Miners fight
Jenkins’ bid

for control

GLACE BAY, NSS.

Attempt of Freeman Jenkins to
. become the director of United Mine
Workers’ District 26 is being bitter-
ly fought by the rank-and-file. The
big Caledonia local in a strongly
worded resolution to John L. Lewis
urged the UMW chief to order new
nominations for all district locals
which nominated Bob Stewart to
contest presidential elections June
13.

Stewart was nominated by 15
locals representing 9,000 miners
out of a total of 13,000. Jenkins
received the support of only four
locals. He could not even make
the grade ‘in his own local. *

Realizing there was not a pos-
sibility of being re-elected to the
presidency, he declared Stewart
“ineligible” to run and designated
himself as re-elected by acclama-
tion,

Jenkins also flouted the UMW
constitution by firing C. B. Wade,
the union’s research director. The
UMW executive board has voted
8-2 for Wade’s reinstatement, an-
other indication of the scope of
the ~opposition of Jenkins.

The miners say there is no ques-
tion that Jenkins will be voted out
of the leadership if John L. Lewis
orders the UMW constitution com-
plied with and decrees new nomina-
tions in all districts which nomin-
ated Bob Stewart. ‘

Opposition against Jenkins began
growing when he sold the miners
down the river to the coal barons
by signing a two-year wage-freeze
contract.

Noted labor —
lawyer dead “

J. L. Cohen, K.C., well known
labor lawyer, passed away sudden-
ly at his home here last week fol-
lowing a heart attack. At 52 he had
earned a large reputation in many
well-known labor and civil liberty
eases before Canadian courts.

_ He attracted national attention
‘in the famous Oshawa strike of GM
workers, marking the entrance of
the CIO into Canada 13 years ago.

J. L. Cohen appeared 30 times
before, the Ontario Labor Court
and never lost.a single case. He
_ served on at least 30 conciliation
boards. His services were retained

in the 1940 CSU struggle on the

‘Lakes and the Kirkland Lake min*
ers’ strike of 1941. Late in 1943 he
quit the National Labor’ Relations
Board under protest against the
state of national labor legislation.

Funeral services were held in
Toronto, May’ 25.

Bridges defends union stand

President Harry Bridges of

violated CIO policy.
remain in the CIO.

the International Longshoremen’s

and Warehousemen’s Union is shown at the hearing in Washington
where he defended his union against top level CIO charges that he
He told reporters the ILWU would fight to

General A. G. L. McNaugh

try to serve U.S. war plans.

| Fire McNaughton,
demands congress __

TORONTO

ton, Canada’s representative on the

UN’s atomic energy commission, has laid before Canadian big business
a blueprint which, in effect, would fashion the future of Canadian indus-

He did this in a speech here to tne 79th

annual general meeting of the Canadian Manufacturers Association.

Though the UN commission has
been charged with producing a
method of outlawing atom bombs,
MeNaughton openly called for
more Yankee bombs to be built
till war is unleashed.

The war press describes his re-
marks like this: “The North Ameri-
can continent should increase its
superiority in atomic weapons
against the day of atomic warfare,
General McNaughton said.” *

The Canadian Peace Congress
reacted promptly. In a statement
to the press it said, “We feel Gen-
eral McNaughton should be re-
quired by the government to at
once repudiate this disgraceful
statement and to work for the out-
lawing of atomic warfare alto-
gether. Either that or he should
be replaced at the UN’s atomic
energy commission by a Canadian
representative who will work for
the purpose for which that com-
mission was established.

«“We are presently petitioning
across Canada’ for half a million
signatures to back our proposal
that the government should not on-
ly seek the banning of atomic wea-

pons, but also announce that it
will treat as a war criminal any
government which first dares to
use such weapons.”

| The general who was billed to
‘speak in his capacity as chairman
_of the Canadian. section of the
| Permanent Joint Board on Defense
| (through which Yankee brass dom-
| inates our forces), predicted inter-
| Saaeeroe armaments between Can-
ae and the U.S. “at an early date.”

To Canadian would-be war pro-
fiteers who are getting muscled out
of the blood money by their Yankee
brethren, he warned: “As matters
stand in the dangerous situation
which exists it would not be sen-
sible to consider trade in arms
from the point of view of revenue.”

Besides “free trade in arms” he
listed “four other factors” for the
death traffic that war inciters hope
will start soon:

@ “To foresee the immense re-
quirement for the movement of
bulk commodities within North
America for processing, and of
finished military and other supplies
for export.” :

e “Prepare> against submarine
war.” :

.

.@ “Prepare for the delivery of
large blocks of electric power ad-
ditional to the ordinary demands
of industry.”

e “Be certain of meeting our
vast war requirements for iron ore.”

PT BASEBALL TEAM WINS 2-1

Clippers off to a flying

‘Pacific Tribune Clippers got off
to a good start in the Junior A
- Division of the Junior Chamber of
- Commerce baseball league, edging
out the highly touted Collingwood
squad 2-1 at Powell Street Grounds

“The Clippers’ battery, Don Smith
on the mound and Len Pye behind
the bat, worked smartly together,
allowing only three scattered hits.
All hands played heads-up ball and
were in trouble only in the seventh
inning when, with Evertt on first
_ for Collingwood, McDonald slam-
med what looked like a sure hit be-
tween first and second. Gordy Nu-
_ gent, Pacific Tribune second sack-
man, came through with a spec-
tacular piece of fielding and nipped
the rally in the bud.

Clippers, in 25 times at bat, col-

a

start |

lected five hits for two runs. Colling-
wood were at bat 25 times, squeez-
ing out three hits for one run.

Clippers: Milne, rf; Hilworth, lf;
Homenchuck, 3b; Rohatynsky, ss;
‘Pye, c; Nugent, 2b; Millard, 1b;
Smith, p; Burton, cf, — ;

Collingwood: Paulker, cf; Mont-
ford, 3b; Ulmer, rf; Book, ss; Kro-
gel, c; McCartney, If; McCoughran,
1b; Evertt, 2b; McDonald, p.

4

Runs batted in—Ulmer, Homen-
chuck, Rohatynsky. Two base hits—
Hilworth. Left on ‘bases—Clippers
8, Collingwood 10. Hits off Smith,
8; off McDonald, 5, Stolen bases—
Rohatynsky 1, Nugent 1, Hilworth
1. Book 2. Melford 1, Evertt 1.

Bases.on balls, by Smith 6, by Mc- |

Donald 2. First base on errors,
Clippers 2, Collingwood 2. Struck

out, by Smith 9, by McDonald 4.
Double. play—Collingwood 2.

Schedule of games for the next
two weeks follows:

aby at Kerrisdale.

Wednesday, June 7, Collingwood
vs. Hammond at Collingwood.

Acme, Queens Park.
Friday, June 9, PT Clippers vs.
Burnaby, at Powell St.
Sunday, June 11, Hammond vs.
PT ppers, at Hammond. |
Tuesday, June 13, Acme vs. Col-
lingwood, at Kerrisdale.
Thursday, June \15, vs.
Collingwood, at Central Park.
Friday, June 16; PT Clippers vs.
Swansons, at Powell St.

Tuesday, June 6, Acme vs, Burn- —

Thursday, June 8, Swansons vs.

FEL DORLAND REPORTS:

Let’s top the drive
with more readers

Success of our Pacific Tribune financial drive demonstrates the
great number of fine friends our paper has throughout the province.
Rolling up a total of $17,000 was an achievement of which all who
took part have a might to be proud, and a real victory for the working

people. a

Now that we are assured of publication for another year, the im-
mediate task is to consolidate our gains by holding all our present readers
and going out to get new ones.

First immediate task is to pick up all renewals which are due, and
It has

been our experience over several years that; a personal visit to people who

many of which were neglected during the financial campaign.

have neglected to renew their own subs usually results in the reader decid-
ing to subscribe for another year.

A letter from a group of supporters in Nanaimo, who did such out-
standing work in the recent drive, indicates that they are still on their
toes and raring to go. ‘We plan a systematic canvass of the whole

district for subs and renewals,”’ they write.

If other groups would follow the example of our Nanaimo friends,
our file of “‘former' readers’’ would quickly return tio the “‘‘active’’ file
again. This is the No. | priority job in circulation work at the present

time.

Among our best sub-getters are members of LPP clubs. Here's a
list of Vancouver, clubs, with a record of the number of subs obtained
in 1949, and during the first five months of 1950. Next week we'll

print a list: of provincial clubs.

CLUB 1949 SUBS 5 MOS, 195¢
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RSULIGSIE CERAROS EN es Cee Oe cetae op wee 28 38
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MNVIG “WV OTROUB Stat ges cao a cleat pe ts oa Lp gs 18 12
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s ae, 5 ; ;
Libel settled out of court
Two years ago the Detroit News libelled these four men, all —
former or present officials of United Auto Workers’ Local 600; imply-
ing they were linked with a “communist plot” to shoot UAW Presi-
dent Walter Reuther, After they had entered suit for $30,000, the

Detroit News chose to settle out of court, reportedl for a four-

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