Civic workers
squash rumors
of breakaway

Members of Vancouver Civic
Employees’ Union, Local 28, em-
ployed, in city shops, have squash-
ed all rumors, started by a slanted
Vancouver Sun story, about a
breakaway on their part.

Members employed in both city
shops and city garage met this
week and voted to condemn the
report of City Personnel Officer
Peterson who has recommended
no increase in pay for the city’s
tradesmen.

The meeting also voted to apply
for a meeting with the city’s con-
ciliation committee to demand
that the city’s rate of pay for
electricians be applied to all trades-
men. This rate is $1.84 an hour
as compared with the rate of $1.56
an hour in city shops and: garage.

While the tradesmen were meet-
ing in Local 28 headquarters, mem-
bers of Local 28 were giving out
a leaflet to members of the Machi-
nists’ Union as they entered their
meeting hall in the Labor Temple.
The leaflet called upon them not
to give encouragement to any city
tradesmen who might try to jump
from one union t another, for
the sake of a temporary advan-
tage.

This week, Civic Employees’ Un-
ion members employed in the city’s
bathhouses met, struck off a com-
mittee and decided to place their
demand for the same wage, in-
crease won by life guards — 30
cents an hour -—— before Vancouver
Parks Board representatives.

This group has been newly or-
ganized by Local 28 and includes
a number of women, the first
women to belong toxthe union in
many years.

Present wages and conditions
were rapped as “scandalous” by
these employees in their meeting. »

Janitors are paid 70 cents an
hour. Cashiers receive $30 a week
for 48 hours. Clean-up men on the
beaches receive only 70 cents an
hour. Bathhouse attendants (male)
receive only $102 a month and
have a 48-hour week.

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U.S. writer jailed

Following the vicious pattern
set during the trial’of U.S. Com-
munis? leaders when defendants
and their lawyers were sentenc-
ed for “contempt” for refusing
to give information that would
open others to persecution, a
New York judge this week
sentenced Hashiell Hammett,
famed American mystery writer,
and W. Alphaeus Hunton, to six-
month. vrison terms. Hammett
and Hunton, both trustges of
the Civil Rights Congress, re-
fused to divulge names of those
who subscribed to bonds put up
by the Congress as bail for ar-
rested Communist leaders.

Art, handicraft
contest feature

of labor picnic

Plans for the ,tenth annual
United. Labor Pienic announced
this week by the organizing com-
mittee include a popular girl con-
test, a “peace theme” contest,
variety entertainment, a _ sports
program, and national dishes to
delight the palaties of the many
thousands expected to attend this
popular city event.

The nicnic, as already announc-
ed, will be held in Burnaby’s Con-
federation Park on August 12.

Already entered in the popular
girl contest for the title ‘Miss
B:C. Labor” are. Sylvia Freedman
(“Miss Burrard’), Grace Stevens
(“Miss Hastings East’), Barbara
Stewart (‘Miss Shipyard Worker”),
Doreen Arseneau (“Miss Wood-
worker”), Carole Kelley (“Miss
Civic Worker’).

The “peace theme” contest is
expected to arouse considerable in-
terest and, it is hoped, will draw
many participants, Exhibits. will
be displayed in a booth at the
picnic grounds and the winning
entries will be decided by the bal-
lots of those attending the picnic.

Entries, with ‘special categories
for children according to age
groups, are being invited under
a wide range of headings: fine arts,
including painting, song writing,
poetry, sculpture and photography,
handicrafts, covering everything
from needlework to metal work:

Children’s age groups have been
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LDR in city
campaigns for
Bill of Rights

Vancouver branch of the League
for Demorcatic Rights this week
announced through its executive
secretary, Pearl Wedro, that it is
initiating a campaign to alert Van-
couver citizens to the dangers con-
tained in amendments to the Crim-
inal Code passed by the House of
Commons last month.

“The fact that these amendments
were introduced in the final days
of the session and hastily passed
by the less than 60 members pres-
ent is itself a cause for alarm,”
said Miss Wedro.

“The government’s anxiety to
rush the amendments into law, de-
spite criticism that no such defini-
tion of treason has been admitted
in British law for the past 600
years, indicates that the govern-,
ment knew that any wide discus-
sion of its proposals would arouse
widespread public opposition.

“Under these amendments, as
they have been passed by a par-
liament delinquent in its respon-
sibilities to safeguard the rights
and liberties of the people, it can
be a criminal offence to speak or
act for peace and friendship with
countries against which Canadian
forces have been ‘sent into action
although no formal state of war
)‘exists,” Miss Wedro continued. “All
speeches, writings, even expres-

ernment policies leading to such
action—in other words, the right
of citizens to oppose government
policies—can be construed as vio-
lation of the Criminal Code and as
such punishable by the new in-
creased penalties provided, by the
recent amendments,”

Miss Wedro stated that the
League for Democratic Rights, an
organization working for preser-
vation and extension of democratic
rights, was now embarking on
campaign for enactment of a Can-
adian Bill of Rights to guarantee
liberties increasingly . jeopardized
by present government policies.

The LDR’s Vancouver branch,
she stated, had decided:

@® To distribute copies of the
draft Bill of Rights prepared
by the national committee of
the League for Democratic
Rights and to ask organizat! ons
and individuals to study and
endorse the bill, adding their
criticisms and proposed amend-
ments.

To seek support among all
democratic organizations for a
campaign.to have the amend-
ments repealed at the next ses-
Sion of parliament.

The branch, she announced, is
arranging an open forum under
the heading, “Canada Needs a
Bill of Rights,” to be held in Pen-
der Auditorium here, Sunday, July
22, 8.30 p.m.

‘sions of opinion in criticism of gov-|,

CCW delegatio

raps city
married

Vancouver’s policy of releasing married women from civic employ-
ment was strenuously attacked in the Social Services Committee Monday
this week by a delegation representing the Congress of Canadian Wo
The delegation was organized after a statement by Ald. R. K.
Gervin appeared in the press declaring that the city’s policy was not t?

men.

hire married women and therefore
seven women were being dismiss-
ed.

Ald. Gervin claimed that married
women asked for special privileges
such as extended leaves of ab-
sence. When questioned closely by
Mrs. Jean Bird, a member of the
delegation, B. H. Peterson, city
personnel director, admitted that
mén too had asked for such leaves.

Another member, Mrs. Sylka
Olkevick, pointed out that the Un-
ited Nations urged all its members
to exercise the utmost democracy
in giving married women equal
opportunity. “Thus,” she said,
“the City Council is actually vio-
lating United Nations policy by its
action in firing married women.”

Several aldermen, including Ger-
vin, admitted they had received
numerous phone calls from wo-
men and organizations alarmed by
the undemocratic procedure the
city was adopting.

Despite the Congress of Cana-
dian Women’s protest, which was
bagked up by Marjorie J. Smith,
director of UBC‘s school of social
work, and J. I. Chambers’ social
services administrator, the finance
committee meeting Wednesday
this week took no definite action
toward changing its policy.

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Bazaar, garden partly
to aid Peace Council

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and bazaar to aid the work of
British Columbia Peace Council
is being held in the city, at 402%
Perry Street, this Saturday, July
14, if is announced.

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opens at 1.30 and continues t0
9.30 p.m., will be produce, from
the Fraser Valley.and the Okan-
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