Victoria labor picnic
plans fine program

_ A United Labor Picnic is planned for Victoria on Sun-
day, August 17th, at the Willows Park Beach. The picnic
committee, under the chairmanship of Nick Russell, has
drawn up an attractive program. Sports and games are

planned and dozens of attractive
prizes will be awarded to the win-
ning competitors.

Highlight of the day will be the
crowning of the Victoria Labor
queen. Four contestants are in

“the running for the title. Ann

Ribs broken in
BCER: tram ride

Friends of “Johnny” Ottewell
will learn with regret that she is
absent from‘’her duties at the
IWA Hiring Hall as the result

of an accident on a B.C. Electric
, Street car.

-.The car on which she was
travelling made a sudden stop,
throwing her against the back of
a seat and breaking several of
her ribs.

The Pacific Trbune staff joins
with all her friends in wishing
her a speedy recovery. ,

Mezger, as “Miss Hairdresser,” and
Dodo Clarke as “Miss Construction
Worker,” are the nominees of the
Centre Club. ‘Ann Ratnuik, “Miss
Retail Clerk,” is sponsored by the
Slavonic Club and Mary Mezger,
“Miss Woodworker” is being sup-
ported by Industrial Club mem-
bers.

Track events, tug-o-war and nov-
elty races will round out an attrac-
tive sports program. Followers of
the popular “barnyard golf game”
are focussing their attention on
the horseshoe tournament which is
attracting the interest of the
game’s many followers.

Special ticket prizes will be
drawn, First prize is a mantle.ra-
dio, value $50.00; second prize is
a ladies’ suit dress; third prize is
a pair of white bath towels; fourth
prize is a grocery script certifi-
cate, value $3.00. Tickets, which
sell for 25c or three for 50c may
be obtained at Room I, 1116 Broad
Street. Other information can be
obtained by telephoning the com-
mittee office, :

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Available for Dances, Socials,
Weddings, Banquets, Meetings,
Reasonable rates, 600 Camp-
bell Avenue. HAstings 0087.

Dance, Clinton Hall— i
2605 East Pender. Dance every
Saturday night. Modern and
Old-Time. Viking’s Orchestra.
Hall is available for rent,
HAstings 3277.

WHAT’S DOING

A .Treat on Sunday—
Film and Forum every Sunday,
8 p.m., West End Hall, . 1332
Davie | St. Everybody welcome.
Silver collection.

Dance— :
Open Air Dance. Every Satur-
day night, 9 to 12, at Swedish
Park (North end of Second
Narrows Bridge).

Social and Dance—
Fishermen’s' Hall, Saturday,
July 26, 9.00 to 12.00 p.m. Re-
freshments.- Admission, $1.00.

Refreshment Social: ?
Saturday, July 26, 8 p.m., 342
E. 15th, North Vancouver, in
aid of Miss Marine Worker.

Auspices, North Vancouver
LPP.

Burnaby LPP to
enter full-slate.

The action of Burnaby ‘Non-Par-
tisan’ councillors in eliminating
the ward system in municipal elec-
tions, was strongly condemned by
LPP Councillor Harry Ball at a
meeting of the LPP Burnaby mem-
bership recently. Ball charged
that this action “was brought
about by the ‘Non-Partisans’ in an
attempt to keep their stranglehold
on the community.”

The meeting endorse a pro-
posal of the LPP district coun-
cil to contest all seats for Coun-
cil, School Board and Reeve in the
forthcoming municipal elections.
Candidates will be chosen at a
nominating meeting next week.

It was agreed also to enter into
discussions with the CCF and
other progressive groups “on the
question of ‘unity candidates,”
this being “the only way in which
a people’s victory and the defeat
of the Non-Partisans can be as-
sured.”

Gypsum, steel workers
Win. Wage increases

Steel and Gypsum workers in the Vancouver and New
Westminster areas will receive larger pay envelopes this
week, as the result of new union agreements signed by the
CIO Steel, and Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Unions.
Over 800 workers will benefit by the new wage boosts. _

The wage picture for 2,500 Van-
couver shipyard workers looked
bleak, however, this week, as
Burrard and Pacific drydock com-
panies refused to meet the mini-
mum wage demands of the CCL
Boilermakers union, which are
12% cents an hour. The com-
panies offered increases of six
and seven-and-a-half ‘cents. »

Pen Baskin, Steelworkers union
representative announced the
signing of a new agreement with
the American Can Company here,
providing for wage increases of
12 cents an hour for 500 workers
at the plant.

Harvey Murphy, Mine, Mill and
Smelter Workers Union repre-
sentative stated that Gypsum

Many novel attractions
at United Labor picnic ©

With the sweltering heat these days making life practi-
cally umbearable for many Vancouverites, we can all look
forward to Sunday, August 3, as a day when the most re-
freshing attractions will be offered to us, The event at

which these attractions will be
presented is the forthcoming
United Labor Picnic at Confed-
eration Park, North Burnaby on
the above-mentioned date.

Ten charming young ladies, en-
tries in the ‘Miss B.C. Industry’
competition will set hearts flut-
tering, and provide _ spectators
with pleasant refreshing charm,
adorned in. their streamlined
beach togs. The girls were in-
troduced to dancers at the Pend-
er Auditorium last Saturday
night, and met with their hearty
approval, many promising to be
at the picnic to support. their
favorites.

Several entries are expected to
be received by the picnic com-
mittee this week and next for
the selection of B.C.’s_ largest
trade union family. Tribune read-
ers are urged to participate in
this feature event of the picnic.
Rules of the contest are simple.
An applicant should be a member
in good standing of a bona fide
trade union B.C. The family en-
tered should be the largest living
group directly related to the ap-
plicant. . ,

With the large number of ac-
tive trade unionists in Vancou-
ver, there should be little diffi-
culty in having a flood of appli-
cants in this novel event.

Prizes offered to 10 lucky ad-
mission ticket holders were dis-

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played. in Forst’s windows, 2500
Hast Hastings Street this week.
They include an _ ultra-modern
Bendix washing machine, an
RCA-Victor automatic radio-
phonograph, and a_ three-piece
chesterfield suite.

Readers wishing to secure tic-
kets to the picnic are urged to
do so this week, at Room 211,
119 West Pender Street. Admis-
sion is 50 cents.

In addition to the _ contests,
sports, and games for the young-
sters, there will be plenty of food,
ice cream and refreshments, and

numerous other attractions for an
enjoyable day.

workers employed at Pacific Lime,
Beale Quarries, and Stanley Beale
Company on Texada Island; and
Gypsum, Lime and _ Alabastine,
New Westminster, a total of 300
workers, had won wage _ boosts
ranging from 12% to 16% cents
an’ hour. _-

Bill White, president ot the
Boilermakers’ union here, said
this week that unless the ship-
yard companies grant the union's
full wage demands, a strike vote

or any other action “deemed ne

cessary”: will be taken.

IWA local stages
monthly dance

A regular monthly dance on the
first Saturday of every month,
starting August 2, is being held
at the Clinton Hall, 2605 East Pen-
der, under the joint auspices of
the IWA Local 1-217 Social Com-
mittee and the Finnish Organiza-
tion of Canada. The best in danc-
ing rhythms is guaranteed to
everyone by the modern and old
time tunes of The Viking Orches-
tra. Dancing from 9 till 12:00. Ad- _
mission, gents, 50c; ladies, 40.

This social evening is in answeT
to the popular demand of the
membership for a regular monthly _
dance so let’s all get out and back.
our union to the limit. This is only
a start and with the full co-opera-
tion of the membership and theif
friends, the local social committee
has full intentions of broadening
their activities in the entertain- —
ment field. All proceeds from the —
social committees’ work goes into
good and welfare of the union, and
to help defray the expenses Of
our delegates to the internati
convention, to be held in St. Louis,
Missouri, from August 26 to 30.

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Ryerson urges strong
alliances for Canada

By BOB
VICTORIA—Speaxing at

MEZGER
a public meeting in the Em-

‘press Hotel Sunday, Stanley B. Ryerson, national director of

education for the Labor-Progressive Party, stated: ““There is
a pressing need for a re-examination by Canadians of the na-

ture of Canada’s relationship with
the United States.”

In tracing the path of American
imperialist expansion he charged
that U.S.A. monopoly interests

‘sought world economic and politi-

cal domination. The foreign and
domestic policies of the Truman
administration reflected this, he
said. “The fight for democracy,
social progress and peace is insep-
arable from the fight against riv-
etting Canada to Wall Street im-
perialism.”

“A strong Canada can be built

in friendship and alliance with |

world democracy and socialis™.

A tie-up with crisis-ridden U.S-4-_
and its atom bomb mania cat

mean only the weakening of

Canada—the sacrifice of its i

dependence, security, well-being

and national dignity.” ,
Stressing the necessity of #
“united front” against the monoP-
olists of Canada, he concluded:
“There is a compelling need % —
CCF-LPP, labor unity—for demo
cratic unity in the present strus”
gles—in the advance to
cialism.”

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