By V. VICTOR

Island news,
views and comments

The PT’s Island columnist, V. Victor, has written a number of articles
covering the events of the thirty years since our press was founded. Space,
unfortunately; prevents us from publishing them in full. Below are some ex-

tracts from these articles:

In 1934 T, D, Patullo formed
the next government of B,C, It
was Liberal and as useless as
the Conservatives under S, F,
Tolmie, but the scene was chang-
ing, Several C,C,F, candidates
were elected to the B,C, House,
namely the Winches, and of
course that grand old man of
labor from Fernie, Thomas Up-
hill, who was by this time a
veteran of Parliament of many
years,

Uphill’s only tie with socialism
was an honest desire to help
bring about more security for his
fellow man, as well as the cour-
age to state his convictions pub-
licly, He held office longer than
any other elected representative
in Canadian history,

The following year (1935) saw
the birth of a labor paper at the
time a most necessary news
media to bring the unbiased truth
to. the public, In the intervening
years the publisher had much
difficulty to keep the paper on
the street, In those far off days
of 30 years ago it was con-
sidered subversion to publish the
truth of the corruption and in-
trigue in high places,

Even today the same type of
forces are at work to try to sup-
press the Tribune for they are
afraid it may, and certainly will
if it finds things amiss, reveal
acts which are not in the public
interests,

if the late George Drayton
were to see the results of a hard
struggle he would think it was
well worth the effort even though
at times it seemed to be a lost
cause, Improvements have been
slow, but even.a man with a strong
desire, and a public promise to
sweep the Tribune from the
streets knows he is making an
idle boast that he could not fulfill
for it has been attempted by much
stronger forces than a mayor of
Vancouver, The paper will carry
on the work that was started 30
years ago by those devoted pio-
neers of the labor cause,

* * *

At Ottawa on May Ist, ’36,
Finance Minister Dunning gave
his Budget Speech in the House
of Commons, As the Vancouver
Province headlined, “Optimism
Is Keynote of 1936 Budget,” some
tax relief in sight, Dunning an-
nounced a reduction in the tax on
cigarette tubes, from three cents

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On the same page it was noted
income tax was expected to pro-
duce 25% more revenue than was
received in the 1934-35 fiscal
year, In another article it was
stated, rather casually, Canada’s
debt was a billion more than it
was in 1930, (For the benefit of
those who wonder where the So-
creds learned their financial
goobledeegook, it should be noted
that Mr, Dunning was a financial
wizard prior to our Mr, Bennett.)

* *

After the “On To OttawaTrek”

of 1935 and from other pressures’

the Government decided to dis-
band the relief camps by the sum-
mer of ’36, As a stop-gap mea=
sure they gave the remaining men
still in the camps a raise to $15
per month with the added benefit
of free tobacco and clothes,

It was in 19380 when William
Lyon MacKenzie King told Mr, R,
B, Bennett, “The Liberal Party
believes unemployment in Canada
was a most urgent national prob-
lem.” And so it was in 1936 at

. the Dominion Provincial Confer-

ence Mr, King informed the Pro-
vincial Premiers it would be
necessary for the Provinces to
play a greater roll in the matter
of unemployment, (History will
repeat, it sounds like the cry of

a couple more recent Prime _

Ministers.)

Time has buried 1936 in the
pages of history, one lesson of
the time seems most outstand-
ing, only by the unity of the
common man were any improve-
ments gained for the benefit of
mankind, That too, like history,
can repeat itself,

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Teachers’ president, Mrs, Iso-
bel Cull, in her opening address
to the B,C, Teachers annual con-
vention at Easter, called for
drastic reforms in elementary
education in B,C, Elementary
schools, Mrs, Cull said, are the
forgotten half of the school sys-
tem,

“Learning should be a person-
al and many-splendored thing,
which is impossible in classes of
30 or more,’ incarcerated in
rooms 32 by 24 feet,” Mrs, Cull
said, “Such learning is impos-
sible when success is measured
only by good handwriting, accur-
ate spelling, tidy notebooks, con-
formity and good marks on
written tests,” she added.

Much of this year’s business
at the convention dealt with re-
organization of the huge complex
of authority to make smoother
the operation of the B,C, Teach=
ers’ Federation, The Federa-
tion’s 29 member executive com-
mittee has been cut to 11 and
provision was made for a new
representative assembly of 42
members,

Regular business was adjourned

-when news of the $25 per three

unit course increase in fees at
summer school was announced,
and after a spirited discussion,
the convention overwhelmingly
voted to send a delegation to UBC
President MacDonald in protest,

Teachers roundly defeated an _

Abbotsford resolution calling for
settlement of salaries at the
teachers’ : federation level, Op-
ponents said salary bargaining
should be carried on between
local school boards and teacher
associations,

Teachers were concerned with
ineffectual negotiations which
precipitated arbitrations this
year, but it was left by dele-
gates to agreements and execu-
tive committees to find better
solutions,

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It was resolved that the B,C,-
T.F, seek to re-organize the
hours of instruction required of
teachers during the school day,
week and school year in order
to improve teaching and learning
conditions, More time is re-
quired to do much research so
as to give better instruction to
pupils,

Greetings _

from Sweden

Per Francke, editor of “NY
DAG,” central organ of the
Communist Party of Sweden,
sent the following greeting. to the
PT on behalf of his editorial
staff:

“We would like to extend our
most fraternal greetings on
occasion of the 30th anniver-
sary of the “Pacific Tribune,”

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School boards and arbitratio?”
boards have ignored the matter
of working conditions and howls”
since they are part of the lege”
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In the closing minutes of the
Convention a resolution calliié
for a Royal Commission on ev
cational finance reached
floor, After a sharp debate the |
resolution was referred 10
representative assembly for Te
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While there were few battl® |
over policy in comparison t0 the
previous year, a number ofres? |
lutions and speakers indicat
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ticeable increase in youné®
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