Move against comics. A delegation of women led by Mona Morgan, chairman of the LPP women’s committee, met with City Prosecutor Stewart McMorran on Monday this week to urge action against “crime comics” on city Members of the delegation of crime, sex and war “comics” now on cify newsstands which they considered unfit for child- ren to read. They pointed out there was considerable evidence to show that these comics are in some measure responsible for crime among young offenders. The meeting followed a reso- lution the committee sent earlier to Attorney-General Robert Bon- ner who referred the matter to the city prosecutor with the com- ment, “I shall await the city prosecutor’s advice as to any specific matters which you have in mind.” Mrs. Morgan said the delega- tion was well received and that a number of points had been agreed upon for future action. She added that a meeting of the LPP women’s committee would be held early in January to plan further steps. 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Union-made to quality stan@ards, urged newsstands. placed before McMorran samples LABOR BRIEFS Some 1,400 members of the TLC Vancouver City Hall Em- ployees Association are seeking a $15 monthly across-the-board wage hike, a: shorter work week and fringe concessions in bar- gaining with Vancouver City Council’s conciliation committee for a 1956 contract. xt % x Hospital Employees’ Federal Union (TLC) Local 180 agent Bill Black this week charged Health Minister Eric Martin, whose hospital budget freeze has brought wage negotiations to a standstill throughout B.C.,, with “making a mockery of our labor laws.” In Penticton, said. Black, the union has been trying to have a $10.44 monthly pay hike imple- mented since it was recommend- ed by a conciliation board last May, but a government concilia- tion officer is now recommend- ing another conciliation board in- stead. “This amounts to appointing a board to enquire into a board,” said Black. “It’s the most fan- tastic thing I ever heard of.” $03 x beg Two Kitimat construction un- ions, AFL Bricklayers and AFL Ironworkers, have voted for a strike on extension work at the smelter. Negotiations are con- tinuing and no walkout date has been considered as yet. bog bes bos An 18-month wage pact call- ing for a three-cent boost re- troactive to December 1 and another three cents next June has been signed between the AFL-TLC Iron Workers, Local 97, and eight construction firms represented by General Con- tractors’ Association. . R x R x Season’s Greetings. TOM’S GROCERY s 600 Main St. SASS PS SPE EK EAS PRK PK NEW ZENITH CAFE 105 E: Hastings St. ° For The Finest In Good Eating OVALTINE CAFE 251 EAST HASTINGS Vancouver, B.C. QUALITY SERVICE Swankey advances solution for coal crisis. NATAL, B.C. Establishment of a steel in- dustry in the Crow’s Nest Pass was advocated by Ben Swankey, Alberta LPP leader, at a public meeting here Sunday this week. “A steel industry, bringing in its wake dozens of subsidiary industries, would create a public market for coal and _ provide thousands of additional jobs,” said Swankey. “It would bring a boom to the whole area from Fernie to Pincher Creek.” Although coal mines today are working full time, miners are concerned about a possible future slump. Coal operators predict that in the next five years un- derground coal. production will decline by 64 percent and strip mine production by 25 percent. “If this happens it will seri- ously affect Michel and Natal and will probably be disastrous to Fernie and to the Alberta end of the Pass,” said Swankey. “The solution is not to be found BEN SWANKEY in compelling homes, industries and railways to use coal, as the coal operators suggest,” he con- tinued. “The ‘basic problem of our coal industry in the West is Indian government films, sup- plied by the Indian Information Service, Ottawa. Another film covers Nehru’s fourth depicts the visit of Chin- ese Premier Chou En-lai to In- dia. It*was during this visit that Chou and Nehru enunciated the now famous five principles of peaceful co-existence. Kathak-Dances of India, and Republic Day complete the pro- gram. The films are also to be shown Nehru documentaries to be shown in city Two documentary films of Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru’s historic tour of the Soviet Union are to be shown by B.C. Peace Council on Friday, January 13 in Pender Auditorium here. One of the. films follows the Indian statesman, from Moscow to Tbilisi, the other from Tashkent to Moscow. These are official visit to People’s China while ay} in many provincial points. IWA local to discuss GAW at annual meet The guaranteed annual wage, union shop, pensions and the wel- fare fund will be discussed at the annual convention of Local 1-71, International Woodworkers of America. These issues will be taken to the bargaining table when the union negotiators’ reopen the three-year master contract. with lumber operators and go after Crow’s Nest steel plant needed our inability to supply the een- tral Canadian market. This can only be overcome by stopping the dumping of U.S. coal into Canada as long as Canadian miners are idle, and by increas- subventions and lower freight rates to help send our coal to central Canada. “But even these steps by them- selves are not enough. To main- tain prosperity in the Pass, we need industrialization. “Let me give a few examples of what could be done. “Our coal should not only be processed for its byproducts such as coal tar. These byproducts themselves should in turn be used to establish industries which will make them into finished prod- ucts. It is well known that coal can be used to make many dif- ferent things, including dyes, in- secticides, solvents, explosives, plastics, drugs, and paints. _ “The huge natural gas field at Pincher Creek offers great pos- sibilities in the form of a petro- chemical industry. “We have enough timber in the Pass to warrant the estab- lishment of a pulp mill here. “Finally, and most import- ant of all, we have everything necessary for the establishment of a steel industry. We have excellent coal for coke, lime- stone, natural gas and iron ore. “A huge bed of iron ore ex- tends from about one mile north of Burmis over eight miles to’ the northwest. In some places it is 10 feet thick; the average thickness is probably five feet. How wide it is, how many mil- lions of tons it contains, has not been made public. “The Burmis deposit assays at about 40 percent iron and con- tains about 5% percent of titan- ium dioxide. To separate the two is not easy, but modern tech- nique can find the answer. “There is also 10 million tons of iron ore tailings at Kimberley that could be used. These have been ground up so fine that with the addition of water they could be piped to the Pass. The iron ore content is about 60 percent, 1957 contracts. which is high.” CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING A charge of 50 cents for each insertion of five lines or less with 10 cents for each additional line is made for notices appearing in this column. No notices will be accepted later than Tuesday noon of the week of publication. NOTICES DEC 3 NEW YEAR’S CELE- “2 BRATION—SUPPER AND DANCE, Saturday, Dec. 31, Russian People’s Home, 600 Campbell Ave. Supper 6.30 p.m. Dancing 9 p.m. Phone TA. 9939. Admission $2.50, supper includ- ed. DEADLINE FOR COMING EVENTS COLUMN—AIl copy must be in the Pacific Tribune office not later than 12 noon Tuesday. 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