Victoria labor picnic plans fine program

_ A United Labor Picnic is planned for Victoria on Sun- day, August 17th, at the Willows Park Beach. The picnic committee, under the chairmanship of Nick Russell, has drawn up an attractive program. Sports and games are

planned and dozens of attractive prizes will be awarded to the win- ning competitors.

Highlight of the day will be the crowning of the Victoria Labor queen. Four contestants are in

“the running for the title. Ann

Ribs broken in BCER: tram ride

Friends of “Johnny” Ottewell will learn with regret that she is absent from‘’her duties at the IWA Hiring Hall as the result

of an accident on a B.C. Electric , Street car.

-.The car on which she was travelling made a sudden stop, throwing her against the back of a seat and breaking several of her ribs.

The Pacific Trbune staff joins with all her friends in wishing her a speedy recovery. ,

Mezger, as “Miss Hairdresser,” and Dodo Clarke as “Miss Construction Worker,” are the nominees of the Centre Club. ‘Ann Ratnuik, “Miss Retail Clerk,” is sponsored by the Slavonic Club and Mary Mezger, “Miss Woodworker” is being sup- ported by Industrial Club mem- bers.

Track events, tug-o-war and nov- elty races will round out an attrac- tive sports program. Followers of the popular “barnyard golf game” are focussing their attention on the horseshoe tournament which is attracting the interest of the game’s many followers.

Special ticket prizes will be drawn, First prize is a mantle.ra- dio, value $50.00; second prize is a ladies’ suit dress; third prize is a pair of white bath towels; fourth prize is a grocery script certifi- cate, value $3.00. Tickets, which sell for 25c or three for 50c may be obtained at Room I, 1116 Broad Street. Other information can be obtained by telephoning the com- mittee office, :

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Available for Dances, Socials, Weddings, Banquets, Meetings, Reasonable rates, 600 Camp- bell Avenue. HAstings 0087.

Dance, Clinton Hall— i 2605 East Pender. Dance every Saturday night. Modern and Old-Time. Viking’s Orchestra. Hall is available for rent, HAstings 3277.

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A .Treat on Sunday— Film and Forum every Sunday, 8 p.m., West End Hall, . 1332 Davie | St. Everybody welcome. Silver collection.

Dance— : Open Air Dance. Every Satur- day night, 9 to 12, at Swedish Park (North end of Second Narrows Bridge).

Social and Dance— Fishermen’s' Hall, Saturday, July 26, 9.00 to 12.00 p.m. Re- freshments.- Admission, $1.00.

Refreshment Social: ? Saturday, July 26, 8 p.m., 342 E. 15th, North Vancouver, in aid of Miss Marine Worker.

Auspices, North Vancouver LPP.

Burnaby LPP to enter full-slate.

The action of Burnaby ‘Non-Par- tisan’ councillors in eliminating the ward system in municipal elec- tions, was strongly condemned by LPP Councillor Harry Ball at a meeting of the LPP Burnaby mem- bership recently. Ball charged that this action “was brought about by the ‘Non-Partisans’ in an attempt to keep their stranglehold on the community.”

The meeting endorse a pro- posal of the LPP district coun- cil to contest all seats for Coun- cil, School Board and Reeve in the forthcoming municipal elections. Candidates will be chosen at a nominating meeting next week.

It was agreed also to enter into discussions with the CCF and other progressive groups “on the question of ‘unity candidates,” this being “the only way in which a people’s victory and the defeat of the Non-Partisans can be as- sured.”

Gypsum, steel workers Win. Wage increases

Steel and Gypsum workers in the Vancouver and New Westminster areas will receive larger pay envelopes this week, as the result of new union agreements signed by the CIO Steel, and Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Unions. Over 800 workers will benefit by the new wage boosts. _

The wage picture for 2,500 Van- couver shipyard workers looked bleak, however, this week, as Burrard and Pacific drydock com- panies refused to meet the mini- mum wage demands of the CCL Boilermakers union, which are 12% cents an hour. The com- panies offered increases of six and seven-and-a-half ‘cents. »

Pen Baskin, Steelworkers union representative announced the signing of a new agreement with the American Can Company here, providing for wage increases of 12 cents an hour for 500 workers at the plant.

Harvey Murphy, Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Union repre- sentative stated that Gypsum

Many novel attractions at United Labor picnic ©

With the sweltering heat these days making life practi- cally umbearable for many Vancouverites, we can all look forward to Sunday, August 3, as a day when the most re- freshing attractions will be offered to us, The event at

which these attractions will be presented is the forthcoming United Labor Picnic at Confed- eration Park, North Burnaby on the above-mentioned date.

Ten charming young ladies, en- tries in the ‘Miss B.C. Industry’ competition will set hearts flut- tering, and provide _ spectators with pleasant refreshing charm, adorned in. their streamlined beach togs. The girls were in- troduced to dancers at the Pend- er Auditorium last Saturday night, and met with their hearty approval, many promising to be at the picnic to support. their favorites.

Several entries are expected to be received by the picnic com- mittee this week and next for the selection of B.C.’s_ largest trade union family. Tribune read- ers are urged to participate in this feature event of the picnic. Rules of the contest are simple. An applicant should be a member in good standing of a bona fide trade union B.C. The family en- tered should be the largest living group directly related to the ap- plicant. . ,

With the large number of ac- tive trade unionists in Vancou- ver, there should be little diffi- culty in having a flood of appli- cants in this novel event.

Prizes offered to 10 lucky ad- mission ticket holders were dis-

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Readers wishing to secure tic- kets to the picnic are urged to do so this week, at Room 211, 119 West Pender Street. Admis- sion is 50 cents.

In addition to the _ contests, sports, and games for the young- sters, there will be plenty of food, ice cream and refreshments, and

numerous other attractions for an enjoyable day.

workers employed at Pacific Lime, Beale Quarries, and Stanley Beale Company on Texada Island; and Gypsum, Lime and _ Alabastine, New Westminster, a total of 300 workers, had won wage _ boosts ranging from 12% to 16% cents an’ hour. _-

Bill White, president ot the Boilermakers’ union here, said this week that unless the ship- yard companies grant the union's full wage demands, a strike vote

or any other action “deemed ne

cessary”: will be taken.

IWA local stages monthly dance

A regular monthly dance on the first Saturday of every month, starting August 2, is being held at the Clinton Hall, 2605 East Pen- der, under the joint auspices of the IWA Local 1-217 Social Com- mittee and the Finnish Organiza- tion of Canada. The best in danc- ing rhythms is guaranteed to everyone by the modern and old time tunes of The Viking Orches- tra. Dancing from 9 till 12:00. Ad- _ mission, gents, 50c; ladies, 40.

This social evening is in answeT to the popular demand of the membership for a regular monthly _ dance so let’s all get out and back. our union to the limit. This is only a start and with the full co-opera- tion of the membership and theif friends, the local social committee has full intentions of broadening their activities in the entertain- — ment field. All proceeds from the — social committees’ work goes into good and welfare of the union, and to help defray the expenses Of our delegates to the internati convention, to be held in St. Louis, Missouri, from August 26 to 30.

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Ryerson urges strong alliances for Canada

By BOB VICTORIA—Speaxing at

MEZGER a public meeting in the Em-

‘press Hotel Sunday, Stanley B. Ryerson, national director of

education for the Labor-Progressive Party, stated: ““There is a pressing need for a re-examination by Canadians of the na-

ture of Canada’s relationship with the United States.”

In tracing the path of American imperialist expansion he charged that U.S.A. monopoly interests

‘sought world economic and politi-

cal domination. The foreign and domestic policies of the Truman administration reflected this, he said. “The fight for democracy, social progress and peace is insep- arable from the fight against riv- etting Canada to Wall Street im- perialism.”

“A strong Canada can be built

in friendship and alliance with |

world democracy and socialis™.

A tie-up with crisis-ridden U.S-4-_ and its atom bomb mania cat

mean only the weakening of

Canada—the sacrifice of its i

dependence, security, well-being

and national dignity.” , Stressing the necessity of # “united front” against the monoP- olists of Canada, he concluded: “There is a compelling need % — CCF-LPP, labor unity—for demo cratic unity in the present strus” gles—in the advance to cialism.”

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