BRITISH COLUMBIA’S PROGRESSIVE HOME NEWSPAPER == FOR PEACE, PROGRESS AND DEMOCRACY Full No. 190. VANCOUVER, B.C., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1938 a> ® 5 Cents. Sixty-four single unemployed BSS: charged with “obstructing police,” will come before the solice eourt this Friday morn- ing. Of the eighteen tried on Thurs- -ay, eight were sentenced to 60 days mprisonment, nine to 30 days and pne to 10 days. = | A woman tincanner, Mrs. Mar- ret McDonald, although reported y RPWU officials to have no con- ection with the union or the boys oliciting, was sentenced to 30 days. rhe: deciared she wes saving all aoney she collected to give to the O¥s- . James Evans, an unemployed veteran, sentenced on June 5 to Six months in Qalkalla for tn- cannine unless he left the city MLA Arrested = 7 CGLIN CARERON (See story on this page) within 43 hours, took the latter ak ternative, but had to return to Sign papers in an attempt to ob tain 2 pension. He was promptly arrested again on June 19, told he had to serve out the six months sentence, and charced with rioting in addition. Ge has now been transferred to Essondale, suffering from nervous breakdown. Judge Matheson, approached by mion officials to rescind the six ienths’ sentence, said he “didn’t 2ean the boy to serve that length f time’ and recommended officiais > appeal to Justice Minister La- (Continued on page 6) See JOBLESS (UKON MINERS )ONATE TO SPAIN From many provincial points onations have been received by the riends of the Mackenzie-Papineau attalion for Canadian volunteers . Spain, Jack Chivers, provincial rsanizer, told the Advocate this eek. Quistanding among these contri- utions was the donation of $70 for- arded by miners at Granville in 1e Yukon to Bill Bennett, Advo— ite columnist, for the boys in pain. ; = Other donations received: WN. If GOING TO CONGRESS Ammons those attending the 54th convention of the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada, opening at Wiagara, September 12, will be fourteen delegates from Vancouver, one from Victcria and two from Nanaimo. President E. A. Jamieson, Sec- retary Perey Bengough and Wm. Stewart will attend from Vancou- ver Trades and Labor Council; Herriot from Barbers Union; Birt Showler from the Teamsters; Grif- fin, Dunlop and Stewart from Div. 101, Street Railwaymen; Sam Shearer from Railway Carmen, and Tom Holland from International Typographical Union. Delegates will also go from Tinsmiths, The— atrical Stagehands, Bakers and Maintenance of Way. BC Volunteer Back From Spain TORONTO, Ont, Sept i—Ted Gunrud, former British Columbia organizer for the International Woedworkers of America, re- turned from Spain last weelkend after 12 months front Hne service in one of the most important and famous divisions of the Spanish republican army—the first regi- rezler, Atlin, $10; Bralorne miner, 50; Eiuderby Communist party ranch, $5; Websters Corner, $10. sintula has sold twenty badges 1d numerous individual donations aye been sent in. Last month $425 in cash was for- arded to the national offices of Friends of the Mackenzie—Papi- sau. Battalion in Toronto in addi- on to several parcels of socks and rarettes. youkhobors Face oss Of Lands GALGARY, Alta., Sept 1.—It was ated here Thursday that repre— ntatives of the Wational Trust were preparing to fore- mpany ) 9se on Doukhobor community nds in the Cowley-Lundbreck strict. The Advocate recently reported suLEhbor protest against action of e National Trust in occupying = property at Brilliant, BG, where, a result, many Doukhobors face stitution. ravaa Comments n Japan Exposes MOSCOW, USSR, Sept. 1 — wder the heading “Japanese In- Sues in Canada,” Pravda, Com- anist party organ, last week de- ted three-quarters of a column the recent senies of articles by 41 Griffin, acting editor of the ivocate, exposing Japanese es- mnase and economic penetration the British Columbia coast. The Hicles were published concur- ntly in the Advocate and the uily Clarion, Toronto. ment transport division of the Fifth Army Corps. POLICEIS DEMAND Pollowing arrest of John Stanton, unien counsel, and Colin Cameron, MILA, while exercising their legal right to obtain goods belonging to strik- ers at Blubber Bay Thursday, Hon. Gordon Wismer, attorney- Seneral, has invited CCE co-opera- tion in a demanded investigation of police activities in that district. Statements by provincial police after the incident are held by Stanton te contain several delib- erate untruths. “We went in a very friendly man- ner to the Chinese and were talk- ing and laughing to them in their homes. I cannot see how it will be possible for the company to find any charge on which they can is— Sue summonses,” he told the Ad- vocate. Stanton stated that one constable walked part of the way to the bunk- house with them and left them when the road forked to go to the company offices, later returning with four more policemen who in- formed Stanton and Cameron that they were under arrest for “being on company property without per-— mission.” Grant MacNeil, MP, has also lodged complaints with the attor-— ney-general concerning intimida- tion and coercion of strikers at Blubber Bay, stating that he him- self was forced to take a police es- cort while attending 4a rally at Vananda. “¥ would like to know why two provincial police took the trouble to stand at the door of the CCE meeting in YVananda. Presumably they checked on all who attend- ed,” he remarked. Appalling conditions in the lime Quarry have been reported by Grant MacNeil. The quarry is itself just an open hole 180 feet deep, the only approach being a straight lad- der fastened to the walls, which, it is stated, has been condemned by compensation officials time and time again. The case of ©. S. Peele, plant manager, charged with assaulting Yim Kee, Chinese striker, has been postponed until Tuesday, September 6, at Powell River court. Similar charges may also be laid against Jones, timekeeper, and Illot, clerk for the company. UBC Students Plan To Interview Govt A committee of three, representing University of British Columbia students, will go to Victoria shortly to ask the provin- cial government's aid in students’ fight against a $25 increase in fees and restriction of enrolment to 2000. Attempts of the UBC student body to broaden the sphere of higher education were defeated last week when the board of gov- ernors refused te rescind its deci- Sion to raise fees and curtail at tendance. Last January, students set up a campaizn committee to publicize benefits of a university and to seek a solution to the pressing problem of overcrowding. By constant effort and complete investigation of the situation, the campaign committee reached what it thought a satisfactory compro— mise. But the board of governors. dictatorially rejected the results of Six months’ work by the student organization. : The campaign committee con- ferred with the provincial cabinet and found this body favorable to students’ demands. The cabinet agreed to recompense the university for any deficit incurred next year and, in addition, promised to in- stitute a 10-year building program en the campus. Students would contribute $300,000 to the buildings and would repay the debt by rais- ing fees only $10. It added up to the fact that fees would be raised $10 instead of $25. There remained, however, the problem of curtailment next year. The committee proved that only 60.7 percent of lecture room Space was used last year and that, by a simple rearrangement of time tables, limitation could be avoided until a building program was ef- fected. The board’s decision will prevent 1,250 students, fully qualified and matriculated, from entering college in the next four years. “Tt is a condemnation of the pol- icy of friendly cooperation and moderation which the student body has followed up until the present,” students stated this week “If we are to be successful jn reducing fees and abolishing limitation then we must adopt 4 policy of active protest against the restrictions imposed by the board of governors.”’ Growers Seeking Federal Probe of Combine Charges VICTORIA, BC, Sept. 1. — The provincial government, through Attorney-General Gordon en Wednesday Wismer, asked Godfrey Isaacs, Oyama fruit srower, for details of his recent charge that a combine, operating through Western Grocers, Ltd., of Winnipeg, and Dominion Fruit, Ltd., controlled fruit and vegetable marketing in British Columbia and the three prairie provinces. Wismer stated that he planned to study the detailed charges this weekend before determining what action the provincial government would take. The federal government has already been asked to institute a probe under the Combines Investigation Act and this request bas been formally endorsed by the provincial government. If the federal government does not act in the matter, pro- vincial authorities will consider appointment of a royal com- mission. KELOWNA, BC, Sept. 1—Determination to see ‘the thing through” was expressed by Godfrey Isaacs, Oyama grower whose charges against combine control of fruit and vegetable market- ing have stirred the whole Okanagan Valley. Most of the srowers here favor a federal investigation be- cause of the fact that operations of the combine extend beyond provincial boundaries onto the prairies and, it is charged, even into the United States. Growers feel that only a federal probe will uncover the full ramifications of the combine. : Union Endorses Roosevelt Policy Returned this week from the recent convention of the Hotel and Restaurant Employees Union in San Francisco, Bill Gate- man, secretary of the union’s Local 28 here, and Vancouver delegate to the convention, told the :Advocate Thursday that the 800 delegates unanimously endorsed President Roosevelt’s suggestion that the great racies should act collectively to quarantine aggressor nations. President Flore, re-elected by a large majority, urged the conven- tion to continue its policy of trade union unity. A resolution to this effect was, for lack of time, referred to the ex ecutive board. Locals in all parts of Canada and the United States were represented at the convention. Members of the union in Alaska were represented by one delegate. In the past four years the union has recorded remarkable growth, membership increasing from 27,000 in 1934 to 200,000 this year. The Hotel and Restaurant Employees is now the fifth largest interna- tional in the American Federation ef Labor. Changes in the constitution indi- cative of greater democracy allowed the election of an executive board of seventeen in place of the prevyi- ous ten, 15 of whom would be vice- presidents representing given dis- tricts. T. J. Hanafin, Local 676, Bar- tenders, Vancouver, was elected the Canadian representative, while Helen Carien, Local 168 of Lorento, was elected international delesate to AFI conventions. Among resolutions passed by the eonvention was a message of soli- darity to trade unionists fighting in the leyalist forees in Spain, dona- tion of $1,000 to the Mooney-Billings ease, support of the Wagner Anti- Tyneh Bill, demand that an em- bargzo be placed on export of war materials to Japan and boycott of Japanese goods. City Voters’ List Closes Sept. 14 Vaneouver citizens haye only two weeks in which to make sure their names are on the 1938 city voters’ list. Applications are being received by City Clerk Fred Howlett up to Sept. 14. After that date, tardy voters whose names have been omitted from the list will lose their franchise for the December Ji elections. Tenants particularly are urged by Howlett to make sure they are on the list. EOS TELFORD, WINCH PROTEST ARREST Immediately following ~- publica- tion of a report in last Friday’s Advocate that attempts had been made to put A. EF. Wiilbee, Senior, labor press salesman, in Essondale Asylum, police arrested him on the street and took him to General Hos- pital, observation. Dr. Lyle Telford, MILA, and Har- old Winch, MILA, promptly protest- ed this police action. “Tm watching to see they don’t get away with any attempt to put him Telford told the Advocate, No charge has been made against him, but Wilbee will the city police court this Friday morning. The court will decide whether charges are to be laid against him, following reports from General Hospital. Requests by YWwilbee when ar- rested last week that police let his wife Know where he was were ig- nored and as a result of worry and anxiety she is now reported to be very Siclkx. where he was placed under in the asylum,” come before i GRAB SUGGEST CONTROL FOR AREA By KAY GREGORY That big private interests may grab, not only Hollyburn Ridge, but Grouse Mountain and the whole adjacent area is, I learned this week, an alarm- ing possibility. Enquiries among prominent people in West Vancouver elicited the fact that private interests are already moving to acquire Holly burn. Attempts to interest Commis— sioner Vance of North Yancouver in a winter sports park of 2,000 aeres on Grouse Mountain have met with no encouragement and this 2,000-acre area, the doorway to the Capilanoc-Seymecur water- shed, is now in the market for $106,000. : The government, however, has indicated that it is willing to turm over the rest of the watershed be- yond to anybody purchasing for public purposes. Commissioner Vance’s attitude sug- gests that Vancouver is trying to get something for nothing, ignor- ing the fact that the city of VYan- couver could not move the park elsewhere and that North Vancou- ver would derive increased revenue from visitors. Increasing demand for skiing, hiking and other winter sports facilities provides an excellent op— portunity for outside interests to exploit the public by charging ex- orbitant prices to visit Hollyburn ridge. The watershed, declared by Reeve Leyland to be necessary for West Vancouver’s water supply, comprises two creeks, Cypress, eminently suitable for interna- tional ski trials, and WBrothers Crek, dry in the summer. The pro- posed watershed, it is claimed, is unprotectable, that is, it covers such an area it would be impos- Sible to keep the public out. Skiiers have from time to time been reassured by West Vancouver Council that skiine will always be allowed. The council, however, would give no indication of its willingness to enlarge and develop outdoor winter sports park and now logging on the Heeps conces— sion threatens to destroy both ski-_ ing facilities and the watershed. Suggestion is made by R. Rowe Holland, chairman of Vancouver Parks Board, that if the property on Hollyburn and Grouse were de dicated for a winter sports park and if skiiers and hikers’ cabins were regulated under proper parks supervision with proper sanitary equipment, better protection for the watershed could be assured than if it were entirely shut off from the public. At present the public cannot ef- fectively be kept out of the area, he felt, and if the park were under direct supervision, proper precau- tions could be taken to safesuard the water supply. Skilers are wholeheartedly in (Continued on page 6) See NORTH SHORE Advocate On Air Radio Schedule Resumes Sept 27 The regular semi-weekly commentary broadcasts by the Advocate will be resumed on Sept. 27, it was decided this week after discussion with Dr. R. Dilewellyn Douglas, through whose news- conducted cooperation these newscasts are made possible. At the present time the Advo- cate iS making one newscast a week, on HEriday, from 6-6:15 pm, over CKMO. When the semi- weekly schedule is resumed, Aa- vocate newscasts will be heard ever this station every Tuesday and Friday at 6 pm. Dr. Douglas statedthis week that | he believed the program had now become firmly established and, judging by the increased support he was receiving from trade union- ists and others, had attracted a wide listener audience in the city and Praser Valley. A strong advocate of unity of all progressive forces, Dr. Douglas Said he believed the newscasts were accomplishing a useful pur- pose in presenting the news of the day clearly and significantly, and expressed the hope that he would be able to maintain the full sche- dule throughout the winte= months. Se eee B=