Kelowna, Britisli Columbia, Thursday, September 2.3R‘D, 1943 NUMBER 9 I
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Canada At War T h e K e l o w n a C o u r i e r A Review of Developments on the Home Front VOLUM E 40 Kelowna, Britisli Columbia, Thursday, September 2.3r‘d, 1943 NUMBER 9 I . Women and children, the sick, aged and inhrm, will be THESE MEN CONDUQ ALLIED INVASION OF ITALY given preference in THE REPATRIATION of Canadians in TOMATO CROP the exchange with Japan. About 200 Canadians are expected Sawmills^ Employees to be brought back out of the one or TWO THOUSAND m IS RESULT OF Japan or Jap-occupied territory, in the exchange now under i ' way. The Secretary of State for Itxternal Affairs has been MANY FACTORS Return to W ork After unable to get any list of names of those selected for repatria // tion. The Japanese ship carrying them has already LEFT Acreage___ ^ Down And Season Poor For Ripening Combine ■*'^1 JAPAN and no further word is expected until it reaches Goa, 'V -, * to Make Cannery Shortage— Voluntary ^^Holiday the port of exchange in Portugese India, about the middle of Heavy Semi-Ripe Shipment 1 October. The steamship GRIPSHOLM, carrying the Japanese /‘"'t v ' ) If % PRICE ALSO A FACTOR A Hundred And Ten Employees Of S. M. Simpson exchanges, is already on the way to Goa. Being unable to > V. i ' Ltd. And Kelowna Sawmill Co, Did Not Turn Up specify by name the Canadians whose release should come first, l-A I * » Growers Lost Interest While T o . m For Work On Friday But Returned To Jobs This the Dominion Government laid down CERTAIN PRINCI O tta w a Debated — Little Week After Being Advised By Provincial Depart Larger Subsidy Would Have PLES by which the Swiss protecting power was guided. The Vi ment Of Labor To Do So—Point At Issue Seems priorities run: Women with children, particularly small chil A ssisted To Be Solely Recognition Of C.C.L. Union— dren ; women generally, the sick,— f aged— and----- infirm,' those suffer-^ ^ A pcason and unusually cold Union Not Certified By Provincial Department inir hardship, husbands and fathers to be united with families nights have tended to make a light ” _ * . A . A At _ A T> tomato crop this year, and this lact, But Nevertheless Men Want Company To Recog and, finally, the young men. At present there is NU AK- pJyg q reduction of about two hund- nize It—Wages Are Not Factor In Dispute RANGEMENT with Japan for the exchange of wounded Can- red acres in Uils area alone, accounts * vv I J 1 o ^At,„„ for the shortage of tomatoes reach- adian fighting men, but negotiations arc continuing. Anotner canning factories, in the preference was given with respect to CERTAIN AREAS. Out ^Company Able To Maintain Essential Services of the 200 to be repatriated in the present exchange, about oU while frost has done little actual win rnme from Honfr KonP harm, the cold nights do tend to re- I ENDING a work stoppage that they had commenced on Fri- will come irom iiong xvong. ripening of the tomatoes day morning, thirty-four employees of the Kelowna Saw in the field, and the ripening has mill Co. went back to their Jobs on Monday morning and on The Dominion Bureau of Statistics reported the total been so slow that, unless the wea- in c xJuii-au , , A ther becomes extremely favorable, Tuesday were followed by seventy-five of the staff of S. M, VALUE OF FISH marketed in Canada last year was $75,040,- Jg probable that many of the to- IL Simpson Ltd. On Tuesday evening officials of the companies 919, compared with $62,258,997 in 1941. SE-| FISHERIES matoe^now on the vines will not met representatives of the groups to commence collective ^ contributed $65,933,167, or 88 per cent, and the inland fisheries All contracts between growers bargaining. ' $9,107,752,or 12.per cent. The SA L M O N F IS H E R Y was ^ 7 The work stoppage seemed to be centred around the re cognition of the Canadian Congress of Labor B.C. Woodwork far the m ost im portant,” its value of production of $22,926,861 pJeJ^ Beml-rlpes, after August 15th, ers Local Number 4 as the bargaining agency of the groups. ...in 1942 representing----- „ 31 .per cent of the total for^ all kinds of canner. ^ As are all labor disputes, the situation was involved, but appar fish.won. iFollowing, w .c, •**in W.VAA.Aorder ofV.. ...A.marketed______ ______value,, w_____________ as: Herring,, $10,-, This___ clause_____ of the contract has ently there is no questipn of wages, hours or similar strike -»U1 836,522; cod, $9,962,312; lobster, $5,084,558, and whitefish, $3,- ‘Sbi? hVs GENERAL, MARK CLARK GENERAL ALEXANDER causes being in dispute in this case. 055,373. BRITISH COLUMBIA took first place in order of been m ore or less Ignored. He lands the armies on Italy’s shores. He puts them to work when they land. Tearing away the fog and touch- ing the essentials, insofar as poss marketed value of product, while Nova Scotia was second and 2oS*T'e"c^ereTpJmach^d'‘^ e Sailors To Pick Apple ible, the situation seems to be as New Brunswick third. Vegetable Board and asked that it follows: • take steps to see that the clause was MUNICIPAL Crop For Nova Most of the employees of Kelow enforced. The Board took the atti- Local Victory Loan na Sawmill Co. became members Juvenile delinquency in B.C. is NOT INCREASING, Mag- tude that the contract was a two- of the newly formed C.C.L. union. COPENTION Scotia ’The, maJority of the employees of istrate H. S. Wood, of Vancouver, found when he made a sur- ^^er^d^tSrthi^Board*h^^ the Simpson company also Joined the C.C.L. local, but a considerable vev recently of the whole Juvenile court set-up in the province, responsibility. However, it did say Committee Makes Plans SUCCESSFUL H ow Come? -ai J u that it felt it had some moral re- percentage of the older employees The report was presented to Attorney-General M aitland, who gponsibility and would do what it That is the general question preferred to stick to the Simpson being asked here following the asked th e M agistrate to m ake it, w ith the idea of M O D E R N - could to assist. Employees Association, an organi For Fifth Campaign A lderm an O. L. Jones Played arrival in the Okanagan of the zation representing th e. employees IZING / ND IMPROVING provincial Juvenile courts. The ei?°S T te? Sepfem^ 1^^^ Prominent Part, Mayor Mc Kcntville, N.S., Advertiser of but not affiliated with the C.C.L. K ay Says September 16th. or any other organized labor body. magistrate found that boys presented worse problems than should stop picking seml-ripes from The Annapolis Valley paper More Salesmen Will Be Used To Cover Whole Cen carries a story stating that one Union Not Recognized girls except in V ictoria and V E R N O N . In Victoria,, he said, *'°H(wevor, ^ e ^ w e r e some ^ow - His Worship Mayor G. A. McKay The dispute between the two tral Okanagan In The Fifth Victory Loan Cam— told the City Council on Monday thousand soldiers and sailors are the Juvenile court magistrate told him many young girls, 14 ers ^ o did not have contra^ an^ being released to assist the Nova groups in the Simpson company paign Which Opens On October ISth-^—LoLocal night c a that - the — convention. - of B.C.. went on for some weeks, and on, c.Avxand 15aaa years, wait..A*..- .about................... militaryA----- j ------and---------- other encampments------ ^ --------- and' ---- acTcage than toey- -had - under- con- ScotL apple growers to pick Quota Not Yet Announced But It Is Hoped There hs their crop. It carries a state August 2nd the officials of the com PICK UP SOLDIERS and sailors, “with unfortunate results.” ti^ct. TTiis “free’’ acreage was still ment from the apple marketing pany stated that they would enter ------- w w , , , , , . ■ u available for semi-nnesemi-ripe and mature Will Be Little, If Any, Increase-Much Money In had ever attended. collective bargaining negotiations Magistrate Wood recommended that the probation system be green picking. board saying that “one thous Local Savings Accounts Which Must Be Pried was^one^ofJhe^^^^^^ and men will be made available with any group which was recog extended to all young offenders, as far as possible. He sug- The Board instructed its selling nized as representing ithe maJority V.AI....1AVJ.V.U Av. uAA _^ vaaa.aj3 ■AAAAA.AAA.A—w, A.W — ^ , ,7 T>T7« oTP^ sgencv, B. C.'Treo Fruits Ltd., to Loose, Committee Is Told—^C. Oliphant Returns ship stated, “Everything possible for apple pickihg from the naval of the employees and had been gested that young offenders, if committed to Oakalla,BE SEG- accept only the semi-ripes and mat- base at Deep Brook.” certified as the bargaining agency REGAT:^ from hardened criminals; that Juvenile court ure greens from this “free acreage.” As Organizer And Opens Headquarters in Foster ^nd.^tooil^'tSreand, although there wars^^utthwas some little The question here is how men by the Provincial Department of “We feel that we have co-operat- Block difficulty about billeting, everyone can be released from service in Labor. Judges should make annual reports to the Government, there Turn to page 5, story 4 was extremely happy about the Nova Scotia but not in the Ok C.C.L.