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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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.

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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.”

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Two Kitimat construction un-
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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.

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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. .

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Swankey advances solution for coal crisis.

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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.”

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