yaa ais ove eva: RY ge Vy »o 4 ee ei Ain wart 4 Ba ae ody ee We: aw ey : ® ng see “What a team we are, eh Frank? Capital and labor. You turn the steam valves on and I pour the heat on you. Ha, ha, ha!” Ol’ Bill’s celebration plans well under way By IVAN BIRCHARD Plans to celebrate ‘Ol’ Bill’ Bennett’s 50 years of service to the labor movement are now well advanced. A banquet, followed by dancing cards and entertainment, to be held at Hastings Auditorium on September 30, will provide the setting for the célebration. And a committee is now engaged on a plan to repair and modernize Bill Bennett’s modest little house, with preliminary work having al- ready been started, as the prac- tical form of the presentation. Members of the sponsoring com- mittee for the celebration are: Nigel Morgan, Tom McEwen, Harold Pritchett, William Rigby, Jack Little, John Butler, Julius Stelp, Mrs. Helen Matheson, Mrs. Bell, Charles Stewart, Dr. W. J. Curry, Dr. F. Inglis, George Brown, Don Barbour, John Gust- afson, Hugh Russell, Andy Ho- garth, Joe Ivens, William Moore, J. E. Callender, John Lesire, John Carlson. This committee is supported by a works committee divided into five sub-committees headed by the following: Fel Ashton, general or- ganization and _ publicity; Don Barbour, house repairs committee; Rhea Dear, inside decorating and Bert Padgham,. Frank Allen and furnishing “committee; Irwin Schwartz and Bill Sheekie, dance committee; Caroline McFarlan, banquet committee. These committees will welcome all the volunteers they can. get, particularly carpenters and other building trades workers. Fraser Wilson, noted Vancouver artist, has made a charcoal draw- ing that looks more like ’Ol’ Bill than Bill Bennett himself does, a reproduction of which will be given to all purchasers of one or more books of tickets. The pur- chasers will also have their names inscribed in 4& special presentation to be made to Bill Bennett at the banquet. If you want to assist the com- mittee, purchase a book of tickets or donate to the presentation, phone Don Barbour, MArine 7051, or the business office of the Pacific Tribune, MArine 5288, or write Ol’ Bill Celebrations, 650 Howe street, Vancouver. 63 West Cordova Street - - HIGH QUALITY LOGGERS AND WORK: BOOTS HAND- JOHNSON‘S BOOTS : MADE Phone MArine 7612 Fora Good . Suit or Overcoat come to the “OLD ESTABLISHED RELIABLE FIRM REGENT TAILORS 324 West Hastings Street EVERY GARMENT STRICTLY UNION MADE Strike looms in city cafes Threat of a strike affecting 350 workers in 25 city restaurants sharpened this week as operators refused to meet wage and work- ing demands put forward by Lo- cal 28, Hotel and Restaurant Em- ployees’ Union (AFL). Union members authorized their executive to conduct a _ referen- dum strike vote if the operators refused to consider their demands. At a meeting this week the union executives will determine what further action will be taken. The union is demanding a flat 20c per hour wage increase, a 40- hour week, and time and a-half for five statutory holidays. The operators have offered 75c per week increase and time and a- half pay for two statutory holi- days. Officials of Local 28 toid the Tribune this week that the operators’- proposals are “entirely unsatisfactory.” Sointula men in boat mishap Harold Malm, former organizer for the United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union and now manager of the Canadian Fish- ing Company’s Margaret Bay fish plant, was one of two men injur- ed in an explosion which. destroy- ed the scout boat Rippon Point on Wednesday last week. The 34-foot boat, launched at Sterling Shipyard here only six weeks ago, blew up after taking on gas at Duncansby Landing, near Rivers Inlet, burned fiercely and sank after being cut loose from the float. : Malm, who is well known at Sointula and other up-coast points, suffered leg injuries, and J. Tyn- jala, cook-deckhand, received a fractured ankle. Boatyard workers win increase A wage increase of 12% cents an hour across the board and a provisiom for maintenance of un- ion membership with union mem- bers receiving preference in hiring are gains won by the Marine Workers and Boilermakers Indus- trial Union (CCL) here in an agreement covering wooden boat- yard workers ratified by the un- ion’s membership this week. Conclusion of the agreement followed the taking of a strike vote after the union had rejected operators’ initial wage offer of 4, 4% and 6 cents an hour in- crease. ‘Instrument of war! EB. G. Carson, British Columbia minister of public works announc- ed Monday that Canada’s trans- continental railway heads now appear to be “highly receptive” toward the joint acquistion of the Pacific Great Eastern Railroad (PGE). The reason for this ‘highly re- ceptive’ mood is not the comple- tion of the PGE for Northwest development, but as ‘an ideal in- strument to protect Alaska’. . “Anything With a Camera” . WAND STUDIO 8 E. Hastings St. — PAc. 7644 Vancouver, B.C. Foundry workers take: vote on wage demand. % t Voting unanimously at their last meeting, members if Local 289, Vancouver Metal and Chemical Workers Union authorized their executive to foundries: if no satisfactory offer is recevied within the next few days on their demand for a 25-cent, across the board increase, which would raise a moulder’s wage from $1.15 to $1.35. Mini? mum wage in most foundries is at present 86 cents an hour. In Nichols Chemical Company an authorization to take a strike vote if no offer was received from thé company resulted in 20 in favor, three not voting. No in- crease has been given by the Company for the past two years, and the minimum wage here is 79 cents an hour. Certification has been applied for at B.C. Tube Works, which is being contested by the AFL Moulders and Foundrymen, where the Vancouver Metal and Chem1- cal Workers are asking for a 15- Hawaiins win union contract HONOLULU After eight months of negotiations marked by bitter industry opposition, the International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union (CIO) and thé pineapple growers came to terms here. The Hawaiian Employers Coun- cil, local big business body, sign- ed the agreement that provides for a 10c Hourly wage boost, elim- ination of wage differentials and a clause barring discrimination in hiring because of race, creed or color. The settlement assures peace in the industry until next February, when the contract faces reopening on wage terms. Forced by the growers at the height of the pineapple season, the strike was part of the em- ployer council’s campaign to wreck the ILWU. By charging that the union was depriving men of work at the season’s peak, the council had hoped to turn public conduct a strike vote in 13 L | cent an hour increase. t Members of Local 289, are anxi-) ously awaiting results of the stee strike vote in two operations, Vancouver Enginering Works and ~ Ross and Howard Iron Works — Company Ltd. : Miss Woodworker | wins in Victoria The Victoria United Labor Pic- nic sponsored by the Labor-Pro- gressive Party, attracted a large crowd to the Willows Park Beach Sunday, August 17. A program of sports activities invited keen competition — Very young and very old competing. The oldest entry in one race Wa 86 years of age, while tiny tots raced in three years and under event. Mary Mezger as ‘Miss Wood worker’, was. crowned 1947 Labor Queen with 14,250 votes. Dod0 Clarke as ‘Miss Construction’, fol lowed with 10,500 votes. Other results were: Ann Ratnuik 3 ‘Miss Retail Clerk’, 8,000 votes: and Ann Mezger as ‘Miss Halt dresser’, 3,822 votes. Tombola prizes holders of ticket 1087 and 692. Games and refreshments round- ed out an attractive day's enter tainment. went to numbers AaIGEIE Eo JOHN STANTON Barrister - Solicitor Notary Publis 502 Holden Bldg. — MAr. 5746 Night: ALma 2177-M eee ns HIGHEST PRICES PAID for DIAMONDS, OLD GOLD Other Valuable Jewellery ‘ STAR LOAN CO. Ltd: EST. 1905 2622 — MAr. 719 Robson St. — MAr opinion against organized labor. Sts < ise L ae 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 Monday noon of the week of publication. NOTICES Oldtime Dancing To Alf Carlson’s Orchestra Every Wednesday and Saturday Hastings Auditorium 828 East Hastings Phone HAstings 1248 Moderate Rental Rates For socials, weddings, meetings Hair Restored— i U. Ok Antonuck Method, storing Hair, curing scalp order in a natural way. there is,a healthy cell in body, however small, that can create healthy fruit. Re- dis- If the cell It: is possible to find a smart person | among fools. .671 Smythe St. Meetings— Swedish Finnish Workers’ Club meets last Friday every month, 7:30 p-m., Clinton Hall. EAST END TAXI UNION DRIVERS _ HA. 0334 Fully 24-Hour Insured Service 613 East Hastings, Vancouver FRIDAY, AUGUST 22, 1947 ASH BROS. CARTAGE Moving — Transfer Dump Trucks 2239 Cambie Phone FAir. 0469 Croatian Hall Available for Dances, Socials, Weddings, Banquets, Meetings, Reasonable rates, 600 Camp- bell Avenue. HAstings 0087. as! Se ee Position Wanted poly ‘Available September. 15. Kay® qualified stenographer. conan, KE. 5806L. Dance, Clinton Hall— ey 2605 Hast Pender. Dance & ad Saturday night. Modern est? Old-Time, Viking’s Orch for <@ Hall is available HAstings 3277. a WHAT'S DOING __— A Treat on Sunday— ay Film? and Forum every sunday 8 pm., West End Hall. Davie St. Everybody W Silver collection. ee Dance— 1a sat a geoo” Open Air Dance, Every day night, 9 to 12, at SW Park (North end of Narrows Bridge). ee Labor Day Dance— onday Gala Labor Day Dancé, es iv Sept. 1, At Pender Audi 337 West Pender. Adm. 0 — Dance and Social— There will be a dance : on Saturday night, AU&™” 433) at the West End Hall, 5 Davie Street, from 9 tO ~1yde ‘Admission is 50c. This 12° 45d a chance on door priz eagiis” lunch. Sponsored by the oe Bay Club. Grand Social— ; e Grand Inauguration social: ies End Hall, 1332 Davie P% pp day, Aug. 22, 8:30 to 10 ene Films, dancing, | refreS?” gud: Auspices, Civic Worker® LPP. PACIFIC TRIBUNE—F4 co 6