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Coastwise Seamen may strike; Mine-Mill votes on settlement

of $30 a month pay boost for its members and said it would hold out for $50.

The CPR has ordered an em- bargo on’ rail goods destined to points served by steamers, and the CNR is expected to take simi- lar action.

Other happenings on the trade union front this week included these:

@ Vancouver Trades. and Labor Council (TLC-AFL) members sug- gested Tuesday night that the So- cred Labor Relations Board be

Act “go with it.” Delegates were protesting against LRB’s decision to take a vote of employees at Hotel Georgia to see whether they wanted to join the CCL.

@ Workers at the wholesale fruit firm of Slade and Stewart Ltd. have voted 127-13 in favor of strike action to win higher pay. They had previously turned thumbs down on aé_ conciliation board report.

@ Some 6.000 Mine-Mill mem- bers at Trail and Kimberley are voting on acceptance of a settle- ment scheme with Consolidated

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CBU. In this broadcast, “Is Old with the problems of senior citiz- ens and advance the Labor-Pro- sressive party’s proposals for meeting them.

Other LPP speakers will speak over CKMO at the following times:

May 22, 9.15 to 9.25 p.m.: Wil- liam Stewart, candidate in Van- couver Centre.

May 23, 7.45 to 7.55 p.m.: Bert Whyte and Alan Rankin, candi- dates in Vancouver Burrard.

May 25. 9.45 to 9.55 p.m.: Mrs. Connie Marks and Miss Beatrice Ferneyhough, candidates in Van- couver Point Grey.

May 27, 7.45 to 7.55 p.m., Har- vey Murphy and Nigel Morgan, candidates in Vancouver East.

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Turner, candidate in Burnaby.

May 28, 9.00 to 9.10 p.m.: Har- vey Murphy, candidate in Vancou- ver East.

Ask facilities for voting in institutions

Special provision for taking the votes of those confined to homes for the aged and other government institutions, as well as hospitals, is being urged on the government by Nigel Morgan, LPP provincial leader.

Replying to a telegram from Premier W. A. C. Bennett advis- ing that consideration was being given to passage of a special or- der-in-council to provide for hos- pital polls, Morgan said:

“The special. order-in-council should include homes for the aged and other institutions where vot- ers otherwise qualified may be disenfranchised solely because of their less fortunate circumstances.”

Farewell party for ‘Ma’ Flanagan

Many friends of Mrs. Mary (Ma) Flanagan are expected to attend a farewell party in her honor this Saturday, May 23, at 8 p.m. in Norquay Hall, Clarendon and Kingsway.

Mrs. Flanagan, a foundation member of the LPP and a veteran in the Canadian labor movement, is returning to Toronto at the end of this month after a visit of sev- eral months here.

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SPORTLIGHT

By BERT WHYTE

Like millions of TV viewers, I didn’t see that right uppercut that knocked out Joe Walcott. The camera eye was trained square on the old pappy guy’s back when Rocky Marciano threw a left hook which clipped Jersey Joe on the jaw. He sat down right after that, but the right uppercut which did the trick was completely blocked from view. Was it a fast count? I don’t think so. Seems that Walcott has reached the end of the trail.

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George North, editor of The Fisherman, writes to correct a bad blunder I committed when commenting on the Kentucky Derby. George is right, and makes me feel like the north end of a horse running south. Of course I knew how place and show money are determined, but my mind must have been on elections or something when I wrote what I did. Anyway, here’s George’s letter: :

“I couldn’t forebear writing you re a boner in your last column on, of all subjects horse racing, wherein you state that if Native Dancer had won the Kentucky Derby, the payoff would have been $2.10 to place and $2.10 to show.

“The previously unbeaten three-year-old closed at 7 to 10 and consequently would have paid $3.40 to win.

“But the beef I have with your statement is in regard to the place and show prices. Obviously, Bert, they would have remained at $3.20 and $2.80 regardless of whether Native Dancer finished first or second. The only thing that could have changed the payoff in these slots would have been if, say, the second favorite, Correspondent, had finished first or second or if Native Dancer’s stablemate Social Out- cast had finished in the money.

“To explain: the place pool in a horse race is divided in the following manner (after, of course, the government and the track management get their rather substantial rakeoff), The money bet to place on each of the first two horses is deducted from the place pool. The balance is split in half, with each half being divided pro rata among the backers of each horse. So it is clear

that the order of finish of the first two horses cannot possibly affect the place money paid.

“Hence Native Dancer would have paid $3.20 to place even if he had beaten Dark Star. The above principle applies to show money except that three horses share the pot.”

George then goes on to make some remarks on baseball which I'll deal with in another column soon.

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Joseph Cacetto of Federated Press thinks he’s found a way to beat the races. He calls his system the Gold Plate Theory and shows how a follower would have picked Dark Star to beat Native Dancer. With tongue in cheek, he writes:

“Through the ages, people have tried to beat the races. Partly this was a pursuit of the quick and slippery buck. But man does not live by bread alone. There is pleasure in a good pick.

“It is a matter of solid, craftmanlike pride to be able to say: I knew more about those horses than they did themselves. Men have been known to buy tickets on every entry in a race, just for the pleasure of confounding their fellows by pulling out a winning ticket.

“The search for the winning formula goes back at least as far as the ancient Greeks . . . The Greeks must have had bookies, too .. . What to do about it? They probably went to see the Delphic oracle. The oracle has to see to it that he can’t lose. The fix goes in. And that’s what the history books mean by ‘commercialism.’

“Since human beings are flexible by nature, a prize fight, or a foot race, is easier to fix than a horse race. Horses are lower creatures and are less adaptable. They have been known to jerk the reins out of the hands of jockeys who were trying to pull them up. On occasion they have been uncooperative enough to kick in the teeth of men who were trying to give them hypos.

“Out of the difficulty of fixing races has come the endless search, with test tube and slide rule, for a way of picking the winner scien- tifically.

“This corner has looked into some of the results of this search, known as ‘systems.’ The latest is known as the Gold Plate Theory. It is passed along in the interest of free exchange of knowledge.

“The Gold Plate Theory. simply determines which stable with an entry in the race has the most money behind it. The idea is that the richer the stable, the better horses it can buy.

“Apply this theory now to the last running of the Kentucky Derby. The name of Vanderbilt immediately strikes the eye. The Vanderbilt horse was Native Dancer. Sound reason, then, to make Native Dancer an odds-on favorite.

“But another name also shapes up well for an all-round Gold Plate rating. That name is Guggenheim. The Guggenheim horse in the Kentucky Derby paid attractive odds of 26 to 1. If you combined good odds with a high Gold Plate rating, you would have had—Dark Star, the winner.

“Science has its points.” PACIFIC TRIBUNE — MAY 22, 1953 — PAGE 11

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