| Subscription Drive lews and Standings jar Hriends: Any tortoises among you restin Bu have found a corner in B.C. wher fvell anyway it’s about time you pt you to the post after all! Which is just my polite way of rning all and sundry that the drive is about to come to its or close—and in fact Tuesday, December 5, is the deadline. ial announcements and drive Standings will appear in the ue of December 9, so let’s really put on some speed. ie Winners » Hurry in those late subs—the ones you were going to get @. just hayen’t got around to yet—let’s have at least as good }e accounting as possible for each eclub- Also, so that I can be honor where honor is due in my final report of the drive, jase let me have a list of the outstanding drive workers in each 9, especially those who have qualified for Earl Browder’s ik “Teheran—Our Path in War and Peace,” by selling $35.00 smore worth of subs. So far I have definite information in =; regard for only five people, Bill Purvis of Fairview, Wm. @feherchuk of East End, Ed. Cinits of Burrard Hast, Bruce =3:kleburgh of Prince Rupert, and Jim Blakey also of Prince #j2ert—and I think there must be several more not reported. per a Weapon Although the results so far have been disappointing, and end at about the same level as the sub part of last Octobr’s Eve, undoubtedly we can count_on a steady increase in the saths to come, as the new paper becomes more widely known | appreciated, and as election workers realize from practical: merience what an excellent political weapon our paper can be. Biides this we are making plans for a new sort of circulation Wf ivity which will be announced shortly in the P.A. | Fairview is still in number one place with 141 subs—just 72 to go to make its quota of 175. South Van and Hastings = st are running a close race, and for the first time South Van- ‘ver has edged into second place with 120 subs to Hastings Pst’s 115. Burrard East is next with 90 subs—a gain of 20 FS since last week. West End has 74, haying gained 14 in the pk, and Kitsilano has 72—a gain of 16. Positions of the other == branches have changed very little. : And before I sign off another note for everybody——we will etinue to give the book “Sabotage” as a premium for 1-year Ps and renewals as lone. as they last, even after the drive is ® cially closed. & in the noon-day sun Gé © there is a November sun) woke up or that rabbit will Yours sincerely, GRACE GREENWOOD. rominent Speakers it Community Meeting Community meeting of citizens in the Fairview area to iss the problems of securing a community center has called for Thursday, November 30, in the Model School § itorium at the corner of Twelfth Avenue and Ash. The ®-inge is sponsored by the dele- tial work conducted by the Fair- fs from a broadly represen- Me number of organizations fe area, who met last week to lider steps to reach their ob- ve. ‘MINENT SPEAKERS s Kathleen Gorrie, director rdon Neighborhood House, be the main speaker at next ’s meeting, which will be fed by EF. GC. Boyes, of the "p Work Division of the ¥.cil of Social Agencies. Other inent speakers include Wil- Calder, representing the Board, Jack Henderson, iol Board, Jerry Mathieson, Cial director Pro-Rec, and R. Macdougall, chairman of North Vancouver Community fer Project. He community center project *e out of the surveys and ini- x view Playgrounds and MRecrea- tion Committee, directed to remedying the serious lack of facilities for organized and super- vised play for children in the highly congested area. PROPOSALS OUTLINED - Proposals for the projected community center as outlined by a Pro-Rec speaker at last week’s meeting include a gymnasium, workshops, hobby rooms, show- ers and dressing rooms. The Pro-Ree speaker announced his organization’s willingness to fur- nish instructors for the center. Next week’s meeting is ex- pected to set up a representative organization which would mobi- lize support of the district’s citi- and initiate conerete steps the much needed zens for securing | project. the first time that basic nego- tiations have been started on an industry-wide basis. The negotiations cover 22,000 lumberworkers in logging camps, sawmills, shingle mills and sash and door plants, in 150 of the largest operations in B.G. NEGOTIATING COMMITTEE R. V. Stuart and Mr. Billings of Stuart Research Ltd., are re- presenting the operators. For the IWA the negotiating commit- tee includes Nigel Morgan, Gana- dian International Board Mem- ber, Ernie Dalskog, district vice- president, Jack Greenall, dis- trict secretary-treasurer, and Harold Pritchett, district presi- dent. Pritchett was unavoidably prevented from reaching the opening meeting owing to can- cellation of his plane reserva- tions in Victoria. AMENDMENTS PROPOSED The union is proposing amend- ments to~the present contract calling for a union shop, check- off, overtime in excess of 44 hours a week, two weeks vacation with pay, establishment of elec- ted safety committees on every job, and upward revision and re- classification of wage structures with a basic demand of an eight cents an hour increase ‘across the. board.” This week’s opening meeting was a preliminary one to reach agreement on What operations Bowles Runs in Surrey Martin Bowles, popular young Sunnyside poultry farmer, has as councillor for Ward 5, Sur- rey, in the coming election to be held December 16. been very active in the Poultry- Bowles has man’s Association. His platform includes a muni- cipally owned water system and the extension of electrification of the rural areas where only 50 percent of the homes have elec- tricity. An improvement in the transportation system between White Rock and New Westmin- ster is one of the most pressing needs in this community. The bus runs only once or twice daily, and makes no stops be- tween the two places. A housing scheme is also need- ed in the White Rock district for many of the summer cottages are now being used by war work- ers for permanent homes, but are entirely inadequate for year- round residences. announced his intention to run|| Saturday, November 25, 1944 — Page 3 [WA Commence Industrywide Negotiations For 2 Negotiations for revision of the industry-wide contract of the membership of the International Woodworkers of America were opened in Vancouver this week. This meeting between representatives of the union and management constitutes ‘oodworkers British Columbia - are being covered by the nego- tiations. Proposals for a medical and hospital plan to cover all employees in the lumbering in- dustry were also discussed. DEFINITE REPORT The TWA’s proposed revisions in the contract were submitted to operators some time’ ago in writing and a definite report on the operators’ reactions and counter proposals will be given to the next quarterly meeting of the District Council to be held in Nanaimo, next Sunday, Decem- ber 3. 2 IMMS WU District Meet The second annual convention of the B.C. Mine, Mill and Smel- ter Workers’ Union will be held December 4 and 5 in the Boiler- makers’ Building where 30 dele- gates from 18 locals throughout B.C. will gather to discuss nu- merous problems in the mining industry. Reid Robinson, president of the International Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, and C. J. Powers, International Board Member are expected to attend. The PAC will be one of the main questions discussed at the convention. The agenda also in- cludes the election of permanent officers for the union, as the of- ficers now holdins positions were elected only pro tem. Bengough To Visit Mexico Announcement of attend- ance of Trades and labor Congress of Canada President Percy Bengough at the Latin American Congress of Trade Unions in December was made at the regular meeting of the Vancouver Trades and Labor Council this week. Announce- ment of this important move in Western “Hemisphere trade union relations was made by Gouncil President Birt Showler, who sug- gested the possibility of having Bengough as a guest on his re- turn by way of this port. WEA DELEGATES Other business of the meeting included the appointment of Tom Parkin and Walter Head as council delegates to the Workers’ Educational Association provin- cial conference on postwar prob- lems being held in Vancouver on December 10. OUT OF ORDER Attempt of delegate ‘ Markey of the B.C. Seamen’s Union to introduce a motion asking AFI President William Green to ean- cel the charter of the Deepsea and Inland Boatmen’s Union was ruled out of order. 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