One of the beautiful girls skown here
wili be crowned Midsummer Queen at
the annual Scandinavian Midsummer Fes-
tival in the Swedish Park, June 20.

Each is wearing the national cos-
tume of the Séandinavian nation she
represents.

From left to right the contestants
are: Denmark, Ruth Hansen; Iceland,
Donnz Torfason; Finland, Doris Back-
lund; Norway, Solway Tervold; Sweden,
Violet Anne Axelson.

The festival is organized each year
by the Scandinavian-Canadian organiza-
tions in the lower mainland, Over 5,000
Scandinavians and their friends are ex-
pected to attend.

Program is scheduled to start at 1 p.m.
It will include sports, singing, dancing,
and a short address by Bruce Mickle-
burgi: of the Scandinavian Workers’
Club.

The festival] will be held at Swedish
Park, on the north side of Burrard In-

Scandifiavians plan festival

let, a quarter-mile from the end of the
Second Narrow’s bridge.

* The Scandinavian organizations, origi-
nally organized when. their members
first came to Canada, are making a sig-
nificant contribution to the development
of Canadian culture. While the Scandi-
navians are among the most easily as-
similated of the Europeans who migrated
to Canada, they brought with them their
folk dances, their music and many of
the particular forms that are enriching
the Canadian culture being built by the
Canadian people in the midst of their
struggles to defend the nationhood of
Canada,

A significant recent development has
been the organization of the Workers’
Youth Club, in which 49 second gener-
ation Scandinavians have enrolled. This
club bas been largely fostered by the
first-generation Scandinavian Workers’
Club and marks a growing recognition
of the continuing Scandinavian contri-
bution te Canada’s nationhood.

Labor’s annual picnic to be held
at Confederation Park, August 1

Vancouver’s sixth annual Labor
Picnic will be held August 1 in

,loggers and Vancouver

local 1-71 here. She was crowned
“Miss B.C. Industry” after Coast
working

Confederation Park, Caroline Mac-' people rolled up 70,414 votes for

Farlan, chairman of the United
Labor Picnic Committee anounc- opponent, Nora Lowe of IWA local |

ed this week.

tion in Vancouver, with bigger
crowds turning out each year to
enjoy the sports program, popu-
larity contests, games, refresh-
ments and other entertainment
features,

A popular girl contest is already
being organized. Six charmtug
candidates, all well known in labor
circles, will compete to win the
top number of votes entitling the
winner to be crowned as “Miss
B.C. Industry.” It is expected tha

Vancouver will be seeing a lot
of these young ladies during the
Next few weeks, as the campaign
managers are striving to get early
leads for their candidates.

Winner of the popular girl con-
test last year was Mollie Bergrca,
stenographer at the office of IVA

This event has become a ‘txadi- |ers.

ther, 18,000 more than her nearest

1-217, who was supported by Van-
couver shingle and sawmill work-
Running third was Hannah
Govrochin, “Miss Fisher Lassie,”
who received 38,093 votes.

The, picnic ticket this year
will be in an entirely new form.
At the request of many interested

‘persons the committee has drawn
up a jingle composed of four
lines. Purchasers are asked to

supply the fifth and last line to

\complete the rhyme, thereby com-

peting for the cash prive of $250
;and nine other valuable prizes.
‘The jingle reads as follows:

Oh, Johnson and Anscomb make

,
the working man’s pay!
But if we uni

And put up a fight—

CX w eisis A Melee Cols eee we ee cb bs toh eeie th

“We'd like everybody to get busy
with that last line, as tickets will
be available immediately,” Mrs.
|MacFarlan said.

“All in all, Vancouver is prom-

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
&ccepted later than Monday noon
of the week of publication.

Oldtime Dancing
To Alf Carlson’s Orchestra
Every Wednesday and Saturday
, Hastings Auditorium
Phone HAstings 1248
Moderate Rental Rates
socials, weddings, meetings

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Dance, Clinton Hall—
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Croation Hall—

Available for Dances, Socials,
Weddings, Banquets, Meetings,
Reasonable rates, 600 Camp-
bell Avenue. HAstings 0087.
Concrete Work—>
Floors, walks, foundations, Septic
installed. — Jeff Power,
Mike Eagle. Phone FA. 7642-R.
Write 4825 Dumfries St.

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Saturday night. Modern and
Old-Time. Viking’s Orchestra. |_
Hall is available for rent,
HAstings 3277.

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MEETINGS

Swedish-Finnish Workers Club
meets last Friday of every month
at 7.30 p.m. in Clinton Hall. ~

RYERSON CLUB welcomes as
members all those interested in
music, drama, painting, writing
and handicrafts. Information
from City Committee LPP or
‘phone BA. 5040-L. Meetings 2nd
‘and 4th Fridays.

WHAT'S COMING?

Annual Mid-Summer Festival of the
Scandinavian Central Committee
will be held at the Swedish Park
in North Vancouver on June 20th.
Good Program. Transportation
from Cassiar and Hastings from
11 o’clock.

Beach and House Party arranged
by UOPWA starting from 2690
West 1st. 8 pm. Saturday, June 19,
1948. Everybody welcome.

ised a great time August 1, so my
advice to all supporters of the
labor movement is to keep the
day free to get together with
their friends and families for the
best time they’ve ever had, They’re
assured of good music, dancing, |
and the best of food.”

Cumberland
houses unfit

CUMBERLAND, B.C. — Charges
that ‘stinking, fly-infested pools of
sewage” are rendering government-
built homes here unfit for habita-
tion are made by the Comox Dist-
rict Free Press, which quotes ten-
ants as complaining that “petitions,
requests and d:mands for action
have met with nothing but buck-
passing.” :

The Free Press article states:
“Householders are at their wits’
end what to do about the situation.
Fearful of fly-borne diseases, many
are confining their children to their
houses..- :

““But we can’t do that all sum-
mer,’ one said. ‘Petitions, requests
and demanas for action have met
with nothing but buck-passing,’ said
G. V. Perrin, one of the tenants. ‘If
this situation is not remedied im-
mediately the district is going to
have an epidemic on its hands,’ he
added.

“Al Loveridge; another tenant,
said one of his children had fallen
face-first into one of the pools. He
said he had gone to the Cumber-
land medical health officer about
the situation, but had received no
satisfaction. _

“A third householder, Ted Hicks,
said three rockpits had been dug in
his lot.

““Look at it now,’ he said, point-
ing to a rivulet of sewage running
down the slope of his lot.

“Another house, tenanted ~ by
Thomas Contin, has a_ back-yard
which is honey-combed with rock-
pits—all oozing sewage.

“The Cliff Gardner house, on
No. 1 site, has a sewer drain run-
ning under a nearby road, and emp-
tying into the open ditch.”

The houses are on a 34-unit de-
velopment here constructed by
Central Mortgage and Housing
Corporation and some of the ten-
ants are now threatening to stop
paying rent until saturated rock-
pits are replaced by a proper sew-
age system. :

ERENCE RT,
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MAr. 9965

part in many of labor’s struggles
in Victoria, where he _ resided
for some years, and was a
familiar figure on any picket line.

He was a charter member of the
Labor-Progrssive Party and was
one of those who joined the Com-
munist Party in its early days, hav-

ing come from the left wing of
the old Socialist Party of Canada.
_ He was proud of his record in
the labor movement, and as a par-
ticipant in recent classes in labor
history in Victoria, drew on his
xperiences to point up the need
for labor unity on the road to the
socialist Canada which was his
dreani.

He was a life member of the Mar-
ine Workers’ Industrial Union
(CCL).

Arrested in 1940 in his 64th year,
he served a year in prison as a res-
ult of his fight against Munich app-
easement policies and for the Uni-
ted Nations unity which eventually
won the war.

A wire received here from the

Victoria labor movement
mourns death of Bill Shaw

VICTORIA, B.C.—The labor movement in Victoria has
lost a staunch member in the passing on Sunday morning,
June 6, of William (Bill) Shaw at the age of 72.

Bill Shaw was known to many unionists throughout
Canada as a veteran fighter for workers’ rights. He took

B.C.-Yukon Provincial Committee
of the lLabor-Progressive Party
reads: “The people’s cause has lost
a staunch militant fighter. Despite
his age he set an example for the
party and the unions in self-sacri-
ficing work. His revolutionary |
spirit and unfailing belief in the in-
evitability of socialism made him
one of our best comrades. His
passing will leave.a big.gap which
must be filled with greater efforts.
We lower our banners in grief over —
the passing of comrade Shaw and
dedicate ourselves to honor his —
name by advancing the cause for —
which he stood” ’ ae
The wire was signed by Nigel —

Morgan, LPP provincial leader, —
Maurice Rush, provincial organi-

zer and Minerva Miller, provincial —
educational director. :

Bill Shaw’s last contribution to:
the labor movement was his parti-
cipation in this spring’s provincial _
press drive. While lying on his.
deathbed he collected his last don-
ation for the paper he had helped ~

to build.

24-member board with the work.
Executive committee was set up as
follows:

Samuel Heller, chairman; Nathan
Nemetz, first vice-chairman; Mrs.
Ben Shapiro, second vice-chairman;
Robert A. Levy, honorary secretary;
Joseph Sanotov, honorary treasur-
er, Dr. Fred Katz and Mrs. B. M.
Isman, members without portfolio.

Mrs. Paul Lourie, president of
Vancouver Hadassah Council, an-
nounced that jewelry had been col-
lected for auction and that there
are large amounts of clothing on
hand. : ;

Mrs. B. M. Isman, president of
Vancouver section, National Coun-
cil of Jewish Women, advised that
their project across Canada would

Jewish community in Vancouver =
organizes for defence of Israel

While the Haganah 1s defending Israel on the battle- —
ields of Palestine in bloody struggle against imperialism, |
Vancouver’s Jews are organizing to aid the Yishuvy.

Spokesmen of all Jewish organizations in the city met
last week at the Jewish Community Center and entrusted a

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be the equipment of a mobile blood
bank in Israel.

The United Jewish Appeal for aid
to Palestine and to aid Jews still —
in camps has reached $210,000 in
»Vancouver and is expect:d to sur-
Pass the quarter-million mark.

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