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dies in Toronto

Funeral services were. held

Teresio, national president of the Association of United Ukrainian
Canadians, who died suddenly of a coronary thrombosis on January 6.

Born in 1906 on a farm in Lanuke, Alberta, Teresio was a son of
pioneer settlers who had come from Western Ukraine in 1902, driven
by poverty and oppression from their native land.

After finishing public school at
Lanuke, Teresio went to high
school at Vermilion, then to uni-
versity at Edmonton. He could not
continue after his second year for
financial reasons, and at the age
of 19 began teaching in a public
school. But he was determined to
graduate, and continued his uni-

versity studies by correspondence

courses.

William Teresio was a gifted
teacher. He taught in many AI-
berta schools, promoting pro-
gressive ideas on education. He
was the type of teacher who is
interested in every one of: his
pupils; not only that they should
“pass” but to bring out their
talents, to-equip them for life
and labor for the good of the
community. Hundreds of his
former pupils are outstanding
citizens today.

Teresio was always keenly in-| |

terested in community work. From
his youth he was active in the
Ukrainian progressive cultural or-
ganizations. When the Ukrainian
Labor-Farmer Temple Association
established a Students’ Institute in
Edmonton in 1930, he became the
manager. And he took part in,
and in many cases initiated, a
whole network of progressive pub-
lic activities.

When he went to Myrnam as
high school’ principal in 1934, a
post he retained until 1946, Ter-
esio really revealed -his talents as
a public leader. He helped the
Farmers Unity League; initiated
and was secretary of the farmers’
cooperative; won the fight for a
municipal hospital; served as sec-
retary of the Teachers’ Union in
his division; and as public com-
missioner he campaigned for pen-
sions for senior citizens.

The respect he earned by his
public activities was reflected in
the several terms he served as
mayor of Myrnam.

In 1945 he contested Vermilion
provincial riding as a Labor-Pro-
gressive party candidate.

At its second national conven-
tion in 1946, the Association of
United Ukrainian Canadians
elected Teresio national presi-
dent, and he moved to Toronto,
where the national office of the
AUUC is located.

He brought to his new and wider
duties those qualities which had
already singled him out in Alberta.
Especially, he paid attention to the
younger people in the organization,
to their education and. promotion,
to instilling in them love of their
own people and devotion to the

many friends, to the thousands of

ally joined in an expression of the

Teresio

TORONTO
here January 9 for William M.

WILLIAM TERESIO

great cause of the working class
to which he had. given himself
heart and soul.

In 1947 Teresio realized one of
his dreams when he led a delega-
tion to visit the Soviet Ukraine,
the land of his fathers.

He was one of the moving spirits
in the establishment of a monu-
ment to Taras Shevchenko, the
Ukraine’s greatest poet, at Pal-
ermo, and the building of the
Shevchenko Museum there.

He helped to organize various
cultural festivals. He taught AUUC
schools and classes. At the same
time he was active in ‘the cam-
paigns for peace, for Canadian-
Soviet friendship, for democratic
rights.

And he died at his post, sudden-
ly stricken at the end of a hard
day’s work in preparation for next
month’s national convention of the
Association of United Ukrainian
Canadians.

The death of William Teresio is
a severe blow to his family, to his

his former pupils, to his comrades
in the Ukrainian progressive move-
ment, and to the Canadian people.

He was one of the finest ex-
amples, of the Canadian-born gen-
eration of Slavic Canadians, whose
love of their own people and herit-
age and love of Canada are natur-

highest patriotism, whose labors
in their own organizations are
combined with the broadest public

activities to enrich both.

LABOR

BRIEFS

_ Unless the B.C. Electric recog-
nizes their chosen union, 227 gas
workers, members of International
Brotherhood of Electrical Work-
ers (AFL-TLC) will strike on Jan-

‘uary 25.

BCE claims the IBEW is not
“legally” the spokesman for the
gas workers. IBEW officials re-
tort that their organization repre-
sents more gas workers than any
other union in North America, and
the workers voted 220 to 7 in favor
of strike action.

A strike could cut off gas sup-
plies for nearly 65,000 Lower Main-
land and Vancouver Island con-

sumers.

* * *

Tenth annual convention of the
United Fishermen and Allied Work-
ers Union will open March 8 in
the Fishermen’s Hall here. More
than 100 delegates from locals are
expected to attend.

* * *

Vancouver employees of Ameri-
can Can Company returned to
work this week following a strike
settlement reached in New York
between the Steelworkers Union
and American Can.

Local workers did not take of-
ficial action when American Can’s
U.S. plants became strikebound,

ut stayed home on what. was
labelled “a holiday.”

* og

Information reaching Vancouver
this week indicates that the “break-
away” from Mine-Mill at Butte,
Méntana, has proved “a complete
flop.” Only a handful of men
have joined the raiding Steelwork-
ers’ group.

*

*

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An invitation has been extend-
ed to B.C. trade unionists to be-
come corresponding delegates to
the Canadian Congress of Sup-
port for Negotiated Peace taking
place January 30-31 in Toronto.

Cost of becoming a correspon-
ding delegate is the $1 registra-
tion fee only, which may be sent
to the Canadian Peace Congress,
25 Cumberland Street, Toronto
5, Ontario.

*

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Alberta’s first teacher strike in
13 years ended in victory for 77
teachers when the school board
at Jasper Place agreed to boost
salaries $200 annually.

* * *

Operators and IWA officials will
meet this weekend to discuss a
settlement of the Southern Interior
lumber strike. The northern strike
ended last week. |

‘Introduce health insurance now’
committee urges St. Laurent

TORONTO

The Committee for the Rights of
Canadian Children has written
Prime Minister St. Laurent urging
reconsideration of the govern-
ment’s negative attitude regarding
Health Insurance.

“We are especially concerned,
as the amount of sickness among
children is very high,” says the
letter. “Moreover, the tremendous
amount of money spent by Cana-

dian families on sickness is not‘

assuring them any continued

health.” ie
The letter quotes two paragraphs
from the committee’s _ booklet,

Health Insurance—Now:

“At least $1,000 million a year
is spent in Canada on Sickness;
The national Sickness Survey in
1950 reveals that about $384 mil-
lions was spent that year by in-
dividual families on doctors, hos-
pitals and drugs. In addition,
federal, provincial and municipal
governments spent $350 millions
on hospitals and other services
connnected with sickness. To this

must be addded an estimated $135

millions in wages lost by workers
owing to sickness . . . and these
are minimum estimates.

“These huge amounts do not
necessarily buy real health. Study
of our health records indicate that
medical attention’ is usually not
sought until symptoms are well ad-
vanced. This has frequently led

to costly treatment which so often|.

is no more than ‘patching up’ to
permit people to carry on some-
how. Early routine examinations
would prevent not only the de-
velopment of much illness but
would be an economy to the na-
tion by avoiding the costly care
required later.”

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Delegates to go
on ‘peace train’

Delegates to the Congress of Support for Negotiated Peace will
be given a mass send-off at the CPR depot here on Monday, January

20; ab.oulo: Dim;

“peace train” as it travels across
Canada. \

Latest delegates to be elected
in this province are Mrs. Kathleen
Rowe, of Haney, and Mrs. Jean
Amy, of New Westminster,

More than 80 people attended
a public meeting in Websters Cor-
ners last week at which Mrs. Rowe,
wife of Rev. Arthur Rowe, United
Church minister, was elected to
represent the Haney-Whonnock-
Websters Corners area.

Mrs. Rowe is a pacifist and a
member of the Fellowship of Re-
conciliation. She is active in church
work and is secretary of the Haney
Branch of CARS.

Mrs. Amy was chosen at a meet-
ing in Langley. A British war
bride, she is secretary of New
Westminster Peace Council.

B.C. Peace Council has named
three delegates, Ray Gardner, chair-
man; Mrs. Mary Jewell, secretary;
and Pat Graber, a hard-rock miner.

Mrs. Minnie Searle will repre-
sent North Vancouver at the con-
gress. Mrs. Searle has been one
of the leading workers in support
of the National Peace Referendum.

B.C. Peace Council also called
upon peace supporters this week
to register as corresponding dele-
gates to the Congress. Necessary
forms are obtainable from -the
council at Room 41, 144 West
Hastings.

JOHN BURNS

British unionist
fo speak in city

John Burns, national president
of the British Fire Brigades Union
is coming to this province to ad-
dress three public meetings on the
subject of world peace.

B.C. Peace Council announced
this weeek that he will speak in
Pender Auditorium here on Fri-
day, February 12.

He will also speak in New West-
minster on February 10 and in
Victoria February 11.

Burns has been a leader in the
British trade union movement and
Labor party for thirty years. He
has long been a member of the
Christian Peace Movement and was
a prominent figure in the pre-war
struggle to halt the Nazi drive to
war.

held in Peking.

' Burns will make a Canadian
speaking tour under auspices of
the Canadian Peace Congress after
attending the Congress of Support
for Negotiated Peace to be held

in Toronto this month.

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In 1952 he was a special guest.
-of the Pacific Peace Conference

Aboard the train leaving Vancouver will be six or more British
Columbia delegates to the congress.

More delegates will join the

McCarren got
plush carpet,

students boot

es TORONTO

Twelve University of Toronto
(Trinity) students were quick to
react with a “Go Home McCarran”
slogan in'a picket line before the
U.S. Consulate General building in
Toronto last week when twin de-
velopments brought witch-hunting
U.S. Senator Pat McCaran to Can-
ada at the same time as two U of
T students were arbitrarily arrest-
ed at West Palm ‘Beach, Florida,

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under the police-state McCarran

Immigration Act.
McCarran was in Canada to in-
terview Igor Gouzenko. The gov-

ernment provided him with RCMP

escort, limousines, luxurious ac-
commodations, and the services of
Chief Justice J. C. McRuer of the
Ontario’ Supreme Court.

In West Palm Beach, the two
Canadians were roughly inter-
rogated by an immigration officer,
told to sign a statement they were
not permitted to read, warned
that their names were in what the
students termed “A Black Book
of Communist sympathizers as

thick as the Toronto telephone
directory”; and held incommuni-
cado.

Treatment of the two students
set off a storm of protest on and
far beyond the campus.

Picketers before the U.S. consu-

late came from Trinity College °

and carried signs demanding “Re-
lease Our Ted” and “Release Bugs
Boultbee.” The two undergradu-
ates, Ted Rogers and William
Boultbee, held in Florida, were
put on $1,000 bail each. Universal
condemnation of the action
brought an official inquiry from the
External Affairs Department, ‘fol-
lowing which the students were re-
leased _with apologies. : :

Rogers is vice-president of” the
U of T Progressive-Conservative
Club and president of the Toronto
and District Progressive-Conserva-
tive Association. Boultbee, the
other student, is a great-nephew
of Sir William Mulock, former
chief justice of Ontario.

Members of the U of T Labor-
Progressive Party Club distributed
500 leaflets to students entitled
“An Insult to Canada!”

It warned that the effort to ex-
plain away the arrésts as a “mis-
take” distorts what really. _occur-
red — “part of the whole pattern
of developing U.S. fascism which
smears anybody and everybody

Who does not bow before the

thought-controllers.” :

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