Dr. F. Inglis, ~ supporter of labor, dead GIBSON’S LANDING, B.C. One of British Columbia’s pio- neer medical doctors, Fred Inglis, died at his home in Gibson’s Land- ing on Saturday, August 12, on his 80th birthday. Funeral services were held Monday this week in Gibson’s Community Hall under the direction of Rev. E. Bevan. Despite torrential rain, the hall Was packed with the people of Gibson’s Landing and the| sur- rounding community who came to pay their last respects to their own beloved “country” doctor. Tributes to his pioneering work in medicine and his unflagging concern for the welfare of his community, were Paid by Dr. Scott of Victoria, an old-time missionary colleague of Dr, Inglis. ‘Tom McEwen, editor of the Pa- tific Tribune, spoke on behalf of the progressive labor movement, of Whose causes Dr. Inglis had been % staunch supporter over many years. Though suffering in recent years from a heart ailment, Dr. Inglis followed keenly all the , Struggles of the common people, Contributing generously to the work of the Spanish Appeal Com- Mittee, China Aid, and to many Progressive causes in his native , Testimony of the high esteem in Which Dr. Inglis was nay was the large number of floral tributes from individuals and organizations and the many messages of sym- Pathy to his family. Dr. Inglis is Survived by two daughters and four sons, two of whom have con- tinued the work of their father ' the field of medicine. Three councils Sign peace plea TORONTO _ Three more municipalities, two In Saskatchewan and one in On- tario, have signed the Stockholm Appeal, officials of the Canadian ace Congress announced here this week. (In the province of Quebec, a total of 70 municipalities have al- Teady signed the peace petition.) nh Saskatchewan, the reeves and Councils of Keyes and Bayne have Signed. Keyes is in Canora and ayne in Prud’homme county. In. Ontario, all civic officials of Caledonia, Prescott County, signed © petition in a body, including Wo councillors, the city clerk and Toad superintendent. War orders pay off in profits TORONTO Huge war orders of the Canadi- *n and American governments are beginning to pay off for the big Corporations, Last week Interna~- tional Nickel announced & quarter- Y profit increase of 45 percent ver the same period last year — ® total of $58,733,172 profits in three Months. (John Foster Dulles is & director of INCO). luminum Ltd., a subsidiary of ich is the Aluminum Company i Canada, declared a profit in- SE jae of 18 percent in ee Oonth is year, a take $15,230,570", of this y ttawa is now letting more huge ora. raers such as an $8 million ter for guns at the Simard plant t Sorel, Que., a large order of UNstateg amount for electrical meee from Westinghouse and Ge- t Tal Electric; g $10 million con- Test for naval guns from Sorel Ndustries Ltd. i ee UNION HOUSE ZENITH CAFE 105 E. Hastings Street VANCOUVER, B.C. —. She’s one ae thousands The girl shown here collecting signatures to the peace petition is Joyce Clarke, a Toromto needle trades worker, She is one of thousands of people across the country whose work is collectively building up the petition to its half-million names objective. 250 SIGN AT MAILLARDVILLE Peace petition names! in B.C, total 12,000 “Outstanding reports come from Victoria, Burnaby, MHariot Bay, Whonnock, and the Hastings- Grandview sector of Vancouver,” a peace committee press release says. “Old-timers in the labor move- ment have figured prominently in the collection of signatures, with the highest individual ag gregate turned in by ‘Old Jack’, well known Grandview resident, who has secured more than 500 names by door-to-door canvas- sing. “Allent Grant of Whonnock lives in a rural district where houses are far apart, but he walks many miles a day to cover every house. “Bli Anderson, Heriot Bay, has collected signatures from 99 per- cent of the local population. Good work is also being done by a team of New Westminster peace workers, who canvassed the predominantly French - Canadian town of Maillardville last week and secured 250 signatures. They plan to return for another canvass this x mn puaitie to street-corner peti- tioning and door-to-door canvas- sing, Vancouver peace workers are visiting picnics and beaches for eet: peace Committee is plan- ning to send two delegates to the world peace conference im Warsaw, Poland, in October. LIVING COSTS eggs, potatoes have ad- eaten rite: Chocolate bars jumped from a nickel to Beven cents this week. Bread prices may go up. pistributing firms are er ing a boost in the price of milk. Harassed housewives, who orga- nized and carried through a mag- nificent struggle against high pric- es two years ao, are again awed it necessary to band together 4 fight skyrocketing living Fy a 1950. Playing a leading role in the fight-back campaign 1S the en gress of Canadian Women, a eee sumers’ group which this we presented & prief to the Milk a ak sitting in Vancouver, demanding that milk prices remain at present gihrs Milk Board story on back page). ‘B.C. Peace Committee reported this week that more than 12,000 individual signatures to the Stockholm Appeal have been turned in, and canvassing is being stepped up. Mass endorsa- tions of the world peace petition total 6,000. TCE B EEE EL) HECEU EVER EEE Michel miners demand wage scale conference MICHEL, B.C. Miners, who have received no wage increase here since 1948, went unanimously on record last week’ demanding that officers of District 18, United Mine Workers, convene a wage scale conference “as soon as possible.” The Michel local will circularize all UMW locals in the district with this demand. Rank-and-file members, speak- ing on the question of higher wa- ges, pointed out that if the present contract is allowed to. run _ its course, miners’ wages will be peg- ged at the 1948 level until Febru- ary 14, 1952. This would hold liv- ing standards at sub-standard lev- | els, 1¥ Labor picnic attended by 5,000 people Mass endorsation of the Stockholm Peace Petition was enthusiastically voted by an estimated 5,000 Vancouver citizens attending the United Labor Picnic at Confederation Park last Sunday. After hearing Harvey Murphy speak on the Korean war LOBBY “And our government should ask all governments for a commitment not to use atomic weapons in this crisis.” . With Canada’s iuture hanging in the balance in the fateful weeks before parliament meets, the an- nouncement of the lobby capped plans already released by the Peace Congress fer the “most intensive peace campaign in Canadian his- tory. As this is being written a hun- dred large or small conferences are being held across Canada by peace groups swinging into the main stretch of the life or death drive to get half a million signatures to the world Peace Petition. Following the lobby, which will hit Ottawa at the peak of the petition campaign, and the windup of that campaign on October 2, a score of outstanding Canadians will leave for the Second World Peace Congress.: That Congress+will be held in Warsaw, October 15, backed by signatures representing the bulk of mankind condemning the first government to use the atom bomb as a war criminal. Already 273 million signatures have been ga- thered. A number of prominent Canadi- ans have already been nominated and the National Council of the Ca- nadian Peace Congress will short- ly meet to finalize the list of dele- gates. CoNections are being taken in some instances to finance what- ever delegates may be approved. Indicative of the response the lobby may well strike in the heart-strings of Canada is this reply by a Toronto mother to a peace ad in the Tercnto Star: “Just ask the mothers and wi- dows who really know what war is. I pray God that He might show our leaders a better way.” She was a war widow of World War I and had lost her only son in World War I. Summing up the call of the lob- by, the Peace Congress statement said: “Peaceful negotiation, drift to war! “End the deadlock in the Secur- ity Council! “Outlaw the atomic bomb!” not the Civic employees strike Hamilton civic workers — garbage collectors, waterworks em. ployees amd gravediggers — made their decision to take strike action to enforce their demands at this mass outdoor meeting. Their picket lines have thwarted all attempts to organize scab garbage collection. and the danger of its being spread and engulfing the world in an ato- mic third world war, the picnic crowd roared “aye” to the world peace appeal asking for banning of atomic weapons and branding aS a war criminal that government which first drops the A-bomb. “The fight of the Korean people to drive out the Yankee invaders and win their independence and freedom is a part of the world- wide struggle of the common peo- ple against imperialism’s drive to a third world war,” said Murphy. From noon until light rain fell at 7 p.m., the picnickers were en- tertained by sports and a cultural program. Native Indian dancers opened the proceedings, followed by the Labor Youth Chorus, an ex- hibition boxing bout by the Crump brothers, weight lifting, hand bal- ancing, ladies’ wrestling and other attractions. Miss North Vancouver won the “Miss B.C. Labor” crown. In sec- MONA MORGAN The picnic was a huge succéss. tot ond place was Miss Electrical Worker, a few votes ahead of Miss South Vancouver and Miss Burrard. The national costume contest was won by Elsie Goreny, dressed in Hungarian costume. A. Berrie, 429 Homer Street, won the major picnic prize, a refrigerator. C. C. Wallace, of Kamloops, won a CCM bicycle and Mrs. W. Hardie, 3235 Vena- bles, won an_ electric kettle. Prizes came from Forst’s Ltd. “We thank the hundreds of peo- Ple who worked so hard to ensure the success of this year’s United Labor Picnic,” Mona Morgan, pic- nic manager, told the Pacifie Tri- bune. “I am sure everyone who participated will agree that the re- sult justified our efforts. Next year we hope to have an even bigger and better demonstration of labor unity.” Peace pefifioners get remand fo August 23 The case of three peace peti- tioners, arrested last Saturday and charged with “obstructing the police” while canvassing for names to the Stockho Appeal on downtown street corners, this week, was remanded until Wednesday, August 28, at 10 a.m., when the three will stand trial in city police court. PACIFIC TRIBUNE — AUGUST 18, 1950 — PAGE 7