EXPANSION PLANNED — Co- -operative Bookstore to hold one-week sale BOOKS AT one-half price, books at one-third price and books selling for only a fraction of the regular price will feature the one- Week sale to be held at People’ s Cooperative Bookstore, 337 West Pender, next week. ‘Purpose of the big stock clear- ance sale is to prepare the way for an expansion of the bookstore and'make room for the opening of a lending library. Additional Space is also needed to install a Conference held _by LPP students ADVANCE figures show a Sharp decrease in university en- _ YTolment this year, Cuts in teach- ing staffs and other indications of general retrenchment in high- er education are becoming in- creasingly obvious. In the light of this situation a national conference of LPP uni- versity students met in Toronto fou a four-day conference. Stu- dents from major universities throughout the country adopted a program of action of student needs during the coming year. small listening booth for phono- graph recordings. Expansion plans call for more space in the rear and the buildingy of a mezzanine re- serve stock room. of the existing store, Four years ago a score of or- ganizations and hundreds. of pro- gressive citizens provided the in- itial capital to found the first co- operative bookstore in Canada. Since then the small, busy store has provided’ Vancouver people and, through its mail order ser- vice, residents of scattered com- munities throughout the province, with a fine selection of progres- sive books on widely diversified subjects. Among the new projects under consideration by the manage- ment is a travelling library which will service out-of-town points. _ The book sale opens Monday October 3 and continues through- out the week. A charge of 50 cents for each MEETINGS insertion of five lines or less with : B; cents, tor pach Auu Ones ane Swedish-Finnish Workers’ Club is made for notices appearing in this column. No notices will be accepted later than Monday noon of the week of publication. NOTICES f BUSINESS OFFICE HOURS OF the PACIFIC TRIBUNE are as follows:— Weekdays—9 to 5:30 p.m. Saturdays—9-12. THE DOMINION ELECTIONS ACT, 1938 Electoral District of Vancouver : East SUMMARY OF RETURN OF ELECTION EXPENSES There is below set out, as re- quired by Section 63 (5) of The Dominion Elections Act, 1938, a summary, signed by the official _ agent, of the return of election ex- penses made to me by him on be- half of Charles McGregor Stewart one of the candidates at the recent election of a member to serve in - the House of Commong of Canada held in the above mentioned elec- _toral distuiict, which said return is on file at my office and may, on payment of a fee of twenty cents, be there inspected and extracts _ taken therefrom at any reasonable time during the six months next after the 17th day of August, 1949, being the day upon which the said return was furnished to me. Dated at Vancouver this 17th day of August, 1949. CHAS, A. DONOVAN. - Returning Officer. SUMMARY OF RETCRN OF ELECTION EXPENSES OF CHARLES McGREGOR STEWART RECEIPTS Receipts, contributions, etc. $357.00 Promised unpaid contributions, etc sd Mele 2h i ay Wy Nana $357.00 _ PAYMENTS Candidate’s' personal : OXpenses )..c iss kas wie 57.05 Postage. fey 4.. pees ees 32.00 e elosramg ss. .cey cs bw ks Ares a1. 90. pebetty, Claimenisy. ¢s ates 11.90 Hire of premises ..........- 16.05 _ Services Travelling expenses and hire of vehicles * Goods Bupplied. 4. eens 3.75 Advortisings 4) eaves ses 104.20 ; Moths acca sears $264.95 Dated at Vancouver this 17th day of August, 1949. : ELDRED E. LEARY, Official Agent. meets last Friday every month at 7.30 p.m., in Clinton Hall. HALLS FOR RENT "new world. Oldtime Dancing To Alf Carlson’s Orehestra Every Wednesday and Saturday Hastings Auditorium Phone HAstings 1248 Moderate Rental Rates For secials, weddings, meetings Russian People’s Home— available for meetings, weddings and banquets at reasonable rates. 600 Campbell Ave. HA. 0087. Oance, Clinton Hall— 2605 East Pender. Dance every Saturday night. Modern and Old-Time. Viking’s Orchestra Hall is available for rent, HAstings 3277. BUSINESS PERSONALS DR. R. L. DOUGLAS HAS OPEN- ed a new office at 9 EAST HAST- INGS STREET, cor. Carrall St. Phone TA. 5552. All old friends cordially invited to drop in for a visit. CRYSTAL STEAM BATHS— Open every day. New Modern Beauty Salon—1763 E. Hastings. _HAstings 0094. ior vt Depatfinent READER WILL NOT GO AGAIN al you Please. Town Meeting at Victoria described as ‘grand farce’ HANS KROEGER, Victoria: Victoria has had the experience of hearing “Town Meeting Canada” for the first time, and I for one shall not go again. Far from informing the public and exercising toleilance, the whole tenor of*performance was a reac- tionary and biased repetition of the type we are constantly sub- ected to in the press and on the radio. in . The speakerg had one thing in common-—a desire to evade a dis- cussion on the class antagonisms and working class struggles for a The CCF-ers, Dr. Thomas and J. Turner, were in- tent on washing some of the black off the Labor party kettle, by stressing the health and child’ welfare program of the British government. Slick answerg met all the more or less inocuous questions from the floor, but when I raised my hand to ask a question, the mod- erator, pointing his finger direct- ly at me, said, “No, not you.” All questions wene scrutinized by the floor manager before they were put, and if there was any tend- ency for the matter to get out of hand, Mr. Helps was there with a restraining hand and in- terruptions. The whole thing had the ap- pearance of a grand farce, and a racket, designed to rake in the cash and spotlight Helps. We were advised to get tickets early, at 75 cents. When we arrived a crowd was waiting to get in. The doors were opened 15 minutes be- fore meeting time and rush tick- ets were sold for 50 cents. Every- body crowded in and took any seats available; no reserved seats for those who had paid the high- er price. When tackled after the per- formance about the top prices, the moderator in an angry tone. said, “Here we have been work- ing 11 hours a day, harder than you, to get you people a good meeting. We had to pay the ex- penses of these speakers from Vancouver and make all the pre- parations.” A cheap trick, and poor adver- tising for a repeat performance. No wonder there is difficulty in getting really worth-while speak- erg to go along with that racket. ene Bakery "| Sweet wa Sour voi hee Breads 342 E. HASTINGS ST. PA. 8419 SALLY BOWES— INCOME TAX PROBLEMS. Room 20, 9 Hast Hastings: MA. 9965. — s O.K. RADIO SERVICE. Latest Factory Precision Equipment Used. MARINE SERVICE. 1420 Pender St. W. TA. 1012. PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS: : Highest Prices Paid for _ DIAMONDS, OLD GOLD Other Valuable Jewellry STAR LOAN CO. Ltd. Est. 1905 719 Robson St. — MAr. 2622 ee nD.NE NEED TO SUFFER egies Impetigo, — ran Ringworm, itch, Burns, Shingles, Chafing, Skin Blemishes, etc. USE SOOTHING HEALING ‘XMR OINTMENT he box at Druggists or 0. Box 967, Vancouver OFFER TO DEBATE ‘EXPERTS’ Research Bureau, Vancouver: increase. at any time. democratic procedure? Challenge BCE findings BERT MARCUSE and EMIL BJARNASON, Trade Union We were astounded and shocked to read jn Wisse papers that the two alleged experts engaged by the City of Vancouver to study the BCElectric’s ‘claim to a fare increase have found that the increase is justified. We take strong exception to their findings. to know why, we would be delighted ‘to supply them with the considerable amount of evidence we have in our office, which conclusively proves that the BCER has NO right to a fare Still better, and’ in the interest of the people of Vancouver, we are prepared to meet the city’s Or does their sympathy for the BCER rule out even this If they wish “experts” im public debate LETTERS DIGEST Mitchell’s words don’t match his actions CSU SEAMAN, Vancouver: I write this letter as a rank-and-file witness and participant in the Canadian Seamen’s Union world- wide strike. I happened to read in the Vancouver Sun that Labor Minister) Mitchell made quite a speech on Labor Day. It took me back to the foc’sle of the SS. Argojohn on April 18. That day we arrived in the port of Long Beach, California.’ Now let’s return to Mitchell's speech; to that part where he said that “an employer must ac- cept completely the right of his employees to bargain with him through a union of their own choice.” This was not the case when it came to our strike to maintain a union of our own choice; and especially not the case aboard the S.S. Argojofn. We had lived up to our end of the agreement, but the master had not, nor did the company in eastern Canada. We were threatened by the captain and chief officer, as well as by armed Seafarers’ International Union goon squads, and told to “join the SIU or else.” We phoned our Canadian gov- ernment representative in San Francisco, and he replied that he had washed his hands of the whole matter. In Los Angeles, both the British and Canadian consuls were asked to hear our side of the story, buf to no avail. They did not appear in the U.S. federal cogrt, where we were charged by the company, which was seeking to remove us from the ship. The consul did, however. give the employers a paper sign- ed. by Labor Minister Mitchell. stating that anything the ¢rew had done was illegal ag far as he was concerned, or words to that effect. The U.S. federal court ordered us off the ship, and due to good legal help we managed to get all monies and transpor- tation fares coming to us under the union agreement. United States longshoremen and | seamen knew. the score and back- ed the CSU. They also knew that Humphrey Mitchell stood back end watched the employers vio- late every law in the book. He failed to pull the wool over their eyes, and despite his pretty La- bor Day speech they know just what kind of a “labor represen- tative” he really is. Fe Ae G (KINGSTON, Vancouver: The present elaborate controv- ersy over the Weir and Buchan versions of “O Canada” has not. only been occupying a great deal of newspaper space but also the: attention of many honest people whose combined opinions, if ef- _ fectively utilized, might decide that due to the inappropriateness of either version, no more op- portune time than the present could be found for the discarding of both. A statement worthy of suspi- cion has been broadcast that Can- ada is the finest and best country in the world in which to live. When I consider that 11 members of our family of 12, third gener- ation Canadians, still survive (and the youngest now 50 years of age) I suppose I should recog-— nize a fraction of truth in the statement. But one cannot over-— look the ever-increasing political exploitation, parliamentary in- sufficiencies, economic insecurity and other unpleasant characteris- tics of our national domain. : : * * * : L. BRIMACOMBE, New West- minster: As an old subscriber to the Worker, Clarion and Pacific Tribune, I would like to help in the present subscription drive. Please send me a book or two of sub blanks. Having met three probable subscribers today at the plant, I think I can help to some extent at least. PACIFIC TRIBUNE — SEPTEMBER 30, 1949 — PAGE It /