THE PHOPLE Page Seven detober 21, 1942 — Press Drive iINow Stanbs aN iE cha TS. "It can be done, if every press ommittee will put on that extra jpurt necessary. We can finish our rive in the allotted time and get -Jae new paper off to a flying start. 7 Laurels for the first committee 3%) top its quota go, as predicted last reek, to North Burrard shipyard rorkers, who now have 134.14 per- Sent of their quota raised without yny sign of slackening their efforts. touth Burrard has not yet made the rade but is coming up fast, while Vest Coast and Salvage are still Powell River leads the rest, with 00 percent of its quota, Salmon rm with 82 percent, Mac-Paps hext with 79.48 percent, and OY Bill oming up fast “with 73.5. City fommittee and Transportation are ent and 65.75 percent respectively, Thile the Loggers’ committee is ulling up with 56.66 percent now gaised. Hraser Valley with 58.5 per- #ance of rival New Westminster, #rith only 29:14 percent. Plans have been completed for fhe citywide telephone whist this treng Vednesday, Oct. 21, announced last ad p} d to t ho shel time hile eld yveek. Following are area phone ‘umbers to which high and low cores for each district should be yhoned: Hastings Hast, Mrs. Bird, HAst. 5496-R. | Burnaby, Mrs. Wilson, Glenburn At $2200 Starting with this issue, The People is changing its publi- cation days from Tuesday to Wednesday. The change is made necessary by reorganization of technical schedules. Contributions to The People’s sustaining fund have now seached a total of $2,218, nearly two-thirds of the $3,500 quota. With a week and a half ‘left of the drive, there is every possi- ility of reaching our objective by Oct. 31. This would be a Splendid achievement, setting a press drive record. West End, Mrs. Gardiner, PAcific 9519, South Vancouver, Mrs. Campbell, FRas, 2001. Fairview, Mrs. Power, FAirmont 2162-¥. South Burrard, Mike Eagle, FAir. 5304L-M. North Burrard, 8. Rogers, HAst. 1884-M. Salvage, L, Mackie, FAir. 8683-L. West Coast, Geof. Powers, FAir. 2162-¥. City Headquarters: 104 Shelly Building, MArine 6929. Area Drive Committees are asked to phone in high and low scores for their areas to city headquarters as Soon as figures are completed. Win- ners will then be phoned to all areas when full results have been received. * The committee has suggested that additional funds could be raised by organizing binso and other games at the same time. Full amount raised by each press committee will be credited on its quota. This coming Sunday, Oct. 25, Uk rainian, Russian and Slovak groups are sponsoring a concert meeting for the press drive at Tatra Hall Queensborough. Wext week, on Friday, Oct. 30, the concluding press drive social and dance will be held at Hastings Auditorium and Croatian Hall. All ticket stubs should be turned in to the central drive committee by the ing 0523-T. morning of Oct. 29. ne as Press Drive Standings hs. 7 Amt. Per- id a VANCOUVER Quota Raised centage nd i Mac Paps 3 75.00 $ 56.50 79.48 preal Gity Committee 275.00 184.26 67.0 Wational Groups 375.00 176.25 47 the SHIPYARDS ts he Worth Burrard 250.00 335.35 134.14 coun South Burrard 250.00 158.50 63.4 no Gi West Coast 250.00 119.10 47.64 } Salvage 250.00 92.45 36.98 eal Fishermen 250.00 40.00 16.0 Loggers 150.00 85.00 56.66 Carpenters, Piledrivers 125.00 25.50 20.4 AFL HEjectricians 40.000 .....- —— Jewellers 25.00 4.00 16.0 Transportation 100.00 65.75 65.75 } Givic Employees, Firefighters -.__._. 50.060 3.00 6.0 Aireraft 150;00% 2 = Sa ee Munitions fi 100.00 £00 4.0 OY Bill 200.00 147.00 73.5 4 LOWER MAINLAND New Westminster 250.00 72.85 29.14 Fraser Reiley, = 100.00 58.50 58.5 Weison 100.00 2.00 2.0 Rossland 50.00 —— eiceees Hernie-Michel 50008 =e = Vernon 50.00 11.50 2.3 Salmon Arm 25.00 20.50 82.0 Kelowna 23:00 = Princeton 25001 eee ae Penticton 25:00), Kamloops 25.00 siete COAST Prince Rupert 100.00 14.00 14.0 Sointula 100.00 22.50 22.5 Powell River 50.00 50.00 100.0 Gibsons Landing 3. 30:602 °° === Seceee NORTHERN B.C. ‘ Atlin 50.00 9.50 19:0 Prince George 25.00 13.00 52.0 VANCOUVER ISLAND Victoria 400.00 198.00 49.5 Courtenay-Cumberland 200.00 90.55 45.28 The Aibernis 100.00 38.50 38.5 Miscellaneous 120.80 Total $2218.86 63.36 “spoken comment from Labor Min- MacMiittlan Asks Symphony For War Workers TORONTO, Ont. —Inspecting a Toronto war plant where employ- ees work to the strains of popular music, Sir Ernest MacMillan, di- rector of Toronto Symphony or- chestra, declared he felt sure pro- duction would profit if workers were able to hear symphony con- certs. Pointing out that Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver or- chestra could make appearances, Sir Ernest explained that a suit- able fime between shifts could be arranged and employees from neighboring plants, between 5000 and 6000, could attend them. CCF Calls Trade Union Conference Delegates from all local labor organizations have been invited to attend an Economic Confer- ence at CCE headquarters on Sunday, Nov. 1, at 2 p.m. Arranged by the CCE Economic Relations committee, the confer- ence will discuss the provincial In- dustrial Conciliation and Arbitra- tion Act, recent amendments to the Workmen’s Compensation Act, and the Manning Pool for seamen. Issued under the signature of Committee Secretary Tom O’Con- nor, the conference call stated that a resolution would be introduced by E. EB. Winch, CCF MLA, urging amendment to the ICA Act to make it compulsory for employers to bar- gain collectively with elected repre- sentatives of their employees. De- mand for amendment to the act has been increasing steadily, fanned by recent discriminatory arbitration awards, such as that in the BC. Plywoods case, which prompted out- ister George Pearson, original spon- sor of the ICA Act. Discussion on workmen’s com- pensation will also be led by E. E. Winch, who provided much of the material contained in the CCF brief to the Sloan enquiry. Briefs were Submitted to the enquiry by many large unions in the province and discussion will center on the gains achieved and further recom- mendations to be made. Protest from the seamen’s union on conditions and rates of pay in the Manning Pool will be third item on the agenda. Seamen have main- tained that. Canadian rates in the- pool were far below those of Am- erican seamen, and this could be used by American companies as a standard to bring down American wages to Canadian rates. A state- ment will be presented by the union outlining full details of the pool. Tom Barnard Hits ‘Experts’ Tom Barnard, proyincial presi- dent of the Canadian Legion, be- lieves that those inclined to heed the ‘experts’ who counsel against immediate opening of the second front should review the recent records of some of them before re— peating their arguments. This is qhat he told an audi- ence at a Burrard Victory Club meeting last week in supporting the demand for establishment of the second front now. “What is the record of these so- ealled experts?” he asked. “‘Dun- kirk, Norway, Hong Kong, Singa- pore and Tobruk—is that a record to qualify experts? “The most telling argument for opening the second front now is that the one person who fears and opposes the idea most is Adolf Beecham Opens Symphony Program of Sir Thomas Beecham. licity hounds agog. tickling irrelevance. conductor like Beecham. The Brahmins may scratch their beards, and those who would ossify Beet- hoven into a “‘classic’’ will wag their disapproving heads, but the fact remains that it can be said of him with more truth than of any other that he knows and loves all music, that to everything he touches he brings a profound understand- ing and an unshakeable sincerity; that, however much he may be studying effects in his public life, once on the podium, all that is meretricious -and alien is con- signed to the outer darkness. Perhaps Beecham’s most out- standing quality is that of being able to take music right off the printed page and give it life as dis- embodied sound. There are no bar- lines in his interpretations, and phrase answers phrase with an in- evitability that almost creates the illusion that the conductor himself is composing as he goes along. LACKS IMAGINATION. Vancouver has an orchestra of which it should be proud. The chording and sonority of the brass section at Sunday's concert were things of joy;: the strings, under Jean de Rimanoczy’s brilliant and sensitive leadership, played with a tonal unanimity that only more consistently rehearsed orchestras can excel, and the wood-wind, par- ticularly in the flutes and clarinets — Symphony Series For Workers Urged By N.S. The musical season for 1942-43 started off in fine style on the second Sunday of the month with a notable performance | by the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra under the magic baton There is in the world today no The conductor was in his best form—when is he in any- thing else?—and the program had all the originality and versa- tility we have come to expect from this remarkable man. The Beecham legend has done much to increase the news value of its central figure; it has obscured his importance as a great artist. The man is by birth the grandson of a pill vendor, and by predilection an 18th century aristocrat. Such a disparity between beginnings and ends could not help but produce a di- vision of personality that bewilders musicians, and set the pub- His eccentricities are giggled over at tea- parties, and his witticisms are collected like autographs, but all to whom music is more than a middle class diversion know that one page of his Mozart is worth more than all this rib- were tear-compelling in the subtlety of their phrasing. - The pity is that our Symphony Society is officered by people who have little imagination and less courage. They appear able to think only in terms of star-conductors and the smallest possible number of concerts calculated to satisfy the cultural yearnings of their middle elass supporters, It might be brought to the atten- tion of this somnolent group that perhaps the finest orchestral con- certs London has known — the Courtold-Sergeant series—were or- ganized for and attended only hy shop-assistants, and that Sir Henry Wood's Promenade Concerts have made music in England a popular need second only to football. e MODERN and OLD-TIVIE DANCING WEDNESDAY and SATURDAY Hastings Auditorium 828 E. Hastings MODERATE RENTAL RATES HASTINGS BAKERY 716 East Hastings St. HAstings 3244 Vancouver, B.C. e 207 West Hastings Street DR. W. J. DENTIST iF CURRY Tel. 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