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DENNISON WINS SEAT

Progressives increase vote
in Toronto civic elections

TORONTO — In Toronto,
heart of the Metro Toronto 13-
municipality system, former
Controller Ford Brand, repudi-
ated by large sections of labor,

Was defeated for the mayor-
alty as voters in Ontario cities
and municipalities went to the
polls December 1.

Brand had openly support-
ed appointed Metro Mayor
Fred Gardiner and top civic
Officials against demands of
the civic workers’ union. He
Was publicly denounced . by
the union as no longer being
a labor man on the board,
despite endorsation by Toronto
Labor Council,

Mayor Nathan Phillips won
re-election for a two - year
term.

In the board of control race,
by contrast, William - Denni-
Son, also backed by Toronto

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Labor Council, narrowly edged
into the fourth and final spot.
He had differed substantially
with Brand on the civic work-
ers’ issue.

Significant voting took place
in the Ward 5 race for board
of education and the Ward 6
battle for alderman.

Mrs. Janet McMurray ran a
close third in a field of seven
candidates seeking two seats.
Mrs. McMurray polled a total
2,209 votes, failing election by
only 173 votes. An earlier com-
putation giving all candidates
in Ward 5 a higher vote was
attributed to the computing

machines having “gone wild” .

on election night.

In Ward 6, George Jackson
also figured third in a race
for two seats in a field of six
candidates. He polled a total of
2,761, up 645 from his 1956
vote of 1,500.

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Tabbing of those who in-
creased their votes as “Com-
munists”
press did not adversely affect
voters’ support for the candi-
dates so designated.

In Ward 5, Paul Pauk,
ning mate in the aldermanic
field to Mrs. .McMurray, re-
ceived 792 votes.

Mrs. Anna Pashka
sought a Ward 4 board of edu-
cation seat rolled up an im-
pressive 1,007 votes.

by the commercial
run-
who

In Ward 4 aldermanic vot-
ing Mark Frank in a field of
six ran fourth with 802 votes,
He campaigned for stopping of
evictions of unemployed work-
ers and against racial discrimi-
nation.

Significant was the contest
in.working class Ward 2, where
Mrs. May Birchard was ‘re-
elected at the top of the poll
to win a seat on the top Metro
Toronto Council ruling the af-
fairs of all 13 municipalities in
Greater Toronto.

“It was the people, not the
press that elected me,” she
said, in a direct slap at the
newspaper “slate” system,
where the three big commer-
cial dailies seek to control the
vote by daily publication of
their choices. Mrs. Birchard
was not on any daily paper
slate.

Voters strongly endorsed the
idea of extending the franchise
to all those citizens 21 and over.
Hitherto, tenants could only
vote if they had cooking fa-
cilities in a residence.

Extension of .voting privil-
eges was seen as an answer to
those who would like to res-
trict civic democracy in the
Metro Téronto area by seek-
ing to increase the present
two-year term of office to six
years.

Artkino renews
film contracts

TORONTO — Artkino Pic-
tures (Canada) Ltd. has: re-
newed its agreements for im-
portation of Soviet films into
this country, Mrs. Phyllis
Clarke, Artkino general man-
ager, announced here follow-
ing her return from a visit to
the Soviet Union.

Distribution of 35 mm. and
television will be through
Astral Films Ltd., Toronto, and
of 16 mm. films through New
World Films Ltd., Toronto.

Bert Whyte's
SPOR

NY MAN who holds strong
A views on all questions is
bound to make a‘host of ene-

mies, as well as a host of
friends, on his way. through
life. Austin Delany was such
a man, and it is a measure of

his worth that his enemies
respected him, no matter how
hotly they disputed his views.

Austin was the kind of a fel-
low who chews nails and spits
out barbed wire. His news-
paper comments on a variety of
sports — but particularly on
soccer — caused many hackles
to rise over the years. Furious
debates raged — sometimes
hundreds of letters protesting
his views flooded across his
editor’s desk — but Austin
never backed up one-tenth of
an inch.

His uncompromising honesty
compelled respect. In many
cases respect turned to affec-
tion, and ultimately to love.
When Austin Delany died last
Thursday — at his typewriter,
pounding out copy — thou-
sands of people received the
news with a sense of shock, of
personal loss. Included were
hundreds who did not know
the man in person, but only
through his newspaper stories.

Austin was a union man,
first, last and all the time. In
this he was different from
many of the white-collar boys
in the Newspaper Guild, who

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join because it is the thing to
do, who know little and care
less about the class struggle
in which they play a semi-
conscious role.

It wasn’t like that with Aus-

tin Delany. During the Second
World War he worked at Pa-
cific Drydock, talked union
to the new men on the job,
Was an executive member of
the Boilermakers and Iron Ship
Builders Union. In 1943 he
became the first editor of The
Maindeck, official organ of the
Shipyard General ' Workers
Federation.

Soccer was Austin’s abiding
love in the world of sports. He
played for New ‘Westminster
Royals when they were tops
in Canada, back in the late
Twenties and early Thirties.
Then he became a coach and
lecturer — a dedicated man
who carried his fervor into
the newsrooms of local papers,
where he pounded out highly
intelligent, controversial
articles on soccer. “Little
Poison,” they called him.

Austin Delany was at his
typewriter when he died. He
was just 56, had lived a full,
exciting. life. His passing hap-
pened as he undoubtedly want-
ed it — in the hectic rush of
catching a deadline, getting a
paper to bed.

He will be remembered for
a long time.

Hotel backs down on
discrimination issue

TORONTO — A “Stop racial discrimination” picket line,
backed up by filing of a charge under the provincial Fair Ac-

commodation Practices Act last week forced a policy backdown
by the management of Toronto’s Hotel Waverley.

The hotel manager had pub-
licly declared his house rule
to be that of segregated drink-
ing in his ladies’ and éscorts’
beverage room, in defiance of
the law.

A charge laid by Mark
Frank, Canadian Tribune staff
writer, followed up by a 25-
member picket line of Negroes,
Chinese and white citizens
compelled a change of heart
by manager Mike Lundy.

He wrote registered letters
to the complainants Allan
Cadegan, a Negro, and Mr. and
Mrs. Dale Schnee, white per-
sons, who had been denied
service together with their
friend Cadegan.

In his letter to the Schnees,
the manager said:

“May I, as manager of Hotel
Waverley Ltd. extend to you

my sincere apologies for any
embarrassment which might
have been caused to you and
your guest on Thursday, Nov-

ember 20, at my hotel. You
have my sincere invitation to
avail yourselves of the hotel’s
services in the future, and I
can assure you that there will
be no repetition of this un-
fortunate incident.”

The manager told the press
that his policy of barring
service to mixed groups had
been dropped.

Pickets marched in front of
the hotel entrance handing
out hundreds of leaflets head-
ed “It’s A Crime.” The leaflet
declared: “This is not Georgia,
U.S.A., where the Springhill
miner, Maurice Ruddick, was
segregated from his friends.”

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