China’‘s factory schools teach millions Almost every factory in China, and especially in Manchuria, the industrial heart of the new People’s republic, now has a school where workers are learning to read and write. Wages are _ higher under full union protection, food is more plentiful as the black market is smashed, and living standards for China’s 5,000,000 industrial workers are rising. Workers warned to stay away from Edmonton, 3000 jobless Thousands of working peopl going to walk the streets jobless this winter. serious’ slump in the lumber industry. le are now unemployed im_ this number of camps operating at reduced capacity. More layoffs are due in the build- ing trades as soon as_ sub-zero weather arrives. The oil monopo- lists, after extracting the richest of Alberta’s “black gold” are pre- paring to reduce their staffs. Over the air and in the news- papers, people are being warned not to come to Edmonton looking for work as there are already 3,000 unemployed here, which, as in Vancouver and other cities, is a conservative estimate far below the actual number of those needing | work. ESTIMATE 30,000 JOBLESS IN MONTREAL —MONTREAL Unemployment Insurance Com- mission officials here.have reveal- ed that the number of unemployed “*hoom’’ Many logging camps are not going to operate due to a This fact has been seized upon to reduce wages in the limited —EDMONTON city and many more are in Montreal is double what it was last year, but “there is no cause for alarm.” The number of job- less here now stands at 15,171. Last year at the same time the fig- ure was 7,564. Of the number out of work ,11,871 are men and 4,300 women, The present figure for unemploy- ment in Montreal represent three percent of the 535,000 insurable workers in the city. Labor econ- omists estimate that only about half the working force is covered by insurance, hence for a real es- timate of unemployment it is ne- nessary to double the “official” figures. On that basis unemploy- ment in Montreal now stands at about 32,000. PACIFIC 9588 FERRY MEA Jack Cooney, Mgr. 119 EAST HASTINGS VANCOUVER, B.C. FREE DELIVERY Supplying Fishing Boats Our Specialty T MARKET Nite Calls GL. 1740L Send in your order early. subscription each to: Name . Send Your Friends a Progressive Present Special Combination Xmas Offer _ 1-Year Subscription to The Labor Monthly and 1-Year Subscription to the Pacific Tribune BOTH for $4.00 _ | Cards will be sent to all Gift | Subscriptions with the compliments of the sender. Please send Labor Monthly and the Pacific Tribune 1 year Mechanization hits workers —YAKIMA Mechanization of harvesting pro- cesses in the fertile Yakima val- ley spells unemployment and hun- ger to agricultural laborers here. Some of the technical innovations and their effects: @ Mechanical hop-pickers this year displaced an estimated 50 per- cent of the former work force. @ Mechanical beet toppers and diggers have practically elimin- ated field laborers in that crop. @ Mechanical corn-pullers, intro- duced for the first time here this year, take.two rows ata time, pull the ears and .hoist them into a truck. @ Reports. indicate two apple- picking machines are being tried out, still another source of tech- nological displacement of workers. British employers welcome job loss Z LONDON Britsh government ‘“economy” cuts in the next 12 months will cost 70,000 building workers their jobs, the chairman of the British Builders Association declared here recently. The employer organiza- tion official pect because he foresaw that “threat of the loss of their jobs will force the building workers to increased working efforts.” Highest Prices Paid for DIAMONDS, OLD GOLD Other Valuable Jewellery -STAR LOAN CO. LTD. Est. 1905 719 Robson St. — MA. 2622 Brother's Bakery Specializing in Sweet and Sour Rye Breads | $42 E. HASTINGS ST. PA. 8419 : welcomed the pros- CIO fish union sees threat in anti-trust probe The clo Fiheiier union has denounced as a strike-breaking, : —LOS ANGELES anti-union move reports that the U.S. justice department is investigating contracts between fishermen, boat owners and canners. department action came just as the made, through a harbou1' citizens’ committee chaired by Assembly- man Vincent Thomas, in settling the current tie-up of CIO fishing boats. William D. Dixon, chief of the department’s anti-trust division, said two investigators were de- | termining if the contracts under which the union guarantees fish- ermen’s earnings, violate anti- trust price fixing and catching provisions. Jeff Kibie, international secre- tary-treasurer of the CIO Fisher- men, charged that “if the anti-trust laws apply to this situation then they apply to every union in the country, with no exceptions.” This may be the long-awaited move by the U.S. government to use the anti-trust laws against the union movement generally, on the basis of the rigged conviction of ‘Fishermen’s Loca] 36 two ‘years ago, Kibre said. The Local 36 case involved in- dictments charging anti-trust vio- lations on the part of 300 mem- bers of the union who owned or | partly owned their small fishing boats at Santa Monica and New- port harbour. Convictions were obtained, and are now on appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, on the govern- ment charge that members of Local 36 were independent busi- nessmen and therefore by work- ing together in' the union were conspiring to fix prices. Kibre explained that all mem- bers of Local 33, the big local at San Pedro, now reported under in- vestigation, along with 300 AFL seine and line fishermen, are strict- ly employes working for boat own- union indicated progress was being ers. COMMUNIST HEADS SCOTTISH UNIONS —LONDON A well-known Communist, Wil- liam Pearson, secretary of th Scot- tish Area Committee of the Na- tional Union of Mineworkers, has been elected president of the Scot- tish® Trades Union Congress. This is the first time a Commun- ist has occupied this important position. Pearson, who is a forceful speak- er and an able negotiator, was a leading member of the Lanarkshire Miners’ Union for many years be- fore this body was merged with others into the Scottish Area Com mittee of the NUM. IWA vote reports put Fadling, behind PORTLAND Official oinhiee of ballots in the CIO International Woodwork- ers referendum election of officers will start here this Friday. Unofficial reports indicate that International President James Fadling may be defeated by Claude Ballard, assistant director of or- ganization. These reports. state that Ballard is running far ahead of Fadling both in Canada and the south, pay . Ballard’s candidacy resulted from a split between Fadling and the large Columbia ‘River District Council. CLASSIFIED 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 accepted later than Monday noon of the week of publication. WHAT'S DOING? SOCIAL— Saturday ,December 3, 8 p.m., at 600 Campbell Ave. Everbody welcome, Auspices Federation of Vancouver Youth. HALLS FOR RENT Oldtime Dancing To Alf Carlson’s Orchestra Every 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: 600 Campbell Ave. HA. 0087. Dance, Clinton Hall— 2605 East Pender. Dance every Saturday night. Modern and Old - time. Viking’s Orchestra. Hall is available for rent HAstings 3277. "MEETINGS * Swedish-Finnish Workers’ Club meets last Friday every month at 7.30 p.m., in Clinton Hall. SPECIAL MEETING— November 30 for all women members of the LPP. Lounge room, Pender Auditorium, at 8 p.m. Admission by membership card only. NOTICES BUSINESS OFFICE HOURS OF the PACIFIC TSUN are as follows:— " Weekdays—9 to 5:30 p.m. Saturdays—9-12, WANTED— The Federation Youth require the services of 2 director of drama and choir. All particulars can be had by call- ing or writing to 600 Campbell Ave., or phone North 2075-Y. FOR SALE— Progressive Xmas cards, very attractive, with envelopes at 60c. Orders filled promptly. Phone TA. 1451 or write LPP Provin- cial Office, 193 EK. Hastings. BUSINESS PERSONALS 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. ! CRYSTAL STEAM BATHS— Open every day. New Modern Beauty Salon—i763 E, Hastings. HAstings 0094. : SALLY BOWES— INCOME TAX PROBLEMS. Room 20,- 9 East Hastings: — MA. 9965. O.K, RADIO SERVICE. Latest . Factory Precision Equipment Used. MARINE SERVICE. 1420 Pender St. W. TA. 1012. FIRST CLASS CARPENTER Cabinets, remodelling, new homes, city or country, M. Vaselanak, 360 Chatham Street,. Steveston, Phone: Steveston 108-Y. ‘PACIFIC TRIBUNE — NOVEMBER 25, 1949 — PAGE 2 The justice of Vancouver