BLUBBER BAY GOES OUT

JN STRIKE

B.C. Plans Campaign

For Spain

Plans for an intensive prov- ince-wide campaign to aid Re- publican Spaim during Spain Week, from June 10 to 20, will

be announced this weekend by ‘the Vancouver office of the ‘League for Peace and Democ- racy, Mrs. Kay Heathcote, pro- vincial secretary, told the Ad- ‘vocate on Thursday.

| To be conducted on a national ‘scale, Spain Week was decided ‘upon by a national Emergency Aid to Spain conference in Toronto ‘called by the national executive ‘Committee to Aid Spanish Democ- racy.

_ As 2 result of the conference a special campaign to send 50,000 quarts of milk and 20,000 twenty- five cent meals to Spain on June 20 was announced.

The conference also declared its intention of increasing present medical aid and foodstuffs sent frem Canada and of endeavoring to care for twice the number of children now in the two children’s honie maintained in Spain through Canadian support.

Mrs. Heathcote said Thursday that a National Sacrifice Week for Spain was being conducted in Bri- tain, during which prominent peo- ple were undertaking to forezo one meal a week or curtail their smok- ing allowances in order to contri- bute to Spain, and stated:

“British Columbia people haye responded whole-heartedly to our appesis in the past and I am con- ident they will again come for- ward to give material assistance in Spain’s great hour of need. The fact that Canadian people in all walks of life are demanding the lifting of the federal eovernment’s embargo on war materials to Spain is indicative of their tremendous sympathy with the cause of Span-— ish democracy.”

Famous Buck Movie Union

That the BC Theatre Associa- ion, membership of which includes Famous Players inc. is backing she anti-union stand of the owner 9f Hollywood Theatre, West Broad- way, is stated in a letter sent to 2311 union affiliated to the Trades and Labor Council by Local 348, Motion Picture Projectionists this week.

This is borne out by the wide listribution of handhbills to which are attached free tickets for the show, the letter states.

Further action to acquaint the public with the true situation is slanned by the union.

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PARLEY PROVES BARREN

BLUBBER BAY, BC, June 2—(Special)—Employees at the Pacific Lime company’s plant here came out.on strike Thursday. All work stopped in the quarry, which badly

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BLUBBER BAY, BC, June 2.— Refusal of Pacific Lime company to accept the ruling of the Arbitra- tion Board which calls for rein- statement of all blacklisted men led directly to the strike here Thursday.

The union succeeded in quashing the board's recommendatien that tsyo other committees beside the elected union committee be ap- pointed, unacceptable committees befae:

A grievance committee consist- ing of one union man, one non- union man, and one company of- ficial.

A negotiating committee, to con- sist of two members of the union- ized employees, namely, the pres- ident or secretary and one other, and an elected representative of the unorganized employees, none of whom would be members of the grievance committee. These, to- gether with the general manage- ment of the employers, would form the committee

Wihile the company agreed to give up the idea of these two com- mittees, it refused the suggestion made by Judge McIntosh that men recently hired be dismissed to make room for former employees. The best the company would agree to was to re-employ these men as opportunity arose. This was re- jected unanimously by the union.

Centre Highest In City

Press Drive Quota Attained As Spring Campaign Ends

By WM. RAVENOR At midnight on Tuesday when the Clarion-Advocate press

Irive officially closed, $3,015.19 nittee’s books, 53,000 objective to be attained

Registration Drive Opens

Registration of all unemployed voodworkers in the city began at . mass meeting held at Orange fall Monday when plans were dis- ussed to mobilize an estimated ,000 to 4,000 jobless loggers and awinill workers in Greater Van- ouver, object of which is to press he government for a works pro- Tam which will re-open many amps and miils.

Uaion officials state that mem- ership cards will be issued daily t headquarters of I.ocal 7i, 130 Vest Hastings street, and that al- houzh sponsored by the BC Coast istrict Council, International Yoodworkers of America, the pro- iesed unemployed organization is pen to all woodworkers, organ- red and unorganized.

im a statement to the press, the Mion fears widespread unemploy-— went this summef in the industry, md is taking this organization! tep in order to add weight to the Towing movement for an edaquate forks program.

was entered on the drive com-

last minute receipts of $83.41 enabling the

Committees which responded at

@the eleventh hour were: Mission, $11.25, to reach a total of $18; Cranbrook, $1; Nanaimo, $3.30, reaching $94 or i104 percent; Oyama, $1, and more promised; Vancouver Joint Committee, $22; East Vancouver, $30.50; Vancou- ver Gentre, $18.05; Burnaby, $2.25,

to reach 94.2 percent; Surrey, $3.25; Transportation Committee, $2; Woodworkers, $2; North Vancou- ver, $1; Ol’ Bill column, $1; Grassy Plains, $3.25.

The race of the Vancouver com- mittees for the honor of being -the highest ranking of city commit- tees on May 31, showed Vancou- ver Centre at top place with 136 percent ($551.36); followed by Van- couver HEast with 1298 percent ($294.65); Transportation commit- tee at 117.6 percent ($115.30); East Joint committee at 107.8 percent ($755.23). These committees sent in money right up to the last minute.

Additional receipts on June i, were White Rock $11.05, which brought Surrey to a total of $175.98 or 109.9 percent; Vancouver East

committee, $4.55; Victoria, $165, which gave ‘Burnside committee 200 percent; North Vancouver,

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HOUSE HEARS

OF ACTIVITIES

Germany talking to minorities

pected support to CCF leader J. S. Woodworth’s demand to know what action the federal govern- ment was taking in reg&rd to the projected sale of Anticosti Island, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

Bennett declared that, according to information he had received, a German corporation had option of purchase on the island.

“A large party of foreigners came on to that island,’ the Con- servative leader stated. “They were all of great military and naval emimence in Germany. I can give their names and reputations in Germany.” ,

He said that he had not regard- ed the matter very seriously at the time, but he had since learned the importance attached to it.

The Conservative leader thought that the crown should expropriate the land on the island. The action, while leaving the island open for the sale of timber or other re- sources, would prevent any foreign foevernment from obtaining control ef Anticosti. ,

Prime Minister Mackenzie King replied that the government had

Bennett’s statement gave unex-©

TTAWA, Ont., June 2.—Nazi activities in Canada came in for a good deal of attention here this week following Hon. R. B. Bennett's statement in the House of Commons a few days ago that “in this very country today there are emissaries of

about their rights.”

| been engaged on the matter for some time and said that steps would be taken to assure that no foreign power would secure con- trol of the island.

While Enrich Windels, German consul in Ganada,

chief was

German plans to purchase Anti- costi Island had any military sig- nificance, in Windsor, Ont., Ven. Archdeacon EF. G Scott, senior chaplain of the Canadian Expedi- tionary Force in the Great War, Warned that there were people in Canada, “‘the most envied country in the world for countries need- ing expansion,” who would sell their souls. Canada, he said, must Guard against the menace of Nazi

penetration. * In London, Fingland, the Sunday Chronicle, amplifying former

Prime Minister Bennett's remarks, 7 charged that Hitler was plannine an intensive propaganda campaign through Nazi agents in all the British dominions and demanded that the Chamberlain government

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Aids Refugees

BISHOP WAS HOST TO BETHUNE

VANCOUVER en route to

Bishop Roots, for many years resident in China, was recently host in Hankow to Dr. Norman Bethune, noted Montreal surgeon, and Miss Jean Ewen, daughter of Tom Ewen, central committee member of the Communist party, who are now on the northwest front with the American medical mission.

Miss Roots told an Advocate rep- resentative that she had met Miss Ewen while on a visit a short time ago to the northwest front and that she found her “well, but look- ing tired and worn because of over- work.”

Large areas of the territory sup- posedly conquered by the Japanese were actually in the hands of the Chinese partisans who posed as peasants during the day the more effectively to harass the Japanese at night, Miss Roots declared.

Briefly outlining the scheme for

Seattle on Monday were Bishop

Logan H. Roots, of Hankow, and his daughter, Miss Frances Roots, who is a member of the China Aid Council of the League for Peace and Democracy in the Chinese provisional capital.

Blving refugees from coast indus- trial centres an opportunity to build small cooperatives in West- ern China where they could carry on the manufacture of war ma- terials and necessary supplies safe from aerial attack, Bishop Roots declared that he would endeavor while in the US to raise funds and win support for these ventures. Ed- gar Snow, author of Red Star Over China, was taking a leading part in this work in China, he added. Both Bishop and Miss Roots ex- pressed gratification at the work conducted by the Medical Aid to China Committee of the League for Peace and Democracy in BC.

“It is the moral force behind these shipments from Canada which brings new courage and strength to the Chinese people,” Bishop Roots stated.

Tenement

Fire Traps

SEVERAL IN CITY, SAYS WARDEN

DVEISSION by 4 fre ard

Coroner Dr. J. D. Whitbread at the charred bodies lying the ci

Twenty-seven persons occupied 17 rooms in the two-storey frame structure of 2024 Triumph street, which was destroyed by fire m the early morning hours.

Describing the structure, Fire Warden A. King stated, “It was extraordinarily congested, but there are similar conditions in several parts of the city.”

Only exit from the basement was a door in the storeroom where the fire started, a second door be- ing blocked by furniture, and win- dows were heavily screened, he said.

Dr. A. W. Hunter, autopist, de-

en that there were other places

in the city equally as great a fire hazard as the one in which three boys were burned to death on Tuesday was obtained by

the inquest held Thursday over ty morsue.

eas that death was due to as- phyxiation from carbon monoxide, and that the bodies showed burns, which in themselves were suffici- ent to cause death.

He declared that the combustion in the building would render the victims helpless.

Triple funeral services will be eonducted today at 2 p.m. The yic- tims are Taiso Tsotani, 14; George Taniguchi, 11; Yoshikazu Ono, 7.

Services will be in the Hompta Buddhist Mission, Cordova street at Princess ayenue, followed by eremation.

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making the expected denial that.

chairman of the British Trades Union Council These are critical days for British labor as; Prime Minister Chamberlain’s pro-fas— cist foreign policy is accompanied by increasing threats to demo- eratie liberties at home.

Alaska Road. Bill Signed

WASHINGTON, DC, June 2.— Authorization of the appointment of a five-man commission te co- operate with a similar Canadian body in an investigation of the pro- posed $14,000,000 Alaska Highway project was provided in a pill signed by President Roosevelt Wednesday.

The commission would include a member of Congress, a resident of Alaska and three citizens of the United States, who, jointly with a Canadian commission, without pay, will be required to report their findings within two years.

Representative Magnuson (Demo- erat, Wash.), author of the mea- sure, said the President’s action gave hope that the day was not far distant when the project would be

completed. Senator W. A. Griesback at Ot tawa this week gave notice in the

Senate of questions concerning de- fense aspects of the road.

Police Try Trick To Get ‘Tincanners’ Off Streets

Nazi Menace

START FALSE STORY

Declaring it to be a trick cal- culated to spread confusion among single unemployed, R. Ww. Campbell, unemployed leader, flatly denied to the Ad- vocate on Thursday that he had called tincanners off city streets.

“I couldn't if IT wanted to,’’ Camp— bell stated, “because any such ac- tion requires a statement from the Relief Project Workers’ Union, which is above all, a democratic organization.”

Campbell blamed it on stool- pigeons and provacateurs sent in to disrupt the men. He stated that the union was cleaning out these ele ments.

Women Boo

Mayor Miller

Hopes recently yoiced by Civic officials that the sitdowners would soon be forgotten men were dashed when over 250 women, mobilized by the Women’s Emergency Com- mittee to Aid Single Unemployed, pledged whole-hearted Support of the men at a meetings held in St. Andrews-Wesley Church on ‘Tues- day in face of a hostile speech by Mayor G C. Miller.

Decision to keep up a steady supply of food for single jobless in the post office and art gallery was made by the meeting, which ap- pointed a contact committee to bring in more women on the can- vassing campaign. Resolutions ask— ing for issuance of emergency re- lief, and for ‘extreme haste” in pushing through an adequate works program, were forwarded to the federal government.

Applause at the appearance of

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Brief Sent To Council

Veterans Charge Work Plan Being Stalled By Pattullo

Charges that the provincial government is holding up a fed- eral works program which could be started immediately if Premier T. D. Pattullo were agreeable, are contained in a brief, now in the hands of the city council, sent by Fred Tyler, secre- tary, Vancouver Ex-Servicemen’s League.

Stating that he speaks for an organization with a paid up mem- bership of 763, Tyler, while accus- ing the various governments of endless bickering, offers a plan to solve the present deadlock between the single unemployed men and city authorities.

The ex-servicemen’s secretary, quoting from a statement made by Hon. Norman Rogers, federal min- ister of labor, on April 5: “The Do- minion government will continue Srants-in-aid to the provinces for direct relief, but will substitute its own relief works program for the former Dominion-Proyincial relief works plan.”

In his brief to the city council Tyler maintains that it is because of the unwillingness of the provin-

cial government to agree to this, that the present impasse exists in Vancouver. He urges the city eoun- cil to count on public support by communicating directly with Ot- tawa for immediate introduction of a works program, and that the co- operation of the provincial govern- ment can, in the last analysis, be forced by reason of BC's weak finnacial position.

Work Test Charge Hit

Exception is taken this weel by the executive committee of the Workers’ Alliance to statements made by aldermen and other city officials on the purpose of the “work test” now being introduced. indignation is expressed at insinu- ations against married jobless that they do not want work, and that the new scheme will see many not turning up for the five days work obligatory to receiving relief.

Alliance officials state that the so-called work test will, in many cases, be used as a pretext to dis- criminate and cut off relief allow- ances. They point out that the goy- ernment is avoiding responsibility demanded by election promises of work and wages, but instead are reducing necessary expenditures which would preserve the health and well-being of thousands of citizens.

They declare relief scales are 50 percent below sustenance levels, and that it is impossible to do a days work under such conditions,

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