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Labor United
For Welfare Aid

“We don’t agree with the principal of private charity. We
don’t think the blind man and the crippled child and the de-
linquent boy or girl should have to depend on Welfare Federa-
tion for help. But we cannot and will not let them suffer while

this point is being settled. They need us now—not a year or
five years from now.” : “Tabor has agreed to back this
This is the practical, stirring ap-, 2Ppeal 100 per cent,” he stated.

peal made by Birt Showler, presi-| We have set the goal a dollar
dent of Vancouver Trades and| Per worker and the council sup-
Labor Council (AFL), opening ae | ported this recommendation.’

campaign jointly with B. E. Leary, |
president, Vancouver Labor Council

“We know that if the money is
not found there will be unthinkable

(CCL), to raise $58,000 urgently distress,’ E. BE. Leary added. “One
needed to continue the work of the dollar per man will see a great
Welfare Federation. many men, women and children

The two labor bodies have com-
bined forces to raise the fund in
the shortest possible period of time,
and appeals are being made through
all affiliated unions and members
to give their support.

over the hump next year.”

| Machinery for collecting the
money will be set up and operated
by committees of each union af-
| filiated with the two councils.

BC Chinese Ask

For Franchise

VICTORIA, B.C.—‘The Chinese people of British Columbia,
like their English friends, realize the seriousness of this mael-
strom which has engulfed the entire world and that there could
be=—must be—only one outcome—total and complete destruc-
tion of the Axis powers,’ Robert Lowe of the Victoria Chinese

—@Youth Association declared last

5 week in an appeal to Premier John

Wart for a better deal for the

Steel hA i f [ Chinese population of B.C. The

statement pointed out that Chinese
in this province are ardently sup-
porting Canada’s war effort, many
having donned uniforms or

Feasible

SOT 5 gone

ere are approximately | to work in war industry.

200,000 tons of scrap steel in| The Act put into effect in 1875,
p

denying the franchise to Chinese,
the appeal continued, has placed
Canadian Chinese in the position of
being neither Canadian citizens nor
Chinese citizens. The Chinese are
not allowed to enter the legal or
pharmaceutical professions, nor can
they be employed on public works.

the prairie provinces, in addi-
tion to the large quantities con-
tinually available in B.C,”
stated the Hon. Ian Mackenzie,
minister of pensions and national
health, in a letter to the city coun-
cil last week, regarding the feasa-
bility of establishing a steel indus-
try in this province.

Stating that information in his

private files proved that the project |
was possible, Mackenzie reported
that the possibilities were thorough-
Iy investigated last year by private

East Indians
Seek Franchise

A petition “asking the right to
vote in all elections held in British
Columbia, and signed by more than

interests and the federal depart- /1000 Bast Indian residents was Sent
ment of munitions and supply. by the Khalsa Diwan Society to the
Little activity, however, has been provincial government recently. The

petition stated that British Colum-
bia is the only Canadian province
where Hast Indians are denied the
franchise.

A strong protest was also sent to
the minister of national defense
objecting to the calling up of Bast
Indians, who have not the rights
of citizenship, for service in the
armed forces. The Indians, assert-
ing that they “would defend Canada
to the death,” declared that if they
were to be subject to the same ob-
ligations as other British subjects,

noted since then.

“TJ find that one company esti-
mated a rolling mill with a capac- |
ity of from 50 to 70 tons a day
could be installed in B.C., at a cost
of approximately $900,000. I have
another estimate that, at a cost ex-
ceeding $10,000, it would be possible
to install on Wancouver Island a
blast furnace with 50,000 tons of
steel and 100,000 tons of pig iron as
its annual output.”’, the letter con-
tinued.

Mackenzie stated that a reversal

Fearful of being injured in

missioner
a solution to the daily problem

Ferry Crush Danger
To Women Workers

North Vancouver ferries, women workers from
shipyard gathered after work last Friday and interviewed Com-
G. W. Vance of North Vancouver

West Coasi
Shipyard}
Probe Urgec|

An investigation into Wi
Coast Shipyard was asked j
a motion passed at last sess
of Vancouver Council, w
delegates charged that thi

the home-coming crush on the
North Burrard

in an effort to find
of how to get on the 4:45 ferry

without endangering their safety.

“We are very worried,’ one of
the women told The People this
week, “about the safety of women
workers in this yard who have to
travel by ferry. Once we get out-
side the yard, the crush is terrific.
Tf an arm happens to get caught
around a post, then chances are
you might not take that arm home
with you.”

Lunch kits, with sharp tin edges,
are also a menace to the girls’ safety
she explained, since the sharp Cor
ners get dug into their skulls or
ribs in the mad scramble to get
aboard the first ferry off shift.

Only immediate solution offered
by Commissioner Vance, she said,
was to give the girls opportunity
to enter the ferry on -the opposite
ide of the street from mien, thus
aving them from the biggest crush.

“While we have to take advan-
age of this for our own safety,”
eader of the women delegation de-
clared, “we resent very much the
nference given by Commissioner
Vance that the crush is caused be-
cause the men are ‘unruly.’ This
js not so. It is just the natural
urge for everybody to want to get
on the ifrst ferry and we do not
expect the men to stand aside for
us.”

Commissioner Vance suggested
that one solution might be to ex-
tend the single lanes leading to the
erry, but to be effective they would
have to be extended right up to
the yard exit doors 50 that work-
ers coming out in single file kept
going that way until they got on
the ferry. But, while this might
ease the situation to a certain ex-
tent, the girl said, it would not be
a complete solution.

Many times, people are pushed
right out into the street, she pointed
out, and then they have to go right
back to the end of the line again,
because it was impossiblé to break
through the crush going down the
janes. Other times women get
pushed up against the wall, or
against the barriers with risk of
bodily injury.

Home coming crush on the fer-
ries is a constant sore point with
all workers and @ complete in-

had been more hold-ups, more
eat strikes, and greatly lagging
duction in that yard than i
other. :

“Jt is a stumbling block to ty
progress of the whole shipbuilk
industry,” declared A. Staub, %
gate from the Boilermakers’ a |
Tron Shipbuilders’ Union. ae

He reported that during
course of the many disputes in
yard the government and selec
service had been given a ful
port and nothing: had yet been <

Whitney, another Boilermak
delegate, suggested a complete ~
vestigation of Selective Servi |
when informed by =. E. Lea
council president, that as far
he was aware, no penalties are pi
vided for misconduct on the pi”
of employers. AY

Elected

Delegates E. Whitney, A Sta
and Heclestoy were elected me”
bers of a committee which 4
make a complete survey of tf
workings of selective service a
report back to the next meeting |
their findings.

New Labor Youth -
Center Opened

The Labor Youth Federatic
new center, at 560 Granville Sti 2
was officially opened last Frit.
wiht an “Open House” night. a:
program consisted of commur
singing, led by Dora Sigurdsen, ¢
dancing. A buffet lunch was ser”

Congratulations were exten:
to the Labor Youth Federation
the opening of the recreation roc
for men and women in unifc

«

Elected by acclamation to
Surrey school board this
week was Floyd Hamilton,
energetic organizer for the
IWA. His program advocated
proper lighting, recreational
facilities in all schools, and
supplying of school books at

wholesale cost. Safety of ay Harold eee secretes
: : S jancouyer abor ouncil, i
chil dren in the ae of air |teary, president of Vancou
raids, Hamilton believes, is |TLabor Council, and Mayor J.
an issue of primary import- | Cornett.
ance. He is also urging revi- Olga Walker, secretary of —
sion of the present bus trans- | U¥F city council, welcomed

guests to the center, and appe;
for financial help in carrying
the future plans of the Youth ¢
ter committee. L

port for school children to
eliminate hardship for those
living farthest from schools.

vestigation should be undertaken,
the women felt, to find an effective
solution. Eee

Shop stewards of Worth Shore
|shipyards have been asked to sub-
lmit their views on ferry over
crowding to Harold Pritchett, mem-
ber of the ferry sub-committee ‘Set
up by the advisory transportation
committee. When these reports
have been compiled, they will be
placed before A. T R. Campbell
and Gerald Heller, personnel man-
lager for Dominion Bridge, other
imembers of the committee, for dis-
cussion and recommendation. The
situation will also be discussed with

of policy prevented the Calgary they should enpoy the same|CGommissioner George Vance of
sxilere. N: ie rer.
furnaces and rolling mills of the privileges: Se) LSS
Dominion Bridge Company being | RFD ED ne AY ER ED ADEN EAN EN PEED AD ED, i} DEES
moved here in the summer of 1941. Pal = ysehecderNerdEPNECD EAPC EEE a
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“Further, we wish to suggest that
clarification be made of the position
of a Chinese joining the armed

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other questions still unsettled in

Chinese minds.”

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