i Vol. 1. No. 34. Hive Cents Vancouver, British Columbia, Friday, October 4, 1946 : Formerly PACIFIC ARDVOCATE Gowns, gambling top non-partisan program Amid all the inspired furore of the G. McGeer and Mayor J. W. Cornett what with Senator G. pre-election period, wrangling over the mayoral robes of office and Attorney- General Gordon Wismer disputing with the mayor which of them, aiter all these years of innocent binge games, was the first to order police to raid the gambling joints, citizens of Vancouver this week found them- selves inclined to agree with Shakespeare: “Through tatiered clothes small vices. do appear; Robes and furrd gowns hide all” The trouble seemed to be that the mayoral robes were not suf- ficiently voluminous to cover ail the vices. Mayor Cornett’s difficulties be— gan when Senator McGeer, look- ing for some free publicity and unable to think of any better way of getting it, told the Retail Buck urges no ships to Franco Tim Buck, national leader of the LPP has forwarded the following wire to Prime Min- ister King urging against Canadian trade with Franco Spain: “According to a Canadian Press dispatch dated September 24, Commander Carlos P. Ar- fumenda of the Spanish Embas- Sy at Ottawa is now in Halifax With 2 view to purchasing sur- Plus Canadian war vessels and freighters held by the War As- Sets Corporation. _ The Labor-Progressive Party urges your government to pre- vent such sales taking place and te refuse to deal with the fas cist Franco regime. Our country was both disgraced and en- dangered when your government seld scrap iron to wmilitarist Japan. Are we now to help build up Franco Spain’s war potential and repeat the tragedy of the thirties? ’ A If such ships are to be dis- posed of or sold, priority should be given to those countries who fought together with us against the fascists and not to fascist Spain which cooperated with Hitler in his attempt to achieve _ world domination. 3 Furthermore, it is high time your government broke with _the mco regime and recognized the Giral government in exile as the legitimate Republican government of Spain. We feel Confident that such measures will meet with the whoile-hearted approval of Canadian public epinion ” Credit Grantors Association that the maycral robes really belonged to him because the city had never reimbursed him for their purchase during the Golden Jubilee in 1936. These citizens who were under the impression that by this time the meths had eaten their way through the robes and the entire city council were mildly astounded when this stirred the mayor to]! action as no other problem in the (Continued on page 8) See GOWNS eee |DEMAND HART GOV'T GRANT MILK SUBSIDY VICTORIA — The Hart Coalition government knows now that by its refusal to assume the cost of the milk subsidy withdrawn by the federal govern- ment it has generated a storm have serious political repercussions. and the combined actions of federal and Milk is an essential food provincial govern- ments in wiping out a part of the Wage increase recently won by thousands of workers in hard- fought strikes touches the heart of the people's struggle against inflated living costs. €Cagey, evasive Premier John Hart is for once on the spot. ©n other issues, his studied pol- CSU wage boost A joint application from the Canadian Seamen’s Union and eastern and western shipown- ers for approval of wage in- creases agreed upon in recent national negotiations will go before the National War Labor Board, according to James Thompson; CSU vice-president for the Pacific Coast, who re- turned to Vancouver from the East this week. Im additional to the war risk bonus of $44.50 a month, which has now been incor- porated im the basic wage, seamen will receive a wage boost of $15 a month “across the board.” A wage imcrease of $20 a month negotiated by the CSU for towboatmen working B.C. Coastal waters has been ap- proved by the Regional War Labor Board. The board, how- 6ver, referred the question of the 38-hour day back to the CSU and the seven ,ompanies con- cerned for further negotiations. About 300 towboatmen are af- fected. This week the CSU also won the vote for bargaining rights on PGE barges. = icy of retreating when he must before labor’s insistent . demands without surrendering the monop- oly interests his government de- fends has worked well. On this issue he has chosen to stand pat. it involves the basic question of whether or not the govern- ment is prepared to help the pec- ple in their fight to retain de- cent living standards and this |means a fight against the monop- olies that support the government and exploit workers and farmers. As been usual, Premier Hart nas content to allow Finance ) Minister Herbert Anscombe, lead- er of the Coalition’s Conservative wing; to define the government’s attitude in its harshest terms. It was Anscombe, for instance, who told Jack Greenall, execu- tive secretary of the B.C. Feder- ation of Labor, and other mem- bers of the delegation which this week met with the full cabinet for half an hour that the “baby bonus”? was supposed to take care of such items as milk. This is Scant comfort for mothers who know that increases in the cost of their children’s food and cloth- ing during the past year have already exceeded their family al- lowances. But Hart himself has followed his customary policy of maintain— | ing 2 discreet silence on the is- sue. While his government is deluged with protests against the order-in-council approving the 2 cent inerease. Hart prefers to diseuss the future of the PGE, admittedly an important issue and one on which Hart has spoken — ae = women’s auxiliaries of the IWA, the ‘Housewives United,’ Vancouver Consum- eee a tne Council of the LPP and other organiaztions, demonstrated Monday against ers’ Coun 2a ilk prices, They marched to the offices of the B.C. milk controller,- EK. C. Carr, de- the aie an = sae provincial government pay producers a 2 cent per quart Subsidy to hold down consumer. prices. Later they visited the city hall. TWA Women’s Auxiliary. (Left): Mona Morgan, provincial leader of the of protest which may SIMPLE SUMS for JUNIOR A Quart of Milk ~ in May equals 10c June 10c plus 2c >” equals 12¢ October 12c plus 2c equals 14c¢ December Total : equals Less Milk sy frequently without doing anything, but not the issue of the moment. The strength of the’ protests and the organizations represent- ing a wide cross-section of the electorate from which they come indicate that Hart will not be able to maintain silence. New Westminster is counted as a Liberal stronghold, but there the Liberal-dominated city coun ceil, under direct pressure’ from the International Woodworkers of America, has adopted a resolu- tion urging the government to take over the subsidy. “In” Vancouver the city council has not yet taken a stand, al- though earlier this year when the consumers’ subsidy of 2 cents a quart was removed, it declared against any increase in the price of milk. The question has been referred to the’ council’s market— ing committee before: which, this Monday, the “Emergency Commit tee on Milk,” headed by Elgin Ruddell, will appear as a dele— gation te seek aldermanic sup- port. Trade unions and other popu- lar organizations throughout the province are throwing their strength behind the protest cam- paign. The provincial executive committees of both the Labor- Progressive Party and the CCF have made representations to. the government. In Nanaimo, the United Mine Workers has “viewed with alarm the increase in milic (Continued on Page 8) See MILK Province strike trials begin Trial of 12 trade unionists on charges of unlawful as-— sembly arising out of a mass picket line demonstration out- Side the Vancouver Daily Province building last july opened in assize court here be— fore Justice Wilson on Wednes- day this week. Those charged are: Gary Cul hane, secretary of the Shipyard General Workers’ Federation (CCL) ; Jack Rockandel and Jock Taylor, patrolmen for the Canadian Seamen’s Union (AFL): W. Friesen, Jeremiah Lamb, Ralph Hamilton, Leslie McRae, Tom Seibert, Robert Daniels, G Iz zard, E. Borden and W. Furness. Opening day of the trial was Occupied with selection of a jury: and hearing of first witnesses for the crown. John S. Burton, assisted by John Stanton, and David Sigler, are conducting the defense.