Charge Howe blocked Canada’s first jetliner TORONTO Five hundred more workers at Canada’s biggest aircraft plant — A. V. Roe, near Toronto — have lost their jobs because the government does not have enough orders for planes to supply it. The Avro work force has been cut by about 2,000 over the past three years. Labor Picnic contest Who will be labor’s most popular girl? Who's the most popular girl in the Greater Van- couver labor movement? The answer to this intriguing question will be given on Sunday, August 12, at the annual Labor Picnic in Confederation Park when the votes are counted and the t most popular girl is crowned. ] Twenty girls are peting for the title in elimina- tion rounds in Ye ney ray ~~ _ Vancouver areas ver Cen King A week prior to the picnic he leading girl in each area ill enter the finals and the fourteen will be elimin- Leading the entire field by a country mile, so far, is one of the youngest competitors, Nissala,- Square’s entry in the Vancou- ver Centre competition. Dagmar Already she 75,178 votes for 000 ‘over her However, North Vancouver’s HUB HUMOR “Kilroy is so impulsive” Men, come in to the HUB and see the amazing “Wash ’Em, Dry ’Em, Wear ’Em” Slacks. Styled by DAYS, who give you fine work clothes. FREE CREDIT Dress 45 EAST HA re, Vancouver Vancouver Burrard, "e way, North Vancou- rer and Burnaby. nas a lead of 30,- nearset Marion Woods of North Van- couver. Marion’s to $ entry has won the title three years running and Marion her- self is a one-time winner. In that light, Dagmar’s 30,000 vote lead is not as formidable as it might at first appear. All alone in third place is Carol Laurie, Grandview’s entry in Vancouver East, with 31,219 votes. But Carol is an old hand at competitions and can be counted on to make a spirited drive to the wire. In i952 she was Canada’s co- champion peace petitioner and won a trip to the World Youth Festival in Berlin. In fourth place, with 21,624 votes, is Hattie Dove of Burn- aby. Running neck and neck for fifth place are Betty Gadd, Broadway’s entry in Burrard, and Jean Waugh, Kensington’s competitor for Kingsway. Bet- ty has 13,757 votes as against 13,196 for Jean. As the elimination deadline of August 5 approaches, pic- nic officials expect the com- petition to become keener and expect to see the present lead- ers hard-pressed to maintain their leads. SECU SENSE ENE EEE AEE EEE eS Castle Jewelers Watchmaker and Jewelers Special Dis- count to all Tribune Read- ers. Bring this ad with you. 752 Granville Street SEE EEE ! en CORE DU eg 0 =. MU RECTOR CIGAR Only Union Made Cigar in Vancouver Hand Rolled Finest in Dutch and Havana Tobacco SOLD AT HOTELS or 214 Union St., Van. SPECIAL REDUCED PRICES For Pacific Tribune Readers SR EL But this same government has been charged with exert- ing pressure to block the com- pany from putting into pro- duction the first civilian jet airliner ever built in Canada, and to block an American company buying 20 of the new jetliners. In Ottawa, an_ aviation ofticial whose name is refused for publication, charged that “politicians in the background” and not defects in construction, had caused the government . to drop a project into which it had poured over $8 million. Avro workers and engineers built the first jet airliner on this continent and launched it only a few days after Britain’s Comet jet. Canada had shown a decided lead over the U.S. in producing this high-speed aircraft. It had orders from Trans Canada Airlines and the RCAF had indicated it wanted them. That was in 1950. The first plane was completed and flew successfully. It is still flying regularly despite Howe’s claim in the House of Commons that “everything was wrong” with it. As for his charge that it had to carry sand in its wings © and tail for balance, Avro officials reply that this was only because all its equip- reent had not been installed. According to the Ottawa aviation official, Avro turned to the U.S. market after the government owned TCA order was “mysteriously” cancelled. (Official reason given at the time was that the government wanted more fighter plane (CF-100) production because of the Korean war). American Airlines indicated it would purchase 20 jetliners from Avro, but “political pres- sure” was again brought to bear to cancel the order. (Avro is a privately-owned corporation, having been bought up after the war by the English company for $3 million, a fraction of its orig- inal cost. It depends almost entirely for it production on government orders and has been financed mainly out of funds supplied by the govern- ment. It is estimated that Ot- tawa has spent over $150 mil- lion with Avro since the war.) In April 1955, the Canadian Tribune, in an article by Nor- man Penner, charged that after the work on the jetliner had been stopped, TCA ordered similar planes from Britain “while U.S. companies which expressed interest in the Can- adian-made model are now be- ing supplied from their own plants ... Some 5,000 Canadian aircraft workers pay the price of this anti-Canadian policy. Siteorioowiannnnentonnnnnnesnco: sadeonensocnmauucni tte * Mrs. Rae Luckock (centre), president of the Co greets children at a newh workers’ housing project in Shanghai. Impressions of China Canadian Women, Everyone from tots to granni By HAZEL WIGDOR TORONTO “Ne-haw,” said Mrs. Rae Luckock to the Chinese child- ren at the Tsao Yang village, and “Ne-haw,” they chorused, welcoming her. “This means: how are you?” Mrs. Luckock explained, “and wherever I went I was made to feel right ai. home with this little greet- ing.” The Sao Yang village is a new workers’ housing estate on the outskirts of Shanghai. “You will notice that the child- ren are wearing gauze masks,” Mrs. Luckock pointed out to me as she showed me pictures LPP ‘supports farm demands A meeting of farm members of the LPP in the Fraser Val- ley last Sunday supported the demand for emergency action to ease the dairy feed crisis resulting from last year’s winter-kill and the spring drought. The gathering de- cided to place an advertise- rent in 10 Valley newspapers. “The situation is serious,” said Alf Dewhurst, LPP .pro- vincial organizer, who attend- ed the meeting. “Last year hay sold for as high as $100 per ton and now normal hay crops are having to be used for pas- ture.” The LPP provincial execu- tive has written Agriculture Minister Kenneth Kiernan de- manding immediate action, to meet the crisis, and is appeal- ing to the labor movement to support the farmers’ demands. July 13, 1956 — PACIFIC TRIBUNE —! studyin of the village during terview with her. because the roads in} housing developme™ dusty.” Mrs. Luckock, pr the Congress of \Canaée men, recently retw Toronto, having spe® month in China. Wh she attended the coum ing of the Women’s” ticnal Democratic #& held in Peking April “There were 183 ® and guests from 48 she said, “including F° national women’s tions, representatiV@ various organizations: © hi tions, and outstandiné of all continents.” | The council meeW particular note of ful international a ~ and welcomed the * unity and cooperati women’s organiza widely differing gro men, societies .. + countries.” ‘ On her trip throue following the counc! Mrs. Luckock was P impressed with the V. enthusiasm with V up their country. people are warmhe hospitable, not only friends from near but to their own well.” “Everyone lis study said, “from little grandmothers, I sa@™ children sitting on steps with the old P* ing over the day’s le their grannies who ing to read for the ™