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October $8, i987

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Union Backs ese

Ousted Girls |

Resolution of Protest Is
Sent to the City
Council

INSTAL OFFICERS

(Union Correspondence)

Resolution of protest and
demand that girls fired from
local Chinese restaurants re-
cently, through enforcement
of a city bylaw, be provided
with jobs or maintained at
usual seale of pay, was sent to
Mayor G. GC. Miller and the city
council this week by Local 28, Hotel
and Restaurant Employees.

Due notice that his cafe is next
in line to be organized. has been
given to the proprmetor of the Eden.
Cafe, Granville street. It is hoped
that this wil] be accomplished with-
out dispute as in the case of Olym-=-
pic Cafe and Service Coffee Shop,
which signed up last weels.

Need for genuine unionism and
enactment of a trade union bill in

shown with Col. Orliga, right, as
in the field.

Gen. Jose Miaja, second from right, commander-in -chief “o

39th Loyalist Brigade Honeored By Miaja

Sette Die are TEE. 3 DS A TAY Ole sree
as i IBU Assists

~ government troops in the Madrid aréa is
they officiated at cercmon.es in which the brigade was honored for valor

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King Defense
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| Trades Council Endorse
Fight Against
Frame-up

Championed by the inland Boat-j
| men’s Union, the frame-up of Earl
| Kine, well Known in Vancouver sea-
| faring circles, was broached at the
; Prades and Labor Council this week
| in a letter read by Secretary Ben-
sough, which explained the case in
detail and requested support from
organized labor in this province.

King, Ramsey and Conner, the
letter -stated, were sentenced on
frame-up Charges of murder and

sentenced to fiye years to life im-
»sprisonment on the recommendations
of a hand-picked jury.

A waye of protest swept the Paci-
fic coast and committees sprang up
to work for their release:
| Such a committee will be orsan-
ized in BC on October 20, at 164
Past Hastings, offices of the Inland
Boatmen’s Union. Den unions have
| promised to lend aid. Wide repre-
sentation is Sought.

The council endorsed the letter
and the conference.

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BC is shown by the constitution
“sdopted’ by the new “Canadian”
union, providing for fines, should
employees decide to 30 on strike.
jLocal 28 is sending delegates to WVic- |
{oria trade union conference in an |
effort: to end this sort of thing-
While ILocal 28 is most business-
jike, it has its gay moments. Pres-
entation of newly installed officers

City Briets

OPEN FORUM.
=
; . Interesting discussion is promised
at the Open Forum, Sunday, October

£ = 10, 2 pm. when Herman Rush’
fo members attending the social ev€- | <jeaks on “Events in China and |
nine and dance, October 5, at -the|‘s,,in — Their Meaning to the
Carleton Cafe, was made an amiUS-| \Wrorjd.’ Orange Hall, Gore at Has-

ing affair by P- Binney, who’ under-
took the job. A number of these so-
cial affairs is planned for the future.

: Roof Is Torn
. Off To Evict
Police Look On While

Landlord Starts
Demolition

tings, is a popular centre for debate.

CLARION MOVES
Headquarters of the Clarion
Weekly is moved trom 350 West
Pender, to Room 14-15, 163 West
Hastings.

-Social evening in aid of the labor-
progressive press will be held Octo-
ber 18, § p.m., 12738 Granville street.

PUBLIC MEETING.

Arranged by the Youngs Commun-
ist League to Win support here for
the Chinese nation in its struggle
against Japanese imperialism, 2
mass meeting is called Friday, Octo-
ber 15, 8 p.m. Advance CGE club-
rooms, Seyenth and Main. Jack
Phillips and a Chinese student will
be the speakers.

NEW WESTMINSTER, BG, Oct.
qG@. — Ordeal of haying the rented
flouse in which they were living de-
molished while police officers look-
ed on, Claiming the matter was out
“of their bands, 15 Heing faced here
by R- Dale, his wife and three small

SUIS) 0 youngest being elghtesh DOMESTIC WORKERS.
Ss, 01a. = a
Dae Jandlord and owner, E. yz.| Every third Thursday im the

two month is business meéting of Domes-

a notified the family ee ess
Ree ‘ago fo vacate, and during tic Workers® Union at Labor head-
se d the city auarters, 529 Beatty street.
|

thai period Ward scoure
for Suitable rooms without SUCCESS- |
urday, police were ealled

NEW DELEGATES.

- Last Sat i
swhen the landlord commenced LO Wive new delegates were Seated at
tear off the roof, but they stated | the meeting of the Trades and Labor
they could not interfere. Ward's | Council this week when Local 779,
procedure was on instructions from) Cement Finishers, and Local 602,
the city relief department here. | International. Hod Carriers’ and
Mr and Mrs. Dale both saw ac-| Common Laborers’ Union, were ac-
tive service in the Great War and cepted as affillates.

suffered through war
ent Dale from earn-
He has been Te-
the sovyernment.

disabilities
experiences prev
ing steady wases-

fused a pension by

HOUSING MERT-
Delegate McPherson was appoint-—

housing problems and overcrowding

Oppose rolls in the city, by President Jamieson

¢ phe By eS bor GC il
2 ‘ations to collect tolls on the at ‘the Trade ay Labor Counel
ee ne Tuesday. The conference is sched-

Pattullo bridge at New Westminster
were condemned by Vancouver
Trades and Labor Council, Toesday,
and a resolution endorsing the pro-
vineial governments request for
$2,000,000 to enable the bridge to be
opened free to traffic endorsed.

uled for today (Priday)-.

MEMBERSHIP HIGH
A record membership of more
than 2800, exceeding by at least 200
any previously. recorded member-
ship, was reported this week ata
meeting of the BC Teachers’ Fed-
eration executive here.

WA Prevents

ed to attend a conference om general |

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WHIST DRIVE
DANCE

City Eviction

Picket Line Is Placed
Round House By

Alliance

Presence of a physician who was

Every Thursday Night

BIG CASH PRIZES Fifth avenue, deterred the sheriff
= also. from. evictine the family XATOHSES:
MODERN DANCE day.

Wearing that arrangements

Every Saturday Night
HASTINGS

to Alexandra orphanage,

MALMIN’S ORCHESTRA Duncan who were on hand with a)

Dance Music Broadcast over truck to remove furniture. ee

EMO at 9:45 direct from the In spite of appeals from members

e itorium every Saturday. of the Workers’ Alhance. the three

Facaiscion Always Only - - ee COR aldermen did not turn up to
= i : investigate.

anes a poe 2 ae + A picket dine around the .house

= has been organized by members of

Alliance.

the

ommunist
Party

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7 East Hastings reet ||;

ae East Hastings Street i
1709 Commercial Drive |

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Quality Products at i EVERY TUESDAY
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We Delive eames

and Grandview
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<oT hrifty Housewives
Shop at

Hareld Griffin
‘“Behind.The Headlines”

Guest Speaker:

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Hastings Bakery = Charlie Stewart
G0 UN LO NIZE

attending Mus. J. Neutce, 2267 West .

had |
been made to send her six children |
the oyer- |

M wrought mother declared, “They'll
AUDITGORIU never take my children from me,”
328 East Hastings St to the sherff and Relief Officer)

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\Ex-Serviceman Charged

Soliciting Test

| Will Be Heard Friday

An attempt by city authorit

fands by workers’ organizations is seen by the Hx-Service-
men’s League when John McDonald, war veteran, was served

with a court summons last Mo

Friday morning, on a charge of “unlawfully engaging in so-
|liciting charity without a city lic

‘CLDL In City!

|

‘Aids Jobless

| Meet To Discuss Plans

Is Called For
Sunday

Intended both as a welcome to
65 unemployed men and for discus-
sion as to further aid in their
strugele with the government for a

public works program, the Canadian 4

Tuabor Defense League has called a
mass meeting for Sunday,
10, 8 pm, two days after release of
the men from Qakalla jail.

Special invitations have been sent
to trade unions, churchmen and
progressive organizations generally

half of men and women imprisoned
for no other erime than protesting
and organizing against intolerable
eonditions,

By way

ef entertainment,
who is well known in the defense
movement, will address the meet-
ing. :

“The CLDL is planning 2 campaign
| for the release of Grange and Mol-
jland, sentenced-to two years last
Mareh on riot charges, arising out
of the protests of the jobless at
Hamilton at that time, Capt. J. ©
Davidson, district secretary States.

‘Conference
Support Bill
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Will Call City Meeting

Of Trade Unions
Here . ;

Deceision to call a city-wide con-
| ference of trade unions and other
economic bodies with a view to
rallying public support for the
trade union bill and the Victoria
conference scheduled to meet Oct.
30, was made at the Vancouver In-
dustrial and Employment confei-
ence st a meeting held Sunday in
Advance CCE club rooms.

Tt was stated at the conference
| that New Westminster, Nanaimo,
Comox districts will] conduct simi-
jar conferences.

Loggers Utilize
Gov’t Wage Act

DUNCAN, BGC, Oct. 7. — With no
pay since August 15, nearly six
weeks, the crew of Vanderhoof and
Johnson camp, Mount Sicker, in
this district, last week called in
the Department of Labor under the
“Semi-Payment of Wages Act. The

| Jaunched against the employers.

VICTORIA,

TSS. Oct. 7.—Vie

Midsley and GC. Chivers jyvill repre-
sent Victoria Trades and Labor
| Council at the Trades Union con-
ference her on October 30-

October |
in order to centralize efforts on be- }

a con- |
cert has been arranged. W) .Mahoney, |

To

Revue brings
Drive $280
Eleven Hundred Attend

Auditorinim

Affair

Case

ies to prevent the soliciting of

nday to appear in court today, | An appreciative audiénee  esti-
| mated at 1100 saw the Cosmopolitan
= | Musical Reyue, organized by Grand-
ense. | view press Committee, at the Audi-
The HSL engaged Garfield King, ) torium last Saturday when $280 was
lawyer, to defend the case and a see of ae ene HSI ER Se
a eae Warion press drive fund.
test Ww 2 ert: if y - =

est will be made of the validity oF High quality of the program drew
the charge. | merited compliments for the musi-
King has subpoened the following | Cal directors, Bill Kunka, orchestra
Rev. A. Roa- and choir director; D. Wychrestoff,
dan, pastor Pirst United Church; Insta U en ee pare oes ang
3 " 3 (31) J. Vimak, Croatian choir and or-

+ \W. EE. Ellison, president Imperial! -jéstra director.

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; Veterans; Mrs. I*. P. Patterson, wife Alec Shoudra of the publicity com-
mittee, comimented particularly. oni

of the leader of the Opposition in
work done by language organiza-

persons aS witnesses:

bes :
, License Inspector Urquhart.

Aside from the license: inspector,
all those subpoened are active in so-
liciting charity under various ‘aus-
pices and the defense’s contention 1s
| that it is not unlawful to solicit in

the legislature; Mrs. Rita Meyers, - = 5 = :

s g : tions in Grandview in arranging
editorial department, Daily Prov-| ihe affair |
| Bes Charles Defieux, editorial de- : \
partment, Vancouver Sun; City |

|

Four Walk Out |
Of Post Office |

ROSSLAND, BG, Oct. 7. — Four
regular employees of the post of-

the name of a bonafide organiza- | fice here walked out in protest over

tion. dismissal of a junior clerk this
The importance of this test case | week.

is seen in view of the many desti- The “walk-out followed firing of

tute yeterans now soliciting funds | Catherine MacLean by Mrs. Kate

rather than be herded into institu-
tions, particularly as the govern-
ment has set aside relief funds for
ex-servicemen, now being diverted
into charitable organizations.

Lloyd, temporary postmistress.

Postal Inspector Fred H. Middle-
miss was sent from Vancouver to
investigate the circumstances sur-
rounding the walkout.

Christmas Parcels For Volunteers

Many Groups Give Active.

| Support To Canadians

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To fulfill the Friends of the MacKenzie-Papineau Battal-
icn’s new slogan: “Christmas for every BC boy in Spain,”
busy fingers are knitting various articles of clothing from
woo] obtainable at battalion headquarters.

This week, an ardent «supporter, >
AQ Killed I

! ond bundle of wool to Start on an-
other three pairs of Socks.

The Jimmy Diamond group, from

Officers

READY TO SERVE YOU

.. with the finest
stock of Imported
Weolens in Western _
Canada. :

Our guaranteed cus-
tom tailored suits and
evercoats are made in
our Own shops on the
premises by _ skilled
Vancouver tailors and
cannot be duplicated
by any tailoring firm
in British Columbia.

REGENT clothes are
priced to suit your
pocketbook. . . As low
as $21.50.

We are able to give a
two-day service on all
Custom-Tailored Gar-
ments.

REGENT TAILORS

324 W. Hastings Street
Vancouver, B.C.

~ Sens RE URIS ee SS ——

oycott

Electe | Endorse B
| LONDON, Epe., Oct. 7 — The
By Women Here witional Liberal Youth League's
Teer, gi ; national committee has gone on
record as condemning “‘the barbar—
ous bombing of open towns in China
and the massacre of innocent ci-
Villans by the Japanese.” Demand
for a boycott of Japanese goods is

Unity of progressive women to
obtain better living conditions, so-
cial Jesislation and to help build a}
broad movement for peace are the |
main aims of the Progressive ,

| Women's Mederation, which elected , Eelloesec,
its executive this week. | 5 Z

Mis. I. Cowper was elected pres- | Aid For Chinese
ident, with Mrs. Abbott first and VICTORIA, BC, Oct. 7—Next

Wednesday, October 13, between i
and 11 pm, the Chinese Women’s
Group here is organizing a chow
méin dinner and tea in aid of Chi-
nese war refugees. The affair will
be held in the Chinese Benevolent
Association rooms.

Mrs. A. B. Adams second vice-pres-
idents. Mrs. J. Felton; 1149 Melville
street, Trin. 5571, is the correspond-
ine secretary,+ from whom all in-
formation may be obtained by or,
anizations wishing to affiliate with
the Hederation- easy

COATS—SUITS
and DRESSES esssicx.
TO BUY

‘Sweet Sixteen

NEW
CREDIT PLAN

You Can Be Smartly

Dressed
By simply paying 2 small down payment
snd the balance to suit your income.

COATS =~ *16”

Trimmed and OUntrimm'

80-year-old Mrs. O’Brien of the
Woods In BC

Mothers’ Council called for her sec-

a social and collection list brought
$30.25 to the direct office to add to
the growing sum set aside for)

Fur Coats 09—:

Christmas cheer.

The Marshall group has set aside
i $5 of the $14.50 raised for Dr. Beth-
une’s blood transfusion work,

Finnish people at home are doing
their bit, as well as their nationals
in the front line for Republican
Spain. Websters Corners sent in $13,
Vernon $6.35.

Fred Stepko collected $17.15 from

| Total Is 15 Above Last
| Year In Shorter
Period

Two more fatal accidents bring
the total of deaths in BC woods
since January, 1937, to 49—15 more
than in the corresponding period
last year, with fully two months

DRESSES = *5=

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Smart HATS =" $12

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department ordered wages paid in |
full, failing which action will be |§

less logging operations.

Meagre reports state that Wul-
liam Stanley Crocker, 46, was killed
at Spicer’s Camp, Knight Inlet, and
a logger named Roday in a camp
in the Campbell River area.

generous fishermen up north, mak-
s + total of $77 from: the fishing
Rupert.

fleet at Prince

The Tom Nelson group handed in |
and from Courtenay
Gerhard Kach sent in $3.

| Po. a friend of

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trade union bill. the Alberta situation, the war in
Spain, the Popular Front, the invasion of China, and
a host of other questions? ... Ifnot, persuade him to
take the PA and be informed on these subjects.

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