e

Call for

council

meet at Nanaimo

issued by WIUC

Executive officers of the Woodworkers Industrial Union
of Canada (WIUC) have issued a call for an enlarged nation-
al council session of the union, to be held on August 6 in Odd-

fellows Hall, in Nanaimo.
Over ithe signatures of WIUC
president Harold Pritche‘t and vice

president Ernie Dalskog, the call
States in part:
“Among other business under

consideration will be the question
of. giving leadership to woodwork-
ers in further unifying their
strength in the industry to offset
employer attacks. The entire ques-
tion of the future of the WIUC in
the struggle to build one union in
the industry will be coasidered.”’
The letter urges all WIUC locals
to send their full quota of dele-

-gates and as many observer dele-

gates as desired.

During and since the 1950 wage
struggle in the industry, the desire
for maximum unity in the industry
has been steadily growing in both
the International Woodworkers of
America and the Woodworkers In-
dustrial Union.

PT sub total for
week boosted to 43

The issue is peace or war, and the
choice between the hysterical, war-
mongering columns of the daily
press and the facts, which the daily
press either distort or suppress,
earried by the Pacific Tribune. The
question is, what are our readers
doing to put the facts into the hands
of their friends and.neighbors?

This week 43 subs came in, an
increase but far short of what the
times require. With only a little

effort this can be doubled next

st cipal: -ineeeesiinn

week. How about it?

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CCF

from “the humanitarian and ethi-
cal precepts of the great religious
teachers.”

Admitting that official CCF sup-
port of cold war pulicies some-
times gave the CCF strange bed-
fellows, Coldwell concluded lame-
ly, “We will stand with those who
will stand with us, but sometimes
they’re pretty strange people whom
we have to stand with against the
onward march of Communism.’

Coldwell’s next public statement,
which secured for him publicity in
the daily press such as the sign-
ing of the Stockholm peace appeal
hy 200 million people throughout
the world has been unable to ob-
tain, was an unscrupulous distor-
tion of the facts about the peace
petition — his claim that it was
not being circulated in the Soviet
Union when in fact it has been
endorsed by the the Sovie* govern-
ment and: signed by 100 million
Soviet people.

Out of these preparatory state-
ments the CCF top leaders drew
their policy for presentation to the
convention: full support of Ameri-
can intervention in Korea and fur-
ther Canadian military participa-
tion.

The disgust this policy has al-
ready evoked» among > socialist-
minded CCF members is expressed
in a letter written to the CCF News
and published in its Juiy 19 issue
by B. P. Johnson, secretary of the
Sooke CCF Club. Johnsor writes:

“Instructed by members of Sooke

Club, I am writing a letter of pro-
test over the support of CCF
spokesmen for the present inter-
vention in Korea...
“We of the Sooke Club think a
majority of the members of the
CCF would support the fight of a
colonial people to free themselves
from imperialism. We feel the pres-
ent situation is so grave that a
referendum of all CCF members is
called for ..., =

“Socialists base themselves first
on the class struggle. Decaying cap-
italism has no solution but inevit-
able war, depressions and insecur-
ity for all. Only the workers them-
selves can stop the war plans of
the imperialists. We must give all
possible support to the fight of the
colonial peoples for independence.”
In a similar vein is a letter pub-
lished in the same issue over the
signature of G. P. Amy of New
Westminster, who stated:

“~.. I am not concerned with
what the Pacific Tribune said on
the matter (of Korea), nor do I
know. I ‘am concerned that space
in the CCF News should be given
over to a hysterical editorial which
only obscured an issue so far quite
inadequately dealt with in the
paper. : i

“The editorial is a pitiful illustra-
tion of how members of the demo-
cratic socialist movement are yield-
ing under the capitalistic campaign
of hate and fear. They are placing
the political respectability of anti-
communism before peace, before
truth, and before reason. Because
Russia or the Communists say that
the recent action of the Security
Council is il according to the

| UN Charter, should not mean that

it is untrue and is therefore to be
overlooked—it happens to be true,
for the Charter is quite clear on
this point ... :

“I submit that with any degree
of integrity and courage, democratic
socialists should be able to face the
fact that the UN is now acting as
a criminal agent of capitalism.”

These are the views of CCF rank-
and-file members, The salient fact

emerging from the present ferment

LA |

Popular girls

Burnaby.

at picnic to

8 p.m.

Of the 18 girls now entered in the
popular girl contest, 10 will be se-
lected as fin-
palists, the
money raised
by their spon-
soring com-
mittees and
the size of
; these com -
mittees de-
termining

‘ the winners,
Square dancing and musical num-
bers will be highlights of the pro-
gram at the qualifying event.

Those entered in the contest, as
pictured above, are:

Top row: Beverly Dewhurst,
Miss Lumber Worker; Alice Kur-
cher, Miss Burnaby; and Marion

within the CCF is that Coldwell and
the other top leaders at this con-
wention speak, not for, but against
them.

Here are 16 of the girls who will enter the
qualifying contest at Memorial Park on Aug-
ust 4 to decide the 10 finalists in the popular
girl contest at the United Labor Picnic to be

_ held August 13 at Confederation Park, North

Popular girl finalists

be chosen

_ With only two weeks to go to the United Labor Picnic
at Confederation Park on Sunday, August 13, atfention is
now concentrated on the qualifying contest for the popular
girl contest. This contest, from which ‘finalist will be chosen,
will be held at Memorial Park,
Hall, 2605 East Pender, in event of rajn), Friday, August 4,

41st and Windsor (or Clinton

Woods, Miss Seymour Heights.
Second row: Donalda Evans, Miss

‘Mount Pleasant; Betty Gadd, cne

of three contestants to the title of
Miss South Vancouver; Audrey
Beynon, Miss Lynn Valley.

Third row: Joan Nelson, contend- 5

er for Miss South Vancouver;
Dickie Robertson, contender for
Miss North Vancouver; , Phyllis
Voigt, Miss West End.

Fourth row: Minnie, Leyshan,
contender for Miss North Vancou-
ver; Doreen Arsenault, Miss Wood-
worker; Judy Power, contender for
Miss South Vancouver.

Fifth row: Jacqueline Hines, Miss
Building Trades; Victoria Paliwoda,
Miss Grandview; Patricia Thomp-
son, Miss Electrical Worker. :

Bottom: Pat. Smithers, Miss Hast-
ings East.

Not showm above is Miss Kitsil-
ano.

“Mystery candidate” is Miss De-
meanor, inset in story, whose iden-
tity will be revealed only at the
picnic, ;

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passing of
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REGINA

The progressive labor and farm-
er movement in Saskatchewan has
lost one of its most respected and
best-known leaders by the sudden
death of Alex Theodore, long a
leading member of the Labor-Pro-
gressive party in this province.
The funeral, held here Thursday
this week, was attended by many
of the men and women with whom
he had worked in the busy years
he devoted to the labor-farmer
movement.

In a statement paying tribute to
his work, Tim Buck, LPP national
leader said: ‘ 1

“Canada’s labor-farm movement
has lost a staunch pioneer and
fighter in the untimely passing of
comrade Alex Theodore. The na-
tional executive of the Labor-Pro-
gressive party mourns this loss of
one of our finest comrades who de-
voted his life to the struggle for
human rights, peace and socialism.

“Struck down by death, at 54
years of age, in the prime of life,
comrade Theodore gave of his life
and strength in the service of his
people, the workers and farmers of
Canada, He will always be rem-
embered by the farmers of the West
and workers of the East as a mo-
dest, hard-working communist who
always gave of his best in the
struggle. °

“To his beloved wife and com-
rade Florence, who shared his great
sacrifices, hardships and achieve-
ments through the years, and to
their daughters, Kay and Gwen, we
extend our heartfelt sympathies.
Comrade Alex Theodore’s work will
live on ,his cause of peace and
socialism will triumph, his memory
will be ever green in the great
movement of Communism to which
he gave his life.”

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