CIVIC ELECTION CANVASS as we admire [ffie personally no idea what to expect. On our way to our designated street we discussed what we would say ,and ‘speculated on what we would do if we encountered any very hos- tile people. We came to a neat little house and stood looking at each other uncertainly. Finally my friend said, “I'll take this one, you take the next one.” As a thin, elderly woman came to the front door my friend said, “She looks as if she’ll throw us at her through the window and Whispered back, “Yes, I do thing SO, but it’s too late now.” “Yes?” the | thin questioningly. woman said My friend began Facitenooe to Offer our prearranged explana- tion, of how we represented the Civic Reform Association, and of how the Association was sponsor- ing Effie Jones’ candidacy for the mayoralty. She need never have hesitated, for as soon as the little old lady heard the name “Ef- fie Jones,’ she smiled suddenly and widely and said with real Welcome, “Oh! You're from Effie Jones? Won’t you come in, please?” @ We must have stayed for close to half an hour, during ‘which time the litle old lady smiled and laughed while she outlined her and her husband’s struggle to get _by on their old age pensions. : Naturally our morale was now Classified A charge of 50 cents for farsi ineertion of five lines or less with ‘© cents for each additional line is made for notices appearing in this column, No notices will be Recepted later than Monday noon ®t the week of publication. Oldtime Dancing To Alf Carlson’s Orchestra Every Wednesday and Saturday Hastings Auditorium Phone HAstings 1248 Moderate Rental Rates socials, weddings, meetings or Out, don’t you think?” I looked . Pensioners back ‘Effie! WE WENT C: ANV ASSSING for Effie Jones the other night—a friend and I. We had some misgiving, for, much ‘and believe in her program, neither of us had done much canvassing before and we had far higher than it had been when we first started out. : * x x : IT WAS MY turn at the next house, an old dark one. A little old man answered our knock. He wore an eyeshade and carried a newspaper in his hand. As soon as I mentioned Effie Jones’ name he too asked us in. He had a crony with him; they were spending a quiet evening together in a dimly lit front room. Poverty spoke out loudly in this house. Both men were pensioners, and we had a heart- warming talk with them, It turned out that both men had been active in the old Social- ist Party. One of them gave us a quarter and wondered how many pensioners’ quarters, given volun- tarily, that is, go into the Non- Partisan campaign fund? The next house was bright with noise and high spirits. Three young men were playing cribbage. One of them was a particularly enthusiastic supporter of Effie. He gave us two dollars and tried his hardest to get the women from upstairs where they were evidently putting the children to bed. He wanted them to sign the paper because, he said, “It looks good, doesn’t it, to have lots of signatures on the paper?” There were housés, of course, where the people who answered the door said, “No thanks, we aren’t interested,” We looked at their tiny suites, at the solemn children clustered around them and echoed to each other as we went down. the walk, “Not interested, while they | get thinner, and the B.C. Electric gets fatter and fatter!” We had a good evening because we learned something, We. learn- ed that the people who have much to gain from voting for Effie Jones aré backing her with faith and enthusiasm. They know what the score is, by a large majority. They fee] that Effie Jones is one of their own kind, that she has experienced what they exper ience. They have a real faith in her fighting spirit. — GRETA NEL- SON. : _ double Ee tae sel Milk price protested Mothers and chiidren, : wearing cows’ masks and carrying signs shaped like milk bottles, picket the city hall in New York to protest the latest one-cen: 25 cents a quart. Yise in the piice of milk to 24 and PEACE ACTION Women must lead in fight! “THE WOMEN OF Canada and the U.S. will have to work very hard if they are to equal the ef- forts and the peace-loving inten- sity of the European women who make up the Women’s Internation- al Democratic Federation,” Mrs. Muriel Draper told the fall meet- ing of the Congress of Canadian ~ Women in Teronto recently. Mrs. Draper is executive vice- president of the Congress of Ame- rican Women and a member of the executive council of the WIDF Which held its last meeting in rome last May. She said the most inspiring re- ports presented at the meeting of the executive council were those from the women of the east- . ern European democracies. The women from these countries have a feeling of confidence and gpti- mism, and are full of plans and trograms for the future which they are carrying out and expand- ing beyond anything we can im- DOES YOUR FAMILY scrape by on about $40. 49 a week ~-the average industrial wage quately on $72. 98 a week ? in B.C.—or does it live ade- The Workers’ Educational Asso- ciation has just completed a budget survey which shows that a weekly income of $72.98—almost the prevailing wage—is the minimum needed to provide an average family of four with an “adequate” standard of living. The WEA budget, which was prepared with a view to assisting trade unions during wage bar- gaining negotiations,, will unques- tionably replace the Toronto Wel- fare Council budget on which labor has based itself for quite a number of years, and which big- wig directors are trying to suppress. This new budget provides for a working father, his wife and two children under 15 who are attend- ing school. It does not even in- clude a sheep dog like ours which gobbles up a dollar’s worth (plus tax) of assorted biscuits, meal CROATION EDUCATION HALL available for meetings, weddings and banquets at reasonable rates. 600 Campbell Ave. HA. 0087. Dance, Clinton bai‘ — 2605 Hast Pender. Dance every Saturday night. Modern and Old-Time. Viking’s Orchestra. Hall jis available for rent, Astings 3277. BUSINESS PERSONALS arctan General Insurance— Anywhere in B.C. LAURIE NOWRY 206-16 EK, Hastings St. TA. 3833 ASH BROS. CARTAGE 516 West Seventh Ave. General Cartage FA. 0242 FA, 0469 SALLY powES— INCOME TAX PROBLEMS eure Swedish-Finnish Workers Club Meets last Friday of every month at 7.30 p.m. in Clinton Hall. ee, 7 SR eee A ‘Lost Tn Shelly Bldg. Ladies’ Sheaffer en, Sentimental value. Reward. nder please .return to C. Posen, “tot Shelly. Bldg. om 20, 9 East MA, 9965, MEETINGS aa ALWAYS MEET AT Excellent Acoustics THE PENDER AUDITORIUM Renovated—Moderrized—Hall Largé and Small for Every Need DANCING—CONVENTIONS—MEETINGS Triple Mike P.A. System — Wired for. Broadcasting 389 West Pender Street _ -—6 “Berlin Editor, ' Denman PUBLIC PEACE RALLY “The Threat to World Peace” Speaker: LESLIE “MORRIS CANADIAN TRIBUNE BAY THEATRE & ee Sts. “SUNDAY, OCT. § p.m. ate ee Auspices: LABOR PROGRESSIVE PARTY Crisis” 17, s 19:88 “a price of “ment can be moved or and meat each week. Even a dog is a luxury item these days. The largest single item in the budget is food, the $21.19 wéekly total being based. on chain. store prices during the first two ‘weeks of August. It allows for nine quarts of milk at 18 cents a quart; five and a half. loaves of bread at 10 cents a loaf; half a pound of cheese at 6 cents a pound; five and a quar- ter pounds of meat at 40 cents a pound and two and a quarter pounes of meat at 65 cents a pound, I have mentioned only a few iene to show that this is not by — any means an extravagant fam- ee of four we are feeding. Even cur budget-raised away with considerably more™ bread and milk, but then we don’t have to buy vegetables most of the year as we grow our own. Ke OR THE WEA BUDGET allows $16 a week for rent, which is sup- posed to provide the family with a five-room house and bath rent- ing at $50 a month. (Almost any- cne will pay a reward for infor- mation as to where such a house can be rented in Vancouver.) But even this|is a more generous al- ‘lowance than officia] government budgets provide. The coal bill is considerably higher than we at the Coast have to pay—$173.04 a year based on $20.60 a ton, also a higher figure than here. Electric power is set at $50.40. Household furnishings come to $3.56 a week or $185.03 a year. Clothing comes next in the budget and amounts to $9.97 a week, or $518.29 a year. This too is quite a bit higher than most of us spend. During the last year we have spent money only for “shoes and a suit for “the working father” who does have to look respectable. The rest of our cloth- ine has been made over. It makes you wonder how you get by at all, doesn't it. Ana what’s more, unless the govern- ousted, just how lone can you appre as getting by.—B.G, : family gets: SOSOSSOS SOS agine in terms of: better living conditions, health, education and — security for their homes and child- ren. These women have the sup- port of their. governments and feel themselves a part of those — governments, However, she said, the Euro- pean women still depend on the American women. She said it was almost impossible to convey how much they hoped for from the wo- men of our continent, because — they believed that we hold the balance of whether we will have democracy and peace. As for the women from Europe, they are de- termined that fascism shal] be abolished from this planet, and also that we do not need to kill each other in order to solve our is problems. ‘Mrs. Draper spoke of the Sec- ond Women’s International Con- gress which opens in Helsinki on November 25. The American Wo- men are trying to send their full delegation of 4 and she urged : the’ Canadian women to. send © delegates in order that they might participate in this agrees for peace. Port Albérni | DIRECTORY GOOD EATS CAFE 2nd Ave. South of Argyle fe “Where working people meet" New Props.. 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