Design for auditorium :

: Winning design for Vancouver's new civic auditorium is shown

in this sketch of the building as it will look from Georgia Street.

A group of five Montreal architects won the $5,000 first prize but

Vancouver City Council is withholding the cheque until a contract

'S signed by the winners.’ Cost of the auditorium is supposed

to be $2,750,000, but city building experts are concerned that the
_ Structure may not be built within the budget.

Nominated in ‘Burrard

Sid Zlotnik (left) and Bert Whyte have been nominated by

the Labor-Progressive party to

contest Vancouver-Burrard ‘con-

Stituency in the next provincial elections, it was announced
this week at an LPP Forum in Mount Pleasant Community Hall,
Where Zlotnik spoke on, “Stop the U.S. Grab of B.C.’s Resources.”

You can be sure these
_Won’t be pies in the sky

ol ‘You’ve eaten the pies that dear
ad mother used to make — now
€ to Vancouver’s Annual Labor
a aar and test the pies made by
far old dad!” Bee
re
fs Word from organizers of the
azaar, which will be held at
UW Stings Auditorium ‘here March
+12, is that one of the highlights
hee be. the apple pie and bread
«ae8. contests open to ‘both sexes.
a ou’ve got to have a lot of
Ust to enter a pie making con-

test,” one male cook observed
this week. “I’m not entering for
the dough, although the cash prize
would come in handy, but simply
to prove that I can make a pie just
as. good as any my wife produces.”

Last year both the bread making
and apple pie contests were won
by Burnaby contestants and Van-
couver bakers are out to “avenge
their honor,” according to the
bazaar sponsors.

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ankee interference in
Canadian unions scored

Trade union leaders in Br

in Canadian union affairs.

itish Columbia are speaking out against Yankee interference

President Sam Jenkins of Marine Workers and Boilermakers Union this week wrote
an article in Ship and Shop, official union organ, condemning the “purge” in the Electrical

Workers Union.

“The real issue here is interfer-
ence into the sovereign rights of
the Canadian workers by the Unit-
ed States bureaucrats,” wrote Jen-
kins.

“What: do you suppose would
happen to a Canadian if he went
to Washington, D.C., and started
to tell an American union mem-
bership to head in? He would
end up on Ellis Island so fast he
would think he had been born
there.

“Tf these U.S. state department
inspired bureaucrats can succeed
in their drive to implant fear into
the hearts of the Canadian work-
ers by their arrogant domination
of the trade unions, then the next
step will be American domination
of Canada.”

Jenkins called on Canadian

‘ unionists to “tell these Ameri-
can dictators that we are Cana-

dians and proud of it, and that

we don‘t need any of their Mc-

Carthyism in Canada.”

An article in the Ocean Falls
United Worker, organ of Pulp,
Sulphite Local 312 and Paper Mak-
ers Local 360, says:-

“After reading about all the so-
called purges which are taking
place in Vancouver at the present
time we are wondering if McCar-
thyism is being transferred to this
country. °

“We are not communists but
we would like to point out that
under Canadian law a ‘man can
hold any political beliefs he wishes
providing he does not actively en-
gage in subversion of the govern-
ment.

“When the law of our country
states this, we cannot agree with
a man being expelled from a union
and, in these days of the union

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Sicaler: TOM McEWEN ;
_ “We Can Save Peace’

shop, deprived of his livelihood
for his political beliefs, even
though we emphatically disagree.
with those beliefs.

“And when we see men being
purged from unions for their
political beliefs we can only ask
ourselves, ‘Where will it end?’
The communists today, some
others of other political beliefs
tomorrow; it could even be those
who belong to one of the more
‘respectable’ of the present poli-
.tical parties at some time in the
future.

“To maintain freedom we have
to act as if-we believe in it. Once
we start to act as if we don’t we
will no longer be free.”

An ‘article in The Fisherman,
representing the organized fisher-

men and shoreworkers of British
Columbia, said in part:

“How tightly Americans control
Canadian unions, particularly those
affiliated with the AFL, is being
demonstrated in Vancouver where
the hatchet men have moved in
from Washington and suspended
leaders of the Electrical Workers
and the Carpenters... .

“It is clear that while the:
charges are of left wing activity,
communism, etc., the objective
is to force repressive U.S. poli-
cies into Canada through the
unions. ;

“Moreover, it is also obvious,
Americans are entering Canada,
flouting its laws, and dictating to
Canadian workers, in a way that
is unbelievable.

“Those charged, if they are suc-
cessfully framed by the Interna-
tional, will lose any chance of em-
ployment in firms covered by

IBEW agreements, since most- of
them are closed or union shop
operations.”

LEGISLATURE
Se aad

>= Bias
EVERY SAT.
7.10 p.m.

LABOR-PROGRESSIVE
POINT of VIEW by
NIGEL MORGAN

Selling the PT

Prospects
look good
Dear Keader:

Tom McEwen and I are back
from our trip to Vancouver Is-
land—the land of sunshine and
blue skies. It’s something of a
letdown to return to Vancouver's
never-ending rain. .;

Except for our first day in Vie-
toria, where (believe it or not) we
=, Struck snow

we experienced
warm, _ beauti-
ful weather. Not
only the weath-
er was warm;
there was also
the warmth of
: the welcome we
nb received from
Pacific Tribune friends every-

everywhere on the Island.

We'd like to thank those people
Who supplied us with accommoda-
tion, and also those superb cooks
in Victoria, Lake Cowichan, Camp-
bell River, Cumberland, Nanaimo,
Port Alberni and Parkswille who
provided ‘such wonderful meals.
We won’t soon forget the pancakes,
homemade bread, steaks, roasts

and delicious desserts thrust upon
us.

Preparations for the 1955 PT
financial drive are well underway,
and I’m predicting here and now
that the Island centres will all go
over their proposed targets.

Many supporters have already
pledged to become Press Builders
and Honor Press Builders — but
you'll hear all about these people
when the drive begins March 15.

Tom McEwen and | will be in
Powell River March 4-5, and our
editor will report on his recent
visit to the Soviet Union at a
public meeting in Moose Hal! on
Friday, March 4 at 8 p.m.

After that we’ll be on the road
again, visiting White Rock, New
Westminster and other Fraser Val-

ley points. :
Rita Whyte

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