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THE PEHEOPLE’S ADVOCATE

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PROVINCIAL
COMMITTEES
BOOSTS DRIVE

Prince Rupert Leads
In North, Enderby In

South. Grandview In
City
By WILLIAM RAVENOR

As the People’s Advocate-
Clarion Weekly joint press
drive for $3000 finished its first
week pledges received by the
Gentral Press Committee in
Vancouver totalled $2688, with
several committees in outlying
areas still unreported.

Several pledges were received
this week from Prince Rupert, $50;
Quesnel, $50; Kamloops, $10;
Durieu, $22; Vernon, $40, and
Cumberland, $75.

Prince Rupert Press Commiuttee,
which has already turned in $20.40,
jeads all committees in northern
BGC, while Enderby Press Commit—
tee, with $22, is ahead of rival com-
mittees in southern BC.

In Greater Vancouver, Grand-
view has forged ahead with $4175,
elosely followed by Vancouver
Gentre with $41.25. The number of
subscriptions sold by the Seamen’s
Sub-Committee is responsible for
the lead obtained by Grandview.

Other committees throughout the
province sent in the following
amounts up to midnight Wednes-
day:

Vancouver-burrard,
naby, $1040; South Vancouver,
$4.50; Langley, $4; Surrey, $4.05;
Vernon, $3-75; Haney, $2.79; Alta
Take, $2; Campbell River, $1.80;
Wanaimo, $2; Cumberland, $1; New
Westminster, $1-75; Durieu, $3.80;
©! Bills Column, $12.40.

PRIZES OFFERED

To emphasize the importance of
increasing the circulation of the
People’s Advocate and the Clarion
Weekly, the Central Press Commit -
tee this week announced a list or
prizes offered for those selling
subscriptions.

A gold ornament mounted on 2
pin will be awarded to every sup-
porter selling 14 six-month, seven
one-year, or seven club subserip-
tions, or any aggregate of six-
month, one-year and club subserip-—
tions totalling §4 months (cluv
subSeriptions counting as 12
month).

To those selling 10 six-month,
five one-year or five club subserip-
tions, or any aggregate of subserip-
tions totalling 6Q months, a gold-
plated ornament mounted on a pin
is offered.

In addition, the Clarion Weekly
is offering a choice of books to
subseribers for one year or more.

$9.50; Bur-

Takes Exception
To News Report

Exception to a statement appear—
ing in the last issue of the Adyo-
cate was taken this week by
George Miller, offiical of the Sal-
mon Purse Seiners Union here.

“Apparently you were misin-
formed by your correspondent
when you stated that striking fish-
ermen who demonstrated their soli-
darity with striking employees of
the Pacific Lime Company at Blub-
ber Bay told police that if there
were any more trouble they would
return and ‘clean the whole place
up.’

No such statement was made by
any of the fishermen and, because
of the erroneous impression it is
likely to make, my union and the
Salmon Purse Seiners of the Pa-

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ALD. STEWART SMITH

Leading Toronto Communist who
debated foreign policy under the
heading: “Isolation or Collective
Security’ with Professor F. H.
Underhill at Toronto last Fhurs—
day. By a vote of 93-31, the audi-
ence upheld the collective secur
ity policy advanced by Ald.
Smith. The debate was held under
auspices of the League for Social
Reconstruction.

FEDERATION
SENDS BRIEF
TO DAVIDSON

Changes In Welfare
Setup Recommended
By BC Federation On
Unemployment

By FRED TYLER
(President of the BC Federation
On Unemployment)
Vancouver Welfare F'edera-
tion in its forthcoming drive for
funds will face criticism which,
if heeded at this time, will not
hinder genuine charity feelings
of citizens. Imstead, it will elim-

SENDREY FACES
TRIAL TUESDAY

Charged with causing “ma-
licious damage,” Joseph Send-
rey, 23, fifth of the six single
unemployed arrested on June
19, following eviction from the
post office, to come up for trial,
will appear before Judge Denis
Murphy at the Assize Court
next Tuesday.

Sendrey is defended by Adam
Smith Johnston and members of
the Defense Committes expressed
the hope Thursday that Sendrey
would be acquitted as was David
Ta Riviere, charged with the same
offence.

Unemployed for some consider-
able time, Sendrey has been prom-
ised a.job on a fishing boat if he
is acquitted.

Jack Page and Samuel Melnik,
eonvicted on charges of rioting, are
in Oakalla awaiting sentence at the
end of the Assize session.

Wumerous other single unem-
ployed sentenced to @akalla for
“tneannine” have been receiving
gifts of tobacco and cigarettes from
the Defense Committee. Donations
for this purpose were urgently
needed, the committee stated.
This Friday a further meeting of
the Defense Committee is being
held in the Belmont Hotel to dis-
euss plans for raising necessary
funds for defense and assistance
of men now in jail.

The committee also plans to hold
a large concert on Sunday, October
16, at the Maple Hall.

Sireet Railwaymen
Aid Press Drive

Following a speech by J- Gill-
banks, Division 101, Street Rail
waymen’s Union, voted approval of
a collection to be taken among
members this Friday in aid of the

cific with to make the position
eclear.’’

People’s Advocate-Clarion Weekly
joint press drive.

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or displayed by the Liquor Gontrol

inate those agencies seeking

money to discharge social seryv-—
ices already covered by government
departments and assist the work
of the welfare organizations doing
necessary work.

This week the BC Pederation on
Unemployment mailed a brief to
Dr. G FE. Davidson, executive di-
rector of Vancouver Welfare Hed-
eration, analyzing the subject and
offering certain recommendations.

The federation stated in its brief:
“We are doubly qualified to offer
comment on the 1938 campaign for
funds by Wancouver Welfare Fed-
eration, the two circumstances be-
ing that we are representative of a
wide’ section of the population of
this city, and the other that our con-
cern is primarily with unemploy-
ment and social welfare issues.”

The brief continued that four
questions had been submitted to all
of the 43 agencies, asking informa-—
tion about their functions and pos-
ing definite questions as to disposal
of welfare grants, Only 15 answered
this questionnaire.

Analyzing the structure of Van-
couver Welfare Federation, from
data collected, the brief showed that
$291,263.73 had been received by
the agencies in 1937 from drive
monies, but in addition to this
$342,166.91 had been received from
provincial and city revenues, in-
eluding $17,879.14 in donations paid
direct to four agencies.

The total was $633,430.64 and, to
quote the brief:

“Tn addition to all this, the funds
raised by Grace Hospital, Loyal
Protestant Hospital, Catholic Chari-
ties, Canadian Red Cross, Salvation
Army, must be considered as part
of Vancouver's annual charity
gesture.

The sum of $1,250,000.00 was con-
sidered the charity bill of the city
as paid to private organizations.
PROBE SUGGESTED.

Vancouver Central Clothing Com-
mittee was treated as being a4
private agency handling $151,450 Zor
government clothing accounts to re-
Cipients of municipal and provin-
cial relief. The brief asked that gov-
ernments handle their own business
and do so out in the open, recipients
to get cash for clothing aid.

Recomendations of the brief were:
Appointment of a representative
citizens’ committee to investigate
all agencies in Yancouver Welfare
Federation; placing of a balance
sheet covering all agencies’ affairs
in the public library; cessation of
grants to Abbott riouse to prevent
governments from avoiding their
duties towards unemployed single
men.

If Federated Ratepayers Associa-
tion and Vancouver Trades and
Labor Council would appoint two
representatives each to work with
one man from the BC Federation on
Unemployment, the administration
expenses of Vancouver Welfare
Federation and each of its affili-
ated agencies can be investigated
with a view to pruning needless
agencies.

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NZ Reac

To Halt

Wage Bitter Fight

tionartes

Progress

country.

Glass divisions have sharpened)
out of all recognition and feeling

is mounting pretty high. Qpposi-
tion has hardened during the last
twelve months and the National
Party is spending a great deal of
money in organization, and pub-
licity. Lhe newspapers have never
been more openly reactionary, and
there is an intensive campaign of
personal vilification and misrepre-

would establish a policy

Auxiliary Planned

NANAIMO, BG, Oct. 6.— United
Mine Workers Union here this week
set up an organizational committee

to create greater interest among | art, placed both locals in a very
miners’ wives in a women's aux awkward position and he thought
iliary. it best for them to try and come
F&F

sentation by personal canyvassers
as well as leaflets.

In working class districts the
people are really militant. Members
of the Tabor party are advised to
stop away from opposition meet
ings; but even without them the
Candidates can scarcely get a hear-—
ing. Prime Minister Savage has
been on several tours in districts
in both South and Worth Islands,
and it has been a triumphal prog-
ress everywhere. In the country
districts results exceeded all ex
pectations.

A country organizer told me only
the other day that of the small
farmers over 50 percent in his elec-
torate will vote Labor, and of these
80 percent are Labor for the first
time.

Farmers are satisfied with the
guaranteed price scheme. Inciden-
tally, the Tories have tried to hatch
a rival scheme called compensated
prices, but as they don’t know what
they mean by it it has not cut much
ice. Apparently it is a guaranteed
price plus reduction of wages, but
they do not dare proclaim it.

(Special to People’s Advocate)
WELLINGTON, NZ, Oct. 6.—Broadcasting of all sessions of
parliament has now become an accepted fact. The result is an
interest in political questions unequalled in the history of the

The Labor party is advocating
taliing over of trading banks, or
some oblique approach to the same
end, and vigorous development of
secondary industries.

The trump card, of course, is the
social security scheme of pensions
and insurance, which the Tories
dare not oppose except in the vagu-
est terms. INc one has yet effec—
tively challenged it, and on it the
election is being fought

On foreign policy, as far as can
be judged, the average New Zea-
lander, whatever his politics, is
proud of the stand taken by Hon-
W. J. Jordan at Geneva this spring.

Fascism? Wot openly—yet, but
there is a very definite trend to-
wards it in the Catholic Action. The
government, however, seems to be
aware of the danger and has ap-
pointed a progressive general of
the standing army. And incoming
cargoes are being watched for arms.

Basing this estimate on contact
with all sorts and conditions of
people, and the many indications
of the direction of the wind, If
would say that the Nationalists ex-
pect to gain no seats in the new
Mouse. They get two through vote
splitting and lose two more. But my
own conviction is that Labor will
increase its majority by at least
six, and perhaps by nine. Some
shaky seats like Masterton are firm
again and prospects are bright in
others, particularly in the country.

Savage will go back. He has
taken hold of the imagination of
the people in a remarkable way.

Labor Debates Policy

Union Protests Move
To Declare Cafe Unfair

2k letter requesting that Good’ Eats Cafe be placed on the
“We Do Not Patronize” list, read out at a previous meeting, gave
rise to heated discussion at Tuesday’s meeting of Vancouver

Trades and Labor Council.

A resolution from Local 28, Hoteléto some arrangement with the cafe

and Restaurant Workers Union, re-
questing that “all communications
asking for certain establishments
to be placed on the “We do not pa-
tronize list’ where members of other
locals are employed, be referred
back to the senders with a request
that they contaet other locals in-
volved,’ was voted down after the
constitutionality of the motion was
challenged by various delegates
and overruled by a standing vote.

Maintaining that the resolution
for the
council, William Stewart reminded
delegates that the letter from the
Musicians’ Union had placed mem-
bers of his organization employed
by Good Eats Cafe in a very awk-
ward position.

Stewart read a letter from the
cafe proprietor referring to a meet-
ing with representatives of the u-
cisians’ and Hotel and Restaurant
Workers’ unions, at which the pro-
prietor had stated he had no ob-
jection to his orchestra joining the
union, and had requested them to
apply to the fnion. The men, the
letter stated, had been to the union
on two or three occasions and had
heard nothing further, nor had the
secretary of the union contacted the
proprietor.

“Perhaps,” the letter continued,
“vou can explain wny nothing fur-
ther has been done.”

Such a position, declared Stew-

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before placing it on the unfair list

Birt Showler pointed out that no
local could ask for any establish-
ment having agreements with any
associations affiliated to the trades
council te be placed on the unfair
list.

Speaking for the Mousicians’ Un-
ion, President Jamieson said the
union ‘‘had means or dealing with
the situation in our own way.”

The matter was left in the hands
ef the grievance committee for in-
vestigation.

Royal City Forms
Housewives’ League

NEW WESTMUONSTER, BC, Oct.
6—At a meeting held in the BC
Electric auditorium here YWednes-
day a branch of the British Co-
Jumbia Housewives’ League was
established.

Mrs. J. Mason, chairman of the
meeting, was elected president of
the branch. :

Mrs. Le Drew, Vancouver House-
wives’ League, gave a clear analysis
of the implications of Bill 89, while
Erna Whitman, president of Local
28, Hotel and Restaurant Workers
Union in Vancouver, spoke of the
assistance organized women can be
to the trade union movement gen-
erally.

Victoria Forms
New CCY Club

VICTORIA, BC, Oct. 6—Victoria
Cooperative Commonwealth Youth
Club will hold a social and dance
at its clubrooms, 27 Boyd Street,
James Bay, next Tuesday, Oct. 11,
to celebrate formation of another
progressive youth organization in
this city. Special invitations have
been issued to members cof the
GCF, Advance Youth Club, Victoria
Youth Council and the Young

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October 7, 1938

Company Union

EMPLOYEES
FORCED 10
SIGN CARDS

City Market Chain
Tries to Prevent Staff
From Joining AFL
Union

Officials of Local 279, Retail
Clerks Union declared Thurs-
day that they do not intend to
relax any effort to combat the
company union established by
Ray Eslinger, controlling Rays’
Ideal, Rainier, Grand Central,
Grand Union, Cash and Carry,
Hi-Grade, BC Public and Cum-
mings markets.

They declare that the procedure
adopted by Eslinger will create a2
precedent if allowed to continue,
leading the way for other depart-
ment store employers to intimidate
workers by threatened discrimina-
tion and force them into company
unions.

Following several organizational
meetings of meatcutters and clerks
employed in the various markets
and the enrolment of many new
members into the Retail Clerks
Union, application blanks for “em-
ployees association” were handed
to every employee by the company.
A meeting held last Wednesday
in the White Rose Ballroom was
addressed by Ray Eslinger himself,
who, by painting a false picture of
international unionism and ex
pressing “concern’’ for the welfare
ef his employees, virtually forced
employees into a company union
by taking a snap vote at the meet-
ing.

Fearing discrimination if they did
not sign+ the application blanks,
workers voted to form a company
union.

The application blank pledges
the signer to “abide by the consti-
tution and by-laws of the associa-
tion,’’ but gives no hint as to the
contents of such constitution and
by-laws:

Officials of the Retails Clerks’
Union declare that a constitution
for this company union had not
been drawn up at the time the em-
ployees were forcea to sign and that
the employees consequently had no
idea what they were agreeing to.
“Almost anyone would sign a form
if his job was threatened,’ declared
Don Maxwell, secretary of the Re—
tail Clerks. “We intend to put up
a real battle against the company
interests controlling these markets
to give the employees a chance to
join a union of their own choice.”

JOBLESS CHARGE
PLEDGE BROKEN

While, according to John Matts;
secretary of the WRelief Project
Workers Union, “there is no en-
thusiasm among single unemployed
over Labor Minister George Pear-
son’s announcement this week that
forestry project camps will reopen
this winter,” the union intends to
press for recognition of the right
of unemployed workers to organize
and to demand that no pay be held
back as last year.

A statement issued by Matts this
week said:

“In July when agreement between
representatives of single unem-
ployed and provincial authorities
was reached at Victoria, Pattullo
pledged in a radio address that he
would personally arrange a confer—
ence with the federal government
and work out a genuine works pro-
gram for the unemployed this fail.
Announcement that the govern-
ment intends to operate the for-
estry camps again means another
broken pledge.

“The announcement to the effect
that Hon. Norman Rogers will come
to the coast to survey the unemploy-—
ment situation and co-operate with
the provincial government on plans
to prevent recurrence of the
troubles of the unemployed this
summer, is looked upon by the Re-
lief Project Workers’ Union a5
probably offering a change of policy
on the part of the governments,
which will end discrimination and
recognize the unemployed workers’
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