THE PEOPLE'S ADVOCATE January 13, 198% INDIAN TRIBES VOICE DEMANDS FOR ‘NEW DEAL Begin Campaign For Petition to Place Before Governments Special to the Advocate LILLOOET, BC, Jan. i2. — The Indian people of British Columbia’s interior country are on the move. Indian chiefs, councillors and delegates representing tribes from Lillooet, Thompson, Shuswap, Okanagan and Chilcotin tHiave held several meetings in re— gard to the wanton destruction of their people during recent months, and definite plans are now shaping up for a united movement demand- ing a new deal from both the pro- yvincial and federal governments. One of the first of such meetings was held last August at the Bona- parte Reservation, where the Unit- ed Indian Tribes Council was elect- ed to carry on the business. Main decision of this meeting was an agreement on a resolution that representatives of the Indian Tribes Council would go to Victoria to present a petition to government authorities. : Some weeks later the executive committee met again to draw up ferms of the petition and to agree ep a plan of action. Discussion on the raising of funds for the trip to Victoria also took place. First fo a series of scheduled meetings at various points was held - ¢his month to further the campaign for Indian rights, which revolve around the principal issue of re— moval of police from the reserva- tions. Other meetings are planned: during the next few weeks, and are expected to culminate in the dele— “gation to Victoria. = Basil Falardeau of Kamloops Res- ervation was elected chairman of fhe United Indian Tribes Council. _ = eS DONOVAN Typewriters CASH REGISTERS, All Makes ADDING MACHINES Terms if Desired 608 W. PENDER ST. SEY. 9395 AT LAST IT’S HERE! SOVIET RUSSIA TODAY! Life and Love on a Collective Farm. = ~~ : RICH EARTHY COLORFUL Russian New Songs Dialogue by Eng. Titles SS News Boces= = °e New Songs.....--..-.-. @€ New Movie Thrills with the tricolored band, symbol Pedro Aguirre Cerda, Popular Front president of Chile, is helped on ceremony in the Santiago capitol. Assisting him is Miguel Crucha Tocornal, president of the Senate and former US envoy. Royal Cit WCTU Lays Plans For Extension Of Activity In Other Centres NEW WESTMINSTER, BC, Jan. 12.—Plans for the forma- tion of an Embargo Council were laid here Monday evening in the YMCA on Royal avenue when the local branch of the} Women’s Christian Temperance Union in a special meeting set Sunday, January 22, as the conference date. The local WCTU took its cue from the Vancouver organiza- tion which started the Embargo Council move to halt shipments of war materials*to aggressor nations, after Nanaimo citizens NS FIRE HAZARD STORY INCORRECT Attention of the People’s Ad- vocate has been drawn to a mis- statement which appeared in the issue of December 30, 1938, in reference to Hollywood Theater. The item in question stated: “The Hollywod Theater is the crly one in the city operating without union members, a fact which adds greatly to the fire hazard.”’ : of his office, at the inauguration 4 The true facts are that Holly- wood Theater is conducted ULFTA Celebrates Ten Strictly according to the regula- tions imposed upon all moving picture theaters, which among other things, require the pre- sence at all times of two duly qualified projectionists. These projectionists, we are informed, Mayor Interviews Evicted Jobless In a statement on the strike of some forty-seven men at Cul- tus ake forestry project this week and their consequent evic- tion by provincail police, officials c& the Relief Project Workers’ Union informed the Advocate Thursday that while supporting the men’s action against discrimina- tion as practised. by the foreman, the men are not members of the unicn. A delegation of three met His Worship at his own request and afier hearing the men’s story Mayor Telford despatched a night letter to E. CG. Manning, chief for- ester. The mayor stated he would be very happy to see the thing put right if the men produce evidence to back up their story. The three delegates who inter— viewed the mayor were Harold Mason, spokesman, George Lott and Bernard Mahoney. The strikers are being accommodated in the Abbott Wouse pending further hearing of their case. ‘SUPPER and ENTERTAINMENT A LIGHT SUPPER AND ENTER- tainment will be held at Orange Hall, Friday, Jan. 20, at 3 p.m. in aid of the Mac-Pap boys. Radio artists are lending their patronage. There'll be dancing, games for others and to com- plete the night there’ll be a wrestling bout. The chief attrac- tion is Elva Foy Tuttle (4 years), assisted by her brother Johnnie (3 years). Admission 29c-. Fr Rees TS | ONLY Jan. 23-24-25 Midnight Show Sunday, Jan. 22nd Call it Home! Le 3 4 THEATRE = | 4X SNOW WHITE CAKE .. = PIE ted BD: G2) CANADIAN BAK cane SPECIALS FOR THIS WEEK-END “Something Different Every Week” LAYER CAKE This week-end we of fer one Butterscotch Bee ily favor- White, light and de-| and one Brazil Nut — oa eee eas licious! Wath fancy | two tempting 1Jayer| jshing: satisfy— Polar Icin= on 2 eakes, packed in cCar- ing. 25 top) iach: == 9c sous 20¢ Hach 2. € IE, OEMEE fey Ss AT YOUR GROCER'S — Or from the 4% Driver. For delivery service phone FATRMONT 44. 445 Gore Ave. Sey. 308 i Hotel East RAISIN UBLE’’ PIES .. Years Of BC Progress Celebrating the tenth anniversary of the opening of their Labor Temple at 805 East Pender Street this Sunday, the Ukrainian Labor-Farmer Temple Association will mark the occasion with a concert of Ukrainian folk songs, dances and are duly licensed by the Fire Marshal and there is no increase jn the fire hazard merely by rea- son of the fact that the two pro- jectionists are not members of the Projectionists Union. Tt was not our intention to cre— ate a false impression in the news item referred to. The er- ror was due to a misunderstand— ing of the situation and we ex press regret if any possible mis- understandings has been created among readers and the public at large. — Editor, People’s Advocate. =their own stirnged orchestra in the Empress Theatre at 8 pm the same day. The local organization has trebled its membership Since it was orga- nized ten years ago. The organiza- tion has also erected three temples in BG. one in the city and two in rural districts. Keenly interested in their native Jand and the Hitler-made crisis in the Czechoslovakian part of the Uk raine, where an “autonomous” state has been created by Hitler with the help of Chamberlain as a result of the Munich betrayal, the organiza— tion will sponsor several radio broadcasts ‘beginning Sunday over GJOR from 2:30 to 3 pm. Speeches in Ukrainian and Eng- \jish will be made on alternate Sun | days to acquaint the people of Brit- ish Columbia with the truth about the political and economic condi- tions in the Western Ukraine. Next Sunday's talk will be in English. The speakers will be sustained by musical programs rendered by the Labor Temple orchestra and choirs. Podikarpadska, or Carpathian Ulraine, declare leaders of the ULETA, is now being used by Hitler as a base for propaganda for the creation of a greater “au- tonomous” state out of the Ul- yainian sections of Poland and Roumania with the ultimate ob- jective of launching a war on the Continued PUBLIC WORKS highly important issues brought meuch disappointment. The question of national unity is left in the air until such time as the Rowell Report on Dominion— Provineial Relations is tabled. Linked with this report are such vital questions as unemployment and health insurance. Wo mention is made of organized jabor’s specific demands for 2 floor under wages and 2 ceiling over hours, the right of collective bargaining, a definite policy op- posing amalgamation of the Ca- nadian National and Canadian Pacific Railways. The soyernment’s failure to state its stand clearly on a foreign pclicy which would line Canada up with United States and other democracies of the Western Hem- isphere and exert pressure on Great Britain for abandonment of the Munich appeasement policy was also noted. But if these questions were not reised in the Throne speech, there js no doubt they will be raised in the debate by members of the CCF, Social Credit and progres- sive Liberal groups. The 1939 session promises to be one of the most interesting, if not important, in Canada’s history. Soviet Union for the seizure of foviet Nkraine. "he ULETA in Canada has some 85 temples which provide commun— ity centres for Ukrainians to keep alive the folk songs, music, and drama of the old land. A daily newspaper is owned and published by the organization in Winnipeg, the People’s Gazette. This month the organization is in a financial campaign the end SE 9? SESS So PERT See SPECIAL! While You Wait..-- Men’s Half Soles and Rubber Heels Ladies’ Half Soles Empire Shoe Repairs 66 East Hastings Street ERIES LIMITED 8 This advertisement is not published or displayed by the Liquor Gontrol Board or by the Government of British Columbia. CCF MEMBERS — BLOCK TELFORD RESIGNATION Picketed some 400 tons of scrap 3ron bound for Japan and raised the issue which attracted world wide atteifion. aS : Invitations have already gone eut to all trade unions, women’s groups, veterans clubs, fraternal associations and church organiza- tions to send delegates to the con-— ference which will be convened at 3 pm in the YMCA. Interest in the move is the topic of conversation among 2 large number of people connected here and it is expected that a record representation wall be present to dis¢iss the embargo methods to he used to halt the traffic in war materials. : Cireulation of the petition call- ing upon the federal government: to apply an embargo against the shipment of war material destined for aggressor countries will also be discussed. mee The petition is sponsored by the Vancouyer Embargo Council, and a million names is sought in order to petition the Dominion govern- ment for an embargo. Formation of such an Embargo Council will considerably strength— er the movement already started in Vaucouver. : VANCOUVER WOMEN ASK EMBARGO. Local Council of Women at their regular monthly meetng Wonday afternoon in the Wom en’s Building again requested the federal government te stop arm- ing Japan through shipments of war materials to that aggressor country, : A resolution seeking manutac- ture of arms in Canada placed under strict government supervi- sion although still in private hands passed by a vote of thirty-two to twenty-nine against. The close vote evoked an expression of dis- satisfaction from Mrs. Thomas Bingham, but since the affliates are voting on the same resolution it was accepted. Continued HOUSING fhe new homes would bring def- inite returns, Tt is estimated that these new homes would rent out to people at from $15 to $22 per month de— pending on the size of their family and the number of rooms they re- quired to house them properly. G S. Mooney, associate director of the Montreal Metropolitan Com-— mission’s braneh of planning and research, in a report to the city council gathered from a2 study of the housing problem for the Ca- mnadian Federation of Mayors has advised every city to start now on the housing scheme as provided in the federal government act. ANNUAL NEW AGE Author— Title— % a) + Vancouver East Clubs To Again Discuss Matter Question of Mayor Lyle Tei- ford’s resignation from the CGF, was referred back to the clubs for further consideration aiter a three-hour debate at tke meeting of the Vancouver Kast CCF District Council Tuesday night. Arnold Webster, first vice-pres— ident, H. Gargrave, provincial sec reiary, and H. B. Winch, MLA, haw gone to the meeting with. a letter urging acceptance of Dr Tel- ford’s resignation, but consider able opposition from a large numa- ber ot the eighteen delegates 2f- tending defeated such a move ane resulted in the decision to refer the whole question back to tke elubs in the constituency. Two resolutions were moved, ons a recommendation from the prs- vincial executive to the council that ing in the interests of all con- cerned, while the other wanted the resignation tabled until the next provincial convertion, the highest body of the CCF. In the meantime, Dr. Telford was to continue te represent Vancouver East a5 a CCE-MLA. : . These questions were not voted on however, because of the op- position to the resignation move. Several delegates expressed — the opinion that the resignation was being forced on Dr .Telford. since he had expressed the opin- ion and made it clear to the pro- vincial executive that his resigna-— tion was subject to approval or rejection by the constituency council. During the meeting Dr.- Telford was contacted by delegates and asked if it was His desire to re—- sign, and were told only if the district council sanctioned the provincial executive’s recommenda- tion. Should the clubs sustain their aistrict council, the provincial e=s— ecutive may force the resignation, as Garerave has already indicated ihe council is a body subordinate to the provincial executive. NEW WESTMINSTER, BC, Jan- j2—A public reception which wilt mark the fortieth anniversary of the Local Council of Women wilt aiso pive citizens an- opportunity of meeting their elected represent— atives — mayor, aldermen, schoot trustees and their wives and fami- lies. 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