ced

PT boosters
now working
fo get subs

Pacific Tribune press clubs which
for the past two months have been
devoting all their efforts to put the
the 1951 financial drive over the
top are now turning their atten-
tion to increasing the circulation
of B. C’s leading labor weekly.

“First job is to pick up renewals
on expired subs,” said PT business
manager Fel Dorland this week.
“Then there’s the task of winning
new subscribers and _ increasing
street sales.”

At the beginning of the year
press clubs accepted targets, aimed
at an overall increase in circula-
tion of 2,000 during 1951. Here’s
the record of city and provincial
clubs to date, with the 12-month
target shown in brackets: :

GREA!TER VANCOUVER:
Building Trades, 3 (65); Capitol
Hill, 24 (85); Civic Workers, 65
(7%); Central Burnaby, 19 (50);
Commercial Drive, 34 (85); East
End, 7 (60); Advance, 7 (60);
Electrical Workers, 13 (150);
For-est Products, 6 (75); Georgia,
12 (45): Grandview, 14 (90); Hal-
perin, 10 (45); Hastings East, 11
(85); Kitsilano, 23 ( 105); Mari-
time, 6 (75); Moberly, 16 (65)
NELY, 2 (30: Norquay-Renfrew,
19 (100); North Vancouver Area,
44 (200); Olgin, 3 (35): Point
Grey, 8 (45); Sea and Shore, 16
(100); Shin and Steel. 10 (85)
A. EF. Smith, 9 (55);..Strathcona,
5 (60); Vancouver Heights, 8 (70);
Victory Square, 25 (155); Water-
front. 1 (45); West End 36 (130)
Miscellaneous 91 (200). Total 507.

PROVINCE: Albernis, 14 (150);
Albion-Haney, 8 (15); Britannia,
% (50); Campbell River. 12 (65);
Courtenay, 6 (70): Fernie. 7 (20);
Fort Langley District, 19 (60);
Grassv Plains, 0 (10); Kamlhpops,
5 ( 40); Ladner, 2 (20); Lake
Cowichan Area, 4 (70); Lang Bay,
1. (10): Powell River Area, 4 (50);
Michel-Natal, 8 ( 50); Mission, 8
- (20); Nanaimo Area, 46 (300);
New Westminster, 30 (250):
Notch Hill, 4 (25): Princeton. 2

(25); Rossland-Trail, 14 (60): Sal- |

mon Arm, Il (25) N Sointula, 8
60): Steveston, 14 ( 15); Vernon,
12 (60).

VICTORIA, 32 (175): White
Rock, 4 (15); Whonnock, 1, (15);
Correspondence. 1 (3); Cpvoper
Mountain, 8, (50); Cranbrook.-3
(10); Cumberland, 18 (40); Kel-
owna, 8 (20); Kimberley, 2 (20)
Nelson, 2 (10); Prince George, 2
(15); Prince Rupert, 9 (30); Web-
sters Corners, 3 (10): Miscellan-
eous, 106 ( 400). Total, 438.
Grand total of subs turned in to

date is 945. We've still a long way
to go to increase circulation as
planned. But the job can be done,
Seldom have people been more eag-
er to learn the truth and never has
it been more important to get past
the blackout of the big business
press. :

Alcan project
pays low wage |
for long hours

* BURNS LAKE, BC.
If Vancouver workers wonder
why the newspapers and big busi-
ness outfits are talking so much
about “shortage of labor” and the
need to import workers from Eur-
ope because of the Alcan “boom,”
they could find part of the answer
in this area. The companies want
labor. all right — cheap labor.

Mannis Construction Company
operate numerous road camps in
this area, working on a _ project
connected with Alcan. Taking ad-
vantage of a lull in jobs in the dis-
trict, Mannis pays lower than un-
ion rates and has lengthened the
working day. The result is that
men are working a 10-hour, six-day
week. Laborers get $1.10 an hour,
and cat operators $1.53 — both low-
er than union rates.

Work in the woods will be open-
ing up soon ana many of the men
will be leaving for more lucrative
jobs. Hence the demand in Van-
ecouver papers for “more workers”
in this country.

Soviet walking dragline

t

The completed machine for which this is the model is now in operation on new Soviet hydroelectric
dams. It is a walking dragline and Grigori Kovaleiko (left) made some of the parts for it.

I have just come home

what is- going on in Korea.

From what I saw in Korea I
don’t think we have any right to
be there — no more right than
Koreans would have to come here
and kill Canadians.

Last September I was aboard a
Canadian Merchant ship chartered ,
by the U.S. Military Sea Transport-|
ation Service. We sailed from an
East coast port through the Pana-
ma Canal to San Francisco where
we loaded war materials, and were
told that we were headed for Japan.
We all knew that our ultimate des-
tination was Korea and most of us
were not too happy about risking
our lives in wartime waters.

Well, we sailed from Japan all
right, but we weren’t| there very
long. We discharged cargo and took
on another load of war materials.

In the last week of October we
pulled into Inchon herbor, just a
few weeks after the landing by the
United States army. We anchored
out in the harbor, and soon barges
pulled alongside to unload our car-
go. Korean longshoremen came
aboard along with American troops
of the Transportation corps and
South Korean police. j

' The first portion of the cargo
to be unloaded was American oc-
cupation currency. The South Ko-
rean police guarded the currency
as it was being unloaded. When
they thought that any longshore-
man was not. working quickly
enough they would kick him and
beat him with their rifle butts.

Another favorite sport of a corp-
oral was to beat the winchmen with
his rifle butt to make them work
faster. Desperate and afraid the
winch-men hid in the ship’s hatches
to escape persecution. Unloading op-
erations would stop for hours at a
time until the Yanks would find the
longhsoremen, beat them with
sticks, kick them and drive them
back to the winches. —

For some reason we were not
given any shore leave in Inchon.
After four days of being cooped
up on the hellship that the SS.—
had become, I sneaked ashore on
a barge.

What I saw in Inchon _ didn’t
make me feel any better. Refugees
were returning to the ruins that

were once their homes. Mostly old

e

from. Korea. I’ve

‘It’s time somebody started.
telling truth about Korea“
declares merchant seaman

By A CANADIAN SEAM AN — as told to Harry Gulkin

MONTREAL

never written a story for a newspaper
before but I think it’s time somebody started telling the Canadian people the truth about
Canadian boys are bleeding and dying thousands of miles
from home, im a war, neither they, nor the people back home fully understand.
Merchant, seamen are forced to carry war materials in wartime waters without even being
given the opportunity to. volunteer, and Canadian sailors
their lives on the coast of Korea. ~ - re

Canadian

aboard naval vessels are risking

/

men, women and small| children, |
starved, ragged and without shelter.
And it was damned cold in Inchon
at the end of October. How they
lived on the little food they were
able to forage I could never under-
stand. They slept in the~open,
warmed only by the little fires they
could build.

I’ve seen a lot of hunger, a lot
of human misery in the ten years
that I’ve been going to sea but
none of it compared to the hor-
rible plight of the Korean people.

hen I got back aboard ship I
felt sick. I wondered why on earth

we Canadians were bringing war
materials to Inchon for the murder
of Koreans and the’ destruction of
their country.

I’ve written this story becausel
last year I got mived up in the
“dirty war” in Korea. I don’t want
that to happen to me again. I dq
not want it to happen to| any-
Canadian. I want the Canadian
people to force the government
to bring ovr boys. home from
Korea before many of them are
killed. I want Canada to fight for
democracy—not fascism.

a 8 all s 2
Civic union wins raise
a Py
for city life guards
City life guards have won a wage increase of 30 cents

an hour, raising their pay from 70 cents to $1 per hour.
The men, mostly college students, are members of [Local

28, Civic Employees Union.

During negotiations, life guards |
received a letter from Sam Lindsay, |
organizer of the splinter civic union, |
Local 407, warning them that Local
28 was a “red? union and asserting
that the men would only get the
increase already ‘earmarked” for
them by the city’s parks board.

When the boaré made a “final”
offer of 90 cents, the guards gave
Local 28 business agent, Donald
Guise, a strike vote. Next day the
board came through with the $1 of-
fer, which the guards accepted.

In a special bulletin issued by

Local 28 this week,| a plan for
settlement of the dispute between
the union and Trades and Labor

Congress leaders was presented.
First stipulation is that the TLC
recognize the right of Local 28 to
elect its own officers and run its
own affairs. All suspensions must
also be cancelled. :

“We further declare that the re-
strictive clauses adopted at the Cal-
gary and Montreal conventions
must be rescinded,” states the Local
28 bulletin. “These anti-communist
clauses have brought disunity, splits

»
and harm tq the labor movement.

|In our case, they were used by an

unscrupulous minority of office seek-
ers. Defeated in union elections, by
secret ballot, they turned to dis-
ruption and’set up a dual union.”

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WHAT'S DOING

OPEN AIR DANCING at Swedish
Park. Every Saturday night.
Dancing from 9-12. Vern,Nelson’s
Orchestra. : :

GOOD BARGAINS, Teacup Read-
ing, novel parcel post stall with
surprise packages for twenty-five |
cents, at the ANNUAL BAZAAR
AND TEA, sponsored by yo
man’s Apxiliary, Civic Employees
Union 28, Thursday, May 31st, 2.
p.m. to 5 p.m. at Union Hall,
Pender Auditorium, 339 West
Pender St. ,

DANCE — Modern and Old-Time
Music at Clinton Hall, 2605 E.
Pender St., every Saturday night,
8 to 12. Music by Clintone’s Or-
chestra. Hall for rent. Phone HA. .
3277.

BUSINESS PERSONALS
% TRANSFER & MOVING, Cour-
teous, fast, efficient. Call Nick at
Yale Hotel, PA. 0632,, MA. 1527,
CH. 8210.

SALLY» BOWES INCOME TAX
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HA, MA. 9965. A. Rollo, Mgr.

HASTINGS BAKERIES LTD. —
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CRYSTAL STEAM BATHS—Open
every day. New Modern Beauty
Salon—1763 E. Hastings. HAS

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0.K. RADIO SERVICE. Latest fac-
tory precision equipment used.
MARINE SERVICE, 1420 Pen-
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WORK BOOTS high’ or low cut
see Johnson’s Boots. 63 West Col
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NOTICES

PRESS DRIVE AWARDS

Vacation in Honolulu (or $509
cash); ©. F. Vizer, 278 East 4th
Avenue, Vancouver.

$200 cash: N. Kozub, R. R- %
Vernon. . :

Beatty Washer; Mrs. J. J. EX
ders, R.R. 5, New Westminster:

Custom Tailored /Suit; Eddie
Lee. Ladysmith. i
Electric Mixer, Mollie Ros%

520 Cook Street, Victoria.

Mantle Radio: Don “Walkeh.
GopperMountain, :

Pop Up @oaster: L. W. Sailot
711 Eleventh Avenue South, Por -
Alberni.

Automatic Steam Iron: Mr®-
Doris Reid, 215. West 1st Street
North Vancouver.

‘Electric Kettle: John Haw

luk, Cumberland.

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