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THE PEHEOPLE’S

ADVOCATE

June 17, 192

Railway Amalgamation Would Be ‘Blow At People

News From Provincial Centres
Friends Meet

Railroaders
Opposed To

Unification

Leaflet Exposes Plan Of
Big Interests to Secure
Greater Power in Move
For Amalgamation.

‘BLOW AT PEOPLE’

WINNIPEG, Man., June 16.
— (Special) —Chargse that pro-
ponents of railway amalsama-
tion, headed by Sir Edward
Beatty, president of the CPR,
are “trotting forth the bogey
of national bankruptcy, hop-
ing to panic the Canadian
people into acceding to
their demands .. . because
they see in amalgamation a
golden opportunity for greater
economic and political power and
for delivering a blow to the in-
stitutions of the people” are made
in a leaflet issued here by the
railroad branches of the Commu-
nist party.

Hixposing as false the contention
of Sir Edward Beatty that natural
retirements would take care of any
displacements, the leaflet declares
that between 25,000 and 30,000
railroaders would be thrown out of
work by amalgamation.

“Adda to this the dependents of
these railroaders, the thousands of
people whom the incomes of the
railroaders g¢o to support, and the
picture comes clear,” the leaflet
reads. “Lhe years of toil and care-
ful planning will come to naught
as homes, savings and other life-
long ambitions perish under the
axe of amalgamation. The muni-
cipalities, already breaking under
the terrific load of relief costs, will
have their position made ever
more unbearable.”’

Milsewhere the leaflet states:
“Canada’s economy has been built
up on the basis of railroad trans-
portation. While the necessity to
promote the economic development
of Ganada becomes more pro-
nounced every. day, the amalgama-
tionists propose to restrict that
development by depriving thou-
sands of work and of railroad
transportation. Under the Beatty
plan ghost towns will become a
common feature of the Canadian
landscape.”’

Bondholders Wust Pay

The leaflet cites how
mendous load of debt and obsolete
equipment with which the Cana-
dian Wational was saddled has re-
sulted in the taxpayers of Canada
being forced year after year to pay
tribute to a small class of in-
vestors” and asserts that there
can only be one answer to the
question: Who shall pay the cost
of solving the railroad problem?
The answer is, the bondholders.

“Tt is time that a halt was called
to the fleecing of the Canadian
people by that privileged group of

people, the Canadian Wational
bondholders,” the railroad branches
of the Communist party state,

pointing out that bondholders have
received nearly one and one-half
times their investment in bonds
which, in many cases, are guaran-
teed in perpetuity.

The railroaders warn that at-
tempts are now being made to at-
fain the ultimate aim of amalga-
mation by a policy of gradual lay-
offs and progressive abandonment
of lines. :

The leaflet urges “casting aside
of all sectional and other differ-
ences to make the railroad workers
of Canada one united whole, pre-
senting a solid opposition to amal-
gamation,”’ and, recognizing that
the issue is-one affecting not only
railroad workers but the Canadian
people as a whole, that “every per-
son and organization opposed to

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Royal City
Aids Jobless

Bruce, Maits Speakers
At QOpen-Air Meeting

NEW WESTMINSTER, BC,
June i6—An enthusiastic open-
air meeting was held here last

Sunday at Albert Crescent in sup-
port of the Vancouver stidowners.
John Matts, secretary of the Re-
litf Project Workers’ Union, spoke
on the situation and plans of the
Single unemployed. Malcolm Bruce,
dominion committee member of the
Communist party, addressed the
meeting on the general problem of
unemployment and the policies ad-
vocated by his party for its allevia-
tion and abolition.
The following
adopted by the meeting:
“Resolved that this mass meet-
ing pledge its full support to the
struggle of the single unemployed
workers in Vancouver, and demand
they be given immediate relief,
and that a public works program
be put into effect which will pro-
vide them with work and wages.’

Wages Lag
Behind Cost

Still 25 Percent Below
Living, Miners Declare

CUMBERLAND, BC, June 16—
While welcoming the recent 5 per-
eent wage inerease for fsland
miners, the United Mine Workers’
Union here declares that wages are
still 25 percent behind the cost of
living, claiming that Canadian
Collieries is well able to pay higher
wages.

Basing its findings on the recent
McDonald Fuel Commission’s re-
port and on the history of the
company ,the union states that the
company originally received a
charter from provincial and do-
minion governments for the Hsqui-

mait and Nanaimo railroad, with!

Subsidies of 1,900,000 acres of land
and $750,000 cash. ‘The land “and

its resources was valued at $200,- |

000,000.

The union also states that while
Wanaimo mines were operated by
the Vancouver Coal Mining com-
pany, the Dunsmuirs owned all the
other coal lands, and in 1910 the
Wellington Colliery company,
owned by Dunsmuirs, were sold to
Ganadian Collieries for $11,000,000,
later capitalizing it for $22,000,000.
In 1928 Ganadian Collieries ab-
sorbed Western Fuel to complete
a monopoly in the mining of coal
on Vancouver Island.

Organization Of
Musicians Planned

NEW WESTMINSTER, BC,
June 16. — Organization of mu-
sicians in the Fraser Valley is pro-
posed by Local 145, Musicians’ Mu-
tual Protective Union, in a circu-
lar letter to prospective members.
A meeting will be held Sunday,

June 19, 11 am, at Elk’s Club
Auditorium, 439 Columbia street
here. :

Pension Won

MATLILARDYILLE, BC, June 9.
—Mainly through the efforts of
Mrs. Bertha Sabourin, president,
Women’s Auxiliary of the Workers’
Alliance here, and E. E. Winch,
MLA, a pension was granted to
Mrs. J. L. LeCaingny who is blind.
This is the first pension of this

IWA Charter Installed

resolution was

Maillardville Councillors
Back Union Organization

MAILLARDVILLE, BC, June 16.—Trade union organizers,
municipal councillors and a representative of Vancouver single
unemployed addressed a meeting held in Tremblay Hall here
last Sunday to mark the installation of the first trade union

charter in the community.

Jack Brown, president of the BC
Coast District Council, Interna-‘
tional Woodworkers of America,
outlined to an enthusiastic au-
dience the benefits of the indus-
trial form of organization as com-
pared with craft organization. He
stated that the IWA with its 100,-
000 members was today recognised
as the great union of woodworkers,
and that it also backed the new
DWA charter in Maillardvyille.

Councillors Yates and Gueho
fave an account of their steward-
ship in the municipality, outlining
their efforts to secure free medi-
cine for the unemployed. Only
by such efforts, they held, could
they justify their claim to be real

representatives of the community.
Chairman George Maynard con-
gratulated them for their opposi-
tion to limitation of street lights
and for their endeavors to secure
road work and cement sidewalks.

John Matts, secretary of the Re-
lief Project Workers’ Union, as-
sured the meeting that, despite
daily press reports, the sitdown-
ers remained firm in their strug-
gle for work and wages. He main-
tained that “the real sitdowners
are at Ottawa because the govern-
ment refuses to stand up to its
responsibilities.”

The collection was donated to
the fund to send single unem-
ployed to Victoria.

Mrs. Steeves Raps Govt

| wages,

Urges Public Works Program
At West Vancouver Meeting|

WEST VANCOUVER, BC, June 16.—Reeve J. B. Leyland
of this municipality was once known as “Garibaldi Joe,” an audi-
ence was told here last week, and the speaker, George Perree,

opined that it would be a good

again work up some enthusiasm for the building of a road to

Garibaldi Park and so support

Perree also stressed the need ofa
organization among the workers
of West Vancouver as a means to
combat the lowering of the stand-
ard of living.

Mrs. D. G Steeves; MLA, who
also addressed the meeting, con-
demned the government for mak-
ing municipalities responsible for
unemployed problems. She advo-
eated public works at decent
more and better schools

and a socialized health scheme.
The member for North Vancou-,
ver advocated that a general sur-
vey of the country be taken in |
order to build roads to make ac-

eessible the means of livelihood

thing if Reeve Leyland would

a public works program.

for the people instead of continu-
ally catering to tourists. New Zea-
jland, she said, was an excellent il-
lustration of the value of such a
course.

Another meeting was held later
for the purpose of organizing West
Vancouver workers on a rade
union basis, C. M. Stewart, chair-
man of the organizational commit-
tee of the Trades and Labor Coun-
cil, being the main speaker:

At this meeting it was decided
to interview the trades council on
the possibility of obtaining a fed-
eral charter with which to begin
an organizational drive.

Casual Jobs Sought

Veterans Organization
Opens Employment Agency

Intended mainly to assist married and single veterans on

Helen Mathieson, provincial treas-

At Victoria

Mrs. Mathieson Attends
Conference In Capital

VICTORIA, BC, June i6—Mrs.

urer for the Friends of the Mac-
kenzie-Papineau Battalion, attend-
ed a conference of the Victoria
committee of that organization
here last weekend, when a new
committee was elected.

She reported that a further ship-
ment for Canadian volunteers,
valued at $4,000, had just been com-
pleted by the Friends national of-
fice in Toronto. Included in the
consignment, she said, were 300,000
cigarettes, a large quantity of to-
bacco, nearly 6,000 bars of choco-
late and 350 handknitted pairs of
socks.

Shipments to the volunteers are
now being made in bulk form. Mrs.
Mathieson reported. This method,
she said, had the advantage of
being easier for Spanish authori-
ties to handle and ensured a more
even distribution of comforts. At
the same time, every effort would
be made to see that individuat
parcels reached volunteers for
whom they were intended.

She stressed the fact that the
national office planned to mate
regular monthly shipments to the
volunteers on the first of each
month.

Donations acknowledged by the
provincial office of the Friends this
week are: Atlin miners, $20; In-
land Boatmen’s Union, $3.80; Paci-
fic Coast Fishermen’s Union, $5.50;
Ukranian working women, South
Vancouver, $3; Mrs. EK, 50 cents;
Victoria, $3418; Miss B., $2.

Surrey School
Board Donates

CLOVERDALE, BC, June 16—A
donation of $25 was made by Sur-
rey School Board last week to Bear
Creek Park Committee to forward
the work of making this area_a
recreational eentre and  pienic
grounds.

Tommy Boyes, who represented
the committee, told the board that
much money and time had been
donated by local residents and or-
ganizations to make Bear Creek
Park a beauty spot in the munici-
pality.

Public subscription has also
helped to make this project pos-
sible.

Surrey Has —

Surrey Workers Urs \

i16.—Advancing as its rease
the abundance of garden an
orchard produce, Surrey mun
cipal council has reduced th
relief scale from $17.50 to $i}
and $3.50 for each dependen:
Single unemployed reduced i
$6 a month.

central committee,

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Cut Relief |

Allowance

That Unemployed B |
Given Jobs On Ney 1
Highway. 5

TWO-YEAR PROJEC1:
CLOVERDALE, BC, Jun

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George Grimes, chairman of ¢h |
Surrey Wort
ers’ Association, asked the coung
to recommend to the

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on construction ‘of :
$600,000 highway along the Berg
strom Road. Granting this re
quest, Reeve Hunter stated tha
as the project was primarily th
provide work for the unemployed
they should be put to work. 4

Fear that he would not be elig
ible for relief should he take }
short-time job was expressed 4
the council by a relief recipient
The council made it clear that suc
Was not the case, the reeve statin
that any man who obtained wor
for a short period could agaii
obtain relief when nesded. |

Work for a large number of me
over a period of two years is seq
in the building of a double 12-foc
highway over the Bergstrom rou
to the Peace Portal, a projec
which will affect Surrey conside
ably. It will cost the federal gay
ernment $600,000. 2

The highway will start at Peter
Son Hill and follow the Bergstra}
to a point south of Newton, swin
slightly east to meet the Woos
ward's Hill road at the New Me
eelland road, and thence acrog
the Mud Bay Flats to join th
present cut over the Worth Blut
to the Campbell River road &
Goast Meridian and Douglas road)
The route has been surveyed. —

Gonsiderable money has bee
spent by Surrey council on iB
Bergstrom road, which will no
accrue to the government.

Win Paid Holidays

GLOUCESTER, Eng., June i6-
Holidays with pay have bee
Sranted toe miners here throug
negotiations between Forest |
Dean Miners’ Association and @

ARMS FOR SPAIN

erators.

CLASSIFIED

city relief, and particularly those who live on a $10 monthly al-
lowance, Vancouver Eix-Servicemen’s League, which for years
has championed the cause of war veterans, is now out to secure
casual employment for its unemployed members.

In an interview with the Advo-@

eate, Fred Tyler, league organizer,
stressed the organization’s ruling
that men taking casual jobs should
not be paid less than the rate yet
to be set by the provincial depart-
ment of labor. Skilled men, he
said, would work for full union
wages and the trades council will
be informed of this. s

While admitting that casual jobs
are scarce, and that often they
could only be obtained on a basis
of sentiment toward ex-servicemen,
Tyler declared that it was neces-
sary to take some action to help
feed veterans who could not get
by on recently cut allowances. He
produced a letter written by Ald.

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“We will not give up the struggle
for adequate relief allowances,”
Tyler added.

A telephone has been installed
at the league’s office, 47 West
Broadway, made possible by dona-
tions, and Vancouver dailies will
give free advertising for one
month. The organization hopes to
get many calls for casual laborers.

“INo one gets any salary for car-
Tying on this work,’ Tyler stated,
“and we have to turn in regular
reports to the Employment Service
of Canada.” The phone number is
Fair. 151.

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