Fishermen’s union re-elects Gordon, Stevens to office in first referendum ballot Alex Gordon has been reelected business agent of the United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union and Homer Stevens has been re-elected secretary-treasurer by better than a two-thirds majority, it was announced this week in a preliminary report issued by the union’s election committee. Result of a two-way election race between incumbent president Reg Payne and Kurt Larson of Vancouver will not be announced until all referendum ballots are counted, because of the closeness of the contest. There are about 300 postal ballots and absentee bal- lots still to come in. Secretary-treasurer Homer Stev- ens, who defeated W. S. Herlihy, has worked as a fisherman all his life. He became a full-time union organizer in 1946 and two years later was elected general secre- tary-treasurer, a position he has held annually from 1948 on. Alex Gordon first joined the Fish, Cannery, Reduction Plant and Allied Workers Union in 1944. In 1945 the Shoreworkers Local amalgamated with the UFFU, creating the United Fishermen and Allied> Workers Union, and Gor- don was elected business agent at the first convention. This is the eighth time he has been re- elected to the post. Partial text of the Central Union, Election Committee statement, dated April 20, reads: Fishermen stress ties with Natives Development of closer coopera- tion between United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union and Native Brotherhood of B.C., whose convention is being held at Hazelton this weekend, is the pur- pose of a draft program adopted by the UFAWU’s ninth annual convention. The document has been forwarded to the Brother- hood executive. Lauding the friendly relations that have existed in the past, the union statement stresses that “the future is even more important” and goes on to say: “The Brotherhood, of course, is not confined to the fishing industry and has a major field of work in ad- vancing the wellbeing of the Native people generally in all spheres affecting their social welfare (schools, hospitals, Indian Act, ete.). The main thing is that there are no fundamental conflicting in- terests between the membership of the two organizations. There- fore, cooperation and joint nego- tiations, so valuable in the past, should be re-established for the future. “But to avoid and prevent any recurrence of the disagreements and misunderstandings experienc- ed in 1952, it is desirable that there be a clearly defined agree- ment between the two organiza- tions, voluntarily entered upon and honorably observed by both parties.” . The statement then goes on to outline its plan for cooperation be- tween the two organizations dur- ing the coming year. Labor veteran dies in Nanaimo NANAIMO, B.C. The labor movement of this province has lost one of its grand old timers by the death here on Sunday, April 12, of David Elie Caillet, retired mining engineer. Born in France, he had lived in this country for 47 of his 82 years. He was a member of the old Communist Party of Canada and, until 1947, of the Labor-Progres- sive party, and in recent years he had devoted most of his efforts to the sale of progressive literature. ALEX GORDON “The central union election committee was elected at the ninth annual convention of the UFAWU and charged with the responsibility of supervising the conduct of the first referendum ballot for election of the top offic- ers of the union as provided un- der constitutional provisions adopt- ed by the convention. “The votes cast by the member- ship of the UFAWU at the local voting places have now been count- ed by the local committees, elect- ed by each of the locals to con- duct the ballot amongst their own membership. “At the meeting of the central union election cemmittee held Monday night (April 20), the fol- lowing information was available and approved for release: “The central union election committeee has received from 16 local unions the official declar- ation of count of the local elec- tion committee and all the neces- sary materials (voters’ registers and original ballots cast) to permit verification of the count. These original materials are being pre- sently checked by the central un- ion election committee. “The committee has received information from 11 local unions, whose official documents have not yet been received, as to the results of the count conducted by the lo- cal. No local election committees remains to be heard from... “The contest for presidency is close and the number of votes still to be opened and counted makes it possible that the candidate pre- sently leading may not be elected. No announcement will therefore be made until the final figures are released. Candidates for this of- fice are R. Payne and K. Larson. “It is indicated on the basis of about 1800 votes reported that Homer Stevens has been elected as secretary-treasurer HOMER STEVENS and Alex Gordon has been elect- ed as business agent of the UFAWU. In each of these elec- tions the leading candidates has over two-thirds of the votes tab- ulated to date. “No further announcement as to the result of the vote will be made by this committee until the final figures of the vote are released to the local unions. Under in- structions received this announce- ment will be made before May 1. “This committee has received many complaints from members in regard to attempted interfer- ence from outside sources in the conduct of the union elections. “Evidence is available that considerable sums of money have been expended by anti- union persons to deceive the general public as to the policies and activities of the United Fish- ermen and Allied Workers’ Union. “Investigation is being conduct- ed to obtain all the facts as to these activities. PENDER AUDITORIUM (Marine Workers) 339 West Pender LARGE & SMALL HALLS FOR RENTALS Phone PA. 9481 (Castle Jewelers Watchmaker and Jewelers Special Discount to all Tribune Read- ers. 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Encouraged by the ovation given its initial production the drama group, drawn from the city’s Negro community and_ various progressive white organizations, has arranged for a repeat perform- ance at the AUUC Hall on Friday, May 1. land Lawrence, chairman of the recently-formed Negro Citizens League, told the audience that the idea of producing Medal For Wil- lie grew out of the fight to secure justice in the Clemens case and the unity of Negro and white citi- zens established in the course of that fight. ‘Lawrence parised the part play- ed in the case by the Pacific Trib- une which, he said, had published the story of the Clemens case when every other newspaper in greeted with ovation In an introductory speech, ,Ro-- Willie’ the city, the Vancouver sh Province and News-Herald, ha refused to touch it. “The Pacific Tribune did not apologize, even when it was sue for libel,” he declared amid 4P plause. “And the Pacific Tribune is with us in continuing ou! fight.” : Workshop 53’s_ production of Medal For Willie, although weak in one or two scenes, achieves full dramatic atmosphere of a Play which bases the jimcrow “way i life” of a Southern town — 2 the jimcrow of lynch terror ut the Klu Klux Klan but jimerow a it exists in the everyday lives 0 millions of Negro Americal. ; Tickets at 75 cents each for UW repeat performance on May 1 may be obtained at: People’s Cooperative Boer store, 337 West Pender Stree: Marine Workers and Bolles ers Union, 339 West Pender Street; Vancouver Civic Employ ees, Outside Workers, 339 We Pender Street; West Coast 5¢ men’s Union, 10 Powell Streeti I ternational Union of Mine, Mu and Smelter Workers, 111 ch muir Street. 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