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THE ADV OC AT

Page Five

November i7, 1939.

To Mark
Milestone

Trades Council
To Hold Fiftieth
Anniversary Banquet

Honoring the little group of
unionists who half a century
ago set up a tradés council in
this city, Vancouver trade
unionists will meet around the
banquet table in Hotel Vancou-
ver next Tuesday evening at
7:30 to celebrate the 50th anni-
versary of the founding of Van-
couver and New Westminster
District Trades and Labor

council.

Gf those delegates who met 50
years ago to carry their demand
for the 9-hour day into the muni-
cipal elections, George Bartley, an
active member of Typographical
Union’s local 226, is believed to be
the only one alive today. He will
be the honored guest at the cele-
bration banquet.

it was on Bartley’s motion, sup-
ported by George Irvine, that the
memorable meeting of 50 years age
altered jts course and established
the trades and Isabor council on
Wov. 21, 1889, laying over until
Dec. 5 of that year election of cf

. ficers:

The meeting was called by the
United Brotherhood of Carpenters

and Joiners of America, and local

226 of the Typographical Union
Jamieson, George

with power to act

In those days only six trade
unions were affiliated with the
council. Some have since passed
out of existence, while others have
been organized in their places.
Today the trades council counts
82 affiliates representing an affi-
liated membership of half a cen-
turys developments in the labor
movement,

Among those who have accepted
invitations to attend the banquet
ere Mayor J. Lyle Telford and
Mrs. Telford, Mayor Fred J. Hume
of New Westminster and Lieut-
Governor ric Hamber.

Over 500 tickets have been sold
now and there is every prospect
of a record turnout, since there
will be no regular meeting of the
irades council that evennge.

Bdward A. Jameson, trades
council president, is in charge of
entertainment and has lined up
entertainers from his
Gwn Musicians’ union.

Tickets are still available from
any union officer or at Labor
Leadquarters on Beatty street.

Leaflet

In conclusion it appealed for the
preseryation of civil liberties, the
right to a free press, the right to
freely criticize government policy
and war aims, the right to speak
and assemble, the right to unite
for the restoration of peace and for
a fight against profiteering. The
trade union movement, the CCE
and all true Canadians were urged
to unite in this crisis to preserve
the rights and integrity, the well-
being and the freedom of the
people, striving in the present per-
iod of difficulty and hardship to
achieve “peace and security—the
end of imperialist domination and
to establish socialism through
genuine fFovernment of the people,
for the people and by the people.’

In addition to those in Vancou-
ver, arrests were reported in a
mumber of cities, including four
in Toronto, three in Windsor, eight
in Montreal, three in Regina and
one in Calgary.

City and provincial police in
Toronto raided the offices of the
Clarion, weekly labor publication,
and seized books and records.
Dougias Stewart, business mana-
ger of the paper, wasS arrested on
Wednesday on instruction of At-
torney-General Conantand charged
under Section 39a of the Defense
ef Canada Regulations. Bail was
Set at $5000.

Jewellers
Sign Pact

Continuing the drive for union
shop agreements in the jeweiry
industry here, International Jewel-
ry Workers’ union this week con-
eluded a closed shop agreement
with E. J. Trayling, Manufactur-
ing jeweler.

Wegotiations for union shops are
proceeding between O. B. Allan
and David Samson, manufactur-
ing jewelers, and the newly-organ-
ized British Columbia Watchmak-
ers’ union, affiliated with Interna-
tional Jewelry Workers’ union.

The new union, organized re-
cently at a meeting in the Belmont
Hotel, now records Potters, Shores,
Howards, Woods, Awrams, Inelis,
Staychuck and TIiondon jewellers
as union shops.

Offiers elected pending instal-
lation of the charter which has
been applied for, are William Rich-
ardson, president; Herbert Inglis,
secretary-treasurer and W. Stay-
chuck, vice-president.

Secretary Gordon Farrington has
been selected delesate to represent
local 42 at the International Jew-
elry Workers’ union convention to
be held in New York, Feb. 12, 1940.

ADVOCATE CLASSIFIED

These merchants and professional men offer you their
services at competitive prices. By advertising in these
columns they support your paper. By patronizing them
you ensure continuance of their support. Make it a point
to deal with Advocate advertisers

wherever possible.

ADVERTISING RATES =
Classified, 3 lines 45c. Monthly con
tract rates on application.

BOATS
ROWBOATS OF ALL KINDS, $30

PERSONAL

DENTAL PLATES REPATRED,
$1 and up. Rebuilt $5 and up.
Wew Method Dental Lab., 163 W.
Hastings St. SEymour 6612.

BIRTH CONTROL BUREAU OF

and up. National Boat Works,
.. Wancouver. B.C., Dept. PA. 441 Seymour
sue nlevy Save Street, Vancouver, B.C. Informa-
CAFES tion FREE. Write for Literature.

THE ONLY FISH — ALL KINDS

of Eresh Sea Hood. Union House.
28 Fast Hastings St.

CHIROPRACTORS
WL BRATDWOOD, D.C., NERVE
Specialist. 510 West Hastings St.
SEymour 2677. Evenings, High-
land 2240.

DANCES
EMBASSY BALLROOM, DAVIE
at Burrard. Old Time Dancing
Tues., Thurs., and Sat.. Ambassa-
Gors Orch. Whist. $25.00 cash
prizes. Admission to dance and
whist, 25c.

DENTISTS
DR. A J. SIPES, DENTIST —
Plate Specialist. Lowest Prices.
680 Robson St. TRinity 5716.

EUEL

HONEST VALUE FUELS—FATR.
0469. Edgings No. 1, $3.25 per cord.
Slebs, Heavy Fir, $3.75 per cord.

FRESH WATER Wo. i Fir Slabs,
4134 cords, $4.75; cord, $3.75; Edg-
ings, 1146 cords, $3.75. DEX. 1304.

JEWELLERS
PUT THAT XMAS GIFT ASIDE
now. Beautiful watch and jewel-
ry lines; special favors to soldiers.
BMasy terms. Hl Inglis, Jewelry
and Horolocial, 708 Ww. Pender.

MONUMENTAT,

BROOMS FOR BENT

RICE BLOCK, 800 East Hastings.
Hi gh. 0029. Furnished Suites and
Rooms. Moderate rates.

SAWDUST BURNERS
GENULNE “LEADER” BURNERS,

323 Alexander St., at Ray’s.
TRinity 0390.
STATIGNERY

Ip YOU NEED STATIONERY
for school, home or office use,
get it at the New Age Bookshop.
Anything in the line of stationery
at moderate prices. Call at 50-
East Hastings Street.

TYPEWRITERS AND SUPPLIES

GEO. DONOVAN — Typewriters,
Adding Machines Cash Registers.
SHymour 9393, 508 W. Pender St.

TATLORS

M. DONG, TATWLORS, formerly
. Horseshoe Tailors now at 8 West
Cordova St. TRinity 6024.

WATCH REPATRING

WATCH, CLOCK AND JEWEL
ry repairs. Blackburn’s Market.

SEymour 5992.

MAIN MONUMENTS—SAVE
money here. Eistimates for ceme—
tery lettering. 1920 Main Street.

NATUROPATHIC PHYSICIAN

SEE) DR. DOWNIE FOR REHEU-
matism, Sciatica, Lumbago. Room
7 — 163 West Hastines St.

BICYCLES AND REPATRS

BICYCLES, NEW AND USED —
Baby Carriages, Sulkies, Doll Car-
riages, Joycycles. Repairing of all
kinds. Saws filed, keys cut, etc.
W. M Ritchie, 1569 Commercial
Drive. Highland 4123.

Trade Unions Help Advocate Drive
City Labor |]

Kleven Committees
Fill Pledges In Full;
Drive Total $2600

Responding to cur emergency appeal, Butcher Workers and
Meat Cutters Federal union No. 94 this week sent in a $10 check

to swell the Advocate’s drive for a $4000 sustaining fund.
© “We realize the importance of a
working class paper,” states the
union letter accompanying the do-
nation. “Many of our members
subscribe to your paper and they
are quite satisfied that it serves
the workins people of British Col-
umbia.”’

The Advocate has enjoyed the
Support of trade unionists for

Committee
Standings

Following are standings of all
Advocate press drive committees

in the province as at Wednesday, | = ° time past and each week
Nov. 15. Has your committee ful-| 2298 this support growing ever
Tae z stronger. Unions which have not

i } 2?
fed ts picde- yee- hitherto donated to our drives are

Amit. Pct. | now responding to our appeal for

GREATER VANCOUVER: . support because they are convinc-
Hastings East -....- 3120-51 120) ed we are giving them the news,
South Vancouver ... 137.34 101} not only of their own struggles,
West ee ecivistsyei= = ee — but of the struggles of other work

isvlano ee oe : ers.

sync

Roo ee moe e _ With such support we are con-
Grand iow 87.15 54 fident there will be no blackout
SES ee 320.24 53 of the peoples press in BC, which
Hast Saad oe 190.82 38 stands in the forefront of the fight
North B Soe 20.25 32 to defend civil liberties.
eee Si anET 34.50 me The coal mining town of Cum-
PGE! nites ee 208.05 208 berland this week sent along an-
Wiscaliancous 30.00 ae other $30.87. As a result it is again

PSE Ee z leading the province with its quota

ORANAGAN: oversubscribed at 187. Accompany-
Emderby ....-..... 2B LD 107 | ing the contribution was a note
Kelowna ...-..-... 22.4 #5 | advising us to inform our Hast-
Vernon ..........- 37.70 75 | ings East committee to step on it
Salmon Arm ........ 17.00 56/ if it wants to capture provincial
Eamloops .......... 3.60 — | honors.

VANCOUVER ISLAND: “Now that it looks as though we
Cumberland ........ 440.34 187 | are going to have stiffer competi-
Victoria 2 sce. Ss! $4.01 70 | tion, we will put forth some extra
Nanaimo .......... 31.35 41 | efforts to keep up our end,” the
Alberni: oe See is 9.00 80 1 note stated.

Miscellaneous ....... 4.50 = Victoria shot along $18.02 this

FRASER VALLEY: week to boost its Standing to 70
New Westminster 47.65 419 | Percent, stating that all commit
Haney ............ 37.81 ios | t€& members were working en-
South Burnaby ..... 22.50 107 thusiastically to put the capital
Mission ............. 30.20 i900 | City ever the top. Nanaimo, how-
Langley ......_..... 43.20 s6}| <ver, was silent this week, al-
Surrey ............. 68.85 55 | though it has a long way to go in
Matsqui ............. 14.00 4g | 2 Short time if it expects te ful-
Miscellaneous ...... 2.25 = Tee ioe:

. ointula, on Maicolm Island, has
pee eee wee en 15.60 65 sent in another 38.90 to place it as
fosdand 90 15.30 32 a contender for first place with
INeIsen®. 2 6565,53555 <b 11.25 — 162 percent.

Mi -Garises oe 10.60 eee While Vancouver East has been
Michel es 9.00 ave idle all week others have been
Grind wos 3.00 =a working hard. South Vancouver
Wynne ee 6.60 Se committee, in particular, promises

NORTHERN BC: to tie Hastings East for first place
Ssh, ne 40.50 162 before the week is out.

Ogee! 2... 60.50 121 im the fruit belt, Kelowna and
Prince Rupert ...... 59.95 100 Vernon seem to have some kind
OVI <6. So ee 12.00 30 of working agreement in their ef
Gass Pian 1.00 6 forts to overtake Enderby, which
V an eae ; 19.20 he made such a splendid sHowing as
aa Rice 13.30 the drive opened. They are still
eect = 25 percent away from their objec-
' =| tive pledge, however. L
RO EATS = oe $2,616.14 65 in the

Things are looking up
Eraser Valley with four commit-
tees over the 100 percent mark and
two others over 50 percent. New
Westminster has displaced South
Purnaby and Haney and Mission
sent in over $16 to fulfil its objec-
tive.

In the Kootenays the drive is 4
bit slow, with Trail leading all

A. EH. Smith’s statement, as given| other committees n that localty.
to the Advocate by McCallum, To date eleven committees
reeds. Z isa HEtas UE heave fulfiled BLO ees and

y. Signs today poin ze) e een are over e 5 per-
fact that labor must stand on cent mark.

guard, and fight hard to protect OY Bill, the genial columnist
its cherished democratic rights of | who holds forth under the heading
free speech, press and assembly. | of Short Jabs, has made good his
The suppression of the French- boast and raised the $200 he set
Canadian labor-progressive Jour | out te get. INow he’s starting on
nal, Clarte, the suspension of the | nis third hundred dollars.
right of Habeas Corpus, the re- Gommittees in the Greater Van-
actionary attacks against elected eouver areg are wrestling stren-
representatives of the people in uously with the large pledges they
Toronto, Windsor and other muni- | <.t themselves. Small donations
cipalities, the threat to the 75 | yepeatea often enough make a:
pacifist ministers of the United | considerable dent in formidable ob-
Stand and the many prosecutions | J¢ctives and help us in getting that
and convictions under the War an eee See aoe Sane ieee

5 5 mark.

Mat aber thust sealusls Pasa | ,, Thursday's mail brought in $25
its long-established rights. SPOR QUES OS BS oe ae a Oa

“The CLDL ‘ll rode that tee there in the lead of Northern
broad, non-party, non-sectarian So eae Second only te. Cumperiand
defense movement which the | 10% Provincial honors. h
labor movement of Canada needs The) Quesnel committee now ae
today. I appeal to all those in- AT percent, only 10 percent behind
terested in the defense of the | & Provincial eae Forlin
democratic rights of the Canadian UE DAS er See. a4 t
workers, farmers and middle declares: “We can do wi tei
elasess to cooperate in the build- sHOrS pleasaut Surprises. ke
ing up 6f the CLDL. We need the | @uesnel’s if we are to reach the
help of the entire labor-progres— DUUD DIESER ee ee ED Ee
eS a sure continued publication of the

McCallum continued: ‘As an ola| “@vocate.”
active worker for the CLDL I wel-
comed this appeal and took it upon
myself to get together a commit
tee of volunteers to serve as a pro-
visional Vancouver Labor Defense
Committee. We are sending out

CLDL

and proposals received by him, he
was taking the lead in reviving and
building up the Ganadian Tabor
Defense League.”

authorities who have now assumed
unprecedented and almost unlim-
ited powers.
“Eyeryone needs to under-
stand that in these first prose-

SHORT
JABS

by OF Bill

The comedians one hears on the average radio
program are far from being funny Most of them,
instead of being ‘on the air,’ should be ‘given the
air.” The real-comics of the airwaves are the news

The Real

Comics.

broadcasters.

After informing their radio audiences that their news, including
funerals, is gathered through the world-wide facilities of the United
News Manufacturers’ Association, they proceed to murder the proper
names of Men and places from all parts of the world.

italian, German and the Slay languages are all phonetic and the
accent is almost invariably placed on the same syllable. A few hours’
study of the alphabets of these languages would enable the news-
butehers to pronounce correctly the words they meet up with—oc-
easionally. -But the supercilious broadcasters who sneer as they an-
nounce working-class victories or defeats in strikes, who inject venom
into the inflections of their voices when they speak of labor or the
Soviet Union, are above that much study.

A few examples: Ciano, the name of the Italian foreign minister,
is as often butchered as it is pronounced correctly; Goebbels is twisted
and distorted until it resembles nothing so much as the crooked
Nazi mind of the scoundrel whose name it is. A few weels ago £
heard some Ukrainian people enjoying a better laugh than they ever
got from Charlie McCarthy. They had just heard a local news-dealer
who specializes in deaths and lighthouses, pronouncing the name of
the runaway ex-President of Poland, Moscicki. The correct pro-
nunciation is Mos-chit-ski but he improved it and rendered it Mos-ki-ki.

But the best fun of all is to listen to them wrestling with the
Christian name of Molotov, the Soviet foreign minister. His name,
Vyachesiaff, is written in English with eleven letters, with no guaran-
tee where the accent shail fall, as the rule about the anti-penultimate
does not apply to foreign words. In Russian it is written with eight
letters, every one of which has a definite and unvarying sound and
the accent in Russian comes on the second last syllable.

Every literate Russian, Ukrainian, Pole, Croatian or Bulgarian,
will pronounce it the same way at Sight, but ninety-nine scornful,
college-bred news broadcasters who hold Soviet workers and Soviet
institutions in contempt, will pronounce it ninety-nine different ways.

The moral of all this. . . . Just that their United News Manutfac-
turers’ Association news is just as reliable as their pronunciation of
italian, German and Russian words. Therefore, we must have our
Own press in which labor news will be treated truthfully and not with
scorn and contempt. Therefore, further, get behind the Advocate
drive for that $4000 and ensure such a press.

Cost And When C. D. Howe, minister of transport, reportea

in the House of Gommons at Ottawa, during the
Plus. closing days of the last session, that he could not
interest Canadian capitalists in a mere matter of five per cent profit,
he said a meaningful mouthful.

The exposure in\a recent copy of the Financial Post, of the man-
mer in which government contracts have been handed out and the
terms on which they are to be fulfilled, explains the reason for
Transport Minister Howe’s inability to place government work on a
five percent profit basis.

According ot the Financial Post, at least five contracts dealings
with Pacific Coast defense works have been Placed, without compe
tition, on a cost-plus basis. Cost-plus means, that the government
pays for the material and the wages and a rental for the use of the
machinery. On this total expenditure a percentage is paid to the con-
tractor for his organizing ability. The more he spends on material
and wages the more percentage he makes.

in increasinge the wages bill to boost his percentage the contractor
does not raise the individual worker’s wages, as that would have a
tendency to cause a demand for a general raise in wages; but they can
hire more workers at the lower rates. And this is done.

During the last war a story was current in Vancouver which shows
just how this cost-plus scheme works out A local ship-buildine outfit
was operating on this “time and lime plus” as it was called. A younger
member of the firm acting as manager met one of his college cronies
who was unemployed and fixed him up to go to work at the shipyard
ata dollar an hour. The foreman gave the collezse boy an order to the
storekeeper for a spanner, and instruction to go down in the ship’s
hold and keep out of sight of anyone who looked like an inspector.

A couple of days later his friend the manager met up with him
and asked him how he was making out. “Okey,” he answered, “but
there’s a guy following me about all the time. T think He must be
wise.” “Where is he now?” asked the manager. The dollar-an-hour
man pointed to a man who appeared to be watching them from behind
a bulkhead. The manager went and spoke to the foreman who hap-
pened to be handy. When he came back to his friend he said, “That’s
allright. You needn’t worry about that suy. He’s your helper.”

Thus the people in the streets showed how fully they understood
how the taxpayers are mulcted through the cost-plus scheme by the
profiteering brigands. The cost to the taxpayer; the plus to capitalists!

A Poor When Premier Pattullo, in answering Colin Gam-

eron, said that the CCE policy of not sending Ca-
Arsument. nadians overseas was pretty thin skating, as it
appeared that they wanted to “let everyone go and that will leave the
voting power of the CCE relatively stronger,” no one should have
known better than Premier Pattullo how far such a policy would fail
in getting such a result.

When Colin Cameron was having his eyes opened in Flanders
during the last imperialist war, T. D. Pattullo, who was only 41 in
1914, since he was born in 1873, did not go to France nor do anything
to diminish the voting power of the Liberals, nor did Pat Maitland,
present leader of the BC Tories, who was born in 1889 and was only
29 in 1914 take any chance of reducing the voting strength of the
Conservative party.

Some people’s actions are a greater bar to recruiting. than the
words of others.

é = Jf you have read Steinbeck’s book, Grapes of
Of Mice ; Wrath, you should see Of Mice and Men at the
And Men. Little Theatre the last four days of next week.
if you have not read Grapes of Wrath, you should still see the Little
Theatre production.

Among the proletarian writers of today, Steinbeck has the keenest
dramatic sense. The pictures he paints in words are drama in them-
selves. So, when he dresses one of his works for the stage, as he has
done with Of Mice and Men, the result is bound to be work of the
highest quality.

This is undoubtedly the reason why it won the Critics’ award as
the best play of 1938. Don’t miss seeing this slice of life lifted from the
files of the transients as only Steinbeck knows how to portray it.

it will be under the able direction of Garfield King whose work in
Waiting Por Lefty is a guarantee of excellence.

engage counsel, to organise pub-

Thomas McCallum, VYancouver Ini-

letters to Many individuals and Tf
appeal to all old labor defense stal-
warts of the 1931-35 days, to the
men and women who campaigned
against Section 98 so successfully
to get in touch with me.

“There is much work to be done
and never was organization for
the defense of civil liberties more
urgently needed than today.

“Already the labor movement in
Vancouver is faced with the

charges, now before the court, iaid |

under the draconic War Measures
Act. Apparently even the circula-
tion of statements of opinion that
are allowed expression in meetings
and newspapers in Britain itself,
are to be made the subject of prose
cution in Canada by government

cutions in our province a prece—

dent is being established that

effects every section of the So-

@ialist laber and progressive

movement witheut excepticn.

“Our committee therefore in-
tends to make it its first duty to
fZive every aid possible to win
these cases and we appeal to all
sections of the labor movement
and to all individual supporters of
democratic liberty to cooperate for
this purpose.

“We have already helped to se
eure bail for those defendents un-
able to provide it and we have of
fered to arrange legal defense for
those desirous of our help.
APPEAL FOR AID.

“Funds are urgently needed to

licity and establish headquarters.

“T am appealing to all friends
to help win the fight for civil
liberties by sending in an imme-—

diate donation, no matter how
small We are issuing collection
cards and will welcome offers of

help from anyone who will use
one of these cards. All localities in
the Province, and not only Van-
couver, will surely be vitally inter-
ested in defending these cases and

I hope, before the week is out, I |

Will have letters and offers cf
help from all over the proyince.’’

Contrbutions to the defénse fund,
Suggestions, proposals and all of
fers of help should be addresed to

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tiatory Committee of the CLDL,
in care of the Advocate. The com-
mittee expects to announce its per-
manent office address within the
next few days.

MeCallum urged all organiza—
tions to send resolutions of protest
against the wave of arrests and
prosecutions to the provincial and
federai authorities, stating:

“Only the force of organized pub-
lic opinion can defend democracy
in Canada from fascist suppres-
Sion. Help us to organize that
public opinion, to make its yvoice
heard and its sentiments heeded.

“Above all at this moment T
would stress that he who helps
quickly helps doubly.”