Fifth United Labor Picnic will underline fight for peace Any time thousands of working people from a cross section of lower mainland. in-} dustries gather for a day’s frolic that’s news, but that’s what will happen Sunday, August 1, when the fifth annual United Labor Picnic is officially opened at 10:30 a.m. by Reeve Morrison of Burnaby. Packed with a wholesale variety of recreation the picnic will at the*same time be a significant demonstration for peace in answer to the old-line party warmongers who. are im- periling the nation through their participation in Wall Street’s drive for war and fascism. In view of the sharp dangers of the present world situation, Maurice Rush, LPP pro- vincial organizer, has been invited to speak to the picnic on the sub- ject, “Unite to Fight for Peace.” The picnic has become a tradi- tion in Vancouver labor circles, and the fresh crowds and new slogans each year have symbolized labor’s growth and struggles. Pointing up the issues this year is the %peace poster contest, in which a number of labor artists are reported to have entered. There is expected to be wide par- ticipation in the limerick contest, with thousands expected to fill in the last line on the picnic admis- sion ticket which sells at fifty cents. The limerick which has to be complete reads: “Oh Johnson and Anscomb make hay Taxing the working man’s Pay, But if we unite And put up a fight—— A cash prize of $250 will go to the winner and there will be nine other prizes. All entries have to be in the hands of the committee by July 29. A silver cup has been donated by Birks Ltd., jewellers, to be award- ed when labor pays tribute to the B.C. trade unionist having the longest record of continuous union membership. Award will be made at the United Labor picnic August 1, and the picnic committee will | pay all expenses to bring this la-, bor veteran to the picnic as hon- ored guest from any part of Brit- ish. Columbia. : Nominations for the award should be forwarded to the United Labor Picnic Committee, 104 Shel- ley Bldg., Vancouver, B.C. Among the day’s multifarious ac- tivities there will be a sports pro- gram to fit all ages and muscles from the supple to the creaky, in- cluding a tug-of-war contest be- tween members of IWA sawmill local 1-217 and Marine Workers local 1; a vaudeville show, music by the famous Glengarry -Girls pipe band and a juke box for the youth who want to jive. Native In- dian girls will give a dancing dis- play and members of various cul- tural groups will take part in a national costumes contest. There will be games of every kind, with what should prove an extremely popular pastime of toss- ing hardballs at effigies of Mac- kenzie King, “Boss” Johnson and Herbert ‘Anscomb as a featured at- traction, On the culinary side, meals of four nations will be served in ad- dition to the pop, ‘ice cream and hot dogs without which no picnic is complete. “We've arranged something to interest every one, from the todd- lers making their introduction to the labor movement to the oldtim- ‘ers who've given a lifetime of service,” Caroline McFarlan, pic- nic convenor said this week. “But the important thing is that this is family day for the labor movement, the one day and the one event where everyone can get together. That’s why we’re sure nobody will want to miss it.” Letter reveals royalist defeat Word of the collapse of the Athens regime’s latest offensive against General Markos’ guerrilla forces has reached Vancouver through a letter written by a Greek press correspondent in the field | with royalist troops to his uncle in this city. i | Writing from a hospital bed in Ioannina, the correspondent said that the operation, in which the Athens government used some 70,- 000 troops supported by American supplied artillery and planes against a numerically weaker guer- rilla force, had ended in a major defeat for the royalists.. The campaign, designed to crush General _Markos’ forces in their Mount Grammos stronghold, ~ ac- cording to Athens dispatches, col- lapsed after a 27-day battle along a 100-mile front. “T have never seen anything like it in my life,” the correspondent told his uncle in the letter, “For days there was nothing but a blaze of fire lighting up the mountains always the dawn breaking through the mists.” : ’ Indicating that the royalists suf- fered heavy losses, the correspond- ent remarked that “the blood ran in rivers.” BIG SPORTS PROGRAM LINED UP Turner-Andrews bout picnic feature JACKIE TURNER By W. CAMPBELL - Sport fans who will converge m Confederation Park August for the United Labor Picnic ave a treat in store. Headliners n both fisticuffs and the grunt- ;and-groan department are fea- ured on a sports program which ndoubtedly outshines anything reviously offered at a labor ports event, ‘ z Fight fans* will agree that ackie Turner’s appearance in he ring is a promise of a first- rate contest. The contender for he world’s bantamweight title, one of the best fighters Canada as produced m a long while, a former amateur hamp, has been fighting pro ‘for more than two years, and -now has seven straight wins ‘under his belt. Also slated for the fight card are the popular bantams, the Crump twins. Wrestling fans will all have seen ‘or heard of cagey Jack Mc-Laughlin (the Cat), once holder of the British Empire Junior Heavyweight title, who has been scrapping in B.C. rings for many years. In this contest the Cat will have as his worthy opponent Cliff Parker, a mat ar- tist. well known in wrestling circles. Completing the wrest- ling card is a match featuring Bad Boy Bishop and. Mickey Kolbos, " day and night as though it was Popular girls | The popular girl contest at ¥ the United Labor Picnic is one election where you buy your votes from the candidates, and if anybody.asks us—and they all have—you'll Lave quite a time de- ciding which of these three ardent campaigners’ will get your vote, They are (left to right): Olga Zydyk, Miss Marine Worker; Anne Brooke, Miss Service Worker; Mae Nordell, Miss Building “The situation in Berlin couver’s Hotel Georgia last had set up a separate government in Germany as did the western na- tions, the United States and Britain would have considered the action to be cause for declaring war.” Lamont, a professor of philoso- Phy at Columbia University, is au- thor of many popular books on the Soviet Union. Reaching hack in current his- tory, he showed that the cam- paign for war against the Soviet Union’ started in the U.S. as far back as 1942, when Soviet strength was displayed at Stalin- grad. “Because of deep economic issues invulved, the reactionary forces in the United States were stimulating an attack on the first, socialist state even before Nazi Germany went down to de- feat.” Because of “appalling” war pro- paganda in the U.S., coupled with American support of reactionary elements the world over, the So- viet Union has had to take into consideration the possibility of a third attack against her. The So- Sport Shirts - Sport Slacks: 8.50 to $17.50 Gabardines. tropicals, Cords and worsteds styles .. . new sh ; fn aes ades. Sizes x cannot be understood in iso- lation, but only in light of the whole background of Ameri- can policy in Europe,” Corliss Lamont told a luncheon spon- sored by the Canadian-Soviet Friendship Council in Van- week. “Tf the Soviet Union viet Union's first line of defense against such attacks is the United Nations, through which she works for cooperation and peace. Th conclusion, Lamont restated the aims. of the American and Can- adian Councils for Soviet: Friend- ship: world peace, world trade and cooperation with the Soviet Union. “There is a vast reservoir of genuine democratic and peace feeling,” he said, “and that feel- ing is being expressed in many ways today. I feel that decent conservatives in the community can cooperate with liberals and radicals on these cbjectives. The Soviet Union has a different eco- nomic system from the United States but there is no reason in the world why the two systems should not exist in peace and why they should not get together on these international aims.” .. - Rhys Williams, ‘noted writer on the Soviet Union, spoke briefly and warned the warmongers of the hopelessness of war with the S0o- 7 $3.25 to $9 All the new fabrics in checks, Plaids and plain wit iF way collar, ? a ae Bedford new viet Union. : . Fan ee re ee FOR SUMMER COMFORT 30, . PACIFIC. TRIBUNE—JULY 28, 1948—PAGE 6 “ Corliss Lamont finds US... @ war propaganda ‘appalling’ a