First issue of Eskimo magazine
hits the stands in Yellowknife:

the stands here last week. It is called Inukitut (pronounced Ee-nook-tee-toot) and it means
“The Eskimo Way.” Published under the authority of Northern Affairs Minister Alvin Ham-
ilton, the new periodical is not only for Eskimos in the Eskimo language, but was’ produced by
Eskimos.

The first issue includes an
Eskimo’s account of last year’s
goodwill mission to Greenland,
some Eskimo folk-tales sent in
by people from Igloolik, a-
story of a hunting adventure
by. a man who was a sana-
torium patient not long ago,
and numerous other articles.

There is also a children’s } eee :
page; and there are excellent ¢ ee
illustrations drawn by Eskimos
including the magazine’s art
editor, Miss Mary Panegoosho,
who also designed the cover.

The magazine, edited en-
tirely by Eskimos uses the
Eskimo syllabic form of writ-
ing, mimeographed with use of
a specially-built Eskimo type-
‘ writer.

i : Thuktitut succeeds the form-
is : er Eskimo Bulletin, a publica-
be ; tion dealing with such subjects
i as caribou conservation and the
maintenance of boat engines.
Under its new name the mag-
azine will invite Eskimos to
send in their own stories, en-
courage literary endeavor and
the expression of opinion, and
publish photos and reproduc-
“ tions of Eskimo art.

“This is a great step forward
in the preservation and devel-
opment of the Eskimo culture,”
said Hamilton. “Now, for the
first time, Eskimos will have
their own publication as an out-
let for their creative talents.”

SOCRED

By WILLIAM TUOMI
~ EDMONTON — In a land-
slide vote, reminiscent in
many ways of the early days
of Social Credit, the Manning
as government was returned to
Me power in Alberta for its
; 7 seventh consecutive term.
+ After an election campaign
tae -which all pundits predicted
would end in a minority gov-

At the National Museum in Ottawa samples of Eskimo works
of art are on display and attract great attention. Carvings,
done in ivory or stone, are favorites of visitors,

paign which was intended: to
prove to the most doubtful
Albertan that they would win.
Nothing was spared for glit-
tering printed material. Radio
and TV blared Tory promises
of an Alberta-version of the
“vision of 1958.” Candidates,
many of whom flocked to the
“winner” from other parties,
adopted the Diefenbaker pose

—and this in the final min-
utes of the count. Forty-two
of them lost their deposits.

Significantly, it was the
farm vote that dealt the most
telling blows to Tory . hopes,
Whereas a year ago this same
vote swept the Social Credit
federal members out of office,
‘this -year it rejected the
Tories as effectively as they

Credit, 61; Liberals, 1; Con-
servatives, 1; a government-
supporting Social Credit in-
‘dependent, 1; and a Liberal-
Conservative-Independent, 1.
ere cytes: When the election debris
Bee ee was cleaned up the morning
e 3 after-the vote, there wasn’t
enough left of the Tory party
to pick up the ‘pieces. That
this should happen after. the
Manitoba and .Ontario provin-
cial votes came as one-of the
biggest surprises of the Al-
berta campaign.
The Tories put on a cam-

the provincial Tory leader an-
nounced his’ new Tory gov-
ernment would call the first
session of the legislature for
Sept. 24 and announced five
pieces of legislation that they
would act on immediately.
Thirty-six hours after this
announcement, and 20 min-
utes after the polls closed on
election day, he took to the
air again to concede his de-
feat to a relative newcomer in
provincial politics.
- Out of 58 Tory candidates
‘running, only one won a seat

the demands of the spring |
'“March on Ottawa” and the
1959 federal budget tax in-
creases left little doubt in the
minds of voters as to what
Tory promises meant.

Once again Albertans re-
mind each other, and _ this
time rather jubilantly, that
“we have never elected a

ince’s 54-year history.”

The Liberal demise was ex-
pected: Only the party hacks
kept the shadow flitting
around the edges of the elec-

YELLOWKNIFE, NWT — The first issue of Canada’s only all-Eskimo magazine hit ‘

ernment because of the ex- in their campaign photo- were rejected 20 years ago in.
pected Tory gains, the new — graphs. the province. Diefenbaker’s
legislature is now: Social The day before the vote, hard-faced refusal to consider

Tory government in our prov-"

“The attack on our right to
organize, to bargain codllec-
tively, to strike and to picket
is part and parcel of the na-
tion-wide attack on the entire
trade union moyement,” says
a letter sent by the United
Fishermen and Allied Work-
ers Union to hundreds of
trade union and political fig-
ures last week.

In its letter the UFAWU
appeals for support against a
statement issued Joni nid De DY,
MacDonald of the Combines
branch which says. that fish-
ermen are neither “workmen”
or “employees” but an “as-
sociation of primary produc-
ers” and no different from a
company..

The UFAWU says these ac-
cusations are false and mis-
leading. Fishing is hard, dan-
gerous work; fishermen are
workmen entitled to the same
basic rights as all other work-
men. The UFAWU is a trade
union of workmen and em-
ployees,

The Combines Investigation
Act, the union points out, was
designed to curb “monopolies,
mergers, cartels and trusts.”

Its intent, it notes, was “to
protect the small man, the
public, against the big ‘com-.
bines.

‘Tt has been earned upside
down in its use as a new un-

. ion-busting device. If it suc-

ceeds against the organized
fishermen it will be turned
against other trade unions.

“Not long ago the construc-
“ton, COR RORTAe in Ontario

tion campaign.

The Social Credit campaign
rested entirely’ on the past
performance of the govern-
ment and this was confined
largely to the financial posi-
“tion: of the province, That it
was the result of the sell-out
and give-away. of natural re-
sources could not be made the
central question of the debate.

The Tories, Liberals and
unfortunately the CCF — all
who had agreed with it — re-
ae to maké it the main is-

- of the’ elections, and
ouhe in. fact have continued
‘the same policy had they been
elected.

It is generally agreed now,
that the 56 percent who voted
Secial Credit did not do so to

“endorse Manning’s policies as

much as to guarantee that the
Tories would not get in.
The CCF in the province
will need to search for mean-
ings in the vote, With 31 can-
didates in the field, they em-
erged a poor fourth when the

Union asks suppo
on Combines iss

July. 3,1959 — PACIFIC TRIBU

called for Combin
against® the building
unions. Similar action |
be taken against miners
gers, barbers, taxi dr
any other organized 8
In its letter the union !
to the Fisheries
refusal to bargain:
prices and the stand of
fleet that it will strike ¥
contracts are signed. .
fishermen will remain
until a pact is sey
signed. :
MPs, MLAs, mayors,
and councillors are U
the UFAWU to demant
Ottawa “stop the m
the Combines Branch 2
steps to re-establish collet
-bargaining in this indu

MICHEL, B.C. —
Local 7292; United
Workers of America,

‘elected the following of
and committee men 10
coming term:
President, Tony Pc
vice-president, George —
nion; recording secret
Stan Grocutt; secretary-
urer, Sam English.
A Seam pit coms
Steve Harmatny, Jock!
Edwin Whalley, Ande
rusko.
B Seam committee:
Venzi, John Desjardin
Outside committee: —
Halko, Paul Challa.

vote was counted. 8
seats held in the last egi
ture were lost.
The political quack
hucksterism that had
to mark election —
in the last years a :
CCF candidates. Only
last days of the camp
the Edmonton organi
publish a new and
election platform,
it the question of propo:
bomb tests in the Athabi
River valley. In the |
riding, the CCF candi¢
clared, publicly that th
tral question of the e
was the fight for peac
The question of an ef
alternative to the thre
line parties in the p
looms bigger now befo:
labor and farm mov
the CCF and LPP. It.
still greater urgency -
decision of the Alberta
eration of Labor meetin
3 to reject the CCE’s f

for formation of a new P