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South Africa’s 1,500,000 meng voters will go to the polls pan se 18,

This will be some 18 months before the end of the Nationalist party gov-

ermrment’s five-year term of office.
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The American Guild of Variety Artists are having their organizing prob-
lems in New Orleans. The union’s attempt to sign up the strip-tease artists
by picketing the night clubs has resulted in the strippers picketing the

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AGVA members. So far ae a Gag iat

The long-held theory ne ae cease invariably return by instinct to

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spawn in the rivers from which they emerged as fingerlings, is being ques-

tioned by Russian scientists. They state that tagged fish they released were

found in rivers 600 miles Eee on HAG hea

A Saskatchewan dhe he Book

a ripple to the economy.
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a Van viet head of the farm man-
agement department at the University of Saskatchewan's agriculture college
claims that fifteen million acres of farmland could vanish in Canada without

* *

James Riddle Hoffa, President of the Teamsters Union responded to
questions in a panel discussion on standards of ethical conduct with this

statement: “I Say to you .

live by the record, check your conscience,

whether or not it’s such that your conduct is proper and good for those who
surround you and for those that you represent.”
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iN REPORT

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PN By FRANK HOWARD, M.P.

Free Enterprise System
Good System For Crime

Free enterprise is touted regularly as being a wonderful and
highly moral system. However, there have ‘been more crimes
committed in the name of this system than can be recounted in
the 400 to 500 words of this article.

Recently in the Province of Quebec
there have been some shocking revel-
ations of the manner in which free
enterprise operated. Of course, the
corporations involved are not entirely
to blame for there was some political
immorality also.

Numerous Charges

In years past there have been num-
erous charges of crookedness levelled
against the regime of the late Maurice
Duplessis. On each occasion that such
charges were made the answer given
in reply was that the forces of com-
munism and smear were at work.
But, now the truth is coming out.

A Royal Commission in Quebec
is showing that numerous corpora-
tions are engaged in a program of
political payola there. By this arrange-
ment both the corporations and the

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‘| those firms in Quebec which paid off

Union Nationale Party prospered.
The losers were the people of Canada.
And such is always the case under
free enterprise in that profits and
privilege come first.
Price Fixing

One of the corporations involved
in the scandalous events is the Do-
minion Steel and Coal Corporation
(DOSCO). DOSCO, not too long
ago, was convicted of a criminal
offence of price fixing in the field of
farm fencing. DOSCO has also been
receiving huge subsidies from the
federal government. The public re-
velations in Quebec now show that
DOSCO was paying part of the sub-
sidy of the Canadian taxpayer into
the hands of Union Nationale Party
hacks at the rate of $10,00 a ton.

This was done by way of a “Kick-
back” on purchases by the Quebec
Government with such “kickbacks”
being paid out as commissions to
salesmen which didn’t exist.

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ducts (ARMCO) has also been con-
victed of criminal activities in the

ARMCO has

for sales to the Quebec Government.

Brandram-Henderson Paint Co.
also paid off to the extent of $1.50 a
gallon for paint which it sold to the
Quebec Government.

Browbeat Electorate
It has been estimated that these

‘| phony commissions reached the sum
w.| of a half a million dollars, all of which
‘| eventually was used to browbeat the

| electorate in Quebec into voting for

Union Nationale.

Another phase of this is that such
phony commissions probably were
charged as business expenses and
meant that the Canadian taxpayer
lost again, this time by way of less
corporate income tax.

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Boycott Of Deliveries

Striking Local 299 of the
Hotel and Restaurant Employ-
ees’ Union continued its bitter
struggle against the Royal York
Hotel by calling a special con-
ference of the ten unions whose
members provide direct and in-
direct service to the hotel.

A boycott of deliveries to the hotel
is expected to be considered at the
session as well as other methods of
aid to the union.

3 Month Strike
The three-month strike has seen
the Royal York, fed by the huge
resources of its parent company, the
Canadian Pacific Railway, use every
weapon in an attempt to crush the

hate hired strike breakers,
brushed aside attempts at mediation,
finally submitted a surrender-or-else
type of contract proposal and then
announced it was firing 700 employ-
ees who refused accept its terms
for a return to wo

The union, eae. 1,000 members
voted overwhelmingly to reject the
hotel’s terms, has applied to the On-
tario Labour Relations Board for con-
sent to prosecute the hotel. The union
claims the Royal York’s move in
threatening dismissal to compel em-
ployees to abandon a legal strike was
a violation of the province’s labour
act.

Received $20,000

Striking Local 299, which has al-
ready paid out $300,000 in strike
benefits, has received more than $20,-
000 as the result of an Ontario Fed-
eration of Labour drive for aid. The
remainder has come from the union’s
international office.

Among the unions whose members
provide key services for the hotel is
the Canadian Brotherhood of Rail-
way, Transport and General Workers.
CBRT members staff the hotel’s
nearby steam plant.

Coyne
May Be
Missed

The following is an extract
from the daily summary of
Toronto Stock Exchange trans-
actions which appeared in the
Globe and Mail, July 25th:
“Brokers said that investors bought

bank shares with the belief that yes-
terday’s appointment of Louis J. Ras-
minsky as governor of the Bank of
Canada will be good for bank earn-

s.
“Mr. Rasminsky, brokers said, is
known to be unusually conservative
in his banking beliefs. So it is be-
lieved his policies are likely to co-
incide with the desires of the charter-
ed banks more than those of his pre-
decessor, James E. Coyne

Former Governor Coyne was con-
sidered too conservative by a large
number of important Canadian econ-
omists, including those working in the
trade union movement. If, as the
Globe and Mail suggests, the new
governor is even more conservative,
and the present Conservative Govern-
ment had a violent disagreement with
the old governor, what does all this
add up to?

Teetotallers
Paying
Too

Thirsty Britons seeking escape
from the government’s new liquor
taxes discovered recently that
teetotalling won’t help. The price
of water is going up.

Water company managing di-
rector Kenneth Hepburt said it
will cost more “over the next
few years” because of increased
water consumption. For example,
he said, “people are taking more
baths than ever before.”

It Does Seem

A Problem

Mason County voters in Ken-
tucky have elected as constable a
man who died three weeks ago.
The losing candidate was in jail
for theft of a pistol. It will be up
to circuit court to decide who takes
the office.

Other unions called to the striking
union’s emergency conference in-
cluded the International Union of
Operating Engineers, the Teamsters,
the Brewery Workers and the United
Packinghouse Workers.

Live Music Cut

The Toronto Musicians’ Associa-
tion has already put pressure on the
hotel by refusing to renew contracts
at the Royal York. As a result, “live”
music has been cut off in the hotel’s
lo ounges and ballroom for the first
time since 1929.

Organizations continued to switch

More Restraints"

To live in freedom in
our slops in the street or to jay-
walk on a busy street. We must

the level of international affairs,
—Viscount Clement R. Attlee,

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bookings from the hotel. Latest to
do so was the Pan Arcadian Federa-
tion of America and Canada, a Greek-
American service organization, which
agreed to transfer its convention and
900 delegates to the King Edward
Hotel. The King Edward signed a
new contract with the union carlier
this year.

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