INovember--4; 1938 »-

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Gov't Hears Brief From Railroaders

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ACTION AGAINST (CCF Will Not Contest Mayoralty
But Names Full Council Slate

: Vancouver's CCF organization, ignoring offers of wider support from other labor forces in the
city, will not agree, for the present at least, to discuss with other progressive groups and trade
unionists the all-important matter of contesting the

GAS COMPANIES
IS APPROVED

Want Amendments Teo
Compensation Act; Tax
Exemption On Small
Incomes

VICTORIA, BC, Nov. 3.—
Support for the provincial gov-
ernment’s action against the big
oil companies, with a hope ex-
pressed that “similar action will
be taken in connection with
other products,” was forthcom-
ing from a delegation repre-
senting railroad unions, which
presented a brief to the cabinet
Thursday.

The brief asked:

i. Steps by the province to secure
abolition of appeals te the Privy
Council.

2. Uniformity of school text books
in the four Western provinces.

3s. Considerable amendment in the

Workmen’s Compensation Act,
including $40 allowances for
widows and dependent parents,
establishment of a rehaibilitation
fund and greater funeral bene—
fits.

4. Eventual elimination of railway
level crossings, with more rigid
enforcement of safety rules in
the meantime.

5. Concession of powers to the fed-
eral government to exercise
rigid control over motor vehicle
transport
city bus services under the pro-
Vaincial railway inspector.

6. Sterner enforcement of the high-
way act.

7. Exemption from income tax of
incomes under $2000 for married
Men and under $1000 for single
men.

Members of the delegation were:
A. H. Mactsaac, Spence’s Bridge,
Order of Railroad Telezraphers,
eheirman; H. Mackey, Vancouver,
Brotherhood of Locomotive En-
gineers; EH Elliott, Vancouver,

Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire-|

men and Enginemen; A. Suther-
land, Grand Forks, Brotherhood of
Railroad Trainmen;
Vancouver, Order of Railroad Con-
gucotrs, and J. Wichol Kamloops,

Maintenance of Way Employees.

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and the bringing of

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slate of candidates.

Canadians
Executed
By Franco

No information
On Identity
Yet Received

Wo information on the identity
Gt five Canadians executed by
Spanish fascists while prisoners of
war has been received by the
Friends of the Mackenzie-Papineau
Battalion, Secretary Jack Chivers
teld the Advocate yesterday.

His statement came in reply to
mumerous enquiries received at
Vancouver headquarters of the
Friends as to whether any of the
five were from BC.

Arthur Hoffheinz, one of a sroup
ef 38 Canadians taken prisoner last
March, is unreported to date and
a brother residing in Cumberland
wired Chivers Thursday for infor-
mation.

Of the 38 men captured, 33 were
released this week, leading to fears
the remaining five had been shoi.

“We are attempting to confirm
the story through international
headquarters in London,’ Chivers
said. “Meantime we can give no as-
surance one way or another.’

Gf those captured last March,
volunteers from Vancouver includ-
ed Frank Blackman, Percy Hilton,
Heige Martilla, Ernest Miller,
| Frank Wood, Neils Kadsen, Isaac
| Mattson, Walter Sidney and Percy
| Mi. James.
| All are weil known here.

| Consider Aid
For Coal industry

inet this week considered measures
for assisting the coal-mining
Figures show that domes-
decreased

in-
dustry.
tie production of coal
17 percent last year.

| Recently, at the Yancouver con-
| ference called under auspices of

|}the BC Federation on Unemploy—
ae Vancouver Island locals of

| OTTAWA, Ont, Nov. 3—The cab-
|

obtained endorsation of a resolu-
tion asking the provincial govern-
ment to assist the coal-mining in-
dustry because of decrease in coal
consumption and consequent rise
of unemployment in the industry.

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This was made clear at last Sunday’s nominating convention at Cedar Cottage Hall when 79
delegates representing 25 city clubs proceeded to nominate a full slate for council, school and
parks boards, left only the mayoralty vacancy uncontested.

Decision not to contest the mayoralty officially, but leaving it open for Dr. Lyle Telford to run
as independent, came after several hours of heated debate. Dr. Telford took the floor for an ex-
planation of his refusal to accept the party’s nomination and to deliver a sharp criticism of the
publicity committee for releasing sections of a private letter to

the press last week-end.

had been proposed.

gional committee. “But when I

this convention.”

gressive group.”

Continued

CONFERENCE

failure of a GCE delegation com-
prising Herbert Gargrave, provin-
cial secretary, and Don Maxvell,
elected at Sunday’s Sathering to
appear before the meeting to ex-
plain their party's position.

Expressing keen disappointment
at the CGF attitude, William Stew-
art, chairman of the platform com-
mittee described efforts to contact
its representatives both personally
and by letter, and CCE failure to
acknowledge the representations.

“We are going to continue,
however, to strive for unity to
the eleventh hour,’ Stewart de-
elared, “‘since we are aware that
nO one progressive esroup cam
Sweep the field. But we must
also miake it clear to the peopie
2s a whole that as a legitimate
part of the organized labor move-—
ment, we are perfectly entitled to
a place in the civic field.”

“Last week I made a strong plea
for unity of all those interested in
defeating the candidates of the
Won - Partisan Association,’ re-
marked Dr. Barton, in secondins
Stewart’s remarks. “I am _ still
hoping that may be possible—we
are still holding out the hand of
friendship.”’

The labor-progressive candidates
will enter the election campaign be-
hind a strong program of civic re-
form, including assumption by the
provincial government of the full
cost of education and social ser-
vices; redistribution of provincial
and municipal revenues to Van-
couver on 4 more equal basis; reor—
ganization of the public works de-
partment; revision of existing city
agreements with the BC Plectric;
assumption by insurance compan-
ies of part of the costs of the fire
department; a False Creek park
and recreation project; election of
the police commission for a term
cf two years; abolition of the poll
tax; substitution of present relief
rates by prevailing trade union
wages on public works project; re-
vision of tax rates on smaller pro-
perties; no secret council meetings.

All ecandidiates pledged them-
selves to support the platform. In
accepting the nomination, Dr. Bar-

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ton warned delegates they would
be told he had no Civic experience.

“T admit I have had no practical
experience in City Hall adminis-—
tration,” he remarked, “*‘but in my
Capacity aS president of the Fed-
erated Ratepayers I have first hand
information as to needs and re-
quirements of the taxpayers and
am fully aware of the dissatisfac-
tion expressed over the present
city council set-up,” he empha-
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civic elections with a joint platform and

The press release in question was authorized by Mrs. Eliza-
beth Kerr for the regional committee, stating that Dr. Telford
had declined the nomination for mayor and that Arnold Webster

“I refused to make a public statement on the matter until the
present convention,” declared Dr. Telford in criticizing the re-

fused CCF support, which is absolutely untrue, I was dumb-
founded. I did not expect my letter would be made public until

Answering questions from delegates, Dr. Telford stated he
would not accept an official nomination from the “other pro-

@no control over the support that

read in the press that I had re-

“Of course,’ he remarked, “I have

any
me.”

One group fought strongly for a
CCF mayoralty candidate and made
no attempt to conceal opposition to
Dr. Telford, supporting for a time
the candidacy of William Offer, who
was nominated from the floor. The
issue was finally settled when Mrs.
Offer broke into the discussion with
a demand that her husband’s name
be “rubbed off the board.’

Amid laughter, Offer declined the
nomination and delegates voted 57
to 5 against running a candidate,
with the group that opposed Telford
voting against the motion. Just
before the vote was taken, one dele
gate brought smiles to delegates’
faces by advising Dr. Telford not
to run because the city might be
bankrupt within a year or two, “and
if that happened while a CCE may-

group may or may not give

or was in office he would lose
thousands of votes in the federal
election.

SOME FAVOR UNITY.
Indication that all delegates
present did not support the re-
gional committee’s stand in refus-
ing cooperation with other groups
came early in the meeting when
several took the floor to urge the
convention to take heed to the
appeal sent out from the labor-
progressive convention for a joint
Slate. ]

This move was defeated when
Chairman W. Braithwaite pleaded
that the ©CE constitution necessi-
tated refusal of unity suggestions.

Later in the meeting, however,
after nominations had been finish-
ed, delegates again raised the mat-
ter and succeeded in getting two
delezates elected to attend Wednes—
day night’s conyntion of progress-
ive groups to explain the CCF stand.
They were instructed against “be—
ing drawn into any discussion re
farding changes in policy or the
Slate.’

Aldermanic candidates nominat-
ed were William Offer, Mrs. Mars-
aret Eckland, Alfred Hurry and
Ed Scanlon. For school board the
convention nominated Sydney Wy-
bourn, Mrs. William Offer, J. Cork-
hill, J. H. Bawn, and James Evans.
For parks board there are Ronald
Macaulay and K. H. Hedquist. Va-
Cancies in the parks board slate are

to be filled by the regional com-
mittee.
irish-Canadian
Oniy Fair Club
The frish-Canadian Club is the

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Returns
To BC

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Bob Kerr, former political com-
missar of the Miackenzie-Papi-
neau Battalion, who returmed to
Vancouver this week. (See story
on page 4).

VICTORIA LEAGUE
PLANNING SLATE

VICTORIA, BC, Nov. 3 — (Spe-
cialj—Announcement by Victoria
Public Ownership League that it
is considering a Slate for the com-
ing civic elections brought new in-
terest to the pre-election scene here
this week.

The league announced that it
was drafting a slate pledged to sup—
port a platform of public owner-
ship of utilities, including power,
light, gas and transportation, inti-
mating that its candidates would
be named within the next few days.
It was also suggested that the
Public Ownership League might
endorse one or two sitting alder—
men.

With nomination day one month
away, developments promise fur—
ther competition for the five alder-
Mmanie vacancies. Aldermen whose
terms expire this year are: John
A. Worthingston, Archie Wills,
James Adam, W. Lloyd Morgan
and Alex Peden. With withdrawal
this week of Major Okell from the
mayorality contest, Mayor Andrew
MeGavin remains unchallenged.

Guns Menace France

PARIS, France, Nov. 3—French
secret service agents in the Rhine-
land report that roads and rail-
western frontier are crammed
with lorries and wagons loaded
with heavy guns from the dis—
mantlied Czech fortifications, which
are to be set up on the Prench
frontier against the Western de-

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mocracies.

HOUSEWIVES
ASK REPEAL
OF NEW BILL

Wholesalers Empowered
To Fix Prices, With No
Maximum Profit

Set

In a brief to the provincial
government, the Housewives’
league of British Columbia is
asking repeal of Bill 89, the
Commodities Retail Sales Act,
on the grounds that it legalises
monopoly control of all com-
modities by placing sole con-
trol of price fixing in the hands
of a small group of wholesalers
and manufacturers.

Such monopoly control will in-
evitably raise the cost of living
and the consumer, in whose inter—
ests the League was organised,
will suffer, the brief states.

Although not in the interests of
organised labor, the Vancouver
Trades Council Tuesday went on
record in favor of the bill, despite
opposition from many delegates.

“We should be opposed in prin-
ciple to a small group dictating
prices to the people,” declared Wil
liam Stewart, Hotel and Restaur-
ant Employees union.

Sponsored by the Retail Mer-
chants’ Association presumably in
the interest of retailers, the House-
wives’ brief points out that the
Act will only assist large chain
stores, which, by larger turnover,
can carry greater and more varied
stocks than small retailers who will
then be left with unsaleable stock
on their shelves, if the wholesalers
decide to change prices at any time
to suit their larger buyers.

The instance of MacDonalds,
wholesalers, owning Safeway stores
and supplying goods to them for
retail sale, was cited at the trades
eouncil. MacDonalds also supply
stock to smaller retailers.

“Ts it likely,’’ enquired Delegate
Leary of the Shipyard Workers,
“that MacDonalds will sell to a
smaller retailer at the same price
as Safeways, which they own?”

Although so stated by many up-
holders of the bill, it does not pro-
vide for a reasonable margin of
profit for the retailer nor set any
maximum profit for the wholesaler,
the Housewives’ Teague brief
states. A wholesaler may thus, by
strength of organisation with other
wholesalers, make exorbitant pro-
fits at the expense of the consumer.

PORT ALBERNT, BC, Nov. 3—
City council here has granted a tag
day for Noy. 12 to the Friends of
the Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion
in aid of returning Canadian vol-
unteers.

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BOATS

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CAFES

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CARPENTER WORK

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only club in town willing to sign
an agreement with the Bartenders
Union, delegates to Vancouvec
Trades and Labor Council were
teld Tuesday, when Bartenders del-
egate asked the grievance commit—
tee to place the Arctic Club on the
“We do not patronize” list.
William Gateman, Local 28,
Hotel and Restaurant Workers,
backed the Bartenders delegate,
explaining that the Trish-Canadian
club was also fair to the Hotel and
Restaurant Workers Union.

The

grievance committee was
instructed to investigate and re
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OTLs

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ROOMS FOR RENT

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