Page Two THE ADVOCATE January 12, 1940 Radio Station Refuses Mayor Telto ULFTA Marks 11th Anniversary Ban On Advocate - Extended CBC Permission Given, But CKMO Refuses Programs The radio ban applied several weeks ago against the Advocate was this week invoked by radio station CKMO against the CCF’s series of talks, scheduled to start Thursday, and Mayor J. Lyle Telford. As in the case of Labor News Bighilichts, sponsored by Dr. Llewellyn Douglas in cooperation with the Advocate, the Canadian Broadeasting Corporation (CBO) fave permission for the series of discussions but the local station re- 5 a A federal grand jury probe of | Public meetings will be held ed ti ue : x fused time. eee Centinued Around Thre Province _ A federal gmpnd jury probe Of |e irniy tomepelas enon aes SE ce. eee ase ing it is demanded- among the unorganized unem— System mamaser, operator of GEMO, in his letters to the CCE council of the IwA voted ¥ yi z and Mayor Telford stated that this week to demand full investiga- delegation to Victoria. fae ‘“ymtil further notice this station when an army can advance at does not see its way clear to broad- east any further programs of talks dealing with municipal, provincial er Dominion politics.” Claim of the station at the time the Advocate newscast was banned was that the station was held re- sponsible for all programs and should any talks not meet with GBC officiais’ approval their license would be cancelled. Herbert Gargrave, CCE provincial secretary, in a2 statement to the press charged that politics had played a large part in this province under the guise of war measures. The CCF intends to seek a show- down on the ban, but Mayor Tel- ford, whose broadcasts have been beard by a large radio audience for the past decade, is understood not to be contemplating any action. Jobless Youth Urgent Problem SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. — Cali- fornia has between 160,000 and {70,000 young persons between 15 ana 24 years who are out of school and jobless, the Galifornia Youth Survey said here this week, point ing to this as one of the state’s most pressing problems. a ] rd, CCF Air ime ON Sunday, Jan. 14, at 8 p.m., the 11th anniversar city will be marked with a grand concert at Empress theatr acclaim for their high artistic stan Rd nine ean * y of the Ukrainian Labor Temple in this e. These concerts have won just dard and this year’s celebration promises to be a gala affair. Admission will be by silver collection at the door. if it was stated this week. Murder A resolution passed at the meet- ing declared: “To protect the wives and fam- ilies of other union men and to prevent an innocent man from being framed by the very forces who are responsible for the mur- der of his wife, we hereby call for federal action to restore Civil rights and community decency in Gray's Harbor.” Defeat such incredible speed in enemy country in spite of the vast num-— ber of mines and ambushes swhich the Finns for weeks sys- tematically placed in the way of the Red Army. “The resular Red Army is cer tainly not to be laughed at. Wwe are committing an error which can be fatal if we continue to cling to the view that the Russian on the north front is an unfortunate illiterate, a thickhead falling over his own feet and freezing in the night.” Kielland refers to stories that the Finns cut the Russian trans- ports to the north and says: “The fact is that the Russians are dis- tributing their forces with extra- ordinary efficiency along exceed- ingly long lines of communication held by them to the town of Pet- samo and also to the east. Here they are building barracks, making reads and behaving not so much less intelligently than other armies in conquered country- We who have seen them ceased to underes- timate them.” Kielland concludes by expressing, sympathy for the White Guards, but declares it is necessary to keep cool-headed. Kielland’s message did not appear in any capitalist newspaper outside of Norway. it was apparently too truthful. “Any rise would mean the ruin of the jam industry in BC, as it is on the bring of extinction now,” declared H. B. Shimek, of Hatzic, outlining the plight of small grow- ers. and possible damage to the Pan- ama Canal during wartime, grow- ers also decided to seek reduced transportation rates overland for processed fruit to England. A brief, presenting the serious situation the berry industry would face if the Panama were closed, will be presented to the government and the two railway companies. Reductions on ocean and freight rates effected last year, reported transportation committee members J. B. Dickey and Harry Beech, were responsible for saving of over $5000 to BC growers. Declaring he felt sure consump- tion in Saskatchewan and Mani- toba would increase if the price War Taxes Face Growers With Ruin NEW WESTMINSTER, BC.—Declaring that further increas- ing of sugar taxes or imposition of a sales tax on jam and canned fruits would virtually ruin berry and small fruit growers, dele- gates to the BC Coast Growers Association seventh annual convention here last Saturday passed a resolution of protest against any increase in tax on sugar for manufacturing, placing of a sales tax on jam and canned fruit. Labor Minister G. S. Pearson, elected from Wanaimo, cized by was criti Harry Freeman of the Gray’s- Willapa Harbor district tion and prosecution. A resolution adopted by Seattle local 1-9 of International Long- shoremen’s and warehousemen’s union places “the blame for the trag— edy squarely on the Aberdeen po- lice force and the city officials,” demands a federal probe of the erime. “The full blame for this outrage falls upon the Aberdeen officiais, whose cynical disregard for law and order in the recent vigilante outbreal is directly responsible for this horrible crime,” said Eugene V. Dennett, secretary of the Wash- Continued ) Single Jobless Plan Public Meets In City Campaign of single unemployed men to rally married relief recipients and sympathetic organizations around a demand for increased relief allowances to meet higher living costs brought about by the war situation or have the governments inaugurate a works program, is meeting with a large measure of response, The campaign embarked on 2&2 few weeks ago by asking fraternal organizations and trade unions to endorse resolutions urging the BC provincial sovernment to launch a works program or increase relief allowances commensurate with food prices, which, in the case of single men eating in restaurants, have soared from i5 cents a meal to 25 cents and in instances 30 cents, is now developing to the stage where Many organizations are aligning themselves with the jobless for a new deal. It is expected that a series of some ployed and other sections of the public, preparatory to sending 2 Meanwhils, as these preparations go forward scores of single men are stopped every week by police and failing to satisfy offcers™ questions, are taken into court where they are given a ‘floater (@ certain time to leave town). Cornett Turns | different men in the house” to get Fearful of a shortage of ships | Chamber of Mines for fighting by himself rather than appeal to “47 aid for the industry. “He never had the people of Nanaimo united be- hind him,” said Freeman. Quteome of the meeting was formation of 2 committee to study the coal situation, which may bring in an expert to prepare a brief for presentation to the federal and pro vyineial governments. The delegates will meet again Friday. By way of appeasement, HE. R. Plommer, Canadian Collieries gen- eral manager, has stated that the company is considering reopening Morden mine, 80 miles south of here. Producers Form Organization KELOWNA, BC—Informed that ington State Industrial Council oL the CIO. Pritchett of the TWA declared that ¢he union would hire the best tal ent it could find to track down the murderers. monwealth Federation is also add- ing its weight to widespread public demand for a probe. man Martin Smith. quested that a report of the intol- erable conditions here be made to the civil rights division of the de—- partment of justice and to the Sen- ate Civil Liberties Committee. retary of the monwealth Federation, in a recent International President Harold The influential Washington Com- Aiding in the fight is Conegress- Me has re- Howard Costigan, executive sec- Washington Com- Neat Somersault Under a false slogan of ‘economy, like charity, begins at home,’ Al- derman Jj. W. Cornett at Tuesdays finance committee meeting at the city hall declared himself in favor of a salary slashing crusade to scale down Mayor Lyle Telford’s salary from $5400 to $2000 a year and aldermanic stipends from $1620 to $1200 a year. Strangely enough, Ald. Cornett was also the first and ablest cham-=- pion in the i937 council for boost ing the chief magistrate’s salary to its present level. Ald. Cornett, then finance com- mittee chairman, replying to Aid. T. H. Kirk who had expressed him- self in opposition to raising the mayor’s salary, said to Mayor Mil- ler, “I hope you won’t let Ald. Kirk embarrass you. This board (finance committee) should deal with this matter without you.” The board, of course, raised the salaries just as 1936 closed with 2 report on the vigilante attack on the Finnish workers’ hall at Aber- deen, stated: were lowered, provincial markets deficit of $4,000,000, which portrays minister J. A. Grant stated it would Ald. Cornett’s actions now for an economy crusade as false. the eg= surplus will not be fin- anced by the Kelowna Egg Agency LITERATURE ABOUT |Continued th THE SOVIET UNION A timely question for intellectuals. _. . “it is time for you to decide on which side you are, Masters of Cul- ture. Are you for the elemental Jjabor force of culture and for the creation of new forms of life, or are you against this force, and for the preservation of the caste of i7- responsible plunderers, the caste which is decaying from its head down and is continuing its ex istence by inertia?” — Thus speaks Maxim Gorki in his Letter To Am- erican Intellectuals. 31 pages; i2¢ post paid. Is there a Dictatorship in the Soviet Union? — Read “Dictatorship and Democracy in the Soviet Union” by Anna Louise Strong; 23 pages. Postpaid 7 cents. ‘Fife and Labor in the Soviet Union” by Robt. W. Dunn; 459 pages. Be postpaid. ... 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