: Fagel Gartner (lower left) is shown here with some members
of the UJPO Folk Singers and Dancers Ensemble. The group
Concludes its B.C. tour with a concert at Trail this Friday.
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UJPO ensemble tours B.C.

City, Island audiences
acclaim Folk Singers

By HAL GRIFFIN

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work; Unity, but to all Canadian
Ing people.”

This is how Morris Biderman,
ten national president, has been
Ba Ucing the Folk Singers and
4 Bie emble of the UJPO
5 hed Columbia audiences.
in Sea with which the group
cert host received at every con-
ars out his words.

a their first visit to this
a 7 last year, the Folk Sing-
Reng acquired a musical
equal and precision that is
: Y a tribute to their own hard
and the talented musicianship

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of Fagel Gartner, their conductor
and accompanist.

To the verve and enthusiasm that
comes only when’ the singing itself
comes from the heart to merge
with understanding of what is be-
ing sung and its purpose, has been
added a growing mastery of tech-
nique. The result, as the hund-
reds of people who had the good
fortune to hear the Folk Singers
can attest, is a performance that
would do credit to any professional
ensemble.

It would be difficult to single
out any one item of the full pro-|
gram given before a capacity audi-
ence in Vancouver’s Park Theatre
last Sunday. The great strength |
of the Folk Singers—“These young |
workers, housewives and students,”
as Biderman described them — 1s
their unity. Each member is cap-

s\able of stepping forward as a solo-

ist; all-give full support to the solo |
work of any other member.

Their program here was both |
fuller than last year’s and better |
balanced to appeal to the varied |
audiences, totalling some 10,000,
before whom they have appeared
on their tour across the country.

The addition this year of a tal-
ented dance team from the Toronto
New Dance Theatre, Roslyn and
Marcel, and the blending of two
art forms to interpret treasured
folk songs and the less known
people’s songs of our own time,
has given the group greater ver-
satility and scope. This was shown
particularly in the French Cana-
dian “Viva la Canadienne” and
the Soviet ‘“Molodiozhnaia.” It is
in this direction that the group’s
future development lies.

In the course of a ten-day tour
of B.C., the Folk Singers have giv-
en two concerts in Vancouver, at
the Park Theatre and Ukrainian
Hall, one in Nanaimo and one in
Port Alberni. Their last appear-
ance of the tour will be at Trail
this Friday, December 4, under
auspices of the International Union
of Mine, Mill and Smelter Work-

ers,

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Nelson council endorses
Carpenters’ works plan

A public building program to help relie

district has been projected by the

Alarmed by layoffs and lengthening jobless lines,
ing on local, provincial and federal governments to “uni

Crime comics
‘big business’

A plea for effective control of
crime comics, “a big business
which depends for its success on
debauching our children,’ was
made by Mrs. Florence Stanton,
moderator of a panel discussion on
censorship held as part of the pro-
gram at the third annual Book Fes-
tival here last weekend.

Participants in the discussion,
“Breaking the Censorship Bar-
rier,” were Jack Phillips, Harry
Rankin and Lionel Edwards.

Jack Phillips stated that a true
Canadian culture could not be de-
veloped “without intelligent par-
ticipation by the trade union move-
ment, whose members must both
contribute to and influence that
culture.”

Harry Rankin traced the history
of censorship from the dark ages
of feudalism to the darkness of
fascism, quoting from Hitler and
instancing Nazi destruction of cul-
ture to prove his argument that
“censorship is the weapon of reac-
tion.”

Lionel Edwards held that public
vigilance, the demand for enact-
ment of laws and their enforce-
ment, was necessary to curb “the
flood of diseased American litera-
ture which seeks to make us over
into a pale replica of Wall Street’s
brutalized concepts of what the
American people themselves should
be.”

He believed, however, that pub-
lic vigilance must be accompanied
by public awareness of the need
for creating a Canadian, progres-
sive culture.

“Beginning with the skit, the
modest painting, the small liter-
ary endeavor, provided it is hon-
est and bears talent, public appre-
ciation can water the soil in
which such a culture can grow
and flourish,” he said. “And be-
fore long we can be knocking at
the doors of councils and legis-
latures demanding financial sup-
port for our artists, our writers,
our poets.”

Sponsored by the People’s Co-
operative Bookstore and held in

Pender Auditorium here, the Book
Festival was featured by a number
of exhibits of Native Indian and
Eskimo art, a display of drawings
and paintings by a young Vancou-
ver artist, Rudy Kovach, inspired
by the Paul Bunyan legends, and
a rug-making -demonstration by
Mrs. V. J. McLachlan of Hope.
Folk dancing, a skit, and a puppet
show rounded out the program.

Recheck confirms
Liberal victory

VICTORIA, B.C.
Final and revised figures in the
Victoria byelection, November 24,
as released here following the re-
check of ballots which confirmed
election of Liberal George i. Greg-
ory over Social Credit Finance Min-
ister Einar Gunderson by a 90-vote
margin, were:
Gregory (Liberal)
Gunderson (Socred) -..
Matthews (CCF)
Finlayson (PC)
Blakey (LPP)

Rejected ballots

NELSON, B.C.

ve the “unnecessary scourge of unemployment” in this

United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, Local 2458,
and supported by Nelson City Council.

building program immediately, as
one measure of helping to relieve
the unnecessary social scourge of
unemployment in this area, to al-
leviate the misery and worry to
workers and their families, and
slump in general trade to our local
business.” Work projects suggest-
ed included new school building
and additions to present schools,
road improvements, houses, post
office, bridges and a_hospital.

The resolution noted that at the)
present time “in the national bud-!
get two billion dollars are allocat-|
ed for war armament purposes.”

When the union resolution was
placed before Nelson City Coun-
cil on November 23, it was en-|
dorsed in principle with the re- |
quest that the Carpenters’ local |
forward it to the provincial and
federal governments.

Also passed by the union local
was a resolution demanding that
Ottawa “favor and aid the build-
ing of an All-Canadian Pipe Line
of natural gas from Alberta to
Toronto.”

Noting that there is a question
before the House of Commons as
to whether an all-Canadian pipe-
line should be constructed, or
whether a U.S. line should be
brought in to Toronto, the resolu-
tion takes a firm stand in favor of

the all-Canadian line.

the union unanimously passed a resolution call-
te their efforts for the implementation of a

Runs in Victoria

Elgin “Scotty” Neish, presi-
dent of the Victoria local of
United Fishermen and Allied
Workers Union, is seeking an
aldermanic seat in the coming
Victoria civic elections. “! feel
that at least one labor spokesman
should be in council to present

labor’s viewpoint,” he said when
nominated. :

Champion press drive banquet

Turkey dinner, floor
show--all for a buck

Where, in these days of inflated
living costs, can one get a full-
course turkey dinner, plus a floor:
show and dancing, for a dellar?
The answer is: at the party cele-
brating the third birthday of
Champion, Canada’s progressive
youth paper.

The Champion banquet, fioor
show and dance will be held in the
Ukrainian Hall, 805 East Pender,
Saturday, December 12. (Dinner
starts at 6.30 p.m., and tickets may
be purchased at the Pacific Tribune
office.)

The big shindig will also be the
occasion for this year’s kickoff in
the annual Champion financial and
subscription drive, which runs
through December, January and
February. :

“We're out to sign up 550
readers and raise $1,500 in cash
for our youth paper,” said Roy
Samuelson, chairman of the B.C.
Champion committee.

Speakers at the banquet will in-
clude Vance Livingstone, who will
describe his trip to the 1953 World
Youth Festival at Bucharest as a
delegate from the Federation of
Russian Canadians; and Effie Jones,
aldermanic candidate -in the De-
cember 9 civic elections (she could
be Alderman Jones before the date
of the banquet).

The chief chef in charge of pre-|
paring the turkeys and all the
trimmings is famous both in kitch-

ens and press drives. He is Bill |
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VOTE LABOR

DONALD

GUISE

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Donald Guise, Business Agent of
the Vancouver Civic Employees’
Union, Outside Workers, is the
only labor candidate running for
the position of alderman.

A VOTE FOR GUISE !S A VOTE
FOR LABOR REPRESENTA-
TION ON THE CITY COUNCIL

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