Victoria seeks Aid =-or India VICTORIA, B-C.—Two im- irtant organizations have ® en established in Victoria » the recent period—+the In- an Famine Relief Commit- jm and the Day Nursery thool Association. Both are Wiely xepresentative of the ople in the city, and both are pected to play an extremely portant role in their particu- ) fields. he Indian Famine Reliet Com- ttee, which grew out of the icern felt by citizens for the ffering experienced by millions jIndian people, was sponsored fa number of civic, church and for groups. Its chairman is fr. J .Turner of the United farch, the secretary Kuldeep =¢h Bains of the East Indian }ecognition has already been forded it by the federal gov- ng sought from the war serv- =s committee for the collection feting to gain further public sport behind the campaign to fe to India, and it is expected movement will be extended Tembers of the working com- (tee include Ald. John Worth- hop Cody, Catholic Church: }eorge Cassian, Trades and La- 4 (| jociation; Mrs. W. Riley, CCF; fnk Hall, United Church ()or-Progressive Party. he Day Nursery School Asso- imsored by the University Wo- a’s Club, and was representa- iS including the Local Council | Women, Catholic Women’s Sool board. It will be a perm- nt organization pledged to eseries for children of working ) hers. hs; Carried on by the nursery ' mittee of the local Labor-Pro- report of the city’s needs nurseries waS compiled, a 1iation later appeared before oo] Inspector Campbell, who ly done and promised to ig the matter up before the on included Miss V. Ashdown, anizing secretary of the as- | ith Association. ment, and permission is now | funds. Plans call for a mass ip supplies of food and medi- ~ a national scale. fon of the City Council; Council; Stan Morisse, Greek jing People, and Robert Edge, jon grew out of a meeting + of local women’s organiza- ' gue, Parent-Teachers, and the ®vard in all possible ways day Bg a result of a previous can- E ssive Party clubs, by which a | -gation from the day nursery Fressed interest in the work al- toria School Board. The dele- ation, and Mrs. D. Frankham Bhe LPP. bAst. 0340 766 E. Hastings ‘dastings Steam Baths Vancouver, B.C. tiways Open. Expert Masseurs i )) in Attendance | a.m. to 11 p.m.—40c and 50 STEAM BATHS 40 Lorne Street NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. | Across from Courthouse © Open 5 Days a Week ‘Tuesday to Saturday q 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. at iL AND ELECTRIC MASSAGE | Varila, Prop. Tel. 2264 Attack On Newspaper Guild Probed By CCL News-Herald Stand Scored The anti-labor position taken by the management of the Vancouver News-Herald through their refusal to negotiate renewal of an a greement with the Newspaper Guild, as well as their disniissal of a Guild member in violation of the union contract, will be investi- gated by a special committee of th regular meeting of that body. The decision resulted from a r Local2, Vancouver Newspaper G ment with the newspaper was m had already been appointed to i e Vancouver Labor Council, it was decided at this week’s eport presented to council by A. J. Heide, president of uild, who stated that attempts to renew the existing agree- eeting with plenty of obstacles. A government conciliator nvestigate*the dismissal case. : “It may be a coincidence, but recently D. S. Tait, mining company executive, levelled a blast against the CIO, charging that its members controlled the press in B.C.,” Heide said. “This appears to be a test of strength for organized newspapermen, but we are sure that with the Council’s support we can extend Tons Of Food Rot In Fields ABBOTSFORD, B.C.—An agricultural crisis confronts the farmers of the Sumas-Matsqui-Abbotsford and Mission areas of the fruitful Fraser Valley. Acres of cabbage lie untouched in the fields; over two thousand tons of potatoes are going to waste because of lack of storage; tons of carrots and other vegetable produce still lie at the merey of early frosts, untouched because of lack of storage, mar- kets, and government assistance. While this wholesale waste of valuable foodstuffs, grown in aid of the war effort, and on the direct advice of James G. Gard- iner, federal minister of agricul- ture, continues unabated, the housewives of Vancouver and other urban areas continue to Pay some of the highest prices on record for vegetables and other farm produce. In the Matsqui district farmers plead with their neighbors to haul away all the cabbage they can use for stock feed. “I know one farmer who has three tons of cabbage, and as he cannot find any sale for them, he intends to plow them back,’ declares Frank E. Smith, promin- ent farmer of the district. Many potato growers, rather than work for nothing and sell the potatoes to the monopolies below the price of production, are resolved in the absence of any workable government policy which will recompense them for their labor, to leave their pota- toes to rot, or be carried away by those who wish to take- them. Meanwhile, right in Abbotsford, on Saturday, November 2, po- tatoes were retailing at the high price of $2.65 per 90-pound sack. A recent mass meeting at Mis- Sion sent a delegation to meet with the B.C. Marketing Board. The adcie this delegation re- ceived was to sell the potatoes on the prairie market where they would bring $21 to $24 per ton, while B.C. prices are $36 to $41. The objection to this course of action is that the prairie market price is too low in relation to freight rates. It was decided to recommend that the provincial and federal governments grant immediate subsidies to growers to offset the difference between B.C. and prairie market prices. Further meetings on the issue are planned, with emphasis be- ing laid on the urgency of the situation. All that is needed to bring disaster to hundreds of tons of foodstuffs is one or two heavy frosts. All government agencies are being warned of this eventuality, and farmers say that if the crops are wasted, the onus will be directly on the gov- ernments, Demand For Return Of Ukrainian Hall Grows Despite revoking of sections of an order-in-council, passed in June, 1940, which returned the Ukrainian Labor-Farmer Temple Association and other groups to legality recently, no action has been taken to return property of the Association. An application for return of the $25,000 hall, built by ULETA vyol- . unteer labor, will be made by the Association at a special hearing in Vancouver, December 4. D. A. Freeman, barrister, pres- sing the application before the city council, feared that the cus- todian of enemy property would sell the hall and turn over the proceeds to the Ukrainians. The hall was sold to the Greek Orth- odox Church for $6,000. One pay- ment of $1,500 has been made. Aldermen refused to pass a formal resolution asking the gov- ernment to return the building but instructed Corporation Coun- cil D. E. McTaggart to draft a motion expressing the council’s belief that the Ukgainian com- munity should haye a hall for its activities. Meanwhile, demands will be made by Vancouver Labor Council to the federal government for the return of the property. The de- cision was made at the regular meeting Tuesday night, on motion from Fred McNeil, Dock and Shipyard Workers’ Union, that “the council protest to the federal government demanding the return of the hall to the ULFTA.” A delegation from the council will meet the custodian on De- cember 4. : PAINT "Bike 4 te oes e Meatls’ 156 West Cordova St. Buy now while buying is good! the Guild into other newspapers.” Declaring that the entire labor movement in Vancouver should get behind the Guild’s fight, C. S. Saunders, president of the Dock and Shipyard Workers’ Union, said that the editorial pol- icy of the News Herald “has been so filthy it stinks.” “if the managements of the newspapers can break the Guild and get the news reporters under their thumb, then they will be able to get the kind of ‘objective’ re- porting favoring big business, which is what D. S. Tait means when he attacks the unions,” Saunders said. Delegates passed a motion pre- sented by Morgan Whidden of the Guild “condemning the policy of the News Herald and deploring Tait’s statement.” “Two points strike me in con- nection with Taits remarks,” Whidden said. “First, as head of a mining company, he has no knowledge of newspapers. Second, C. B. Delbridge, News Herald publisher, used to be connected with the mining industry as a stock operator. “Tt is very surprising that the News Herald management did not get in touch with the Guild to get a_comment on Tait’s remarks. They also refused to carry an- swers to the statement by Fraser Wilson, Guild Local 1 president, and A. J. Heide of Local 2.” Council condemned the action of the British government in re- leasing Sir Oswald Mosley from internment, and registering its disapproval of the action of any United Nations government in re- leasing any fascists from intern- ment during wartime.” Protests will be lodged with Prime Minister King, Labor Min-~- ister Mitchell, and the National War Labor Board over allowing a number of Vancouver foundry companies the right to demand a review of a previous board award granting wage increases to skilled mechanics, members of the Mould- ers and Foundry Workers Union. Union House J. Mirras, Mer. Meet Your Friends at the REX CAFE Where All Union People Eat Home of Tasty Meals 6 EAST HASTINGS STREET Co-op | Federation Proposed Basis was laid for establish- ment of a federation of fish- ermen’s cooperatives in B.C. at a two-day convention in the Belmont Hotel this week, at- tended by 34 delegates repre- Senting some 9,000 coopera- tive fishermen. Recommendations of the con- ference regarding the federation will be taken back to the various organizations for consideration and acting; and a continuations committee of three appointed to take charge of convening a fur- ther conference at which the co- operative federation would be formed. Organizations represented at the conference included the Prince Rupert Fishermen’s Go- operative, Kyuquot Trollers, Massett Cooperative, United Fishermen’s Cooperative, Coop- erative Wholesale Society, Fish- ing Vessel Owners Association, Native Brotherhood of B.C., Deep- sea Fishermen’s Union, Fisher- men’s Settlement Service and the extension department, University. of B.C. The meeting unanimously en- dorsed a resolution emphasizing the need for appointment of a cooperative supervisor by the provincial government, and ap- proved the nomination of J. H. Deane, Prince Rupert Coopera- five secretary, to the Fisheries Research Board of Canada. Subjects discussed Included co- operative marketing, processing, return of fishing vessels taken over by the naval service for War, and improved relations between the various cooperatives. Neces- sity for increased storage facili- ties on the Coast was emphasized. Thanks were yoiced to G@ T. Greenwell of the university ex- tension department for services rendered fishermen. L. H.G. Phil lips was chairman of the con- ference, and D. G Macdonald, secretary. (-—_——=!] John Stanton Barrister, Solicitor, Notary 503 Holden Bldg. 16 E. Hastings St. MAr. 5746 HOME, of UNION MADE CLOTHING d FRIENDLY SERVICE 45 East Hasting — Vancouver TUNE IN John Stanton UNITED LABOR CANDIDATE for SCHOOL BOARD Saturday, Nov. 27,7:15 p.m. AERO LABOR-PROGRESSIVE BROADCAST