i q q : Douglas offers Ghana training assistance Premier T. C. Douglas, in greeting the birth of Ghana, has invited the government of the new African state to send per- sonnel to Saskatchewan for training in government departments. It was not enough, Douglas said, to send only congratulations. Introducing a resolution in the Saskatchewan legislature greeting Ghana as a sovereign state, Douglas said it was tragic when great powers fail to re- ecognize that subject people come of age. He pointed out that when great powers are reluctant to relax control over colonial. peoples then there are revolutions for independence, such as the American revolu- tion and‘ the 1837 Rebellion in Canada. The premier also said peace in the years ahead depends on the principle of people ex- ercising their freedom. Where- ever oppression exists we are asking for trouble, “postponing the day of reckoning.” The resolution unanimously passed by the legislature wel- comed “the establishment on March 6, 1957, of Ghana as-a sovereign and independent state within the Common- wealth, and desires to assure the gévernment . . . that the people of Saskatchewan share OAP housing lack scored VICTORIA, B.C. Senior citizens in this pro- vince are “living in miserable quarters under appalling hous- ing circumstances,” Gordon Dowding (CCF, Burnaby) told the legislature during debate on a motion by Arthur Turner (CCF,Vancouver East) seeking a government survey of the housing: situation in B.C. The motion was defeated 29- 20 after Provincial Secretary W. D. Black spoke against it. Dowding pointed out that lack of decent and economical housing for senior citizens drives many to live in “base- ments and attics.” Black, whose department ad- ministers the provincial act that provides one-third contri- butions to senior citizens’ hous- ing projects, claimed a survey was not needed because the government already is “unof- ficially” in contact with offic- ials of community organiza- tions that promote low-cost housing. A Castle Jewelers Watchmaker and Jewelers Special Dis- count to all Tribune Read- ers. Bring this ad with you. ' j 752 Granville Street Pg BBS EUENENEUE ' TT a i Ot REGINA their pride in achieving politi- cal independence and the right to determine their own desti- ny as a democratic, self-gov- erning state.” Give money to OAPs says CCF VICTORIA, B.C. CCF members flatly op- pose Premier Bennett’s “poli- tical propaganda” $28 annual municipal tax rebate to home- owners and believe that the $7,500,000 should be given “to those who need it most—old age and blind pensioners.” A CCF government, Opposi- tion Leader Robert Strachan told the House, would repeal the residential homeowners’ act. Strachan said he was against the $28 rebate because: @ The government should not have collected the money in the first place, yet every year taxpayers are gouged for $20 to $40 millions more than the Socred government requires. e@ The $28 rebate does not pro- vide for the people who need help most. @ The bill will force the gov- ernment to “extract more than it needs for government pur- poses, and perpetuate bureau- cracy in its worst form.” e' It is not designed to aid people but “for use as political propaganda.” Randolph Harding (CCF, Kaslo-Slocan) said $20 apiece could be given to every pen- sioner and recipient of social assistance if the homeowners’ grants were diverted to this purpose, George Gregory (Liberal, Victoria) said the way to aid the people is to reduce taxes, “not levy the highest taxes in Cana- da and then give some of the money back.” But he added that he would not oppose the bill, “because it is at least some form of tax reduction.” Premier Bennett estimated the tax rebate would be paid to 116,000 homeowners in cities, to 68,000 in district municipali- ties, to 12,000 in villages, and to 71,500 in unorganized terri- tories. He said that the rebate in- future years “doesn’t have to stay at $28.” John Squire (CCF, Alberni) labelled the rebate “a little bit of politiking to try and get to Ottawa.” Strachan, speaking in the same vein, recalled that the $28 rebate had been highlighted by Socred candidates in the Sep- tember elections last year. EES REE BS Ce E.R a ee a ne 2 Sa Newsmen and photographers vainly seek interview with Dave Beck at Seattle-Tacoma airport Why they're picking .5. Teamsters SEATTL Back in 1946, the ultra-conservative Seattle Times observed: “Many are wishing that thet could be more Dave Becks in the national labor picture.” Now Beck, bald,. pink-faced, muscled president of the grace. The most cruel blow came when U.S. Labor Secretary name from the roll of U.S. delegates to an Internat A U.S. Senate committee in Washington is continuing its pursuit of Beck’s lieutenants in the Portland area, and the chief’s name entered, frequent- ly into a sordid saga of pinball money, vice payoffs and politi- cal fixers. That Beck was once a high contender for the title of the employers favorite labor chief- tain is a matter of record. Life Magazine (April 19, 1954) listed his virtues: « . , he likes management, He does not think that the em- ployers of his 1.5 million mem- bers are trying to underpay and overwork them. “He is a past Honorary De- puty Grand Exalted Ruler of the Elks. He is also an Eagle, a former officer of the Ameri- can Legion and a former presi- dent of the Board of Regents of the University of Washington. ‘In a good many ways... his career, his motivation, his methods and his outlook on life are reminiscent of a breed that once roamed freely in his part of the country—the empire builders like Stanford, Hill and Weyerhaeuser, who, as much for the fun as for the money, rose by hook and by crook to summits of personal power.” Beck soared to grace in the eyes of employers and politi- cians with his war against Har- ry Bridges and the CIO in the late thirties, “From Public Goon No. 1, as many people in Seattle were disposed to regard him, Beck miraculously, within a few years transformed himself in- to something nearer Public Benefactor No. 1,” Life records. “Beck earned the gratitude of inland employers .. .” All of swhich sharpens the point of the question: Why are they after Beck and the Team- sters now? Of Beck, as of Caesar, it might be said he was ambit- ious. Whatever his motivations and those of Teamster Vice- president James R. Hoffa, now facing a federal charge of brib- ing a senate labor rackets com- mittee investigator, of Detroit, the Teamsters Union is the mos dynamis, biggest and fast- est growing union in the US. today. While U.S. unions generally stagnated in 1956, the Team- sters claimed a membership gain of 185,000 for the year. The runner-up, the Internatio- nal Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, claimed a member- ship gain of only 65,000 in 1956. The Teamsters now place their membership at 1.6 mil- lion, as compared with 1,231,- 000 in 1955, and 1,062,000 in 1948, Total U.S. trade union mem- bership in 1948 was estimated at 15,600,000. The outside figure today is 17 million. Thus, in a seven year span when over-all trade union enrollment rose only 10 percent, Teamster rolls zoomed upward by 60 per- cent. Of all unions, the Teamsters MARCH 22, 1957 — Teamsters Union, has fallen frot James P. Mitchell struck Beck ional Labor Conference in Europe next weel appear to have the most ag gressive plans to crack th South. Several West Coast labor o! ficials, who should know, insis that the primary motive Dé hind the recent Teamster cout" ship of the International Long shoremen’s Association was grand design that saw the IL locals in the South as the bas of operations to organize th trucking industry. ; The Teamsters are big—an getting bigger. The Teamstel are vulnerable — rackets an sharp practices flourished 1 parts of their scattered empir' The Teamsters are somewhé isolated — their jurisdiction: battles and policy disagret ments with other AFL-CIO 0 ficialdom made it unlikely thé the AFL-CIO would rally 1 their support. Possibly for all these reaso! they were chosen as the fir target of the McClellan Senal Committee. But they were ni the last. \ Straws in the wind: e On the crest of the McClella investigation, Indiana becar the first major Northern indu trial state to enact an anti-ul ion right-to-work law. @ Senators Karl E. Mun (Rep., South Dakota) and Bé M. Goldwater (Rep., Arizona members of the McClella Committee, used the hearing ! a sounding board to press f legislation to restrict lab! political action and subject ul ions to anti-trust laws. PACIFIC. TRIBUNE—PA