_ Foods from many lands featured

at Labor

Picnic.

A summer picnic which has been held annually for eight-

years, and which provides as including boxing, track and

many as ten major diversions field sports, a “Gayway” ‘and

an open air international restaurant, can lay claim to being unique among events of its kind.

The United Labor Picnic, which every year attracts one of the larg- est picnic crowds in B.C. to Con- federation Park in Burnaby, is that kind of unique évent. And this year’s ninth annual affair, to be staged on Sunday, August 13, from noon onward, will again aim at adding to its record as an institu- tion in the Lower Mainland: labor movement,

Regular features will include the Popular girl contest track and: field Sports for children and adults, a boxing exhibition, and an interna- tional restaurant where, you can feast on a variety of national dishes and this year a Canadian mystery dish called a “mushburger.” Dan-

cing will provide further entertain- ment for the younger crowd.

Three lucky people will win fine prizes supplied by Forsts Ltd.—a $359 Westinghouse refrigerator; a CCM bicycle, an electric kettle.

Added interest this year will cen- ter around a peace poster contest which offers prizes to the best post- er entry which contains the theme of preserving world peace. Similarly, the picnic committee is offering a prize for the best song on a peace theme.

contests: can be secured from the United Labor Picnic Committee, 506 Ford Building, Vancouver.

Contractors cut pay, threaten union gains

Last week the workers of the Columbia Bitulithic Co.

Ltd., Granville Island

contractors,

now paving Victoria

Drive under contract with the city council, had their wages cut from $1.15 per hour to 96 cents.

Workers on this job are asking Why the city pays its own outside Civic workers doing the same work $1.14 to $1.18 per hour, plus other Wage contract concessions, while it allows outside contractors to cut away below its own scale. Current building trades wage rates on the Same contract work is a minimum Of $1.25 per hour.

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One worker ‘on the Victoria Drive job told the Pacific Tribune that “if Aldermen Gervin and Showler would defend labor’s interests at the city hall with half the enthus- iasm they display in backing num- erous Non-Partisan policies, we'd get somewhere.” It is generally be- lieved that if Columbia Bitulithic paving contractors can get away with their 96-cent rate for labor on this type of work, that the NPA city council may seek to use it as a lever to cut down outside civic workers’ wages in the 1951 con- tract. } ~-In the 1950 wage negotiations

with outside workers, city council used all kinds of petty legal techni- calities to worm its way out of granting the union shop, As one civic worker put it, “Its silence on the 96-cent contract rate now may indicate ‘its scheme for 1951 wage levels.” : \

collect peace signatures

Street railwaymen of Vancouver bare moving into the fight for sig- natures t6 the world peace petition. A group of fifteen members of Division 101, Street Railwaymen’s Union, have constituted* themselves as an “unofficial” committee to di- rect the drive for signatures in their big union. Good results are already reported, and topping the list of those signing for peace is the new president of Division 101,

F. E. Wilcox.

In a keenly contested election of union officers which closed last week, the ballot returns show the. following: president, F. E, Wilcox; first vice-president, C. M. Stewart; second vice-president, Ernie Tuson; business agent, Al Jennings; finan- cial secretary, J. Harkness; plat- form men’s representatives, Charles (Chuck) Stewart and Joe Mullett.

Australian trade unions reject bid from ICFTU

The Cduncil of Trade Unions at Sydney, Australia, decided by a 59.47 vote not to affiliate to the In- ternational ‘Confederation of Free Trade Unions, the organization set up. by right wing AFL, CIO and

, Trade Union Congress lead-

tish is to combat the World Federation

of Trade Unions.

vy HU MMENEULTEL!

Application blanks for the two]

Street railwaymen to |

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FRONT-LINE FABLES

According to the Torento Daily Star the pilots of North Korea who defend themselves against Yankee aggression are really Russians. The Star editors, who are making an admirable effort to produce a paper which, by comparison, would make Ran- dolph Hearst seem a kindly old gentleman, deduced that the Ko- rean pilots are Russians because their planes were handled in “tip top” style.

The Koreans, it seems, aren’t 4] capable of handling a plane in “tip top” style, a piece of sound reasoning which now clears up the mystery around the USS. Superfortress which shot itself down over the North Sea on Wednesday, June 7. At the time of the incident, which was caus- ed when the Superfortress made history by casually shooting it- self down with its own guns, we had heaved a sigh of relief and commented that Our Way of Life was safe from its enemies as long as the U.S. air force was capable of such_ spectacular deeds. =.

But it appears that we were in error. No Yankee crew would operate in such a sloppy fashion, a fact which leaves no alterna- tive but to agree that the Super- fortress was really manned by Koreans who had infiltrated the U.S. air force by posing as aides to General MacArthur. Not being ““tip top” flyers it was natural that they should turn their guns on their own plane, a_ tactic which, if indulged in often

Boggs. Both served in the U.S.

Tipsy=-topsy tactics

enough, is apt to produce an in- feriority complex.

This incident recalls the case of Brigadier ~ General J. K. Snagsby and Colonel Lancelot

cavalry and on the surface it ap- peared that Colonel Boggs was just another red-blooded U.S. of- ficer who was ready at- a mo- ment’s notice to lay down @ Ca- nadian’s life for dear old Wall Street. It was a sheer accident that revealed his true role.

Brigadier - General Snagsby had just finished inspecting the stables and horses when Colonel Boggs appeared on the _ scene. oe Boggs,” snapped Snags-

y.

“At your service, General,” re- plied Boggs, giving Snagsby his most efficient salute.

Snagsby pointed to a long line of cavalry mounts. “Boggs,” he | ordered in his crisp, military voice, “have those horses shod.”

“Yessir!” said Boggs, and hur- ried away to carry out the order.

Later that evening Boggs was discussing U.S. military genius with other officers over several bottles of saki when Brigadier- General Snagsby entered ‘the mess _ hall.

“Boggs,” he barked, “did you have those horses shod this afternoon?” ‘

A look of horror came over_ Boggs’ face. “Shod! Good heav- ens, general!” he exclaimed, “I thought you said have those horses shot!”

“Korean!” snarled Brigadier-

TORN

STALIN'S PILOTS FLY

ber of U.S. soldiers ground there.

airmen, Sergt.° J.

Brewbaker of Vandalia, Ill.,

flight engineer.of a C-54. de-§ clared:

Suwon raid). are convinced that Russians were at. the controls. executed in tip-top style

do not fly like that.” commander, Lt.-Gen. George E. Stratemeyer, later told orrespondents therc was no evidence Russian air force fliers manned the Yaks.

General Snagsby as he trudged away to dictate the court-martial papers.

By MEL COLBY

COSDALEY

10

PLANES, YANKS S

(Continued from P.

on the

One of the returning U.S. R. Dre

“All. who saw it .(the

The raid was

“We know that Koreans Gen. MacArthur's

air

“After instigating the puppet gov- ernment of Syngman Rhee in South Korea to provoke civil war in Ko- rea, President. Truman made a statement on June 27 declaring that the United States had decided to

tion of Taiwan (Formosa). ,

“On Truman’s orders the Amer- ican Seventh Fleet has moved to the coast of Taiwan.

“On behalf of the Central People’s Government of the People’s Repub- lic of China I declare that Truman’s statement of the 27th and the ac- tions of the American navy consti- tute armed aggression against the territory of China and total viola- tion of the United Nations Charter. This violent predatory action by the United States Government comes as no surprise to the Chinese people, but only incteases their wrath. China’s people have over a long period constantly exposed all con- spiratorial schemes of American imperialism for aggression against China and the grabbing of Asia by force. All that Truman’s statement does is to openly expose his pre- meditated plan and put it into prac- tice. . :

“In fact the attack by the puppet Korean government of Syngman Rhee on the Korean Democratic People’s Republic at the instigation of the United States government was a premeditated move by the United States, designed to create a pretext for the United States to in- vade Taiwan, Korea, Viet Nam and the Philippines. It is precisely a further act of intervention hy American imperialism in the affairs of Asia.

“On behalf of the Central People’s Government of the People’s Repub- lic of China I declare that no mat- ter what obstructive action the United States imperialists may take, the fact that Taiwan is part of China: will remain unchanged for- ever. This ,is not only a historical fact, it has also been confirmed by

prevent by armed force our libera-—

‘We will liberate Formosa’ hou En-lai tells Truman.

PEKING

Chou En-lai, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Central People’s Government of China, this week made the following statement in reply to the aggressive threats made by Truman on June 27, New China News Agency reports.

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the Cairo and Potsdam declarations and by the situation since the sur- render of Japan.

“All the people of our country will certainly fight to the end singlemindedly to liberate Taiwan from the grasp of the American ag-

Oe | gressors, The Chinese people who defeated Japanese imperialism and Chiang Kai-shek, the hireling of American imperialism, will surely be victorious in driving off the American aggressors and recover-

ing Taiwan and all other territories belonging to China.”

.

IWA workers protest cheap garnishee trick

B.C. district executive of the International Wood- workers of America in a radio broadcast have announced a “one day's pay” levy of its entire'membership to aid the

8,000 IWA strikers of the W

eyerhaeuser timber empire in

Washington. The strike is now nearing the end of its second month, with the Weyerhaeuser interests pulling out all the © stops in an effort to bréak the union. et

While expressing solid approval for this type of labor unity, rank- and-file IWA men in Vancouver local 217 are strongly resentful of the disruptive actions of their dis- trict leadership in placing “gar- nishees” against former IWA men who held official local positions at the time of the IWA-WIUC break in 1948, and who are now applying for readmission to the TWA.

One of these cases is that of Bobby Jackson, a former officer of local 217 who on July 3 made formal application with a number of others to rejoin the IWA for the purpose of achieving one union in the in- dustry. The same day his wages were garnisheed by the IWA leader- ship. A married man with a wife and three children, Jackson was. allowed to retain $15.00 per week of his wages, the balance to be turned over to the IWA leadership.

The action has raised a storm of protest in ae IWA local, and at a

recent meeting the district execu- tive action was only upheld by a mere six-vote majority. Meantime

plant took up a collectién to reim- burse Jackson for the amount seiz- ed by their union leadership. Should the IWA leadership per- sist in the renewal of this shameful action, the IWA membership, ac- cording to a number of shop stew- ‘ards in the plants, will not only jcontinue to make up the amounts ©

fight their district executive leaders on the disgraceful “principle” of a trade union garnisheeing the wages —

One shop steward put the matter in a nutshell: “The unity expressed by our leadership in support of the Weyerhaeuser strikers is destroyed by the shameful disruptive action — Jackson and others in local —

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—JULY 14, 1950—PAGE 2

IWA rank-and-file members in the

so garnisheed, but are prepared to _

of its own membership, or those _ who are seeking to join the IWA.