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Suet. -Programs

Two independent candidates for Wancouver civic office,
Harold Pritchett, outstanding trade union leader who is con-
testing a park board seat for the first time, and Mrs. Effie Jones,
organizer for the Housewives League who has again been nom-
inated for school board, this week announced their programs,
which, it is stated, have already been endorsed by Vancouver
Civic Labor Committee.

Pritchett, who is district president of the International Wood-
workers of America and secretary of Vancouver Labor Council,
will campaign for promotion of a park board campaign to
assist in overcoming the threatened vegetable shortage and
for improved recreational and en-©
tertainment facilities in public
parks for war. workers.

Provincial assumption of all edu-
cational costs and provision of ade-
quate dental and other health ser-
Vices in city schools are main
points in the program announced
by Mrs. Effie Jones, who in i940
polled more than 14,000 votes for
school trustee.

Following are the two candid-
ates’ programs:

Harold Pritehett

1. Park board assistance in pro-
moting a “Victory Garden” cam-
paign to help overcome the
threatened vegetable shortage.

2 Improved recreational and
entertainment facilities in public
works for war workers.

8. Repeal of the civic bylaw-
prohibiting hoiding of public
meetings in parks without park
board permit.

Mrs. Effie Jones

1. Provincial assumption of all
costs of education.

2. Maintenance of educational
standards compatible with a total
war effort.

3. Provision of adequate dental
and other health services.

4 Beiter air raids precautions
facilities in schools.

5. Development of
training.

6. Complete revision of present
history and economics courses to
ensure a proper understanding of.
our Soviet, Chinese and other
allies.

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Students Canvass
For Medical Aid

CLOVERDALE, B:C—Next Satur-
day, instead of having a holiday,
every high school girl and boy in
Surrey municipality will go to
school around 8 o'clock armed with
@ can, which will then be labelled
“For Medical Aid to Russia.’ Thus
armed they intend to visit every
house in the municipality, soliciting
funds for much needed supplies for
the heroic defenders of the eastern
front.

Principals of the three Surrey
schools have undertaken to be re-
sponsible for their students, equip-
ping them with tags, stickers and
labelling their cans. Red Cross and
other groups in the area are coop-
erating in this joint tag day,
which is the outcome of work by
a special committee led by Coun-
cillors W. C. Franks, Tom Binnie
and Ben Shepherd. ‘

Declaring he expected the days
collection to be around $1,000,
Councillor Tom Binnie remarked
that visiting every house “sure was
a big job, but then we don’t hesi-
tate about things like that here.”

A dance to be held in the Chick-
en House, Nichol Road, at night
will wind up the day’s proceedings
with all-funds being given over to
the Red Cross for Russian Medical
Aid.

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MRS. EFFIE JONES

Doukhohors Give
To Medical Aid

PENTICTON, B.C.— Doukhobors
working in the orchards in this
district have made several dona-
tions to the Red Cross for medical
aid to the Soviet Union. The money
has been forwarded to the Federa-
tion of Russian-Canadian Relief in
Toronto.

In addition, many articles of chil-
dren’s clothing and a home-made
wool comforter were donated by a
Doukhobor woman in the district.

LARGE FARMS

FOR SALE

New Hampshire Pullets
and Baby Chicks

JOHN BOWLES
| Phone 51-1 Cloverdale, B.C.

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Officials of Sub-local
Boilermakers and Ironship-
builders Union, claimed Mon-
day that lay-off of 17 rivetting
gangs from West Coast ship-
yard was not for the reasons
given by the company, ‘inef-
ficiency and absenteeism, and
have placed the whole question
before the Selective Service
Board.

Refuting the idea that the 80 men
involved could all have been ‘in-
efficient, the union cited several
examples, one of a riveter who had
not lost a single shift since Nov-
ember, 1941, and who had a very
high count, ’ another, a veteran air-
man from Dunkirk, who was. very
highly spoken of by the foreman,
who had not lost a shift since last
July and had also worked many
-of his days off.

Shop stewards have met with the
management of the West Coast
Shipyard Company, but without re-
sults, company officials haying re-
fused to discuss cases individually
and insisted that it involved com-
pany policy only.

Union officials feel that lay-offs
indicate that the yards can now
operate much more efficiently, but
in this case, are asking that the
full cooperation of the unions be
sought before such drastic action is
taken,

In fact, union officials have de-
clared that the West Coast yard
particularly could operate with
about two-thirds of the men now
employed if cooperation between
labor and management were really
in effect. Thus men would be avail-
able for more essential and hard-
pressed industries, or on the other
hand, more ships could be built in
the yard with the same number of
men.

The matter is being investigated
by the Selective Service Board and
F. E. Harrison, federal labor de-
partment representative, is also
conducting an inyestigation, pend-
ine outcome of which the layoffs
will not be enforced.

Boilermakers
Protest Pact

Signing of an ‘open shop agree-
ment’ between the Welders’ and
Burners’ unit of the Amalgamated
Building Workers and the manage-
ment of Hamilton Bridge company
has caused considerable dissatisfac-
tion among other union workers in
the plant.

Classifying the agreement as a2
“yellow dog contract,” they claimed
that the agreement contained no
wage clause and, in effect, gave the
workers nothing. It could only cov-
er approximately six welders, since
burners in the same unit wished it
to be known they had no part in
the contract.

Protest to the company by repre-
sentatives of more than 800 mem-
bers of the Boilermakers’ Union in
the plant only brought comment
from the management that it could
“sien anything it wished” without

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Amalgamated To Hold
First Convention Here

First convention of the Amalgamated Building Worke
Canada, decided on at a delegate conference late in Oct
will be held on January 28, 1943, where plans will be lai
the future policy and expansion ‘of the organization. The {|
tober conference also voted overwhelmingly to sever its ©

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mination of a rising tide of protest from the membership ove.
period of the last few years at the lack of an aggressive p

and the anti-labor publications

Continued

Little

my opinion, this means that every
man should be placed in the job
that he can best do to assist the
war effort.” :

In Ottawa, A. R. Mosher, Cana-
dian Gongress of Labor president,
declared that “it was public know-
ledge that“the manpower program
has bogged down ... due primar-
ily to the lack of an adequate goy-
ernment policy with regard to the
whole war effort. The responsibilty
for the present situation rests upon
the cabinet and especially upon the
minister of labor.”

Percy R. Bengough, vice-presi-
dent of the Trades and Labor Con-
gress, agreed in principle with
Mosher, and remarked that, as far
as Elliott Little was concerned, he
believed “he is honest and capable.
As far as the minister of labor is
concerned we have resented his
dictatorial and uncompromising at
titude. Generally labor from coast
to coast does not like him.”

Tim Buck, secretary of the Do-
minion Communist-Labor Total
War Committee, sent a tleegram
to Prime Minister Mackenzie
Hing stating that “manufacturers

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of the executive of the CE!

viously set up by the manager

committee of the ABW€ re
at the conference that a lisi
questions had been sent to the €
executive in an effort to determ fi
“who dictated the policy of |
publications and its membe
The questions were not answ
it is stated, and the reply receiy
when read to the delegates,
considered an insult.

Unit .2, comprising shipwrigr
shipjoiners, boatbuilders and ca)
ers, has already elected its Fr
tions committee. Those selects
for the day shift, D. Bisemenne
Glyn, B. Sparks, L. Andersor
Stewart, Emerson Cook and E
son, and for second and third 5
|H. Fowler, G. Berg, R. Harris,
R. Hornal. Resolutions are to
receiyed not later than Jan

and trade unionists alike recoj”
nize that the manpower, p i
tion and government labor ol
cies indicated in Little’s spe«
would constitute a marked i
vance in government policy ar
as such were to be welcomed ;
supported.”
The labor movement “and all
nadians who favor development
a total war effort,” he said, vit
ed Little’s resignation “with “el
cern and some misgivings.”

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Tim Buck

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MAURICE RUSH

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Orpheum Theatre

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Capitol

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