‘June 30, 1938

THE PBOPLE’S ADVOCATE

Page Five

eglect In Kidnap

‘Charge Police

Guard Put
On Border
Too Late

Miners Did Mest Of
Searching For Lest
Daughter Of Ymir
Man

CASE ABANDONED

YMIR, BC, June 30.—(Spe-
cial)—Because police neslect-
ed to guard the nearby United
States border the kidnapper of
pretty 20-months-old Carmen

| Lajeunesse was given an oppor-
) tunity to make his setaway.
This is the opinion of hard-rock
miners in this district in regard to
the disappearance of the little girl,
/ daughter of a miner employed at
sthe Yankee Girl mine.
Resentment is felt locally be-
cause police did not station a watch
"at the border until two days after
the chiid’s disappearance had been
reported.

Miners formed search parties to
scour the countryside in search of
'the girl who attracted considerable
Sattention because of her beauty in
ethe baby show held on Victoria

g distraught parents and
- others believe that a widespread
advertising campaign in the United
States would lead to discovery of
- the child’s whereabouts because of
"the fact that she has a birthmark
"the size of a dime on her cheek.
'But the money so readily expended
Swhen the child kidnapped is of
wealthy parentage is lacking in
) this case of a workingman’s daugh-
7 ter. :

' Widely publicized at first, the
fcase has now
Sbandoned as hopeless.

Rap Patronage

OTHELLO, BC, June 30—Com-
plaints are being raised here at the
fuse of political patronage to dis-
eriminate against relief recipients
who apply for road work. One Man
who complained to the authorities
that he found it impossible to walk
five miles to road work was told
by the foreman that for this he
would not get any more work.

1

Operators Fined

COURTENAY, BC, June 30:.—
Failure to comply with the male
Minimum Wage Act resulted in
fines of $50 and costs against two
| Jocal lumber concerns recently. A
local lumberman was also hailed
before the court for non-ccmpli-
ance with the Semi-Monthly Wage
Payment Act. He drew suspended
sentence of one year.

Aid Spain Fund

MISSION, BC, June 30. — Cedar
Valley branch of the Communist
party here collected $20 for the milk
fund for Spanish orphans last week,
‘when a tag day for this purpose
was sranted by the village com-
.

missioners.

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GRAND CONCERT

Staged by UKRAINIAN CHILDREN, Ages 4 to 10
at

ROYAL THEATRE

SUNDAY, JULY 3rd, at 8:30 P.M.
FOLK DANCING — SINGING — MUSIC

Auspices U.L.F.T.A.

apparently been,

Provincial Drive Ends

Spain Week Campaign
Met Ready Response

With a large number of organizations assisting, and several
successful affairs staged, the Spanish Aid Committee of the
Canadian League for Peace and Democracy yesterday closed
its Spain Week campaign to raise funds for Spanish orphans as

part of a Dominion-wide effort

to supply 50,000 quarts of milk

and 20;000 meéais for Loyalist Spain.

Following is a list of donations®>

received by the district office:
Carleton CCF club, $5; Mrs. GCamp-
bell, $1; Ladysmith CCF club,
$10.25; W. B., $2.50; Serbian Work-
ers, $5.

Progressive Doukhbobors, $14;
Women’s Section, Maxim Gorky
club, $11; Women’s Auxiliary, Fish-
ermen’s Union, $10; W. J. Henry,
$1.50.

Croatian Workers’ Alliance,
$11.05; G. Russell, $2; Friend, 50
cents; Transportation section, $5;
Surrey picnic, $22.30.

Mrs. Randolph, $1; Mr. Timms,
$1; F. E. Clarke, $5; Russian Work-
ers, $3.70; Mrs. Harris, $2.25.

Mrs. Fidkal, 85 cents; Harry
Merrill, $20; Mrs. L. W. Perkins,
Gibson’s Landing, $5.50; Swedish-

Finnish. club, $2.55; Serbian Work-
ers’ club, $5.

Hotel and Restaurant Employees,
$19.69; J. Mackie, $1.50; Mrs. G. H.
Rottluff, $20; Lake Logging Camp,

$55.10; Mrs. E. Baker, Matsqui,
$18.10.

Miss R. McWilliams, $3.50; G.
Dades, $2.65; Walter Lapashin,
$21.10; Slovak Cultural Organiza-
tion, $3.65; Mr. Sleuter, $2.

Mrs. Padgham, 85 cents; T. H.
Toynbee, $3; italian Dramatic
elub, $1.96; Progressive Women’s

elub, $5; Marshall club, $2.95.

T. E. Mountford, $6.90; Maxim
Gorky club, $24.98; B. Anderson,
$2; Centre Section, $2; GCP, $3.75.

One Spanish orphan was adopted
by a person who preferred to re-
main anonymous.

Dr. H.M. Cassidy Says:

94,000 British

Columbians

Receive Public Assistance

“Those on unemployment relief in 1937 constituted only 60
percent of the total of British Columbians receiving public

assistance, which makes it clear

that the problem of dependency

is not simply one of unemployment.”
This point was brought out by Dr. H. M. Cassidy, provincial
director of public welfare, in his presidential address at the

‘concluding dinner meeting of the

Sixth Canadian Conference on So-

cial Work on Thursday of last
week.
Dr. Cassidy declared that lIast

year 13.6 per cent of the population
was receiving public aid in some
form. There were 94,000 persons in
receipt of relief or public assist-
ance and another 5300 persons in
mental and tubercular hospitals
and jails, making a total of 99,300
persons dependent on public as-

Sistance.

While exact figures for the whole
dominion were not available, he
Said, it was estimated that ii per
cent of Canada’s people were de-
pendent on public assistance at the
present time.

Me advocated organized research
on social problems, stressing the
magnitude of social service work
required in this country. Canada,
he asserted, was still far behind
many other countries in this work.

Chain Store
Signs Pact

Superior Reinstates
Locked-Out Employees

Eleven employees of Superior
stores, Vancouver chain grocery,
locked out recently for union
activities, haye been reinstated
after a week of negotiation be-
tween the management and Local
279, Imternational Retail Clerks’
Union. Substantial wage increases
were secured in the union agree-
ment.

The lockout took place after the
management had learned that em-
ployees were signing up with the
union and holding meetings. Each
union man was told by telephone
that he need not turn up for work
next morning if he continued mem-
bership in Local 279.

The Trades and Labor Council
was ready to place Superior stores
on the unfair list, C. M. Stewart,
chairman of the council’s organiza-
tional committee, declared, hac
Manager J. A. Benson persisted
with the lockout.

DEFEAT THE PADLOCK LAW.

Silver Collection at Door

—

“We Do

Patronize a Union Restaurant...

THE FOUR WHITE LUNCHES

are on the

Patronize List”

of the Vancouver & New Westminster Trades
and Labor Council

: ow
Hotel & Restaurant Employees Union, Local 28

Not

Veterans
Aid Friends

Italian Miners At Trail
Contribute To Fund

Confident that he would endorse
such action, Yancouver Ex-service-
men’s League plans to raffle off
a clock which once belonged to its
president, Sam “Paddy” O’Weil,
who was killed in Spain.

“It would be the wish of O'Neil
that this should be done,’ Fred
Tyler, secretary, told the Advocate
this week. “The proceeds from the
raffle will go towards providing
comforts for the Mac-Paps.”’

Ten cent tickets will be sold by
veterans as their contribution to
the next monthly shipment of
comforts to the Canadian battalion
in Spain. The draw to take place
August 6.

Jack Chivers, provincial secre-
tary,, Friends of the Mackenzie-
Papineau Battalion, reported the
following donations this week: ital-
jan miners, Trail, BC, $7; South
Will GGE club, $2.30; DLETA, $10;
J. K., $2; Mrs. G., $1; Mrs. Steele,
$5; Carleton CCF club has pledged
to donate $I per month to the
eomforts fund.

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Ask Uniform
Relief Scale

In Province

Brief Sent To Premier
By New Federation On
Unemployment This
Week.

PURPOSE OUTLINED

Establishment of a uniform
relief scale throughout the
province through provincial as-
sistance to the municipalities is
the central issue of a brief for-
warded this week to Premier
T. D. Pattullo by the newly-
formed BC Federation on Un-
employment.

Revision of present relationships
between Victoria and the munici-
palities is requested, based on a
report covering financial circum-
stances of each municipality to be

| furnished by the department of

municipal affairs.
One clause in the brief urges:
“That steps be taken by the BC
government to sound out the op-
inion of all provinces; this with a
view to urging the creation of a

federal-provincial system of social ,

welfare administration, that a pos-
Sible basis for adjustment of the
vexed question as to who pays for
the care of indigents, will be found
in a study of existing social welfare
legislation of a federal nature.”

The brief concludes with a sug-
gestion that methods used in Great
Britain should be adopted in Can-
ada,

Organization into the BC FPedera-
tion on Unemployment of all prov-
incial organizations anxious to
find a solution to the problem of
unemployment and interested in
making effective the principles
established by th provincial con-
ference of the organization.

This is the purpose of the- BC
Federation on Unemployment as
announced in its constitution
drawn up two weeks ago. Copies
of the constitution, with the full
minutes of the initial conference,
have been sent to scores of or-
ganizations.

As its name implies, the federa-
tion is a movement of affiliated
organizations of many descriptions.
Trade unions are expected to af-
filiate in large numbers.

Affiliation fees are 50 cents per
month for groups of less than
fifty and $1 per month for larger
organizations.

The provincial council consists of
25 members, elected at federation
conferences. President and secre-
tary are elected by full conference,
but all otner officers are elected by
the council.

Fred Tyler, secretary, Vancouver
Ex-Servicemen’s League, is presi-
dent of the federation, and R. Lea-
less, secretary. Headquarters is at
West Broadway, Telephone:

Radio Program
Gains Favor
A survey conducted by the Ad-

wocate over the past few weeks
shows that the paper’s bi-weekly

news broadcast, “Tabor Wews
Highlights,” is steadily gaining in
popularity.

The survey showed that several
city cafes and residential hotels
now tune in the~broadcast regu-
larly.

The program, made possible
through the cooperation of Dr. R.
Llewellyn Douglas, Richards at
Hastings, is on the air over station
CEMO every Tuesday and Friday
evening at 6 p.m.

Donate Labor

CLOVERDALE, BC, June 30.—
Surrey Workers’ and Farmers’
Association had a large number of
its members out last week prepar-—
ing the new Hazelmere community
park for picnickers. Members do-
nated their labor and obtained free
lumber for picnic tables from Mc-
Kay and Flanagan Brothers Com-

pany.

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News Of
The City
In Brief

Lo Stage Picnic.

The annual picnic of the Ola
Age Pensioners Benevolent Asso-
Ciation will be held Saturday, July
2, at Stanley Park. The covered-in
pavilion has been reserved for as-

sociation members and invited
Suests. Sports suitable for aged
people have been arranged, with

prizes. Refreshments will be free
to members. Proceedings begin at
2 p.m.

Ask Information.

Citizens of Vancouver and others
who witnessed any of the occur-
rences of Sunday, June 19, are
asked by the Canadian Givil Lib-
erties Union to give information
to A. E. Lucas, 678 Howe street.

Business Meet Called.

A business meeting of Vancouver
Ex-Servicemen’s League vill be
held Monday, July 4, 8 p-m., at 47
West Broadway. Affiliation with
BC Federation on Unemployment
will be considered.

YCL To Convene.

A provincial conference of the
Young Communist League will be
held Sunday, July 3, at 533 Bast
Georgia street. A report will be
Siven by Maurice Rush recently
returned from the national con-
vention of the League.

Housewives to Meet

West End branch of the Greater
Vancouver Housewives’ League
will meet Tuesday, July 5, 8 p.m.,
at the hall at 1185 Burnaby street.

Meet Backs Jobless

A mass meeting in support of
Single unemployed was held Mon-
day at Norquay Park. Speakers
were A. M. Stephen, president,
Canadian League for Peace and
Democracy; Sam Shearer, presi-
dent, Brotherhood of Railroad Car-
men, and P. Bergmann, member of
the Relief Project Workers’ Union.

A sum of $15.83 was collected for
the jobless.

Want Works Program
BURNABY, BC, June 30—Pro-
posals for a works program at
regular wage rates, with relief re-
cipients being allowed to earn one-
third more than present vrelief
scales, are outlined in a leaflet now
being circulated here by Burnaby

Civie Improvement Association.

Endorsation of the program by
the unemployed of Burnaby is
sought by the newly formed as-
sociation, and meetings have been
arranged for Tuesday, July 5, 8
p-m., at Hurst’s Hall, North Bur-
naby and Jubilee Labor Hall,
South Burnaby.

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