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AUZYCH CASE STAYED

UNTIL BACK COSTS PAID

ing q Myron Kuzych, who has carried on a running battle with the Marine Workers and Boilermakers Union for many years, suffered a crush-
® defeat in his latest attempt to again have the issue of his “‘reinstatement” in the union go before the courts when Mr. Justice J. A. Coady on
“anesday this week ordered a “stay in proceedings’” until Kuzych pays the union previous awards amounting to some $14,500.

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t on getting his

Kuzych, who has made something of a “‘career”’

ht to appeal the decision. : ae
Kuzych was expelled from the old Boilermakers Union for anti-uni

first job as a welder (he called
himself an “experienced welder”
though his training only lasted
six weeks) he joined the union
simply because he had to in or-
der to work in a closed shop.

The ‘“‘Kuzych case,” which be-
came widely known in Canada,
was finally taken to the Privy
Council, where Kuzych emerged
the loser. Since that time he has

sought various ways of re-open-
ing the case.

The union was represented in
its stay of proceedings action by
Nemetz, Gervin and, Company.

Buck down, buck a week’ sales
business crisis

Presage

Wak’, BERT WHYTE
Gra Ne oe Hastings and up
* and the signs hit you
“No Cash Down.
«ge SDe ___ School Open-
Extra Speci ‘One Cent Sale.”
Slacks €cial Furniture Values.”
tices» ats at Low, Low
He irts on Sale.”
trons ® pod there an empty store
@nother little retailer

coming

forced to the wall by the big
chain stores. One of the estimat-
ed 900 businesses due to go broke
in 1953. (The rising barometer
of Canadian business ° failures
reads like this: 1950—177 fail-
ures; 1951—797; 1952—843.)

But isn’t business booming?
Aren’t profits higher than ever
before? Aren’t retail sales up
from last year?

Yes, on the surface business
is booming, profits are soaring,
sales are up. But there’s a gim-
mick.

The gimmick was revealed this
week by A. C. Ashforth, Domin-
ion Bank of Canada vice-presl-
dent, in a speech to the Advertis-
ing and Sales Club of Toronto.
It can be explained in five words:
‘A rise in consumer credit.”

Consumer sales are being kept
at an artificial high level by the
American method of high-pres-
sure salesmanship: “A buck down
and.a buck a week for the rest
of your life.” One little economic
jolt and the workers who lose
their jobs translate this to: “A
buck down and the rest when
you catch me.” Then the panic
is on.

Banker Ashforth puts it in more
dignified terms, but the meaning
is the same: “The present ten-
dency in the face of high incomes
to press instalment sales with-
out down payments and with in-
stalments spread over a long
period is unsound. . If we _ pro-
ceed to introduce into the econ-
omy a vast amount of fictitious
demand in the form of unsound
credit, we are asking for trouble.”

Yet this is exactly what is
happening. A Financial. Post
article of August 22 is headed:
Business Finds It’ Tougher To
Collect Lagging Bills.

“Collection agencies doing both
retail and wholesale business re-
port a steadily expanding demand
for their services, although sum-
mer is usually a slack season,”
says the article. Exactly. The
customers are beginning to say,
“A dollar when you catch me.”

When the little consumer can’t
pay, the little retailer feels the
squeeze, and the wholesaler sics
the collection agency after him.
As the Financial Post says: -

“In the appliance field, partic-
ularly in the television end where
a vigorous sales campaign has
been pushed based an long-term
credit, failures are appearing as
rate of collections slow down.

“Belatedly, manufacturers and

Continued on back page
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out of his court actions against the union extending over a period of seven or eight years,

on activities during the war years. In various court appearances since

DR. JAMES ENDICOTT

Endiecoit
answers
attacks

TORONTO

“Canadians will make up their
own minds on the question we
are submitting to popular refer-
endum,” Dr. J. G. Endicott, chair-
man of the Canadian Peace Con-
gress, said,last- week, commenting
on a newspaper report attacking
the -ballot as a “spurious” and
“dishonest.”

“The whole idea of democracy
as we know it and admire it in
Canada,” said Dr. Endicott, ‘“‘is
based on the secret ballot and
the appeal to public opinion. The
result of this ballot, through
which people can vote Yes or No
in secret to a vital question, will
be a genuine and honest expres-
sion of opinion. That is what
we want.

“We hope that a big Yes vote
will be rolled up in support of
our proposal which is similar to
that of Sir Winston Churchill’s,
for a top-level conference of the
leading powers. Such a vote will
be a foree for peace and will
strengthen the hands of the Can-
adian government in every step
they take for the negotiation of
all international differences.”

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