Yd \

Popular girls

will star in ~

fashion show

. Contestants in the Vancouver
_ Popular girl” contest featured at
this year’s United Labor Picnic
will give the public a chance to
Preview” their favorites at a
fashion show and dance in Clin-
oa hall Friday evening, August

The seven pretty candidates for
the title of “Miss * Vancouver” will
Model new fall fashions from
Forst’s. Men will probably eye the
8irls more than the clothes, while
he women will be all agog over
the latest fashions.

Two days later, at the big picnic
at Confederation Park on Sunday,
“August 7, the “popular girls” will
again be in the spotlight—but this
time they’ll have to share it with
Many other picnic attractions.

One unusual sports feature will
be a wrestling match—the clinch
and\pinch artists will be from what
ce was quaintly known as the
distaff side.

Highlight of the sports pro-
§Tam will be a wrestling exhi-
bition contest between West

st champion George Bunka
8nd ex-amateur B.C. champ
Claire Robertson. This promises
be a fast and furious match.

Other sports events (put on by
€stern Sports Club, include
hree rounds of boxing by the
; Well-known Crump brothers, hard-
Slugging 50-pounders; a first-class
bumbling exhibition by an Indian
°ys’ team from North Vancouver

© recently returned from a suc-
Cessful tour; and another grunt ’n
8Toan contest.

During the afternoon races will
be held for boys and girls of all
age groups, with attractive prizes
Sing to the winners. Along the
midway there'll be games of fun
8nd skill. Booths will sell bal-
pane and toys for the kiddies;
here'll be hot dog stands and pop
Slands, ice cream and popsicle
Stands, and may more attractions.
Rounding off the long day, jam-
Packed with entertainment, will
€ the dance held under the stars,
mith, music supplied by a popu-
ar band,
We'll be seeing you!

EVELYN AITKEN
“Miss Burnaby”

Naldeee Singh
youth delegate

Among the 33 Canadian youth
delegates who will attend the
world youth festival and congress
at Budapest next month is Kul-
deep Singh Bains of Victoria, a
prominent figure in the East In-
dian community on the Coast
widely known for his articles on
India in the labor press. Over the
past few years he has. taken a
leading part in youth and trade
union activities, and he is a for-
mer officer of the woodworkers’
local union in Victoria.

Kuldeep Singh Bains sailed from
Montreal last weekend.

Penner, secretary of
the Federation of Labor Youth,
speaking at a sendoff banquet
held in Toronto’s Ukrainian ‘Labor
Temple for the youth delegates,
nine of whom are Ukrainian Ca-
nadians, observed that in three
years the Beaver Brigade of Cana-

Norman

‘dian youth delegates to the world

youth festival had become a fine
tradition.

“Papers like the Montreal Ga-
zette have tried to slander the
brigade by claiming that its
members portray Canada as a na-
tion of warmongers,” he stated.
“The opposite is true. The brigade
is carying the message that Can-
ada is full of people who want
peace.”

Wocoree Bunka, B.G,  wrest-

§ champ, will be one of the
& drawing cards at the United
1 r Picnic August 7. He tan-
‘Sles with ex-amateur provincial
“ Shampion Claire Robertson in
Outdoor ring.

bi

PATRONEZE OUR
ADVERTISERS

of two developments in recent
months, (1) the shameful betrayal
of labor’s fight for repeal of the
Taft-Hartley act, and (2) the ad-
option of raiding, gangsterism and
strike-breaking as official policy by
reactionaries in the leadership of
CIO.”

As a result of these develop-
ments, the board said, “we have
concluded that the kind of fight
confronting our union demands a
change in tactics.”

The Mine-Mill statement empha-
sized: “We still believe that Taft-
Hartley is an employers’ law de-
signed to smash the labor move-
ment. We still believe that the
Taft-Hartley affidavits are an in-
vasion of our members’ constitu-
tional rights. We will continue to
fight for repeal of Taft-Hartley
with every weapon at our com-
mand, insisting as always that
only the unity of all labor will
bring final victory. And we empha-
tically reject any postponement of
this important fight as indicated
by national CIO.

“In signing the affidavits we
want to make it very clear that
we are not succumbing to the
hysteria of red-baiting that has
become so popular among some
labor leaders. We condemn the

Textile Workers
win 7c boost

MONTREAL

United Textile Workers of Am-
erica (AFL) have won a 1-cent in-
crease in a new agreement with
Celtic Knitting Company of Mon-
treal.

A new vacation with pay plan
and improvements in seniority and
productivity clauses was alos ne-
gotiated. Union security is pro-
vided by the Rand formula.

Canadian district secretary-
treasurer Madeleine Parent, who
directed the negotiations, stated,
“The best way to meet the present
danger of a new economic crisis is
to provide Canadian workers with
greater security and maintain their
purchasing power, as achieved in
this new agreement.” ;

Come out = and shell cut - for

Pacific Tribune

Sponsoring a sandlot ball team
isn’t a big financial operation, but
it does take folding money to buy
uniforms, balls and bats. The
Pacific Tribune’s junior “B” hard-
ball team, now sure of a spot in,
the playoffs, issued an appeal this
week to PT readers to give them
help financially.

“We have printed a number of
collection cards, which we hope
sport fans will use to round up
some quarters and dimes,” said
Jackie Robson, team manager.
“We're also” asking PT readers
to give the team a hand by sending

*s ball team

in cash donations for
to the Pacific Tribune.

The PT team is currently hold-
ing down third place in the seven-
team league, but is only a couple
of games behind the leaders.

FRASER VALLEY
LABOR PICNIC

SUNDAY, AUGUST 14
Fleetwood Park — Surrey
Everybody Welcome
Fun for All .

the boys

KEEP THIS

DATE OPEN!

SUNDAY,

— Wrestling

ANNUAL LABOR PICNIC

At Confederation Park

Fine Food — Sports — Popular Girl Contest

AUGUST 7

and Boxing —

CIO raids force Mine-Mill

compliance with T-H act

CHICAGO

Executive board of the Intemational Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers this week voted
unanimously to comply with filing requirements of the Taft-Hartley act, in order
use the processes of the National Labor Relations Board.”’

A statement released by the union executive board declared that the decision was reached “as the result

“to permit our union to

present. anti-Communist crusade
as a violent attack on democracy.
We renew our pledge to carry qut
the Mine-Mill constitutional pro-
vision for equality of member-
ship, regardless of race, creed,
national origin or political faith:
“We also want to make it very
clear that in signing the affidavits
we are not retreating one inch
from those policies which we be-
lieve best serve the interests of
our membership, the labor move-
ment, and the American people.
We are a_ progressive, militant
union, we have been a progressive,
militant union, and we will con-

|tinue to be a progressive, militant

union.

“Our fight for the wellbeing of
the American people and for
peace, against the war-mongers

and the reactionaries will continue
as strenuously and thoroughly in
the future as it has in the past.
We ,intend to carry the fight to
the enemy on every front.”

Although Robert Carlin, Canad-
ian board member, was prevented
from attending the union execu-
tive meeting by 'U.S. immigration
authorities, he had read and ap-
proved the statement before it was
adopted.

Supporters’ work produces

record honor roll for July

Seventeen Pacific Tribune sup-
porters have won a place on the
subscription Honor Roll for July
by signing up a total of 56 readers.
If all our supporters lend a hand
in continuing this spurt through
August the summer doldrums
won't mean a thing.

Here’s the July record:

GREATER VANCOUVER
CSU Strikers, Maritime ...... 13

M. Stables Renfrew Apts. ... 3
Bert Whyte Kitsilano ...... -3
Ruby Bitz Kitsilano ........ 21% |

Anne Belenkaya, Kitsilano 2%
Suporters, Hastings East ..... 2%
Audrey Brandon, North Van. . 2
Dora Madley, Norquay ... 2
J. Power, Grandview ...... 2
B. McDonald, Bill Bennett 2
S. Davies, Grandview ...... 2
R. Oldenberger, West End .. 2
Fel Ashton, West End ..... 2
PROVINCE
J. Ormerod, Mission ........ 5
F. Pickard, Ladysmith ...... 31%
Ernie Weed, Trail ......... 3
M. Popoff, Pt. Alberni ...... 2
of hoe 2

D. Jackson, Hornby Is.

R. P. PETTIPIECE
43 Years’ Service

FOR 37

bought the paper.
Southams took over.
“Southams rewarded my

my job.
printers. We will be there

ference table in good faith.”

| HAVE BEEN ON THE

PICKET LINE

“AROUND THE

DAILY PROVINCE

“Until I was forced on the picket line by the Southam
Co. in June, 1946. I had worked in the composing room of
the Daily Province for 43 years. s

“I contributed my fair share to the building of the
Province, and I worked there long before the Southams of
Montreal moved into Vancouver with their millions and
There never was any trouble until the

months on the picket line, obtained a court injunction, sued
members of my union for damages in the Supreme Court
and imported individuals from all over Canada to take

‘I am still on the picket ‘line with my fellow LTU.

abandon its union-wrecking policy and sit around the con-

~ [| ASK YOUR SUPPORT

TAM
A
PRIVER

MONTHS

lifetime of service with 36

until the Southam Co. will

ae

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