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Tribune drive off to
‘great start on March 1

By IVAN BIRCHARD
Business Manager: Pacific Tribune

Events taking place during the past few weks, sharply
emphasize the need for a vigilant and alert public. Mac-
kenzie King’s brazen war alliance with
United States imperialism, making Canada
.the atomic cockpit for another world con-
flict, this time against our socialist neigh-
bor, the Soviet Union, must be met and
repudiated by the Canadian people. To
do this, the people must be Kept informed
with the truth about the real aims of re-
action, and the need for labor and people’s
unity to meet the challenge. The Pacific ©
Tribune is the only newspaper in British :
Columbia which prints the whole truth on
these questions. Hence the need for an Ivan Birchard
all-out effort to make the PT financial drive an outstanding
success. The goal set, in order that the Pacific Tribune
can carry On the fight during the next year is $10,000. in
donations and $5,000 in new subscriptions.

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This past -week, press committees all over the province have
been meeting to make final plans to get the drive off to a flying
Start on March First. Vancouver, with two-thirds of the provin-
cial quota to meet, has been really busy with neighborhood meet-
ings of Tribune supporters being held in many areas. Bruce
Mickleburgh, chairman of the City. Press Committee, informs us
that all city districts will have completed their plans this week.

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The North Vancouver club has challenged Burnaby: to. raise
its quota first. Burnaby has iaccepted this challenge, and in turn
has pledged to produce a higher percentage of Press Builders. To
become a Press Builder, a person must collect $25 in donations.
and subs. Substantial prizes will be presented to all persons ful-
filling these requirements,

South Vancouver hurled a challenge to the West Enders at
the latter’s Drive meeting. Minerva Miller, accepted the challenge
for the West End. The Industrial Press supporters have chal-
lenged the East End, and Fairview has pledged to beat the Com-
mercial Drive club in reaching the quota first. Numerous other
Vancouver clubs have sent out challenges, and these will be
mentioned in next week's issue.

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___Reports from Victoria promise an impressive campaign
by PT supporters in the capital city. Under the chairman-

ship of Harry Asson the drive committee has pledged to
sell 1,500 copies of the Lobby edition: of the Tribune, in

undertaken to meet. Vancouver Island regional commit-
‘tee and the Kootenays have accepted their respective quo-
tas and are preparing for concerted activities in building
the Pacific Tribune in these areas.

The Michel-Natal Club got off to a fine start in their
drive with a $50.00 donation towards their quota. Steve
Harmatny, club secretary, writes that drive plans are well
under way. He sends a club challenge to all East Koot-
enay clubs to attempt to raise their quotas before the
Michel-Natal members do. Any club taking up the chal-
lenge, please reply through this column.

addition to raising the large financial quota Victoria has

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voting, to come before legislature

VICTORIA, B.C.—Compulsory registration and voting, extension of the franchise te

Chinese and East Indians, establishment of new election machinery and provision for ab-
sentee voting and booths for hospitals, are the major recommendations contained in the q
report of the special committee set up a year ago by the legislature to revise the Provin-

cial Elections Act.

The committee, recommending
repeal of the present Elections
Act and introduction of a new
act at this session, proposed:

@ Compulsory perpetual regis-
tration with issuance of numbered
registration cards showing name,
address, occupation and electoral
district. This voter’s card would
have to be produced at the poll,
but would not necessarily be car-
ried at any other time. It would
be endorsed by the holder for
identification purposes at voting
time.

® Franchise qualification to be
twelve months residence in Can-
ada, six months in the province,
and 30 days in the electoral divi-
sion, plus an:adequate knowledge
of English or French.

@ All residents of the province
to be registered within 30 days
of the proclamation of the act,

Pickets arrested
in mill strike

PENTICTON, B.C. — The strike
of 30 IWA members at Penticton
sawmills here was highlighted by
the arrest of three pickets this
week for halting a truck that
attempted to cross the picket
line. The strikers are. demanding
a signed master agreement with
the company and an adjustment
in wage scales. The present wage
rates are now ten cents an hour
below the contract rate which the
interior operators agreed to last
May.

The IWA executive board has
fully endorsed the strike of its
members here, ang has pledged
full moral and financial support.
All FWA locals are being circu-
larized with the facts in the dis-
pute and are being asked to make

financial contributions.

Chinese tenants
resist eviction

_ Taking speedy action to
fight the forced eviction of
500 Chinese tenants at 502
Shanghai Alley, an emerg-
ency council of tenants has

been. formed. At a special
meeting held at the Chinese
Workers’ Protective Association

hall, last week, which more than
50 tenants attended, a five-man
executive was elected to act on

behalf of the tenants in their |

dealings with the Marshall-Wells
company, owners of the building.

The company is refusing to ac-
cept rent from the tenants, and
has also stopped paying the light
bill, which is the owner’s respon-
sibility. The Tenant’s Council is
seeking legal advice on the rental
matter, as they feel that this
latest company action is designed
to hoodwink the tenants into va-
eating the building.

This week, a second delegation
led by Mrs. Effie Jones of the
Tenants and Homeowners League
and John Turner, secretary of the
Vancouver Labor Council, inter-
viewed Federal Shelter Adminis-
trator J. G. Walker regarding the
threatened Shanghai Alley evic-
tion. Walker, taking an obvious
pro-Marshall-Wells position, claim-
ed the tenants must pay the light
bills anq garbage fees, or they
would be considered trespassers.

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DR. W. J. CURRY

and thereafter persons reaching
the age of 21 years to be regis-
tered within six months.

@ Extension of the franchise
to Chinese and East Indians now
disqualified only because of racial
origin; to Native Indians who have
served in the armed forces or who
are not living on reservations,
and to Doukhobors who, were
members of, or were rejected by,
the armed forces, and to the wives
and children of such Doukhobors.

® All present voters’ lists to be
cancelled and new lists compiled,
with only a person’s signature re-
quired to have his or her name
placed on the -voters’ list. This
would do away with the present
system of requiring a voter to
take an oath before a commis-
sioner.

@ Establishment of a new per-
manent elections machinery. Un-
der the new system all returning
officers would hold salaried jobs
in charge of a central registry of
voters, and voters would be re-
quired to notify them of any
change of address.

@ Compulsory voting, with
penalty of not more than $10 for
failure to register, or failure to
vote without valid reason being
given. Within six months of elec-
tion, notice must be sent to per-
sons who failed to ballot and an
opportunity given them to explain
their default before imposition of
penalty.

@ A system of advanced polls
on Thursday, Friday and Satur-
day preceding the week of elec-

tion at which trainmen, mariners,
fishermen and other persons whe
might be absent on election day
would cast their ballots. Absentee
voting would follow the lines of
the system used for servicemen
during the war and special polls
would be provided in hospitals,

@ Every registered voter not
having four consecutive hours free
from employment between the
hours of opening and closing of
the polls on election day, would
be given sufficient time off with
pay, so that he would have four
consecutive hours during voting
hours in which to vote, employers a
to have the discretion as to what |
hours should be taken off for ‘
voting.

@ A special court of revision
empowered only to remove names
from voters’ list to meet 12 clear
days before nomination day. No
other courts of revision, but re- ~
gistrar-general and district regis-
trars to be empowered to deal 4
with objections or other matters Ya
of revision at any time. ase

@ Further study to be given to —
the whole question of votes for BS
Native Indians and the rights of ; :
Indians to representation in the ‘
legislature. \ .

Thirty-seven recommendations
were made by the committee,
with Harold Winch (CCF, Van-
couver East) and Herbert Gar-
grave (CCF, Mackenzie) and W,
T. Strait (Coalition-Liberal, Vic-
toria), asking that their votes bé
recorded as opposed to retention
of any racial discrimination.

Lunenburg

Fish patrol

picketing a wharf to see that no boats:
pull out and weaken the strike front. Fish companies.
with government backing are doing everything possible
to split the union ranks and break the strike.

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fishermen in Nova Scotia

Murphy, B.C. representative of the
CIO Mine, Mill and Smelter Work-
ers Union; Bert MacLeach, direc-
tor of the Seattle Labor School
and Miss Gertrude Leuhning, in-

structor at the California Labor
School.

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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1947

WEA annual meet _
to feature big agenda |

The Workers Educational Association will hold its third -
Annual Convention on Saturday, March lst, in the lecture
room of the Vancouver Art Gallery. Guest speakers will in-
clude Dr. N. A, M. MacKenzie, President of UBC; Harvey

Columbia's’ trade unions, and this
convention is expected to lay the
basis for even greater expansion.
One of the items on the agenda ~
will be the planning of a month’s _
Summer Camp at Lake Hatzic, |
just east of Mission. The camp will

be aided with capable instructors

from the California and Seattle
Labor Schools, and the lectures _
promise to be of leading calibre for __
that reason. : i , f
An evening of films featuring the.
outstanding Soviet documentary,
“The Fall of Berlin,” will be
shown Sunday.) March 2, at 1550 —
West 10th Avenue at 8 p.m.

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