N TO ONE-MAN CARS IDE OPPOSITIO Western Canada’s Leading Progressive Newspaper VANCOUVER. B.C., FRIDAY, MARCH 25, 1938 ’ppose Protectorates’ Transfer amoy; a a a a = African Natives Fi t ression Eg a as INIDVHANNESBURG, South Africa. Stating that Africans living in | are already at our disposal. power to dispossess us of our vote —(By Mail)—The proposal to id over native protectorates to , Union of South Africa came Pit sfessor Jabavu, convention pres- Pcojnt, declared that such a step lstg@uld mean that the chiefs and . sir people “would lose freedom tursl action, lose ownership of their id and would be forced to under- all the repressive laws of the the protectorates would lose heav- ily by the transfer, Professor Jabayvu asserted: “Qur lot is an unhappy one, but we do not wish to see our brothers and sisters in the protectorates dragged into it against their wish. “The solution to this program is not the introduction of further supplies of labor to be similarly exploited, but rather the care and development of resources which Attempts To Bar Oriental Application a id. H. Wilson Asks City i ofLicense Committee To Refuse Application Of ci} Japanese. MOTION AMENDED Oriental - Baiters Aldermen _De Graves and H. D. Wilson, continue to raise the §oenetration” bogey against faVapanese workers and small ‘0G isiness men, disagreed when qi latter declared that no rea- ng. need be given M. Yada, a sh@ apanese, for the council’s re- isal to grant him a business @cense. The dispute arose in li- “#snses and property committee this oa ‘eek, with Ald. John Bennett in 3e chair, after License Inspector f A. Urquhart had read out new pplications and transterences for censes. “While I am fully benind the in- snt of Ald. Wilson’s motion, yet I sel that he is only surmising in his ease,” Ald. DeGraves stated, ‘tachen Ald. Wilson declared that pig he public should be protected in natters of health. Alderman Helena Gutteridge @ -rmed the whole business “‘ridicu- ‘W®>us.”? stating that the next in line if, would probably be Greeks, Swedes wnd Italians.” “Are you inferring that the Japa- 1ese are a dirty race?” she asked. “Qh no,” chorused Aldermen De- “craves and Wilson. H Again the city solicitor was asked Hay Aid. Bennett to give the legal culing on discrimination against #aationals, and the council heard = previous minutes which stated that the British code made illegal any Hbrefusal of a license on such { erounds. “You see the probable conse- quences from such action proposed by Ald. Wilson,” warned the chair- Ald. F. Crone finally made an amendment that the license be not issued until the Japanese applicant is warned of city health regulations regarding housing. Ald. H. L. Corey seconded the amendment. Policy Ballot NEW YORE, March 24.—(FP)— A campaign to collect a million signatures on a petition for open hearings before House and Senate committees to determine American foreign policy democratically has been opened by the American League for Peace and Democracy. ma tee eee Announcing .... “Tn certain quarters of the Union it-has been strongly urged that space should be found in the pro- tectorates for the Union’s surplus natives. It is natural therefor, that. the protectorates should feel that the Union is, more interested in their land than in the economic conditions of the inhabitants. “The Union is able to do with us just what it likes without being answerable to England. It has full as it did last year, to alienate our lands, to deprive us of freehold to land, to maintain as it does through pass laws a constant state of martial Jaw. ~ “Qur efforts must not fail, other- wise all Africans will be doomed to conditions tantamount to slavery. Upon our success or failure de- pends probably all Africa south of the equator, while Africa north of it is equally interested.” BRITISH POLICY INDICTED Maladministration In Colonies Charged Britain Ranks Low Among Colonial Powers In Her Treatment Of Natives (Exclusive to The People’s Advocate) LONDON, Eng. , March 24.—Sensational revelations are ex- pected when the report of the Royal Institute of International Affairs on the condition of British colored subjects in Africa and certain other colonies is published. For the past three years Lord Hailey, a former governor of the Punjab and the United Provinces of India, has been prepar- , ing a comprehensive survey of native administration, control, and employment—a task that has never previously been at- tempted on such a scale. The report will not be issued until October. In its prepara- tion Lord Hailey was assisted by a number of well-known peo- ple familiar with conditions in the respective colonies, and it may be taken as authoritative even in the smallest detail. Every aspect of native life comes under review. For the first time the full facts of Britain’s rule over her colored sub- jects are revealed, and they will make startling reading. The information is at present strictly confidential, but Reynolds, | leading London newspaper, under- stands that it is a scathing indict- ment of the method now employed, for which the Golonial Office is primarily responsible- Britain Ranks Low Comparisons have been made of the rights and privileges natives enjoy in the colonial possessions of other countries, Portugal and Am- erica are cited, and it will come | as a surprise to most people to iKnow that Britain is ranked far below them in the standard of ad- ministration and humane treat- ment. The section that will arouse most comment is that dealing with the exploitation of native labor. It is expected that the report will urge immediate and widespread reforms. Lack of medical and sanitation services is another aspect of native life that calls for action. Recent statistics show that in the African protectorates there is one doctor to 30,000-50,000 of the population. In Basutoland the figures are 14 to 562,000; in Swaziland, six to 155,000. Comparative figure for England is one to 1,500. The Colonial Office has had some ( But the grievances of the natives would never have been made public had it not been for the riots them- selves. Kenya is another example of British maladministration. Here at- tempts are being made to ban more than 2,000,000 natives and some 30,000 Indians from owning jland in the highlands, which the Kenya government is anxious to reserve entirely for the 18,000 European residents. The Wewfoundland scandal is still fresh in public memory. A greater blow to Britain’s proud claim to be the world’s greatest ecoloniser has never been dealt. The Colonial Office cannot escape its share of responsibility for such misrule. The whole question of its relations with the colored races— British or native—will be sharply challenged when the Hailey report is published. Welfare Head Backs Insurance MONTREAL, Que., March 24.— severe jolts recently. The report of | That objections to unemployment the Royal Commission into the i insurance raised by the Duplessis Trinidad riots was an exposure of government constituted a smoke the shocking social conditions that | screen for things which did not ap- prevailed on the island; wretched wages paid to native workers; and the refusal to allow trade union organizations. Maladministration of the | pear on the surface was the opinion of F. R. Clarke, manager of the Protestant Employment Bureau, expressed at a meeting of the Can- adian General Accountants Asso- It demanded the establishment of | ciation. a labor department and an indus- trial court, which have now been established under a British min- istry of labor official, A. G. V. Lin- ; employment insurance. Clark declared that because of the mobility of labor, it was neces- sary to have central control of un- He hoped don, and the creation of a health that Canada’s scheme would be department to deal with diseases modelled along the lines of the peculiar to the native inhabitants. } British system. Campaign For Cheaper Milk Is Felt In City Butterfat Content Is In- creased Slightly As Support For Movement Grows. CALL CONFERENCE Effect of the present cam- paign for better and cheaper milk has been to produce a little deeper creamline in the bottle, W. R. Bradbury, or- ganizer for the Housewives’ League, told the Advocate this week. Since agitation on the milk dis- tribution system started, the Van- couver daily press has published many letters on the subject, Brad- bury stated, and telephones of members of the initiative commit- tee of the League have been kept ringing steadily. Producing several milk-bottle caps, the League's organizer de- elared that the 335 percent butter- fat marked thereon was an in- ‘crease of 10 -percent, indicating that the larger milk distributors felt impelled to step up their qual- ity in face of public resentment, Mrs. M. Lusk, Vancouver Mothers’ Gouncil member, and ac- tive on the Housewives’ League initiative committee, told the Ad- vocate that several hundred con- ference calls had been mailed to women’s organizations in the city. The conference will be held in the Women’s Building, Thurlow street, Monday, March 28, 8 p.m. Three Questions The three main questions, Mrs. Tusk said, are for organized pres- sure on the city council to make distribution of milk a public utility instead of the present chaos; to maintain the freedom of being able to buy either pasteurized and raw milk; and to elect a broad com- mittee to rally housewives against high food prices. “Our idea is to help create a movement in Greater Vancouver which will really assist housewives now struggling to make both ends meet from slender purses,” Mrs. Lusk declared, “a movement that will not only be a voice of protest, but. of organized pressure.” The committee has prepared reso- lutions for discussion by the con- ference and also invites resolutions from organizations, endorsation of which will form the basis of the movement, its aims and objects, the Advocate learned. Expenses of the conference are expected to be met by a fee of 25 cents to be paid by each accredited delegate attending. Barcelon No less than Italian bolmbs, the shame- ful policies: of Chamberlain’s government in tacit agreement with fascist aggres- sion were responsible for the deaths of these children in brutal air at- tacks on Spain’s capital. Experiment Only City To Set Up Depot For Unemployed tation of a certificate, Ald. H. L? mittee this week. Telford and Ald. Corey present. Cuba Reign Of Terror New Attack on Liberals Launched By Batista ) NEW YORK, March 24—(FP)— Every liberal in Cuba, every per- son who has belonged to a trade union, is living under fear of ar- rest, torture and death from mo- ment to moment, as the dictatorial regime of Col. Fulgencio Batista launches a new reign of terror, the International Labor Defense here declares. The secret military police have published a list of 47 persons of all political beliefs who are pro- seribed, it is stated. Of these, four already have been killed. Many persons have been arrested on charges of sympathy with the Spanish loyalists or imprisoned for possessing pro-loyalist literature. Those marked for arrest are de- clared to number 2,500. Vito Marcantonio, former con- gressman who heads the ILD, said protests, particularly of trade unions, to Batista at Havana are necessary to protect the lives of Cuban trade unionists and opposi- tion political leaders. As an experiment the city council will establish a milk depot from which unemployed may obtain cheaper milk on presen- Decision to use the city market at Main and Hastings streets for this purpose was reached after a meeting in which Associ- ated and Independent dairies were represented, with Dr. Lyle Milk Corey told social services com- Ald .John Bennett expressed doubts as to feasibility of the scheme, in that the success or fail- ure of the experiment would be no indication that the scheme should be extended, because Vancouver covers a scattered area. Ald. Helena Gutteridge had no use for the proposal. Unemployed still had their pride, she said, and. would shrink from parading their poverty in this Manner. “The tendency today is to extend services and I do not see why the unemployed should be victimized,” she stated. : Dairy representatives stated that the city would have to undertake to transport this milk from the dairies to the market depot. Ald. H. D. Wilson feared that the business of small retail milk busi- nesses might be injured, to which Ald. Grone rejoined: “This milk distribution question must be settled sooner or later, and if 100,000 people or more can be benefitted by cheaper milk by a better system of distribution, Iam all for it.” Attacks Privilege GAINSVILLE, Ga. March 24.— “Selfishness on the part of a few” is holding back progress and pros- perity in the United States, Presi- dent Roosevelt declared here this week, while en route from Wash- ington to Warm Springs. ITY NEEDS MORE TRANSPORTATION - CRONE The Peoples Advocate derman its Poor acilities Commune Council Protests Proposal For More One-Man Streetcars MORE TRAFFIC “We have simply got to get more streetcars in the city,” Ald. F. Crone told the city council this week during a dis- cussion arising out of a request from ratepayers for better transportation services. Citing instances all over the city, Ald. Crone declared that the general complaint was for more accommodation and a chance for people to sit down, at least before they got to the end of a journey. “You can see car after car bulging at the doors with peo- ple crammed in like sardines, and they can say what they like about poor business, but the fact remains that travelling is inereasing all the time,” the traifie committee chairman stated. At this juncture, appropri- ately enough, the city clerk read letters to the council pro- testing the BCHlectric plan of using new one-man streetcars from Renfrew Ratepayers’ As- sociation and Vancouver Com- munities Council, the latter rep- resenting committees in Dun- bar, West Point Grey, Kitsi- lano, South Vancouver, West Vancouver, Mount Pleasant, Victoria Road and other com- munities. Ald. H. D. Wilson said he took for granted that the entire city council was opposed to one-man cars, and that there was undoubtedly wide senti- ment against them. City Housing» Is Discussed Crone Proposes Lots On Instalment System “Honeymoon Houses” are being built in Winnipeg and are selling readily, reported Ald. F. Crone to the city council this week. Urging that the city advertise its lots for sale, Ald. Crone gave ‘Sev- eral instances of Vancouver young people being unaware that bar- gains could be had on tax sale property. He proposed further that the city cooperate wtih the Dominion Hous- ing Scheme, and furnish city lots on an installment plan, the basis of the Winnipeg scheme- Ald. John Bennett stated that his department had received plenty of advice in the past few months on how to dispose of city property, SSSsusually these people wanted city property for next to: nothing- A communication was read from Ward 3 Ratepayers proposing that tax sale property be allotted to those with steady jobs who are pre- pared to build homes. Ratepayers suggested the terms as 00 down payment, no interest for a number the opening of the recently completed Imperial Marine Service Station . .. at Sointula, B.C. This new Station in both design and equipment is the most modern of its type on the Coast. Imperial Products are being featured exclusively .. . SOINT : | Distributors at Soin IMPERIAL DEALER Imperial Diesel Oils Imperial Marvelube Motor Oils Engines. . . . YOUR REGULAR PATRONAGE IS SOLICITED. = - tee, F ops aie STEN = = tula, B.C., of IMP Imperial ‘“Premier’”’ and “‘3-Star’’ Gasoline and Fuels and Lubricants for all types of Marine, Automotive and Stationary ULA COOPERATIVE STORE pL asin niente of years, and then a graduated system of payment. As chairman of the civic housing committee, Alderman H. Gutteridge stated she was interested in all pro- posals which would tend to relieve the present housing: shortage. Several aldermen advised caution in the matter because of the un= fortunate experiences suffered by the city in the soldiers’ housing ‘scheme some years ago- Church Bodies Rap Padlock Law TORONTO, Ont., March 24 "To condemn communistic propaganda without inserting a proper defini- tion of communism is preposterous and dangerous,” states a brief to the zovernor-generalin-council by. the Social Service Gouncil of Can- ada and a number of church bodies here. The brief declares that the Que- bee padlock law menaces educa= tional rights of religious minorities and is a threat to national unity. The brief was signed by repre- sentative units of the council, in- cluding Baptist churches, Church of England, Salvation Army, So- ciety of Friends, United Chureh of Canada and the national council of the YWCA.