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THE FISHERMAN
Mdrch 11, I960
New Westminster WA All Set for Convention
By ELVA PERKES
New Westminster WA, meeting at the home of Molly Amundspn last week, completed its arrangements for the Women's Auxiliary convention in Dontenwell Hall, New Westminster, this coming Sunday, March 13, for which it will be the hostess organisation.
SS=?Peace Mission to Victoria '
Rouses MLA s, Raises Hopes
Named as members of the working committee to arrange for ban-
Henry Homer Dead at 64
Henry Homer, one of Sointula's pioneer residents, passed away February 29 following an illness that kept him two weeks in the Alert Bay Hospital.
A logger and fisherman most of his life and a member of the United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union, Henry came to Sointula while still a boy.
He was born in Finland on February 1, 1896, and old timers still recall that he gave his first violin solo at 12 years of age. The community afterward bought him a violin which he retained to the last as a cherished possession.
Henry was always a unionist while fishing and only last year bought a gillnetter.
Surviving him are his wife Kay in Sointula and a son Kenny of New Westminster.
Ken left Sointula with his wife and children two years ago and is himself a fisherman. Readers of The Fisherman will recall his cartoons which have appeared from time to time.
In addition to his family, Henry Homer leaves to mourn his passing a host of friends, many of whom attended funeral services in Sointula.
ners, slogans and decorations were Toni Oikawa, Elsie Sigmund, Hazel Patterson and Jeanne Amundsen.
New Westminster WA's own delegates, elected at the meeting, will be Mickey Hilton and Elsie Sigmund. The meeting also named fraternal delegates, two of whom will attend daily, to the UFAWU convention, which opens this Saturday, March 12.
Conducted by Frances Amundsen and attended by 10 members, the meeting heard reports from secretary Elsie Sigmund and treasurer Mary Wilcox.
Business dealt with under correspondence included a coastguard meeting called for March 8, to which Frances Amundsen and Max-ine Hansen were chosen as delegates, and an invitation from New Westminster May Day Committee to participate in the centennial parade and ceremonies.
The WA is planning a Hard Times dance and smoker to be held in South Westminster Hall on April 1, proceeds from which will be contributed toward furnishings for the new Union Hall. Music will be by Len Alton's band. Tickets are $1 each. The next meeting will be held at Mickey Beagle's home on April 14.
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The following names of donors to the bake sale were unintentionally omitted from the list given in the last issue: Mrs. A. Anderson, Mrs. Stoessiger and Karen Nelson. Their help was appreciated, of course.
Union Dues Are Your BEST Investment!
You Have the Floor
Give Black Ba Workers Vot
Editor, The Fisherman:
So this is democracy! I am referring to the decision handed down recently by the Labor Relations Board in the waterfront dispute.
I have seen mothers with small children give them a slap on the backside and say "Mother knows best." But for a handful of men to tell approximately 135 Black Ball seamen, fully grown men with minds of their own (except for a few) what is best for them, is definitely not democratic nor fair.
How about it, you the public, don't you think we are entitled to a vote so we can prove to ourselves just what we think is to our own benefit?
PAT HORTON, (employee Black Ball Ferries).
Nanaimo, BC.
By  PAT HILLAND
"Oh but Pat," said the voice on the phone, "you're about the only one of us who can go this week, besides you'll really enjoy it." And so, with this encouragement from the peace group and with my husband's quiet "You deserve it" (or, on second thoughts, maybe he was saying "They deserve it"), I put my duster away and set out to join the delgation to do battle in Victoria against, atomic dust.
We mot in the shadow of the Sun Tower, everyone in cheerful disorder, greeting old friends and meeting new ones until the last stragglers had panted in, whereupon placards and banners were handed around and I must say that we looked a mighty determined bunch: so much so, in fact, that a Vancouver Sun reporter appeared on the scene with the greeting, "Take me to your leader." Photographs were taken, and with banners waving we clambered aboard the bus for Horseshoe Bay and the Nanaimo ferry.
Never having travelled to Victoria by this route before, I found it a most enjoyable trip. Once aboard the ferry, we went in search of refreshments and so, sipping coffee and eating pie, the two hours passed quickly enough.
Nanaimo appeared cold and dark and although we rubbed the steam from the bus windows and peered out, all we could see were the lights of cafes and gas stations as we sped through the night to the capital.
Arriving at our destination at last, we all gathered sleepily in the lobby to be assigned to our rooms. But—you know how women
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Disarmament Urged In CCF Resolution
MLA Leo Nimsick (CCF, Cranbrook) has placed a resolution on the order paper of the BC Legislature calling for total world disarmament with Canada leading the way.
Full text of the resolution, supported by the CCF members of the legislature, declares:
"That this Assembly urges the federal government to give consideration to the following policies in order that Canada may play a more positive role in the strengthening of world peace. "i   Full support of total world disarmament and of all practical
proposals and steps toward this end. "9   Progressive disarmament by Canada so that she may take
the lead in showing the way to world peace. "O   Voluntary renunciation of the use of nuclear weapons by and in Canada.
"A   Support the cessation of all nuclear tests and the elimination
of all nuclear weapons. "K   That Canada should use the savings from such policies to
begin in earnest a war against poverty and to provide credits to the industrially underdeveloped countries for the purchase of goods in this country.
"g   Continued support of the United Nations as a means of pre-serving world peace and solving problems of international relations."
are—we were all so busy talking that the harassed room clerk almost went crazy trying to organise three women to room 501 and four to 502 and so on.
I don't think the elevator operator will be the same again either, because as soon as we got up to our rooms, we decided we must have something to eat before bedding down, so down we went again. And when 40 women do exactly the same thing, the result is chaos. The last I saw of the poor man, he was pinned against the wall of his elevator gasping for breath!
The morning dawned clear, sunny and cold and by nine o'clock we were ready to march, 70 of us three abreast, with our banners and placards raised high.
Faces began to appear at office   windows,   early morning shoppers stopped in some astonishment to watch, and I noticed that where in other years some people  Ihurried   by   with eyes averted in embarrassment, this year they stopped to read each one of the placards. On   arrival   at   the Parliament Bulidings. we divided into teams, each team with a list of MLAs to interview. At 11 o'clock we met with nine
Social Credit MLAs, none of whom would commit themselves on the question of banning nuclear weapons from Canadian soil. Their view seemed to be one of keeping our powder dry and maintaining our defences.
The only exception was Cyril Shelford, MLA for Omineca, who thought nuclear weapons in this country only spurred the arms race.
At noon we marched back uptown for lunch and roused a great deal of interest, possibly because Victoria was in the midst of a "Do It Now" campaign and their signs mingled with ours very well, I thought.
We met with the CCF caucus after   lunch   and  were assured that a strong resolution on peace would   be   placed   before the House by the CCF within the coming few days. At two o'clock our faithful bus driver was waiting for us outside the Parliament Buildings and we were ready for the return journey home.
We left the MLAs in their seats, mopping their brows perhaps, but with a lot to think about and not least the feelings of their constituents on the issue most important to all of us—peace!
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