Drive still $1,700 short of mark by IVAN BIRCHARD The Pacific Tribune’s sustaining fund drive edged closer to its $165,- 000 objective, with $932 in dona- tions and subscriptions coming in during the past week. Over $1700 is still needed to bring the drive'to a successful conclusion, and all supperters are urged to exert spe- cial efforts to put the drive over the top. The money acknowledged in’ this issue is that received. by Monday this week. At that time the total of money raised stood at $13,280.40, of which $8,797.40 was in donations and $4,483.00 sub- scriptions, - é Victcria boosters deserve special mention for the $100 turned in this week. Other provincial points where supporters have come through with substantial contribu- tions are Vernon, where I. R. Johnson raised $40.85; Cloverdale, where John Lesire sent in $41; and Cumberland, where John La- dish sent in $50. S KK Vancouver clubs which have been particularly active this past ‘week are East End No.1, $103.35; East End No. 2, $69.90; Central ‘Burnaby, $20; Georgia, $26 and Professional, $21. Herbert Cormier of the South Hill Club brought in $36.78; S. Constantine of Van- couver Heights, $10; Greta Nelson of Mount Pleasant, $38.40 and Vet- erans of the Mackenzie Papineau Battalion, $10. eS Tht GR Vancouver Press Drive Commit- tee promises that the Grand Film Festival being held this coming Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday nights, at Pender Auditorium, will be one of the top. en- tertainment treats of the season. Several outstanding films will be shown and prizes totalling $50 are being offered to members of the audience. This event will wind up |* the press drive in the city. ? Labor has new voice in Daily Tribune In Toronto, Hamilton and Wind- sor, Montreal and other eastern cities during the past two weeks, @ new paper has appeared on. the newsstands and is being de- livered to thousands of homes ‘every day. It’s a bright, smartly edited and attractively made up tabloid carrying all the features that Canadians have come to look for in their daily papers. In Full text of Stalin-Stassen talk WEATHER == | DAILY TRIBUNE TORONTO, MONDAY, MAY 5, 1947 Fou Nos kk FINAL EDITION 5 CENTS Se Living costs hit new high Up 1.7—butter, rent not included Auto workers to ask pay hike Page 3 Page 2 A charge of 50 cents for each insertion of five lines or less with 10 cents for each additional line is made for notices appearing in this column. No notices will be accepted’ later ‘than Monday noon of the week of publication. NOTICES Oldtime Dancing To Alf Carlson’s Orchestra Every Wednesday and Saturday Hastings Auditorium "828 East. Hastings | hone HAstings 1248. : oderate Rental Rates — For. socials, weddings, meetings O.K. Hair Restorer— OK hair restoring method from weakest fuzz or hair roots, Re- . sults from first. free trial. No order by mail: Case must be diagnosed separatelv.’ &71 Smithe. ASH BROS. CARTAGE “Moving — Transfer Dump Trucks’: - > 2289' Cambie | Phono FAI 0469 FRIDAY, MAY 16, 1947, Palestine Issue now before UN Britain has placed the Pat- estune issue before the United Nations Assembly, now meet: ang in New York. To date the political committee of the UN, Neaded by Canada’s Mike Pearson, has refused to permit the Jewish Agency, official voice of the Jews in Palestune, to gave their case put before the General Assembly. Poland ts leading the fight to have the Agency heard, Picture here shows (left) two young Euro- pean Jews on their way to Palestines. (right) proof that Jewish Arab unity. is possible * 1m Palestine are these Jewish and Arab workets in the field. IF Meetings— Swedish Finnish Workers’ Club meets last Friday every month, 7:30 p.m., Clinton Hall. Croatian Hall Available for Dances, Socials, Weddings, Banquets, Meetings, Reasonable rates, 600 ‘Camp- bell Avenue. HAstings 0087. Dance, Clinton Hall— 2605 East Pender. Dance every Saturday night. Modern and Old-Time. Viking’s Orchestra. Hall is available for rent, HAstings 327. WHAT’S DOING Dance— “Open Air Dance. Every Satur- day night, 9 to 12, at Swedish Park (North end of Second Narrows Bridge). West End Club, May Day Dance “at Happyland. ist prize: A “Dibble, 3050 East 19th Ave.; “2nd ‘prize, Roy, Regent Hotel; “8rd prize, W. Skolozdra, ‘West Pender St. flew . we ‘modern plant 1058 these things alone it challenges the monopoly of the well-estab- lished newspapers. But its essential difference, the thing that distinguishes it from every. other daily newspaper, is that it speaks for labor, which until this month has has no medium through which its aspira- tions, its views and its demands could be presented. : The new paper is the Daily Tribune, published from. a new in Toronto, for which thousands of ordinary people, factory workers, farmers, pensioners, men and women in offices and professions, have bought. certificates ranging from five’ to fifty dollars in order to raise the $250,000 required to launch and maintain it. . Now, readers-.of the Pacific Tri- bune, former readers of the Ca- nadian Tribune and all those who recognize the importance of the labor movement of having a daily newspaper espousing labor’s cause throughout the country, are being asked to contribute to the foun- dation of the new Daily Tribune. This week the British Colum- bia Committee of the Daily Tribune Koundation Fund, with John Stanton, well known Van- couver lawyer, as its chairman, and Hal Griffin, noted Vancou- ver writer, as secretary, announ- ced that it would seek to raise ‘$12,000 through sale of certifi- cates. “Our distance from the center of publication prevents most people in this province from be- coming regular subscribers to the Daily Tribune,” the committee’s announcement stated. “But the labor movement .here, as where, will benefit from the’ na- tional influence we are confident the new paper will attain and all progressive labor, therefore, has a concern in its success.” The committee announced that it has already received $1,400, among those who have bought certificates being the Marine Woerkrs and Boilermakers In- dustrial Union, Local No. 1, and the League of Canadian Serbians, Vancouver Branch. Applications for certificates in $5, $10, $25 and $50 denomina- tions, should be addressed to British Columbia Committee, Daily Tribune Foundation Fund, 650 Howe Street, Vancouver. LOGGERS — MINERS FISHERMEN COME AS YOU ARE GRAND UNION HOTEL _ Vancouver 14 W. Hastings. Your Genial Hosts _ BILL MURRAY, JACK MARTIN and NICK else- ). Robinson calls for unity to fight anti-labor laws ““Repressive anti-labor legislation recently passed in the United States and Canada is designed to make the trade unions ineffective in fighting the coming depression,” Reid Robinson, former international president of the CIO Mine Mill and Smelter Workers, declared at a press conference in Vancouver last weekend. Robinson noted that “employers in the United States refused to comply with the Wagner Labor Relations Act for two years, by simply stating it to be unconsti- tutional.” (The Wagner Act guar- anteed trade unions the right to bargain collectively.) “If the workers were to do the same thing in B.C. with Bill 39,” Rob- inson said, “the press and radio would scream that it was a ‘red plot’ to destroy the government. They can draw whatever infer- ence they like.” Robinson resigned the interna- tional presidency on March 10 to preventive a disruptive faction within the union from capitaliz- ing on an admitted error he had made, and so furthering their at- tempts to divide and weaken the union. This faction, whose members headed locals in Connecticut, at- tempted to pull their locals out of the union, after their slate was defeated for international officers. Rank- and-file union members in Connec- ticut have since voted to remain within the international despite their former local leadership. For the past two months Rob- inson has been’ speaking -in hundreds of union halls through- out the United States and Can- ada, bringig to the MMSW rank-and-file the story behind the present situation in their international and the need for their uniting behind the leader- ship of President Maurice Tra- vis in fighting for improved economic conditions. - Discussing the tour of Canad- ian mining areas he had con- cluded, Robinson declared: “The Canadian membership is strongly in support of the policies of the international, and I am confident it will fight against those who oppose the effective carrying out of our program. “The activities of the disrupters are designed to aid those em- ployers who wish to prevent in- dustry-wide bargaining, The rank- and-file members have now found out which leadership is defending ‘their interests, and are uniting around the broad program of the international, which is designed to gefena their interests.” x in the recent election } Last week Robinson spoke t0 metal miners and smelter work- ers at large meetings in Trail, Kimberley, Copper Mountain and Britannia. / REID ROBINSON Dr. Curry injured IDI ANIA OE Ne Lew Ais 70-year-old ea Vancouver dentist, received mul tiple injuries on Monday this week when he was struck by 4? auto at Seymour and Pender streets. A generous supporter of all progressive causes, Dr. Curry ha been associated with the labor movement here for the past years. He was taken to Vancouver General Hospital where his co? dition as the Pacific Tribune we? to press was reported to be good. Uphill in hospital VICTORIA, B.C.—Tom Uphill popular Labor MLA for Fernie, entered hospital here this wee for an eye operation. He is expe ted to be in hospital for tw? weeks. $50 IN Grand © Film Festival et ~ PRIZES sf — MAY 19 . vA \ On Photo Nights in Pender Auditorium, 339 West Pender Street - 20-21 CONTINUOUS FROM 7 PM. TO 11 P.M. Photo Selections Each Night at 8:55 and 10:30 p.m. ee et Under Auspices of Pacific Tribune Press Drive Committee nese 8 ‘PACIFIC TRIBUNE—PAGE aS