dn the last week of the campaign. The CCF ‘won the seat, but failed to present the policy that could ave united all progressive people 8nd given it a decisive majority. Bennett, who broke with the Co- alition last spring, called for the S0vernment’s resignation “before Sundown tomorrow.” Grant Mac- Neil, OCF provincial president, termed the result “indicative of the profound distrust the people _ have in the Coalition government.” Nigel Morgan, LPP provincial lead- €r, declared that “Premier John- Son should resign and give the People of this province the oppor- unity of electing a government Tepresentative of their wishes.” Morgan’s statement continued: “The Coalition’s defeat in the traditionally Conservative riding of Esquimalt reflects the widespread _ dissatisfaction with the Johnson- Scomb policies. The Coalition has brought upon itself the wrath the people because it has be- trayed their interests and shown “a contemptuous disregard for the ‘Wishes of the electorate. + "During the government's hos- tal insurance crisis last summer 4 © Majority of the electors, as~in is _byelection, demonstrated their &ck of confidence and sharp dis- _8Pproval of the Johnson-Anscomb Policies. It is obvious that the Co- “lition can now be replaced and its ‘W§popular hospital, taxation, anti- r and pro-war policies revers- and rescinded. “The CCF does not and cannot Provide the alternative so long as : i tight wing leadership and par- thonentary spokesmen stand with f © Liberals and Tories on the “Undamental question of peace or War. CCH leaders can’t support War policies and at the same time 88ressively champion the people’s Tights, ed marie the Coalition, the CCF it- is split as was demonstrated sh. last convention. Esquimalt yaad B.C. faces an extremely un- t ble political situation, and had th, pyelection been conducted on —© basis of the single transferable “CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE ‘ Four-to-one vote against C oalition vote, as the next election.may well be, the Tories would have won Esquimalt. “The fact that the \CCF, in face of a four-to-one anti-government vote, only increased its vote by some 300 over the previous elec- tion, shows clearly that the CCF under its present policy does not provide the alternative on a pro- vincial scale. i “The only realistic way of assur- ing the ouster of the Coalition and the rescinding of its “unpopular policies is through the unions and farm organizations in each consti- tuency taking the initiative in unit- ing all anti-Coalition forces to de- feat the Liberal and Tory spokes- men of big business. This is the natural and next step in following up their BCHIS campaign which brought the government to _ its present tottering position. “Resolutions, telegrams, letters and other means must be found to compel the government to go to the people. In each constituency rep- resentatives of the people and of their organizations should come together to prod the government to move and to place before the electorate a united anti-Coalition candidate who can be elected and who will fight for the people’s in- terests on the basis of a program oi immediate needs. ; “The fact that the people voted four to one against the Johnson- Anscomb government in a _ con- ‘stituency that has been held by e Conservatives longer than any other in the province provides un- deniable proof that the people are fed up’ with the Johnson-Anscomb policies and want a change. This slashing repudiation in spite of the personal appearance of Premier Johnson almost five nights a week during the campaign, should serve to convince the premier that the people meant what they said when they demanded, ‘Withdraw the. hos- pital increase or resign,’ and that today they -want an election—and immediately.” Prichett hits — Burnaby Council for ‘blind folly’ : BURNABY, B.C. For the third. weex in succession, Burnaby councillors. at their regu- lar Monday night meeting, were} confronted with ratepayers’ delega- tions protesting the proposed sale of a T72acre tract of land -to Standard Oil under conditions in- volving the granting of a 66-foot easement across Confederation Parks ’ , “What this council proposes to do is to surround two of our finest residential districts — Capitol Hill and Vancouver Heights—with oil refineries and tank farms and de- preciate the value of hundreds of homes,” Harold Pritchett, spokes- ‘man for a Capitol Hill delegation stated. _ Reminding councillors of contin- uing complaints against the smell from present oil plants, Pritchett |’ said that further construction would completely. spoil Confedera- tion Park and surrounding resi-|: ‘dential areas. “If one of those plants blew up there isn’t enough equipment on the lower mainland to handle the fires,” he warned, citing the loss of life and property damage. in the disaster at Galveston, Texas, when an _ oil cracking plant exploded. As a result of that disaster, he asserted, no oil Plants could now be built wi three miles of residential areas. Nearer to home, Pritchettt spoke of the fire hazard created when the Pier D blaze some years ago threatened storage tanks and the more recent hazard when a barge spilled gasoline over Burrard Inlet waters, .“Yet this council, in its blind folly, persists in adding to the haz- ard already on our doorsteps,” he stated. ; Prichett read out to the CCF- dominated ‘council ’a__ petition* which, he said, already had been signed by scores of residents in districts affected, and, he con- cluded, “we'll be back to compel this council to respect the over- _whelming opposition of our com- munity to your proposal.” C PENTICTON, B.C. °nditions of work at Canadian cay ners Plant No. 78 here are Sing general _ dissatisfaction mange employees and rising de- New, S that the local union of can- iteg Workers, affiliated to the Un- 80m, ckinghouse Workers, take Bays action. The present “com- ed Union” in the plant is affiliat- . me Trades and Labor Congress. “Mode, Plant is located in a new P “tn building, but the steam is deg CK that it condenses on the _8nd—arips, on the heads of "Wiig, . - t ) —-MeINTOSH'S TRANSFER 523 West 7th DTT en TT ~ FA. 9782. TT Bagpage, Furniture Moving Crating, etc. PICK UP & DELIVERY “ine, es : NIKE TO WORK IN THIS CANNERY? _ Fighting un _ by Penticton workers workers. ; eee All work is now done on an hour- ly wage basis—yet last season tick- ets were affixed to the backs of pear peelers and punched to Te- cord each box peeled, a daily mini- mum of 18 boxes being required. This means the hand peeling of some 2,500 pears. This in turn applies to slicers and corers, also canners. The slicer must keep pace with two. corers, one on each side, and there is a frequent call for speed-up to supply a steady flow to the canners. 4 . Slicing peaches must be done standing at a belt from which the fruit~is taken, passed across a two-edged ‘V-shaped knife bolted to the belt. The pit must be re- moved and the two halves placed n the lower belt. : In an eight and one-half hour working day 4,500 peaches are sliced by each workei' e a os erage. Perpetual motion a nek 8 per hour! (Alberta can- neries. bay, G0 ene B.C. fish nneries cen ‘ “The seniority list is a farce. One woman now in her third season is not yet on the list—seniority is computed by the management from the time the woman is called to work, not.from the start of the season. Hence an individual not h- favored will be passed up throug out the cherry and apricot» work and only be called when the fall rush is on. | j f ‘ *a hostel is maintained for tran~’ sient cannery workers and this is 5; » ion needed. more than a mile from the plant. No transportation is provided and workers never know until told to | “punch out” whether they will work until 5, 5.30 or 6 p.m. Nine hours a six-day week, is worked at straight time and the crew so manoeuvred that overtime is kept te s minimum. ere ‘ Huge vats of near-boiling water used in processing maraschino cherries are emptied through a plug directly onto the floor, where the water runs under the shallow boards on which workers stand (or in some few instances sit) to do their work. / Sulphur dioxide is» used in pre- paring jam and no effort is made to remove the fumes which cause serious discomfort to all. Bronchial and sinus troubles are common. Compensation Board officials make visits and théir recommen- dations are carried out only when they involve adjustments by the workers themselves. |. ~ Small wonder the plant is re- ferred to as “The Snake Pit” and “The Slave Camp.” Small wonder the workers are calling for a fight- ing union to adjust their numer- ous grievances. The United Packinghouse Work- ers of America now has certifica- tion in two of the packing houses in Penticton. Factory No. 78 is the only plant of Canadian Canners it does not yet represent. The union has the opportunity now. The workers are’ ready and eager for real organization. ~ e: THE ~ SPORTLIGHT By BERT WHYTE— Ree joining the anvil chorus condemning Willie Pep for his poor showing against featherweight champion Sandy Saddler last week, stop a minute and recall all the great battles that Pep engaged in over the years. And don’t call Willie a quitter for refusing to come out of his corner for the tenth round because of a badly-damaged eye, until you’ve listened to this story: ‘ Back in 1945, boxing experts named young Willie Pep the “Fighter of the Year.” His rise to fame had been sensational. Starting as : wy _ a $50 a bout preliminary boy he won 53 consecutive fig&ts, then lift- ed the world’s featherweight title ae Chalky Wright at the age of 20.. . One winter night in 1947 an air- liner heading for New York crash- ed in a forest in New Jersey, killing many of its passengers. Among _ those surviving was Willie Pep. He had a broken leg} several crack- vertebrae and other injuries. For weeks he remained in hospital, en- cased in a plaster cast from head to foot, and few boxing fans figured he’d ever be able to enter the ring again. Willie didn’t give up. Just five months after getting rid of his plaster cast he started the hard comeback trail. At first he’ looked bad—timing off, punches lacking snap, reflexes slow. But gradually he improved, and within a year © WILLIE PEP wae’ fought his way to the top again. Now Willie Pep has reached the end of the road. It’s time he hung up his gloves being one of the gamest fighters. That’s too bad. permanently. Give him«credit for of his time—and overlook that last dismal showing against Saddler. : ee a z Trust the Russians to think up something revolutionary. A relay race over 10 miles in which runners, cyclists, rowers and motorcyclists took part was held in Moscow recenily over a route along the central streets,+in the Moscow River and along the river’s banks. 4 : Fifteen teams started and over the first nine stages light ‘athletes, men, women, boys and girls carried the “baton. The contest was then taken over by rowers in last stages of about two miles were covered by motorcyclists, A team from the Dynamo sports club won. : igo wo . * *& * It will cost a cool two million bucks to stage the 1954 British Empire Games in Vanéouver. .UBC Stadium will be enlarged to seat 40,000 at an approximate cost of $350,000, as one item on the bill. Financial drives to raise the dough will start this fall. ‘ All very good, but what about spending some mazuma to develop Canadian athletes, so that our boys will be able’ to make a_ better showing in the Empire Games than they did in the last Olympics? We have as many good potential athletes in Canada as in any country with a population approximately the same—but facilities for training ‘and developing first class athletes are sadly lacking. * * * New York Yankees, enjoying a nice rest the early part of this week while the Dodgers and Giants fought it out for the National League pennant, enter the World Series in fine shape to cop another title. Sonfething tells me they aren’t going to have it easy. In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if the Yanks—and the gamblers—came a crop- per this year. , tae, Of course, you know what often happens to opposing teams when they face the fabulous Yanks. Something about the AL’s “Men of Distinction causes National League champs to turn into chumps; ace fielders kick the ball around like sandlotters; tricky hurlers send ‘em right down the alley and the third baseman stands around watch- ing the Yanks go whizzing past. But the Yankee-Doodle-Dandies of 1951 aren’t the same as in the halycon days of Babe Ruth and Lou_ Gehrig. They're a scrappy crowd, a fighting bunch of boys—yet at the plate they line us as just so many -batters. The absence of any modern version of + the old-time Murderers’ Row may cost the Yanks the 1951 World Series. Still, don’t bet on it. . z * * Se Winner of the Marine Workers Union Salmon Derby Lestrange, who caught a 12 pound, 12 ounce beauty himself a custom tailed suit. Second prize (a _ Glass rod) went to T. Lowe. His salmon tipped the scales at 12 pounds, 2 ounces. a : * A recent issue of the American magazine, Sports Afield, asks on its cover, “Will the Atom Bomb Ruin Hunting and Fishing 2” An Australian correspondent sends this answer: “Yes, Buddy, the atom bomb would ruin huntin’ and fishin’ for the reason that it would also ruin the hunter and fisherman. It would also ruin Witch Huniin’, that favorite sport of Wall Street war wolves. “The atom bomb is very democratic. It would show no aggregation racial, religious or class discrimination.” PACIFIC TRIBUNE — OCTOBER 5,.1951 — PAGE 7 two-oared boats and the