Harry Ball’s election depends on recount Whether or not Harry Ball, fighting Municipal Improvement candidate, will return next year to the Burnaby council seat he held until his withdrawal in 1947 to contest the reeveship depends on the outcome of a recheck of ballots which was still proceeding as the Pacific Tribune went to press this week. According to the count in last Saturday's balloting, Ball was edg- ed out of third position in a close contest between il candidates for three council seats by Marvin Ste- vens, who was credited with 1,733 yotes to Ball’s 1,723, With less than half of the balolts rechecked, Ball had a slight lead, encouraging his supporters’ hopes that he might be elected. Progressive parents in Burnaby, who in the last few years have looked to Elizabeth Wilson and Elizabeth Brewer to advance their interests, will miss the experienced leadership of these two women on the incoming school board. Both were defeated. In Coquitlam, however, pro- gressives scored a heartening vic- tory in the election of Rene Gam- ache, Second World War veteran and prominent trade unionist, to ’ the council. Gamache polled 656 votes, running second in a field of eight candidates for three council seats. Two progressive candidates mak- ing their first bid for council seats in Fraser Valley municipalities, | Nick Stevens, in Delta, and Tom} RRAARARTRAHRRAHRI ARMA ANMNA HH ANBHT DAHA, THE SHIPYARD GENERAL WORKERS’ FEDERATION OF B.C, GAS and TRANSIT CIVIC WORKERS SEA and SHORE ALLIED SERVICE SOMETHING NEW “A Salute to Tolstang,” an il- luminating article shedding ‘ light on the lot of the con- temporary Chinese Canadian. Town Extend SEASON’S GREETINGS TO LABOR We mourn the loss of Malcolm MacLeod and offer heartfelt sympathy to his fam- ily. We will pick up the torch that he carried SO faithfully. . . OF THE LABOR-PROGRESSIVE PARTY THE NEW CITIZEN The only English language paper in Canada published * by Chinese INFORMATIVE, STIMULATING, ENTERTAINING In First Issue Besides News of Chinese ‘Community MAIL NOW I enclose my cheque or money order, to the value of $2.50 for which please send one year’s subscription of “The New Citizen” Payment SHOULD BE. MADE T0 “THE NEW CITIZEN,” 408 HOLDEN BLDG., EAST HASTINGS ST., VANCOUVER, BxX., CANADA. RENE GAMACHE Boyes, in Surrey’s Ward 2, were both defeated, although both polled strong votes. MMRMMMMRABRRB A , : BUILDING TRADES ‘ELECTRICAL WORKERS MARITIME WORKERS “Neither Three Nor Four,” first of a series of articles dealing with the history of the coming of Chinese to Canada. Prov. eas «bes Ea ee JOBLESS “Money obtained from resale of such ships is supposed to be put in escrow to build new ships in Canadian yards, Unemployed ship- vard workers and Canada’s trade needs demand that this money be used before operators wear down the Maritime Commission into let- ting them keep it.” Additional proposals by the meet- ing included provisos that 50 per- cent of Canada’s export trade be carried in Canadian bottoms (South Vancouver MP Howard Green said less than 34 percent has been so carried this year) and that oper- ators be compelled to have both annual overhaul and non-emergency repair work done in Canadian yards. Because of what Stewart termed the need for a “stop gap” pending such a program, the meeting laid down the following minimum pro- gram to care for those now unem- ployed: increase of unemployment insurance benefits, benefits to be paid till jobs found, and ban on foreclosures on homes of unemploy- ed workers, “Unless Ottawa acts now on un- employment the miseries of the ‘hungry thirties’ will return,” said Stewart, “We are trying to tackle the problem tor our union and hope to encourage other unions to get the answers before this becomes a real crisis.” The meeting was also addressed by South Vancouver MP Howard Green, Vancouver East MP Angus McInnis and North Vancouver MP James Sinclair. Honor roll Is your name on this list of Paci- fic Tribune sub-getters this month? 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ARRURAMHRARARAARAR DEVE YE MEME NEE MEER NE HE MEME ERENCE ARAAAARRAAARAABARAARABABR PEE EE ME EE EE OE NE OEE EE NE RE TUE Season’s Greetings To Organized Labor Trade Union Research Bureau 207 W. Hastings NEU EE LY OE EBT AE NE EE UE OE CLE Eight hundred attend services for McLeod Around 800 people, comrades in the Labor-Progressive Party, brothers in the Marine Workers and Boilermakers Industrial Union and representatives of trade union and government labor bodies attended the impressive funeral services here for Malcolm McLeod, secretary of the Marine Workers and Shipyard General Workers Federation, who died suddenly last week. The serv- WIUC Iron River Strike Campbell River, B.C, ices weré held Thursday of last Three imprisoned pickets from week in Pender Auditorium. In his simple,~- moving tribute to the man who had led labor’s struggles in this province for 20 years, Charles Stewart, executive} the G and F lockout won Merry Christmas after all when Glen Ritchie, Bert Laing and Frank Traun were released from Oakalla this Wednesday on $1,000 bail pend- member of Division 101, Street Railwaymen’s Union, spoke of Mc- ing appeal of their six-month sen- tences. ‘Committee, Leod’s devotion to his work as an LPP provincial committee mem- ber, stating: “We shall remember him when, in the words of Burns, ‘Love, truth and justice o’er the earth, shall guardian be of nobler birth’; in WIUC national executive this week proposed the following pro- gram to meet the needs of thou- that day which is approaching é with all the impetus of capitalism| S#n* a een ae in crisis. surance benefits till jobs found, John Goss, noted Vancouver) help those not eligible for bene- fits, launch large-scale public works, and stop importing DP’s. Executive also demanded that the labor board proceed at once to certify the 34 operations singer, sang “Joe Hill” and “Hymn to a Fallen Comrade,” and two members of the Finnish Organiza- tion, Leesa Kankas and K. Viid- anen, gave the “Londonderry Air” in Finnish, at the special request| where WIUC already seeks legal of Mrs. McLeod. bargaining rights. WE NEPE EYE YL YE PELE P IEP YU NN YM NEUE ME bY ® Season’s Greetings To Organized Labor MARINE WORKERS’ & BOILERMAKERS’ INDUSTRIAL UNION ° LOCAL NO. 1 SEL EE EB EE PS HARRAMAAAAAAAARe REPENS EMER RRR RENE ENCE EERE EE EEE ENE UE EERE UE UE UE NE NEUE NE OE NEE SB DiDa Ba Dy Be Bi Pa Ba Ba Be Be Be Bye Be By Be a i Be yA Bee GREETINGS FROM THE Chinese Workers’ Protective Association, 232 MAIN STREET NEP EEE HU ER NE ee SDD DD BiB HD eB Pi HADDAM DBA MW AMA AAW IMAWRWRMAW WAY sy RRMA MAMA MMM RM RMR BMA M BRB “Peace And Progress To All Workers” B.C. 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