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Victoria Contributes
$14,000 For China

By LILLIAN COOPER

VICTORIA, BC.— With more than $14,000 raised for Chinese
refugee and medical aid funds, the Rice Bowl Festival here
concluded three days’ successful activity with a tag day Sat-

urday.

Funds will be divided equally between the Chinese Refugee
fund, Medical Aid to China committee and the Canadian Red

Cross.

Qpened officially last Thursday
by Mayor A. McGavin, the festival
also featured addresses by the Rt.
Rey. Bishop Cody, Miss Sara Spen-
Ger, Mrs. Tripp and General Austin
of the Red Cross.

Qutstanding item of interest was
a display of posters, letters, docu-
ments and military clothing re-
ceived from the new Fourth Route
army.

Two Japanese visitors, interest
ed in their countrymen’s effects,
were caught in the act of stealing
a bankbook which had belonged
to a Japanese soldier killed on
Ghina’s battlefields.

Magnificent exhibits of Chinese
workmanship, carving, porcelain,
silk and bronzework and a huge
40-year-old cake, were viewed with
intense interest by people who
crowded the festival daily.

Features of the entertainment
were the famous Chinese Lion
Dance, Ghinese drama and music,
fortune telling by the dignified
temple-incense god.

Prizes for tombola were award-
ed Sunday, 2 Nanaimo Chinese
winning the first prize of a $200
frigidaire, and Mrs. David Spencer
winning the second, a diamond
ving. Fourteen other prizes went
to citizens of Vancouver and Vic-
toria2.

Canadian Legion band provided
musical intervais throughout the
festival.

Nanaimo Approves

Civic Arena Plan

WANAIMO, BC—HPstablishing 2
record poll for a money bylaw, WNa-
maimo citizens last weekend voted
961 to 208 in favor of the city bor-
rowing $60,000 to build a civic
arena.

Totalling $90,000, the arena plan
has already received financial sup-
port of $10,000 from the Gyro Club,
and $21,800 through the federal
government works scheme.

City council adopted the new by-
law Monday and will decide in com-
mittee how the debentures will be
sold. :

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Logger Dies
In Hospital

DUNCAN, BC. — Hugh Clarke,
head brakeman, employed by HBill-
crest Logging company, succumbed
in hospital here Monday to injuries
sustained when a logging train
severed both his legs in an un-
explained accident.

eLower Milk
Prices Favored

Despite opposition from indepen-
Cents, Fraser Valley Milk Produc-
ers Association moved this week to
obtain lewer retail milk prices.

Passing 4 resolution at its re-
cent meeting, the council of
EVMPA locals requested directors
to inaugurate as a permanent pol-
icy a retail price of twelve quarts
for a dollar, equal to & cents a
quart, in place of the present 10
cents.

Independents, represented by
Acton Kilby, claimed they had no
complaints from housewives about
the present price and refused to
consider the reduced price.

W. iI. Macken, Fraser Valley
manager, declared that the pro-
posed policy of price reduction had
a Majority support from Associa-—
4ion members. With higher prices
now prevailing for butter, the sug-
gested lower price for milk would
be offset by better butter returns
and the settling price to consum-—
ers would be little altered, he said-

The main argument in favor of
lower milk prices, he said, was
that any fluid-market price above
world price of manufactured pro-
ducts could only be maintained by
statutory regulations.

Since statutory regulations
seemed impossible because of
court decisions, Macken added,
the association members seemed
to feel that there was no sense
in continuing the struggie.

Indians Reported
Near Starvation

Returning from reconnaisance
work in northeastern BC, provin-
cial government explorer-surveyor
P. M. Monckton, declares that In-
dians in that little-known area are
on the verge of starvation.

Even in summer and fali Indians’

food supply ran very low, Monck-
ton states. Now white trappers,
game shortage, increased preval-
ence of wolves, combined with ad-
vent of a very early winter, have
reduced Indians to near-starvation
level.
According to figures given in the
1939 year book, BC in 1931 had
24599 Indians. Their total annual
income for 1937 amounted to
$1,742,959, which equals an approxi-
mate average yearly income of
$70.85 per capita. This income was
made up of value received from
farm products including hay, beef
sold or used for food, fishing, hunt-
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significance,” pointed out that they
assured military assistance from
the great Red army in case any of
these countries were attacked.

“AJjl these pacts of mutual as-
sistance strictly stipulate the in-
volability of sovereignty of the
signatory states and the principle
of mnoninterference with each
other's affairs,” Molotov stated,
ridiculing reports in the press
about “‘sovietizing the Baltic
countries” as “nonsense to the in-
terest of our common enemies

and of all anti-Soviet provo-
eateurs.”
Soviet relations with Finland,

Molotov said, were of a special
character, explained chiefly by the
fact that in Finland “there is a
greater amount of outside influence
on the part of third powers.”

The problem of the Soviet
Union’s security was, in this case,
even more acute, Molotov said,
pointing out that Leningrad, next
most important city to Moscow,
was only 20 miles from the Finnish
border, within range of modern
long-range guns.

Approaches to Leningrad also de-
pended largely on the friendliness
of Finland, which owned the en-
tire northern shore of the Gulf of
Finland and all islands along the
central part of the Gulf.

Proposals as put forward by the
Soviet government were in the
mutual interest of both the Soviet
Union and Finland, Molotov said,
expressing his opinion that Finland
would have -—. “necessary under-
standing” to continue its good rela-
tions with the Soviet Union and
would not yield to “anti-Soviet in-
fluence or instigation from any

quarter.”

DISCUSSES TUREEY.

Dealing with the negotiations
with Turkey, Molotov said that

many things in Turkey’s policy
had become clearer as a result of
the Moscow talks.

Referring to the recent pact be-
tween Britain, France and Turkey,
Molotov declared that this indicat-
ed Turkey had “thereby definitely
discarded the policy of neutrality
and has entered the orbit of de
veloping European war.” If Turkey
wished to tie its hands by throw-
ing in its lot with the belligerents,
that was her business, Molotov
said, but that was not the policy
of the Soviet Union.

“The Soviet Union prefers to
keep its hands free in the future
as well, to go on consistently pur-
suing its policy of neutrality, and
not only to help stop the spread
of the war, but to help strengthen
whatever strivings there are for
the restoration of peace,’ he
stated.

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Referring to recent improvement
in Soviet-Japanese relations and
the cessation of hostilities after at-
tacks by Japanese on the Mon-
golian People’s Republic, Molotov
deciared:

“While the example of luckless
Poland has recently demonstrated
how little the pacts of mutual as-
sistance signed by some of the
great European powers are some
times worth, what happened on the
Mongolian-Manchurian border has

‘ish

demonstrated something quite dif-
ferent. It has demonstrated the
value of pacts of mutual assistance
to whicn is appended the signature
of the Soviet Union.”

DEALS WITH GERMANY.-

Dealing with Soviet relations
with Germany, particularly the
Soviet-German pact, Molotov said
that relations with Germany were
based “on our friendly relations,
on our readiness to support Ger-
many’s efforts for peace and at
the same time on our desire to
contribute in every way to the de-
velopment of Soviet-German econ-
omic relations to the mutual bene-
fit of both states.”

“We have always held that a
strong Germany is the indispens-
able condition for durable peace in
Europe,” Molotoy continued.

“Tt would be ridiculous to think
that Germany could be ‘simply put
out of commission and struck off
the books. The powers which cher-
this foolish and dangerous
dream ignore the deplorable experi-
ence of Wersailles, do not realize
Germany's increased might, and
fail to see that any attempt at a
repetition of Versailles in the pres-
ent state of international affairs,
which radically differs from that
of 1914, may end in disaster for
them.”

Lifting of the United States arms
embargo will have the effect, Molo-
tov said, of intensifying and aggra-
vatine the war to the benefit of big
profits for American industries.

“Can this serve as any justifica-

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Nanaimo Honors

NANAIMO, BC.—Last rites were held Tuesday from West-
wood Hirst Funeral Home for Charles Beasor, 27, veteran of
the Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion, who passed away Sunday
in Nanaimo General Hospital following a brief illness.

Veteran

Born in Didsbury near Man-¢
ehester, England, Beasor came aoe
Canada 10 years ago and for the
past three years made his home
here.

When the fascist revolt broke
out in Spain he volunteered and
saw 14 months active service with
the Mac-Paps in the Spanish
People’s army until severely
yrounded by shrapnel at Teruel.

Invalided home from Spain he
worked ardently for the rehabili-
tation of his comrades-in-arms
who returned to Canada later and
well-known in Upper
Island points as a speaker and or-
ganiser for their cause.

Funeral arrangements were in
charge of UMWA Tsland Repre-
sentative W. S. Atkinson, and
three former International Bri-
gade members.

During services the casket was
draped with the banner presented
to the Mac-Paps by the people of
Barcelona and on it rested Bea-
sor’s service beret.

Rev. Joseph Hitchen of Pente-
costal Ghurch, whom the deceased

knew as a friend, officiated. TLTho-
mas MeCallum, second-in-com-—
mand of the 15th International
Brigade, paid tribute to the me
mory of his late comrade by say-—
ing “he asked nothing more than
to serve in the positions which
were most decisive, and served

well.”

Thomas McCallum, Shand Rob-
ertson, —“Slats” McLaren, Bruce
Aimes, Terry Cunningham and

Robert Turner, all former volun-
teers who served with Beasor in
Spain, were pallbearers. Other
Mac-Paps present were Mare Hal-
dane and Robert Kerr, former pol-
itical liaison officer in the Cana-
dian battalion.

The many floral tributes and the
large attendances attested to the es-
teem in which the late Spanish
war veteran was held. ‘

We is survived by his parents,
four sisters and one brother at
home in Didsbury, while another
brother is serving with the Royal
Marines.

Organization
erican lumber industry
was the keynote of the recent

tion in San Francisco.

Ask Act
Amended

VICTORIA, BC—Changes in the
Industrial Conciliation and Arbitra—
tion Act, to allow “collective bar-
gaining by trade unions or their
elected officers who represent the
majority of eligible employees,
were sought by the standard rail-
way unions’ joint legislative com-
mittee which met the provincial
cabinet Thursday.

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AS oo. Mactisaac of Spences
Bridge, was spokesman for the
delegation, representing the

Brotherhoods of Locomotive En-
gineers, Locomotive Firemen,
Trainmen, Telegraphers, Mainten-
ance of Way Employees and the
Order of Railway Conductors.

Delegates asked the fovernment
to exercise toleramce in disputes
which have conflicted with the
Act and declared that if miners at
Pioneer had erred it was a tech-
nical violation rather than delib-
erate.

Crew Quits
Coast Boat

Intimidation
Prank

threats of the
Waterhouse company to
displace all members of interna-
tional unions with company union
men were carried cut Wednesday
when berths of nine crew mem-
bers of the SS Northolme were
filled by members of the Canadian
Seamens’ Association, a Shipping
Federation set-up.

Trouble arose when the crew
walked off the coastal vessel be-
eause a replacement was sent from
the company union to fill the place
of another man. During a scuffle
on the docks to stop the replace-

Organization Drive
Planned By Loggers

of the unorganized in the Canadian and Am-
from standing timber to finished product

America convention in Klamath Falls, Oregon,

BC District Council secretary, told the Advocate on his return
to Vancouver. Morgan also attended the second ClO conven-

“place

International Woodworkers of
Wigel Morgan,

Members will be given an oppor
tunity shortly to decide whether
they approve of the proposed in-
erease in per capita from 25 cents
a member to 50 cents in order to
additional organizational
facilities at the disposal of the
TWA. The international plans to
treble the membership in 12
months as part of the plan to en-
roll 10 million members in the CLO
in five years.

Leading towards a more effi-
Gient administration of the union
will be constitutional amendments
which will also be voted on by refi-—
erendum.

But the above questions will not
be put into operation until offi-
cers have been elected by refer-
endum vyote to lead the union un-
til the next convention.

In the slate of unionists contest
ing executive positions President
Harold J. Pritchett, who was er-
roneously reported in these col-
lumns last week as having been
reelected, is opposed by A. F. Har-
tung, Columbia River District
Council president,

Vice-president OQ. M. Orton is
again econtestine his position
against Les. Cadieu, board member
trom Boommen and Rafters’ dis-
trict council, and Worth Lowry of
Columbia River. A second vice-
president may be created if the
referendum vote so decides.

Contesting the position of Secre-
tary-treasurer is Bertel J. McCarty,
present incumbent, and President
H. I. Tucker of local 3-2, Aberdeen,
Wash.

Wovember 38, 1939 2

ries Fight To Government |

Veterans
Support
Demands

-Want Repeal Of
Government Order
Favoring Theaters

VICTORIA, BC.—Repeal of
an order-in-council allowing
urban theater owners to hire
one operator in each projection
booth instead of the usual twe
was demanded by a determined
delegation representing BC
Projectionist union, which met
Attorney-General Gordon Wis-
mer here this week.

Independent theater owners Have
made several representations
the BG cabinet for revision of the
Act making it compulsory to em-
ploy two operators in each projec-
tion booth on the grounds they are
not making any money. Recently

the revision sought,

Affected by the recent
ment order are 2 large number of
ex-service men, who, through their
veterans’ organizations, are strong-
ly backing the union.

EF. Guy Graham, union official
could not be reached for results
of the delegation’s interview with
government officials, but declared
earlier this week that “none of
our men will operate in these
theaters on 2 one-man basis.”

Graham explained that two op
erators in each booth have their
time well occupied operating pro-

then the theater-goinge public has
Mo guarantee of safety.

“Tf a fire does break out it is
the operators’ responsibility to
keep the audience from becoming
panic-stricken by withholding all
knowledge from them,’ Graham
explained.

James Thumpson, labor depart
ment representative, in preliminary
conciliation hearings together with
representatives of 14 independent
theater owners, but results of this
meeting could not be learned at
press time,

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Matt Savola, Midwest district
council secretary, and George
Brown, local 5-3, Portland, are

nominees for trustee.

Wominees for international exe-
cutive board members are:

BC district council: Nigel Mor-
gan was returned when H. Ber-
eren withdrew in Morgan’s favor.

Worthern Washington district
council:
Erickson.

Grays-Willapa ‘Harbors district
council: Richard Law and E-.
Schamely.

Columbia River district council:
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Klamath Basin district council:
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new man were dumped in the
water. One man was arrested and
charged with assault and battery-

Letters were sent by the com-
pany to the master of each of its
four small vessels instructing him
that when any replacements were
needed to get them from President
Taylor of the Canadian Seafarers
Union.

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