ruly 29, 1938.

THE PEOPLE’S

ADVOCATE

Page Five

Ship Interests Repeat Old Tactics

GNR Offers
City False
Creek Site

Vill Deed Forty Acres
If Council Willing To
Wipe Off $28,000 In
Taxes.

PARK NEEDED

The Great Northern Railway
ompany through its subsidiary
olding company in Vancouver
7ill give 40 acres on False
reel: flats to the city provided
alf of its $56,000 arrears in city
aX€S IS crossed off the books.
Alderman H. DeGraves told this
) a committee from the BC Fed-
sation on Unemployment which
scompanied him in his automobile
. a tour of the city last Monday.
Maintaining that the insanitary
7esore of the flats could be con-
2rted into a “poor man’s pleasure
‘sort,” which would be self-
juidatine over a number of years,
1e alderman stated to the com-
ittee that the city would be well
ivisead to borrow money from the
-deral sovernment for this muni
pal project in view of the GNR
fer. Fhe price per acre would be
reund $70, he said.
Wext place visited was the public
orary, in the basement of which
ere to be seen original documents
>longine to the city archives, files
'mewspapers dating back to 1910,
uluable books and other material.
i lyins around for lack of proper
mace for filine and classification
eGraves deemed this a fire men-
-¢ and was in favor of tearing
own the buildings and erecting 4
ore commodious building on city
foperty at Pender and Hamilton
reets.
Meeting Market Commissioner
eWigesin at the city retail market
xt to the library, the committee
armed that this city enterprise
aS more than solvent, Alderman
sGraves however, being in favor
extending the market into the
ea now occupied by the public
rary.
The BC Federation on Unemploy-—
ent will consider these proposals
id their practicability at its next
ecutive meeting. Approval will
ean that affiliates will be in-
rmed of the proposals and urged
press for action by the city.

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Wide Support For M ac-Paps

which monthly
Albacete.

Contributions from organizations
and individuals, and received from
branches of the Friends totalled
$17,891.08. Collections at meetings
organized by the national office,
and remittances from tours were
$3,784.93. Badges sold netted $1,-
082.03, Christmas cards, May Day
cards and coupons, $192.49: pamph-
lets $167.20. Contributions for re
habilitation of returned men were
$396.35, making a grand total of
$23,514.36.

Value of goods shipped to Spain,
including goods donated and value
of geods purchased for shipment,
@s estimated by the national office

Friends Raise $23,000
For Spain Volunteers

_ Canada’s great support for its volunteers fishting in Spain
is Shown this week in an audited statement from the national
office of Friends of the Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion, centre
to which provincial branches send comforts funds and from
shipments are sent in bulk to the base at

of the Friends was $50,000.

The statement is for 13 months
ending June, 1938, balance on hand
at that date being $1,468.75.

The BC provincial office of the
Friends reported this week receipts
of $10 from Mine, Mill and Smelter
Workers’ Union at Ymir; Women’s
Auxiliary, of the DWA, Local 30,
$3; R. S .Cranbrook, $1: Women’s
Auxiliary of the Fishermen’s Union,
New Westminster, $3; John Reed
branch, GP of C, $1.50; Mr. P. $1;
Mr. L. $1; South Hill CCF Club
sent in its second donation of $2,
and is writing to a boy in Spain.

Civic Heads Confer

maintains that logging operations
on the Ridge would not be profit—
able, FEF. W. Heeps, Los Angeles
businessman who holds the timber
rights, announces that it is only
& matter of days before despoila-
tion of the Ridge will begin. He
asserts that he hes a ready market
for the timber.

Whether it is practical or not,
thousands of Vancouver skiiers and
Hikers Know only that the citys
finest pleasure sreund is threat-
ened.

City council and board of trade
officials met with Reeve Leyland of
West Vancouver this week in an
effort to find ways and means of
preventing the timber from being
cut. Reeve Leyland was author-
ized to call a meeting in West Van-
couver this Friday and arrange-
ments were made to obtain expert
opinion on the practicality of log-
Sing the Ridge before taking fur-

ther steps.

‘ousewives Sponsor Meet

cound-T able Conference
Discusses Beef Prices

Explanation of a seventeen cents spread in the retail price
beef, asked at a round table discussion Tuesday in the Women’s
zilding in which packers, butchers and an MLA participated,
oved to be a difficult task, and the executive committee of

ontinued
i
F ire

nies would not only insist on an
-to-date fire-boat, but that all the
rent reports of fire-traps would
Sh up insurance rates.
Sut, beyond all else there was
> unmistakable evidence of wish-
nking, to be heard everywhere.
would have startled the most
sual or indifferent sight-scer.
Wing to the various sections of
ut huge crowd, composed mainly
working people, IT heard from
ndreds of lips:
‘One thing, it will
rk for someone.”’
There was no malice. It was
ntaneous—a crying need and an
ictment.

bumped into Percy Bengough,
i it seemed a commonplace at
moment when we commented in

Samebreath on that mass de-
nd for work.
it's certainly a cockeyed state
iffairs when destruction like this
kes the almost gleeful thought
tit will give work to somebody,”
said.
ind when the daily press has ex-
isted every colorful angie on its
nt pages, the comments of that
se crowd will be echoed by other
usands throughout the province.

sure make

irrey Workers
Ask Free Sugar

LOVERDALE, BC, July 238.—
plication was made recently by
SS EE. Dobson, representing
rth Road Local, Surrey Work-
| Association, to Surrey Council
free supplies of sugar to enable
se on relief to preserve fruit.
2 was told that the government
nid supply sugar to those who
re not getting the full relief
le.

Ask $50,000 Lean

ORT ALBERNI, BC, July 28—
! city council will ask the federal
ernment for a lean of $50.0nn
Toad work within the munici-
ity and for improvements to the

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er system.

Gthe Housewives’ League of British

Columbia which sponsored the dis-
eussion, declared it was not satis—
fied with evidence presented by in-
terested parties.

Qne reason for high meat prices
in BC offered to questioners, who
quoted from the Labor Gazette,
was a lack of stock feeding facili-
ties in the province. Another was
higher freight rates which, packers
claimed, interfered with normal
supply and demand, the governing
factor. °

Housewives’ Meague representa-
tives then enquired if it were true
that effect of the Beef Grading
Act would be to force from the
market 30 percent of the beef at
present marketable. They feared
that this might work a hardship
upon income groups using low-
gerade, low-price beef.

Louis LeBourdais, MLA, sponsor
of the Beef Grading Act, who took
part in the discussion, asserted
that this might be the effect of the
Act, but that in the long run the
interests of all would be served by
forcing cattlemen to hold back
stock until fed to marketable stan-
dards. The same regulation, he
Said, would keep Alberta beef out
of the BC market.

Further discussion on the price
of beef and the new Act was agreed
upon as being necessary, the wom-
en’s representatives informing the
press that they were by no means
Satisfied.

Repré€senting the Housewives’
League were Mrs. R. A. Prinn,
president; Mrs. M. Norton, gen-

eral secretary; Mrs. G Greenwood,
Mrs. D. Gardner, members of the
league’s research committee.

Others participating in the con-
ference were: Louis LeBourdais,
MLA (Cariboo); J. D. Cornett, Re-
tail Merchants’ Association; C.
Poston, Master Butchers’ Associ-
ation; LL. G. Hull, of Woodwards
LLtd.: Clice Planta, ex-MLA (Peace
River) for Safeway Stores; Ralph
Chetwynd, Cariboo Stockmen’s As—
sociation; E. HH. Gennis, Pacific
Meat company; C. A. Bovey, Burns
company; H. Douglas, Meatcutters’
Union; W. E. Wessels, Preferred
Milk Dealers’ Association;

members of the press.

Last-Minute Efforts Made
To Save Hollyburn Ridge

: Desperate jast-minute efforts are beings made by Vancouver
civic authorities to save Hollyburn Ridge, world-famous as a

ski-ground and beauty spot, from the loggers’ axe.
While the provincial governments

Continued

Bethune

fellow soldiers and fellow workers,
the lessons they have learnt, the
knowledge they have acquired in
this centre of learning.

= have seen many universities,
in many lands, old and new. but T
have never seen one like this be-
fore.

i know the universilies of Can-—
ada, from the University of British
Columbia on the west, to Dalhousie
in the Fast. Their pattern is much
the same—the only difference is one
of age.

i have seen the great universities
of America—Harvard, Yale, Prince-
ton, John Hopkins, Columbia, Uni-
versity of Chicago, Stanford. They
are much the same—the same
psuedo-antique Gothie or Worman
architecture, the same underpaid
staffs teaching the same subjects,
remote from life, divorced from the
realities of contemporaneous events,
their eyes fixed on the past while
the whole world trembles beneath
their feet.

I know tne unsversities of Eng-
land and Scotland—Oxford, Cam-
bridge, London, Edinburgh and
Glasgow. I have visited those or
Paris, Madrid and Vienna.

The students of these colleges, in
whatever fountry, are not very
different from those in another.
They come to these universities to
learn the accumulated knowledge of

the past, its science, history, liter-
ature and art. And with that
knowledge they go out into the

world to improve their own econo-
Mice condition.

Only a smal) percentage of these
students leave with the object of
consecrating their lives to raising
the standards of living, improving
the lives of those less fortunate
than themselves. This subject has
not been taught them, it is not on
the curriculum. They are thrown
out into the world without a know1-
edge of that world in which they
and millions like them must live.

Then their education really be-
gins. And that education is the
education of every adult—the ad-
justment of himself to his time, the
integration of his personal problems
to the problems of the world at
large. It is for many a long and
painful process, made all the more
difficult by the necessity to unlearn,

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See BETHUNE

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Eliminate
W orkers

Need For Strong Union
Seen As Effects Of Re-
cession Felt On Watexr-
front.

SHORTER DAY ISSUE

By GEORGE BROWN

With shipping at a low ebb,
and no attempt being made to
distribute available waterfront
work, longshoremen are in a
sorry plight.

In BC ports the “Fink” hall is
Supreme. With company-controlled
unions dominating all ports, every-
thing that tends to give the Ship-
ping Federation a free hand in
dividing the workers into hostile
groups is being played to the limit.

In the Port of Vancouver approxi-
mately 900 longshoremen are regis-—
tered. Of this number probably
half are made up into gangs, the
remainder worl off the “spare
board.”

The greatest grievance on the
waterfront today is the unequal

division of “work opportunity to
“spare board’’ men.

This problem was tackled in a
practical manner by the union in
1934-35.

Formerly, iz an order came in

for a gang of less than eleven men
regular gangs were despatched,
less the required number. The union
decided that all gangs of less than
eleven men must be made up from
the spare board.

The ten hour rule was then
strictly enforced. Whereas for-
merly gangs and men preferred by
the company worked up to thir-
teen hours per day on overtime
slips, the union decided that no
gangs or men would be allowed to
work overtime so long as men were
available in the hall.

Still further steps were taken.
Whereas formerly preferred gangs
and men were moved from ship to
ship, the union decided that gangs
or men who had worked six hours
in any one day could not be des-
patched again that day so long as
unemployed men were available.

There were 940 registered long-
shoremen at that time. Striving to
maintain their preference system,
the Shipping Federation tried to
effect elimination of some 250 re-
gistered men, claiming that the
evil existed, not in the Federation’s
“Fink” hall despatching methods,
but in having too many men.

The union opposed this proposed
elimination, countering with its
own proposals. As a result, by 1935
both spare board and gang men
were equalized, and both making a

living.

All this was wiped out in BC
ports with the loss of the 1935
strike.

Once again the Shipping Federa-
tion is attempting to justify its
“Pink” hall methods by laying
blame for the low earnings of half
the employees on “too many men.”
Again it is preparing to “weed out,”
to eliminate some 200 or more.

There should be no elimination.
What there should be is a shorten-
ing of the workday. Whereas in
1934-35 the problem was met by
hewine as closely as could be ef-
fected at the time, to the eight hour
day, recession in shipping today
calls for even further shortening of
the work day.

When the International Long-
shoremen’s Association (ater to be-
come the Internationaz Longshore-
men and Warehousemen’s Union
upon its affiliation to the CIQ) was

brought into BC, it was heralded
as progress by the old time long-
shoremen.

The TLWUT must champion the
cause of the longshoremen who are
today in the clutches of the “fink’”’
company unions, must bend its ef
forts towards eliminating unequali-
ties and strive to bring the six hour
day to the waterfront. With this
program as its immediate objec-
tives, there is every reason to be-
lieve that the men on the water-
front will welcome the ILA.

Expected Quick Victory

Loyalist Resistance Again
Defeats Hope Of Fascists

MADRID, Spain, July 28.—‘“Insurgent

progress on the

Levant front is very slow, despite the enormous quantities of
men and material which have been thrown into the struggle,”

General Jose Miaja,
stated in an interview here.

“Our soldiers are defending the
ground inch by inch in the violent
fighting which is at present taking
place and the invading forces have
been severely shaken.

“The enemy hoped, by the masses
of troops and war material] at their
disposal, to conquer the Levant re-
gion in fifteen days. That was two
months ago—and our enemies know
the cost of the small advantages
they have gained.

“Our troops, knowing what their
resistance means, are fighting with
unsurpassable heroism.

“Tt is impossible to conquer a
people which will not be conquered,

commanding the Army

of the Centre,

I. who have entire faith in the des-
tiny of Spain, hope that with this
resistance we shall win. And, in-
deed, have we not already defeated
the traitors, who for each new of-
fensive have to ask for new rein-
forcements of men and material
which are lost without our front
being broken or our rear demoral-
ised? Tt is to achieve the latter aim
that the enemy has recourse to re-
peated, criminal bombardments of
the civil population.

“There is no question of politics
at the present time. A national
question is being decided, for Spain
has been attacked by foreign in-
vaders.”’

Men:

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News Of
The City
In Brief

Notice to Press Agents

Advocate agents outside Van-
couver are notified that their
bundle orders for this issue have
beén increased in view of the ex

fascist espionage activities pub-
lished this week.

International Pienie

Sponsors of the big international
pienic, held annually at Seymour
Park, request Advocate readers to
keep Sunday, August 28, an open
date. Advance tickets, entitling
holders to valuable prizes, include
transportation to the park from
Cassiar street.

Heusewives Meet
West End branch of the House-
wives’ League meets Tuesday, Aug—
ust 2, at 8 pm, at 1185 Hornby
street.

. Unions Aid Camp

Forty-five children are ready to
go to the Children’s Summer Camp
Mext week as soon as the present
contingent returns. Mrs. Peterson
and Mrs. Wharton will be cooks.
Donations received by the camp
committee this week were: Paint
ers’ Union, $9.25; Capitol Hill Wom-
en’s Labor League, $10; Bakery
Workers’ Union, $6.50; Carleton
CCF Club, $5.

Draw Announced

Draw for a set of Lenin’s “Sel-
ected Works,” held by Wancouver
Centre section of the Communist
party on July 25, was won by A.
Seaberg, with ticket number 312.

Women’s Meet Called

A conference of women members
of the ommunist party will be held
at O’Brien Hall, 6 pm, on August
3. Called by the Women’s Commis-
sion of the party, the conference
will take up issues including the
high cost of living and women’s
work in trade unions. Following
the conference, there will be an
entertainment.

Draw Results

First, second and third prizes
in a draw held last Friday at Carle-
ton CCF hall were ticket numbers
2039, 227, 2143 respectively.

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