we ae # Se aL Ne ek Pe ‘ ° ———— ‘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 wooD SAWDUST FA. 7663 FA, 0242 UNION FUELS LTD. 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 757 E. HASTINGS HA, 2973 “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 Jk\ A. Smith, Mgr. YANN 752 Granville St. MA. 8711 AN EVENT YOU CAN’T AFFORD TO MISS PAUL BUNYAN LOGGERS’ BALL Friday, January 5, 1951 HASTINGS AUDITORIUM PACIFIC TRIBUNE — DECEMBER 1, 1950 — PAGE 7