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Cameron Flays Anti-Labor Policy

Attitude Of
Island Paper
Condemned

Why Is Bloedell’’s Mill

Paying US Workers

Higher Wages? Asks
MLA

ASKS PARTICULARS

PORT ALBERNI, BC, June
30.—Why is the management
of Bloedel’s paying its Am-
erican employees wages nearly
30 per cent higher than its Ca-
nadian employees?

This is one of several pertinent
points raised by Colin Cameron,
MLA (CCE, Comox), in a letter to
the West Coast Advocate anent the
present struggle of mill employees
here for eollective bargaining
rights.

Berating the paper for its atti-
tude, Cameron comments on two
unsigned letters carried recently in
its columns.

“Writer number one, who ‘is
more interested in a steady job
than in the exercising of his rights’
starts off by an engagingly frank
avowal of his shortcomings,’ says
Cameron. He says, “I am always in-
elined to let someone in other pas-
tures find out for me, rather than
be the first sucker in the trenches.”’
In other words he is quite willing
to reap so long as someone else
does the sowing. But he should re-
member that if he discourages the
sowing too vigorously there will be
no harvest for him to reap—other
than a heavy crop of regret.

“Writer of letter number two
who modestly signs himself “Mill
Worker,” quite frankly admits that
the mill companies have got him
seared. He suggests that it is for
their union activities that certain
men have been laid off recently
and seems to feel that the com-
panies were quite justified. He is
very scornful of the idea that it is
the duty of the minister of labor
to investigate and put these men
back to work if the facts are as
he represents. It may interest him
to Enow the minister's duty is just
precisely that. By his own show-
ing he, the letter writer, has knowl-
edge which leads him to believe
that the management of the two
mills have committed an offence
under the Act.”

In condemning the stand taken
by the West Coast Advocate,
Cameron remarks:

Sorry Spectacie

“Te should not be necessary to
point out that a good citizen’s duty
lies in helping to bring law-break-—
ers to justice. But what do we find?
The sorry spectacle of the local
press of Port Alberni stooping, in
its anxiety to fawn on the local
mill management, to the crudest
form of misrepresentation. And the
even sorrier spectacle of two al-
jeged employees of the mill com-
panies urging their fellow-workery
to refrain from exercising their
rights under the law for fear the
law-breaking hand of the boss may
fall on them.

“Both you and your correspend-
ents have a deal to say about
foreign-controlled unions, but are
curiously silent about foreign-con-
trolled corporations. Yet these cor-
porations are among those who
maintained a lobby in Victoria last
session for the express purpose of
sabotaging any forestry legislation
which might ensure, not only for
your correspnodent but for his son
after him, a steady job in your
premier industry.

‘T have written for full particu-
lars regarding these dismissals. if
the facts are as your correspondent
indicates then a charge will be
jaid—and it would become your
paper more, were you to aid in
laying the law-breakers by the heels

Kirkland Lake Campaign

this district.
Petition lists issued by the
progressive citizens, including

the city council which recognizes
in this a vital issue.

The reeve and four councillors
here have expressed their support
of the union’s campaign in indivi-
dual statements and the union pre-
dicts that between 12,000 and 14,000
Signatures to the petition will be
obtained.

Strong public support, it is con-
fidently believed, will force the
mining companies to accede to the
demand.

Despite the cry raised in the re-
actionary press that “the mines
would have to close down if they
were forced to concede such a ridi-
eculous demand,” figures show that
he large producing mines average
more than $15.35 per man per shift
clear profit. The average wage is
$5 a shift.

in the community give their support
campaign also has the approval ofS

‘Holidays With Pay Slogan
Of Ontario Mine Union

KIRKLAND LAKE, Ont., June 30.— “Holidays with pay,”
the slogan of the special campaign launched here by the Mine,
Mill and Smelter Workers’ Union, is tecoming a byword in

union are filling rapidly as all
business and professional men
to the campaign.

A two-week vacation for each
miner would cost the company 360
annually. Spread over 52 weeks,
each of siz days, the cost would be
19 cents per man per shift. De-
ducted from the figure given above,
a profit of $1516 a shift would
still go to the mine. The union’s
demand represents only an infin-
itesimal proportion of the swollen
profits of the big companies.

To date the mines have taken
the attitude that, if miners want
holidays, they must pay for them
themselves or go without.

As part of the campaign, the
union has strung a streamer in-
seribed, “Union Miners Want Holi-
days With Pay,’ across Govern-

ment road, the town’s main street.

Monopoly Move Seen

children is being pressed here.
The School Bus Drivers’ Associa-
tion charges that monopoly trans-
portation companies brought pres-
sure to bear upon the government
in order to obtain the new ruling.
A meeting of the Private Bus Op-
eartors’ Association, attended by
Lower Mainland municipal officials
and representatives of 22 organiza-
tions, demanded:

i. That further consideration be
given to the question before the re-
gulation is enforced.

2. That regulations be revised to

Campaign Against New
Govt Ruling Pressed

CLOVERDALE, BC, June 30.—The campaign which has as
its objective the lifting of new provincial government regulations |
stipulating that school bus drivers can transport only school

permit private buses to operate on

a charter basis.

3. That the association be al-
lowed a representative on the
board governing recommendations
to the license department.

Ten Shepherd, MLA (CCF, Delta)
stated shortly after the new order
was made public it would work
hardship on organizations and
groups wishing to stage picnics and
unable to afford the charges made
by the big transportation com-
panies.

Thirty Cents In Dollar

Four Millions In Interest
Paid To Banks in 1937

The chairman of the civie relief
committee also gave the following
expenditures: Schools, $3,217,200.42
(22 percent); police, $1,012 (7.5 per-
cent); fire department, $860,992 (6
percent); relief, $808,451 (7.5 per-
eent); administration, $564,962
(3.93). By December, 1938, the city
will have paid $6,762,660 to the
Bank of Montreal, he stated.

Corey admitted the injustice of
cutting the relief allewance of
single unemployed taxpayers who
were home owners from $13.60 to
$10, especially when $1 for fuel
must be paid, 50 cents for light
and $2.50 for taxes, leaving a man
only $6 a month on which to eat.
We claimed that the city council
was not hard-hearted however, be-
eause the provincial government
wanted to cut these cases off relief
altogether.

A laugh went up when one mem-
ber of the audience suggested it
would be a shame to cut a sizeable

rather than doing their extremely
dirty work for them.”

JULY,

amount off the yearly interest paid
out by the city.

1938

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Friends of the Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion

Room 43, 615 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, B.C.
Phone Trimity 4955

Alderman H. I.. Corey told a ratepayers’ meeting in Mount
Pleasant school recently that $4,363,855.96 was paid last year
by the city to the banks as interest on bonded indebtedness—
30.39 cents out of the civic tax dollar.

Rail Conditions
Caused Death

CUMBERLAND, BC, June 30—
Critically injured at the Deep Bay
logging company’s holding last
Thursday, Jimmie Tsumura, 22,
died the following day in hospital
her.

At the inquest Saturday witnes-
ses declared that 10 men were rid-
ing the speeder from which Tsu-
mura was thrown when it collided
with a flatear spotted on a switch,
five of them escaping with slight
bruises. The crew had been lifting
an old line. A witness admitted that
the speeder was carrying five or six
tons of steel rail down a five per-
cent grade. The rails were in bad
condition, he stated,

The corner’s jury recommended
that speedermen be subjected to
the more rigid tests demanded of
other engineers who are respon-
sible for carrying passengers.

The |

Seine Boat
Threatens

Livelihood

Langara Fishermen Hit
Fisheries Dep’t For
Failure To Act On
Protest.

2,000 AFFECTED
By CHARLES VALLEY

PRINCE RUPERT, BC, June’

30.— (Special). —On Mangara |
Island trolling grounds ap-
proximately 400 fishermen

(white and Indian) manage to
eke out a living for themselves
and their families, possibly
2000 persons, by catechins the
spring salmon attracted there by a
comparatively small colony of her-
ring schooling in that vicinity.

Should, for some reason, these
herring on which the salmon feed,
disappear, it is obvious that the
salmon would also disappear in
search of other feeding grounds,
thus closing the source of liveli-
hood of the 400 fishermen and
their dependents.

Until recently the possibility of
this happening seemed remote, but
now through a lack of foresight on
the part of our fishery department,
it has become a real danger.

Having received a permit from
the department, a herring seine
boat is now removing this salmon
feed by hauls of from 50 to i100
tons at a time (approximately half
a million herring to a haul). At
this rate the small school will not
jJast lone. it is decreasing and as
it goes the salmon catch is also
decreasing.

Appeals to the department seem
to be in vain. Wot an unusual
thing when the person appealed
against is the wealthy operator.
The replies received from the de-
partment are not convincing to
practical fishermen. For instance,
mention of no contrel outside the
three-mile limit when the herring
are being caught within quarter of
a mile of the shore, show that it
is not even caring to investigate
the matter, but is content to give
an opinion from an armchair in
the same office to which we send
Salary cheques.

if these herring were being used
for food purposes, perhaps there
would be less reason for grumbling,
but they are being reduced to fer-
tilizer.

What system is this that allows
a wealthy company to send out a
Single boat to take away for all
time the means of livelihood of
2000 people? And all for the sake

of the profits on a few tons of
tertilizer.
There have been cases before

when, failing to get aid from the
authorities, the fishermen have
taken things into their own hands.
This is, of course, to be deplored,
but men get desperate when watch-
ing the bread being taken from
their mouths with the dread of a
winter on relief facing them, the
latter being a-prospect which the
authorities can appreciate. Per-
haps these authorities will help to
put this matter right.

The following resolution was sent
by fishermien to the fisheries de-
partment: :

“Be it resolved that (at this joint
meeting of Indians and white fish-
ermen) we desire to take all legal
means to protect our source of liv-

ings, but we demand and intend
that seining for herring on the
above mentioned grounds be
stopped.”

Winch Fiays Pattullo

who responded to the call for a

been held under its auspices.
Condemnation of police brutality}
and support for city firemen were
stressed in outstanding speeches
given by A. M. Stephen, GC. M. Stew-
art, Harold Winch, Fergus Mc-
Kean, Dr. Lyle Telford, Sam
Shearer, Mrs. Stuart Jamieson, E.
Cumber, Rev. A. N. Mathieson.
As references were made to the
sympathetic stand of the firemen,
several fire trucks passed the
grounds on their way to a fire and
the audience turned to greet them
with a storm of cheers and hand-
elapping.
CG. M. Stewart, executive member
of the trades council, declared that
while the meeting was not called
by the council, yet the entire labor
movement was behind the boys in
their struggle.
Harold Winch,
speech, quoted extensively from
election speeches of Pattullo to
prove the hollowness of the Pre-
mier’s promises. He described Hon. —
G. S. Pearson as being a “poor
specimen,’ stating that the recent
radio speech by the minister of
labor was one of the lamest he had
ever heard. He claimed that the
governments had never clearly de-
fined the status of a transient.
Making his first appearance at

in a powerful

Many trade unionists were among the three thousand peopl

single unemployed at Powell Street grounds last Sunday.

rally was called at short notice by a committee, includ
several trade unionists acting as individuals, after the trades |
and labor council executive vetoed a similar rally to have jj

Audience At City Rally
Cheers Firemen For Stana

&

protest rally in support of -

a public meeting since Bloody 8S
day, Steve Brodie, still showing th
effects of his beating, state
simply: E

“My only regret today is that th
boys in Victoria are not here 7
see this demonstration of sol
Garity.”

Dr. TDPelford told his astonishe
audience that one of the policem
using a club on Bloody Sundze
was later arrested for molesting
nine-year-old girl, and was no
out on bail. He mentioned ths
since Sunday’s violence, a police
sergeant, who tried to sell hi
tickets for the police sports, had
visited his office. The doctor statet
be refused, telling the officer, “i
I had my way with some of yo
old policemen I’d put you in mut
and send you out hunting for jo
like the single unemployed are told
to do,” pee

Fersus McKean, provincial secre-
tary of the
stated the jobless had obeyed th
highest law, that of seli-preserva
tion. He declared that were a dele
gation of citizens sent to Ottawa
from the coast on behalf of th
boys, it would be received in every
province with open arms.

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