Your Denartnent' t ayn Pleate. BUT UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE PAYS FOR THEM ~ Complains restrooms closed _ to jobless in city line-ups © ~C. CARLSON, Vancouver: Line-ups at the Unemployment Insurance Commission are only Part -of the embarrassment that 's inflicted on those unfortunate enough to be out of work. To think that men and women must Wait in line from one to four : Highest Prices Paid for . DIAMONDS, OLD GOLD ‘Other Valuable Jewellery STAR LOAN CO. LTD. Est. 1905 | 19 Robson St. — MA. 2622 (eS hours without any restroom facili- ties! Toilets are there all right, but well locked up and used only by the staff who have the keys. All private businesses such as’ cafes, garages, beer parlors, are required by city law to have yestrooms unlocked during hours of business. Why should the Unemployment Insurance Com- mission be any exceptions? If any small business’ premises did not have these facilities, the LETTERS DIGEST _ Brother’s Bakery . Specializing in Sweet’ and Sour Rye Breads 342 E. HASTINGS ST. PA. 8419 rors EAST: END ee | UNION DRIVERS ‘ that UN club on | plans model M. SMITH, United Nations Club, University of British Col- umbia: The United Nations Club at the University of British Col- umbia takes pride in announcing it will feature a Model NN ; HA. 0334 Assembly of, the United Nations Maca lS 2 at Brock Hall, University cam- Mg 26-Hour pus, on Monday, October 31, at Insured Service} pin : ee apeesuse sin 5 This will be an important fea- \ es os / CLASSIFIED See ; cee x } j 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 _ 8Ccepted later than Monday noon °f the week of publication. _—— WHAT’S DOING? Bye WES ON ae COME YOUNG, COME OLD TO our Hard Time Social, Pender Auditorium Canteen, Friday, Oc- tober 28, 8 p.m. Refreshments,. dancing. Admission 50¢. » SOCIAL EVENING AT THE SOU- _ thern slope Community Hall, 58th and Ross St., Friday, Nov- ember 4, 8 p.m. Free film show- ing followed by Whist Drive and Ocial evening. The Moberley _ Press Committee invite all Pr _ Yeaders and friends to attend. Soo eS DEE ee ssa g BAS NOTICES. BUSINESS OFFICE HOURS OF the PACIFIC TRIBUNE are as _ fotlows:— : Weekdays—9 to 5:30 p.m. Saturdays—9-12, HALLS FOR RENT : Oldtime Dancing To\ Alf Carlson's Orchestra very Wednesday and Saturday ’ Hastings Auditorium. Phone HAstings 1248 Moderate Rental Rates For socials, weddings, meetings. Russian People’s Home— Available for meetings, weddings and banquets at reasonable rates: Campbell Ave. HA. 0087. : Dance, Clinton Hall— = Fae East Pender. Dance every Saturday night. Modern and - Old ~'time. Viking’s Orchestra. ) Halt is available for vent _ _ Hastings 3277, re PATRONIZE ———_——— MEETINGS Swedish-Finnish Workers’ Club meets last Friday every month ‘at 7.80 p.m., in Clinton Hall. DR. R. L. DOUGLAS HAS OPEN- ed a new office at 9 EAST HAST- INGS STREET, cor. “Carrall St. Phone TA. 5552. All old friends cordially invited to drop in for a visit. BUSINESS PERSONALS Ee a ee ge GR CECE EN CRYSTAL STEAM BATHS— . Open every day. New Modern Beauty Salon—1763 E. Hastings. HAstings 0094. _ SALLY BOWES— _ ite INCOME TAX PROBLEMS. Room . 20, 9 East ‘Hastings: MA. 9965. — : . : ~|9.K. RADIO SERVICE. Latest Facto. precision Equipment Used. "MARINE SERVICE, 1420 Pender St. W. TA. 1012. " wIRST CLASS CARPENTER» : remodelling, new city | country, M. lanak, 360 Chatham Street, eet : Phone: Steveston TOBE. ba, : $39.40 $49.40 : “SUITS : WHY WEAR AN ILL FITTING hand-me-down suit? Suits ex- pertly tailored from English all- wool gabardines, worsteds, etc. Phone FA. 7578Y and a John By tailor will call at your home with samples and Save $10 to $20, Phone right now. -OR. RENT — COMFORTABLE OS rad bere for rent to chiss conscious worker, or couple; com- plete household facilities, aa privileges if desired. Rate, $20. nth single; couple $25.00. ~ per mon ply evenings at 1075 _ OUR ADVERTISERS © ae? Drive, or phone HA. “6921L. ‘ é Gite Ate take measurements. © Victoria ae city health inspector would be on the job in a hurry. Therefore, I suggest to the city health in- spector that a visit be made to the Unemployment — Insurance Commission offices, Robson Street, to see that restrooms are open to the citizens drawing msurance. The public has paid for the insurance and all facilities con- nected with it. Surely health comes before hard headed official- dom. campus assembly ture of “International Week” which will be recognized at the University from October 31 to November 5, 1949. It is hoped that the large number of people interested in the work of the United Nations will attend the various events that week. You are most cordially invited to attend the Model Assembly and your presence will be wel- comed as evidence of your inter- est in and encouragement of the ideas for. which the United Na- tions stands. -_ : Pike aed “LL. LIPSEY, Vancouver: A few weeks ago I sent a letter to Prime Minster St. Laurent urg- ing the government to oppose any attempt to bring Franco Spain into the United Nations. he Here is the reply I received from the Under-Secretary of State for External Affairs: : “J have been asked by the Prime Minister to answer your letter to him of August 19, and your letter of the same date to the Secretary of State for Ex- ternal Affairs in which you urg- ed the Canadian government to uphold the United Nations reso- lution of December 12, 1946, in— regard to, Franco Spain, ee “As you will recall, this reso- lution, which in fact barred Franco Spain from taking any part in any United Nations ac- tivities, was reaffirmed: in Nov- ember, 1947, and is still in effect. The . Canadian government has faithfully fulfilled the terms of this UN resolution.” : ' eo aa J. BINGHAM, Vancouver: Please find enclosed $2.50 of your money for a renewal of my sub- scription to the Pacific Tribune. It is indeed a pleasure to read the truth once a week after glanc- ing over the mis-statements in the daily press. — Why do I say “your money”? Because you have fought steadily for a better stipend for old age pensioners. Our pension is not earmarked for life and rises and falls along with the living stand- “ards of all producers. A good deal ‘of credit is due you for helping to win our present allowance. | x planned during — outside -workers, LONG-STANDING GRIEVANCE JACK PHILLIPS, secretary, Vancouver Civic Employees (Out- side Workers) Local 28: Vancou- ver Outside Civic Workers want their’ pay days changed. Since 19387*they have been paid twice a month. Now, they want pay ev- ery second Thursday or Friday. Why are the men opposed to be- ing paid under the present sys- tem? The-answer is very simple. They get paid on different days every month, Foy instance, it may be the 4th and the 19th in one month and the 7th and 21st in the next month; or the 7th and 2ist in one month and the 5th and 19thgin the. following month. The number of days between pay days varies from 14 up to 19 days and on several occasions dur- ing the year, three weekends pass between pay days. Main complaints of thé-mem- bers’ wives are as follows: 1. It is difficult.to budget ~ and take advantage of sales and cash buying when the pay days do not come at regular inter- vals. : 2. It is difficult for the wife to go shopping with the hus- band if he brings his pay home in the middle of the week. 9 Pay every two weeks is one of the demands put forward by the union in January, 1949. So far the question has not been settled, and finally, the union has called for a conciliation board. Lee -Is this demand out of line? The union maintains that the cost in- volved for the city is so small that it would be a sound investment in good will and good working re- “Iations, ah ey ' According to the city’s own fig- ures, after a thorough. investiga- tion of other cities and their own ‘costing system, it would cost them between $5,000 and $8,000 per year to install this system for all Van- couver outside civic While these figures may be ques- tioned before a board, we are will- ing to grant they are authentic for the purpose of this article. Breaking these figures down further, we come to the conclusion that the granting of this conces- sion would cost the city in t neighborhood of 50c¢ to 60c per month per man. This would be a’ small price to pay for good will and for the convenience of their working staff. Is this system of payment used in any other city? Is it impracti- cal? The answer to both ques- tions is “no”. Toronto outside workers are . paid every two weeks; Victoria every second Friday; London outside workers, every week; Burnaby outside workers, every two weeks. ~ Main argument used by the aldermen is the fact that it would cost in the neighborhood of $5,000 to $8,000 per year, and that they could ‘not justify the exepn- City outside workers _want pay days changed wollkers. ° diture of this money. Two alder- men put it this way: “Pay day every second Friday wil] not put - a penny more in the pockets of your men. That is why we are against it. We would vote for it if it would give your men a penny more.” The membership of Local 28 do not agree with this position. Firstly, we know \through theit , OWn experiente that regular pay days, permitting them to shop on weekends ‘and take advantage of sales and cash buying, will save pennies. This is very important when the cost of living has risen so high and is continuing to rise. Secondly, they do. not agree with the theory that aldermen ' should vote against any conces- sion merely on the basis that it does not immediately put a penny more in the pocket of a worker. On -this basis, the aldermen would be opposed to spending money on proper. shacks, sanitary facilities, -and first-aid equipment because none of these things actually put a penny more in the pay envelope of the worker. In 1948 the City of Vancouver . donated $4,500 towards the B. C. ‘and Yukon Chamber of Minés. This sum, according to the city’s figures, would just about pay for pay day every second Thursday or Friday. The union feels that the welfare of the city’s employees should come before subsidizing the Chamber of Mines. We feel that Consolidated Mining and Smelting, which made more than fifty million dollars last year, is in a much better position to sub- sidize the B.C. and Yukon Cham- ber of Mines than the city. To the best of our knowledge, no gold mines, copper mines or smelters are located in Vancouver. ‘ Further, Vancouver Tourist As- ‘sociation was granted $25,000 in 1948. We presume that this money was earmarked for the purpose of bringing tourist dollars to Van- couver. We have no objection to the tourist dollars coming to Van- - couver, and neither have we any objection to a reasonable amount of the city’s funds being used to attract them. However, we do suggest that the city is not stand- ing on very solid ground when it pleads poverty over $8,000 for pay day every second Friday, while giving $25,000 to promoting busi- ness for those firms which bene- ~ fit most from the tourist trade. The members of the union are fed up’ with waiting this long for a change and they intend to get their pay every two weeks. Twelve years is a long time to wait for such a simple and inexpensive concession that means so much to the men concerned. The wait- ing period must come to an end. 3 Every business agent, every bar- gaining committee, and every executive for eleven years run- ning, has been up to the City Hall | to ask the city for this change. “Now the men have reached the stage where they are no longer asking; they are demanding a4 ' change. a4 : ST We Will “2 SOVIET FILMS os ATE THEATRE THREE DAYS ONLY — THURS., FRI., SAT., NOV. 3-4-5. i ‘Pageant of Russia - IN GLORIOUS SOVOCOLOR. Come Back’ PACIFIC TRIBUNE — ‘ tf OCTOBER 28, 1949 — PAGE 11 .