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THE PEOPLE'S

ADVOCATE

July 21, 1939

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False Creek
Plans Said
Completed

Holiand Reports
Government Aid
For Works Scheme

Assurance that the False
Creek Park project would go
ahead “very soon now was
given by R. Rowe Holland,
chairman of Vancouver Parks
Board, on his return from Vic-
toria, where he took part in a
round table meeting with mem-
bers of federal and provincial
governments.

“One of our biggest obstacles in
this project,” said Holland, “is to
find sufficient ‘fill, but we think
this can be obtained from dredg-
ing to be done in the Narrows.”

Hon. Ian Mackenzie and Attor-
ney-General Gordon Wismer ©e
pressed great interest in the False
Creek Park, Holland remarked.
Present also at the meeting were
Aldermen Corey and DeGraves.

Work on this project will be car-
ried out under terms of the new
arrangement whereby federal and
provincial governments bear all
the cost of labor and ymmunicipali-
ties provide the cost of materials
and supervision.

While details of the citys pro-
gram have not yet been fully
worked out, it is anticipated that
married unemployed men will be
given equal opportunity to work
on these projects at the rate of
50c an hour for an eight-hour day.

Progress of the proposed park
project on the North Shore has
been temporarily left in abeyance
until some solution has been found
to the problem of West and Worth
VWancouver watersheds. The £0v-
ernment has dedicated all the
jand from Howe Sound to the
North Arm of Burrard Iniet to be
used for playgrounds and parks,
providing an amicable agreem§nt
can be reached with these two
municipalities.

In the meantime, some work is
being done on Seymour Creek area,
where a road is already being con-
structed-

Aviation Increases

OTTAWA, Ont—Aviation in Can-
eda is on the increase, figures re-
jeased by the Dominion bureau of
statistics show. Total air mileage
for 1938 was 11,652,421, as compared
to 10,755,524 in i937.

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Public Mass Meeting

SUNDAY, JULY 23rd — 8 P.M.
in the
ORANGE HALL
Subject:

"WHAT IS THE NEW DEMOCRACY”

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Mongolian Peopie
Feel Confident
Of Invincibility

MOSCOW, USSR (ICN)
—Tn an article on the 18th
Anniversary of the Mon-
golian People’s Republic,
the Mongolian revolution-
ary newspaper Krasnaya
Zvesda, states: “The safety
of the Mongolian People’s
Republic is in reliable
hands. The insolent at-
tacks of the Japanese war-
mongers will lead to their

complete defeat. The Mon-
golian people, certain of
the invincibility of their
eountry, are continuing
the fruitful work of fur-
ther economic and cultural
development of the Mon-
golian People’s Republic.
Events in recent weeks
have again displayed to
the entire world that in
this case as in all cases the
Bolsheviks’ words are not
separated from their
deeds.”

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There Will Be No

“International Situation”

International

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Seymour Park -- Sun. Aug. 6

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Sports, Fun and Frolic can be enjoyed by

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includes transportation over
will also
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Lower Light

PORT ALBERNI, BC.—Negotia-
tions by the council for a reduc-
tion in light and power rates from
the BCElectric were halted tem-
porarily Monday when a letter was
received from T. Bird. local man-
ager for Wational Utilities Corpora-
tion, stating that the company’s
position would be eutlined shortly.

Reduction in these rates has
been a live issue in the city for
some time and residents feel

strongly that they are entitled to
a better deal.

Councillors intend to press the
matter when the vice-president of
the BCElectric states his position.

Agreement between the company
and the @ty of Port Alberni has
still ten years to run before an
extension is required.

Aid Refugees

TORONTO, Ont.— University of
Toronto staff members have
pledged $4000 2 year for three years
to assist in placing refugee scien-
tists and scholars in Canadian uni-
versity posts, Dr. V.- BE. Henderson,
pharmacology professor, has an-
nounced.

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Committee

To Study
NY Plan

Expect To Obtain
Cheaper Foods For
Relief Recipients

A special committee to in-
vestigate supply of milk and
other necessary foods to needy
persons on a plan similar to that
now organized in New York
was set up by the civic Social
Services commission Wednes-
day on recommendation of
Mayor Lyle Telford.

Declaring that the cost of living
in this city was 10 percent higher
than anywhere else in Canada,
Mayor Telford had two proposals
to facilitate starting of the plan.

“JT received an offer from far-
mers whereby it will be possible
for people on relief or in low in-
come brackets to buy milk at a

specially arranged civic depot for
7 cents a quart,’ Telford told the
commission.

A similar offer of potatoes from |
the Marketing Board was also ex-
plained by the Mayor. Potatoes
could be distributed through the
same depot for $14 a ton.

“T would like these offers to
have a trial in the city market,” he
declared. “It will help the people
on relief a little and at the same
time the farmer will be able to
sell more at the same price he got
formerly.”

The committee, consisting of re-
presentatives' of the Council of So
cial Agencies, Social Services Com-
mission and the Marketing Com-
missioner, was instructed to inves-
tigate all possibilities of such a
plan and report to next meeting of
the social services committee.

Tag Lowers
Camp Debt

Debt on the property of the
Jubilee Children’s Summer Camp
Committee at Orlohma Beach will
be reduced by nearly half as a re-
sult of the tag day last Saturday,
which realized over $638. Expenses
for the day were kept below seven
percent, a slightly higher figure

than the Welfare Federation sets
for its campaign.

Honors of the day for highest |

tagesing went to Ruth Matson, who
collected $35, Mrs. Gower with $22,
while ten-year-old Lena Wilson re-
turned a total of $18.

Provincial game warden could
offer no solution to Mrs. George
Hyslop, committee secretary tc

keep bears from continuing their
depredations of camp buildings
Last Sunday a food larder was dam
aged.

On Monday a group of 50 children
sponsored by Nya Svenska Pressen,
local Swedish paper, will spend a
week’s wacation at camp under
agreement with the committee that
the week be reserved for the Swed-
ish children.

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Milk Consumption Half

That Needed For Health

Distribution of free milk to under-nourished school children was strongly urged by Alder-
man John Bennett before the Metropolitan Health Board Wednesday.

Discussion by aldermen of a program already under way in, Great Britain for improving
health standards drew from Dr. Stewart Murray, Medical Health officer, an assertion that
Vancouver citizens get only half the quantity of milk they ought to have.

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Saanich
Endorses
Embargo

Resolution Gets
Approval Of

Island Councils

SAANICH, BC. Leading all
other municipalities in the demand
for an embargo on the export of
raw materials to aggressor nations,
Saanich municipal council mem-
bers last week unanimously passed
resolutions demanding an embargo
on export of scrap iron, metals, ore
and lumber and protesting against
incorporation of companies “whose
shareholders are nationals of ag-
gressor nations.”

Correctly realising that many
Canadians holding directorships in

such companies are purely a front
for Japanese fascism, the Saanich
resolution is very specific. it
states “this municipal council
strongly protests against the in-
corporation of companies dealing
in the export of raw materials
from Canada, whose shareholders
are nationals of aggressor nations,
but whose incorpation papers indi-

Tf adults used one pint each

and children had two pints or

more as they should have, consumption per day would be
roughly 40,000 gallons, the health officer said.

At present the estimated consumption of milk in the city is
20,000 gallons per day, just about half the amount necessary for

health.
Figures given by the Health

Officer persuaded the board to

have 2 complete survey on local milk consumption, with par-

ticular reference to malnutrition among children.

The officer

was also asked to include a survey of the manner in which

surplus milk is drained from the

fluid market.

Ald. Bennett Suggests |
Housing Plebiscite

While aldermen complained bitterly at another meeting about

the condition of waterfront shacks and houseboats, Monday’s

special conference on the housing question failed to arrive at
any definite plan to alleviate the appalling situation.
Arguing that the matter was for@behalf of the Vancouver Housing

taxpayers to decide, aldermen felt
the whole question of a low rental
housing plan to provide additional
healthy accommodation for Yan-
couver should be put to a plebis-
cite in December.

“Tt would be a prelude to bitter-
ness and envy from less fortunate

Association was building of several
small houses near Trout Lake as
an experiment.

He suggested establishment of a
limited dividend housing corpors-
tion in which the city would be 4
partner and give land toward the
20 percent contribution required
by the government.

taxpayers if the plan is adopted,”
asserted Ald. John Bennett, sup-

ported by several other aldermen,
referring to the special 1 percent

cate they are purely Canadian as 2
majority of the stock is held by
Canadian nominees under trust
agreements.”

Copies of these resolutions have
been sent to each municipality in
the province and a further copy
will be sent to the next convention
of the BC Union of Municipalities.

PORT ALBERNI, BCG. — Alder-
men at Monday's city council em-
phatically endorsed resolutions
from Saanich corporation demand-
ing an embargo on export of war
materials to Japan and protesting
incorporation of alien owned Ccom-—
panies backed by Canadian na-
tionals.

Motion to endorse the resolu-
tions, which will be forwarded to
the next convention of the Union
of BC Municipalities, was put for-
ward by Aldermen Cook and Wood-
ford, despite opposition from Al-
derman Plant, who deciared alder-
men were treading on dangerous
ground when they entered into a
eontroversy of this nature.

Montreal Urges
Bis Works Plan

MONTREAL, Que.— Responding
to the widespread demand for pub-
lic works projects to relieve the un-
employment situation, the city of
Montreal has announced that it is
urging a $9,654,102 project of civic
improvements.

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tax limitation clause in the scheme
which is held to be “discrimina-
tory.”

Approached later, Ald. Helena
Gutteridge remarked disgustedly-
“People must realize that this plan
is an entirely new departure. I’m
afraid we need a lot more educa-
tion before people will understand
that this is the only solution to
Vancouver’s present housing crisis.
We evidently can’t make much im-
pression on the aldermen.”

Fifty small homes could be con-
structed on five and one-half acres
near Trout Lake, for which maxi-
mum rentals of $15 could be
charged.

Stratton told the city that if it
did not wish to participate it could
*authorize the trial and then take
action when results of the experi-
ment became apparent.

The conference finally agreed
that the civic special housing com
mittee, association delegates and
interested aldermen should formu-
late a oes which might be 4@
“specimen” to illustrate the pro-

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Sunday, July Zs — 8:30 P.M.

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