WEA classes beginning soon with

wide range of topics for workers,

‘Beginning Monday, January 13, at 7:00 p.m., in its new clubroom at 1550 West 10th Ave., the Workers Educational Association commences its most ambitious season At 7 p.m. Bob McLennan will conduct a group study on

of night classes for workers. photography for beginners. out of an average camera, and how to get the most from the negative. Editors and illustrators of labor papers will get a real training here, as well as the worker who just wants to play around,

At 830 Mondays, in the same building, Fred Wilmot and Frank Flood will conduct a study group on “Learn to Write.” Flood will give the more basic training, and Wilmot will teach writing for skits, playlets, and the radio. Some training will be given on the lay- ing out and planning of effective pamphlets, leaflets, and mimeo- graph stencils,

On Wednesdays at 8.00 p.m., the WEA will commence the first in a series of courses on “The Sci- ence of Society.” These are aimed to give workers a scientific anal- ysis of the basic forces at work in the world today, and will de- velop a background for the un- derstanding ‘of current problems. Instructors will be G. §. Cul hane, secretary of the Shipyard General Workers Federation, and William Stewart, executive mem- ber of the Marine Workers and Boilermakers. This class will be a training ground for future trade union leaders, ‘

Thursdays and Fridays at 7.00, Frank Flood, until recently ed- ucational director with the armed forces in Germany, will teach “Effective Speaking.” He will train workers in preparing a re- port, making an appeal, organ- izing ang presenting facts; how to “chair” a meeting and get business done promptly. If suf- ficient students desire it, one of these nights will be devoted to training union educational com- mittee members in elementary teaching methods. and other aids necessary to their positions.

Also on Thursdays, at 8.30 p.m., Flood will conduct a study- group in simple. economics for workers who don’t necessarily Want to go very deep, but who do want to know “what cooks, and how.” lationship of wages to business, the economic effect of trade un- ions, monopolies, price-fixing and inflation, :

On ‘Saturdays at 200 pm, in the ‘lubroom of the Denman ‘Tennis Club, Dorothy Willis and

argaret Donald, two well-known _ Canadian artist-teachers will give _& workshop course in “Painting for Pleasure.” They will help

Workers to try their hands at

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painting, sketching, making lino- blocks, elementary sculpture, and furniture finishing. Group mem- bers will be encouraged to de- velop talent, or just -have fun. In good weather, they will draw, sketch or paint in nearby Stanley Park, Future illustrators and car- toonists of the labor movement will be developed in this course. It will commence Saturday, Jan. 18.

In all courses, stress will be laid on the fundamental relation- ship between the various studies and everyday life on the job, in the home, the union, and society generally. No entrance standards are required. These classes . are for workers, by workers who are also competent to teach in lang- uage and terms that trade union- ists, and workers generally, will understand. More than one course May.be taken at very low cost.

WEA RAFFLE WINNERS

At the close of a social even- ing in the John Goss Studio on Saturday last, Nels Madsen, presi- dent of IWA Local 1-71, drew the prize-winning tickets in the WEA raffle.

First prize, a Mix-Master, went to Ken Smith, secretary of the Mine and Mill Workers . Union, Britannia. | Second and third prizes of a pressure cooker and set of pyrex bowls, went to A. Saerie, IWA 1-71, Fort McNiel, and Chas, Tait, also of Local 1-71.

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Majority say ‘yes’ for public ownership

“The nearest thing to a plebis- cite we have had fully confirms the position of the labor and civic delegations that opposed the BCER franchise and demanded

public ownership before the City.

Council last week,” Bruce Mickle- burgh, Vancouver Director of the Labor-Progressive Party, stated Wednesday,

“The sampling of public opin- ion on the question taken by the David Spencer Public Opinion radio show revealed a very de- cided sentiment in Vancouver for public ownership.” ’

In answer to the question, “Do you think ali public utili- ties should be state owned and operated?”, 72.1 percent answ- ered “Yes”,

“Some means must now be found to hold a city-wide people’s plebiscite,” Mickleburgh suggest- ed. ““‘This would prove con- clusively to the Legislature that the people are through with the BCER and don’t want the fran- chise ratified.”

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SGWF charters

civilian guards

VICTORIA, B.C.—Civilian guards at the HMC Dock- yard at Esquimalt have been granted a charter with the Shipyard- General Workers’ Fed- eration (CCL) it was announced this week. “The guards have long shown a desire to join the ranks of organized labor and re- cently elected a committee to carry through this move,” Feder- ation secretary Garry Culhane told the Tribune.

In a two weeks organizing drive, the committee succeeded in signing up 89 of 120 eligible guards. An executive committee and shop stewards were elected following receipt of the new charter. The new executive ex- tended an invitation to guards at other establishments to join the organization. :

Application for certification of the union as bargaining agent has been made to the provincial department of labor. All mem- bers of the Esquimalt local are veterans, the! majority having seen service in two world wars.

The charter was installed by Malcolm MacLeod, Federation president. T. A. Mitchell, presi- dent, Victoria Labor Council ex- tended greetings on behalf of the organized workers of this city.

VICTORIA A charter has been granted Local No. 3 of the Marine Workers, Machinists and Boilermakers’ Union, following the merger of three shipyard lo- cals here, it was announced this week by Garry Culhane, secretary of the Shipyard General Work- ers’ Federation (CCL).

The new local has a combined membership of 1,200 and repre- sents all Victoria shipyard work- ers. Federation’s policy, several other joint locals having been formed on the west coast in the past two years.:

Correction

A The Pacific Tribune regrets the

error appearing in a recent edi-|

torial on the Province strike, which Stated that “the printing press-

men’s local had: been suspended.

from ‘the Vancouver Trades and Labor Council” for walking through ITU picket lines and working on the scab-produceri Province. The decision of the Trades and Labor Counci) was that no member of the Province chapel of the Pressmen’s Union tan represent the union on the TEC) = 9

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Thousands of Japanese union members are shown out-

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in Tokyo demonstrating

the anti-labor policies of the Yoshida cabinet. . Behind the Yoshida cabinet stands U.S imperialism, which is also keenly interested in obstructing the development of a strong labor movement in Japan.

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TLC in stormy session _ on BCER franchise deal ©

At a stormy meeting of

the Vancouver, New West-

minster and District Trades and Labor Council last Tuesday, Ald. R, K. Gervin came in for sharp criticism by delegates. for the latter’s opposition to a plebiscite on the 20-year —

BCER franchise.

Ald. Gervin, who is secretary of the Trades Council, was taken tq task in a resolution. submitted by Alex Gordon of the ‘United Fishermen and Allied - Workers' Union. The resolution was Josti by a vote of 43 to 82 after several delegates claimed that Gervin was “in a tough spot” and should “sympathized with.”

The UFAWU resolution stat- ed: “Whereas a resolution from this body (the Trades and

Labor Council) to city council - demanding that the BCER fran- chise be presented in a _plebis- cite; and whereas Gervin, an Alderman and official of this Labor Council, publicly dis- associated himself from _ this resolution . . .. therefore be it reso.ved that Gervin be cen- sured in his action opposite to that proposed: and demanded by organized labor in this city.”

In speaking on the resolution, Gordon strongly condemned the action of the City Council in sign-

ing the francise without reference to public opinion. “The citizens of Vancouver have a right to know the terms of the BCER franchise. In opposing the instructions of this council, Alderman Gervin has acted in a manner contrary to the in-

terests of the members of this council.” ; :

Perty Bengough, president of the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada, now visiting Vancou- ver, urged the delegates to start a strong campaign in 1947 for a national labor code, noting that “the big employers do not want a national piece of \abor legis’a- tion. “We must do away with buck passing between previnciat and federal governments,” Ben- gough warned. Taking a strong Stand against the use of injunc- bsnaw ln labor disputes, the TLC president declared, “we need a Norris-LaGuardia Act in Can-

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