Page Two THE AD vO CATE March i, 19: Single, Married Job Miners Ask Peace Stand, Or No Support To CCF CUMBERLAND, BC.—No support, either moral or fi- nancial, will be given Harrison Brown, CCF candidate in Comox-Alberni federal constituency, unless he publicly takes a stand for peace and repudiates the CCF national council’s policy of giving economic support to the war. This is the decision arrived at by the Cumberland local of United Approve 3-Point Program City And Provincial Works Projects Or Higher Relief Sousht Organization of unemployed citizens throughout the Greater Vancouver area around a three- point program seeking a new deal from federal, provincial and municipal governments is proceeding favorably, accord- ing to spokesmen for the Joint Unemployed campaign committee composed of Relief Project Work- ers’ union and married relief recip- ients. Well-attended public meetings in eight city districts have endors- ed the program and elected five delegates to form a central coun- cil to coordinate and give direc- tion to the other groups for real- ization of their aims. Continuation and extension of the Municipal Improvements As- sistance Act to absorb heads of families into employment without discrimination is sought, while forest conservation, reforestation, Toad surfacing and highway con- Struction is démanded for employ- ment of single men. Immediate increase in relief to ail recipients to counteract increas— ed living costs and right to eat and sleep in places of recipients’ Own choosing are asked pending inauguration of the works plan. A month ago unemployed started registration of relief recipients and now have more than 5500 en- rolled. Trade unions throughout the City and province are being asked to assist, first, by. endorsins the three-point resolution and second, by contributing funds for building of the organization. All unions where representatives have been allowed to speak to the member- Ship have promised support. SSS——_ DENTIST DR. W. J. CURRY Ste. 301, Dominion Bank Bldg, Cambie & Hastings SEy. 3001 Victory Square — Full Price for a Lifetime Door Mat Mats made to order, any size, any shape, for Boats, Tug- boats, Elevators, Business Places, ete. SUPERICR MAT CO. 3224 MAIN STREET & Continued Challenge one and as one which could be used in an attack on the Soviet Union by way of Alaska, where construction of big military air- fields had just been authorized. Outlining his platform, McKean declared that withdrawal of Cana- da from the war, no conscription, repeal of the War Measures Act, non-contributory unemployment and health insurance and a public works program were the main planks on which he intended to campaign. Also speaking at the meeting was Malcolm Bruce, Communist candidate in the constituency in 1935. Im a brief address, Bruce asked pointedly how the GCE in- tended to defend the abrogation of civil liberties by the New Zea- land Labor government, to which it had always pointed as ‘a shining example.’ “Tt has capitulated, just as Mac- Innis and the CCF leaders in Cana- da have capitulated when faced with a difficult task,” he asserted. William Bennett, campaign man- ager for McKean, told the Advocate Thursday that his election com- mittee expected to open a com- mittee room in the constituency within the next few days. Bennett, who contested what is now Vancouver Hast on the Com- munist ticket in 1930 and in the past decade has seen the influence of the Communist party srow strong within the working class constituency, was optimistic re garding the outcome of the contest. “As the only anti-war candidate standing I believe McKean will win wide support among voters who, in this riding at least, will be given an opportunity to express them- selves on the real issues,’ he said. Labor Movement Loses Veteran Funeral services for Michael Kelly, 9 West Cordova street, who died Saturday in Vancouver Gen- eral Hospital after a lengthy ill- ness, were held Wednesday from Central Park funeral home to Mountain View cemetery, Rey.. R. W. Mathieson officiating. Born in Toronto 51 years ago, Kelly spent an active life in the labor movement. During the last war he was imprisoned as a consci- entious objector in Prince Albert penitentiary, losing his left arm in an accident there when a piledriver On which he was working broke. He had been a patient in Grand- view hospital for several months prior to his death, believed to have been caused by a general collapse brought about through malnutri- | Watch This Space Next Week for Big News by an Exclusive The natural **Beer Vitamins”? restored for real palatability, mellowness and smoothness. Here, truly, is a balanced, COMPLETE beer—a beer that is good .. . and good for you. Enjoy this extra yalue today at uo extra cost. 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Morrison of District 26, United Mine Workers’ union, to the fact that Do- minion Steel and Coal company charged an expenditure of $638,000 for an inter-mine tunnel against earnings, highlighted a conciliation board hearing here this week to determine whether 10,000 miners should get wage increases. Continued Students The recent meeting for this purpose, presided over by a stu- dents’ council member, adopted a broad i2-point program. Most contentious issue was circula- tien of a questionnaire on con- scription. Other resolutions ealled for the setting up of com- missions to investigate cooper- ative bookstores and residences, profiteering, improvements in curriculum and student-faculty relations. TRANSFORMED INTO CLUB Despite Mass support given to the assembly, the students’ council continues to obstruct its efforts. Every obstacle, within constitu- tional authority, is being placed in the way of the assembly's activities. When suspension of the assembly only determined students to support it, the stu- dents’ council attempted to weaken it by the obvious method of ‘stalling,’ hoping that student interest would die. Thus, al- though a large meeting of the assembly endorsed circulation of the conscription questionnaire, students’ council has not, as yet, given its permission to do so, At its meeting Monday even- ing, the council responded to Student pressure by reinstat-— ing the ‘suspended’ assembly. However, it transformed it into a club, and renamed it the SCA Discussion Club. Reason for this action, says a students’ council member, was to make a ‘local’ club, and thus remove the ‘stigma’ of the much publi- cized national conference. Stu- dents, however, pointed out that the real reason is an at- tempt to prevent the CSA from taking effective action by re- ducing its influence from that of .a broad assembly to that of a club. The student body Is now press- ing for permission from the stu- dents’ council to circulate the questionnaire on conscription. Process This advertisement is not published or displayed by the Liquor 'Gonirol Board or by the Government of British Columbia: GARFIELD A. KING BARRISTER, ETC. 5538 Granville Street Riss Helen Boresky Teacher of PIANO & THEORY Studio at 541 Bast Hastings St. Business Phone: High. 3657 Res., FRas. 0920-R Asserting that costs of the tun- nel should have been charged against capital, Morrison declared that the companys action was ‘rather unfair if it ‘jeopardized the earnings of the man.’ “The Nova Scotian miners are the poorest paid on the North American continent, Morrison said, adding, “with the excep- tion of a few mud-holes in New Brunswick.” Evidence submitted by union witnesses to show that miners’ liyv- ing standard should be improved, included: A statement by Douglas Barrett, Secretary of the Glace Bay Retail Merchants’ Association, showing that the price of staple foods in the province’s largest mining cen- ter had inereased by 20 percent since last September, with ““a pos- sible increase of 30 percent in the cost of living in Nova Scotia.” Testimony by Tax Collector V. L. Taylor that 60 percent of Glace Bay’s $450,000 expenditure on di- rect relief from 1930 to 1938, with federal and provincial govern- ments also paying their share, went to Dosco employees. Revelation by President Morri- son that Glace Bay tax arrears had increased from $137,000 at the end of 1929 to $236,000 at the end of last year. Seventy percent of those in arrears were Dosco em- ployees, COSTS LOWERED Morrison said the union propos- ed that the miners’ basic pay of $3.71 daily be increased to $4; that datal rates between $3.71 and $5.01 be increased 25 cents and that a percentage of increases, equivalent to the rise in the cost of living, al- so be given. A marked increase in indus- trial activity in Canada since the war started’ would tend towards higher coal production and low- ered cost of output, union offi- cials contended. Lessened com- petition from Britain and the position of Canadian money in relation to the US were also } cited as favorable factors. Average earnings of Canadian workers submitted by the company from Dominion Bureau of Statis- ties as being $965 in 1937 were chal- lenged by Prof. EF. R. Scott, union representative on the board. He asked if the average included women workers. The company had claimed the average earnings of its employees in that year were $1,263. BP. J. Muise, union vice- president, declared that the figures did not contain enough detail and lacked the ‘true picture.’ MSL SESE SESBr eSB e BEB Bdetres China Aid Council Suite 16 - 610 JERVIS STREET Phone SEy. 85922 For information and donations enquire at the above address. ¢ BARKER BDEED AABREEBAE RUS Be BEES SBBC Bene recarss esa eras ET oa TENN na] JOHN STANTON Barrister, Solicitor, Notary 503 Holden Building 16 E. Hastings St. Trin. 4464 Only Shee Repair Store in Vancouver with a Signed Agreement with the Unien NEW METHOD SHOE a 337 Carrall St. ess Form Joint City Organizatio Continued Pioneer. brought a storm of protest from labor unions which, undoubtedly, was effective in postponing the 11 a.m. Thursday deadline given strikers te evacuate the mine be- fore police acted. A delegation of union leaders which left YVaneouver Thursday to investigate the situation at Pioneer will report to a public meeting in Burrard (Moose) hall Monday at 8 pm. It is expected that one of the strike leaders will also speak. Protesting despatch of addi- tional police force to the strilke area were: International Wood- workers of America, Inland Boat- men, Salmon Purse Seiners, Hotel and Restaurant Employees, Paint Makers, and several other unions. The political opportunism of Harold Winch, CCE whip in the legislature, descended to a new low this week in commenting on the situation at Pioneer. Knowing what miners faced if police attempted to evict them by force, Winch apparently was more concerned with votes, According to the Federationist, he “speculated that such a move will disenfran- chise the miners and weaken the CCHE's strong electoral support in the Bridge River Valley.” CUMBERLAND, BC. — Assess- ment of 25 cents per member per month as long as the strike lasts at Pioneer was unanimously adopt- ed by United Mine Workers’ union Sunday after hearing appeal of delegates to Upper Island Labor council, The assessment will net approximately $200 a month. Continued Near East While the London press car- ried inspired stories alleging a Soviet ‘menace’ variously to Tur- key, Iran and Afghanistan, the Ankara press predicted spread of war to the Near East. The Turkish government this week ordered: i. Mobilization of labor in what amounted virtually toe conscription of the civil population. 2, Control of exports, through government Syndicates, And from Sydney, Australia it Was reported that the Australian government may send a second division to join the first Austra- lian division now in Palestine. In a national broadcast Thurs- day, however, Prime Minister Rey- fik Saydam declared that Turkey had no intention of attacking the Soviet Union and had no reason to fear attack from the Soviet Union. From Moscow, Pravda, Soviet Communist organ, charged in a recent editorial that Anglo-French preparations in the Near East “are directed above all against Ger- many. The Near East is to be- come a base for an offmisive on Germany through the Balkans,” declared that “this bloc, according to the schemes of its authors, is also to be directed against the USSR,” warned that “those who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.” imports organized RE we to be driven back to days when witches rode the broomstick and the owl’s hoot was a precursor of ill tidings? Are we again to know the interdiction and burning of books? — READ — George Seldes’ startling book “You Can’t Do That” 305 Pes. — Postpaid 80c NEW AGE BOOK SHOP — Note New Address — ROOM 14 — 163 W. HASTING ST. Vancouver, B.C. 2 Ea ie ome opine tb ‘Stewart Conviction Upheld Sentence Now 6 Months Definite, iS Indefinite : TORONTO, Ont. — Despit the fact that when the appez of Douglas Stewart, form business manager of Henderson, one of three judges) stated he aid not believe Stew art had committed any cr and that he found fault “wit the gentlemen who drafted th: regulations,” the Appelate Court Osgoode Hall this week upheld conviction registered in Jude MacDonnel’s court recently. Stewart was sentenced to tw years in Singston penitentiar when convicted of publishing, cil culating and distributing Th’ Clarion newspaper “likely to pri’ judice recruiting, interfere wit the efficient prosecution of th: war.” The appeal court changed thi: sentence to six months definij and 18 months indefinite in Oy tario reformatory, which mean. tewart can apply to the parol board for release after six months Chief Justice Robertson of Served the appellant had always been a law-abiding citizen an of some education and charac ter, but all grounds of appeal were turned down by the court which established that lack of an intention te commit an of fense was not a defense under the War Measures Act. The Canadian Tabor Defens League national executive feel that efforts must be directed i procuring of Stewart’s early re lease, 2 | Complete aa Laundry Service... 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