‘Feet of clay

HOUSANDS of kids, and grown-ups too, look upon
Gene Autrey, drug-store cowboy of the screen and

radio, as a hero in the same clas

_ Ruth, King Clancey and others among the glamorous
figures who capture the imagination and respect of the
childish and teen-age mind, They even think he can

Sing.

The real Gene Autrey however has been exposed
in his nakedness by the Amalgamated Clothing Workers.
An Overalls factory in the States—the J.
Company of Waco, Texas, manufactures under substan-
dard conditions, the “Gene Autrey Blue Jeans.” These

' western-style overalls, imitation of
in the pictures he makes,
_ kids, mental as well as actual,
_ Gene Autry is still a reality.
Autrey
Jeans sold
“a colored
his horse.”

So far,
Women who work in the

who

hour, and when Autrey was ask
by using his influence with the

are meant to appeal to the

receives a royalty on eve
bearing this name and
picture of the famous cowboy

O.K., but the 200 teen-age girls and elderly
J. M. Wood factory are now
on strike, against a 50 cents an hour wage.

in union factories for the same work is 1
ed to help the strikers

Claring that he only received a small royalty from the
his autograph.: ;

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Since Autrey, who is reputed to make over $250,000
yearly income, displays such an inhuman attitude to
the sorely exploited women and girls who have to live

s as Joe Louis, Babe

M. Woods

the kind Autry wears

imagine the West of
ry pair of the Blue

the purchaser gets
singer and

The average
one dollar an

firm, he refused, de--

enough to know
for a purpose and if he
be editing a vehicle fo

of daily concern
of the Bering Strait—our side.
curtains that prevent civi
ations being made by U.
war—all of an aggressive
of by American, British and
ing Jack Scott.

Creating war hysteria

ED Planes Over the NWT.”

headline in boxcar letter on the front page of the
News Herald of December 19th. This is part of the con-
tribution of our local dope sheets toward the manufac-
ture of war hysteria. There were no Red planes over
the North-West Territories nor any other part of
Canada. The editor of a newspaper should have brains
that. If he did know, he was lying
did not, he is too ignorant to
r moulding public opinion.

There is a vast mass of proof that war is a subject
in the North, but it is all on one side
Hidden airfields, iron
lians from seeing the prepar-
S. imperialism for a coming
character—have been written
Canadian writers, includ-

Enough to be conclusive.

So. runs a spread

on 50 cents an hour wages and may be lucky to have
full time work at that, it is not surprizing that we
never heard a peep out of him when the Dies-Rankin-
Thomas un-Americans made their sweeping attack on
the constitutional rights of the men and women in the
movies industry.

On the other side of the Bering Strait, not war but
peace, education, the development of civilization, occupy

before.

wandering life.

Comparison with
is all in their favor,

at their disposal.

the minds of the people and their leaders.
Anadyr, across the Strait from Alaska,
of the work being done for that purpose.

For the native population, much like
16 alphabets have been devised so they
read and write in their own languages.
500 non-Russian schools are functioning and
97 percent of all the childien are receiving an educa-
tion in their own tongues,

From
come reports

the Eskimos,
can learn to
The had none

in schools to suit their

the treatment of the Eskimos
in fact they are better educated

than the ten millions of imperial Americans in tnc
States of who Attorney-General Clark spoke in Boston
last May who “are to all intents and purposes illiterate
owing to the poor educational facilities they have had

Blue Jeans which sell under

The red-baiting,

ness to justify
_ Innocent people
- We can recall the role played
by big business in the export of
Scrap jron to Japan in the thirties,
where, over workers protests and
Warnings, scrap was loaded by

Big business received their profits
On this deal but Canadian workers

Hong Kong and other far Bastern
theaters of war.

Braidwood’s ideas of help

LPP convention

Fifth annual provincial conven-
on of the Labor-Progressive
Party, originally scheduled to be
“held January 27-29 in Vancouver,
been postponed to February
28, 29 and March 1, it was am
nounced by Maurice Rush, LPP
Provincial organizer, this week.

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President, Vancouver Labor Council (CCL)

of Thomas Braidwood, president of
is the usual attempt by big busi-

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tions of war, not
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Abbot gives curt ‘no’
to prices delegation

Mr. Douglas C. Abbott, Canada’s minister of finance,
has once again insulted the people of Canada—and especially
the women. Last week a delegation of more than 80 repre-

sentatives of housewives and

Toronto, Sudbury, Windsor, Ot-
tawa, and Montreal had a contfer-
ence with Mr. Abbott in Ottawa.

To their demands for reduc-
tions in living costs through price
controls and subsidies, Mr. Ab-
bott gave a brusque No. ;

It was not only his steadfast

refusal to consider the proposals
brought to him — proposals

stamped.with the..approval of all

but a small minority of Canadians
—but it was also his manner of
refusal.

He called them “nice-looking
women.” He simply smirked and
shook his head. When the short
interview was over he said “Good-
bye, girls.’ He herded the. delega-
tion, mostly women, into a small
room, with no chairs. He kept his
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little time to spend with you.
Stewart Smith, Board of Con-
trol candidate and one the
leaders of the delegation from
Toronto, Mrs. Ethel Leigh of the
Montreal Consumers Federation,
Mr. Rae Luckock of the Toronto
Housewives, and representatives
from the Canadian Legion, the
Union of .Mine, Mill and Smelter
Workers. and others witnessed Mr.
Abbott’s artful dodging.

consumer organizations from

His only answer to the demand
for consumer protection was to
say that increased prices go to
the farmers or to pay increased
costs of imports or to make up
loss of wartime subsidies. Not a
word about profits except to ad-
mit there was “some profiteer-
ing.” he wouldn’t act to lower
prices because that would mean
taking over the whole economy
as they did in Russia. He was not
only trying to insult Russia,
(which this week amazed the
world with its forthright action
on prices) but’ insulted the intel-
ligence of the delegation with his
juvenile answer.

Evasion, equivocation, insult,
and smirk was all Mr. Abbott

‘had to offer these citizens — ex-

cept the head shaking from one
side to the other as he said No.

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maintain their pressure for price

controls and Mr. Abbott will soon:

learn he must say YES, or lose
his exalted position. ‘

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