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THE PEOPLE’S

ADVOCATE

Page Five

. TRAIL

(Continued from page 1)

‘hat the 15 years of “tranquility”
fave been at the expense of decent
Conditions.

+ With labor paid $3,25 a day,
poarding of young men employed

‘ow wages but is not conducive
fio healthy housing conditions.
‘tumdreds of families are forced
2 live in basements which are
sub-divided to make room for ad-
ditional tenants.

A front-page editorial in the
$.cimes points to the evils of credit.
his is construed locally as a warn-
jing that a credit bureau is to be
qset up to tighten the grip main-
tained on pay envelopes by Trail
} nerchants.

| For years prices in Trail stores
nave been from 20 to 80 per cent
nigher than Vancouver. Stock ex-
suse is that this is due to exces-
sive freight rates. Against those
employees who fail to maintain

their .charge accounts in good
standing in face of maximum
prices the garnishee is readily
used.

This Christmas however, more
than 300 workers took a cheap ex-
cursion to Spokane, Wash. to
spend their bonuses where com-
petitive prices were maintained.
fhe excursion was made possible
oy the wide demand of smelter
yorkers through the workmen’s
sommittees that the annual bonus
xn£ $50 for married and $25 for
angle men be paid December § in-
stead of December 22. Many of
those who did not take the excur-
s10n were thus enabled to purchase
‘hrough mail order houses.

The credit bureau will furnish
yet another weapon against those
who buy from outside.

* Pro-Fascist Elements

The deadening effect of company
anionism, with its subtle sup-
pression and intimidation is re-
flected in the fact that Trail today,
a town of 10,000 population, there
is little or mo culture. The fifteen
year period of “tranquility and co-
pperation” has been barren in
everything but rising production
levels of war materials. There are
fo recital groups. The Canadian

Goncert Association collapsed with
a deficit. There are two brass

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Qf 50 employees, 20 have been
laid off. One was a woman who
had worked in the laundry for the
past fourteen years. Dismissals
continued as the efficiency expert
developed his check-up system.

The girls declared they were com-
pletely “all in” after doing 200
pounds of washing per day (dry
weight), the amount demanded by
the imported taskmaster who, they
stated, “apologizes for his job.”

A recent notice posted up stated
that all but the stenographer will
have their annual holiday of two
weeks with pay reduced to one
week.

Girls Exhausted

Due to the exhaustion resulting
from speedup, the “expert” de-
mands that the girls take a full
hour off for lunch, which means
going to work at 7 am and quitting
at 5 pm.

Shortage of linen demands that
girls work either the Sunday before
or after statutory holidays, the
girls reported.

Pay is 2814 cents per hour, with
a bonus for doing more than the
allotted task. One girl ascertained
from the checker that she had
made less than 10 cents extra after
an extra spurt was made to test
the efficiency expert’s reckoning.

Girls are paid once a month, a
contravention of the law, which
demands at least twice monthly
wage payments.

bands.

This lack of recreational outlet
is seen as the main reason for the
rapid inerease in child delinquency.
The number of cases of default by
young people rose by 100 to 267
last year.

In the so-called civie elections
the effect of company unionism is
elear. Every smelterer knows that
candidates must have the approval
of the company and consequently
there is little interest. Candidates
Hundreds

speak to empty halls.
never vote.
Recently, pro-fascist elements

have entered civic politics and are
proposing establishment of a kin-
dergarten under supervision of
three nuns. This activity coincides
with the arrival of a new priest
from Italy and establishment of a
Gatholic paper, the Prospector,
edited by Father Freany and print-
ed in Nelson. Its policy is to com-
bat “radicalism.”

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Hospital Laundry

Nineteen girls and one man have been dismissed from the
General Hospital laundry in the last few weeks, work has been
greatly speeded up and a general worsening of working con-
ditions has resulted since appointment of an American ef-
ficiency expert, the PA learned this week from employees.

WA Canvass
Of Projects

Program Of Alliance Is
Outlined In Reference
To Propesed New Works

Scheme

Canvass of all workers on city
projects in under way this week
as officers of the Workers’
ance, on instructions from the
membership, hand out question-
naire forms worded as follows:

“Are you in favor of the present
plan? Are you in favor of a refer-
endum ballot to bring about the
necessary changes? What pro-
posals can you offer to better con-
ditions?”

Importance of answering the
questions as fully as possible is
emphasized in the preamble. The
proposed new works scheme is
stated to be of utmost importance
to workers and their families and
the program of the WA is outlined
in the following:

Establishment of a minimum of
di days’ work a month and one
day extra for each dependent and
ehild. Work toward the establish-
ment of full time work.

Relief and employment offices
are also being canvassed with the
questionnaire.

N. Morgan Heads
Victoria Youth

VICTORIA, BC, Jan. 27.— At a
well attended meeting of the Vic-
toria Youth Council, recently, rep-
resentative of religious, cultural,
recreational and political youth
groups of the city, the following
were elected to office for 1938:

President, Nigel Morgan; vice-
president, Miss Francis Wood;
secretary-treasurer, Grant Pater-
son; Miss Jean Brown and Frank
Montgomery, auditors.

Plans were laid at this meeting
for a city convention of youth or-
ganizations scheduled for Satur-
day, February 19, at the YWCA, to
which youth delegates from Van-
couver, New Westminster, Nanaimo
and Seattle youth councils will be
invited, prior to provincial and na-
tional conventions.

An organizational committee was
elected under Convenor William
Davis to proceed with conference
arrangements.

New Soviet Film
Coming To City

Unanimously acclaimed by the
Wew York press following its pre-
miere at the Cameo Theatre there,
“The Thirteen,’ Soviet film based
en the actual experience of thir-
teen Red soldiers with a band of
bandits in the deserts of Asia, will
be shown at the Royal Theatre
here for four days, commencing
February 20.

Cosmopolitan Films is offering
ten prizes for the best letters re-
ceived stating which of the many
Soviet pictures shown in Vancou-
ver was best liked and giving rea-
sons for the choice. For the best
letter a cash prize of $2 is offered,
for the next best nime a free ad-
mission ticket to “The Thirteen.”
Competition- judges will be W.
Williams and J. Bowles

All letters should be addressed
“Soviet Bilm Contest,” in care of
The People’s Advocate.

Boycott Japanese Goods.

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The City

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Slum Clearance Rally

Plans for a city-wide slum clear-
ance rally to be held in St. James’
parish hall February 15 were out-
lined by John Jopson, chairman
of Vancouver Youth Council’s
slum clearance committee, at a
meeting this week.

Warn of Company Union

Report that a committee of five
had been selected by the operators
at Bloedel’s Boundary Road
Shingle Mill to organize a com-
pany union, was made at a meet-
ing of Local i149, International
Woodworkers of America, held last
Sunday at 130 West Hastings.
Plans were formulated to organize
this plant into the legitimate union.

Evicted, Refused Relief

Evicted from his home at 2054
Dundas street last Sunday, John
Wallace, his wife and three chil-
dren, the youngest only two
months old, were forced to find
shelter the best they could. When
relief
Tuesday, officials informed Wallace
that transportation back to Alberta
was all that he could get for the
family.

Final Showing of Film

Final showing of the motion pic-
ture, Heart of Spain, before it is
returned to New York, will be
made in the local Chinese theatre,
Sunday, February 6, under auspices
of the Chinese Benevolent Associa-
tion.

Wharf for Fishermen

Local fishermen will soon have
the convenience of a wharf and
floats on False Creek if negotia-
tions by the city with the CPR
and provincial department of lands
are successful. More than 100 fish
boats can be accommodated, stated
Ald. H. D. Wilson, chairman of
harbors committee, Tuesday, and
the exact location will be immedi-
ately east of Cambie bridge, north
of the waterway. Eistimated cost
is $13,000.

FSU Sponsors Meet

A public meeting sponsored by
Friends of the Soviet Union will
be held Sunday, January 30, 8 pm,
in the Royal Theatre. Speakers
will deal with the menace of Japa-
mese aggression against the USSR.

Mothers’ Council

Vancouver Mothers’ Council
meets every Tuesday, 2:30 pm,
Q’Brien Hall, 404 Homer street.
All women interested in social prob-
lems are invited to attend.

Soviet Film Showing

Rated as Soviet Ulkraine’s great-
est musical film, Natalka Poltavka,
an operetta, will be shown at the
Labor Temple, 805 East Pender
street, January 28-29 with a mati-
nee Saturday at 2 pm. Admission
is 35 and 40 cents, children 15 cents.

New Advance Rally

A mass rally in aid of New Ad-
vance magazine will be held Sun-
day, February 6, 8 pm, in the Royal
Theatre. Speakers will be Fred
Lowe, Ghinese Benevolent Associa-
tion; Tom Ewen, Communist party

leader; Maurice Rush, provincial
secretary, Young Communist
League.

Wants Phonograph
For teaching folk dancing to a
children’s group, the loan or gift
of a small phonograph is needed
by S. Mudrakoff, 1123 Hast Pender
street, to whom all offers should
be addressed.

Joint Action

WASHINGTON, DC, Jan. 28—
(FP)—International trade union
action to curb Japanese aggression
in China has been proposed to the
AF of L by Sir Walter Citrine,
president of the International Fed-
eration of Trades Unions. Citrine
also called for collective action by
the governments of France, Great
Britain, Holland, Sweden, Switzer-
land, the US and the USSR.

Anniversary Marked Here

Hundreds Attend

Lenin

Memorial

A full house at the Bmpress Theatre last Sunday com-
memorated the fourteenth anniversary of Lenin’s death in a
mass meeting sponsored by the BC provincial committee of

the Communist party.

Evicted As
Room Sought

Relief Recipient Comes
Home From House Hunt
To Find His Family On
Street

While Lawrence Black, 3525 Fra-
ser street, was looking vainly for a
house to rent for $7.50, amount of
relief shelter allowance, this week,
the sheriff evicted his wife, loaded
the furniture on a truck, refusing
her plea that he wait first for her
husband’s return.

Black’s two children came from
school to find the house empty.

The husband refused to leave
the city relief rental agent until
some provision was made for
shelter and food, succeeded in ob-
taining $10 grant. After searching
desperately all day—to find only
rooms quite unfit for young chil-
dren—a downtown hotel room was
taken as a last resort.

Alderman H. D. Wilson is tak-
ing up the case, while the $10 is
stretched to go as far as possible.
A shock to Black’s neighbors was
to find the house which he was
evicted belonged to the Lithuanian
Gatholie Society.

Project Workers
Read New Advance

Mundreds of young workers in
BC forestry project camps are
reading New Advance, progressive
Canadian youth magazine, an-
nounced John Matts, popular sec-
retary of the Project Workers’
Union, this week.

“They are reading it because it
is lively, interesting and answers
many of today’s puzzling questions
which confront young people,” he
declared.

Every bit as attractive in cover
design among other illustrated
magazines on the newsstands, the
February issue now available has
an imposing table of contents,

Communist Urges
Action On Dump

Guest speaker at Tecumseh Par-
ent - Teachers’ Association last
week, was S. G. Sheard, member of
the McBride branch of the Com-
munist party, who urged that the
association get behind a campaign
to abolish the “raw” dump at
Knight road and ‘Thirty-fourth
avenue, so objectionable to every-
one. :

Sheard emphasized the need for
pressure on the city council which
promised over six months ago to
take action on the matter of this
disease-ridden dump, contents of
which have not been put through
the city incinerator.

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In his opening remarks, Chair-
man W. Ravenor quoted the words
of Lenin on the death of Frederick
Engels as being appropriate to the
passing of the founder of the Com-
munist party himself:

“What a light of reason has gone
out. What a heart has ceased to
beat. Eternal memory to Frederick
Engels—great fighter and teacher.”

Leslie Morris, central committee
member of the Communist party,
the main speaker of the evening,
in a reasoned speech shawed the
fallacy spread by enemies who
claimed that the Communist party
was not revolutionary in character.

He showed that the struggle for
peace and democracy was a task
involving all the revolutionary
ardor possible, that the class
enemy feared that party most
which seriously tackled problems
affecting the people.

“On Socialist High Road”

“The road to Socialism is not like
the Wevsky prospect,” Morris de-
elared, quoting Lenin, pointing out
that the immediate creation of a
wide anti-fascist front was on the
high road to Socialism.

Fergus McKean, provincial sec-
retary of the party, appealed for
new recruits to the party of Lenin.
Using Lenin’s “Letter to the Am-
erican Workers,” he stressed the
need of building a powerful mass
Communist party to lead the peo-
ple to a better life—to Socialism.

Received enthusiastically by the
audience was the one-act play “Re-
turn at Sunset,” presented by Van-
couver Theatre of Action, under
the direction of Jack Newman.
This play is competing in the BC
Drama Festival which opens to-
night.

The Broadway Orchestra, led by
Wally Pullman, and the Croatian
tamboura orchestra gave sterling
performances.

BOYCOTT

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the movement against war and
fascism.

Conference calls issued from
league headquarters, 710 Cormor-
ant street, have been sent to trade
unions, churches, cultural groups
and ex-servicemen’s organizations.
Prominent progressives will deal
with the international situation,
particularly the threat to peace and
democracy presented by fascist
powers, in addresses to the con-
ference.

it is expected that a committee
will be set to orzanize medical said
for China and extend the boycott
of Japanese goods.

The conference will be open to
the public.

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