Final tribute
fo Anderson

SOINTULA, B.C.

“British Columbia has lost one
of its pioneer fishermen and boat-
builders, and one of the foundation
members*of the United Fishermen
and Allied Workers Union,” said
UFAWU research director William
Rigby, délivering the funeral ora-
tion for John Anderson, who was
laid to rest here last Sunday.

Anderson, 69, passed away in
St. Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver, on
January 18, a few days after an
operation for cancer.

Anderson first came to B.C. from
Finland in 1906, settling in Soin-
tula in 1912, where he took up
fishing and later, in 1918, boat-
building as well. He built 606
boats during his 36 years in the
trade. 2

Prominent in the Finnish Organ-
ization, Anderson was a_ talented
writer and produced several plays
in Finnish. He also contributed
many articles to Vapaus, Canada’s
progressive Finnish paper, and sev-
eral articles in English for The
Fisherman.

A long-time supporter of the
Pacific Tribune, Anderson signed
up many new readers in the Soin-
tula area. He was also a champion
sub-getter for News Facts, a period-
ical promoting Canadian - Soviet
friendship.

“His philosophy was that a man’s
measure lay in what he did -to
better the life of his fellows,” wrote
George North, editor of The Fish-
erman, “He has left more than
memories; he has bequeathed a
legacy of moral courage and high
. Principle, of sound working class
Philosophy and devotion to his
fellow man which will endure for-
ever.”

Anderson leaves to survive him
his loving wife, to whom he was
happily married for 42 years; two
sons, Ted and Ole, both well known
in the fishing industry; two broth-
ers, Matt and Tony, both residing
in Sointula and two brothers’ and '
a sister in Finland; and several
grandchildren. ’

Continued :

FORMOSA

Radio Peking charged this week.
that more than 17 units of the 7th!
Fleet, including four aircraft car-
riers, three cruisers and 10 destroy-
ers were “intensifying manoeuv-
res” off the east China coast.

A Reuters dispatch from Hong
Kong. quoted Premier Chou en-lai
as rejecting proposals for a “cease-
fire” as a US. conspiracy aimed
at halting the liberation of For-
mosa.

“The so-called cease-fire be-
tween the People’s Republic of
China and the Chiang Kai-shek
clique which the U.S. government
and its followers are trying to en-
gineer is in actuality intervention
.in China’s internal affairs and
alienation of China’s territory,”
Chou is quoted as having said. |

iCouncil drops

registration

‘\manoeuvre

Defeat of Alderman Jack Corn-
ett’s attempt to make it the re-
sponsibility of resident electors to

= |sget on the voters’ list was termed

“a victory for the people” by Effie
Jones this week.

A special city council committee
discussing the problem Friday last
week discovered that an &amend-
ment to the city charter would be
necessary to abandon the canvass
or enumeration in favor of Ald.
Cornett’s proposal under which
residents would register them-
selves. -

Although estimated cost of the
1954 enumeration was $20,000, a
report given by city clerk Ron
Thompson revealed that the actual
cost was only $11,000.

“Citizens should be on guard
against schemes to abandon
enumeration,” said Effie Jones.
“We want to see an extension
of the civic franchise, and meth-
ods used whereby all eligible
voters will get their names on
the lists without having to call
at oity hall and register. indivi-
dually.”

Mrs. Jones has suggested the
number of polls be increased from
the present 90 to 135, for the con-
venience of voters, and a change of
voting day to Saturday from Wed-
nesday, with polls remaining open
until 8 p.m.

License squeeze
on Doukhobors

‘Sons of Freedom parents charg-
ed under the Public Schools Act
with failure to send their children
to classes are being deprived of
their driver’s licenses by the Social
Credit government.

George Gregory, Liberal mem-
ber for Victoria, last week con-
demned the licenses suspension as
an “invidious use of drastic war-
time legislation” and declared that
the Freedomites’ conduct, “repre-
hensible though it may be, bears
no relation whatever to motor
vehicles.”

Attorney-General Robert Bonner
is taking action under a wartime
act passed chiefly to deal with
persons who failed to register un-
der national registration regula-
tions. ; »

Following seizure of 40 Sons of
Freedom schoolchildren last week,
the sect members in Krestova have
lodged a protest against the viol-
ence they claimed was used by
the RCMP. A

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Women will present
brief to government

Some 50 mothers attending a women’s conference sponsored by
Congress of Canadian Women signed a telegram appealing to the
Canadian government to vote against the London-Paris agreements

to rearm Germany.

The conference, held last Saturday at Dunsmuir Auditorium, in-
and observers! sei a

cluded delegates
from 11 organizations and five
chapters of the CCW.

Findings of the conference
will be compiled in a brief and
submitted to the provincial gov-
ernment February 4 by a dele-
gation of women. :

Unemployment was discussed at
length at the parley, and delegates
expressed the opinion that the B.C.

government should pursue a policy | @

of developing our natural resources

.
and providing jobs through the,

creation of secondary industries.

In view’ of the alarming situa-

tion existing in Vancouver con-
cerning the growing number of
young people becoming addicted
to drugs, delegates went on re-
cord asking for a public inquiry
into the problem. :
if addicts were registered, they
could be treated through a clinic,
drugs could be made available at
low cost and under medical super-
vision, and efforts made to re-
habilitate addicts which would be
more effective than punishment by
imprisonment.

As there is an_ increasing
amount of drug-taking among
school children, the conference
felt preventitive measures could
be taken by school authorities
through regular medical check-
ups and watchfulness during
times when children disperse
from school.

Shortage. of school teaching
staffs was also discussed by dele-
gates. Mrs. Dorothy Lynas, North
Vancouver school board candidate
in the last municipal elections,
said that 1,600 more teachers are
needed in B.C. to take care of the
increase in pupils over the next
five years.

She also explained the need for
a more equal distribution of grants
given to municipalities, and stress-
ed the need- for the provincial
government to take a greater share
of responsibility.

It was felt that]:

Convention speaker

Maurice Rush, city secretary
of the Labor-Progressive party,
will deliver the main report at
the Greater Vancouver LPP con-
vention which opens this Satur-
day noon in Pender Auditorium.
Theme of the parley, which ex-
tends through Sunday, will be
“A Greater Vancouver in a
Greater Canada.”

Hearings set
on fare appeal

Hearing of the appeal of six Low-
er Mainland municipalities against
the September fare hike granted
B.C. Electric will open February
16 befere the Appeal Court in
Victoria. |

The 884-page appeal books re-
quired by the court are now ready.
They contain the transcript of
Public Utilities Commission hear-
ings that preceded the increase,
exhibits and a variety of docu-
ments. :

Vancouver, Burnaby, New West-

minster, Richmond and the city ,

and district of North Vancouver
have all entered appeals.

Suspensions
in IBEW
reach 25

Latest figures disclosed in the
U.S.-directed “purge” now taking
place in local 213 of the In-
ternational Brotherhood of Elec-
trical Workers (AFL) here show
25 members suspended or charged,
facing various accusations of ‘‘com-
munist leanings.”

In a public statement this week,
George Gee indicated that he
would make available to union
members copies of the numerous

“charges” preferred against him
by Alfred Terry, IBEW representa-

tive from the U.S. now in the city
armed with wide powers by the
international executive,. and serv-
ed through the local’s executive.

Gee’s position is that since these
charges suspending him from of-
fic¢ for which he must now stand
trial, were not read to the union
membership as stipulated in the
IBEW constitution, “In my own
defense I must inform the mem-
bership of the charges against me
so that I can call on them as wit-
nesses at the trial.”

Canadian vice-president John
Raymond of Toronto is reportedly
coming to Vancouver to preside
at Gee’s “trial.”

Meanwhile it is widely rumored
that a number of electrical com-
panies here have signified their
approval of the actions taken by
the U.S. union officials. The em-
ployers’ viewpoint. is that this
anti-communist and _ anti-progres-
sive purge will facilitate their
hold-the-line policy on wages when
new wage negotiations open.

Many union members have also
noted RCMP surveillance of their
movements since the purge began,
indicating a close cooperation with
the US. purge team.

Gee was suspended from his
elected office of business agent on
January 15 for allegedly “working
on behalf of the Communist cause.”
Commenting on the charges this
week, one of the founder of the

IBEW local here told the Pacific
Tribune, “If they can frame Gee
on this, every member of our union
can be similarly framed.”

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IN MEMORIAM

In memory of
JACK CUNNINGHAM
Valiant fighter for a better world
who passed away one year ago.
January 31, 1954.

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