Page Six THE PEOPLE’S ADVOCATE December 30, 1928 ANTI-LABOR AWARD GIVEN BY SUPREME COURT Projectionists And Trades Council To Pay $2000 Damages A renewed campaign by or- ganized labor against the grant- img of injunctions on picketing was seen here this week as a result of Justice D. A. MacDon- ald’s action in Supreme Court granting Hollywood ‘Theatre Limited $2000 damages against the Motion Picture Projection- ists’ Union and the Trades and Labor Council for picketing of the theatre last summer. In addition to awarding dam- ages, Justice MacDonald made per- gianent the interim injunction granted iast June restraining the unions from picketing. Officers of the projectionists could not be reached since they are out of town on other business, but P. R. Bengough, who has just re turned from Washington on Trades Congress business, stated that while he had had ‘no opportunity ef discussing the matter, he felt sure that an appeal against the injunction and the damage award would be lodged soon. Counsel for the unions contended that picketing was legal since the theater management had failed to employ union projectionists. The dispute between the theater and Local 348 of the Projectionists’ Union developed last May when the manager, M. E. Fairleigh, dis- charged a union member in order te employ this son, who had just received a projectionists’ license but was not a member of the union. Hairleigh sought by issuing free tickets and organizing counter picket lines, to break union resist- ance. When this failed he applied for an interim injunction on fur- ther picketing. The Hollywood Theater is the only one in the city operating without union members, 2 fact adds greatly to the fire hazard. This week’s judgment means that the theater must employ union men only when a member of the Fair leigh family, which Owns the com- pany, is not available. The following union officials are affected: Will Tenny, J. W. Don- nelly, Guy Graham, FE. W. Smith, Lioydd Pantages, Joseph Lowden, and John CGC. Richards for the union: ©. A. Jamieson, Birt Show- jer, P. R. Bengough, E#. Smith, Ee. HeOMorrison, F. Griffin, T. Holland, GCG. Stewart, Alex Fordyce, S. 5. Hughes and W. Stewart for the Trades Council. ARMS FOR SPAIN & Second Woodworkers’ (I-W.A.) Annual Carnival Convention DANCE Thursday, Jan. Sth 9 to L PALOMAR Sandy de Santis 12-Piece Orchestra — and Barney Potts and Dal Richards, Vocalists ADFTSSION = 50 CENTS = oe = DANCE NEW YEAR’S EVE at the ALEXANDRA BALLROOM (Hornby and Robson) Buffet Supper and Novelties Leo Smuntan’s Band GENTS $1.35 LADIES $1.00 OLD TIME FROLIC New Year’s Eve TOWN HALL GOOD EATS and HOT COFFEE Famous Farmers Fiddlers GENTS 75¢ LADIES 50¢ nion s May Appeal Picketing Injunction ¢ Students Answer Italy Students meet a police detachment as they march toward the italian Embassy in Paris with placards declaring that Corsica will remain French, in a demonstration against Italian fascist provocations. Unity Of Canadians Essential Professor Laski Warns Against Fascist Inroads Special to the Advocate MONTREAL, Que. — Unity of progressive forces alone can save democracy and defeat fascism, declared Prof. Harold J. Lasia, prominent member of the British Tabor Party executive, in a re- cent address to the League for Social Reconstruction. Laski is one of the more prominent British Iaborites fighting for a Popular Front in Britain. The integration of all leftgpar- ties is necessary in order to block the threat which a disintegrating capitalist system offers to demo- eratic liberty, Laski stated. Speaking of the campaign now going on in Britain to form a pop- ular front government committed to a minimum program of nation- alization of mines and railways, work for the unemployed and a positive peace policy of collective security with France and the So- viet Union within the League of Wations, Prof. Laski referred to the joint activity now going on between Communist, Labor, Lib- eral and dissident Conservative groups, together with democrats throughout the country, against the Chamberlain betrayal at Munich. 2 -The Canadian people must re- cognize the grimmness of this age, he concluded, by analyzing the forces operating on the political scene. The progressive forces must act swiftly to effectively stamp out fascism. M. J. Coldwell, CCE-MP, in thanking the eminent labor man, advanced a plea for unity of the forces of Canadian democracy against Duplessis and the Cham-— berlain sellout. Laski is now making a Cana- dian tour which will take him to Vancouver. EKIRELAND LAKE, Ont. Dec. 29Flope of bringing two miners out alive from the Lake Shore Gold Mines where they were caught Tuesday, as loose and falling rocks hampered rescue squads. The men were trapped deep in the mine by an air explosion, and no sounds have been heard from the entombed miners since. HASTINGS. BAKERY - High. 3244 716 East Hastings Street 4068 East Hastings Street 1769 Commercial] Drive Quality Products at Rioderate Prices We Deliver to Fast End and Grandview Homes ‘(Thrifty Housewives Shop at Hastings Bakery!’’ ~ tel ou) se EAR Western Federation Planned By Costigan Costigan will seek interviews in the capital with such leading De- mocrats as Secretary of the Inter- jor Harold tT. Ickes, Harry L. Hop- kins and Democratic National Chairman James A. Parley. We will explain the Washington Commonwealth Federation idea— which is to coalesce all labor, lib- eral, pension and unemployed forces in the 11 western states into an organization dedicated to con- tinuation of the New Deal beyond 1940. Costigan will travel East via Oregon and California. In the lat- ter state he will discuss the plan with Governor-elect Culbert lL. Ol- son, who is reported to favor the idea. We said he would attempt to persuade Olson to seek the De— mocratie vice-presidential nomin- ation in 1940. “3f President Roosevelt or some other New Dealer is to win 100% UNIONIZED the Democratic nomination for President in 1940,” Costigan de clared, “the western states, which in the past have demonstrated that they seek more, not less, of the New Deal, will have to send Awards Given For Press Drive Work Individual effort in selling an ag- gregate number of subscriptions to the People’s Advocate and Clarion Weekly during the recently con- cluded successful press drive was rewarded this week when sixteen persons were awarded a gold orna- mental pin for outstanding achieve- ment. Those rewarded are D. Stockand, Cumberland; John Magnus, Erma Whitman, P. G. Munro, J. Lake, L. Ainsworth and W. Ravenor of Van- couver; F. G. Baxter and G Lang- staff, New Westminster; Mrs. May Hooper, Salmon Arm, Harold Eld, Langley; Arthur Knox and Joseph Keenan, Quesnel; J. Loftus, Prince Rupert, and Fred Fox, Victoria. ARMS FOR SPAIN pont FORGET Grand New Year’s Eve FROLIC at the EMBASSY 75c Each including Refreshments Novelties and Noise Makers — and — SPECIAL HOLIDAY DANCE MONDAY, JAN. 2nd Music by the Ambassadors READ - ‘THE FISHERMAN’ The Only Trade Union Paper in the Fishing Industry Published every other Tuesday by Salmon Purse Seiners Union and Pacific Coast Fishermen's Union. Rates: $1.00 Year — 60c Six Mos. 164 East Hastings Street SEATTLE, Wash., Dec. 29——Support for a “Western States Commonwealth Federation” comprising liberal organizations in all western states will be sought by Howard G. Costigan, Wash- ington Commonwealth Federation executive secretary, when he visits Washington, DC, next week. a delegation to the national con- vention of the Democratic Party pledged for Roosevelt or some other liberal who has his appro- val “The year 1940 will be the most erucial in Amenican history. Should the reactionaries succeed in elect- ing a President, they would pull the election ladder wp behind them. They would never again give the people the opportunity to hold an- other national election if they could help it. They would institute a re- gime of fascism,’’ the WCE execu- tive concluded. Prospects for the formation of such a federation are admittedly good, observers believe. Demand for liberal political groups is srow- ing in such states as Oregon, Uteh, Idaho, Colorado, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico and Wyoming. Patronize our Advertisers Monopoly In Radio Under Exposure Before Alta. Combine Probe The inquiry revealed a giant monopoly in tube sales in Canada. Keppler charged that tubes which cost $1.07 in-GCanada can be bought in the United States for 63 cents. Qn other tubes, the price spread in two instances was 40 and 43 cents. He said the life of a US tube was three times that of the Canadian article and pointed out that while the United Staittes price was less there was only one percent defect in the American tube while in the Canadian articleithe defect amount— ed to 17 percent. The radio expert declared he had been forced to import tubes because the Canadian article was so poor that sales began to drop. He charged he had been warned by Thermionics Limited of Tor- onto, one of the big firms in the radio tube industry, that he would have to stop importing the better goods. The company de- eclared he was “infringing their patent right.” R. Leighton Woung, another radio service man, testified that in 1927 the same manufacturers (Can- adian) “turned out tubes you could feel sure of. They would last four orc five years. Today the average life of the majority of them is only a year.’ Edward H. Evans, another deal- er, testified that only 60 percent ef Canadian-manufactured goods would last a year. Im his opinion Ganada could produce tubes for $1.15 to $1.20 which would last as long as the tubes which sold sev- eral years ago for $3.75 and $4.25 and which were made in Canada. New Airdrome Im Queen Charlottes OTTAWA, Ont, Dec. 29. — Con- struction of two new buildings, workshop and officers’ quarters at the Royal Canadian Air Force sta- tion at Aliford Bay in the Queen Charlotte Islamds is expected to start early in the New Wear since contracts for the work have been awarded by the Department of Na- tional Defence. Two Vancouver firms, Northern Construction and J. W. Stewart and the &. J. Ryan contracting company were awarded the $119,000 contract. Gontained in the contract is ad- ditions and alterations to two buildings now existing and instal- Jation of a cement apron and slip- way for planes. (Special to the Advocate) CALGARY, Alta—The monopoly grip on radio prices im Canada was bared here when the Alberta department of trade and industry heard charges that may cause a drastic shake-up at least in this province in the matter of sales costs. Don Keppler, prominent local radio expert, charged before J- Gaunt, probe commissioner, that certain radio manufacturing firms in Caniada deliberately shorten the life of tubes to ensure a ready market. He declared that R. A. Choppen, supervisor ef the Canadian General Electric here, told him that in Canada the life of the tubes were shortened “because they last too long.” REFORESTATION | IS DEMANDED An attendance which constituted a record since the formation of the TWA marked the annual meeting o£ Local 7i held Wednesday at the local headquarters as the most pre— sressive and fruitful meeting sé the Vancouver loggers’ loca] in re- cent years. Predominately a rank and fis meeting, with broad representativu from the camps, the meeting de- finitely broke from the traditionat£ local concepts and swung down tie line on a program for the organi-— zation of the woodworking indsas- try of BC and for closest cospera— tion with the international. Some 18 resolutions were passed, mostly dealing with the organiza— tional program, to be referred te the coming District Council com- vention, January 3 and 4, for rati- fication and incorporation in tse District Council program. In his opening remarks, Presi- dent MacCuish stressed that aii locals must cooperate in organiza- tion regardless of jurisdiction; that the District Council must be giver all assistance to fill its role as the organizational center and driving force in the interests of all wosed— workers. Resolutions called for a cam-— paigen for selective logging, reforest-— ation, health insurance; for a “de- eent’ day wage for fallers ane buckers; for steps leading towara union hiring halls- The government will be pressed for a public investigation into the blacklisting methods of the tog- gers’ employment agencies. = Another resolution called for am embargo on fascist aggressors. e John MacCuish was unoppesed in the nomination for the position of president for the coming term; A. A. MacNeil and Arne Johnson were nominated for secretary, ané J. Kilbride and Henry Tundgren for vice-president. Election will be by referendum ballot. Chinese Students < ecer player, was found guilty ‘ yesday of cutting scrap iron destined for Japan and fined $20 by the Ghinese National Salvation League, and in addition ordered te pay $31 for a Liberty Bond. He agreed through his father to pay the indemnity which will go towards the Chinese refugee fund, and te Jack Louie, buy the Liberty Bond. 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