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TIMMINS, ONTARIO §3 Members Canadian Weekiy Newspaper Association; Onlarieâ€"Quebee : Newspaper Asseciatign Published every Thursday by Merton W. Lake Subscription Rates» ECbe BRorcupine @dbance you seem interested I will *94 say that Mm ppened to be down here and W built the pavement around me. _ This was not the new world they saw in the sights of their armyâ€" rifles, or dreamed about as they flew through the blue bowl of the sky, or saw as theysailed the oceans in great ships, when Fritz was Each year lhurling earthâ€"shattering mementos of his presence. we set aside one day in remembrance of those who gave their lives For those who survived, committed to military in two world wars. hospitals for the rest of their lives, we have no special day of reâ€" membrance. Canada $2.00 Per Year United States: $3.00 Per Year Authorized as second class matter by the Post Office Department, Ottawa h s : Bs oi t "'-May these bedâ€"ridden veterans be comforted and take heart in the thought they live in the nearts of those who appreciated their sacrifice in the cause of freedom. h. oc ie is It‘s time for a change from the CARTâ€"beforeâ€"theâ€"Horse way Of doing things. At the present time Canadians are paying for enâ€" cugh government to take care of the governing of ten times the number of people here. Why not empioy someone who is converâ€" sant with the probléem on hand? : _ Many of the men, stretcher cases since Mons, Vimy and YÂ¥pres, these gallant, greatâ€"hearted heroes have lived more than thirty years behind the sanctuary of the Pavilion walls. One report said that some of the men wept as they left the place that has been "home‘". ' No written word can properly describe the deep debt of gratitude that Canada and the people as a whole owes to these men, who in the glory of their youth plunged into the maelstrom of war and brought lasting fame to Canada on small patches of French soil, now immortalized in history song and story. _ The years have come and gone and the hair that once glinted in the summer sun has greyed on the pillow of an invalid‘s cot. ‘The world that once was so wide and free became the prisoned quarters of four walls. These men, once gay and laughing boys who thrillâ€" ed to the joy of living were suddenly plunged into a painful living aeath. While highways Minister Doucett is begging for more and more safety precautions from drivers, how about a little safety consideraâ€" tion from the government. The roads here are bad, no restrictions are put on slow drivers, who are the cause of a large percentage of accidents, and worst of all the Americans are encouraged to come here in large numbers, only to find the roads in very poor condiâ€" tion or clogged with traffic. , _ The government program of clogging our roads with American traffic, while the roads are,unable to properly care for Canadian driviers, is on a par with jtlévi,nnngg{tatl(m policy... With the imâ€" migrants it‘s a case of tringing in the people first, and worrying about where they are going to house them after. With the roads, it‘s bring the tourists in first, and then let them try and find roads to drive on. ; i feat t e > The closing of Christie Street Military Hospital Pavilion in Torâ€" onto and the removal of the last patients to the new Sunnybrook Hospital was chronicled last week in news dispatches of less than a mere 200 words. m €Gik @P 22 20c w w# 2c 2 _ se e n NWP 1 CE is Heavy road traffic during the summer months is bogging down Northern Ontario roads so that they are far from safe to travel on. The lack of safety angle might be applicable to all roads in Canada and the United States, but the majority of Canadian roads especialâ€" 1y in this northern area are not designed for high speed traffic, nor f{or any great amount of it at any time. â€"<These men wept! Courageous men who faced death that the world might be free; courageous men who created a new world in the Christie Street Pavilion, a world where even a crack in the wall held a special significance. t All political parties promised expansion of social insecurity meaâ€" sures on a scale sufficient to make this a real dilemma. Liberals, actually in office, fairly confident of â€"being returned, made the least definite promises, kept away from precise figures of the new pubâ€" lic charity plans. 1. . icotlt s Acs t 4 Difficulties will be eased to the extent to which the nation conâ€" tinues its present expansion of production. Actually, social inseâ€" curity promises so far made probably do not involve more spending tBan could be reconciled with present taxes, prices and employâ€" ment, if realization of the promises could be spread over a few years, if no more promises were made for a few years; if internaâ€" tional trade did not deteriorate further. The U.S. "recession" deâ€" initely does not need to spread to Canada for some inevitable reaâ€" sing. The Incoming Administration has to face a dilema, which would have faced anyone who won the election. . Great additions canâ€" not be made to the present scale of public spending, without in â€" creased taxation, higher cost of living, or unemployment, perhaps a combination of two of these misfortunes or all three. ha h aitive d Trade is the worst of the "ifs." U.S. "recession" shows alarming signs of greatly lessening ECA buying in Canada. Add to that the fact that there is a British government even more deeply commitâ€" ted to dangerous social insecurity spending than is ours, with Briâ€" tain our badly needed market, and the problem is serious and presâ€" I“..BO One sensible course would be for the new Administration to face the nation with plain talk; to explain the problem; to point cut that it can be solved by industry; enterprise and thrift; to urge labor to show selfâ€"discipline, and business to exhibit courage and confidence; to warn the mass of people against the Communist and sSocialist technique of sowing discontent and classâ€"hatred at a time when there is no excuse for either. ' Within a few months, or even a few weeks, the nation will know whether it is to have this sort of leadership, from leaders of Crov â€" ernment and Opposition alike; or merely a continuance of the un â€" happy competition to induce the Canadian people to believe in the welfare state. | l'.-"'.“".o OM " B br stt No nation in human history has come anywhere within sight of this state of affairs, and those which have surrendered to kslief in it have, in every case, found that they traded the substance of freeâ€" dom for the shadow of a prosperity which was not realized. Obvious Question _ A pedestrian had fallen into a manâ€" â€" â€" HEARD THIS ONE! â€" Jenes: "Look at that bunch of Welfare State is one in which every citizen expects to be guaranâ€" teed high wages, low prices, no penalty for laziness or thriftlessâ€" ness, the right to a house of the sort which he would like at a renâ€" tal which he can afford, "free" education, "free" health services, and complete freedom from any persohnal responsibility to aid in providing these pleasant conditions. N# A * o 1y oo o t P o o h S es d o t 1 h i e i O lt k ts Iwk i * nE A wmnw 446 U lw BAAWAS . 68 _ LARNCIDE : «8 hole and walled for help. i eoit;m L "Dear me," said a gentleman who k: namnened along. â€" Have you ‘allen â€" _ _ 'that. manhole?" ot at all," was This Cart Before Horse Business Timmins, Ontario, Thursday July 14th, 1949 \Incoming Administration And â€" â€" â€" Brave Men Wept Smiti1. ‘"Herd of cowsâ€"" Jones: "Sure «I‘ve herd of cows." Smith: I mean a cow heard." Jones: "What do Iâ€"care if a cow Smith: "Not a buch, herd!" Jones: "Heard What?" of Statistics compiled last year by the agricuiture and conservation commitâ€" tee of the Timmins Kiwanis show that in the immediate ditrict around Timâ€" mins there are 172 farms, with a total clearage of 11330 acres. In the Township of Mountjoy alone there are 150 farms with 10420 acres cleared. Thirty odd years ago the man who would have expected any such develbpâ€" ment in agriculture in this district would have been laughed at. In the early day mining took up so much of the popular interest that it was difficul, to induce people in general to consider any other llne â€"of industry or effort In the early days it sesmed as if the Timmins Board cf Trade and The Porâ€"| cupine Advance were the insistent and persistent advocacy of more and better roads for farmers, educational facilâ€" ities for the children of settlers in isâ€" olated areas, and general fair play for the strugging pioneers on the land. After Timmins Kiwanis C:ub was esâ€" tablished in 1923, the Board of Trade and The Advance had friendly backâ€" ing in the battle waged for a fair deal for the settlers, â€" Enough support was secured to press the appo‘ntment 0o: Representative of Agriculture for the district, so that it would not be necesâ€" sary to send to Cochrane or New Lisâ€" keard forâ€" advice or help in farmers‘ poblems . The branches of the Ontâ€" ario Department of Agriculture at Cochrane and New Liskeard served so Jlarge an area each that, despite their keen interest and desire to help the settlers here, their help was too often too little and too late. Fortunately, however they worked up ways of their own to overcome tae handicaps they ‘aced. An illustration of thisâ€" was given by Parny Faulkenâ€" ham, who had a farm between Timmins and Matheson. Parny, who was a man of immense :trength and stamâ€" ina, worked each winter in the Porcuâ€" pine mines, spending ~is summers to clear farm for himself. â€" Standing over Six feef in hizht, he did not look particularly tali because he was £0 broad across the shoulders. Quiet and friendly, he seldom showed any suggestion of his great strength. "Tm saving that up for the work on the farm," he would say, smiling. But if some smaller friend of his were attacked, Pamy would give an exhibition of strength and power that would literally take away the breath of those who aroused it. On one occasion there was a group sitting around the stove in Tony Rizâ€" Another outstanding Mountjoy farâ€" mer who made an early success on the farm near Timmins, was J. D. Caarron whose farm was on whai was then the new Government road on the other side o. the river, a couple of miles from Lown. In 1918 he had 35 acres clearâ€" rd, with 25 acres under crop, His bountiful harvest tat year would have pleased the average farmer in the South, while it was in the nature of a record for this part of the North in tho:se days of scarcity of labour will make interesting reading. In the next article in this series thaere will be further refernce to the good work of Farmers J. D. Charron and John Chow. Of course, the pioneer farmers of this North did not have any of the advantage of modern macAainâ€" ery and equipment, though J. D. Charron did have a thresher. The pioneers here had little to work with, but their own strength, faith, courage, and cound senie. None of them thought about clearing their land by a bullâ€"dozer method. If they had conjured up any such idea,; that is all the good it would have done them. They had to do things the hard way. It is interesting to recall that one of the ifirst successful Tarmers near Timmins was John Chow, a Chinaman, who previously A1ad been in the restâ€" aurant business, and who some years ago quit the struggle here to enter business at Sault Ste. Marie, where, according ‘ to reports, he has made more money with less labour than was possible on the farm. For several years, John Chow made determined effort to establisn a successful farm near Timmins. As early a 1918, in hddition to other ock, John Chow had 150 pigs on his farin, as well as a farge flock of poultry. For some years, he seemed to te one of the most important farmers and market gardeners in the distric.. In recent years the Kiwanis Club has been of service to the district farmers through potato clubs estabâ€" lished, pig clubs, distribution of fertâ€" ilizer, supplying seed. and other plans, while the agriculture and conservation ommittee by (fts Christmas cheer programme for Mountjoy Schools, and its special "Farmers‘ meetings" has maintained a close, friendly touch with the farmers of this immediate district. What the Timmins Club has done in its area. the South Porcupine Kiwanis in more recent years has with equal efficiency in its particular larm area. But in the early days it must be admitted, the settlers were left more or less to struggle along by themselves. In view of all hardâ€"hips and handicaps they had to bear, they were a gallant race, indeed, to survive and overcome t.1 difficulties that faced them. There are epics of courage and dauntless persistence in the founding of such pary farms as Wilson‘s Farm at Golâ€" den City, Helmer‘s Dairy Farm at South Porcupine, Willson‘s Farm near Timmins, Hamish Duff‘s Haewyer Farm up the river, Desaultelle‘s Farm. Pierce‘s Farm, E. C. Brewer‘s Farm, to mention just a few. Days Wiben The fiorcupinc Was PDoung s C a L a a a an as a «um No. 106. The Growth of Agriculture in the Porcupine "Don‘t call my friend a liar!" reâ€" sponded . Parny, "But <apologizse for calling my friend a liar,"‘ His voice was still gentle, . The big stranger did not apologize quickly eno\;'b As acâ€"matter of fact he was not given much time to frame iny lengthy apology. The first thing he knew he ::ad been lifted into the air and thrown with such force against the wall that the who‘e building seemed to snake. Then was picked up and held by the throat against the wall. ~ ‘"When you’re ready to apologize," Parny said‘to him, "just stick out your tongue!" Even as Parny spoke, the tongue was out, and the big stranger‘s eyes also seemed ready to come out too. But it was some minutes before the big stranger could say a word. â€"When he was able to speak, he said: "I sure do apologize. And if you say you pull out the trees yourself by the roots I‘ll believe you, sure. I know, you could do it.‘" Pro:ably it would take a Parny Matheson. Fauikenham to clear land the way he The Parny Faulkenham m did it, but as a matter of fact, Col. Jandâ€"clearing was outlined t] Worthington used a somewhat similar years ago in the Porcupine method on his farm up the river from and, like anything different, Tirrcllmin;- Col-dwartihir;gton, how:vir. witi differing receptions, but used a horse and chain to cary out the +i plan, while Parny did it all by himself, 'ber ef seltiers did ty is, and with only an axe and a twentyâ€"foo; ithem reported that it worl pole as assistants. under the right conditions, Instead of cutting down the trees, a saver of time and expense. It is not‘only tha telephone company that gives a zone service. . What about the shops that sell girdles‘.‘ 2 #* *A Many a wife.considers her husband the salt ‘of the earthâ€"â€"â€"and likes to shake him down. T# . 1 Â¥ _ Je Familics we read, average 3.13 persons. _ lhal .lo IClIOw musi D¢ ine unâ€" lucky number. O Jw un O mm A professor claims that nerve specialists, not policemen, are needed to l0ok after criminals. â€" Some of the latter have a lot of nerve all right. ... Too many motorists abroad today are like certain baseball pitchers. They bave speed without control. es #% a*% Grandpappy Jenl cnoughâ€"â€"â€"â€"â€" angling. Amoug the many things usually forgotten at a picnic is to biuirn the rubbish and put out the fire. _3 ze 9e #*%o A young wife‘s most anxious moment, says a writer, is when she bakes her {irst cake. And her husband‘s when he eats a slice. As. the man said when paying the bill for his wife‘s new hat, "Anything for 2 laugh". [ A new type handbag, we read, is carried over the shoulder on a stick. This {ad should prove extremely popular, especiglly in crowded buses and elevators. When tnere is work to be done the grasshopper soon will be giving us 2A Political Educatlon worthwhile tipâ€"hop to it. _ f Lal?or s ‘Leagu.e‘ is At the moment, however, we seem to have lost our adaptibilities. For the past month we have been sleeping in the basement in order to escape the heat of the night and the only advances we have made in becoming iamiliar with the new location are a conversant knowledge of the Tourâ€" ist‘s Almanac and a realization that the only way to cope with being rousâ€" ed out of a sound sleep by the screaming of indoor plumbing fixtures is to sit bolt upright and return the scream with good measure. E E E E EE e e e eK! There was a time when we felt we could adapt ourself to any strange circumstance in which we feund Given five or six hours to find ourselt and get our mind working we were sure we could convert anything from a Tibet mailâ€"box to a Waldorâ€"Astoria suite into home sweet home. Since the advent of summer the youngsters have been playing ball in the street, and fighting and playing cowboys on the front lawns. One hundred yards distant from Bedlamâ€"Onâ€"Theâ€"Swamp sits a playâ€" ground,{‘desolate and practically unused. ‘_â€" Unless the kids soon get wise we intend to round up as many other contusea adults ats fl oan find and make use of the playground facilities. Oh well. esn For the benent of you two readers we might here insert news to the efâ€" {ec‘ that the Robin family mentioned in this column from time to time durâ€" ing the past weeks finally have flown the coop. One of the greatost noisemakers in the animal world, outside of Junrior, is We intend to issue a warning to the children of Bedlamâ€"Onâ€"Theâ€" Swamp. They have packed up bag and baggage, complete with triplets and the only mark of their having been here is the forlorn and empty but well constructed nest, As some J‘une brides sew so shall they rip. We have just come across a very interesting explanation of the senâ€" sation of falling in love as provided by a young lady who recently wed Governor Fuller Warren in the U.S.A. "It was love at first sight," said the litle lady, speaking to American reporters.â€" "I saw Fuller at a party and something inside of me went kerplooey!" 5 We know just how the lady must have felt. We are an authority on the shocks and rumblings inside the human earth having at times, something inside of us going . . .Whup!. . .Beep!â€" â€" â€" and Erp! The nearest approach to a kerplooey has been a severe updraught caused from hiccoughs which in turn have been caused by partaking of too much caviar. It is a lousy sensation. Bup! â€"Boo! Yipe! Silence. Ho@ever, we must admit that it has been some time since we have had an honest to goodness. . . .Kerplooey! Hard luck is what other people bore you‘talking‘about. Crocodile tears seldom f«_iol a.nylpdy--ex_ce‘pt thg one who sheds them. ‘The Thursday Whim‘ There are times when we doubt if we can go on. . A Bit O° This and That Would‘st thou be wretched? ‘Tis an easy way:; Think of but self, and self alone all day: Think of thy pain, thy grief, thy loss, thy care, All that thou hast to do, er feel or bear; Think of thy good, thy pleasures and thy gain, Think only of thyself, ‘twill not be in vain. Would‘st thow be happy? â€"Take another way: Think of those arcund theeâ€"live for them each day, UE m Think of their pain, their loss, their grief, their c All that they bave to do, or feel. or bear: Think of their pleasure. or their good, their gain, Think of thoge around theeâ€"‘twill not.be in vain. read, averafe 3.13 persons. That .13 fellow must be the unâ€" Jenkins say-s the b-est angle to the vacation season is, oddly By J. L. W. NOT BE IN VAIN and taking out the stumps a:terwards, as is usuallyâ€"done Parny‘s plan was to cut the roots around one full side of the tree, pulling out the ends of the roots as he severed them. Then with his 20â€"foot pole he pried over the tree. the roots on the uncut side hus coming free. ‘Tree and stump are then bot"\ The Parny Faulkenham method of landâ€"clearing was outlined thirtyâ€"odd years ago in the Porcupine Advance, and, like anything different, it met wit:: differing receptions, but a numâ€" ber of settlers did try it, and most of ithem reported that it worked well under the right conditions, and was free from the ground. Then Pany proceeded tp cut up the timber in the usual way, the stump being put aside for burning . By ‘the Parny. Faulkenham plan, when a spot was cleared it â€"stayed cleared. There were no roots to sprout, nor willows to contend with. In addition, it was a great saver of time and effort. In less than three summers, Parny cleared 40 acres By this he made a record over the other settlers in his area who used the old way Oof clearing, * W:ile most of the timber on Parny‘s farm ‘was dry, he said the plan would work as well with green timber, though he admitted that jackpine, or a very sandy soil, m.ght make difficulty. as the tendency in such cases is ‘or the roots to go straight down, instead of ispreading near the top as they do in clay soil such as was on the farm near Matheson. Author Unknown care, Washingtonâ€"â€"â€"â€"In recent weeks I have had the valuable expeérience of tryâ€" ing to expliain our laborâ€"management system and the role of our government in industrial disputes to groups of trade union leaders from many foreign counâ€" tries. o_ sstktaoi. 24 I recommend this experience to anyone who may be confused by the current legistlative fruror or the seasonal waves of disputes involvingâ€"contract ren>â€" gotation into thinking that cur system is going to the dogs, that it is totalitarâ€" ian or authoritarian, that workers are slaves or that all unions are tyrannical. This is a guest column written especially for Victor Riesel while Mr. Riesel is on vacation. When one talks about our customs and institutions with people in foreign lands who have different traditions, one suddenly reawakens to the realizaâ€" tion of how free our system is; how free‘of coercions and compulsions by goâ€" vernment or other authority; how successful we have been in establishing and developing a system of industrial selftâ€"government. I should like to discuss a few of the important aspects of voluntarism and freedom in our system which contrast sharply with the procedures under forâ€" eign systems. First, it is significant that in most other industrialized countries nearly all of the terms and conditions of employment are legislated into a labor code. ‘This means that such things as vacations, holidays, workâ€"weeks, length of the work day, separation pay and other matters are settled by law. Unions in such a system have little to negotiate with employers on almost all of the inâ€" cidents of the employment relation. Government regulation of those matâ€" ters is at a minimum and only concerns itself with conditions directly affecting the public welfare such as minimum wages and maximum hours of work for women and children, child labor, overtime rates safety rules, etc. When the parties cannot resolve their disputes in this way they utilize the assistance of a representative of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Serâ€" vice. _ This agent of the government has no powers of compulsion and lawâ€"enâ€" forcement. He can only persuade; he acts as a broOker or a bridga between the parties and helps them in their own endeavours to resolve the issues. It is difficult for them to realize that the vast majority of unionâ€"manageâ€" ment disputes in the United States are resolved, not by action of legislatures or decisions of labor courts but by the parties themselves on the local plant leâ€" vel through collective bargaining. It is a cardinal principle of the Service that those collective agreements are best which are negotiated by employer and union representatives themselves without the assistance cof third parties. Accordingly, the Service withholds its facilities, ordinarily, until an impasse is reached and mediation efforts are most likely to be of practical help to the parties. The role of our government is to encourage employers and unions to proâ€" mote the practices of collective bargaining and to develop resources which would enable them to settle their problems themselves without outside inâ€" terference. Another interesting feature of our system.of selfâ€"government which forâ€" eigners find it hard to understand is the voluntary procedures we have for setâ€" tling grievances. k Again people in foreign lands are accustomed to having contract and grieâ€" vance disputes settled by government through the instrumentality of several varieties of labor courts. It is interesting to note that many of them think that our National Labor Reâ€" lations Board only handles the hospital casesâ€"those special pathclogical probâ€" l2ams in labor relations in which violation of labor law is involved. When it is explained to them that almost all major collective bargaining aâ€" greements provide for negotiation of grievances through several steps and that those not settled in this manner are to be arbitrated by privats and unofficial arbitrators, they inquire hew the arbitration awards are inforced in the courts. it comes as a surprise to them that the problem is largely academic. In my long experience I find difficulty in recalling a single important case in which a union ‘or employer failed to put into effect an arbitration award which, they had agreed in advance, was to be final and binding. We, ourâ€" selves, do not adequately appreciate this great voluntary system of industrial jurisprudence which unions and employers have developed in very recent years and are perfecting. s Your government‘s role, in @qur system, is not to decide cases, â€"not to write the wage ticket or the terms and conditions cf employement for the parties; it is, rather, to induce them to adopt such voluntary procedures as seem best adopted to the fair, equitable and expeditiious settlement of their differences. This system gives us flexibility, and in flexibility there is a source of great strength. â€" Basically, it conforms to the democratic procedures that are our great heritage in the political aspects of our life.. These procedures are evidence of the fact that freedom and voluntarism are still alive and meaningful terms in the industrial lif2 of our country. If anyâ€" one harbors any doubt as to the validity of this conclusion, I suggest that he exchange notes with a foreign employer or trade union representative. Washingtonâ€"â€"â€"â€"Is there anything wrong with. . . . . .Clean pleasant homes and apartments for all Americans? . Good medical and dental care for everyone? The best possible schdols for every boy and girl in this country? Security in old age? Or, what is the matter with. .Lowâ€"cost electric power for farmers and city dwellers alike? A stable 1ncome for American agriculture? â€" Lowâ€"priced groceries, furniture, refrigerâ€" atcrs, clothing and other necessities of modern living? Fair profits for busâ€" iness? 11 3 And what is wrong with. .Good wages for an honest day s work? â€" Steady employefnent for all perâ€" sons willing and able to work? Laws to aid workers who are injured on the job? _â€"If there is something wrong witih these goals, then you should be an enemy of labor, of all working men and women ~But if ybu are for better hcusing, adequate medical care, a secure old age, schools, cheap power, fair profits, good wages and all of the other things mentioned above, then you are on labor‘s side. Some of the tactics of the business interests have been honest. The viaws of businessmen have been presented as such in newspapers, in magazines, in pamphlets and on the radio. But,.businessmen also have dishonest in their propaganda. They have influenced textbooks and courses in high schools and colleges. They have "bought" newspaper editors, columnists and radio commentators. hh twfi c t c3 * h 1 2C All of these methods of businessmen have been accopted with too little criâ€" ticism by the American people. They have shrugged their shoulders and said "Well, I guess the Chamber of Commerce has a right to say what it wanv hasn‘t it?" _ _A lot of people would have Americans think that labor is concerned only with repeal of the Taftâ€"Hartley Act. The conservative press and radio alâ€" ways are talking about a vague monster known as the terrible labor menace. o n t e s i i ie 4 o n hok w e hn hi n l inw‘o me ww ad ’n- Ile a l mm n im d En Alh a Labor‘s League is doing exactly what its name suggests. The national leaâ€" gue, togeth>r with state, city, county and precinect leagues is presenting the liberal side of the many issues confronting the nation. * For years the National Association of Manufacturers, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other organizations have been presenting the conservative case to the American people. ‘ Ever since labor began to organize workers for their own good and for the welfare of the country, conservative business interest have raxsed the false issue of the tooâ€"powerful labor unions. PR EnE m CC 0 Pm It certainly has. But so has labor. However, now that the organizations oi working men and women are trying to give their side of controversies, there is a great deal of protesting, all of it i_ns_pired by_ b_uginefs. f You have heard about the pressure being exerted by the big. bad labor lobâ€" byists. But you haven‘t heard that employer groups spent $900,000 trying 1to influence Congress in the first three months of 1949 while employee organizâ€" ations spent $58,288. â€" You have heard that labor is spending money for radio programs, pamphlets and newspapers. "Isn‘t that terrible." say the busâ€" iness interests. â€" But labor is cnly doing what the NAM and the Chambers ol Commerce have been doing for at least 50 years. vvl.,;bor is N"OT usirig pré;sfii'e to get anyc'me to do anything. All labor is doing is presenting what it believes are the best solutions to the many problems facing working men and women. w i) sn oo d t P onl e s buutd Lo. hn db d M ol CE 0 0 eP Eww c Acadnt Eht evientvly"the vested interests don‘t believe labor should be allowed to sive its case.. At least, that is what all the businessâ€"inspired talk about a wicked labor pressure group seems to indicate. . d ol Women, we read, are deserting contract bridge to play the stock market. Let‘s hope they don‘t find themselves the dummy, VV A NJ SB B Lo on : â€" esdtaalihest <a PE D ECE S During elascticn campaigns Labor‘s League will work to elect the men and women to local, state and national offices whom it considers friends of the workers. â€" The Chambers of Commerce will be spending money to elect their friends. _ If there is nothing wrong with business doing that, why is it a "menâ€" ace‘‘ when labor does it? We of Labor‘s League believe that if we present our side of public issues to as many people as possible, the people will realize that what helps labor aids everyone in America. The 1948 elections were the first ones in which Labor‘s League participated. As a result of efforts by the league and cther liberal forces the friends of laâ€" # _2 _2 â€" â€"AOff 4 bor and of the peapleâ€"â€"in the House of Representatives increased from 83 to 203 from 1947 to 1949. All but 2 of the 172 Congressmen which were supâ€" ported by the League voted on the side of laborâ€"â€"â€"and the people. In 1949 and 1950 the Labor‘s League will continue to work for better housâ€" ing. adequate medical care and the rest of the goals set forth at the beginâ€" ning of this column. â€" Take another look at that list. . . . Are you in labor‘s corner? by Joseph Keenan, Director, Labor‘s League for Political Education (AFL) by Cyrus S. Ching, Director, Federal Mediation and Conciltiation Service That is why the American Federation of Labor set up Labor‘s League for