Safety device
held answer
to gas deaths

In an effort to stop the mount-
ing toll of gas deaths, coin-in-the-
slot gas plates will be declared il-
legal in Vancouver April 9, when
a new gas bylaw becomes effective.

The move will hit scores of room-
ing house operators, but may not
radically reduce the number of
deaths.

Last year 40 pedestrians were
killed on city streets in traffic ac-
cidents — but the number of peo-
ple killed as a result of accidental
gas poisoning was 44, plus 44 gas
suicides.

In the seven years from 1947 un-
til 1953, a total of 453 people died
from gas poisoning in city rooming
houses, hotels and private homes.
Of these, 220 were classed as acci-
dental deaths and the rest suicides.

This grim death march could be
halted if B.C. Electric was -forced
to install safety cut-off devices, but
the company has disclaimed re-
sponsibility in the matter and civic
officials have concentrated their
fire on hotel and rooming house
operators.

The Vancouver Apartment and
Rooming-house Operators’ Associ-
ation has called for a strong warn-
ing smell to be placed in domestic
gas to combat the rising death toll.
Cost of putting such a warning
odor in gas would average out to
$1.50 per 2,000,000 cubic feet.

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LABOR
BRIEFS

United Fishermen and Allied
Workers Union will epen its tenth
annual convention March 22 in-
stead of March 8 as S originally an-
nounced.

Reason for the switch is that
herring fishing operations, brought
to a standstill by the recent cold
weather, will now continue much
longer than previously estimated.

There are close to 1,000 union
members engaged in this fishery,
and the union wants them to have
a few weeks between the close of
operations and the opening of the
convention in which to ‘attend local

meetings and discuss resolutions.

and elections of delegates.
* * x

Safecrackers stole more than
$1,000 in cash from an office safe
in the Electrical Workers Union
on Monday night this week.

Local 213, IBEW, collected union
dues at a Monday night meeting,
then officers put the cash in a safe
in an office just off the entrance
hall

Staff found the door forced when
they came in Tuesday morning, the
cash gone, and some $2,000 in
cheques strewn over the floor.

* x * \

Lower Mainland postmen will

hold a mass meeting this coming
Sunday to protest a reported pos-
tal department plan to hire
students at $8 a day to carry mail
on Saturdays. The meeting will
also protest reduction by four
percent of the present night dif-
ferential paid to postal clerks
working between 4.30 p.m. and
7 a.m.

* * *

The IWA strike in the Southern
Interior, which began October 23,
was settled last weekend and work-
ers began returning to work Mon-
day this week.

In a referendum vote condieed
by the union, strikers accepted a
10-cent wage increase spread over
a three-year contract.

* * *

British American Oil Company
workers, members of Oil Workers
International Union, have voted for
strike action to back up pay de-
mands, but no strike deadline has
been set.

At Shell 200 union men who
struck the Shellburn refinery for
12 days in December are observing
a 60-day truce while union and
company officials try to reach a
If a formula isn’t pro-
duced by February 15 the men will

‘again begin pounding picket lines.

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vote in all

Calder has been promoting the
idea of a National Congress of Can-
adian Indians for several years.

“Tn practically all provinces there
are Indian organizations,’ he said.
“However, a national body is most
essential at the present time to
provide for a united effort, har-
mony, cooperation, strength and
unity when presenting problems to
the federal government.”

benefits on a national basis and not

on a unit or provincial basis, hence
a national Indian organization could
present a stronger case.

“A good example is the British
Columbia Indian Income Tax case,”
he said. “Every Indian in Canada
rightfully should be behind this
case. For complete clarification as
to where the Canadian Indian
stands today, a National Congress
of Canadian Indians is essential.”

Calder declared that every
province in Canada should ex-
tend the franchise to its Native
Indians... At present Indians can
vote in British Columbia (non-
Treaty Indians) and in Manitoba
(Treaty Indians).

The day Calder spoke on this
question in Toronto the Globe and
Mail ran @ story saying that the
Ontario legislature is considering
granting the vote to its 30,000 Na-
tive Indians.

“As British subjects we own the
vote,” Calder said. “Why it has
been withheld from the aborigines
and true Canadians in the last 15
years is something Canadian -his-
tory will never relate truthfully.”

Mine-Mill pact signed

Mine-Mill locals at Copper Moun-
tain and Britannia have renewed
their present agreements, with a
new clause that provides for the
companies to pay half of BCHIS
premiums.

Calder said that Ottawa grants

Calder seeks Indian

provinces

Campaigning for extension of the franchise to the Native Indians
in every province, and the setting up of a national Native Indian
erganization, Frank Calder, CCF MLA for Atlin and Canada’s first
and only Indian legislator, recently completed a speaking tour which
included Ottawa, Toronto, Winnipeg, Regina, Saskatoon and Edmonton.

FRANK CALDER

Soviet film
to be shown
at meetings

February is Canadian - Soviet
Friendship Month, and a number
of meetings have been arranged
to mark the event. At each meet-,
ing a new Soviet film in magicolor,
Biossoming Ukraine, will be shown, 7
and three Canadians who have re-
cently visited the USSR will be
present to take part in discussion
and answer questions. THe three
are Ken Smith and John Hines, \
local trade unionists, and Mrs.
Florence Dorland.

“In addition to these public
meetings which have been schedul-
ed, we would like to show the So-
viet film and speak to groups of
people in private homes,” said Mrs, -
Dorland. “Anyone who wishes to
invite some neighbors in and have
us present a program should phone ;
FA. 1471-L to complete the arrange-
iments.”

Outside Workers
turn down offer

side Workers, have voted down a
‘city council conciliation offer of a
two percent wage increase and will
reopen negotiations on the basis of
their original demands for a 10
percent pay hike.

The decision was reached at a
membership meeting Saturday, the

union men voting by secret ballot
to reject council’s offer.

The Outside Workers were the
first to vote on council’s 1954, pro-
posals. Other groups are the
police, firemen, city hall inside
workers, registered nurses and fore-
men.

Council committee, headed by
Mayor Fred Hume, has met with
representatives of the electrical
and inside workers as well as the
nurses. These unions have made

no decisions as ‘yet.

Vancouver Civic Employees, Out-

Here is the schedule of meet-
! ings:

Tuesday, February 9, Victoria

Drive Community Hall, 48rd at 7
Victoria.

Saturday, February 13, St. Ann
Hall, Steveston, 7.30 p.m.

Sunday, February 14, South Hill

Hall, 5804 Fraser.

Friday, February 19, Capitol

Hill Community Hall, Burnaby.

Thursday, February 25, Hendry
Hall, 11th and Sutherland, North

Vancouver.

Sunday, February 21, White Rose

Ballroom, 1236 West Broadway.

Sunday, February 28, concert in

pee Auditorium, 337 West Pen-
er,

Monday, March 1, Russian Peo-

ples’ Home, 600 Campbell Avenue,

sponsored by Canadian - Soviet
Friendship Society and Federation
of Russian Canadians.

All meetings except the one in
Steveston start at 8 p.m.

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COMING EVENTS

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at Orchid Hall, 2723 West 4th Ave.,
Friday, Feb. 5, 8.30 p.m. Admission
$1 at door includes refreshments.
Auspices New Frontiers.

FEB 1 VALENTINE PARTY.

. UKRAINIAN HALL,
805 E. Pender, Saturday, Feb. 13,
8:30 p.m. Dancing,, Floor Show,
Refreshments. Auspices, West End

Club.

FEB 14 KEEP THIS DATE
. OPEN! CHAMPION

VARIETY CONCERT, Pender Aud-

itorium, 8 p.m. Sunday.

FEB 2 PENDER AUDITORIUM
. — B.C. Peace Council
presents its own film, VOTING
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