—WINNIPEG. "Fhe board of directors there- Immediate launching of @ fore recommended a vigorous -Winnipeg-Co-op plans expansion ‘plated building drive. The goal enlarged creamery plant. In planning the new building, | share campaign to expand the share campaign to lay the basis, membership and working cap- ital of the People’s Co-operative has been decided here. After hearing the report of Andrew ‘Bileski, president and general manager, members de- cided that such a share cam- paign was the only way in which the co-operative could prepare to meet the problems arising from the present creamery OP- erations. Bileski reported to the meet- ing that the Co-op, which enter- ed the milk business in 1931, with 7 routes, 20 employees and 700 customers, had expanded to the point where it now operates 45 routes, serves about 12,000 customers, and employs over 100 workers. As a result, enlarged plant facilities are needed to handle the volume of business in the most efficient manner. Further expan- sion is impossible without ex- tending the present creamery or building a new one. greatly increased | | organization's plans for a new “ : s ae Poet it was felt it should definitely be financially and in terms of m [the most modern, most ip to: bership support, for the contem- gate creamery Plant in Greater of the drive would be a new or Winnipeg. Here shareholders of the Winnipeg People’s Cooperative | listen intently as Manager Andrew *Bileski outlines the modern creamery. Transit fares, social as these are typical of citizens’ by Vancouver’s fighting Civic € sitting in the mayor’s chair not been tossed into the 1947 To read the daily press you'd Scarcely know there was & Civic Reform Association le | Civic Reform charges dailies aid | council deals by news blackout sistance, civic democracy, parking, t eht out week aiter wee problems being fou d by Effie if the vote of t today les against her. election sca housands of business properties had taxation, playgrounds — k at the City Hall Jones, the woman who would ning a censorship on the taxpayers we represent.” Reform Association. or-a fighting: Effie Jones or that council is giv-| «~ne most glaring example is the ing citizens the runaround. | BCElectric. We've been fighting all | for the promised public in- “The dailies have rung down an/ year iron curtain on us,” Mrs. Jones told | quiry on the ten-cent fare. In May the Pacific Tribune. “Theyre run-' we pressed. the council again and a aL A charge of 50 cents for each) SALLY BOWES— ee insertion of five lines or less with | Let me solve your Income Tax 10 cents for each additional line | problems. Room 20, 9 East Hast- is made for notices appearing in| ings: MA. 9965. _ this column. No notices will be &ccepted later than Monday noon of the week of publication. — Oldtime Dancing To Alf Carlson’s Orchestra Every Wednesday and Saturday Hastings Auditorium Phone HAstings 1248 Moderate Rental PICK your own strawberries. Eggs, chickens for sale. Apply 1146 King Road, Lulu Island, off No. 5 Road, Gil Quesnel. MEETINGS Swedish-Finnish Workers Club meets last Friday of every month For socials, weddings, meetings} at 7.30 p.m. in Clinton Hall. ners Citnton Hall— yery| RYERSON CLUB welcomes as ‘¢ Sart Pender. srohere x hal members all those interested in 1d y eg e’ erenwatce: music, drama, painting, writing Hall ae amie “rent, | 2nd handicrafts. | Information s available for from City Committee LPP or Hastings 8277. phone BA. 5040-L. Meetings 2nd ’ and 4th Fridays. “WHAT'S COMING? 0.K. Hair Restorer— M.D. Science OK A-1 Aid Which Grows Hair From Extra Scalp Food. Don’t Expect Life in Dry Head or Wood. No. 5 - 892 Gran- ville St. U, Antonuck. Croation Hall— Annual Mid-Summer Festival of the Scandinavian Central Committee will be held at the Swedish Park in North Vancouver on June 20th. Available for Dances, Socials,} Good Program. Transportation Weddings, Banquets, Meetings, | from Cassiar and Hastings from Reasonable rates, Camp-| 11 o'clock. ‘ bell Avenue. HAstings 0087. BUSINESS PERSONALS ASH BROS. CARTAGE 516 West Seventh Ave. h and House Party arranged by United Office and Professional Workers of America. Starting from 2690 West ist. 8 p.m. Satur- “day, June 19, 1948. Everybody welcome. : General Cartage - FA, 0242 + FA, 0469 Beach Party Saturday, June 19. — Sing song. Transportation from line at General Insurance— end of Spanish Banks bus here in B.C. 9 pm. Tickets Ie, available at Anyw! LAURIE NOWRY Reoples Gender. Ausplecs of RY- People’s. Co-opérative Bookstore, ; proved what the Non-Partisans were trying to deny, that the Public Utilities Commission is opening the whole B.C. Electric rate structure for permanent revisions on trans- it, light, power and gas. “Last week Elgin Ruddell and I joined A..Cunningham and R. Dan- iels of the Disabled and Handicap- ped Persons’ Union in asking the council to seek boosting of social assistance grants to at least $40, which is what old age pensioners get. The government has now ag- reed to $385 but we are pressing for $40 and we also want these people to get their checks in the mail in- stead of having to make their way downtown as best.they can. The council] just.referred these questions to the provincial government.” Sointula loses pioneer woman —SOINTULA, B.C. This Malcolm Island community has lost one of its best-loved resi- denis in the death on May 28 of Mrs. Edla Malm, whose entire life was devoted to the interests of its people. One of the pioneer women of Sointula, Mrs. Malm nursed the sick in her own home and brought at least a hundred of the commun- ity’s children into the world acting ‘as a midwife in the absence of a doctor. ; She came to Malcolm Island 46 years ago with her husband, John ‘Malm, now retired, and her two small sons, Throughout almost half a century of untiring work, she took a part in the activities of all progressive organizations. Her hus- band took a leading part in the for- incorporated in the United Fisher- men and Allied Workers’ Union, women’s auxiliaries. Funeral services held here on Disabled persons fight for decent allowances By W. CAMPBELL Near the end of each month of the year a long line of ‘ fore people. Each month they stand in line, often in the cold and rain, to receive their $30—now $35 —social service check which must provide. them with food, clothing and shelter for 30 days. If you visit them in their small rooms, ‘scattered throughout the poorer sections of the city, you will learn how they live and die on $30 a month. You will learn how nig- gardly appropriations have forced Vancouver General Hospital to turn away sick and aged people to walk, and how these people have few days afterward. from tuberculosis. She applied for from her room. staffed social service authorities. following the investigator’s died. when they had barely the strength been found dead in their rooms-a You will hear the story of a middle-aged. woman who suffered social service assistance, and short- ly after making her application be- came so ill that she could not move For three weeks she lay in her bed, waiting for word from under- Upon the insistence of her friends, the authorities finally consented to send an investigator, No move was made to send her to a sanitorium or to provide hospital care. The day visit, she became seriously ill and was rushed to a hospital, where she There are numerous cases of sO- old and sick people can be seen waiting in front of the old relief office at 530 Cambie Street in Vancouver. | disabled and handicapped persons, victims of the callous and { “ and hard-hearted treatment meted out to human beings by i governments that place profits be- : They are rooms within a few days of their hospital visit. Said one, “The government has nothing but contempt for people unable to work. Its interest in a person lasts only as long as he is of some use to an employer. When he can no longer work, it loses interest in him. That is the position we are in. I sometimes think they wish we were dead and out of the way.” Despite their economic hardship and harsh treatment by medical authorities, the social service vic- tims are fighting back with Plenty of spirit. The B.C. District Union of Dis-— takes up individual cases and fights in an organized manner to .l|raise the living standards of its members. : : They have already been promised an increase of one-fifth in their al- lowance, but their aim is to put it on a par with that of the old-age pensioners, Proper and immediate medical attention, and checks mailed to all social service people, are also a part of their demands. Secretary Bob Daniels told me: “A this province could be used to raise — the allowance of social service cent levels. There is no shortage of money—just a shortage of human- ity. Now that we are organized and know abled and Handicapped Persons — small part of the liquor profits in — people and old-age pensioners to de- : mation of fishermen’s unions now} and she herself was a member of May 31 were attended by virtually the entire community, tributes to Mrs. Malm’s work being paid by the cial-service victims who have been taken into the hospital, examined, and told to repert back the next going to fight this thing through. Public pressure can win the day for _ week, only to be found dead in their the social service victims.” — where we're going, we are « to coal tions. Coalition government refused to act and union members fought the flood on the spot without aid or direction. A main cause of the high water was the practice of the Crow’s Nest Pass Coal Company in dumping mine rock in the Michel Creek de- spite protests registered for year's by the UMWA, Board of Trade, and Rod and Gun Club. Each year at high water the mine rock washes down the creek bed and has raised the level) of the river. Basements have been flooded higher each year as a result, and this year many Natal homes have been badly damaged. As the fiood came, Sim Weaver, union secretary, wired Victoria urg- ing appointment of a responsible authority te cope with the ‘situa- tion. A government engineer came a week after the flood with no 206-16 KE. Hastings St. TA. $833 _erson ‘Club. — An UFAWU and other organizations. ‘lyet nothing has been done. ‘ Miche-Nata leading due company’s dumping — Flooding of homes in this Crow’s Nest coal mining center 4 resulted from company greed and refusal to carry out demands of the United Mine Workers of America and other organiza- When the waters began sweeping into people’s homes the — authority to du anything and even —NATALZ _ Union members pitched in on the _ dykes and organized the flood work on the spot. Sole On June 7 there was a joint meet- ing of the Union and the Board of Trade to work out plans for forcing _ the provincial government io see that the pedple of Michel-Natal — would never again be flooded out — of their homes as they were on the weekend of May 23, eee Members of both groups strongly condemned the coal company and — the government. _ ee Old-tingers say the river has often risen just as high in the past, but there was little damage done until — the effects of the company’s dump- _ ing practices were felt. Sn: Early this year the union execu- tive asked the coal company to join in joint a to the gov- — ernment to have the river cribbed a flat “No.” — eee ae f = PACIFIC +TRIBUNE—JUNE 18, “This job will have to be done.