August 9, 1938

Defense Council

Blubber Bay Strike Trials

back to Vancouver, when Jones, Peele

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In fact, during the trials a week ago, as-
surance was given Garfield King that
all warrants had been executed and no
more arrests were to be made arising out
of the July 20 meelee.

Further evidence of the maneuvres
of the police to hamstring the strikers
is given in the arrest of Allen Whipple,
witness for the defense. Whipple, resi-
dent of Powell River, was arrested on
Thursday while en route to Vancouver
as a witness for the defense.

POLICE TRIP THEMSELVES.

Ng Chow was sick and in the house of
a friend at Lime Kiln Bay, a mile from
Blubber Bay, on the day of the meelee at
the Blubber Bay dock. Several witnesses
from Lime Kiln Bay gave evidence to
this effect. He was arrested at Lime Kiln
Bay July 26, six days after the meelee.

This case, probably more than any
other, showed the nature of the trials.

When this case came on the docket,
Garfield King asked that all witnesses
be excluded from the court.

Constable Campbell testified that he
had arrested Ng Chow and turned him
over to Constable McClean. Questioned
if there were any officials of the com-
pany: with him, he hesitated and fumbled
for some time and then said indefinitely
Jones might have been there.
CHINAMEN ASSAULTED.

Immediately after completing his evi-
dence Campbell rushed outside, un-
doubtedly to confer with Constable
Martin, who was next called, but Martin
came in before Campbell got out of the
court chamber.

On the stand Martin claimed that
Campbell turned Ng Chow over to him.
Questioned if Constable McLean was
there, Martin answered definitely no.
Then, as an afterthought (members of
the audience stated freely after the trial
that Sergeant Sutherland, present in the
court room intimated with a nod of the
head) Martin Bo that McLean was
there.

Ng Chow exhibited photographs of
pruises allegedly inflicted by Jones, time-
keeper, as he was being led to the lockup.

He received a sentence of 60 days or
$50 fine.

Yim Kee testified that he stepped for-
ward to talk to a Chinese who was going

THE B.o.

May Quit f

and Illot jumped on him and knocked
him down, striking and choking him.

Several witnesses testified that they
saw the company employees pummel-
ling and choking Yim Kee. In fact this
was the cause of the whole meelee.
Yim Kee was dazed and bleeding pro-
fusely, and the bystanders, many of
them not even strikers, had pressed in
to stop the beating. Mrs. Hole was car-
ried in with the surging crowd.

Here, according to the strikers, was the
frame-up. During the meelee Constable
Campbell had shouted, “Get Blondy and
Mrs. Hole, and to hell with the rest.”
Blondy Colborne, who was down at the
float at the time, was given 30 days.
Strikers say the company was anxious to
get Blondy out of Blubber Bay because
of a piece of property in which Blondy is
interested. Mrs. Hole is the wife of the
union secretary. It was not known at
that time that Jack Hole was around.
He had been touring Vancouver Island
collecting strike funds, and had just re-
turned before the meelee started. His
wife fainted, or was clubbed down, and
he had rushed in to protect her.

SEE ALL, KNOW ALL.

The startling part of the police and
company official evidence lie in the fact
that though they were all involved in
different places, they all had their eyes
on Constable Campbell, and saw(?) the
various strikers and sympathizers resist
and assault him. According to Constable
Campbell, six people had hold of him.
Though police claimed to certain of their
identity of the accused, they could not
name one single striker who was on the
dock that day except the accused. Gar-
field King suggested they became ac-
quainted through being in court.

‘ It was stated that company officials led
the police around after the meelee point-
ing out the men to be arrested.

The defense committee is meeting with
Garfield King as we go to press. Decision
on Mr. King’s probable withdrawal will

be made, and preliminary arrangements
made to take the cases to another court.

Trades Council Backs Strike

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The meatcutters were having trouble
with the Canada Packers, and the dele-
gate was convinced the company was
using intimidation to stop the employees
from organizing. The delegates urged

the members of organized labor to bear

this in mind when buying meat products.

Echoes of the P. Burns strike were
heard when a letter was read from the
‘Workers’ Co-operative of Northern On-
tario, reporting that the Co-operative had
been successful in preventing the products
of the Burns Company from being sold in
Ontario.

‘W. Wilson, reporting for the carpenters,
stated that, being “unfamiliar with the
act, they had gone ahead in the old way,”
and as a result of a quick 100 per cent
strike had “gotten arbitration within
three days. The dispute was on two
buildings in the city where the employers
attempted to put over a wage cut. The
90 cents had been maintained.

The Jewelry workers’ delegate re-
ported it was impossible to get union
enamelled buttons in Vancouver. These
are union jewelry workers, but no union
card shops and until the firms here were

agreeable to sign a union agreement and
get a union card union and would have
to send elsewhere for union label but-
tons.

A letter from the City Managers Asso-
ciation urging council support for the
city manager plan got short shift. The
letter was filed.

Of all the restaurants who had union
agreements with the Hotel and Restau-
rant Employees last season, Trocadero

Cafe, Hastings Street, is the only one
that refused to sign a union agreement
this year.

Such was the report given by W. Gate-
man, business agent, H.R.E.U., to the
Trades and Labor Council last meeting.

The matter has been referred to the
Grievance Committee, with the under-
standing that the Trocadero will be placed
on the Council’s unfair list.

All other union restaurants had re-
newed the agreement, including the
Georgia and Vancouver hotels.

The grievance committee reported that
the Empress Dairy had been placed on
the unfair list.

Birt Showler protested that workers
falling foul of the law were forced to
cough up $5 for bail bonds, even though
the bonds were made out by employees
of the city. He asked the legislative com-
mittee to take steps to have this unfair
fee wiped out.

Delegate W. Stewart (Hotel & Restau-
rant Employees) and A. E. Jamieson,
president, were élected to accompany
Percy Bengough, council secretary, to the
Trades and Labor Congress Convention
in Niagara, September 12.

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G. MAYNARD LEAVES
B.C. LUMBER WORKER

As announced in the last issue of the
B.C. -Lumber Worker, I tendered my

resignation as business manager of the |

B.C. Lumber Worker to the convention
of the B.C. Coast District Council.

For some months, I have been devoting
considerable time to organization work
in the Maillardville and New Westminster
sawmill industry and the work has de-
veloped to such an extent that in order
to carry on effectively, I find it neces-
sary to devote full time to the work.

I believe that the organization of the
sawmill workers is essential in the stab-
ilizing of our union and to give it the
strength required to fight effectively for
the interests of the members.

Before leaving this position, I wish to
thank those who have assisted me during
my stay in this office. To a very large
extent the credit for carrying on out
paper goes to the man on the job who,
unselfishly, gives of his time and enerey,
in Selling the paper.

I wish to call on all our agents and
members to assist our new business man-
ager, Henry Lundgren, as much as pos-
sible.

A strong UNION PAPER will do more
than anything else to organize our in-
dustry. G. E. MAYNARD.

Single Unemployed
Sit-Down in C.N.R.
Kelowna Barge

Demanding that the provincial govern-
ment provide them with transportation
in their quest for work throughout the
Okanagan fruit and berry fields, 50 single
unemployed staged a sitdown in the
C.N.R, barge at Kelowna, August 4. After

four and a half hours, an agreement was

reached whereby the men were trans-
ported to Penticton in trucks paid for
by Captain C. R. Bull, South Okanagan
Liberal M.L.A.

At Penticton the unemployed were

8iven permission to sleep in the grand-
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Hello, Boys!

« There must be a few of you out in the tall timbers, as much as it - seems
that the whole coast is parked in Vancouver.

Things seem to have opened up, and with a decidedly optimistic fall to
look forward to, just a few have left town, but this week ‘should almost show
a general exodus of the boys, all eager to work. Holidays are grand aren’t
. Yet too much of it gets monotonous, especially if the ‘doug-ray-me’
runs short and is hard to get. I’m looking forward to a holiday soon though,
so if any one of you fellows can tell me where there is some really good
fishing, drop me a line. I’d appreciate it.

they?

in on us again from the farm looking
good care of him while he was there.

Peter (Hunkey Dory) Haiko and
lights and claim they won’t be back

We had a pleasant surprise the other day when Henry Bergmark dropped

A few brand new arrivals in the well-known figures of Les Germyn and
Eid Lindross as well as Pete Colberg during the past week made a slight
change in the old register. An over-crowded house at this time of the year

is quite a surprise, but very comforting in many ways.

Uno Berg and Ernie Kiviniemi slipped out of town during the end of the
week. Ernie was almost poured out, but we made it. .

‘Well boys, you know how it is, so... until next week,

Queen Charlotte Camps
Are Down

With prospects unfavorable in the pulp
industry, Queen Charlotte Island camps
are curtailing production. Thirty men
came in from Morgan’s last week, leav-
ing only a cold deck crew.

Kelly’s also is down to cold deck crew;
Allison’s being the only one of the three;

logging.

AIR RAIDS WILL
NOT BREAK MORALE.

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of the Federationist and there are enany
C.C.F’ers in the Mac-Paps.

We are all very glad to read in they;
press about the fine struggle of the un.
employed to win work and wages an
we got a kick in reading about it. Th
most important part is that they are\:
holding their ranks in the middle of,..
summer when, as you know, a lot of
boys take to box cars and roam all over
the country. It is a good sign that the®
single men are getting out of this habit
and staying right in the city. Another ;
important thing is they are developing
a new leadership as a good many of the
live-wires of the R.P.W.U. are now with
the Mac-Paps and it’s fine to see new
leadership coming from the rank and.-
file.

* * *

PHE “sitdown” in the P.O. and Art

Gallery is the best news we have
had from home in a long time. It shows,
the workers at home are carying on the
fight and not letting us down. This is
the best support the Mac-Paps could re-".”
ceived and it has brought the spirits of
all the Canadians up that I have met in
the last few weeks. Organize for jobs .
is the main task of the workers at home. ~
It is by smashing fascism on the home-'
front that we can best weaken Franco
and fascism in Spain. If fascism gains
in Canada, Franco is that much stronger
‘—so defeat the fascists in Canada.

Good luck to the unemployed boys!
I know they will win out tho’ it may
take time. We will fight all the better ©
knowing the boys at home are carrying
on, Greetings to friends and our thanks
for the good work of the Mac-Paps.

Good luck! Yours for peace,

(Signed) JOHN OFFER,
Barcelona, Spain,
July 5, 1938.

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as fit as a fiddle. Evidently Pete took

Viking Hagvik also ducked the city
until Christmas.

YOURS AS EVER,