Effie Jones taking
BCE to court Monday

It will be Effie Jones vs. B.C. Electric this coming Mon-

day morning, June 6, in Small

Mrs. Jones, in a test case on behalf of Vancouver citizens,

is suing the BCER for return

fares during the period when the 15-cent fare was in force.

Soviet planes in
1956 air show

- TORONTO
Soviet planes will fiy over Can-
ada next year to take part in an
International Air Show in Toronto.
This year, six Soviet observers
have accepted an invitation to at-
tend the show which will be held
this Saturday, June 4, over the
Canadian National Exhibition
waterfront in Toronto.

A formal request that planes of
the Soviet Air Force participate in
the show — with external affairs
department approval — came*too
late, Soviet - Amassbador Dmitri
Chuvahin announced. He promis-
ed, however, that the planes would
be entered in the international ex-
hibition next year.

The air show follows immediate-
ly at the close of the Canadian In-
ternational Trade Fair.

Invitations to the Soviet Union
were made by the air show execu-
tive. Ambassador Chuvahin and
two members of his staff discuss-
ved participation with officials in
Toronto recently. They said that
“counterparts of your own mod-
ern’ equipment’* would be flown in
the 1956 show. Air Show officials
believe this means the latest So-
viet jet plane design.

AT LAST!
A FILM THAT
RANKS WITH
“GRAPES. OF
WRATH” AND
“OPEN CITY”

“SALT
OF THE
EARTH’

MAIN:
THEATRE

49th and Main
Now Showing

Debts Court.
of $3 she overpaid for transit

- Mrs. Jones, president of Civic
Reform Association, played a lead-
ing role in the fight against higher |
fares, which culminated in a ‘Court |
of Appeal decision squashing the
increase.

This week Court of Appeal ruled
that only Vancouver and Burnaby
would be allowed costs against
BCE in the appeal against the two-

cent hike. Other oganizations
which appealed will have to pay
their own costs.

Jobless benefit |
limit assailed

“OTTAWA

LABOR

BRIEFS

Settlement of the strike-lockout
‘at Restmore Manufacturing Com-
pany here was announced jointly
Wednesday this week by company

and IWA officials. The plant will
reopen Monday, June 6.

Joe Morris, president of B.C.
district IWA, said the dispute had
been “amicably settled” and both
company and union would with-
draw suits against each other.

ko * x :

Union waiters in six New West-
minster hotels are on strike — but
they’re only closing down two
hotels at a time, in deférence to
the thirst of Royal City citizens.

Strikers are members of Local
835 AFL Beverage Dispensers.

‘ x *

Special jobless assistance to
destitute workers, financed by the
city and province, may be cut off
this. month. aes

Vancouver City Council has ask-
ed Social Service Administrator
James Chambers to report “when
and if” payments should be stop-

Proposals to limit the maximum

,to 80 weeks instead of 51 were)
under fire in recent submissions.
to a House of Commons commit-|
tee by the leaders of Canada’s two

main labor congresses. .

Both the Trades and Labor Con-
gress and the Canadian Congress
of Labor, representing together
one million members, appeared
before the Industrial Relations
Committee on Bill 328 amending
the present Unemployment Insur-
ance Act. : y

. Despite government arguments
that only some 5 percent of claim-
ants took advantage of seeking
benefits over the 30-week period,
the CCL said longer protection
could be provided without weaken-
ing the fund.

Exclusion of public utility work-
ers was termed “retrogressive”
and a drastic reduction of tHe time
limit for appeals to 30 days in-
stead of the present six months
was sharply condemned as “com-
pletely unwarranted.”

%

Further changes under protest
were plans for less responsibility
for the Unemployment Insurance
Advisory Committee, representa-
‘tive of labor and management. Re-
ports by this committee on cover-
age and benefits provided by the
regulations will henceforth be dis-
continued. j

Another backward step is the
move to make the National Em-
ployment Committee, representing
employers, unions and other com-
munity groups, optional. .

TED HARRIS

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period of jobless. benefit payments |»

ed.

There are still hundreds of desti-
tute workers in the city. Report
for April shows that $54,035 was
paid out to 1,159 single men, 16

single women and 127 families. «

x x x
In Ottawa the Postal Workers
Brotherhood, representing three
big groups, presented a brief ask-
ing the government to increase
post office employees’ salaries,
which lag $400 to $500 a year
below other civil service scales.

x * *

Small boats are leaving the hali-
but grounds because they can’t
continue operating with prices
drastically below those paid last
year. is

Catches are good and the quota
of some 54 million pounds is ex-
pected to be filled by first season
closure date Sunday. Prospects are
that the second season quota (July
27 to August 3) will also be easily
filled.

Last year first trips to Vancou-
ver brought prices of 18 cents chix,
17.6 cents medium and from 16.4
to 16.5 cents large. This year first
trip prices were 10 cents chix, 14.3
cents medium and 11 cents large.

Last year prices on the exchange
went up as the season progressed;
this year the prices are dropping,
forcing many small boats to tie up.

Cooperation
on housing
pledged city

Ald. George Cunningham, Van-
couver City Council building chair-
man, returned from Ottawa this
week with word that Central Mort-
gage and Housing will give “full
co-operation” to the city on any
low-rental housing projects it de-
cides to undertake.

A meeting of aldermen will be
called “right away,” said Ald.
Cunningham. “We have assurance
of help from both provincial and
federal governments, and Central
Mortgage is not tied to a scheme
similar to Little Mountain. They’ll
con-ider any proposal we make.”

Forgetting that no low-rental
homes have been built yet, council
launched a drive this week to
eliminate float-house “squatters”
from False Creek and parts of
Burrard Inlet, without advancing
any suggestions as to where the
“squatters” were to find places to
live. Actually the “drive” is not
likely to advance beyond the
threat stage at present, because
the city charter will have to be
amended first, and that cannot be
done until the spring session of
the legislature.

Senior Citizens plan

Surrey housing project

NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C.

New Westminster Old Age Pen-

sioner; Association, working with

a Vancouver contractor, is promot-

ing a scheme to provide pension-

ers with homes which will rent for
$22 a month.

Association president Ralph
Coles says plans are to ask for 25
acres of land in Surrey and an-
other 25 acres in Coquitlam.
Building would start this summer,
and eventually some 500 people
would benefit.

Labor calls gas parley

Vancouver Labor Council (CCL)
has sent out a call for a confer-
ence on control and distribution
of natural gas in Greater Vancou-
ver and the Lower Mainland.

The parley will be held June 18
at 9:30 a.m. in the Labor Temple,

307 West Broadway.

MRS. ANNA MOYSIUK

Women lead

hi
Women canvassers are S :
the way in the British Cy ond

campaign in support 0! $e
Appeal Against Atomic we 1
ures released by B.C. Peact
cil reveal. -
(The council announced 08
week that, as of May jected ®
signatures had been collect™ &
this province). sre
Top canvasser is MIS ates :
Hickie, ‘with 1,416 ia Mot
closely followed- by A4® ther
chenko, with 1,000. All 0 re
vassers who have gather coq
than 500 signatures are er (700)
They are: Mrs. Dora Pad
Mrs. Vera Bazigin (643);

Elva Black (612).
each collected 100 oF je bi 3
OU
seven canvassers who havé © put
ed more than 300 sign@ -
are:
only one a man. They
Minnie Searle (416); Ray oa
Mrs. Julia Prokopehuk Ce a
Mary Gawrychi (852);
ness (320). oy hn ook
Four Canadians have ope utes
re:
to the appeal. They @ :
Freda Hickie of Vancouve™”
Anna Moysiuk of Sask@"" i aton
Croccini of Timmins 4°

have
Of the 52 canvassers WHO ig
natures 29 are women, 23
n abt
less than 500, six are W !
(391); Mrs. Kay Gardner
i
Taylor (330) and Mrs. Mom®
lected 1,000 or more *
atoony Re
Muzichenko of Vancouver

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