‘The Tribune gives a lead on every issue’ ++. says HAROLD PRITCHETT, B.C. District President, TWA “Now, as never before, the prosperity of British Co- lumbia is dependent upon the health, weli-being and pros- perity of the individual. The welfare and living standards of working people are of major importance in Striving for decent standards for all people in the province. Prosperity is not dependent upon huge profits for the few, accompan- ied by unemployment and sustenance standards for the many,” declares Harold Pritchett, president of Internation- al Woodworkers of America, ; B.C. District. “The present Struggle of the people is a. tremendously important one, ‘and can succeed only under the leadership of a strong, united labor movement. And as I’ see it, the labor press has. a. very important role. to play. in present labor - campaigns, For British Co-. : lumbia the Pacific Tribune | is the forum in which labor’s. . case is best presented, clear- ly. and honestly. Facts are undistorted and news writ- ten objectively, I think that support of the Pacific Trib- une is the duty of every working man and woman who looks forward to a better way of life. The Tribune gives a lead on every issue affecting labor and the nation.” ik * x We agree with Harold Pritchett. That's why, every week in this column, we are proud to print the names of those stalwart workers upon whose efforts rests the success of our press drives here at the Pacific Tribune. Our supporters come from all in- dustries, from the professions, from white-collar groups, from the home front. The campaign worker in your block may be a steel worker, a school teacher or a housewife. : The younger members of our press drive committee are doing a marvelous job, we are happy to report, The students’ clubs are working top speed hustling subs and donations, Ike Shulman and George Stewart are. winning ‘top honors among student workers. ; * * * Bill. Hreherchuk, the press drive wonder man, dropped this week with thirty-two subs he’d garnered up Britannia Mines way. Of course, Bill has done such an amazing job that nothing he ac- complishés leaves us gasping now. We’ve come to expect miracles as a matter of course, oa '.- However, ‘he “managed to take our breath away by an- nouncing that he has set himself a personal objective of 1,000: subs! What’s more, Bill is: prepared to challenge “atiy club, or any combination of clubs” to a little socialist competition in the way of sub-selling. We print his challenge here with the warning that anybody. who takes it up ‘will be up against some pretty tough competition. Any offers? 4 cag Remember, we're always glad to print your challenges in this column, The press drivé thrives on-such competition, and it makes the campaign a lot more fun,.too. So -let’s. have your challenge for the next issue. Here is one! : The Natal-Michel Club: last night agreed to send $50° towards their quota on the press drive and that they are challenging all clubs in the. East and West Kootenays to try and beat them in the drive. * * * . And in the meantime, remember the objectives: $,000 SUBS... . $10,000 CASH. Remember the dates: - MARCH FIRST ... MAY FIRST. ae Suit or Overcoat come to the OLD_ESTABLISHED RELIABLE FIRM REGENT TAILORS 324 West Hastings Street EVERY GARMENT STRICTLY’ UNION MADE . member, “and frankly, in’ my ‘Students hear ‘motion calling for the discourage- blocking BCER franchise steal _ Vancouver labor’s campaign for a s scandal is receiving overwhelming support from numerous throughout the city, the Pacific remained silent as to its plans r ed writ demanding that the c ering which presented the BCER with a At a meeting of the Junior Board of Trade this week a reso- lution asking for a plebiscite on city transportation questions was passed, and several spokesmen for the organization prédicted that the Junior Board would back up labor in its campaign. “We believe in honest business tactics,” said a Junior. Board - opinion the city council’s handi- ing of the BCER deal smells to high heaven.” * China lecture Over half the land of China is owned by only three per- cent of the population, Rev. K. H. Ting told a large audi- ence of UBC students last week. He spoke on “China’s Struggle for Democracy.” He said that the old fatalism of the people is rapidly disappear- ing, largely because the people ruled themselves when their rul- ers wnt to the Japanese side during the years of occupation. The May 4th Movement of 1919 of the intelligensia has now ‘be- come a mass movement. The in- telligensia has come out of its "ivory pagoda, and discovered the people,” the speaker said. “The common people have dis- covered their own power and have overthrown fatalism .. they are not going to let the landlords | take away their new-won democ- MACY or oy “The people will not tolerate civil war ang continued suffering. The fight for democracy—which is autocracy versus democracy, land- lordism versus industrialization, ignorance versus education — will continue.” Rev. Ting is a former lecturer at St. John’s University, Shang- hai, was secretary of the students YMCA of China for eight years, and spent three years in Shang- hai under Jap occupation. After the address a film showing life in both Nationalist and Red China was shown. y Students at UBC voted down a ment of Asiatic immigration to B.C., after hearing the question debated in Parliamentary Forum. Debater Jack Brown stated: “It is better now to extend the hand of brotherhood, than to pay later for our blindness.” - Charles Young asked that such immigration be discouraged, Say- ing that the presence of large racial minorities would lead to conflict. Brown countered this by charging his opponent “wants to set up a white Garden of Eden in +B.C-” : , HIGHEST PRICES PAID for DIAMONDS, OLD GOLD . Other Valuable Jewellery STAR LOAN CO. Ltd. EST. 1905 719 Robson St. — MAr. 2622 GREETINGS to Pacific Tribune 9 oe ATOM cy ¢ DR. W. J. CURRY | pressing their feelings Tribune learned this week. ity quare deal for citizens in the current transportation organizations and individua While the city council has egarding the Vancouver Labor Council’s recently present r Show cause’ why its deal with the BCER should not be ~ declared void, other quarters are voicing loud protests against the council’s slick maneuv | twenty-year hold on our transportation facilities. | A spokesman for the Associate Council of Vancouver South, a delegate body of community org- anizations, declared that it was “high time the people were given the democratic privilege of ex- on the transportation question by means of the ballot. The BCER opposes a plebiscite, but if their offer is &s good as they say it is, what have they to lose by putting the matter to a vote?” (Recently the Associate Coun- | cil voted by a large majority to | Oppose granting -of the transpor- tation franchise to the BCER.) _ John Turner, Labor Council secretary, reports that in answer to a resolution demanding a pleb- ‘iscite which was sent out to hun- organizations and other groups letters endorsing the action are being received daily. Union locals which have discuss! the resolution at their meetings report almost 100 percent suppor Several cify law firms have thé matter under consideration an¢ are carefully. ‘The writ against the city cout cil .was issued a week ago John Stanton on behalf Turner. Basis. for the cil’s action lies in the city chartef itself, which specifically declares that before the city council c2? pass any bylaw relating to grant ing of a new franchise on trans _ portation facilities, it must be su- mitted to the voters and ratifie bi) dreds of local unions, business by them. unions and its membership to today to Pat Conroy, President, Canadian District Council, United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (CCL-CIO). “The piecemeal removal of con- trols now going on will inevitably have the same effect as an im- mediate removal of all controls,” Jackson’s wire stated. It drew attention to press reports that the Prime Minister asked for an ex- tension of controls on prices, sup- plies and rentals for a “limited” time. The eventual removal of ail controls will destroy the Cana- dian people’s standard of living Jackson’s wire declared, and bring on a depression. Elaborating on his wire to the CCL Jackson stated that higher standards of living for the, Canadian people in 1947 demand full employment and an increase in mass purchasing power of all workers and farmers, the bulk of Canada’s population. “The only way to prevent a de- Want labor code CCL tells Duplessis MONTREAL—Thirty dele- gates of the Canadian Con- director Jean Marie Bedard, - last week told Premier Maurice Du- Plessis they wanted a complete revision of the Quebec minimum wage law to include a basic min- ‘imum wage of 65 cents ‘an hour, a 40-hour work week of five eight- hour days. : They also called for the un- conditional right to strike and to picket: a workers’ credit sys- tem to allow workingmen to own their ovrn homes; a building pro- gram for low-cost government housing: a system of health in- surance. The CCL delegates asked the above measures as a stopgap until a national labor code could be won, The CCL wants a labor code for Quebec that would be “national in its legislative structure, provincial in administration.” uj gress of Labor, led by Quebec | Halt price decontrol - UE A request that the Canadian Congress of Labor rally protect government release 0 price controls and to call for public support for a campaig# to prevent further decontrol and to increase mass purchasing power as the only means of preventing a depression was made Secretary of the CCL by C. S. Jackson, pression in Canada,” he said ‘“i8/ — by a vast expansion: of consume! purchasing power. To expand con: sumer purchasing power wme2Ds we must have full employment at a high wages. The alternative is ul employment and ,starvation wage? for the few who are lucky enoug to find jobs,” ; SRO EY Victoria tragedy The death by drowning of © Leonard and Thomas Stark ‘at St. Mary’s Lake, Salt Spring Island came as a shock to friends and mem- bers of the labor movement in Victoria. Leonard, 27, and his 14 year old brother, Thomas, were drowned when a small “Skiff in which they were riding capsized. Leonard, a member of the Labor - Progressive Party, was Secretary of the Centre Club in Victoria. He was discharged from the Canad-— ian Army just before Christ- mas of 1945, and joined the LPP last November, follow- ing a public meeting: which was addressed by Tim Buck. A sincere, conscientious fighter of the working class, Len will be missed by all. LPP ‘members and friends. Sympathetic condolences are extended to Mr. and Mrs, H. 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