LAL iLL Li Cee ee eT au Qing as they Local raps ~hominee Appointment of W. G. Gould as Organizer by Vancouver Trades rit; Labor Council drew strong Eom in Union News, mimeo- Raced bulletin issued by Van- whe Converters Local 433. The On paper said: te Very little is known of the sn appointed to this position. ‘ is a member of Local 101, *et Railwaymen’s Union. We Meet; ‘ tings of his union, He was Not . Y 4 delegate to council and his ae ease of trade union affairs Dears’ to be very limited. AY wasn’t StS trade Dointeg tion, BG 9 uBtess of.Canada approve of Not, 4ppointments? We think Congy, € are of the opinion the the ¢ Ss was not aware of all Acts in this case . . .” someone with union background ap- to this important posi- are to © told he has attended very few | -9€s the Trades and Labor |: ‘Seandal in foster ‘home uncovered by heighbors’ aoe Visited a foster hbme in the city and discovered two children, “8ed three and four, locked outdoors in the driving rain. protest Clad only’ ek little Shirts, their legs covered with scabies, the youngsters were operat tried to get back into the house, : or of the foster home was asleep in bed Ca cents of the neighborhood told the policewoman that the €n in the home (there are six; three foster children and three Inside, the woman teen-age youngsters) are shut outside in the backyard all sum- mer and are not even allowed in- doors to use the bathroom, In the winter they are kept in a bed- room. The four-room house was in a filthy condition and empty whis- key bottles were lying under the kitchen table, : “The case has been brought to our attention and one of our duty workers is now checking and in- vestigating,”” said’ Miss Dorothy Coombe, executive director of the Protestant Children’s. Aid So- ciety, Citizens living in the vicinity of the foster home raise a more per- tinent question: ‘‘When is the city going to conduct a thorough probe into the operation? of all foster homes in Vancouver.” On New Year's Day, 1951, a two-year-old child died an ‘tun- natural” death from head in- juries in an unlicensed Cath-. olic’ foster ‘home, but no crim- inal charge was laid. At that time the Pacific Tribune called for a city-wide clean-up cam- - paign, but nothing was done, power, pam The clipping above is from a “Feronto Globe and Mail edit- orial, March® 12. Without the slightest regard for the facts, the editorial. maintains that the bulk of the Soviet Union's steel production is going into armaments. But if the Globe and Mail editors had been in- terested in learning the truth, they could have checked with the United Nations Bulletin. - from the for clipping is Bulletin Even in its bias- “BKeonomic De- "This United Nations February 15, ed account of velopments in the USSR.” it points out that Soviet steel is going, for the most part, into huge construction projects that have nothing to do with war preparations. The Bulletin re- ports that Soviet ‘defense out- lays” are ‘substantially smal- ler than they were in 1937-41. years as airport manager.” council felt obliged to send a delegation to Ottawa requesting that military operations at Ed- monton airport be abandoned. Edmonton airport is well inside the city limits. It is used by military as well as civilian air- eraft. It is used not only by the RCAF but also by American mili- tary planes on their trips to and from American war bases in apn Canada and Alaska. Since last November there have been four accidents here involving military aircraft, Two crashes were on city streets. One was kept secret from the public. Two years ago a plane narrowly missed the Royal Al-- exandra hospital, It is only sheer good luck that a major disaster has not yet occurred. Captain Bell gave two good rea- sons why military aircraft- are particularly dangerous, One was that military aircraft are not subject to inspection by civilian inspectors. Another was that mili- tary aircraft overioad as a rule. Edmonton City Council’s dele- gation to Ottawa brought little in the way of results, A year ago Transport Minister Lionel Chey- rier sdid that relocation of Ed- monton airport was blocked by N Boarg &trop °vember, 1951, Major-Gen- x *nhale in a letter to Win- boay School Board urged the feng» © Start the full ‘“‘civil de- Schools. treatment in Winnipeg Dupits atom bomb drills for the I hed @ change in curricu- dete, : that “the subject of civil Shoot eure, introduced into the Pade from the earli- Vouneeg | ennale Plan was de- Zuker by School Trustee Joseph n Ublig 'n both board meetings and Parents’ in an Open Letter to Copiggy (distributed in 10,000 Yteria 88 education for war, Way fear and as having 00 fare increase, ‘€ tells Johnson er ay eform Association, , . © Signature of Effie wea the following wire her Byron Johnson last oo ni Jon, to W aa Lk Seer : tion © Civic Reform Associa- Veto, th you to immediately teey Bike us fare increase. We tay the 3.7 million dollars. ect; uction granted the BC : Nit pe eg Should go to thé bene- Tithe. Consumers and not to Portati the profits of the trans- on Company.” Labor trustee blocks plan lor introducing full A-bomb drills into Winnipeg schools WINNIPEG th den Significant victory has been won against the Penhale Plan to introduce atom bomb drills fox Mts in Winnipeg schools and to indoctrinate pupils with cold war propaganda. Winnipeg School as rejected the main features ofa plan proposed by Major General Penhale, director of the Olitan Civil Defense Board. ie nothing in common with the aims and purposes of our public schools. ~¥ ‘However, the board, despite Zuken’s protest, did adopt a plan by which teachers and caretakers could be instructed in civil defense and approved the proposition that all school buildings be surveyed “for providing shelter areas for the pupils.” During the debate Zuken point- ed out that it. was not the re- sponsibility of the board to turn over the Winnipeg teaching and caretaking staff to civil defense training. prior defense commitments. Now Ottawa says that it is “studying” and “‘considering”’’ the matter, In plain English, Ottawa is simply stalling. And the council itself, instead of pressing for a _per- manent solution, is considering only a change of the runways’ to a single east-west runway. This would only have the effect of sending aircraft over sections. of a little less densely populated. the city which are, at the moment, Several trade unions, com- organiza- tions are now pressing for im- munity and other mediate action. The Labor-Pro- gressive party is distributing thousands of leaflets and hold- ing a public meeting to support its demand that all military air- craft be banned from the city airport and that the airport itself be relocated outside the city. Toronto unemployed demand A 3S os work Led by a United ‘Auto Workers Local 984 soundtruck, over 200 unemployed recently paraded through Toronto by a delegation, crisis. ''The brief presented to benefits. streets to Queen's Park, where Ontario's Tory Premier Leslie Frost, interviewed was challenged to take legislative action to alleviate the present unemployment Premier Frost stated that at least 10,000. workers in Toronto were destitute, with the number growing weekly as laid-off workers exhausted unemployment insurance | Union; U.S. plane crashes on. streets alarm \Edmonton citizens BY BEN SWANKEY EDMONTON “JT have never seen such foolish operation of an aireraft in my 20 This statement was made before Eqd- monton City Council recently by Captain Bell, city airport manager. He was referred to the crash of an American military aircraft on Edmonton streets on, March 8, just 75 feet from a row of houses. This incident aroused such widespread alarm and concern that the Endicott on China tour TORONTO The English language Shanghai News on March -18 carried an article by Dr. J. G. Endicott, chairman of the Canadian Peace ‘Congress, who, with Mrs, Endi- cott, is now in China. Dr. Endicott stated that he drew two conclusions from his Visits to many countries: “The first is that the world péace movement is the greatest, most universal, most effective movement of the people of the world that has so far appeared in all history < . ; “The second conclusion is that this great world-wide peace move- ment is now so well organized that it can be the decisive instru- ment to prevent the outbreak of a general war. There is no goy- ernment which can dare to ignore the challenge of the peoples’ will for peace.”’ Gervin’s union hits civic stand _ Alderman. R. K. Gervin plays a leading role in Vancouver City Council in trying to prevent that beay from entering into collective bargaining with Vancouver Civic Employees Union, Outside Work-. ers. But among the many B.C. uniens which have written coun- cil denouncihg this attitude is the- union to which Gervin belongs, Livision 101 of the Street Rail- waymen’s Union. “We strongly protest the ae- tion of the council in refusing to negotiate with Outside Workers, through the regular form of col- lective bargaining,”’ said the SRU letter. ‘““We feel the action of the council in refusing to do so is a direct insult to all organized ~* labor.” : Other protest letters to council have come in from Local 213, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers: Local 213, Pulp and Sulphite Workers, Ocean Falls; Vancouver Jewelery Workers Union; Local 25, Van- couver Newspaper Printing Press- men’s Union; Mine-Mill district office; Marine Workers and Boil- ermakers; International Fur and Leather Workers Union: United Fishermen and Allied Workers Local 596, Oil Workers International Union; Vancouver Converters, International Broth- erhood of Pulp, Sulphite and Paper Mill. Workers; Local 1-85, 1WA, Port Alberni; Loeal 1-217. IWA, Vancouver; Vancouver Labor Council; Mine-Mill Port- land Canal Local 694; Local 1, Vancouver Upholsterers Indus- trial Union; Local 468, Bakery and Confectionery Workers. PACIFIC TRIBUNE — APRIL 18, 1952 — PAGE 3