BYLAW TOSSED OUT. Sunday sports issue goes back to gov't Next round in the commercial Sunday sports battle is scheduled to be fought in Victoria — if Vancouver City Council can persuade Premier W. A. C. Bennett to enter the ring. After a Supreme Court decision quashed the city bylaw this week, city council decided to seek a charter amendment to get the power to pass a new sports bylaw. In Victoria, Premier Ben- nett shied away from the whole deal. A _ personal -op- ponent of Sunday ‘sports, he evidently believes he has no responsibility to carry out the wishes of Vancouver citizens in the matter, as expressed in a plebiscits vote last year. - “It’s a matter for the priv- ate bills committee of the leg- islature,” the premier snapped at reporters who cornered him and wanted to know what ac- tion the government intended to take. “Your Social Credit govern- ment will have a majority of the members of the private bills committee and they will be influenced by government feeling on the matter,” a re- porter suggested. The -government consists only of the cabinet, Premier Bennett contended, and all other MLAs are either sup- porters of the government or opposition members. On Monday this week Mr. Justice A. E. Lord ruled il- legal the bylaw passed by Vancouver City Council last August 7, permitting Sunday sports. In a plebiscite the previous December Vancouver citizens, favored commercial sports on Sunday afternoon. No action was taken by the legislature in its 1956 spring session to make the vote effective by passing the necessary legislation. Considerable buck - passing and name-calling took place between city council and the provincial government over the issue, council claiming that it had asked for legisla- tion but got no satisfaction, and the government contend- ing it had never been offici- ally requested to pass legisla- tion. Mayor Hume made several trips to Victoria to interview Premier Bennett on the mat- ter, but nothing came of their talks. Finall¥, under heavy pub- lic pressure, Vancouver pass- ed a bylaw August 7 permit- Labor around the province ting commercial sports on Sunday between 1.30 and 6 p.m. Vancouver Mounties of the Pacific Coast League play- ed two Sunday double headers to good crowds at Capilano Stadium; no _ other — sports groups took advantage of the bylaw. When the bylaw was chal- lenged, Mr. Justice Lord rul- ed that city council does not have the right to authorize commercial sports on Sunday. “The onus is back on Pre- mier Bennett,” commented Jack Sparks, chairman of the Sunday Sports Committee. “If he fails to act in accordance with the wishes of the major- ity, it will be an insult to the people of Vancouver.” Failure of the next session of the legislature to enact leg- islation before the 1957 base- ball season opens might mean a death blow to Vancouver Mounties, who operated in the red this year. Electrical Workers recommend acceptance of 57-cent wage offer Officers of Local 213, Inter- national Brotherhood of Elec- trical Workers, have- recom- mended acceptance of a 57- cent an hour wage increase offered by contractors, and Lower Mainland electricians will vote by referendum this” month on the proposal. The boost would give elec- trical workers 21 cents an hour more from October 1 this year and two 18-cent hikes on April 1 and October 1, 1957. Electricians, who make $2.42 an hour, were seeking a straight 60-cent increase. a mt at About 75 ment walked off a Westcoast Transmission nat- ural gas pipeline job near Hope on Wednesday this week, claiming contractors failed to pay two hours “show-up” wages on days when work was halted by rain. The men are members of Local 115, International Op- erating Engineers. STORE PEOPLE’S CO-OP BOOKSTORE 337 WEST PENDER STREET Friday — Open to 9 p.m. Other Weekdays -— 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Store Will Be Open Wednesdays HOURS Merger of two powerful un- ions, Amalgamated Meat Cut- ters and Butcher Workmen’s Union and the United Pack- scheduled to take place at a Chicago inghouse Workers, unity convention this week, has been called off for the time being. Officials of the Meat Cutters wired their delegates not to come to Chicago as the con- vention has been “indefinitely postponed” because of a dis- pute over terms of the merger agreement. “The pretty confusing,” whole situation is said George Johnston, secretary-manager of the Meat Cutters in B.C. “I am extremely disappointed. Everyone here wants the mer- ger and we thought all the de- tails had been settled.” PENTICTON Grower returns of as low as a nickel a 40-pound box of Cee grade small McIntosh apples has spafked a revolt of apple growers throughout the Okanagan Valley and rais- ed a demand for a provincial Royal Commission to conduct an immediate probe of their industry, from producer to consumer. Not since 1938 when grower charges resulted in a com- bines investigation into the industry, have apple growers been so aroused. They 2xplod- ed into action when final re- turns on their 1955 apple crop showed packed boxes of wrap- ped McIntoshes (37 to 40 pounds) brought them returns of five cents and less. The demand is for an im- mediate investigation of “s)1 phases of the industry, from producer to consumer, with emphasis on marketing and distribution of the crop.” Penticton fruit growers Ce- cil John Glass and Herb Cor- bishley helped to form the or- iginal “ginger group” of 16 growers who felt conditions called for immediate action, without waiting for the con- vention of the B.C. Fruit Grow- ers Association, which will -be held three months from now. The group called an “extra- ordinary meeting” on October 9. It was well attended and a mefion calling for a probe was endorsed by growers’ lo- cals in Penticton, Naramata, and Keleden-Okanagan Falls without a single dissenting vote. Within a few days it was endorsed by locals in Glen- more, East Kelowna and Ell- son. B.C. Fruit Growers’ Associa- tion, realizing the urgency of the situation, decided to by- pass red tape to deal with the growers’ demand. Instead of delaying action until their Jan- uary convention, officials said Wednesday ‘this week they would take the commission re- quest to Victoria “as soon as a majority of locals endorse the demand.” If Victoria acts on the re- quest, a royal commission could be appointed and begin opera- tions sometime in November. There is considerable evi- dence to indicate that the gov- ernment would not be able to evade a request for a royal commission. Two nights before the pro- Vincial election, in a meeting TT eT er ed RECTOR CIGAR Only Union Made Cigar in Vancouver Hand Rolled Finest in Dutch and Havana Tobacco SOLD AT HOTELS AND LEGIONS or 214 Union St., Van. BBUIEL OCTOBER 26, 1956 — PACIFIC T 19, Premier W. A. Ue promised his audiente, © fruit growers want 4 cial royal commission” give them one.” At Oliver on sept Hon. Kenneth ‘ciean er minister of agricul clared, “There are pects of. the fruit which, in my ope be solved by a royal ne sion. There is tog mué pt between the prices to : ducer and the consume On. Thursday tis newly-appointed agai Minister Ralph Che wet scheduled to meet aa ficials in Vernon %, last November’s criPP ter kill of fruit tree, ject of a royal com hardly be left off th in view of this weeks: ments. Attittide of the hard: pe growers in the O kane well expressed by 4 ton orchard manage Hauser, who told 4 this week: “If fruit in the Okanagan W? ing has no hopes of pay’ ulldd us now so we can b trees and take oh Competition from aq pl ed States, and depres> for U.S. soft and Be is one economic fae is helping to tur gan into a “depress! 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