THE PHOPLE’S ADVOCATE Page Five eed for building the rehabilitation find to aid seek or ded Canadian volunteers invalided home was this week ed by the provincial office of the Friends of the Mac- e-Papineau Battalion. *. Chivers, provincial organ- tated: 4 doubt we will soon be called ~>,360 give assistance to return- nlunteers, Many steady sup- s have aided this necessary Wby monthly donations. It is Around The City jal that the organization RS@ always have funds on hand Shpet emerrency calls. Meet At Regent Hall UG Baster gift shipment, the A mass meeting will be held on SOfgsent to the battalion by the | Puesday, April 26, 8 pm, at Regent th @is, was a tremendous suc- Hall, Joyce and Kingsway. The G More than 3000 parcels, speakers, Harold Winch, MILA, Mrs. Jean Pelton, and Fergus McKean, will talk on how Canada’s foreign policy affects Britain. Mrs. Drayton To Speak Vancouver Mothers’ Council will hold a social on Tuesday, April 26, 2:30 pm. Guest speaker will be Mrs. Ruth Drayton, who will tall on “May Day.” at approximately $1200, were and the. national office is ed by thesefine support from covince.” n Bill Kardash, leading GCom- Ret well known throughout the. mm provinces, Leslie Mor- ntral committee member of x Hmmunist party, has received r from which excerpts given ) are taken. _\Hash narrowly escaped death No} Aragon front when he was d inside a burning tank after been bombed. He was picked Mothers’ Council Conference The Vancouver Mothers’ Council is calling a conference to organize public support for a government a government tank Sovement will entertain at the | to the trades council Tuesday that ss theatre this Sunday, April | company buyers of canned toma- } a concert staged in behalf | toes and fruit had given a “gentle- Adyocate-Clarion press drive | men’s agreement’ to organized la- ® For the 25 cents admission | bor that they would buy BC prod- @ evening of entertainment is | ucts only. = sed. nm report on ticket sales, lovers will be advised to be jal. Doors open: at 7:30 pm. fs will be on sale at the Em- theatre on Saturday after- and a seat is guaranteed to ket holders. [ie Morris, member of the e211 committee of the Commu- @oarty of Canada, will give a ‘@, address on the role of the % press. All artists’ services = ven freely, and full proceeds 3% 5 to the press drive fund. Union Buttons Jewelry Workers’ Union dele- gate reported to the trades coun- cil Tuesday that it would soon be possible to obtain union buttons in the city instead of having to send back East for them. A shop is in process of organization. Firefighters Affiliate Local 223, Burnaby Fire-fighters, are now affiliated to the trades council, it was reported at Tues- day's meeting. Swifts Seeks Qwn Union Swift’s Canadian employees at Wew Westminster are being urged by the management to form a company union, the Meat Cutters’ delegate informed the trades coun- cil Tuesday, and the executive of Local 94 will go after the company to establish the right of being the legitimate union and bargaining agency in that plant. ARMS FOR SPAIN TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY : SHOE REPAIRS. =cRT SHOP REPATRS—BEST ality material used; all work = ranteed. HH Squires, 1015 Pirlow street. 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YY £ sss “< 2G ( Gi () E> () GEE () GT Peter 1 Peter the First of Russia and Catherine, the seryant girl who rose to be his empress. The above scene is taken from the Soviet film, Peter the First, first prizewinner at the 1937 Paris exposition. The picture will be shown at a special midnight preview, Sunday, May 1, at the Globe Theatre and commences for one week only, Monday, May os Housewives Campaign New Pasteurization Bylaw Will Come Before Council Despite the wishes and resolutions of many women’s or- ganizations in Greater Vancouver, it is by no means certain that the public will be able to retain the right to buy raw milk, the Advocate was told this week by members of the House: wives’ League committee. Aldermen stated that a new by- law on the question will be pre-. sented to the city council next week and there seems to be a ten- dency toward compulsory pasteur- ization. Alderman Fred Crone stated there were 52 Grade A dairies in the city supplying raw milk and that present inspection forces were insufficient to give proper attention every day to each one, the method being to step a milk wagon to ob- tain samples at random for bac- teria and sediment tests. Ald. BH. LL. Corey pointed out danger of contamination to milk eooling off after pasteurization and opined that the elements of risk was always present. Qn the question of distribution of milk as a public utility, the committee from the Housewives’ League was informed by the city solicitor that the city had no powers to set up such a system, Since it would require an amend- ment to the city’s charter. In the opinion of Mrs. M. Nor- ton, secretary of the committee, it will require enthusiasm and organ- ization to force the needed issues of the right to buy raw milk, and the making of milk distribution a public utility. A second conference of women’s organizations is called for May 2 at the Moose Temple, 638 Burrard street. Frey In Vancouver Labor Leader Addresses City Trades, Labor Council Guest speaker at the Trades and Labor Council last Tuesday was J. P. Frey, president of the metal trades department of the American Federation of Labor. Close friend of the late Sam Gompers and ot W. Green, AFL president, his speech to the council reflected the policies of those two labor leaders, and the CIO came in for bitter denunciation. China Fights For Freedom —Dr. Tao Chinese Educationalist Speaks In Vancouver By ART SCHWARTZ Speaking with undisguised emo- tion, Dr. Heng Chih Tao, promi- nent Chinese educationalist and diplomat, told an intensely inter- ested audience of 1200 something of his country’s struggle for na- tional liberation at a meeting held under auspices of the Medical Aid to China committee of the Cana- dian League for Peace and Democ- racy in the Auditorium Tuesday. “Peace with equality, enough to eat, liberty and justice are what the Chinese people want,” he said, declaring that they would fight to the death for that end. He compared China’s great stand against the powerful Japanese military machine to the waters of Wiagara, where each drop of water went to the creation of tremendous power. “By utilizing this power we can defeat Japanese aggression in Ghina and keep war out of Can- ada,’ he said. “China must be the lesson from which the people of the democratic nations must learn.” Dr. Tao deplored the fact that Canada was shipping large quanti- ties of war materials to Japan, stating that these materials might some day “come back to your chil- dren in a different form.” Tom Ewen, central committee member of the Communist party, spoke briefly, reading in conclu- sion an excerpt from a letter his daughter, Miss Jean Ewen, a nurse with Dr. Bethune’s medical unit on the northwest front in China. . We stand or fall by China,” he read. “We in Canada cannot be free if China is under bond to Japan.” The collection, appeal for which was made by A. M. Stephen, chair- man, was $206. ® rey Was opposed to political action of any Kind on the part of the trade union movement, while admitting to plenty of lobbying during the passage of labor legis- lation in the United States. He claimed that the trade unions be- gan to lose their effectiveness when they delved into politics. Reducing the present division in the American trade union move- ment to a question of personality clashes, Frey stated that he doubt- ed the honesty of John Lewis, CIO leader, and others who had led the breakaway from the AFL. He claimed that anyone could organ- ize the workers on the basis of “no dues until you get a union agreement,” and that the CIO was having the greatest difficulty to collect dues, which created instabil- ity. Wumerous questions were fired at the American labor leader, most of them regarding the relative strength of the two movements, and why the AFL had failed to organize the millions now within the CIO fold. Lacking actual fig- ures, Frey maintained that the CIO had done little beyond take out of the AFL unions already strong. Boycott Committee Calls Union Meet A mass meeting of trade union- ists called by the boycott commit- tee of the Trades and Labor Coun- eil for Tuesday, April 26, at the labor temple, will discuss further action on the boyeott of Japanese and fascist-made goods and an em- bargo on shipments of war mate- rial to Japan. This was announced by Sam Shearer, chairman of the boycott committee, who stated that the committee would not broadcast boycott activities for the benefit of Colonel ©. Edgett, who, it is al- leged, circulates a bulletin under the auspices of the Industrial As- sociation of BC, composed mainly of Shipping Federation employers and boss loggers. ARMS FOR SPAIN Haney, $6. City East Committee Tops Drive Vancouver Centre Has Sold 114 Subs Since Openings Of Current Campaign. MANY ASSIST Standing of Southern BC in the Advocate- Clarion press | drive was advanced this week by the following: Surrey, $10; Princeton, $2.25; Blakeburn, $2; Britannia, $3; Salmon Arm, 22; Gibsons Landing, $1; Wanaimo district, continuing to lead Vancouver Island, added an- other $3, but Cumberland, among other revenue-raisers, plans to give the proceeds from a hot dog stand at the May Day picnic there to the press drive fund. Victoria, late in starting, began its climb with $1 contribution and may yet out-dis- tance earlier starters. In Vancouver, the Hast Iind joint committee confidently expects to eclipse other groups in the big city when receipts at the end of the Grand concert on Sunday at the Empress theatre are counted. Wot content with that, this enter- prising committee is also issuing prize dance tickets for Victoria Day, May 24. Oscar Salonen, East End drive leader, lists receipts from his sub-committees as fol- lows: ULFTA, $24.75; Croatian Work- ers’ Alliance, $23.20; Serbian Pro- gressive Club, $8; Finnish Cultural Club, $28.95; Swedish-Finnish Club, $3; Slovak Cultural Federation, $4.50; East End Drive committees, $44.80; Committee members, In- land Boatmen’s Union, $40.85; Com- mittee members, - Fishermen’s Union, $1745. Vancouver East federal riding continues to lead all main commit- tees in Vancouver with 66 per cent of its objective reached, this being accomplished in 46 per cent of the official drive period. Vancouver Centre committee | leads with the highest number of subscriptions sold, its total being 1i4 as against Vancouver Hast with 69 and the East End commit- tee with 63 subs. IGOR, progressive Jewish organ- ization, is the first to over-subscribe its quota by sending in another $6. The same day the Lettish Workers’ Club reached its quota with a sur- plus of $6. Fred Pullen of the Marpole com- mittee sent up its score by six sub- seriptions, and a social organized by the Granville committee netted $3.75. Mrs. Maloney held the prize- Winning ticket in the draw ar- tanged by the North Vancouver committee. Dispute Over BurialRapped Authorities Argue Over Burial of Jobless Man Indignation in women’s organi- zations and among single unem- ployed over callous handling of the burial of R. G. Rowe, unemployed and known as an active member of the Relief Project Workers’ Union, was voiced this week to an Advocate reporter by members of the Mothers’ Council. The struggle between civic and provincial bodies on responsibility for disbursing relief was continued in a dispute as to who should foot the cost of a pauper’s funeral, a matter of $25. For one week the body lay in funeral parlors pending acceptance of financial responsibility, which finally became the city’s, until the threat was made that unless the body was removed it would be given to the university for medi- eal research purposes. Action by Vancouver Mothers’ Council made possible observance of ordinary decencies and an An- glican minister was procured to conduct the service. Mrs. A. Cow- sill of the Mothers’ Council gave a moving address. Over 100 camp boys attended, and the Mothers’ Gouncil supplied two automobiles. In the clumsiest of coffins, the body of the young project worker, packed in with paper and cheese- cloth, was lowered into a grave in potter's field. The flimsy coffin was immediately submerged in over a foot of water. Rowe, who was taken in on April 41 ,died from a heart attack two days later in General Hospital. 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