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JULIA SPARKS mourned by labor One of the few remaining links with the early .days of the So- cialist Party has been severed by the death of Mrs, Julia Sparks of New Westminster, whose asso- ciation with the labor movemént in this province spanned more than six wlecades, She passed quietly away in St. Mary’s Hosp- ital, New Westminster, on Oc- tober 31 at the age of 85 years, The year 1900, when the 21 year old Julia Earle came to Vancouver from her birthplace at Bay Roberts, Newfoundland, was @ momentous one for the labor movement, Throughout the province, in Vancouver and New Westminster and the mining centres of Van- couver Island and the Kootenays, Socialist leagues were being formed, That year they came together in a convention and named Will McClain, with Frank Rogers one of the leaders of the Fraser River fishermen’s strike, as the first Socialist candidate to contest a seat in a B.C, provin- cial election, Within a few months Julia Earle had met and married Ben Sparks, a carpenter, boatbuilder and fisherman, prominent in the new United Socialist Party, and her- self began to take the active int- erest in the labor movement she Steadfastly maintained to the day of her death, In 1907, the Sparks family, now increased by the first of their seven children, moved to New Westminster and two years later, to what became the family home in Queensboro, There the door was always open > OVALTINE : oo CAFES. : 251 EASTHASTINGS °: 3 Vancouver, B.C. _— : 3 QUALITY SERVICE : pment - TED HARRIS 757 East Hastings St. ’ ‘Mancouver 4, B.C. 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JULIA SPARKS When the Spanish Civil War broke out in 1936, Julia Sparks took up the cause of the Spanish Republic and the Canadian volun- teers of the Mackenzie- Papineau Battalion as her own, She col- lected money and goods and work- ed tirelessly in the Spanish Aid campaign, In recent years she had devot- ed herself to the peace movement with a resolution that would have done credit to one halfher years, “l’ve seen enough sorrowfrom war,” she used to say, “I think of my grandchildren and great- grandchildren and their future,” She leaves one son, Ben, in New Westminster, and six daugh- ters, three in British Columbia and three in California, One daughter, Mrs, Mickey Beagle, New Westminster, is a general organizer for the United Fisher- men and Allied Workers Union, and the other two daughters ia B.C, are Mrs, Molly Darrah, Burnaby, and Mrs, Rhoney Greenall, Coquitlam, She also leaves 17 grandchild- ren and 21 great-grandchildren, Harold Pritchett spoke at fun- ; eral services held November 3 from Bowell Funeral Home, New Westminster, and Hal Griffin gave the address at the graveside, K@eweeeneses=sevessoceececcecs vie 7 Workers | Benevolent Assn. 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Cecoeccocceesooe REFORM CANDIDATES TO RUN IN SURREY CIVIC ELECTION SURREY, B.C, — Two candi- dates committed to a policy of lightening the municipal taxload, industrial development and civic reform, announced their inten- tions to place their names before electors in the December muni- cipal elections, : Harry Ball, C.N.R. locomotive enginear, “Wio is also secretary of the Surrey Municipal Reform Peace groups at Cenotaph Vancouver peace groups mark- ed Remembrance Day by placing a simple wreath at the Cenotaph bearing the inscription “And this our task: to usher in; That ‘peace on earth’ they died to win,” The wreath was placed by Mrs, Mildred Fahrni of the Fellowship of Reconciliation on behalf of five city peace groups, Committee and a former coun- cillor in Burnaby will enter the contest for Council, Also nomin- ated by the Municipal Reform Committee is Fred Bianco of Whalley — a shipyard welder who has been active fora number of years in trade union and com- munity affairs, HARRY BALL “MARXISM — ITS ROLE IN THE WORLD REVOLUTIONARY PRGCESS” A PUBLIC LECTURE DEDICATED TO THE 100th ANNIVERSARY OF THE FOUNDING OF THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL DELL HOTEL, WHALLEY TUES., NOV. 24, 8 P.M. 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