X a ee aecth eo % ee $ish-Finnish Workers Club. AAR J "Aine News of the nation CSU derides claim TORONTO — Dewar Ferguson, Vice-president of the Canadian eamen’s Union, this week scof- fed at the claim made iby, Je. A: (Pat) Sullivan, resigned CSU lead- er, that his so-called Canadian Lake Sailors’ Union had a mem- peraie of 1,500 and was prepared © hegotiate wage agreements with the shipping companies. Sullivan also reported that offices Would be established in Toronto, Welland, at the head of the Great _ Lakes and in Quebec. : no have 90 percent of the Teat Lakes seamen signed with the CSU,” stated Ferguson. “Out of a total of 3,000 Lakes seamen Not 1,000 touch the Montreal port. °w could Sullivan possibly re- cruit 1,500?” Ferguson added that “the only Way Sullivan can finance offices is Tough the various shipping com- htt and “the only proposals ivan will put forward to Great Seige or any other seamen will ‘eh those already agreed on by © shipping companies.” Unions 711,000-strong OTTAWA — Membership of Ca- ies trade unions had increas- be y 100 percent since 1939 to a x €sent total of TAL IAT, at ise Le faled by figures issued here by € ministry of labor. Membership of the Canadian Shaded ‘of Labor, to which Gis of CIO unions were af- ted, had 350,000 members, the “Port showed. The Trades and ee Congress counted 330,000 . Sas and the remaining 30,000 were scattered among a num- ‘t of independent unions. Yr Truman doctrine hit 44 MOOSE JAW—“The United Na- ice organization has been. un- mined by the U.S. loan to Tur- tae. ae Greece,” Hon. Woodrow ‘ f : so Minister of education, ae ae 12th annual conventivu Ch € Saskatchewan Junior camber of Commerce here. fs nce before we built bulwarks Sainst Communism in Germany ean Japan and they boomerang- | Rubber workers ballot CAEP ONTO — Twelve thousand Qu eh workers in Ontario and te €c will begin to take a strike a i immediately, it was announc- ee ee weekend by United Rub- orkers (CIO). bean union is asking for a 20- high &8n hour wage increase. The Hak = company offer to date unio een five cents which the ey States is “inadequate.” The “officie® of the membership, say ee of the URWA-CIO, is for Apotitas. action. They point to a h €ous one-day walkout at © Goodyear plant at Bowman- Ville last we fe ling week as an indication of See Sunday, June 8, 1 p.m. SWEDISH PARK _' Good Program Music, Sports, Games Transportation from Hastings and Cassiar to the Park. MUSIC IN PAVILION BY THE VIKINGS —e Sponsoteq by: Finnish Organ- zation of Canada; and Swed- Stanton raps enumeration In a strongly worded statement, John Stanton, chairman of Van- couver Civic Reform Committee this week charged Vancouver civic officials with omission of “many thousands of persons elig- ible to vote as tenants’ from the civic voters’ lists. Charging that “the Non-Parti- san administration is, and always has been anxious to keep as many tenants as possible off the voters’ list,’ the CRC called on tenants to “flood the city clerk’s office with demands for a proper sys- tem of enumeration, and make absolutely sure that they are on the voters list.” The statement points out: “Aside from the fact that the seven enumerators (compiling the new voters’ list) have to cover almost 1,000 miles of streets, and have to visit upwards of 60,000 places of dwelling (a task which it is almost physically impossible for seven men to accomplish in seven months), a brief check made by our committee shows that many places have not been visited by these enumerators at all. “For example, we selected an East-End apartment house and checked the third floor resi- dents. Of ten apartments, six occupants were at home and not one of the six occupants had ever been canvassed by the enumerators. “These occupants are not on the voters’ list and presumably will never be on the voters list unless they apply to the court of revision in September or unless they take steps to put themselves on by going to the city clerk’s office before the end of July. “Other similar instances have been reported to us from various parts of the city and we are therefore led to believe that the system of enumeration is. ex- tremely faulty.” The CRC cited the- fact “that there are 88,273 owners on last year’s voters’ list and only 28,574 tenants. These figures, when com- pared with corresponding figures from other Canadian cities, indi- cate that the number on the voters list in Vancouver is exceptionally small. “The proportion in most Cana- dian cities indicates fhat there should be considerably more ten- ants on the voters’ list than there are owners. “This general Canadian trend is completely reversed in the case of Vancouver, and we feel that there must be a reason behind this.” New branches foamed New branches of the B.C. Housewives Consumer Association have been set up in Vancouver, North Vancouver, New Westmin- ster, Victoria, Nanaimo, Sointula, Chase River, Princeton, Burnavy and Port Alberni during the past two weeks, the Association an- nounces. Foe of Truman BRIG.-GEN. EVANS CARLSON Doctrine dies PORTLAND — Brig.-Gen. Evans Carlson, 51, marine hero of World War Two _ whose “Carlson’s Raiders” annihilat- ed the Japanese in the first island campaign of the Pacific conflict, died here last week of coronary occlusion. Following, his retirement from active service in the U.S. Marine Corps, Carlson engaged in liberal political affairs. Only 48 hours before his death, . Henry