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Newspaper
Abbotsford Post
Location
Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Jun 20, 1919
Page
4
The Fraser Valley Record reports a school board meeting discussing provincial funding for high schools and centralizing facilities including Domestic Science and Manual Training. It covers education for Orientals, training returned soldiers as teachers, and the push for regular inspections and unified public schooling.
Industrial department of the Citizen's League is computing Vancouver's food supply by totaling visible stores and warehouse stocks plus incoming supplies. The goal is to inform civic authorities of current and potential shortages during strike conditions and to plan emergency steps. The Communications department has mobilized fifty girls to maintain city service, and a new Vancouver Citizen four page morning paper will be distributed on the streets.
A concise note highlights the Strike Bulletin as the daily sheet steered by the strike committee. It emphasizes its role in disseminating updates and coordinating activities for the labor action.
The Hatzic Flower Show opened in Halse Hall on June 12 with perfect sun and a good crowd. Government judges praised the exhibition as outstanding, noting roses and other blooms in top condition. Winners include Mrs. Fripp and Mrs. Hickling across multiple rose and peony classes, with divisions for perennials, pansies, irises, and house plants.
New Westminster June 18 unions except retail clerks milk and bread drivers ordered to go out at 1 oclock in sympathy with Winnipeg after a hurried general strike committee meeting condemned the government for arresting strike leaders. A telegram was sent to Ottawa stating the strike is in protest and Typographical and Postal Unions vow to ignore the order, with some saying they will remain at work.
Postmaster General Burleson extends collective bargaining rights to electrical and telephone workers and other Post Office staff including telegraph operators and postal employees. The decision, announced to the American Federation of Labor convention by P F H McCarthy, follows a Washington trip by the committee.
The town sets tax rates at 10 mills for improved property and 40 mills on wild land with a school rate of 5 mills and 60 percent of improvements taxed. Payments are due by August 31 with a 16 percent penalty after. A monster picnic and dance is planned July 12 by Farmers Institute and Orange Lodge at the Orange Hall. Also noted are strawberry prices, near beer joints in Huntingdon, and a list of local horticultural and prize-winning entries from a community show, including house plants decor and garden divisions with multiple winners.
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