recently, mt of unity w i every resolution, Cees je international president sane Hartung, in a major ad- ied to the convention, disclos- ail at AFL Lumber and Saw- mull Workers officers now have fore them an IWA proposal this committees from the two ns “explore the possibili- ties of tion, merger or amalgama- a ne Said as yet no LSW a the invitation had been in eine delegates a full re- tel merger developments, he in : wited that some problems will Teeth, umtered in negotiating di- on LSW due to that S Status as a section of the epee of Carpenters and posited for joint action, if LSW. ie map out coordinated the Wg organizing drives in iDosetie South and Canada and € Jurisdictional disputes. pee ting on other merger de- events relating to lumber Beane. Hartung said the Per Workers are nego- fitting with the AFL Brother. Of Paper Makers and “have wet decided to go in. While there is no immediate Vel or merger arrangement with the lp and Sulphite Workers, Said he believes that “as Hartung Bro, a Spect of the IWA working out} Washington IWA meet endorses unity moves -PORT ANGELES ‘ A full mandate for labor unity was the central theme running through the third an- al convention of CIO International Woodworkers of America, Western District 23, here . Eight resolutions from five local unions dealing with various aspects of AFL-CIO ger and joint action were unanimously approved. Strong sentiment for rapid achieve- time goes by, something might be worked out.” Although it took a positive stand on unity, the convention retreat- ed from past positions in such im- portant fields as civil liberties, political action, and repeal of anti-labor laws. : Sunday deadline for city voters May 15—that’s this © Sunday— is the deadline facing unregister- ed civic voters in Vancouver. If you want to have yourself the trouble of going to city hall and registering in person be- tween August 8 and 21, all you have to do is fill out and return the green registration card left at your door in the city canvass made earlier this year. But you must act quickly, city clerk Ronald Thompson warned this week, as he announced that ecards must be in by May 15. Enumerators canvassed homes in the spring and registered non- property owners, but the green card was left if no one was home when they called. Don’t delay — do it today and make your vote count next De- cember. There were no resolutions in defense of civil liberties and none calling for a fight against the raft of legislation, from Taft- Hartley that hamstrings labor. Foreign policy was brought in- to the convention when Hartung criticized “the type of leadership we are supporting in Formosa and Korea.” Considerable attention was giv- en to problems arising from the shrinking district membership. When former District 2 and 3 “merged in 1953, they had a com- bined membership of about 13,000. The 37 delegates at this year’s convention represented 8,070 workers. ¢ The decline is due to a number of factors, including automation; speedup, exhaustion of timber supplies, and company unionism in some areas following the 1954 lumber strike. Negotiations for a 10-cent wage increase in British Columbia have reached a critical stage, reported William Grey and Fred Feiber of District One. Feiber called for coordinated negotiations between U.S. and Canadian sections of TWA. “We had strikes up there while you were operating, and you had strikes while we were operating,” he said. “And we have many of the same employers.” | to Humphrey-Brownell, |. 3500 more sign appeal Despite a cold rain that handicapped their work, Van- couver peace canvassers gathered 3,500 signatures to the World Appeal Against Atomic War last Saturday to win a friendly competition with Toronto Peace Council. With two groups still to be heard from, Toronto had collected 1,200 signatures, B.C. Peace Council reported. Total number of signatures now collected in British Colum- bia exceeds 15,000. “We expect to double last Sat- urday’s total on this coming Sat- urday, provided the weather is fine,’ said Ray Gardner, council chairman. “People are anxious to sign and need only be persuad- ed that the appeal is an effective way of preventing atomic war.” One canvasser, Mrs. Freda Hickey, has now gathered more than 1,000 signatures. Anton Muzichenko has collected 859. An outstanding worker in Satur- day’s canvass was Norman Smith, who is almost 79. Mr. Smith, who collected more than 50 signatures on Saturday alone, commented, “Tt’s getting easier all the time to work for peace.” . The day's best team effort was turned in by two men and four women who collected 468 signa- tures in New Westminster. High petitioners for the day included Ray Gardner, 150, Kay Gardner, 144, L. Tayler, 123, Min- nie Searle, 114, and Elizabeth Fee, 107. : Doctor hears own treatise ‘grossly misquoted’ of meakers opposing fluoridation Buyers water took a ver- i cing in a debate on the Issy : tact held in Georgia Auditorium of . evening, when a panel once and dentists presented the ae factual evidence on ting UC °f fluorine in combat: > “oth decay among children. tes i fh oe dogs Coubtful whether ‘anti: lationists 1 ydia Arsens, PATRONIZE _ COFFEE SHOP | 410 Main St. ie Now Operated By | SEQRGE & WINNIFRED iy ——____ GIBBONS Wine coon BURNABY OPTICAL tert oe KINGSWAY ““°Ss from Simpson-Sears) DEL 7878 a HEARING AID BUILT INTO | | moa EYEGLASSES = = Sbis seh Miracle. The impos: complet comes a reality. A buy —° Powerful hearing aid nlo eyeglass frames by Inc. No cord. No Nothing to wear on Y. No clothing noise. by Appointment Only AMES B. FISHER Seymour Street MLA, and naturopath L. C. Lambert learned anything from debate. Backed by their own coterie of faddists, they seemed more concerned in propagating their anti-scientifie nonsense than in applying their powers of rea- soning to the facts. “Vaccination against smallpox, pasteurization of milk, chlorina- tion of water; all faced the same barrage of criticism before ac- cepted,” pointed out James M. Mather, MD, DPH, Profiebsor,, Head of the Department of Pub- lic Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia. In the question period, how- ever, Mrs. Arsens openly admit- ted that she is against vaccination, chlorination and’ pasteurization. She also, in all seriousness, de- clared that the “wonder drugs” such as sulpha drugs, streptomye- cin, penicillin and various anti- biotics, “while they appear to alleviate the ailment for which they were administered, they do more harm to another part of the body, and often prove fatal.” Against such primitive think- ing, reason doesn’t stand a chance. Mrs. Arsens’ remarks drew some good-natured laughter and a few “Oh! Oh!” exclamations from. the majority of the audi- ence, in addition to fierce and prolonged clapping from her fad- dist followers. : : Naturopath L. C. Lambert cap- ped Lydia’s best effort when he NEW ZENITH hinted darkly, in his summary, that some mysterious enemy might be using fluoridation as the beginning of chemical warfare. to “soften us up.” “Tt. is possible,” he: said. “I don’t say it is probable, but it is possible, and don’t misquote me in the papers—I say it is possible that a softening-up process may be going on whereby a degenera- tion of the nervous system and the various organs of the body may be occurring.” On another occasion, when Lam- bert quoted from a U.S. scientific paper to back his claim that con- sumption of fluorine in water supplies is harmful, Dr. Maury Massler of the University of Il- linois clapped his hands to his forehead in a gesture of pain, and Opponents of fluoridation get trouncing | test against being misquoted in this manner.” Proponents of fluoridation made these points: : @ All national bodies repre- _. senting medical and allied professions in Canada and the U.S. have endorsed fluoridation. Opposition to fluoridation is by a vocal, well-organized and often hysterical minority _and parallels opposition to earlier medical advances such as smallpox vaccina- tion and pasteurization of milk. ; Experiments over a decade prove that fluoridation is a safe, effective and practical method of reducing tooth decay. ; ; @ The community has a moral Se grabbed the microphone to ébligation:¥o: Bring the ‘prov: oS en benefits of fluoridation ‘T am one of the authors of "€o children: the paper being quoted,” he said. S “T have done this research work P ; and I say that I am being gross- OVALTI N E ly misquoted. This is incredible CA EE —it is infamous. The object of . 951 EAST HASTINGS our paper was exactly the oppo- Vancouver, B.C. site of what has been told to you here. My paper proved that QUALITY SERVICE fluorine does no damage. I pro- Dancdirig cs Sey Singing ! Magic ! SPRING FESTIVAL CONCERT SUNDAY, MAY 15 - 8 P.M. PENDER AUDITORIUM 339 W. Pender StF CAFE ee WRitE c pee late er ONE Hotsinge St Top Notch Artists From Many National Groups Western Hearin ee ee ree : SILVER COLLECTION . ES Center “4 For The Finest In Good Eating Auspices: Canadian-Soviet Friendship Society Women extend speaking tour Two Vancouver women who re- cently visited the Soviet Union, Mrs. Ann Sochaski and Mrs. Kay Rankin, will extend their current speaking tour to include a num- ber of centres on Vancouver Is- land and the lower mainland. Points they will visit include Alberni, Port Alberni, Courtenay, Cumberland, Campbell River, Lake Cowichan, Dunean, Nanai- mo, Steveston, New Westminster, Trail, Rossland and North Van- couver. The local press in these centres will carry announcements on date and place of meetings. Centre windows smashed again For the second time within. a fortnight, rocks were thrown through both front windows of National Federation of Labor Youth clubrooms on Commercial Drive early Sunday morning. Interviewed on the matter, Chief of Police Walter Mulligan promised to conduct an investiga- tion. ; NFLY provincial seeretary Glyn Thomas blamed the rock-throw- ing on “hooligans who are taking their cue from Senator McCarthy fin the United States.” Canadians, he said, will reject this use of violence in an effort to intimidate young people. “Young people holding differ- ent views from us on questions concerning the future of youth in Canada are invited to visit our cltbrooms and discuss such issues in a friendly manner,’ said Thomas. “That is the democratic way of settling disputes. Rock throwing, instigated by McCarthy- ‘ites, will settle nothing.” HUB HUMOR’ @ We've got firm ideas about credit. We believe it should be FREE when our customers have good credit rating. Your good name is worth money here. PACIFIC TRIBUNE — MAY 13, 1955 — PAGE 7