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*June 20, 1938

THE PEOPLE’S ADVOCATE

Page Three

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)—Charge that pro-
ponents of railway amalgama-
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 mto acceding to
their demands . . . because
they see in amalgamation a
soiden opportunity for greater

to the in-
stitutions of the people” are made
in a leaflet issued here by the
railroad branches of the Commu-
nist party.

Exposing 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.

“Add to this the dependents of
these railroaders, the thousands of
people whom the incomes of the
railreaders go to support, and the
picture comes clear,” .the leaflet
reads. “The years of toil and care-
ful planning will come to naught
2s homes, savings and other life-
lon= ambitions perish-under the
axe of amalgamation. The Muni-
eipalities, already breaking under
the terrific load of relief costs, will
have their position made even
more unbearable.’

Elsewhere 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 Canada becomes more pro-
nounced every day, the amalgama-

ailway Am

| port and on the

tionists propose to restrict that
development by depriving thou-
sands of work and of railroad

¢ransportation. Under the Beatty
plan ghost towns will become a
€ommon feature of the Canadian
landscape.”
Bondholders Must Pay ;
The leaflet cites how “the tre- |
mendous load of debt and obsolete
equipment with which the |

dian Wational was saddled has re-
sulted in the taxpayers of Canada
being forced year after year to pay
¢ribute to a small class of in-
westors” and asserts that there
ean only be one answer to the
question: Who shail pay the cost
of solving the railroad preblem?
The answer is, the bondholders.

“Tt is time that a halt was called
to the fleecing of the Canadian
people by that privilesed 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-
tain 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
¢he issue is one affecting not only
railroad workers but the Canadian
people as a whole, that “every per-
Son and organization opposed to;

‘and $750,000 cash.

algamation Would Be Blow At People’

News From Provincial Centres

Royal City
Aids Jobless

Bruce, Matts Speakers
At Qpen-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,
Gominion 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 resolution
adopted by the meetings:

“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.’

was

Wages Lag

Behind Cost

Still 25 Percent Below

Living, Miners Declare

CUMBERLAND, BC, June 16.—
While welcoming the recent 5 per-
cent wage increase for Island
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
MecDonaid Fuel Commission’s re-
history of the
company ,the union states that the
company  originaily
eharter from provincial and do-
minion sovernments for the Esqui-
malt and Wanaimo railroad, with
subsidies of 1,900,000 acres of land
The land and
its resources was valued at $200,-
000,900.

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
Wellinston Colliery compamnry,
owned by Dunsmuirs, were sold to
Ganadian Collieries for $11,000,000,
Jater 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

WN EW 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, i1 am, at BPElk’s Club
Auditorium, 439 Golumbia street
here.

Pension Won

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

received a)

IWA Charter Installed

Maillardville Councillors
Back Union Organization

MATLLARDVILLE, 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 Wvoodworkers 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
IWA. charter in Maillardville.

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 lghts
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 Gov't

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 thing if Reeve Leyland would
again worl: up some enthusiasm for the buildings of a road to

Garibaldi Park and so support

Perree also stressed the need of@

organization among the workers
of West Vancouver as a means to
eombat the lowering of the stand-
ard of living.

Mrs. D. G. Steeves, MilLA, who
also addressed the meeting, con-
demned the government for mak-
ing municipalities responsible for
unemployed problems. She adyo-
eated public works at decent
wages, 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-
ecessible the means of livelihood

a public works program.

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

Another meeting was held later
for the purpose of organizin= West
Vancouver workers on ae trade
union basis, C. M. Stewart, chair-—
man of the organizational commit-—
tee of the Trades and Labor Coun-
ceil, 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
eity relief, and particularly those who live on a $10 monthly al-
lowance, Vancouver Ex-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
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.

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.

Advo-©

Friends Meet
At Victoria

Mrs. Mathieson Attends
Conference In Capital

VICTORIA, BC, June 16—Mrs.
Helen Mathieson, provincial treas-
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. Ineluded 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 individual
parcels reached volunteers for
whom they were intended.

She stressed the fact that the
national office planned to make
repular 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. K., 50 cents;
Victoria, $3.18; 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 centre and picnic
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 Creel
Park a beauty spot in the munici-
pality.

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

ARMS FOR SPAIN

Surrey Has
Cut Relief
Allowance

Surrey Workers Urge
That Unemployed Be
Given Jobs On New
Highway.

TWO-YEAR PROJECT

CLOVERDALE, BC, June
16—Advaneing as its reason
the abundance of garden and
orchard produce, Surrey muni-
cipal council has reduced the
relief scale from $17.50 to $15,
and $3.50 for each dependent;
Single unemployed reduced to
56 a month.

George Grimes, chairman of the
central committee, Surrey Work-
ers’ Association, asked the council
to recommend to the provincial

| Sovernment that a proper propor-

tion of relief workers be employed
on construction of the new
2600,000 highway along the Berg-
strom Road. Granting this re-
guest, Reeve Hunter stated that
as the project was primarily to
provide work for the unemployed,
they should be put to work.

Fear that he would not be elig-
ible for relief should he take a
short-time job was expressed to
the council by a relief recipient.
The council made it clear that such
was not the case, the reeve stating
that any man who obtained work
for a short period could again
obtain relief when needed.

Work for a large number of men
Over a period of two years is seen
in the building of a double i12-foot
highway over the Bergstrom route
to the Peace Portal, a project
which will affect Surrey consider-
ably. it will cost the federal goy-
ernment $600,000.

The highway will start at Peter-
son Hill and follow the Bergstrom
to a point south of Newton, swing
Slightly east to meet the YWood-
ward's Hill road at the New Mc-
Lelland road, and thence across
the Mud Bay Flats to join the
present cut over the North Bluff
to the Campbell River road at
Coast Meridian and Douglas roads.
The route has been surveyed.

Considerable money has been
spent by Surrey council on the
Bergstrom road, which will now
accrue to the government.

Win Paid Holidays

GLOUCESTER, Eng., June 16.—
Holidays with pay have been
granted to miners here through
negotiations between Forest of
Dean Miners’ Association and op-
erators.

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to try and live on $10 a month.
“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.

“Wo one gets any salary for car-
rying 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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