Safety device held answer to gas deaths

In an effort to stop the mount- ing toll of gas deaths, coin-in-the- slot gas plates will be declared il- legal in Vancouver April 9, when a new gas bylaw becomes effective.

The move will hit scores of room- ing house operators, but may not radically reduce the number of deaths.

Last year 40 pedestrians were killed on city streets in traffic ac- cidents — but the number of peo- ple killed as a result of accidental gas poisoning was 44, plus 44 gas suicides.

In the seven years from 1947 un- til 1953, a total of 453 people died from gas poisoning in city rooming houses, hotels and private homes. Of these, 220 were classed as acci- dental deaths and the rest suicides.

This grim death march could be halted if B.C. Electric was -forced to install safety cut-off devices, but the company has disclaimed re- sponsibility in the matter and civic officials have concentrated their fire on hotel and rooming house operators.

The Vancouver Apartment and Rooming-house Operators’ Associ- ation has called for a strong warn- ing smell to be placed in domestic gas to combat the rising death toll. Cost of putting such a warning odor in gas would average out to $1.50 per 2,000,000 cubic feet.

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LABOR BRIEFS

United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union will epen its tenth annual convention March 22 in- stead of March 8 as S originally an- nounced.

Reason for the switch is that herring fishing operations, brought to a standstill by the recent cold weather, will now continue much longer than previously estimated.

There are close to 1,000 union members engaged in this fishery, and the union wants them to have a few weeks between the close of operations and the opening of the convention in which to ‘attend local

meetings and discuss resolutions.

and elections of delegates. * * x

Safecrackers stole more than $1,000 in cash from an office safe in the Electrical Workers Union on Monday night this week.

Local 213, IBEW, collected union dues at a Monday night meeting, then officers put the cash in a safe in an office just off the entrance hall

Staff found the door forced when they came in Tuesday morning, the cash gone, and some $2,000 in cheques strewn over the floor.

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Lower Mainland postmen will

hold a mass meeting this coming Sunday to protest a reported pos- tal department plan to hire students at $8 a day to carry mail on Saturdays. The meeting will also protest reduction by four percent of the present night dif- ferential paid to postal clerks working between 4.30 p.m. and 7 a.m.

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The IWA strike in the Southern Interior, which began October 23, was settled last weekend and work- ers began returning to work Mon- day this week.

In a referendum vote condieed by the union, strikers accepted a 10-cent wage increase spread over a three-year contract.

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British American Oil Company workers, members of Oil Workers International Union, have voted for strike action to back up pay de- mands, but no strike deadline has been set.

At Shell 200 union men who struck the Shellburn refinery for 12 days in December are observing a 60-day truce while union and company officials try to reach a If a formula isn’t pro- duced by February 15 the men will

‘again begin pounding picket lines.

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vote in all

Calder has been promoting the idea of a National Congress of Can- adian Indians for several years.

“Tn practically all provinces there are Indian organizations,’ he said. “However, a national body is most essential at the present time to provide for a united effort, har- mony, cooperation, strength and unity when presenting problems to the federal government.”

benefits on a national basis and not

on a unit or provincial basis, hence a national Indian organization could present a stronger case.

“A good example is the British Columbia Indian Income Tax case,” he said. “Every Indian in Canada rightfully should be behind this case. For complete clarification as to where the Canadian Indian stands today, a National Congress of Canadian Indians is essential.”

Calder declared that every province in Canada should ex- tend the franchise to its Native Indians... At present Indians can vote in British Columbia (non- Treaty Indians) and in Manitoba (Treaty Indians).

The day Calder spoke on this question in Toronto the Globe and Mail ran @ story saying that the Ontario legislature is considering granting the vote to its 30,000 Na- tive Indians.

“As British subjects we own the vote,” Calder said. “Why it has been withheld from the aborigines and true Canadians in the last 15 years is something Canadian -his- tory will never relate truthfully.”

Mine-Mill pact signed

Mine-Mill locals at Copper Moun- tain and Britannia have renewed their present agreements, with a new clause that provides for the companies to pay half of BCHIS premiums.

Calder said that Ottawa grants

Calder seeks Indian

provinces

Campaigning for extension of the franchise to the Native Indians in every province, and the setting up of a national Native Indian erganization, Frank Calder, CCF MLA for Atlin and Canada’s first and only Indian legislator, recently completed a speaking tour which included Ottawa, Toronto, Winnipeg, Regina, Saskatoon and Edmonton.

FRANK CALDER

Soviet film to be shown at meetings

February is Canadian - Soviet Friendship Month, and a number of meetings have been arranged to mark the event. At each meet-, ing a new Soviet film in magicolor, Biossoming Ukraine, will be shown, 7 and three Canadians who have re- cently visited the USSR will be present to take part in discussion and answer questions. THe three are Ken Smith and John Hines, \ local trade unionists, and Mrs. Florence Dorland.

“In addition to these public meetings which have been schedul- ed, we would like to show the So- viet film and speak to groups of people in private homes,” said Mrs, - Dorland. “Anyone who wishes to invite some neighbors in and have us present a program should phone ; FA. 1471-L to complete the arrange- iments.”

Outside Workers turn down offer

side Workers, have voted down a ‘city council conciliation offer of a two percent wage increase and will reopen negotiations on the basis of their original demands for a 10 percent pay hike.

The decision was reached at a membership meeting Saturday, the

union men voting by secret ballot to reject council’s offer.

The Outside Workers were the first to vote on council’s 1954, pro- posals. Other groups are the police, firemen, city hall inside workers, registered nurses and fore- men.

Council committee, headed by Mayor Fred Hume, has met with representatives of the electrical and inside workers as well as the nurses. These unions have made

no decisions as ‘yet.

Vancouver Civic Employees, Out-

Here is the schedule of meet- ! ings:

Tuesday, February 9, Victoria

Drive Community Hall, 48rd at 7 Victoria.

Saturday, February 13, St. Ann Hall, Steveston, 7.30 p.m.

Sunday, February 14, South Hill

Hall, 5804 Fraser.

Friday, February 19, Capitol

Hill Community Hall, Burnaby.

Thursday, February 25, Hendry Hall, 11th and Sutherland, North

Vancouver.

Sunday, February 21, White Rose

Ballroom, 1236 West Broadway.

Sunday, February 28, concert in

pee Auditorium, 337 West Pen- er,

Monday, March 1, Russian Peo-

ples’ Home, 600 Campbell Avenue,

sponsored by Canadian - Soviet Friendship Society and Federation of Russian Canadians.

All meetings except the one in Steveston start at 8 p.m.

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