Ontario CCE reverses MacDonald
stand on anti-labor legislation

TORONTO—The Ontario CCF has had to reverse the stand of its provincial leader,
Donald MacDonald, in support of several viciously anti-labor clauses in the recom-

mendations of the Select Committee on Labor Relations.

This was publicly admitted
by W. K. Bryden, MPP for
Woodbine, under heavy fire at
a meeting called by the Joint
Board of the United Electrical
- Workers in the Toronto plants
of Canadian General Electric.

In addition to Bryden, the
meeting was attended by Al-
fred Clowing, (Conservative,
High Park), and James Trotter
and Andrew Thompson, Liber-
al members for Parkdale and
Dovecourt respectively.
Bryden endeavored to de-
fend the record of his provin-
cial leader on labor legislation
by claiming that MacDonald
had been ‘too busy” to study
all the clauses.

These excuses were angrily
rejected by the meeting, with
UE business agent John Bettes
declaring. “If a man who is
supposed to be representing
the labor forces dOes not wani
to fight for labor then he has
no damned business being in
politics.”

UGAR Ray looked mighty
good as he did a little jig

It was then that Bryden re-
vealed that the CCF caucus
has decided to overrule the

in-his corner before the open-
ing bell. Still, you could tell
he was 39. And you wondered
—if he doesn’t score a knock-

stand taken by MacDonald in
support of clauses in the select
committee’s recommendations.

TORONTO—Paul Siren,

‘Siren is described by the
Toronto Globe and Mail as “a
skilled negotiator and one of
the ablest union officers in the
Toronto area.”

Although Burt himself has
refused to comment on the fir-
ing, other nameless officials
have “leaked” to the press the
information that Siren was dis-
missed “on charges of associ-
ating -with the Communist

Party.”

Red-baiting in UAW:
Siren fired by Burt

representative of the United Automobile Workers, has
been fired by Canadian Director George Burt.

out early in the fight, can he
last the distance?

Robinson not only went the
15 rounds, but to a TV ring-
side viewer he appeared to
have beaten Paul Pender by a
city block. While his timing
was a little off, he had con-
nected with dozens of. left
hooks, and had outboxed his
younger opponent all the way.

for 17 years an international

The referee saw it this way,
too, and called it Robinson,
146-142. Then came the judges’
slips, and the roof fell. San-
toro and Norton both favored
Pender, 147-138 and 148-142.

So a new champ was creat-
ed. But what a way to win a
title — and what a way to
lose one!

Siren has denied this, and
made clear that he does not
wish to enter into public dis-
cussion in the press. “The rift
in the UAW is big enough al-
ready,” he says.

Burt’s action is running into
widespread criticism in the un-
ion. Sparked by two Toronto
locals, Nos. 28 and 984, a peti-
tion is being widely signed
protesting Siren’s dismissal.

If a remaich is held within
190 days, this corner will go
along with the veteran Sugar

Pacific Tribune readers

will meet February

" Readers and supporters of
the Pacific Tribune will gather

Pender Auditorium on Sun-
day, February 14 at 1 p.m. for
a discussion on the paper’s
finances, circulation and con-
tent.

During 1959 cash income
amounted to $30,713 and oper-
ating expenses were $24,410.
Wet gain was $6,303.

“This means,” said PT man-
aging editor Bert Whyte. “that

our overall debt has been
greatly reduced, and we will
enter the annual financial

drive March 1 owing not more
than $3,000 as compared -to
some $8,000 last year.

“The improvement in our

financial position is the result

of. strict economies in opera-
tion, good work done by’ our

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supporters y 1959 financial
and subscription drives, and
several generous donations
made to the paper during the
past year.”

Annual financial drive for
$15,000 will start this year on
March 1 and continue until
May Day. Z

The conference will also
deal with suggestions for im-
proving the content of the pa-
per, and discuss the possibility
of publishing a number of 12-
page isues in 1960 if the spring
financial campaign is success-
ful.

Proposals for increasing
street sales and extending sub
circulation will be advanced
at the parley. During the past
year circulation has remained

static.

| Annual All- Slav Concert

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UKRAINE, RUSSIA, POLAND,
CZECHOSLOVAKIA & YUGOSLAVIA

QUEEN ELIZABETH AUDITORIUM
Sunday, February 7th —

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_ Available at:
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; Ukrainian Hall, 805 East Pender St.
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|November to December.

to regain his middleweight
crown.

It’s |a disputed title, of
course, as the NBA stripped
Robinson of his title in the 46
states it controls. That left him
as champ in  Pennsyvania,
New York and: the rest of the
world outside the U.S.

“You were getting tired on
me, Sugar,’ the new champ
said to Robinson after the final
bell.

‘Tm getting old, man,” said
Sugar egith

oF me

In his prime Robinson was
| the best pound-for-pound fight-
|

er this century has yet seen.
And that takes in a lot of good

men — Jack Johnson, Jack
Dempsey, Joe Louis, Benny.
Leonard, Harry Greb, Mickey?
Walker, Willie Pep, Jimmy’
Wilde ... ;

Jimmy Wilde. We weren’t:
thinking of the great British’
flyweight when we began
typing that sentence above.
You couldn’t fault Wilde in
any department; he was one
of the ring’s all-time marvels.
So let’s just say that Sugar
Ray, at his best, was pound-
for-pound in the same class.

Sugar Ray “retired” in 1952,
with a record of having been
beaten only three times in 140
fights. One of his losses was
against Joey Maxim for the
lightheavyweight title. He was
ahead on points but collapsed
from heat exhaustion and fail-«
ed to answer the bell fer the
14th round. Ray weighed 15714
pounds for that fight, and
Maxim 173.

Another of Sugar’s great
fights was against Randy Tur-
pin, on September 12, 1951.
Turpin had taken the middle«
weight crown from Robinson
two months before, in England.
He was even on points in, the
return match,. and had Sugar
bleeding copiously from an
eye cut, when the class of Ray
came to the surface. In an ava-
lanche of blows he battered
Turpin from pillar to post, and
the referee stepped in and
stopped the slaughter in the
10th frame.

That year, 1951, Robinson
held two titles — the welier-
weight and the middleweight
—ai the same time.

CLAUDE JODOIN

Jobless

list grows
Claude Jodoin, Canadian
Labor Congress president,
wants to meet the federal gov-
ernment and employer repres-
entatives “at any time” to dis-
cuss measures to cope with

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growing unemployment.

“The fact that in December
we had 370,000 persons with-
out work and 549,084 listed at
employment offices as unplaé-
ed applicanis reflects an alarm-
ing waste of manpower,” said
Jodoin.

Unemployment figures are
lower than they. were a year
ago, but Jodoin noted that the
increase in unemployed seek-
ing jobs jumped sharply from

Attention - Island Readers!
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Everyone Welcome

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