Page 10—Saturday, November 11, 1944

John Goss Announces

Bid For Parks Board

The ‘following announcement of his candidacy for civic

office has been released to the

ent cultural leader in Vancouver:

“At the urgent request

associates, I have decided to allow my name to go forward
for nomination as a Parks Board candidate at the forth-

coming civic elections.

“TI make no claim to wide ex-
perience in municipal polities,
but all my working life-I have
been associated with movements
that have had as their object the
cultural enrichment of the ‘com-
mon man.’ 3

“The beautifying of our city,
the extension of facilities for
healthy and inspiring relaxation
on the part ‘of those who work by.
hand and brain, and particularly,
the provision of a wider horizon
for the energy and curiosity of
our young people seem to me
worthy and useful preoccupa-
tions for a man of my social
ideals and general training.

“If the people of Vancouver
should consider that my pres-
ence on the Parks Board would
contribute to this end and add to
the prestige of that already much
admired body, I am unreservedly
at their service.”

FACILITIES NEEDED

Asked by a representative of
P.A. to elaborate on the an-
nouncement, Goss declared that
the possibilities of an expanding
Pacifie trade in the postwar
make it clear that Vancouver
will benefit considerably and will
make rapid strides economically.
Such growth, he felt, must be
paralleled by provision of facili-
ties for culture and recreation.

“We must Strive,” he stated,
“to make our city as exciting 4
place to live in as it is profitable
to work in, and one that is for
ourselves a source of pride, not
merely a mecca with points of
interest for tourists.’ To do this
we must be prepared to spend
more, £0 increase the proportion
of our income required for deco-
tating our lives in relation to
that which we need for maintain-
ing them.

MEANS FUNDS

“In conerete terms this means
among other things, increasing
cur Parks Board allocation, it
means finding money publicly
and privately for buildings a
worthy civic center with audi-
toria, a conséryatory of music
and a dramatic academy; it
méans funds for training and
employing’ an efficient personnel,

press by John Goss, promin-

of friends and professional

it means money to eliminate the
disgrace of our antideluvian pub-
lic libraries system, and to make
our own Pro-Ree an organization
that functions at 100 percent all
the year round.”

TRADE UNIONS

The candidate was especially
enthusiastic about the possibili-

ties of trade union participation
in civic cultural activities, a field
in which he has pioneered locally,
and which has this year given
Vancouverites. the outstanding

“People’s, Concert Series.”

“The trade unions are organi-
zations of growing powér and in-
fluence in the province and they
well might bring' their weight to
bear in the near future in the
direction of publie service and
higher education.

“In democratic Paris the trade
unions owned and operated their
own parks and restaurants, in
Moscow they have their own
theater, in Mexico City the offi-
ces of the Typographical union
contain a concert hall, an art
gallery, a handicrafts depart-
ment, a creche and a maternity
ward. There is nothing there-
fore either startling or original
in the idea that similar under-
takings should be inaugurated
by the Woodworkers, the Boiler-
makers or the Fishermen here in
Vancouver.

“In fact a start has already
been made: The Boilermakers’
Union is running a series of con-
certs for the public, and at the
forthcoming exhibition at the
Art Gallery, “B.C. at Work,” the
trade unions are awarding sub-
Stantial prizes for outstanding
exhibits. These may seem smal]
matters, but they are unique in
Canadian history and a landmark
in the story of the rise in pres-

tige of Canadian
labor.”

organized

Extensive Educational Progra

pertinent labor problems,

The Labor School committee,
threugh its chairman Carl Moel-
ler, Plumbers & Steamfitters,
AFL, announces two classes, one
on public speaking, a 12-week
course under the tutorship of J.
W. Hope, and a five-week course
on the fundamentals of trade
unionism, Trade Unions and You,
under the guidance of able CCL
and AFL trade union leadership,
will begin at King Edward High
School, 12th Ave. and Oak Street,
Wednesday and Thursday, No-
vember 15-16. The organization
of other classes on such topics
as shop stewards, Canadian his-
tory and economics, cooperatives
and eredit unions, current events
and child care are being consid-
ered for the second semester, be-
ginning early in January.

CONFERENCE

Conference on “Women’s Place
—Tomorrow” will take place in
the Medical Dental Auditorium,
925 West Georgia Street, at 1:30
p-m. Sunday, November 19. A
‘Special panel discussion with
leading women representing

management, labor and educa-
tional groups will lend their
views on this problem, under the
chairmanship of Barbara Bain-
bridge, executive member Aero-
nautieal Mechanics Lodge 756,
and both men and women are in-
vited to take part in the delibera-
tions.

A city wide delegate confer-
ence on “Rehabilitation, Recon-
version and Reconstruction”
has been announced by Claude
Donald, WEA regional director,
to take place in the city on Sun-
day, December 10. Labor, man-
agement, government, civic and
provincial, political, religious,

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All trade unions in British Columbia are invited to affiiliate themselves to the \
ers’ Educational Association, which has launched an exte
is designed to develop leadership in the ranks of the lab

ClO—by classes in public speaking,
and the utilization of natio

leaders, who are making trans-continental lecture tours.

nsive educational progran
or movement—-APL, CCT
trade union fundamentals — city wide conferen:
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other interested
be communicated

veterans and
groups will

with in the next few days, with

a conference call for delegates to
this conference, to discuss their
relative desires for the postwar
in Vancouver.

B.C. BRANCH :

Robert Haddow, Grand Lodge
representative International -As-
sociation of Machinists, who re-
cently met with the Hon. G. D.
Howe, with respect to the post-
war status of aircraft in Canada,
is expected to be one of the main
speakers, along with other pro-
vineial, civic, industrial and la-
bor leaders. pe

The B.C. branch of the Worlk-
ers’ Educational Association of-
fers the B.C. labor movement—
along with its regular monthly.
issue of the B:G. Labor Student
—an- advisory and consultant
service for all union locals en-
deavoring to set up educational
committees, and appeals to every.
union—not company unions— to
affiliate to the WEA and dele
gate representatives to the WEA
Trade Union Committee.

Further information can be
had by calling or writing to the
WHA, 1010 Holden Building, or
phoning Marine 7919.

Fairview Meet
On Playsroun

Jerry Mathieson, province
rector of Pro-Rec, will }
main speaker at a meet

representatives of comr
Sroups, service clubs.
women’s organizations jz

Fairview area, to be held ¢
vember 13 in the Heather

Conference arose out o
need for a community org
tion which could conside:
take action on such projec
playgrounds for childre
problem which has been x
ing considerable attention i.
area as a result of the acti
of the Fairview Playground
Recreation Committee, unde
chairmanship of George Fla

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cussed at the preliminary —
ing, including one that

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