Noted American composer ce Robinson, U.S. folk ay and composer (Lone- © Train, Sandhog, Ballad ian erieans), will be the entenni artist at the a tal Annual Labor Pic- North Confederation Park, _ 2urnaby on August 10. “aes is" well known to er audiences, having Visite ls d here on several previ- 9Ccasions, teenie attraction at the thas Will be the crowd- Dover Wrestlers, who have h @d g Popular drawing card ee years. Two bouts will Staged, ee committee officials Wee a Pacific Tribune this ahd at there will be races Pony rides for the child- all ames for grownups; and and € usual variety of foods "efreshments. ey vill pighlight of the picnic {ome ; & ceremony to honor ‘ labor veterans, chosen PP clubs. to represent the Min this centennial’ year. ay °nly woman so honor- Sentin elen Mathieson, repre- . & Hastings East club. Wo oe to Vancouver in Worker has been an active laboy Mm the socialist and 4 ,. Movement for more than Years, Gotiqued from page will appear at Labo 3 MRS. HELEN MATHIESON Back in the “teens” of this century Helen Mathieson was secretary and social director in the Socialist Party of Can- ada. In 1933 she joined the Communist party, and is a charter member of its succes- sor; = the Labor-Progressive party. During the Hungry Thirties she was an executive member and fluent spokesman, along with the late A. M. Stephen, in the League Against War and Fascism. During the Spanish War she acted as treasurer of the Friends of the Mackenzie- Papineau Battalion here. At 72, Helen Mathieson 1s still an active member of a ratepayer group, and a staunch fighter for socialism. “We are | DEMONSTRATION Cnt " the A Strength. But although *eports 10 stations gave full {hg ae newscasts, the Sun Dorter.: Vince killed their re- Legh Stories at the news fap, Ue four-column photo- ‘ition *ppeared in the early Was , ©! the Province, then ing oti from the morn- T Cj . demonstration, timed to ot 4, With the first meeting heags, Canadian and U.S. by os State, was organized the La Women’s committee of T-Progressive party. thes the dozen women and Uy a Men began marching »: front down Burrard Street lhe a of the Marine Build- {Den pedows began popping Stats all floors and clerical Days, their way to lunch the ag the message on thle 5 ents were favor- LUsines °ugh a few apoplectic eas muttered un- th, SUtary remarks as Home Passed the pickets. One ™ iT} Ade “bomb” (water in a cellophane bag) was drop- ped from an upper storey and “exploded” with a loud bang only two feet from a woman marcher. Had it hit her, it could have caused serious in- jury. The picketers ignored this foolish provocation and continued parading. “Pm in full agreement with you,” said one watcher. Others gave similar encouragement. In addition to several pic- ture-posters, the placards ad- vanced these slogans: “VY.S. nuclear plans over Canada spell provocation.” “We protest against NORAD.” “B.C. women say NO to nuclear war.” “No U.S. bases on Canadian soil.” “We don’t want our babies yadioactivised.” “John, don’t follow Dulles.” “Stop all U.S. planes carry- ing H-bombs over Canada.” “Ban the H-bomb.” : Pp o : ne bound to win,” she told the Socialist Pioneers’ Banquet last Saturday. “Perhaps not in my time, but we’ll win.” Another labor veteran who will be honored at the Annual Labor Picnic is Walter Wig- gins, a man with a wealth of experience in farm and labor movements. He will represent the Mt. Pleasant LPP club. Born on an Ontario farm 67 years ago, Wiggins started out as a worker in a stove factory at the age of 13. At 14, he was a cook in a logging camp. From then on it was one vo- cation after another; farm- hand, cattle drover, carpenter, timekeeper, mail order ship- per, bookkeeper, stockyard foreman, farmer. During the First World War he served four years in France with a famed Canadian cav- alry regiment, the Fort Garry Horse. Wiggins was one of the founders .of the Sturgis, Sas- katchewan branch of the Communist party, a fighting pioneer group which gave leadership to the great prairie movement in the Twenties and Thirties. He was assistant edi- tor of a progressive prairie paper, Furrow, and national secretary of the Farmers Unity League, a militant or- ganization made up of farm- ers in Manitoba, Saskatche- wan and Alberta. Other labor veterans who will be honored at the picnic, and the clubs they represent, include: John deWever (Grandview); Norman Smith (Broadway); Sid Sarkin (Ol- gin); George Truscott (Pt. Grey); George Koshowsky (Strathcona); Jack Brown (Victory Square); Fred Bas- sanoff (Advance); Don Bar- pour (Waterfront); John Mc- Cuish (Electrical); Alf Padg- ham (Norqquay); Julius Stelp (North Burnaby); Bob Towle (South Burnaby); Bill Christie (Drydock); Bill Stoneman (North Van City); and George Edgar (West End)). Continued NO BASES to do it, but most people in this country feel — and with good reason — that the US. is waging its struggle at Can- ada’s expense. Again, Canada is sacrificed to U.S. interests. So Eisenhower’s appeal for a combined effort becomes a pretext for further U.S. pene- tration and domination of the Canadian economy. | Sent Whyte @ 2 : — SPORTLIGHT N CANADA DAY I decided to take in the Police Sports at Brockton Point. On my way through Stanley Park a tall, ramrod-back old chap, obvi- ously a retired member of the force, asked me if I was head- ing for the stadium, and when I said yes, offered me a pass. I thanked him ,and we got talking. “Did you see those Russian dancers on the Ed Sullivan show?” he wanted to know. “Ves,” I said. “Weren’t they terrific? I mean really great?” I agreed. We walked in silence for a few moments, then he said: “The tragedy of our time is that some people try to pro- voke a war between us and the Russians. Now, they must be ordinary people, just like ourselves. Smart and dumb. Good and bad. So why can’t we get along? I think it is be- cause fellows. like this John Foster Dulles in the U.S. try to stir up trouble. The way I see it, Dulles doesn’t want peace. He should be fired. ’m convinced that if we made an effort for peace, the Russians would meet us halfway. What do you think?” I told him I couldn’t agree with him more. be be xt Nigel Morgan and I were speaking at an unemployed rally in Powell Street Grounds last Friday afternoon. After the meeting we got talking to some of the people who at- tended the meeting. An ex-baseball player told me he was jobless in the Thir- ties, and didn’t solve the prob- lem until the government of- fered him a uniform in 1939. This growing unemploy- ment -has the big shots wor- ried today, too,” he said. “Me, I’m too old-to put on khaki, but one of my sons is unem- ployed, and I think they’d like to grab him. These maniacs — haven’t we seen enough war in our lifetime?” be