AUUC scores with capacity city concert A junior dance group of more an 100 children won the hearts and the warmest applause of the more than 1200 people who filled fo” Hastings-Odeon Theatre here © Capacity last Sunday for the Ag ghenko concert staged by the sociation of United Ukrainian Canadians, 1 ine concert, commemorating the ms .anniversary of Taras Shey- enko, the great democratic shiatoe poet and artist whose a ue stands at Palermo, Ontario, he ed a new height of Pi ape for the AUUC, both aha e scale of the presentation the quality of its talent. a over around the story of Shev- Nenko’s life and linked with the ‘story of the pioneer Ukrainian immigrants to Canada by a skilful- ‘ Written narrative, the program 1 fred some of the poet’s best- Oved work, including his Hamaliya. tribe” the, soloists who con- oS uted to the program were ee eelow, Audrey Leshchyn- » Lily Marusyk, Kay Patterson, P Mayuk, Lorne Bezubiak and gee Friedman, John Nichoda, teve Wynnyk. : Conductors were Ray Dowhopo- and John Chitrenky, pianists, - Marleau and Helen Sadowy, and the ancing instructor, Beatrice drushchak. . CWW hits sales tax Protest against the increase in ea tax from three to five per- ce On the ground that “experi- te = has Shown this form of taxa- ee results in a lowering of the hdard of living” has been sent o Premier Bennett by the B.C. ae of the Congress of Cana- .2n Women, Agnes Jackson, prov- INcial sec 5 retar this Week. y, announced Continued CHANGES The* new formula for the pay- ment means that all pensioners whose claims were settled before March 13, 1943, will receive a mini- mum pension of $25 a week, or $1,333 a year in the case of total disability. Other disability pay- ments will be brought into line with this new “floor.” Other amendments: widen the schedule of disease and will now include occupational deafness and injury to heart and lungs as in the case of firefighters, as well as eas- ing limitations in the case of com- pensation for hernia. What promises to become one of the most controversial of the new amendment is that setting up a amendments is that setting up a vin, secretary of Vancouver Trades and Labor Council is quoted as say- ing the appeal board formula is “stupid legislation,” prompted by “leftist”. union pressures. General concensus of labor opin- ion however, is that this amend- ment will meet with widespread approval among workers, as well as among hundreds of ‘Compo’ eases who, if the machinery were provided as proposed by the Sloan Report of 1951, could appeal board decisions to their own benefit. Weakness of the present amend- ment providing for an appeal board is that the findings and decisions of this appeal board are not made binding upon the Compensation Board: — The appeal board formula also faces a challenge from the B.C. College of Physicians and Surgeons, “whose president, Dr. Roy Walker, has voiced the opposition of MDs to sitting on an appeal board with chiropractors and naturopaths, specified in the proposed amend- ments as “qualified, practitioners.” The joint trade union delegation vene in Victoria next Wednesday will give its attention to both Workmen’s Compensation and In- dustrial Conciliation and Arbitra- tion acts. of 500 or more scheduled to con-| . The wire sent March 18 by the Catholic Syndicates leader draws attention to articles 52, 365, 372 “and several others which affect the fundamental rights of work- ers” and warns of consequences should they be passed in their pres- ent form. “With these articles workers will be constantly identified as sabo- teurs and trouble-makers if they defend their basic rights and their unions exposed to all manner of reprisals,” Picard continued. In Vancouver this week, a major union and a mass concert rally swelled the popular protest against anti-democratic clauses of Bill 7. They were: @ The United Fishermen and Al- lied Workers Union which, at its annual convention, voted to send wires to Justice Minister Garson and federal leaders of political parties and to airmail letters to MPs expressing strong opposition to all sec- tions of Bill 7 “which infringe upon our civil liberties’ and pressing for enactment of a Bill of Rights. : The Shevchenko concert spon- sored by the Association of Un- ited Ukrainian Canadians at which more than 1200 people endorsed a _ protest against those section of Bill 7 which present “a threat to the civil liberties of the majority of the people of Canada.” Marsh, “ ? ‘Jarstq What about the alleg stantified himself as a RCMP con- le?” asked Webster. sanomner declined to comment, ying that the activities of the — qa EVERY SAT. 7.20 P.M. LABOR-PROGRESSIVE | POINT of VIEW by NIGEL MORGAN be THIS PROGRAM WILL RETURN TO THE AIR ON APRIL 3 WITH TIME CHANGED fo 7.30 p.m. ee, rig. The case of John Marshall, dismissed bookmobile “sed in the legislature this week by CCF 2 i Bonner if he was planning to take any ac leader Arnold Webster. RCMP ‘leaks’ in Marshall case questioned in House by Webster VICTORIA, B.C. director of the Victoria Public Library, was Webster asked Attorney General tion on reported “leaks” from RCMP sources concerning ed giving of information to Reeve Joseph Casey of Saanich by a man who Special Branch of the RCMP came under the federal minister of jus- tice, and observing that previous questions about the leak were ad- dressed to Garson. Frank Snowsell, former CCF MLA who has been pressing for a complete investigation in to the reported leak, was In the House Gallery during the ex- e. ; : ae Gargrave (CCF, Mackenzie) asked Bonner who the RCMP would obey in event of a difference of opinion between federal and pro- vincial authorities in a strike situa- tion or national emergency, but was assured only that there was Co- operation between the two govern- pee Brown (Liberal, Prince Rupert) was told that there had never been a formal enquiry In- to the riots in Prince Rupert last summer provoked by alleged RCMP rough handling of Native ete aetan of the increased cost per man of policing by the RCMP was raised by Leo Nimsick (OCH; Cranbrook) who pointed to the very favorable terms given to the province by the federal auth- orities to induce B.C. to bring in the RCMP in 1951. He asked Premier Bennett to keep a close watch on the increas- ing cost and to see to it than any raise was absorbed by the federal authorities. Auxiliaries act jon many issues ¥ Action on a number, of issues particularly affecting women work- ers and housewives was taken here this week by the fourth annual convention of the United Fisher- men and Allied Workers Women’s | Auxiliaries. The convention undertook to work with all -other oganizations ‘concerned in banning war, crime and sex comics; asked the proy- incial government to “investigate the milk question with a view to resolving it in the interests of both consumer and producer”; called for increased family allowances and for the cost of housekeepers or babysitters hired to care for chil- made deductible from income tax. The officers’ report was present- ed by Mrs. Walli Burnell and chair- man of the resolutions committee was Mrs. Frances Gilstead. Fraternal greetings were brought by Mrs. Cora Phillips of the Civic Employees Union Women’s Auxil- iary, by Mrs. Agnes Jackson. and Mrs. Jean Bird of the Congress of Canadian Women, and by Mrs. Jewell of B.C. Peace Council. dren of working mothers to be), Catholic Syndicates head hits at Bill 7. If the St. Laurent government forces through certain antilabor sections of Bill 7 amending the Criminal Code it will be “‘an act hostile to the labor movement and danger: ous to social peace,’ Gerard Picard, general president of Canadian and Catholic Con- federation of Labor, declared in a wire to Justi MONTREAL financing Hospital. Insurance. In a resolution adopted at the union’s 10th annual convention here, delegates unanimously went on record as “favoring complete elimination of the sales tax in BGs Pending such action, the union proposed the following steps be taken: @ Removal of the sales tax from all items of food, clothing, shel- ter (building supplies and fur- niture for residential purposes, light and gas), drugs and medi- cines. Progressive reduction of per- centage levied on all other ar- ticles. \ ee Compensation for government revenues so lost to be made by an increase in the federal gov- ernment’s allotment to the province of income taxes levied in B.C. and, if necessary, by a surtax on all corporation pro- fits and personal incomes over $10,000 a year. - The union pointed out that sales tax is a “retrograde method of taxation because the smaller the income .. . the larger the per- centage of income going into sales tax.” Growing inventories in vari- ous industries required greater pur- chasing power in the hands of the consumer, not less, in order to ob- tain full employment, the union maintained. Delegates heard hour-long speech from federal Fisheries Minister James Sinclair on Monday follow- ed by three hours of questions and answers. No action on the union’s key demand for a pink salmon treaty with the U.S. was promised by the minister except intensified fishing on the part of Canadians as a means of making “our American friends .. . realize the value of an international commission to con- serve the fisheries, and divide the catch equally between the two na- tions.” : UFAWU secretary Homer Stev- ens declared in reply that Sinclair’s proposal of intensified: fishing could lead to depletion of the fishery, particularly since failure of the Alaskan fishery has led to many seiners and other fishermen from that area coming down to fish in Puget Sound. Last year, American fishermen caught 6% million pink salmon, all but an estimated million of which were bound for the Fraser River and other B.C. streams to spawn. Fishermen who operate in the Fraser River above New Westmin- fs 24-Hour Service Business: PA. 1532 Night: HA. 8071 Jones’ Market LIMITED Boat and Restaurant Supplies 217 Main St. - Vancouver 4, B.C. igeeLs BUBB! HUBER RB RENEE EEE EERE ce Minister Stuart Garson. : sales tax hik Premier W. A. C. Bennett this week received a ree from Uni Fishermen and Allied Workers, Union welcoming abolition of Toe pital Insurance premiums but at the same time proposing an alterna- tive plan to the provincial five percent sales tax as a means of ‘licenses. ster Bridge expressed considerable concern over Sinclair’s intention to close the river to pink and chum fishing after September 16 in this area. “It means our livelihood if the department goes through with this policy,” one delegate declared. If carried through, the department’s policy will result in overcrowding in other parts of the Fraser and force many of the gillnetters own- ing small vessels out of the fishery.” Sinclair’s reply was that these fishermen “still have the runs be- fore September 16 to fish. They still have the right to fish any- where else on the coast after Sep- tember 16, as do all other fisher- men.” As one delegate remarked, however, they may have the right but they haven’t got the right kind of boats and they haven’t the money to buy them. Sinclair announced to the meet- ing that B.C. fishery regulations are going to be amended along the lines suggested by the UFAWU to provide that only Canadian citi- zens may hold commercial fishing This will apply to all species of fish but will not be made retroactive. 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