Cassiar ratepayers
oppose PNE midway

Propgsed construction of a midway and amusement centre

on the grounds of the Pacific National Exhibition is
strongly opposed by Cassiar Ratepayers. 4

At a public meeting sponsored by the association
this week plans were made to circulate

scheme. It was decided to send
a delegation to city hall this
coming Monday afternoon to
voice objections before city
council.

Hastings East LPP club will
also send a delegation to city
hall Monday to buck the mid-
way, with LPP city secretary
Maurice Rush acting as spokes-
man.

Cassiar Ratepayers have out-
lined in a statement their ob-
jections to the construction and
operation of a midway for
private profit on the proposed
PNE site:

@ In this location it would
be a contributing factor to the
present problem of juvenile
delinquency.

® A midway should only
be constructed as a subsidiary
amusement to a larger public
recreation site, used by the
broadest cross-section of citi-
zens.

® The site is not adequate
for a picnic ground.

ee

“ @ Aswimming pool as part
of the midway would: not be
in the best interests of the com-
munity. Such a project should
be controlled by the Hastings
Community Association in co-
eperation with Vancouver
parks board.’

® With the construction of
the new Second Narrows

bridge and the resulting in-
creased flow of traffic on Cas-
siar and Eton streets, any pos-
sible * contribution + to traffic
cohges.10n in: this area should
be avoided.

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being

-Tuesday
a petition opposing the

Commissioners
told of poverty
in Newfoundland

ST. JOHN’S

Newfoundland joined Can-
ada over eight years ago, but
the poverty of its people has
not been. ended. Even. the
elder maritime provinces, the
most economicaly depressed
parts of this country, enjoy
far higher standards of living.

An appalling story is being
unfolded before the royal com-
mission .which is studying
Newfoundland’s economic pro-
gress since Confederation. =

In Newfoundland of every
1,000 babies born alive, 42 die
in infancy. The average death
rate for Canada as a whole is
31. The average Canadian fam-
ily managed in 1951 to spend
$82 for health services. But
Newfoundlanders . could ‘not
spend more than $28.

Hundreds of children are
very seriously handicapped be-
cause they cannot read prop-
erly. Eleven percent of the
male heads of families in New-
foundland have had no school-

ing whatsoever and one out
of four have had only from one

to four years of education.

Children go to desperately
overcrowded schools and are
taught by teachers who in
most cases have themselves no
more than a Grade 11 educa-
tion. In fact in the past year
459 teachers had no training at
all.

The cost of living in New-
foundland: is 12 percent higher
on the island than in the other
Atlantic provinces, but even
to maintain the totally inade-
quate services they have the
people are taxed 25 percent

more.

There are 100 miles of paved
road in the whole of the prov-
ince which come up to the
standard of a paved country
road in Ontario, and 2,680
miles of “roads” in. Newfound-
land would not’ be classified
as roads at all in any other
province.

All these facts are brought
out in the brief submitted by

_ the provincial government to
’ back up its demand~-for an

annual grant from Ottawa of
$17 million — the absolute
minimum to keep services

even at their present low
levels. |

These long distance operators

lished by

day this week as
Western Electric Company,

telephone exchange equipment
Telegraph Company’s long lines building in N
Communications Workers of

cheered strikers after refusing to cross picke(; lines estab-

installers outside American Telephone and ~
ew York. The picket lines were set up Mon-
America began a na‘ional strike against
manufacturing arm of American Telephone and Telegraph.

Public Employees refer application
of Vancouver Outside Workers

CALGARY —

~ _ Delegates attending the National Union of Public Employees convention here havé

referred to their incoming national executive the

Union, Outside Workers.

couver Civic Employees

During discussion of a reso-
lution from the Greater Van-
couver

the affiliation, many delegates
paid tribute. to the good work
done by Vancouver Civic Em-
ployees. «(The resolution wag
referred to a special NUPE

Water District Em-,
ployees’*Local 393 suggesting »

committee which recommended
non-acceptance on the ground
that the union should-receive
clearance from Canadian Labor
Congress before seeking mem-
bership with a CLC affiliate.)

“If we aren’t big enough to
offset any bias from the past,
We should hang our heads in

Volkswagon intimidating
immigrants, says unionist

West German officials behaving “like SS. men”
the Scarboro Volkswagen plant in the eastern

TORONTO
and bossing
outskirts of

Toronto are threatening newly-arrived immigrants-with depor-
tation if they take part in union activity.
This was the charge levelled at Toronto Labor Council’s

last meeting by United Auto
Workers’ Union international
representative Paul ‘Siren.
Efforts of the union to or-
ganize the plant are being met
with warnings by manage-
ment to the men, many of them

_ recently arrived from West

Germany, that. should they
join a union they will be “de-
ported or open themselves to
physical violence, declared the
UAW organizer,

Wages being paid at the
plant are reported to be as
low as 65 cents’ an- hour.

Another device used by
management is to refuse to
hire. workers if they drive a
car other than a Volkswagen

product.
Council demanded that the
department of citizenship and

immigration take steps to pro-*

tect immigrant workers at
the Volkswagen plant. irom
intimidation by management
and inform them of their right
to join a union,

Salmo hit by ‘flu

SALMO, . B.C.

An outbreak of flu in this

district. caused 75 of an en-

rollment of 250 pupils at the

junior-senior high school here

to miss classes on Tuesday this
week.

°

question of affiliation to NUPE of Vat-

shame,” said George Thomas ~

of Local 393, opposing the ~

committee’s recommendation.
(Vancouver Civic Employee?
was expelled from the Trades
and Labor Congress in 1951
because the union refused t0
remove its top officers, chaté-
ed with having’ Communist
political beliefs.) ~

“The present situation is re"
grettable,” said W. M. Black —
of B.C. Hospital’ Employees —
Local 180. “Vancouver Civie
Employees is a good union al
should be a part of our union
of public employees.” :

President William Buss told
the convention he had “the ut-
most respect” for the Outside
Workers and if clearance with
the CLC could be achieved
NUPE would accept them 4§
members.

Delegates approved an am-
mendment that the matter be
referred to the incoming eX-

ecutive for negotiation betwee?

the three parties concerned —
NUPE, the CLC and Vancou-
ver Civic Employees.

‘IT am deeply appreciative

- of the tome of debate,” Jack

Phillips. of Vancouver Civic
Employees, Outside Workers,
told the, convention. “Our ©
group will explore every p0S- —

. sibility to achieve the desired

goal, and we are prepared t0

subscribe to the principles of ee
the NUPE constitution.”

September 20, 1957 — PACIFIC TRIBUNE—PAGE e