expect
something better than an ‘insti-
tution’.”

Reminiscent of the regime of ex
Mayor G. G. McGeer, Mayor G CG.
Miller, school chum of “Gerry,”
this week dubbed a representative
delegation of unemployed single
men as “agitators” whom BC em-
ployers were afraid to hire.

In interviews with the PA this
week, officials of veterans and un-
employed organizations stated that
many of the unemployed are men
who used their right to strike in the
past year and have been blacklisted.
They also deleared that sawmills
are letting out employees.

The PA learned also that Haas
Hop Company at Sardis, BC, has
500 people on the waiting list after
filling all applications for the short
season’s work; that 150 men were
recently laid off at Hraser Mills and
that few skilled workers in town
are sure of steady employment in
Aupust.

Local business men see in the re-

Cent statements of Mayor Miller a

direct invitation to people from the
prairies to come to BC and displace
men on jobs, especially during the
cheap railway excursion rates. —

In ministerial and humanitarian
circles, to which jobless delegations
have appealed for help, there is a
growing dissatisfaction at the ath
tude of civic and provincial authori-
ties who close their eyes to a real
situation and endeavor to dragoon
peactfeul citizens.

This has been manifested at re-
cent meetings between the Commit_
tee for Homeless Men and unem-
ployed delegations, whre represen-
tations have been made to the gov-
ernment for a change in policy
which will provide a satisfactory

solution. _

Parley Expected
At Blubber Bay

BLUBBER BAY, BG, Aug. 12.—
Wegotiations between strikers,
members of the Lumber and Saw-
mill Workers’ Union, and the Pa-
cific Lime Company, are expected
to be opened immediately with a
view to ending the ten-day dead-
jock here.

More than $500 has been raised
by the Lumber and Sawmill Work-
ers’ Union for the strike fund, union
officials in Vancouver stated this
week. The union plans a big bene-
fit dance in the city, Saturday,
August 14.

Hundreds Join
LSW In Ontario

PORT ARTHUR, Ont, Aus 12.—
Unequalled since 1919 the drive to
unionize the lumber industry in
western Ontario is makine= rapid
Strides accordine to leaders of the
Dumber and Sawmill ‘Workers’
Union, an affiliate of the WUWnited
Brotherhood of Carpenters and
Joiners, here.

In the past two months well
over 1,100 new members have been
Signed up and four new locals

formed in the sawmills in this dis-
} iriet.
CUMBERLAND, BG, Aug. 12.—

{4 Miners’ wives here sent $5 toward
the defense of the 55 single unem-

Ployed men arrested recently in
* Vancouver for soliciting on the
Streets.

A vesolution of protest was also
sent to Premier Pattullo at Vic-
toria, 2 RNS

to the reception of the civic-provin-
Cial works scheme by city unem-
ployed were finally dispelled at a
mass meeting held last Briday in
the Orange Hall, which Aldermen

Gutteridge, Hurry, Wilson and Pet=

tipiece attended.

Stating that™he could not under-
Stand why all pressure from the un-
employed should be brought to bear
on the CCE aldermen, Pettipiece de-
elared that he and Alderman Crone

program, but had been tured down
by the provincial government. The
same fate overtook their proposal
for establishment of a 10-day mini-
mum, he said.

“The one who pays the piper calls
the tune,” declared Pettipiece in de-
fence of his unpopular works
scheme, costs of which, he said, were
borne 100 per cent by the provin-
cial government. This latter state
ment was denied by Alderman Wil-

The truculent attitude adopted by
Pettipiece during the question period
aroused similar feelinss from the
audience and a storm of boos arose
when the CCE alderman grabbed hat
and coat and left.

Remonstrances from organizers of
the Workers’ Alliance that he was
neither doing the moyement nor
himself any good by such attitudes
failed to impress Pettipiece, who
made it clear that the works scheme

tipiece claimed that any man pres-
ent and his family could set medi-
cal aid when needed indicated the
temper of men who shouted that
they were eating dry bread lunches
on the projects while civic and pro-
vincial authorities wrangled about
relief,

Speaking to Workers’ Alliance
officials after the meeting, the PA
was told that the attitude of the

ferent position from their  col-
leagues.

“It is all a question of city bond-
ed indebtedness, where every dollar
of taxes is predicated by more than
50 cents, irrespective of the plight
of Vancouver citizens, and it is from
this angle that we expect more ac-
tion from CCF aldermen,” said one
leader,

Another remarked that if progeres-

ings in the public parks and halls
of the city, there would be plenty
of support forthcoming from others
than the unemployed themselves.
It was also noted by Some that
the position of Pettipiece on unem-
ployment and the number of jobs
available today is at variance with
the position of the CCF, which
claims that jobs in industry are not
available for the majority of the
unemployed. .

Youth To Picket Des)

Sime of

Protecting Madrid’s Tallest Building

Around the lower storey of the Telefonica, tallest building in the
Spanish capital, sandbags have been piled high. Tewering high
above the city’s skyline, the 43-sterey skyscraper has been hit
repeatedly by Fascist artillery and in air attacks.

Councillor Makes Retraction

Ald. Hunter Withdraws
Remarks About Relief

CLOVERDALE, BC, Aug.

12.—Remarks made here by

Councillor Hunter to the effect that “relief was a racket’
and which were given publicity in Vancouver and Valley
papers, were withdrawn this week following appearance be-
fore Surrey council of a delegation from Surrey Workers’

Association.

G. Miller

Raps Fish
Company

No Credits For
Fishermen Who
Deal.With Co-Op

SOINTULA, BC, Aug. 12.—‘Inter-
ference with personal liberty and
ehiselling in on inadequate earnings
of fishermen,’’ was the comment this
week of G. Miller, fishermen’s or-
Sanizer, on the recent statement of
the Bones Bay Gannery, subsidiary
of Canadian Fishing Company, that
it will not advance usual credits to
its boat crews who persist in buying
at the Sointula Co-operative Store.
The store gives these seiners 5 per
cent discount on Supplies purchased
there.

Miller states that this will force |

these fishermen to buy from their
employers who demand a “finance
fee’’ of 10 per cent.

“Only powerful orzanization
among fishermen can put a stop to
such practices,” declares Miller.

Burns Boycott
To Be Extended

Decision to ban all Burns’ pro-
duets, made at a gathering of 85
retail butchers this week has vastly
encouraged Burns strikers, local 95,
of the Meat Cutters and Packers
Union, :

Over 100 members are still taking {

recognition of
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a firm stand for
their union, there being only
scabs during the long seige.

American union meat men have
to date turned back all carloads of
Burns’ export products and in
Great Britain Burns’ products are
also on the restricted list.

aber supporters are asked to
watch for Burns’ stamp on all
meats: 238; 23 A, or 23 Cc.

Considerable indignation was

y aroused locally by the remarks, par-

ticularly as they were seized upon
by Vancouver papers as part of what
seems to be a campaign to discredit
unemployed.

One prominent public figure in the
Valley, who requested that his name
should not be published, told the PA
this week:

“The statement that ‘relief is a
racket’ is often made very loosely
by representatives on city and muni-
cipal councils and for some un-
known reason is seized upon by the
daily press and given every kind of
publicity.

“When pressed for a more specific
charge, the individual making the
statement usually makes some fur-

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See RELIEF

Group Will

See Italian
Consul Here

Anti- Fascist Youth To
Protest Fascist
Intervention

IGNORE THREATS

Despite threats to halt
picketing made by Mayor G.
C. Miller this week, the local
Youth Committee to Aid
Spain, maintained the right
to take an open stand against

the invasion of Spain by Italian
Fascism, declared Bill Green, sec-
retary of the committee, who also
Says that the chief magistrate has
exceeded his rights on this im-
portant question.

The committee; coinciding with |

other youth bodies throughout the
Dominion, has set Saturday, August
14, 12:30 p.m., as the time when =
representative committee of youth
will interview the Italian vice-con-
sul, and a corps of pickets carrying
slogans will take up positions out-
Side the Dominion Bank building,
207 West Hastings Street.

“It is a faree for the mayor to
attempt to justify his threats on the
grounds that Canada is neutral on
Spain when Canadian exports to the
rebels have more than trebled re-
cently, according to official re-
ports,” Green heatedly declared.

LaGuardia Labor
Candidate In NY

NEW YORE, Aug. 12—(FP)—
Hailing him as the greatest chief
executive in the city’s history, the
American Labor party, which last
fall polled close to 250,000 votes for
President Roosevelt, nominated
Mayor F. H. LaGuardia for re_elec-
tion as its candidate.

The state executive committee of
the ALP, in making the nomination,
characterized his administration as
one of “unsurpassed integrity and
achievement.” The party had previ-
ously nominated Isidore Nagler,
general manager of the cloakmak-
ers’ joint board of the International
Ladies Garment Workers Union, for
the position of Bronx borough presi-
dent along with a slate of six coun-
cil candidates.

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Arabs Protest British Plan

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“Partitioning Palestine is piaying with fire,” read

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banners car-
ried by the Arabs as they marched through Bagdad streets in mass
protest against the British proposal to establish separate Jewish
and Arab states in the Holy Land. Jews don’t approve the plan,
either.

False Creek Cleanup Urged

Ald. Hurry To Speak At
First Campaign Meeting

Opening guns in the campaign to clean up False Creek

areas will be fired next Friday,
Main, where, under auspices of the

fellows Hall, Sixth and

August 20, 8 pm, at Odd-

Broadway East branch of the Communist party, Alderman
A. Hurry and J. Jopson, member of the Vancouver youth
council will speak, with Mrs. A. Christie in the chair.

G. Black, secretary of the branch,

will outline proposals for clean-up
of False Creek sites, main points
of which are:

Clean-up of the False Creek flats,
provision of a recreation park on
south side of CNR tracks, rental
by the city of cleared vacant lots
at nominal sums for cultivation pur-
poses.

The meeting is called as a result
of a recent survey of False Creek,
for the purpose of interesting citi-
zens in transforming this breeding:
ground for disease, as it is at pres-
ent, into a beauty spot and an asset
to the city.

Fo — in

Armor Protects Modern Royalty

But the armor is on the cars which precede Kine George
Soldiers line the route.

London streets.

This pic

and Queen Elizabeth on a drive through
ture was radioed aeross the Atlantic.

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Union To

Take Case
To Board

Island Mine
Locals Obtain
Conciliation

NANAIMO, BG, Aug. 12.—A Board

of Conciliation on questions of
union recognition, adjustments of
wages and conditions for Cumber-

land and Nanaimo miners will com-
mence its sittings immediately, in
compliance with Dominion law gov-
ermning such disputes after direct
negotiations have broken down. On
the board will be: Angus J. Morri-
son, union; G. Kidd, company: L. Ww.
Brockington, chairman of the Cana-
dian Broadcasting Corporation, chair-
man.

Appointment of the conciliation
board followed request of the United

| Mine Workers’ Union after a nego- |

tiations committee representin= the
two locals failed to obtain satisfac-

tion from Canadian Collieries in its
demands for a Wage increase, al-
though the company stated that it
would concede union recognition if |
the wage demand were dropped.
During direct negotiations the |
company representative, Lieut.-Gol. |
GW. Villiers, strove to avoid ap-
| Pointment of conciliation board by
demanding that th union take a
Strike vote on questions under dis-
pute. The union, however, refused.
Drumheller Now
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Fully Organized

DRUMHELLER, Alta. Aus. 122——
Drumheller

Valley is now
| ber cent Wnited Mine Workers of |
| America. The Excelsior miners at
Wayne voted to a man to abolish
| the home local maintained up to

this time and to throw in their lot
with the UALW.A.

Negotiations Proceed
After Strike
Called

WAGES ARE LOW

At the time of goine to
press, continued negotiations
were under way between
Strikers of Arbutus Sash &
Door and Sigurdson Millwork
Company employers, with 4a
distinct feeling among union men-
that Progress was being made.

Biggest concerns of the trade in
EBC, the present strilce Was decided
by popular vote after months of ne-
gotiating.

Wages were very low for both
skilled and unskilled labor and the
Wage demands are: 50 cents for
labor; 60 cents Semi-skilled; 70 and
73 cents skilled mechanics. The Jat_
ter categories are stil] below wages
of carpenters at 90 cents.

Both employers and employees
are well organized. All union car-

‘penters are refusing to handle pro-

ducts from the two plants.
Followine presentation of petitions

Signed by 400 factory employees ask—

ing for wage seale revision, Adam
Bell, deputy minister of Jabor was
appealed to and at a meeting be-
tween the workers and the Indus-
trial Relations Board, complimented
the men on their patience, agreeing
that wares Should be raised.

He notified employees later how-
ever, that he had been unable to
arrange a meeting between them
and the employers.

i Present negotiations follow a pre-
liminary meeting last Monday which
terminated without arriving at a
settlement.

Relief Stand
Taken By CCF

Aldermen Instructed To
Press For Higher

Wages

Subsequent to the Stand taken by
the Workers’ Alliance on city pro-
ject Work, the CGH regional com-
mittee at its last Se€sSion instructed
the three CCR aldermen to press
for “. -- an immediate amelioration
and aim at an upward revision of
the work remuneration.”

With these instructions, Alder-
man Hurry succeeded in getting
through a motion Jast Monday at 4
meeting of the social Services com-
mittee which called for a review of
the entire relief Situation here.

Oscar Salonen of the Workers’
Alliance ably pointed out to the
colmmittee the injustices of the
present scheme after giving straight
answers to the insinuations of Al-
derman Pettipiece that the Work
kers' Alliance was not a bona fide
organization.

Alderman Helena Gutteridge
thoroughly agreed with the Worl
ers’ Alliance that jobs were simply
not to be had for the overwhelming
majority of the unemployed.

Pritchett Will
Install Charter

Friday, August 13, will see the
demise of Local 2783, Lumber and
Sawmill Workers’ Union, AF of i,

| and the birth of Local 71, Interna—
| tional Woodworkers of America,
100) CIO, when Harold Pritchett, inter-

national president, who recently ob-
tained a permanent entrance visa
to the USA through pressure of US
progressives, will install the char-
ter. Local 2783 is the first to get
this distinction in BG.

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