a

_ Motion inspired
~ by Duplessis hit.
_ by Jewish groups

TORONTO

With only 15 voting and 50 abstaining, a Montreal meet-

ing of the dominion council of

the Eastern Region, Canadian

Jewish Congress, called for exclusion ot progressive. and

“like-minded” Jewish groups

from the all-in community

body. A resolution called for similar action by other regional

sections of the CJC.

The move was described as “a
dangerous decision” jin a joint
statement by the national council
of Progressive Jewish Organiza-
tions; the national executive of
the United Jewish People’s Order;
and the IKUF (Yiddish Cultural
Farband)- and affiliated groups.
BUGENE

Plant construction
indicates increased
production of radium —

EDMONTON

Work has begun for construc-
tion of a $1,800.00 “leaching”
plant at the Eldorado Mining and
Refining’s uranium mine at Port
Radium, NWT. Construction of
the plant is to be completed by
the end of 1951 and when it goes
into operation it is expected that
about 150 regular employees will
be required. The plant is being
built to extract uranium from
mill tailings which will mean
that considerable residue will be
utilised and production of uran-
ium increased.

Living quarters for married and
single employees are being erect-
ed at Beaverlodge.

Govt ad asked
fo stop floods
in Crow's Nest

_. BLAIRMORE, Alta.

Blairmore “Town Council is seek-
ing action by the Alberta govern-
ment to prevent flood damage in
the Crow’s Nest Pass and also re-
imbursement for expenses incurred
where flood damage does occur.

A three-point request sent by the
council asks the government: .

@ To reimburse towns for ex-
penses incurred during high water
periods.

e To undertake to crib weak
spots along the river banks.

@' To institute a flood fund.

Frank and Coleman councils
have been asked to support the
Blairmore request. :

The statement appeals to-.all Jew-
ish organizations to protest the
action.

They identified the action as
one flowing out of intensified at-
tacks of the Duplessis “pro-fas-
cist and anti-Semitic regime”
against the progressive and labor
movement; and the ever-growing
opposition to war in Quebec pro-
vince, :

“The leaders who imposed this
resolution on the dominion coun-
cil meeting in Montreal are the
same people who last year defied
the will of the Canadian Jewish
community when a fascist padlock
was Slapped on the door of an
important Jewish cultural centre
in Montreal.

“Notwithstanding the fact that
all divisions of the Canadian Jew-
ish Congress outside, of Montreal,

and all Youth Cofincils of the
Congress, including the one in
Montreal, called on Congress to

join the fight of hundreds of Jew-
ish and non-Jewish organizations
across Canada against the Pad-
lock Law, these leaders prevented
Congress from taking a _ public
stand on the question. They pre-
ferred to sacrifice the interests of
the Jewish community of Canada
and to weaken the struggle
against anti-Semitism rather than
utter a word of protest against
the anti-Semite Duplessis. Now
they have taken a further step!
“Such a policy, if adopted
would deprive the Canadian Jew-
ish Congress of the right to be
regarded as the _ representative
spokesman of all Canadian Jewry.
The contemplated action is aimed
not just against the progressive
Jewish’ movement, but also against
the very existence of the Canadian
Jewish Congress as 4 Congress.
“We therefore call on all leaders
and members of. Jewish organiza-
tions to forthrightly call a halt to
the dangerous course this handful
of Congress leaders is pursuing...”

ree’

(At the opening performance of
The Biggest Thief in Town at
-Everyman Theatre here this week,
Fred Katz, chairman of UJPO
Branch, 39, drew strong applause
from the audience when he read
a statement calling for protest
against the dominion council’s di-
visive resolution.)

Marine cooks.
Stewards union
defeats raids

SEATTLE

The serious stop-work meeting
of the Marine Cooks and Stewards
in this port was turned into a jubil-
ant “Victory Day” celebration with
the announcement that raids led
by Joe Curran, president of the Na-
tional Maritime Union (NMU), and
Harry Lundeberg, president of the
Sailors Union of the Pacific (SUP),
had suffered a crushing defeat.

Cheers that could be heard a
block away broke out when Sec-
retary - Treasurer Eddie Tangen
told the packed meeting of 425
members of the U:S. National La-
bor Relations Board had rejected
the petition for a hargaining elec-
tion because of a lack of signatures.

In a sober mood MCS members
from the 17 ships in port, filled the
hall to get a firsthand report on
their union’s three-way battle
against employer attacks, union
raiders and the government’s
séreening program.

Then came a telegram from
President Hugh SByrson reading
“Taft-Hartley, NLRB, NMU-SUP
raid petition thrown out for lack
of signatures. MCS marching for-
ward for more unity, progress and
democracy. Salud.”

When the _ sustained applause
greeting the victory announcement
subsided, Tangen told the elated
membership, “We have won a tre-
mendous victory, but we must re-
member we are still dealing with
the shipowners.” He warned that
“we still have a job to do to get
an improved contract signed.”

Without a dissenting vote the
membership voted to:

e: “Condemn the’ union-busting
raiders, both within and without
our union, particularly Harry Lun-
deberg and Joseph Curran. Alert
our membership on the dangers of
further raid attempts.

@' “Commend MCS members tor
their courageous stand and sup-
port of our great union.

e@' “Send particular thanks to our
great ally, the International Long-
shoremen and Warehousemen’s
Union (ILWU) who have stood
with us at every turn and to Presi-
dent Harry Bridges.

e' “Send an open letter thanking
the rank and file seamen of all
unions for their support in defeat-
ing the raid attempts.

@e “Send thanks and greetings of
international unity and _ solidarity
to the Seamen and Dockers Trade
Union International (World Feder-
ation of Trade Unions (for its 100

percent support. . ; .”

PROTEST SENT TO HOLLYWOOD

Ontario Censor Board _
hits violence in films

TORONTO
The Ontario Censor. Board has
sent a protest to Hollywood against
the use of excessive violence and
brutality in motion pictures. This
was made known in a report filed
by the board on May 20, a report
which followed a barrage of pro-
tests from the public to the board
and the Ontario government over
the showing of The Steel Helmet,
a picture showing a Korean pris-
oner of war being shot in cold
blood by an American Gi, and
other films of violence and war.
(Only minor cuts were made in
The Steel Helmet. The board told
the Canadian Tribune at the time
that it allowed more violence to be
shown in war films.)
The board reported it had made

305 “individual eliminations” jin-
volving 143 films during the past
year. This was out of a total of
536 full length features plus near-
ly 1,000 other features, including

newsreels, comedies and miscel-
laneous shorts.
Eliminations were made for

coarse dialogue, torture of women,
brutality, suggestive dancing, grue-
someness, knifing, nudity, hanging
and lashing. .

“There has been much recent
discussion arising from the inci-

dence of undue violence in the].

‘content of many films and its re-
lationship to crime,” said the re-
port. “Many censor boards, in-
cluding the one in Ontario, have
protested during the past year, di-
rectly and indirectly, to film pro-

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to correct the condition.”

At the last session of the On-
tario legislature, A. A. MacLeod,
MPP (LPP-Bellwoods) put a ques-
tion on the order paper asking for
a full report on the activities of the
Censor Board. The question was
never answered in the House.

O. S. Silverthorne, director of
the board, reported that there were
now 535 stheatre in Ontario, 155
having been built in the past year.

“This gain of 86-percent in On-
tario, which gets 45 percent of
Canada’s theatre receipts, repre-
sents an investment of about
$30,000,000 to which must be ad-
ded many more millions for the
modernization of old theatres,”
-his report disclosed. ' ne

The report also explained that
the board censors movie advertis-
ing, having rejected 669 “items”
out of 38,009 submitted.

Of the 586 full-length films re-
viewed, 56 were from Britain, 28
were foreign language films. The

rest all came from Hollywood.

‘

——_——THE

SPORTLIGHT

—By BERT WHYTE——

OST colorful character in the ring during the Ezzard Charles—Joey
Maxim world heavyweight title fight in Chicago last week wasn’t
either of the fighters, but an aging hustler named Jack Kearns, whose
ring tigers haven’t been keeping. him in the chips lately but who 7
fondly recalls ‘the days when he piloted such man-eaters and moneyr zz
earners as Jack Dempsey and Mickey Walker.

A fast man with a buck, it takes loads of the long green to keep
Kearns happy, so Maxim had hardly staggered out of the ring before
dapper Kearns was informing a handful of apathetic reporters that
his boy Joey would put his light-heavy crown on the block against
Bob Satterfield within 30 days. ‘We ain’t afraid of nobody,” said
Jack. (But doctors have ordered Maxim to take a complete rest for
a month or longer). mh i

Kearns was prospecting the smoke-filled gyms of the west coast
when he stumbled onto pay dirt in Dempsey. It\happened in Oakland,
Dempsey had drifted after leaving the Colorado mining country, and
the pair teamed up like ham. and eggs. A couple of years later
Dempsey flattened Jess Willard in Toledo and the gold came rolling)
in and rolled out, and when Dempsey cast him adrift a few years later,
he had to quickly discover another source of income.

Mickey Walker, the Toy Bulldog, came along and managed to keep ‘
Kearns in mazuma for a stretch, but when age caught up with Mickey -
and he retired to become a pub owner and part-time sports scribe, the” 7am
balding but still-dapper Kearns lost no time in taking to the trail
again, nostrils twitching and eyes agleam every time he spotted a pros-
pect weighing over 175 pounds who could stay on his feet and make
like @ tiger. ; ‘

oe

Most of Kearns’ tigers turned out to be tame tabbies until he picked
up Maxim and carefully steered him into a lightheavyweight championr
ship match with Freddie Mills in January, 1950. Joey dumped Mills
and Kearns set his sights on a title bout with Charles. Lest week he got
it and even though Maxim didn’t win—and I doubt if Kearns expect
him too—Jack was once more in the limelight and slightly in the chips.

‘ * * *

On Tuesday night I watched Cy’Greenlaw, who is just a few years
younger than Methuselah, having a field day against the Caps. old
Cy went the rout on the mound as Tri-City whipped Capilanos 11-4 to
split the series. He upped his batting average, getting three for four.
It was his second win of the season, and the first time Cy had gone the
distance. Y

All this would have been enough to make the ancient southpaw =
hurler happy, but his really big moments came in the fourth, when 14
he Slammed a homer over the short right field wall with one on, and in
the sixth when he duplicated in similar circumstances. As Cy trotted
across the plate after his second round-trip, he grinned at the batboy
and commented, “Good bat, that.”

* * *

PT Clippers, in a four-way tie last week for third spot in the In-
dustrial Trade [Union Baseball League, dropped two over the weekend
and skidded down to the second-from-last-slot. On Saturday the Clippers
lost to Longshoremen 8-6 and on Monday Niseis made three hits good
for seven runs and edged the PT boys 7-6,

a

Clippers could’ use an additional moundsman, and the whole team
showed the effects of over-work on Monday. An exhibition game at. a
Ladner on Sunday afternoon didn’t help any.’

Coming games: June 9, Boilermakers vs. Longshoremen; June
11, Nisei vs. Boilermakers; June 12, Longshoremen vs. PT Clippers;
June 18, Clifford Grill vs. Nisei. All games at Powell Grounds.

* * *

Every sports:promoter is plagued with VIP’s seeking free passes:
Lillian Jenkins, publicity director at Madison Square Garden in NeW
York, leads these pass-hounds into her office and plants them in front
of a framed sign, headed, “There were no passes even then... con
sult the Scriptures.” The anti-pass adages follow:

“Thou shalt not pass...’ (Numbers XX, 18); “Though they
roar, yet they cannot pass .. .” (Jeremiah I, 22); “Suffer not a man
to pass...” (Judges III, 28); “The wicked shall no more pass . . .”
(Nahum I, 15); “None shall pass .. .” (Isaiah XXXIV, 10); “This
generation shall not pass...’ (Mark XIII, 80); “Beware that thou
pass not...” (2nd Kings VI, 19); “There shall no stranger pass. . -”
(Amos III, 17); “Neither any son of man pass .. .” (Jeremiah Il,
43); “No man may pass through because of the beasts . . .” (Ezekeil
XIV, 15); “So he paid the fare thereof and went...” (Jonah I, 3).

* * Per a

Members of the Two Buck Punters Association, of which I am one
were pleased to hear that this summer there will be Sunday horse
racing within 25 miles of Vancouver when a new track opens at Boun- =
dary Bay, on the southern side of the 49th parallel. —

'

_ Opening date is announced as July 1, and for the first season only 5
trotters and pacers will perform. Next year, when the track is in. a
better shape, there'll be flat racing. Re

Always happy to take a buck from any source, the track operator®
benevolently announce that Canadian money will be accepted at part
at the pari-mutuels, thus giving us a chance to part with any folding
stuff which we failed to get rid of on Saturday at Lansdowne of ;
Hastings. The State of Washington will collect the betting tax. ae) E

Racing at Lansdown is scheduled to start June 30, but the dispute —
between horsemen and track operators over minimum purses is still é
unsettled. Horsemen want $950, the track offers $850. Both sides areé
standing pat, and a/government arbitrator may be appointed as i
toria won’t want to give up such a source of easy revenue. Sympathy
of racing fans is with the horsemen. :

Horse racing is one of the oldest as well as the most internation@!
of all sports. It’s as popular in China and the Soviet Union as i Ps
in England, France and Canada. The London Daily Worker rac
expert, Cayton, recently attracted world-wide attention when he picked
the winner of the Grand National for the second time in three yeaT®

His selection, Nickel Coin, paid off at 40 to 1.
PACIFIC. TRIBUNE — JUNE 8, 1951 — PAGE