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FRIDAY, JANUARY 11, 1952.

THE ‘FREE’ PRESS

All the news - edited
in one control office

The news appearing in many Canadian newspapers will

TORONTO

be even more controlled with the Canadian Press beginning.
operation of its new teletypesetter, called a “revolution” in
daily newspaper production. \

Through this new system, scheduled to go into operation
early this year, news stories can be edited in one control
office, sent by special teletype machine directly to the com-
posing rooms of newspapers, without first passing through
the hands of their editors. They are received on a tape
which runs through the teletypesetter and automatically set
up in type ready for make-up into pages.

Already nine of the 14 papers of the Thompson chain
get much of their news in this manner. Now the system
is being adopted by the Canadian Press. In the US., the

’ Associated Press, with which CP is affiliated, is also operat-
ing the new system which will be made available to B.C.

papers. .It is reported that by the end of 1952 more than
25 Canadian papers will be using the system.

“Fhe threat of a sharp in-
hangs over every home in this
crease in hospitalization rates
province again with the an-
nouncement that hospital in-
surance costs jhave risen $24
million since last spring,” Labor-
Progressive party ~ provincial
leader Nigel Morgan said this
week. |“Action must be taken
now if the 17 percent boost
announced by Health Minister
Turnbull is not to be added to
the already scandalously high
premium rates introduced last
year. =

“The announcement, coming
as it does a month before the
spring session of the legislature,
is a trial balloon, and the peo-
ple should let the Johnson-Ans-
comb Coalition know just what
-they think about the further
increase that is threatened.

~ Morgan calls for fight
against BCHIS boost .

“Not only must there be no
further increase, but the ex-
orbitant charges and co-insur-
ance rates foisted on the people
last year by the Liberal-Tory
government in face of violent
opposition of the vast majority
of the electors must removed
when the legislature meets in
February,” Morgan: said.

“Premier Johnson, Finance
Minister Anscomb, Health Min-
ister Turnbull and every MLA
must be aware of the wide-
spread dissatisfaction with the
government’s BCHIS politcies.
They must be compelled to ‘face
their constituents on this vital

issue. Delegations should be or-

ganized from every town and
village; resolutions should be
forwarded from organizations,
personal letters and phone calls
should pour in from individual
citizens,’ he concluded.

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CONCERT

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of Toronto

@ Oscar Osipov

of Vancouver

Monday, January 21, 8.15 p.m. | ;

PETER PAN BALLROOM

’ 1636 West Broadway
Admission $1.00
3 Sponsored by UJPO Vancouver Division

@ CLAIRE KLEIN

‘@ Gertrude Sneider

Gervin, repudiated by workers,
hits union through city council |

Vancouver's “‘labor alderman from Shaughnessy,’’ Alderman R. K. Gervin, —
having failed in his current bid to have all the city’s dogs leashed, now wants to
tie a leash on all civic outside workers. This week in city council he complained
bitterly that a Labor Relations Board decision certifying Vancouver Civic Em- |
ployees Union, Outside Workers, as bargaining agent for some ,1,500 workers
“forces us to deal with a union led by well-known Communists.’

all outside civic workers should
be screened by the RICMP.
Also smarting under the LRB
decision, taken after the board
had concluded a vote to deter-
mine how outside workers felt
about the issue (they voted 11
to 2 for the union) was Gervin’s
NPA “labor” side-kick, Alder-
man Birt Showler. But council,
sitting as finance committee,
deferred decision on the screen-
ing proposal for two weeks.

“Unable to impose their un-
democratic riling on outside
workers and equally unsuccess-
ful in their attempts to raid
and destroy the local union,
Gervin and Showler are en-
deavoring to accomplish through

- Vancouver City Council what

they have not been able to do
through the Trades and Labor
Congress of Canada.

“This is part of a campaign

to give civic workers a poor .

deal in 1952 wage negotiations,”
commented Outside Workers’
president Ed Smith. (The un-
ion this week filed notice with

the city of 1952 wage demands ~

calling for a 35 cents an hour
increase in the basic wage rate
of $1.24 an hour). — |,
Smith’s warning was ampli-
fied in a straight-talking union
bulletin issued by ‘his union
within 24 hours after the blasts
made ‘by Gervin, Showler and
other aldermen on Tuesday.
“Behind the hysteria which
some aldermen are trying to

whip up we see the hand of the ©

selfish interests who do not
want the civic workers of Van-

-couver to realize their just de-

mands in the 1952 wage negotia-
tions,” said the bulletin, and

continued:
“This screaming about ‘Com- ‘

munists,’ ‘disloyal Canadians’

and ‘threat to the public’ is an

insult to our membership. Our
members are loyal Canadians
and a large percentage of them:
have served in the Canadian
forces in two world wars. They
need no lesson in patriotism
from the rump minority of hys-
terical aldermen.

“Alderman J. D. Cornett
spoke about screening. The
screening of union workers
could only lead to a Canadian
version of the Taft-Hartley law.
This would mean the screening
out of good union men.

“The best answer to this evil
plot. to sabotage the living
standards of civic workers is to
strengthen our union and to
forge unity ‘between the unions
representing all civic employees
in Vancouver. The attack was
directed against us because we
represent 1,500 men, almost half
the civic employees in Vancou-
ver. The target of the attack
is all civic employees.

“Alderman Gervin was unsuc-
cessful in his campaign to put
‘a leash on every working man’s
dog. Now, along with Alder-
man Showler, he wants to take
on the Labor Relations Board.
Gervin and Showler are’ dis-
pleased with the wording of the
ballot used in the certification
vote.”

His solution: —

IN CITY JANUARY 21

UJPO song, drama

group makes tour

Following its successful venture last year; the United Jewish
People’s Order is again sponsoring a tour of Jewish centres in

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Western Canada ‘by a group of artists presenting a, program of

song and drama.

The group is headed by Emil Gartner, who has become 2
leading figure in Canadian music as conductor of Toronto’s

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EMIL GARTNER

FAGEL GARTNER

famous Jewish Folk Choir,
which he has guided to many
impressive: triumphs. Gartner
is also an accomplished singer
“and interpreter of folk songS
and it is in this capacity that —
he will participate in the tour.
Another accomplished singer
in the group is ‘Claire Klein,
rising young soprano solist of
the Folk Choir. Miss Klein, who
has won acclaim wherever she
has appeared, will sing a group
of classical numbers as well as _—
folk songs.
Accompanying Gartner and
Miss Klein at the piano will be
the talented Fagel Gartner.
The Vancouver Drama Work-
shop of the United Jewish Peo-
ple’s Order is presenting the ~
dramatic section of the program
three of its most accomplished
members, Nate Wiseman, Ger-
trude Snider and Oscar Osipov.
The trio will perform in The
Liars, a Yiddish dialogue by Sho-
lem Aleichem, Genesis, Jules Al-
len Wein’s tone poem dedicated
to the Jewish people’s resis-
tance to Nazism, and The In-
former, a scene from Bertold
Brecht’s play, The Private Life
of the Master Race. :
Vancouver will have an op-
portunity to hear and see the —
group at a concert to be held
Monday, January 21,, in Peter

Pan Ballroom, 1636 West Broad- -
way.

Officers

in VLC elections

Voting for the 1952 executive
and committees of Vancouver
Labor Council (CCL) will be
held January 22, with all posts
except that of vice-president,
held by Dick Henham ( Railway
Employees) being contested.

_ Bill Stewart (Marine Work-
ers) will oppose president
‘George Mitchell (IWA). Tom
Bradley (IWA) is. running
against secretary-treasurer Jim
Bury.

, Other nominations ‘for the ex-
ecutive: chairman of legislative
committee, Ewart Orr (Steel-
workers) -and Sam _ Jenkins
(Marine Workers); organizing

PACIFIC TRIBUNE — JANUARY 11, 1952 — PAGE 12

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opposed

chairman, Bud Hodgins (Retail-.
Wholesale Union) and Emmett
Holmes (IWA); grievance chair-
man, Hugh Allison (Railway
‘Employees) and Mervin Beagle
((Longshoremen); de dentials
chairman, Bill Pierce (B.C. ,
Woodworkers) and R. Ramslie

(Brewery Workers.)

At council meeting on Tues-

day this week delegates roundly
condemned city council for fail-

ing to “oppose the BCElectric
application for rate increases
with enough vigor. They also —
strongly opposed any postpone-,
ment ‘by council of action to
extend the city franchise to all —
residents over 21 years.

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