T He Kelowna Courier

EDITORIAL T he K e l o w n a C o u r ie r Kelowna. I'ritish (olnnihia, 'rhurs(l:iy, July 2 0 lh , 1944 NUMHItK 52 [The Council And Tag Days V'Ol.UME 40 On Monday night the City Council indulged in a long de bate on whether or run the 9th Armored A uA iliary should be BEST CHERRY THREE MORE permitted to hold a tag day. Jt was not the 9th Armored or Tag Day Policy Is Increase In Pay And Its work that was at stake in the debate, hut the whole policy of the City Council in respect to the gran'ting of tag day per CROP NOW CASUALTIES mits. Shortly after the outbreak of war, the City Council, Broken Wide Open realizing that*there would be a great demand for tag days, laid FINISHING IN DISTRICT Closed Shop Sought down a policy that there should be no more than .six granted each year. This policy has been adhered to until Monday By Councils Action Finest In Valley’s History— Two Soldiers Killed And One night. The 9th Armored applied for a tag day but were told Cots Now Peaking In South Airman Missing In European that their ap[)lication could not be granted, as the six days were Fighting By City Employees Granting Of Tag Day To 9th Armored Auxiliary Re Late Wednesday Ottawa an- I ................ ..... , already filled. iiouiiocd an Increase In the sub Three more casualties have been A second application was made Monday night, and after a verses Council’s Former Policy Of Restricting sidy of apricots and peaches to recorded In this district as a result long discussion the Council split three to two in favor of grant Tag Days To Six Each Year And Will Make It tlie canneries. On botlt fruits of military ojHjrations in Europe. Estimate That Proposed Wage Increases Will Cost ing the request. The sixth alderman was absent at the time, the increase is ^7.S0 per ton, Two soldiers are reported dead and City Another $16,000 A Year—Fire Hall Exten Difficult For Council To Refuse Any Further Re briiiffins the cot subsidy to one airman is reported missing. but indicated tliat had he been present he would have opposed quests—Aldermen Jones And Ladd Pair Off In $32.CO and the peach subsidy to Pte. Clarence Simpson Bonie, of sion Shelved As Result Of Employees’ Union De the resolution, making a tie vote and making it necessary for $42JS0. Winfield, is reported to have been mands—Union Seeks A Closed Shop In Which Hot Debate With Aldermen Hiighes-Games And . killed in operations In France on H is W orship to cast the deciding vote. This would indicate The final straight car of cherries juiy g. He was In an infantry unit, All Civic Employees Must Be Members Of The that there is a very serious split in the City Council on this Sutherland—Pettigrew Voted For Resolution To for Uils season roUed out of the ^ 3 ,„ther Is Victor Borrle, chief of Union—Asks That Common Labor Be Increas matter. Make It Three To Two—Alderman Miller Ab Okanagan on Wednesday, bringing Winfield Indian Reserve, The Council was wise, we believe, in attempting to restrict sent, But On Return Stated Would Have Opposed the straight cur shipments to 170 ptc. Vernon Wallace Miller is of ed From 55 To 65 Cents Per Hour—Aldermen’s the number of tag days during the year. Whatever the cause, fer the season, and concluding the flclally reported to have died of Resolution finest cherry season the Okanagan rounds In France. He was attached Reaction Is That If Demands Are Met There Will tag days are a nuisance to merchants and shoppers, and when has experienced. q paratroop battalion. His father Have To Be A Curtailment Of Civic Services And they come with frequent regularity are a source of irritation The crop ran sixty per cent over resides In Kelowna and his mother . A Reduction In City Staff—Committee Named anc:1 resentment. N E of the most protracted debates in the City Council this the estimate and was of an exceed- Vancouver. Mrs. Irene Hall, of However, the City Council has now jettisoned its former year centred on Monday night around the question of ing high quaUty. Cars were shlp^d Winfield, is a sister. Pie. Miller died To Investigate Agreements In Other Cities And . «___ I __ O as fur afleld as Halifax, St John, wounds on Juno 29. There are sane and sound policy and has placed itself in the position of tag days and whether or not more should be granted, The N.B., and Quebec City. j-ûr other brothers in the services. Deal With Union Committee being unable to logically refuse to accede to the request of any Council, shortly after the outbreak of war, agreed that tag days One of the reasons that the crop Qê in France, one In England and organization for a tag day. This conceivably may mean that should be limited to six each year, and that policy has been ad- ran so far above the estimates was ^^ro In Canada that splitUng was praotlcaUy non- gg,. George Orlando Olson, R.C. instead of six tag days a year the people of this city and dis- hered to until the present time. On Monday night, however, exirienL ’^ e growers were favored ^.F.. son of Swan Olson. East Ke- Sutherland-Jones Passage trict may be plagued with a dozen or even eighteen. in the absence of Alderman Miller, the policy was broken wide wlth excellent harvest weather and jowna. Is officially reported missing --------------------------- This situation is exactly that which the City Council tried open when by a three to two vote the 9th Armored Auxiliary w R h T M m u i If ^ f lo S No^rmaUy! „ a n v ‘on ^ of a union a closed shop and a sub.stantial in- to avoid in the fall of 1939, when it decided to curtail the num- was given permission to hold a tag day in September, leaving splitting reduces the crop by fifteen w illl^ Eelswig, son of Mr. ■ crease in the rates of pay were the demands made upon u her of tag days and was instrumental in the formation 6 f the the way open for the granting of any tag days that may be to twenty per cent, but this year Mrs. Dan Reiswlg,’ of Ellison, the City Council on Monday in a proposed agreement submit- Kelowna and District War Activities Committee. This latter requested in the future, such was not the case. jg reported officially to be a ted by the Kelowna Civic Em ployees’ Union, which is a. feder- organization conducted one appeal each year for war charities The Coundll, however, Is making havr^S jl'y chartered local of the Canadian Congress of Labor. In a and allocated funds it received to those local organizations en- claims have been confined to a few 3^^ ^ras then listed as missing, but hurriedly made and admittedly rough estimate, Alderman O. gaged in war work in the proportions it felt were^ equitable be Umfted to HOSTESS CLUB against the early varleUes. at the end of the week word was L. Jones, chairman of the Finance committee, stated that the When the Dominion Government decided that a number tagging and will'be prohibited from tnade at the price received that he is now a prisons, proposed increase in wages demanded would cost the city about of the organizations should be financed from the public treas- contacting businesses or stores for TAG DAY IS The\ootenays are just beginning thl^* weplTw^^ Pte!^HiÎ^^ $16,000 a year. The result of the demands was the immediate I ury and when the Red Cross became more and more demand- doMtions. _ to pick, shipping two cars. Creston gt^ on of Mrs. Mary Gundy, Ethel hoiJsting of the proposed extension to the Fire Hall, which has ing upon the purse of the local committee, the local organiza- J o ^ ^ g^d^^Ladd ?r'^sin^for” me has a ls o ^ lp p ^ two .cars. Street,' Kelowna, who, was slightly been urged for several years by the Fire Brigade and which this SUCCESS Some difficulty is expected with mounded. ^ ^ J . tion was permitted to die quietly. ^ permit to be granted the 9th Arm- apricot marketing, as there aire in year was given the first call on any surplus. Authority to pro Now, however, it would seem time to revive it to rescue ored Auxiliary, and Aldermen dications that the hot weather will ceed with the proposed extension would have been given at I the general public from the plethora of tag days to which they Sutherland and Hughes-Gês op- Over Seven Hundred Dollars bring the crop on all at once. This ____ posing It on principle. Alderman Raised In Annual Appeal Monday’s Council meeting had the derpands of the employees’ crop is peaking at Osoyoos now, PUMP HOUSE union not been received. * are now exposed. -i i, • u 4. i j-v, i ^ Pettigrew took little active part in whil6 Oliver vrill reach its peak W e believe the City Council should take the lead m the the debate, and Alderman Miller The Kelowna Servicemen’s Host about the 22nd. Cots are moving ------------------------ —------------—---- . Civic employees here have had formation of a central com m ittee to which could ■ be added rep- had been called to attend another ess Club tag day, held on Saturday freely in mixed and straight cars.

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