— — 5 Cents Vancouver, BC. Friday, March 8, 1946 Formerly PACIFIC ADVOCATE This Issue: { using Round-up ternational Women’s Day : rone who has seen the strings of ramshackle hoy- which the Indian cannery ‘rs are forced to live, and f.sed their conditions, can > how urgent the struggle ‘a the Indians count on the acking of the labor move- ‘for the improvement of conditions, and in their for the revision of the out- Indian Act. convention will demand 2 representation on a Royal ission to enquire into all S of government policy to- -Native Indians in Canada. ‘ates are reported to unan- ly reject Ottawa’s position, natives should be treated nors who cannot be made ‘sible for their own ac- They point out that the is have been made taxpay- id subject to military con- ‘on. the same as other Ca-= 1 citizens. Indians are raising the | of Canadan democrats of ury ago—no taxation with- =presentation. convention was opened by ent William Scow of Alert and attended by a number yminent visitors as well as 2 Commissioner for Indian 's for the Province, and the Indian- Agent. The Broth- i leaders have laid before nyention a memorandum on us negotiations with gov-— nt officials at Ottawa, amone other thing's, as the impossibility of con- g the existing setup. This wandum calls for a- full and - dscussion on all matters 1g to the welfare and gov- Continued on Page 8) pee BROTHERHOOD J ill Citizenship Rights MRINCE RUPERT, March 7.—Native Indians from rer the B.C. coast regions gathered in Port Simpson this for the Sixteenth: Annual Convention of the Native yerhood of B.C. This convention is €xpected to mark y milestone in the history of the Brotherhood’s struggle conomic and social justice for its members. BRUCE MICKLEBURGH AMEN DEMAND 8-HR. DAY CSU Urge Government Break With Nazi Spain Delegates to the Canadian Seamen's Union Convention here authorized the union executive to call a strike vote “if shipown ers and the government continue to ignore our just demands for an eight-hour day on Canadian lake and coastal vessels.’ Shipboard workers on these ships presently work a 12-hour day for an 84-hour week. A union dele- gation will go to Ottawa within a few days to press for an eight-hour law. The new wage policy of the union calls for a minimum of 50 cents an hour for the lowest rat- ing aboard ship with others sealed accordingly. The deputa- tion to’ Ottawa will also request that those rates be immediately put into effect on,.all govern- ment-owned ships. J. A. (Pat) Sullivan was una- nimously re-elected president of the union by the delegates who represented 8,000 seamen and 2,000 fishermen, at the closing session of the convention in Preston Hall here. He has headed the organization since it was founded 10 years ago. Other officers named were Harry Davis, of Montreal, first vice-president. He will be act- ing president in the absence of Mr. Sullivan who is also secre- tary-treasurer of the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada. Elected secretary was T. G. Mc- Manus, Montreal; while Cyril E. Lenton, Fort William, was chos- | en - treasurer. - Neimed ~~ vice-presidents were Ald. Dewar Ferguson, of Tor- onto; Theodore Roy, Montreal; with Aage Antonsen, vice-presi- dent for the Great Lakes district; H. C. Meade, Halifax, East Coast representative; James Thomp- son, Vancouver, West Coast rep- resentative: and Capt. Ben Mac- kenzie, Lockport, N.S., who was elected vice-president to repre- sent the Canadian Fishermen’s Union, a CSU affiliate. The delegates in a resolution also urged the government to “take steps immediately to halt the malicious anti-Soviet and anti-labor campaign aris- ing out of the examination of Canadians accused of divuls- ing information to a foreign country.” ; : From the convention floor sev- eral declared the “spy scare stories” recalled the Hitler me- thod of using “the old red her- (Continued on Page 7) See SHAMEN JAMES THOMPSON Hospital Facilities Disgrace Vancouver One of the most shameful of a long list of shameful proposals to be put forward by Vancouver's civic officials came this week from Mayor J. W. Cornett in his suggestion that the critical financial and administrative problems of the Vancouver General Hospital be overcome by the opera- tion of monthly “sweepstakes.” Morgan Lauds Lobby Urges Continued Pressure Full support of the Labor-Progressive Party behind the demands of the B.C. Labor Lobby was voiced last Monday at a meeting of the I.PP’s Provincial Executive. “The lobby, composed of labor and veteran representatives, was the largest and most united that British Columbia has ever seen,’ stated LPP Provincial Leader Nigel Morgan. In fact, the bringing together of all sections of the labor organizations, as well as a united movement of veterans, made history on this continent.” Trades Council Back Housing Conference Resolutions newly com- Meetings of the formed lWLabor-Veteran mruttee are serving the pur- pose of ironing out misun- derstandings between - the two groups, according to a report by R. K. Gervin to the Trades and Jabor Council this week. “We are reaching a much better basis of under- standing, ” said Gervin. “There are many questions that individual veterans are still asking but we have eliminated the long range sniping through the press.” Gervin announced a lLabor- veteran meeting scheduled for March 29 in which representa- tives from every local union and veteran organization in Vancou- ver would be asked to partici- pate. Gervin urged each union to have authoritative representa- tion, “These veterans have many questions to ask, we must an- swer them,” he pointed out. Stevenson, Brotherhood or Carpenters’ delegate, supported Gervin. “This is one of the best moves we have made,” he said. “Phere are no more hard feel- ings, we are able to discuss and reason things out agreeably.” Criticism of the Gity Council levelled at the recent Housing con- ference by W. Cowley, secretary (Continued on Page 8) See TLC over-estimation,” “to say that “