ae ir CHANGE PRESENT POLICIES’ PRINCE RUPERT, BC, Aug. 18.—(Special) —Premier T. D. Pattullo is not popular even with Liberals in his own con- stituency of Prince Rupert. His capitulation to big busi- ness on many vital issues and his failure to implement his election pledges this week drew severe censure from Prince Rupert District Liberal Asso- Ciation, whieh declared the provincial government’s poli- cies to be “diametrically op- posed to the fundamental prin- ciples of Liberalism.” A resolution passed by the association demands that the government abandon its present policies and adopt those more m line with Lib- eral traditions and “in keep- ing with changed conditions.” The resolution, which will be placed before the resolutions committee at the Liberal con- vention in Kelowna this month, concludes: “This association recommends to the convention to be held at Kelowna the adoption of a policy which will extend to every citizen the means of ac- quiring mastery of his own ca- pacity and of establishing real equality of opportunity for ali” Many Liberals Veice Protest -The Liberals in the Premier’s own riding are not the only government adherents in re- volt. Failure of the government to take any steps to curb Japa- nese interests in the alarming extent to which they have ob- tained control of British Co- lumbia’s natural resources throush “dummy” companies is known to be troubling many Liberals. Reactionary members of the cabinet will also have a difficult time explaining their anti-labor attitude to delegates at the convention. The Alaska-Yukon highway project will loom large in the convention. In view of its im- portance as an unemployment relief measure whereby 5,000 men will be employed over a ‘longs period, delegates are ex- pected to endorse resolutions ealling for a five-year construc- tion program at a cost of $5,000,000 an conjunction with Canadian and US federal gov- ernments. Another important issue be- fore the convention will be that of aid to hard-pressed munici- palities. Troubling many Liberals is the support lost by the govern- ment as a result of its handling of the single unemployed prob- lem and there will certainly be strong demands for a realistic policy, particularly in view of the opposition aroused in the interior by the government’s endeavor to disperse the men throughout the province. The fact that hundreds of single unemployed have been un- loaded onto those ridings pre- dominantly Liberal has not added to the government’s popularity. British Columbia’s Progressive Home Paper RUPERT LIBERALS RAP PATTULLO The People’s Advocate ——$———— Full No. 188. VANCOUVER, B.C., FRIDAY, AUGUST 19, 1938 <= ® = Cents Jobless Returning 3 “ie VICTORIA, BC, AUG. 18.—YIC- TORIA TRADES AND LABOR COUN- CIL WEDNESDAY CHOSE PRESIDENT FOX AS ITS DELEGATE TO THE TRADES AND LABOR CONGRESS OF 1936 and 1937.’’ two years. Congress. executive. Unions Blast At Padlock Adopting a resolution presented by Local 101, Street Railway- men’s Union, Vancouver Trades and Labor Council on Tuesday night strenuously opposed the Quebee padlock law and asked for a court test of its validity. Qn the recommendation of Bill Stewart, Local 28, Hotel and Rest aurant Employees Union, delegates decided to hear a speaker from VWancouvers Civil Liberties Union on the question at the next council meeting. The resolution will go to the 04th Trades and Labor Congress of Can- hada next month for consideration. Other resolutions from Street Railwaymen’s Union endorsed by the Trades Council included one demanding that the embargo on arms and supplies te the Spanish government be lifted immediate-— ly and another urging the Federal government to halt shipment of war materials te aggressor na- tions. z Pointing out that the previous year’s convention had agreed to the setting up of an organizational de- partment to make a real attempt at organizing the workers of Can= ada, a resolution asking the Trades and Labor Congress of Ganada to set aside sufficient money for the operation of such a department was unanimously adopted. Station Slashes Broadcast CCF Leader's Speech Banned VICTORIA, BG, Aug. 18.—Declar- ing that censorship of his broadcast was a violent infringment of demo- eratic rights of free speech, Wigel Morgan, young CCF organizer and Candidate in the last provincial election, refused to continue with his broadeast over radio station GECT this week. * The broadeast was intended as a reply to the pro-fascist Young Citi- zens’ ieague, and all the blue-pen- Cilled statements have appeared in the daily press from time to time. A censored portion of the speech ~ read: “Democracy is under fire to- day. It has been destroyed ina large part of the capitalist world. It is fighting for its Jife in the re- mainder. Powerful fascist states, Germany, Italy and Japan have in- volved one-third of the population of the earth in eatastrophic wars. The Rome-Berlin-Tokio aise 15 threatening to embroil the world in war.” References to the “brutal and vicious” treatment of the single un- employed by police on June 19 were also blue-pencilled. > < Victoria, Vancouver Trades Councils Urge Labor Unity Policy CANADA CONVENTION, UNANI- MOUSLY INSTRUCTED HIM TO FIGHT FOR TRADE UNION UNITY, RETENTION OF CIO UNIONS IN THE CONGRESS. - *““The question of unity in the trade union move- ment is ten times more important today than in This stand was taken by Charles Stewart, Vancouver Trades and Labor Council executive member, when he presented a resolution from his union, Local 101, Street Railwaymen, for endorsation at Tuesdays meeting of the trades council. The resolution asked for the maintenance and extension of the status quo in the Canadian trade union movement. It pointed out that this policy had helped in organizing thousands of unorganized workers and commended the Trades and Labor Consress of Canada for its strong stand for unity in the past Bitter words were flung across the floor of the council when delegates aired their views on the question of allowing CIO and AFL, delegates to sit side by side in the Trades and Labor The executive recommended that this resolution should not be forwarded to the Congress from the council, President A. E. Jamieson admitting that he had cast the deciding vote on the “I am for unity in Canada so long as it is under the American Federation of Labor,’ he said. Secretary Percy Bengough regret- ted presentation of such a resolu- tion at this time. “Delegates will be put on a spot they shouldn’t be on, and whether the resolution is passed or not, it will have accomplished nothing but a lot of unpleasantness,” he de- clared. ‘We have managed to evade the issue so far, and we don’t want any division in the council now.” Amending the recommendation of the executive by suggesting that it be referred back to Local 101, Birt Showler, Teamsters Union, de- clared: “This resolution was brought in with the idea of provoking disrup- tion in the council. Some delegates are pulling the old gag that anyone opposed to the resolution is opposed to unity. It was done with the idea that they can spread it around that some of us are opposed to unity.” (Continued on page 6) See “UNITY” STRIKERS REFUSE EVICTION ORDER In face of Pacific Lime com- pany 's demand that company houses at Blubber Bay must be vacated immediately, strikers are sitting tight. Picket lines have been extended from the docks and plant of the Pacific Lime company to the strikers’ homes. Accompanied by a member of the provincial police force, P. B. Jones, company timekeeper, personally visited all homes and ordered strikers out. At one house where he found 2 woman alone, Jones tried to break the door open and remove the woman by force, watched by provincial police who made no move to prevent Such actions. Union officials of the Blubber Bay local state that the spirit of the men is ‘hard to beat. They are all full of fight and are willing to go all the way. The picket line is being maintained twenty-four hours a day and anything coming in here has to go through the picket line.”’ BC District Council of the In- ternational Woodworkers of Am- erica is petitioning Attorney General Gordon Wismer to grant a new trial to strikers sentenced to sixty days in the recent fracas at Blubber Bay dock. VETS WIN DEMAND ON RELIEF Some 350 single unemployed ex-servicemen, aided by the Canadian legion, Imperial Veterans and the Ex-Service- men’s League, this week wrung concessions from the provin- cial government after flinging down an ultimatum that they would take drastic action if the government did not heed their demands. Their demand was that they be given $18.75 2 month cash relief and be permitted to eat and sleep where they liked. A third demand was for a genuine employment agency. After representations had been made by leaders of yeterans organ- izations here, the provincial gov- ernment announced through Hon. George Pearson, minister of labor, that veterans now living at Abbott House and Soldiers’ Billets would be given $13.20 direct relief a month with the right to eat and sleep where they wished. Full demands are stili being urged on the government. Success of single unemployed men in obtaining a temporary con- ditional relief allowance of $19.20 @ month decided the veterans to press their own grievances, Since last spring they have been living at Abbott House, which, they charge, is a centre for degenerates, petty criminals and stool-pigeons, and Soldiers’ Billets on Powell Street. When the provincial gov- (Continued on page 6) See “VETS” CHARGE COMBINE MARKET CONTROL VERNON, BC, Aug. 18—Charg- ing that a jobber-shipper combine controls marketing of fruits and vegetables throughout BC and the prairie provinces, “sparing noth- ing in its ruthlessness” and forc- ing down returms to growers, 2 meeting of growers here this week forwarded to Ottawa and Wictoria demand for a complete investigation. Presenting the charges is Godfrey Isaacs, who claims that operations of the combine are more extensive than those of the Nash combine, subject of a probe in 1925. The cor- porations concerned, he asserts, are violating the law and are subject to penalties under the Combines Investigation Act. VICTORIA, BC, Aug. 18.—Inter- viewed here, Hon. K €C MacDon-— ald, minister of agriculture, said no complaint had been laid before him, but “if there is anything wrong, the sooner it is Shown up the better.” Action of the minimum wage board in cutting cannery work- ers’ minimum wages 10 percent last weekend, after cannery op- erators refused to open their plans for canning of tomatoes un- less the cut was made, were to be discussed by the Jam & Cannery Workers’ Union at a meeting Thursday night. Strong opposition to the board’s action was voiced by individual union members. Tomato growers who, faced by loss of their crop through threat— ened non-operation of the plants, were forced to cut prices $2 a ton, are demanding a government probe. Utilities Bill VICTORIA, BC, Aug. 18. — An- nouncement that a public utilities bill would be introduced at the next session of the legislature, was made by Premier Pattullo Thurs- day. SIR STAFFORD GRIPPS British Labor leader. Travelling incognito, he arrived in Kingston, Jamaica, last week to probe the conditions that led to recent strikes, suppressed with great brutality. TWO RESIGN FROM BOARD Arbitration board set up by Hon. _G. S. Pearson, minister of labor, has so far been unsuccessful in settling the controversy between canners and fishermen on salmon prices. Compased of Judge Denis Mur- phy, R. R. Payne, can- ners’ representative, and A. W. Weil, MP, representing organized fishermen, the board was estab- lished upon request from canners applications from fishermen chairman; after had been rejected. Union officials stated Thursday that R. R. Payne, canners’ repre- sentative, and Justice Denis Mur- phy had resigned from the board leaving the matter still unsettled. At a recent session, fishermen demanded an audit of canners’ books for last year by an indepen- dent auditor who would have ac- cess to all books for the previous five years’ trading. Hon. G S. Pearson, now in Van- couver, is endéavoring to persuade canners to end the impasse by ac- cepting last year’s salmon prices. o City CITIES IN INTERIOR PROTEST Stating that groups of Vancouver single unem- ployed touring the province in search of work were in- tensifying the unemployment problem and involving in- terior districts in extra ex- pense to provide the men with shelter, Kelowna City Council this week protested the provincial government's policy. _ Welson City Council endorsed this action and demanded that “im- mediate steps be taken to rectify the governments policy and that no further groups be sent out.” Wo more relief will be granted in up-country centres, Hon. G. S. Pear- son intimated this week, and the men now in the interior must re- turn to the point at which they reg- istered originally. Tyo hundred and fifty men arrived in the city on Thursday night and 500 more are expected by the weekend. The policy laid down by the min- ister of labor is that men now head- ing back to Vancouver will be granted relief in the city “1f they can prove to the authorities that they have earnestly searched fer work.” Relief Project Workers’ Union officials state that the men have been unable to obtain work of any kind, with the exception of fire- fighting during the whole of their “tour.’’ Transients in the city have been eut off relief, and although many of them have lived a number of years in BC, they are expected to return to the prairie, in spite of letters from prairie towns refusing to guarantee work or relief. We word has been received by union officials in reply toe their request that a delegation be al- lowed to visit the forthcoming Liberal convention at Kelowna. The convention chairman inter- viewed by one of the boys, stated he felt “that there was very little hope of the request being al- lowed.” Barton ganizations te be called in be closed to the public. Aldermen also agreed to visit the site at the urgent request of Ald. Harry DeGraves, who pleaded for the mto “see for themselves.”’ “We don’t need to dwell upon 2 description of the conditions there,” remarked Ald. Gutteridge. “We all iknow how bad they are.” Another fight in the council chamber was averted by Ald. Crone who moved that the coun- cil members agree to visit the Site. Question of providing 2 park and playground in place of the dump was referred to the school sites and parks commit tee, which will call in all inter- ested bodies. Joint Conference on False Creek Project Dr. A. F. Barton, president, Federated Ratepayers, has agreed to be chairman at a conference of all interested or- ill Head St. James Anglican Church Friday, August 26 to discuss False Creek playground project. Cleanup of False Creek Flats is the responsibility of the health department, the city council decided Monday. Sam- ples of water from Little lake draining the flats are being tested and if found to be a menace to health, the flats will Members of the Service Clubs Council, escorted to False Creek by Alderman DeGraves on Monday, all voiced the opinion that “it was a terrible mess to have in the heart of the city.” “OT course, we are not in a posi- tion to say if the state of the city’s finances warrant purchase of hts area,’ stated McHattie, Service Clubs Council, “but if it is possible for the city to acquire the site then it should be done.” Cooperation in this scheme, with possible financial assistance if the city is unable to finance the pro- ject, iS sought by Ald. Harry DeGraves from the Service Clubs Council. eee