Page Four oe ee EOPLE’S ADVOCATE January 21, 1938 | § Croatians Construct New Home Many Modern Features Will Be Incorporated In Cultural Home Under Construction DONATE SERVICES A big job was undertaken by- the Croatian Educational Club when it decided to vacate rented premises and build a 516,000 cultural home on Kee- fer street a few weeks ago. “But we'll make it all right,” a husky young Croatian volunteer helper told a PA reporter this week. This young man pointed out a *dozen of his countrymen Giving their labor without charge, with the only stipulation that the money value of their work be recorded as | donations toward the project. It is | estimated that free labor to the ex- tent of $3,000 will be given. Six of these volunteers were loggers by oc- cupation, six of them fishermen. Members of the club work in rota- fion, 5, 10 and 15 days at a stretch, the PA was toid. Construction Foreman Arthur H. Evans found time to talk to a rep- resentative of the PA. He stated that, while the great proportion of his workmen were inexperienced, “they work like beavers.’ It was plain to see this is no or- dinary job to “Slim” Evans, as he took time off to unroll blueprints and point out special features in the construction. - Glass Brick Window it was his opinion that the glass- brick window to be installed in the west side is a new innovation in the provinee, the diffusion of a soft light being the main benefit. The size of the window will be 21 feet high by 28 feet wide. All lettering on the building will be impressed and a_ distinctive moulding has been chosen for dec- orative effect in the concrete. Blue- print drawings of swing doors, foy- er, kitchen, rest rooms, dining room, baleony, main hall and other speci- fications denoted a spacious well- appointed interior. Harold Winch, MILA, is doing the electrical work at trade union rates of wages, as are all the experienced mechanics. The CCF member is as- sisting these progressive Croatians by charging for actual time on the job—not by eontract, which, stated Evans, is quite a saving for the or- ganization. Alex Fordyce, well known trade unionist, has offered to donate his services to build the chimney of the Croatian Home. He will secure the endorsation of his union on this matter. An official of the organization told the PA that the building com- mittee had $4,000 on hand when construction began, and this has -since been increased to $9,500. Further promises of support from Croatians, who in the main are em- ployed in basie industries of the province, and sales of negotiable bonds which pay 3 per cent interest, are expected to provide the balance of required finances. Watch Over Expedition Soviet Has Plans Ready For Emergency Flights To Scientists At North Pole. Presented To Federal Cabinet ment. 2 P. Bengough Reports On Labor’s Program Prime Minister Kackenzie King gave the Trades and Labor Congress legislative committee a cood reception last Thurs- day and he promised to embody in legislation many of its re- quests, Secretary Percy Bengough told the Trades and Labor Council Tuesday on his return from Ottawa where he was member of the Congress delegation to the federal] govern- $i r9 Alexei S. Bach j who, at 81 years, is the oldest member of the Supreme Soviet. A member of the USSR Academy ef Sciences, he extolled Soviet de- mocracy and declared the coun- try invincible at the Soviet’s open- ing session. Great Year, Says Union Membership Of Mine, Mill, Smelter Workers Shows Increase 32,000 For 1937. DENVER, Colo, Jan. 20. — The Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, CIO, raised its member- ship rfom 18,000 to 50,000 during 19387 and signed 97 collective bar- gaining agreements during the “greatest year in its history,” lead- ers of the union revealed last week. Intensive drives among the work- ers of Anaconda Copper Mining company, American Smelting and Refining, Phelps-Dodge, and Kenne- eott will highlight the organization’s campaign in 1938, President Reid Robinson predicted. A detailed review of the past year’s accomplishments shows vic- tories in such widely-separated areas as Perth Amboy, NJ, and Juneau, Alaska. The union signed the first bona-fide contract in the long history of the Coeur D’Alene area in Idaho, and made rapid ad- vances towards complete unioniza- tion of employes of Utah’s mines, tmaills, and smelters. Ford Arguments ‘Sheer Fantasy’ DETROIT, Mich,, Jan. 20—(FP) —Tf Henry Ford thinks the pub- lic is going to save him from the MOSCOW,*USSR, Jan. 20.—(FP) —#A close wateh is being kept over the drifting North Pole sta- tion, and the Soviet government is ready to come to the aid of the four valiant scientists,’ Otto J. Schmidt, famous Arctic explorer and head of the northern sea- route administration, declared in an interview. "Planes on Rudolf Island can fiy to the Papanin camp without even waiitng for good weather, for we know the exact location of the station all the time. It can give planes their bearings and light signals when they are ready to land,” continued Schmidt. Me told about a small hydo- graphic vessel, the Murmanets, which will leave Murmansk for the Greenland sea in the near future. Tt is a boat with a cargo capacity of about 150 tons, well adapted to sailing about ice. Its job wall be to study the condition of ice in the Greenland sea, establish direct contact with the drifting expedi- tion and prepare an airdrome for airplanes in case there is need. Schmidt said that the drifting station established for the first time by the Soviet Union has given brilliant results. JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Jan. 20— (#P)—Because she was unwilling to bear arms though willing to | perform non-combatant service, 72-| year-old Louise Maria Hoffman, | Lowell, Fla.. was denied citizen-| ship by federal court here. verdict that he has been guilty of unfair labor practices, he has overestimated the extent to which his paid publicity agents have de- ceived the public,’ Richard T. Frankensteen, director of the United Automobile Workers Ford organization campaign, declared, as the motor magnate squirmed to escape the workings of the law. “The statement that Hord he- lieves his business has been con- ducted in the full gaze of the pub- lic is sheer fantasy. INo other manufacturer possesses anything like so highly developed a machine for covering up the real conditions in his plant.” As the outcome of a long hear- ing, following the beating and maiming of union leaflet distribu- tors last May, Ford was ordered to reinstate 29 men and cease in- terfering with union organization of employees: Stars Aid Spain MEXICO CITY, DF, Jan. 20 — (FP) — A tremendous mass meet- ing, organized by the Confederation of Mexican Workers, was held re- cently at the Palace of Fine Arts in a drive for aid to Spanish children. Gale Sondergaard (Madame Drey- fus in the film, The Life of Emile Zola), and Herbert Biderman, fam- ous director, representing the Holly- wood Motion Picture Artists Com- mittee, spoke against the menace of | fascism. Ladies’ Half Soles and Heel - Ladies’ Leather Heel JMien’s Half Soles and Rubber Heels .-8De — Guaranteed English Leather — . NEW METHOD Sr ae E . —— -|the brief to alleviate unemploy- . social legislation. Presentation of a brief drawn up from some 200 resolutions passed at the last trades congress was madé by the delegation and most of the urgent questions fac- ing workers in Canada were dealt with, Bengough stated. Most im- portant sections of this brief Ben- gough read out to the council. Beginning with the subject of war, which, the brief stated, was imminent, the government was urged to conduct a referendum before any declaration of hostilities was made by the government “as the workers pay the biggest price.” Organized labor also demanded exposure of any plans to form a dictatorship in Canada, “believing democracy to be the best form of government and most suitable to peace.” Work Projects Sought A program of road-building, com- pletion of the Canadian Wational terminal in Montreal and other useful projects was advocated in . ment in the Dominion, regret being expressed at the action of the Privy Council in terming uncon- stitutional a previous request for establishing of the 8-hour day, as under uncertain provincial legis- lation Canadians were workings 10, 12 and even 14 hours a day. Financing of an adequate hous- | ing scheme by obtaining money at 1% percent, “the rate of personal bank deposits” was requested, all government contracts to call for hiring of trade union labor and set an example by establishing the 5- day week, 6-hour day, maintaining current wage levels, holidays with pay, all to provide more work for the unemployed. National unemployment imsur- ance and a system of health in- surance was advecated in the brief, “to bring Ganada te social legislation levels enjoyed in other democratic countries,” and toe in- troduce these measures as quick ly as possible despite the veto of the Privy Council which termed these also as unconstitutional. Organized labor asked that in future no appeals be allowed to go to the Privy Council. Amend- ment of the BNA act was en- dorsed to permit of sadly needed Overhauling of legislation relat- ing to old age pensions, whereby all workers would be retired at the age of 60, with adequate main- tenance, was brought forward, in order to give Canada’s youth a chance to work. Guard Civil Rights The brief asked the government to “throw its weight” on the side of free speech and assembly, to remember that fascist threats al- ways precede action to suppress “rights which we prize.” The right to organize and bargain collective- ly was reiterated with an added note that employers should be pre- vented from using economic pres- sure to force employees. “These latter questions had been taken up with provincial govern- ments, with varying results,” the brief stated, and which also main- tained that such questions should have federal rulings. The government was urged to take over Canadian nickel mines and to prevent shipment of this metal to nations for war purposes. Abandonment of ‘pool’ trains Was recommended by the delega- tion, representing 175,000 organized Canadian workers, including run- ning trades. Boycott Japanese Goods. ancy, F aE CLASSIFIED i ON THEFARMFRONT]| svete, ADVERTISING RATES = ce US Farmers ages 2 ee se nuaee Losing Land Research Shows Number Of Qwners Falling While Tenancy Records Steady Increase. A survey of census findings dis- eloses that farmers in the United States are losing ownership of the land they till “at a singularly steady and continuous rate,’ according to Parm Research in its January issue of Facts and Farmers. Whereas*59 per cent of the total value of all farm land belonged to the farmers in 1890, their holdings dropped to 54 per cent in 1900, to a0 per cent in. 1910, to 46 per cent in 1920, and to 42 per cent in 1930. In short, each decade see another four to five per cent of total farm value passing out of the hands of the farmers. In years when the percentage of land rented by tenants has held its own, there has nevertheless been an increase in the percentage of land mortgaged. And in years when the percentage of land mortgaged has temporarily halted, the march has nevertheless been continued owing to an increase in the percentage of land rented. “One point has usually been over- looked in discussion of farm ten- Says Parm Research, “and it is that the same forces producing tenancy also lead to an increase in the ranks of the farm-workers.”’ In those areas where large-scale inten- sive farming has shot forward most rapidly, the independent working farmers have been-foreed into the tenancy ranks and from there into the ranks of the farm workers. Owners Forced Qut In fowa, for example, out of every 1,000 adult males engaged in agri- culture, the census figures show that there are 255 fewer farm own- ers In 1930 than there were in 1880. Their place has been taken by 139 tenants and by 116 farm workers. In Wisconsin there were similarly 177 fewer farm owners as compared With an increase of 52 tenants and 125 farm workers. In areas such as Califcrnia and New Jersey, where the shift to large-scale, intensive farming has been most impressive, farm owners could not even become tenants; if they stayed, they and their children had to become farm workers. In California, out of every 1,000 adult males in agriculture, there were 300 more farm workers in 1930 than in 1880, while the number of, owners declined by 232, along with a drop of 68 persons from the tenant ranks. Co-op Growth MANCHESTER, Eng., Jan. 20— (BP)—Membership in cooperative associations throughout the world grew from 20,000,000 in 1917 to 70,- 500,000 in i937, according to The People’s Year Book for 1938, just published by the Cooperative Whole- sale Society, Manchester. High Cost Of Feed Hitting Poultrymen But for racketeering engaged in by big milling companies many a small poultryman could maintain himself and family without resort to relief, the PA was told by a practical man in the business on Lulu Island this week. Question of feed prices is the, big stumbling block, he stated, the second being current methods used by wholesalers in buying from the producer. Producing up-to-date price lists, the PA informant declared costs of feed were “absolutely too high.” Feed on the prairie can be bought at 32 cents a bushel while we are faced with the price set at $1.20— 88 cents higher,” he stated. Mash costing $2.30 in BC can be ob- tained there for $1.25. Asked whether an unemployed family could supplement its meagre relief by having a few chickens in the backyard, this ex- perienced poultryman who knows all the tricks of the trade, declared this to be impossible under pre- vailinge conditions. “In the first place, returns for labor and time spent in the poul- try business make it one of the poorest propositions to start up in the province,” he said. “Io make anything like a living today under present feed= price conditions a man would have to possess hbe- tween 2,000 and 3,000 chickens. I guess that lets out the unem- ployed,” he added. The PA learned that the pro- ducer nominally gets 19 cents a dozen but in the grading process may only receive 16 cents for many of his eggs. The wholesaler adds another 4 cents to pay for handing the eggs over to the re- tailer, who generally sticks on an- other 5 cents. When it is calcu- lated that it costs 174% cents to produce one dozen eggs, it can be seen that very little is left for the producer to live on. “How about organization?” the writer asked. “There are only the associations of those who breed for shows and prizes,” was the re- joinder. “It seems there are plenty of small producers throughout BC but because of long distances or- ganization is difficult. There are very few large outfits.” Two remedies were offered by this Lulu island poultryman to ease the present intolerable situa- tion. One is to establish a system of selling eges by weight which will help to stabilize prices, the other, formation of an egg-pool under government supervision and with democratic control by prac- tical poultrymen in the province. Union Wool Label BUTTE, Mont., Jan. 20—(FP) — The Sheep Shearers Union of North America has adopted a union label which will appear on every sack in which woo] sheared by union work- ers is packed. It will make possible union-made clothes from the sheep’s to the customer’s back. Milk Co-op In New York Consumers and Farmers Unite to Form Co-oper- ative To Break Control Of Milk Trust. NEW YORK, Jan. 20—(FP) Tired of being milked by the milk trust, which pocketed the extra pen- nies and increased the price spread between producer and consumer, the Milk Consumers Protective Committee here is planning a drive to line up members for the newly- formed Consumer-Parmer Milk Co- operative. Under plans now well advanced, the co-op will purchase milk from farmer members upstate, truck it to New York City, arrange for its pasteurization and bottling and sell it at a competitive price through cooperating stores and in public markets. Processing and bottling might be undertaken by the city as a yardstick te check up on mill trust practices. Livestock Figures Total numbers of farm live stock in Canada as in June last are esti- mated as follows, with the corres- ponding numbers for 1936 within brackets: Horses, 2,882,890 (2,891,- 540); total cattle, 8,840,500 (8,840,- 600); sheep, 3,339,900 (3,327,100); hops, 3,963,300 (4,145,000); hens and chickens, 53,982,900 (55,769,300); tur- keys, 1,997,900 (2,044,700); geese, 874,900 (854,900); ducks, 654,400 (670,- 500); total poultry, 57,510,100 (59,- 339,400). : inch. Monthly and contract ratee = on application. _ AUTOMOTIVE SERVICE WHITE SPOT SERVICE STA- | tion. Complete Automotive Sere [) ice. Shell Products. Phone Mar [ff pole 683. 8091 Granville St. BAKERI£ES THOMPSON'S BAKERY ON | Joyce Rd. carries full line of pies, cakes, bread. Baked on premises— at 5090 Joyce.Road. BARBER SHOPS =e ePAY Seo. “SOOK WELL’— Visit the 4 POINT Barber Shop 920 Granville St Sey. 4218. FOR YOUR NEXT HATRCUT= Call and see “Appy”’ at Appye Barbee Shop, 179 East Hastings reet. 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