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British Columbia Chinese
have already contributed
| $284,000 (approximately $95,-
000 in Canadian dollars) in
support of China’s fight
| against Japan, the PA was in-
| formed this week.

This sum includes various
amounts donated by Chinese in
prairie towns.

Most donations have been
made here through the Chinese
Benevolent Association, the Ghi-

nese Merchants’ Association, and
Several farming gsroups.

Vancouver's Chinese colony has
contributed $160,000 (approximately
353,000 Canadian) of the total
amount, but donations have been
received from all parts of the prov-
ince.

Principal donations. in Chinese
dollars, have been: Prince Rupert,
$5,100; Kamloops, $4,500: New West
minster, $50,000. Victoria has con-
tributed heavily to this National
Salvation fund and several hundred
dollars have been sent from Prince
George. Chinese in Fernie, of whom
there are about 30, forwarded $1,000
last week.

im other BC cities and towns
where the Chinese population is

»)participation of the Chinese Actors’

of old clothing for shipment.

small, such as Chilliwack, Mission
and Lillooet, donations have been
sent direct to the Vancouver cen-
tral fund.

While no progressive organiza-
tions in the province have yet do-
nated, several individual donations
have been received from white
i people.

US Chinese
Give $1,500,000

CHICAGO, Til, Sept. 23—Chinese
in the US haye given more than
$1,500,000 to aid their country, it is
esOmated here from a summary of
pactivities carried on throughout the
country.

Chinese organizations are now
)heedine the appeal of the Chinese
sovernment te centralize ali agen-
}cies for the collection of funds: In
) Many places, plans are also being
»made by Chinese organizations to
yappeal for support to non-Chinese
)in America in addition to carrying
Pon an extensive Campaign among
= “hinese themselves.
| Chinese in New York are esti-
mated to have given $360,000 al-
,ready. In San Francisco the esti-
) mate is set at $300,000 from China-
»-Own, the largest settlement of Chi-
p2ese people outside cf China itself.
In hos Angeles the campaign has
|2¢en given a colorful turn by the

/ Association. Included in their work
| 2as been the gathering of 150 cases

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by act of creation on the part of its

respective province, and in each
case the precise powers of the
municipality are defined in the
Municipality Act Setting up the

particular local authority. In some

instances, as in the case of the city |-

of Vancouver, a special charter is
Passed,

In all cases provision of relief
has been met by insertion of =
clause providing for local authority
to issue relief from local taxes. This
clause must not be confused with
the British Poor Law which most
distinetly makes it compulsory on
the part of the state to take care
of destitute in Britain. Canadian
eovernments, past and present have
seen to it that no such law is en-
tered on the statute books.

In 19380, the newly-elected Con-
Servative government, led by Pre-
mier R. B. Bennett ,enacted the firsr
Dominion relief law in the history of
Canada. This act, called the Unem-
Ployment and Farm Relief Act,
merely provided for power to use
federal funds te help provinces
which in turn aided municipalities,
each bearing a third of the costs of
the relief bill. Im each province the
bills enabled labor
ministers to uSe provincial funds tn
the same manner. Nowadays the Act

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minion aid is now by way of loan
only. :
Relief Situation
- Here is the unemployed situation
in Canada at a glance as obtained
irom figures supplied from the Na-
tional Unemployment Commission
of 1937:

Canada’s population in
eensus, 10,376,786; number of
available wage-earners, 2,570,997;
number of émployed, 987,955; re-
cipients of direct relief, August 1,
1937, 1,159,667; reported not em-
ployed, 1,593,042; able-bodied on
relief, 245,023; unemployable,
drought, and all dependents, 921,-

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1931

The National Unemployment Com-
mission in August, 1937, stated that
an alarming problem of concentra-
tion of single homeless persons ex-
istS in all Canadian cities.

This situation undoubtedly calls
for assumption of full responsibility
for relief by the Dominion and in-
troduction of a legal basis for the
state to look after its needy citizens.
As far as war veterans are con-
eerned, this is found practicable now
that the War Veterans Allowance
Act, 1937, is in force. Need of yet-
erans is for fuller benefits.

Alberta Act

In 1936 there was enacted in Al-
berta the Bureau of Relief and
Public Welfare Act, which states:

(Chapter 12): In case provision is
made at any time by the government
of the province or by the government
of Canada, or by both for the relief
of unemployment whereby assist-
ance is offered to a municipality in
defraying the cost of providing such
relief for any period, then in such
case, and during such period:

(a) Any person who is afforded un-
employment relief shall be deemed
not to be an indigent person for the
purpose of any Act governing any
municipality.

(b) The liability of a municipality
to any person who is by this Act
qualified to receive unemployment
relief and who but for this part
would have been an Indigent person,
shall be provided as in this part.

(c) The fact that a person is in
receipt of unemployment relief shalt
not affect the duty of a municipal-
ity to make provision for the care

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Union Wins Better Conditions

Jewelry Workers Here
Gain New Agreement

and treatment of such person if he
is in fact indigent and sick.

(a) Every municipality shall make
provision for unemployment relief
for its residents who are eligible
therefor.

(e) Every municipality shall in
case of urgent necessity make simi-
lar provision for unemployment re-
lief for any person who is temporar-
ily within the municipality and who
is not a resident therein but such
assistance shall only be for such a
period of time as may be necessary
until residence of Such person has
been determined and the responsi-
bility for unemployment relief es-
tablished.

(Chapter 17): A municipality which
without lawful excuse fails to pro-
vide adequate relief for any resident,
Shall be guilty of an offence and
laible to summary Conviction to a
fine not exceeding $500 and costs.

The Alberta Act also provides for
provincial migration, where im-
provement of the regional industrial
State makes it practical for speedy
transfer of municipal residence.

In this respect the British Bm-
ployment Office system, with its
weekly money grants to workers,
is followed. In BC, a workless per-

Signalizing considerable improvements in working condi-
tions of apprentices and improvers in the jewelry trade and
establishing an even scale of wages, Local 42, International
Jewelry Workers, arrived at an agreement with managers of

Manufacturing and repair busi-
messes in the city and district of
Vancouver last weelz, since en-_
dorsed by a full membership meet-
ing of the local.

Details of the agreement include
minimum wage for all Journeymen,
7S cents an hour, and ten per cent
inerease for those who were work
ing for this wage at time of agree—
ment.

Improvers will get 50 cents per
hour, with a raise each six months
for two years, on the following
basis: 6 cents an hour increase for
the first 6 months; 6 cents raise for
the two succeeding 6 month periods;
7 cents an hour increase for the
final raise which will bring the
wage to 75 cents an hour at the end
of two years. Improvers to be de-
termined by 5 years’ service at the
bench.

Apprentices will become improv-
ers on completion of apprenticeship
as provided in the provincial Act
and stipulated in the Jewelry Manu-
facture and Repair Order.

Agreement, which expires Sept.
15, 1938, also provides for an 8-hour
day and 44-hour week, half-holiday
each week, observation of all sta-
tutory holidays, and time and a

son may not moye unless distant
local authority will receive them as ,
a charge.

The Social Credit government of
Alberta is really taking a progres-
sive stand and serving its people
by such sane and humane laws.

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NEW YORK, Sept: 23—(FP) —
Demanding a $250 bonus and $25,000
insurance protection before enter-
ing war zones, the crews of five
ships of the American Export lines
in New York harbor refused to

sign on.

quarter for al] overtime.

Minnesota Plans
Survey Of Youth

ST. PAUL, Minn, Sept. 23—(@P)
—Minnesota will not only carry on
the student aid program started by
the late Goy. Floyd B. Olson, but
will invest $30,000 for a comprehen-
Sive youth survey of the whole state
to determine the special needs of its
young people.

This was announced by Elmer A.

Reference To
Fatalities Cut

CJOR Uses Blue Pencil
On Death Toll
In Woods

Ruthless censorship by radio sta-
tion CJOR here on all references
to the alarming number of fatali-
ties recently in the logging industry
in this province, is reported by W.
Ravenor, BG manager for the Clar-
ion Weekly, who spoke over that
Station recently on behalf of the
progressive press:

Drawing attention to glowing re-
ports carried by Vancouver daily
Papers as to the prosperity in the
industry, Ravenor pointedly re-
marked on the other side of the pic-
ture which showed excessive speed-
up, accidents and death.

“My broadeast was almost un-
recognizable after passing the sta-
tion’s censor,” Ravenor stated.

Benson, Farmer-Labor governor,
after favorable action of the state
executive council on his motion.

Men Cannot Get
Summer’s Wages

To work most of the summer and
then find the owned allegedly un=
able to pay wages is the situation
the crew of EB. Thomas camp, Mile
34, PGE, found themselves in Jast
week.

The 60 men involved have from
one to four months wages due them,
averaging around $200 for each
man.

Suit for recovery of wages is be- |

ing launched against the owner by
Garfield King, well known labor
lawyer, who is handling the case
for the loggers.

Strike Rate Low

NEW YORK, Sept. 23 — (FP) —
Only 61 US workers per 10,000 popu-
lation were involved in strikes and
lockouts on the average during the
period 1930-36, as compared to 170
in Belgium, 114 in France and 63
in England, according to the US
National Industrial Conference
Board.

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British Columbia.

Blubber Bay

Longshorem’n
Win Dispute

Nip Attempt To Cause
Dissention Among
Loaders

SOLIDARITY SHOWN

BLUBBER BAY, Texada
Island, BC, Sept. 23.—Four
days after the settlement of
the seven-weeks strike at the
Pacific Lime company here,
Chinese workers downed tools to
enforce an agreement made by the
company that both whites and GChi-
nese should get an equal division
of boatloading, with the result that
the grievance was rectified.

When the ss Westham docked on
September 12, ignoring the agreec-
ment, the company put on a full
crew of Chinese to work instead of
employing half white and half Chi-
nese. The latter, realizing in this
move of the company that it was
an attempt to cause dissension, re-
fused to load the boat until the di-
vision was made.

Solidarity between the two races
has been a feature at this plant for
a long period and local Chinese con-
tinue to donate money and kind for
the assistance of some 80 workers
still idle due to the strike and un-
favorable market conditions.

An appeal for funds has been sent

BC Chinese Donate To War Funds
The People's

Western

Japan Uses
Neutrality
For Cover

Refuses to Guarantee
Non-Combatants’
Safety

ATTACK RED CROSS

SHANGHAT, China. — (By
Trans-Pacific Clipper to FP,
via Hong Kong).—This war
of frightfulness, which could
be terminated in one day by
the fearless voice of the demo-
cratic nations of the world, is
instead being condoned and en-=
couraged by the indecision of the
Sreat “neutral” powers.

Japanese are operating from nev-
tral settlements or firing from be-
hind foreign battleships on which
j the Chinese do not dare fire, lean-
ing heayily upon a wayering Brit-
ish and American policy to enable
them to wage war on China with
a minimum expenditure of men and
resources. A quick, decisive war is
the only kind they can afford.

Tientsin and Shanghai neutral
settlements have been especially
valuable to the Japanese, who have
net hesitated to utilize them for
their fullest advantage. When the
Japanese gunboat Hatsuki pulled up
to within 300 yards of the USS
Augusta and opened fire upon
Pootuns, it was not the necessities
of the situation which impelled this
action. Any one of the Japanese
gunboats and cruisers in the river
eould have shelled the Pootung shore
and the Chinese lines stationed
there. But in coming in the lee of
the American battleship, the Japa-
nese commander relied on the pro-
tection of the “neutral’’ battleship.
He knew the Chinese would not re-
turn the fire in that direction.

In fact, the entire strategy of the

Japanese, as developed around
Shanghai, has used this retreat of
“neutrality,”’ which inescapably in-

volves the American and British
forces as a cover for their man-

to all Pacific Goast maritime locals
and recently $20 was acknowledged
from Local 38-90, Ships Clerks, San
Francisco, by the BC District Coun
ceil, LSWU. Port Alberni local, LS
WA, sent $34.50, and Victoria Mill,
local 2678, $10.

Loggers Elect
Tom Bradley

LSW Secretary Named
IWA International
Organizer

COURTENAY, BG, Sept. 23. —
Tom Bradley, secretary, BC Coast
District Council, Lumber and Saw-
mill Workers, “was elected as Inter-
national Organizer, International
Woodworkers of America, and Hans
Peterson, vice-president of the
council, as executive board mem-
ber, at a convention of the union
held here last week.

The International office. which
has approved these appointments,
Stated in a communication that,
while wages and travelling expenses
would be paid by the TWA, it was
unable to assist financially at pres-
eot. It was intimated, however,
that in the near future finances
would be sent to BE to help the or-
ganizational drive.

euvers. Already America’ has paid
for itS indecisiveness of action with
the death of one sailor and the in-
| juring of 18 others by a shell which
could have come only from Japanese
Ships from the harbor.

Of more frightful significance are
the bombs dropped in the Interma-
tional Settlement. The Japanese
may deny and the “neutral’’ com-
mittees, for political reasons, may
fail to place responsibility, but the
frightful slaughter of innocent peo-
ple, Chinese and foreign, within the
settlement, continues.

While the Chinese have given as=
Surance that Japanese non-combat-
ants and their properties will be
fully protected, the Japanese, on the
other hand, consider eyery living
Chinese, man; woman and child, a
potential enemy who must be ruth-
lessly eliminated.

A group of Red Cross workers in
an ambulance conveying wounded
Soldiers was halted by Japanese
Soldiers who forced one doctor, two
women nurses and one worker tu
kneel, and then killed them in cold
blood. Every one of the wounded
soldiers was massacred. The 30 am-
bulanees of the Chinese Red Gross
are being constantly followed by
Japanese planes and fired on by
machineeuns.

If the democratic nations are
ever to Stop this creeping horror
of Mascism and merit the confidence

the world look to them, this newest
war on China should be condemned
and halted. The attempts to erect
a barrier of “localization’” may con-
fine the flames of war for the mo-
ment. But it is inevitable that the
fires now burning in China, unless
quickly stopped, will spread until
the whole world is inyolyed in the
conflagration.

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