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‘ARDENT WORKER FOR PT

The sudden death of Harry Asso
moved a well-loved figure from
labor’s véterans in this province.
7I-year old former coal miner and
the Saanich home where he had live

years, and ‘a coroner’s jury, after
hearing medical evidence, found
that death was due to natural
Causes, :

Harry Asson was born at West
Bromwich, Kent, England, in 1879
and came to Canada with his par.
_» ents as a boy of nine. The family

lived. for a few years. in Toronto}.

and moved to-Anthracite, Alberta,
now a ghost town, in 1895. There,
Ye years later, Harry’s father
Was killed in a mine accident and
the family moved again, first to
Armstrong, B.C, and then to Can-
More, Alberta, where Harry work-
ed in the coal mines and first took
his place in the labor movement

as secretary of the United Mine

Workers local, a position he held
until he came to the Coast in 1914.

In the Vancouver area over the
Succeeding years Harry followed @
number of trades, working vari-
ously for the City of Port Moody,
Operating the old ferry between
Port Moody and Ioco, and helping
to organize a union in the’ saw-
mills, ‘a

His experiences in organizing
Workers inclined him to read and
study socialist works and, in 1931,
he drew the conclusions from his
experiences and his studies by Join-
ing the old Communist Party of
Canada. =
‘In 1940, after the Communist
Party had been outlawed by S0V-
ernment decree, he was arrested
for having Communist leaflets in

is possession and sentenced to
One year’s imprisonment. At the
€nd of his term he was immediate-
ly rearrested by RCMP and in-
terned.

He won his release, with other
interned Communists, in October,
1942, and went to work in a North
Vancouver shipyard, serving as 4
Shop steward for the Boilermak-
ers’ union. Je
_ After V_E Day he left his job
in the shipyards and went to live

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Ranks of labor's
veterans thinned by

death of Harry Asson

n last Sunday has re-
the dwindling ranks of
Neighbors discovered the
shipyard worker dead in
d-alone for the past five

HARRY ASSON

i i ; treet
i Victoria where, as 4 §
snieaivitih for the Pacific Tribune,
he became a familiar figure to

“eds of working people.
Seas services were to be held
Thursday this week from Hamil-
ton Funeral Parlor in Vancouver,
with interment following at Moun-

invi Cemetery.
rare wierawen. editor of the Pa-
cific Tribune, paid a s syavessye
tribute to. Harry Asson's devoted
and consistent work as a Com-
munist, a foundation member of
the lLabor-Progressive PALLY, a
trade unionist and a supporter we
the labor press. ‘The wark Harry
Asson did, consistently and un.

intingly,
AUR eto the lives of the many
people he introduced to the labor
movement through the sale of a
> McEwen observed.

Pe rarry Asson is survived by two
prothers, Will and Jack, in Van-

couver, two sister, Mrs. Kate Jack-
son, Vancouver, and Mrs. Ruth
Patton, Chilliwack, and a nephew,

pO TWO THINGS

Jim Maggs, Vancouver.

1. BE SURE YOU-VOTE e

2. PHONE 5 FRIENDS
TILL THEY VOTE TOO!

AND KEEP PHONING

lives on in the influence

where the youngsters will have!
the playground facilities they
need.” : :

‘Re eerie ners tear eaters

Take foll off
Second bridge,

say candidates)

NORTH VANCOUVER, B.C.

Damon Eisenman and Godfrey
Creech, labor candidates for council
in the North Vancouver civic elec-
tions next month, this week issued
a five-point program for municipal
reform, Their platform calls for:
e Retention and modernization of
the city ferries. A BCER mon.
opoly means higher fares for
everyone.

Retention of a Second Narrows
Bridge, toll-free. Higher freight
ear charges to take care of
maintenance, Guarantees of a
toll-free high level bridge when
the present bridge is sold.

A metropolitan publicly-owned
transportation system embrac-
ing all the Lower Mainland.
Increased grants and subsidies
to schools, housing projects, lib-
raries, hospitals and social ser-
vices, which in turn would relieve
the tax burden on the land.

“A peace plan, not a disaster
plan.” To implement any pro-
gram peace must be preserved.
War expenditures by the senior
governments means higher taxes
and a lowering of the people’s
standard of living, and _ local
councils will be unable to carry
out any program.
North Vancouver Civic Labor As.
sociation this week endorsed HBisen_
man and Creech, both of whom are
residents of North Vancouver and
have been active in labor and com-
munity organizations,

Hospital Union seeks
reduction in work hours

When Hospital Employees Fed-

eral Union, Local 180. opens talks

on behalf of its 1,200 members, the
question of the 40-hour week will
be one of the main contract de-
mands.

About’ two years ago employees
got the 44-hour week, cut back
from 48 hours. . :

;tinued Mrs. Marsh.
with Vancouver General Hospital |

| stopped,

CATHERINE MARSH
“The fedéral government should
pay the full cost of education.”

Need supervised
playgrounds, says”
Catherine Marsh

BURNABY, B.C.

“I maintain that the full cost of |

education should be borne by the
federal government, with adminis_
tration remaining in the hands of
the local,” said Mrs. Catherine
Marsh, school board candidate in
the Burnaby municipal
December 16.~

elections

Running for school board ‘with
,
Mre. Marsh on a labor platform are
Ken Richards and Elie Lachance.

“Closely connected with the school
problem is the need for supervised
Playground activities for children
during the summer months,” con-
“Sale of park
lands to private interests should be
City Council should im-
plement the report of the Town
Planning Commission (1949) which
would give Burnaby 1,725 acres of
park land, or 300 acres more than
at present.”

Coal mining center gives
province most teachers

MICHEL, B.C. |

Ratepayers of Michel-Natal dis-|
trict voted unanimously last Sun-|
day to endorse the recommenda- |
tion of the school board for con-)
struction of a new school at near-)
by Sparwood. : |
Located alongside a -busy high-|
way, the present school’s inade_|
quate playgrounds and buildings |
are showered with coal dust blown |
from the coke ovens. Noise from)

| shunting engines which move some |

50 to 60 carloads «f coke from the)
nearby processing plant daily is |
so bad at times that classes are}
disrupted. |
Interview by the Pacific Tribune, |
Steve Harmatny, secretary of the
local LPP club, stated: Se
“The present building is hope-|
lessly overcrowded and_ unsatis-|
factory in every way. The Spar.)
wood site is the obvious chuice.
It’s too bad the whole school can’t
be transferred to the new location!

LTD.
716 East Hastings St.
Phone
HA. 3244
BROTHERS BAKERY NOW
AT ABOVE ADDRESS.
_ EAT UNION-MADE BREAD

‘Hastings Bakeries

An interesting sidelight was

given to the meeting when the

| district school inspector announc-

ed that Michel-Natal is produc_
ing more school teachers in pro-
portion to population than any
other district in the province.
People of this Crows Nest Pass
center, almost exclusively miners
and largely foreign_born,

are
justly proud of this record.

Burn garbage
not dump if,
says Turner

BURNABY, B.C.

“Cost of garbage collection in
Burnaby last year was $65,489, and
the budget estimate for this service
in 1950 is $74,0000,” said William
Turner, labor candidate for council-
lor in the December 16 municipal
elections. “When I am elected, the
first job I will tackle is the question
of modernizing our garbage disposal
system. An incinerator handling
Burnaby’s 75 tons of daily garbage
would cost $50,000.”

Terming the’ present dump “an
eyesore and a menace to public
health,” Turner pointed out that
the cost of an incinerator was re.
ferred to estimates by council this
year, “but no action was taken ex-
cept to make one large garbage
dump instead of two.”

“The residue of ash by the gar-
bage after passing through the in-
cinerator could be used as a solid
fill for low land, and the land re.
claimed for industrial use,” said
Turner. :

“Appointment of a committee of
council members to survey the
growing needs of Burnaby and draw
up a long range program of sewer
and drainage development was also
advocated by the labor candidate.
“Where it appliés, the greater
share of the cost of drainage, and in
one area dyking, should be paid fer
by adjacent industry,” he said.

TED HARRIS

Painters’ and Paperhangers’
Supplies
Sunworthy Wallpaper half price
Was 28c7— Now l4c a roll
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“Everything in Flowers’
KROME. =.

EARLE SY¥KES

56 E. Hastings St. PA. 3855
Vancouver, B.C,

“UNION HOUSE
ZENITH CAFE

105 E. Hastings Street
VANCOUVER, B.C.

Castle Jewelers

weg, Watchmaker, Jewel-
Ne lers, next to Castle
Hotel

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YANN 752 Granville St.
MA. 8711

AN EVENT YOU
CAN’T AFFORD TO MISS

PAUL BUNYAN

LOGGERS’

BALL

Friday, January 5, 1951

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