_ Joe Gershman, editor of the Canadian Jewish Weekly, talks with Tim Buck, LPP national leader, and Robert M. Laxer, at the nominating convention which chose him as LPP federal can- idate for Toronto-Spadina. Joe Gershman to contest historic riding Labor- Progressives nominate editor in Toronto-Spadina By ROBERT M. LAXER T : TORONTO dae t's Spadina riding last ah nominated one of its best ae working class figures as a the Tostessive party - candidate m8 € coming federal elections. A be arm endorsations from the Vote and a unanimous standing ra i 200 LPP members chose trade €rshman, furworker, former of Be ueion organizer and editor dewish Progressive labor Canadian . they Weekly (Vochenblatt) as Spadi Standard bearer in historic ina, oe a chapter in this riding’s nomin tradition opened with the Nationa -As. Tim Buck, LPP ing. * leader, told the gather- historic Spadina, the is beg and source of so much that io a in the Canadian trade un- ent is called on to make its campaign a landmark and to help shape the country’s inde- pendent destiny.” Who is- Joe Gershman? Thous- ands of dressmakers, furriers, tailors, cloakmakers, sportswear and milinery workers on Toronto’s Spadina Avenue have known him for a quarter-century. A towering powerfully-built son of the Jew- ish working class, Joe is best known as a dynamic, colorful speaker in “the market” at open air rallies and as a crusading la- bor editor. Dave Biderman, himself a cloak- maker, former business agent of the cloakmakers’ union and presi- dent of Toronto’s leading Jewish cultural organization, the United Jewish People’s Order, spoke with feeling as he rose to nominate Gershman. “Joe has spent all his adult years in Spadina, working to found the dressmakers’ and furriers’ un- ions,”.he said. “He was always in the midst of plans for argan- izational campaigns, wage de- mands, the strike struggles. He is a person who really has the tradition of Spadina right in him. As an editor he has helped to expand the cultural life of Spad- ina and to enrich the culture of Canada.” Tim Buck keynoted the conven- tion with a stirring outline of his party’s fighting campaign now un- folding: “It is as if 50 years had ‘| passed since the last federal elec- tions,” he said, emphasizing how different the 1953 elections were to those of the past. He stressed that the real test was not only the number of votes gained but the extent to which the -LPP made the need for fun- damental changes in Canada’s na- tional policy the central issue of the election. Six B.C. delegates expected lo attend Bucharest festival that | Lionel Edwards, convenor of the B.C. Festival Preparations Committee, announced this week this ia Fourth ‘World Festival of Youth and Students for Peace will be held in Bucharest, Rumania, ton August 2-16. Cont; “Vangent will. number 50 to 60. ably tact delegates will prob- Ukr hee representatives from Organizaty? Ussian and Chinese ig and two young peo- Own» -Ztend to go “on their Man, pons vot these, Al Cheese- leaving Vancouver soon €ast six delegates from B.C. are expected to attend the world youth meet, and the Canadian for the Atlantic Coast, where he hopes to work his passage to Eur- ope on a freighter. It is expected that one Interior and one island delegate will also join the B.C. delegation. More than 30,000 delegates from PUT THE Russian People's PEOPLE’S INTERESTS FIRST! HEAR A. A. MacLEOD MARY CHOMYN : VANCOUVER CENTRE LPP CANDIDATE WILLIAM STEWART VANCOUVER CENTRE LPP CANDIDATE SUNDAY, MAY 17-——8P.M. ALSO FILM SHOWING Home — 600 Campbell Ave. 100 countries are expected to gather in Bucharest. A feature of the festival will be the holding of the World Friendly Games, bas- ed on the rules of the International Athletics Federation. The com- petitions are open to all sports- men and sportswomen of all coun- tries, with no age bar. One of the sponsors of the Games is Emil Zatopek, the Czech runner who captured three gold medals at the Olympics in Helsinki last year. Cultural competitions will also be held and prizes awarded for the best musical numbers, poems, plays and novels. Young artists from all over the world have been invited to participate. B.C. youth groups—sports, cul- tural, religious and student organ- izations—are being asked to dis- cuss the World Festival of Youth and to send delegates. Information and material can be obtained from. the convenor, Lionel Edwards, 3894 West 11th Avenue, Vanouver (phone AL. 20101). . U.S. interests buck construction of all-Canada pipeline TORONTO “The question of an all-Canadian pipeline to bring natural gas from the prairie provinces to Ontario and Quebec is of concern to every Canadian,” LPP national leader Tim Buck said in a radio broad- cast over a local station last week. “For domestic use, for cooking and for keeping a home warm, cheaper, cleaner, gives more heat and is less liable to interruption than any of the other commercial fuels. It is the nearest to an ideal fuel of any that is in com- mon use. natural gas has tremendous advan- tages,” Buck pointed out. “It is “TJ have a vivid memory of my own amazement the first time I saw at first hand the advantages of natural gas in Alberta about 30 years ago. At first it seemed odd that street lights should burn all day, but I learned that it was cheaper than having them turned on and off. At first it seemed odd that householders should pay a flat monthly rate and not have any meter but I learned that it was cheaper for everybody and worked out very well. People heated their homes with natural gas although there were coal mines only 30 miles away. “Now, before you_interrupt to tell me that was.in. Alberta, right close to the gas wells, let me point out to you that right now natural gas is being exported from Alber- ta all the way down to Butte, Mon- tana. It is the fuel used by the Anaconda Copper Company in its copper mining and smelting oper- ations. “Now get this: that gas is ex- ported at the price of 10> cents per thousand cubic feet. Compare that with $1.60 per thousand cubic feet which is the average price paid by all categories of Toronto consumers for manufactured gas. “But, let me remind you, the difference in price alone doesn’t tell the whole story. To realize the whole difference you must keep in mind the higher efficien- cy of natural gas. DR. JAMES ENDICOTT AND DR. MONICA FELTON Friday, Mayl 29 “In addition to these facts there © ee are the following very important ones. Natural gas has tremendous EXHIB ITION advantages over coal for a great GARDENS : many’ industrial operations and there is an abundance of it. Dr “Fuel, power, transportation, each of them are vital nowadays. Modern saciety must have all three of them. That is why an all-Canadian pipeline, and the St. Lawrence Seaway, are of decisive importance. . Endicott has just flown home from Vienna, Prague and Moscow with a first-hand re- port of the flood of peace senti- ment sweeping Europe. In Vi- enna he took part in the import- ant meeting of the Committee of Twenty-One, discussing how to take the demand for a five- power meeting to the people and government of every coun- try. We expect one of the most informative, inspiring addresses ever given by Dr. Endicott. Meetings for Dr. Endicott are also scheduled in Victoria, May 25; Nanaimo, May 26; and New Westminster, May 27. “I should point out that one big mining corporation which operates a nickel mine in Northern Mani- toba is building a smelter in Al- berta, at Fort Saskatchewan. That company is planning to transport its ore by rail, a thousand miles to where the natural gas is. How much more sensjble and economic to distribute the natural gas all around Canada to where the mines are. “Well, I can hear you saying, what are we waiting for? We are waiting for the people of Canada to rouse themselves and insist that an all-Canadian pipeline be built. “The obstacles that so far have prevented such a pipeline are political, not technical. Great financial interests in the U.S. are striving to prevent the building of an all-Canadian pipeline, just as other powerful interests in the U.S. are oppos- ing the building of the St. Law- rence Seaway. “The all-Canadian pipeline and the St. Lawrence Seawav will be built when. and onlv when, the people of Canada elect to parlia- ment men and women who will go there and fight to Put Canada These meetings will go on re- gardiess of final government decision in case of Dr. Felton. HAVE CANADIANS MINDS OF THEIR OWN? © Or do they allow cabinet min- isters in Ottawa to do all their thinking for them? If you have a mind of. your own, if you wish to defeat thought-control in Canada, write and/or wire Hon. Walter Harris, Minister of Im- migration, Ottawa, today and ask him to life the ban on Dr. Felton. The ban can be lifted if we speak our minds now. First!” PACIFIC TRIBUNE — MAY 15, 1953 — PAGE 1]