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""’;.«, . TIMMINS, ONT * C : Members Cunadian Weekly Newspaper Association: Ontarioâ€"Queber 1 % Newspaper Association Published every Thursday by Merton W. Lake Subscription Rates: ts Mr: Nehru made an excellent impression in Canada and the ig’igflmflsmtqside ite his firm refusal to offer any cooperation "**%%5 (tNe Western World, beyond accepting any gifts which mighi made.. The fact is that it is extrem=ly uncertain wheth>»r the control of India by himself and his associates is really going to be ;zg““move effective than was the control of China by Chiang iâ€"Shek, who‘ was also acclaimed in Canada and the United Gltates as one of the great figures in history. Indian reports do not look too promising. The long and effiâ€" *cient government of that country by the British deeply indocâ€" i ;t ated the more progressive type of Indian with Occiadental iCiff@as, and these Indian inheritors of the British system are fine pdgple, trying to do a real job. Unfortunately, they, by their own long . campaign, not only in the direction of natural assertions of ultimate Indian liter(fy, but of cultivation of hatred by the have produced another type of Indian agitator, as ready ~~~â€"to pull down Mr. Nehru and his associates as they were to destroy ‘Rritish rule. * s â€"611 boâ€"t?h â€"counts it sucoeeded completely. One only had to * watch the brightâ€"eyed eager youngsters standing along the route "sm@dtisten to their merry laughter and their squeals of delight as the floats went by, especially as the jovial saint with his make believe reindeer dnd his huge pack full of glistening toys came into view. It was a stimulating experience, long to be remtmâ€" bered. On the second score it attracted thousands into this area and the assemblage was purportedly the largest to congregate on one single occasion. mc 1 c oV V CPVI Ip Russia, any attempt of a group in a legislative body to ‘\band together to obtain passage of a law which had not bez:n endorsed by the Government would be a "plot." The "plotters" weuld be all shot. Perhaps regrettably, we do not actept that theory at Ottawa, or Washington, or London, or Paris; so that the free nations Can forgive Mr. Vishinsky for his language, hut agree that what he meant was that Russia had teen defeated in a Canada $2.00 Per Year Authorized as secood class The Santa Claus parade, the first of its kind to l2 held in the Porcupine, has come and gone. The thrilling _pageant was an outstanding success and too much credit cannot be given to all who were responsitle for it. | ~â€" ‘Organized by the GChamber of Commerce with the Retail Merâ€" c€hants‘ Division playing a large part it was undoubtedly the most spectacular and intere ting pageant of its kind staged throughout this vast Northland. That in itself is no mean iachievement. y The purpose ‘of the parade was twofold. First of all it was intended. to make more apparent the: Christmas spirit and to transport the kiddies into the realm of the magic of the makoq i believe world. Secondly it was staged to attract the thousands of buying public from the whole district into the Porcupine ang by so doing stimulate preâ€"Christmas sales. e 00 N “‘1-- L‘A *A vote. NX en V ieE m ____ More disturbing, to any serious student of international afâ€" fairs, must.be the fact that.â€"the "plot" just succeeded at the last, with no votes to spare. ‘The mistake cf perntjitting every Central with no votes to spare. The mistake of permitting every Central As we see it, the main thing is, that a parade has been staged here, which was a credit to the community as a whole, and that with the possible exception of Tororito has not bedn equalled in the whole of the Dominion. The pageant is a tribute to the spirit and ingenuity of the business people, the firms and the mineg of the Porcupine. It was a tangible expression of their faith in the community and its future. It was also something in the way of a "big treat" to the children who so far have never had the opportunity of seeing anything of its kind before. The! have witâ€" nessed something wonderful. A real Santa Claus parade. Thereby they will have something to dream about for a long time to come and will have a memory to cherish all their lives. The same may be said for a considerable number of adults. s â€"There has been some criticism of the parade. Some say more music would have teen better . . . others that the floats were too far apart.. Be that as it mayâ€"the fact to be remembered is that this was the fisrt Santa Claus parade ever staged throughâ€" out the area. They were blazing a new trail, were doing something for the Porcupine district, something that young and old could enjoy and thrill to. se a cts d w ME S PC ECE . 45 Come next year when plans for the paradeâ€"and after this year‘s success there will be a parade next yearâ€"â€"the persons resâ€" ponsible will have had this year‘s experience ‘to help them along. They have seen the weak points, that is, if any, and will plan auccordingly. Â¥ -So we éay, with all sincerity, a bouquet of orchids to all ‘yho had anything to do with this outstandingly succes§ful underâ€" taking, so beautifully carried out. T is # ol Prusic lt e sion of all totalitarian states. Everything which the Governâ€" ment orders in Russia is lawful and jpst. Therefore, it follows that cverything which the Russian Government orders in the affairs of the world must be lawful and jJust. Truth{fully, however, Mr. Vishinsky said the substitution of Yugosilavia for Czechoslovakia on the Security Council was the result of a "plot," led ty the U.S.. Of coarrse it was, Mr. Vishinsky may like to call the banding together of the members of a demoâ€" cratic assembly, to obtain a majority in favour of some plan, a "plot." There should be no unnecessary drritation over that. He knows nothing about the processes of ‘democratic government, and.cannot learn very quickly. s KA "tnited States strike, except for bits and pieces, is over. The oretically, union won hands down, is doubtless engaged in vigorous pgt;â€"hostilities selfâ€"congratulation. _}Jnterestmg and informative would be a poll of steelâ€"worker;s taten on Christmas Day, by which time they will have received capugh pay cheques to pay for the debts of idleness, not enough to prevent a dismal December 25. Many steelworkers shortly before strike‘s end, were applyâ€" ing for relief, pointing out that their last pay cheque had been absorbed by food, fuel, and clothing pills, that there was no money in the bank, and that they were entirely willing to pay a few cents to a pension fund arlyway, precisely what union leaders refused, to allow them to do. Little imagination is necessary to trace disastrous effect of a prolonged United States steel strike on the U.S. economy, and on U.S. power and prestige elsewhere. This, coupled with the radically disordered lives of the temporarily unemployed steelâ€" workers, should suggest the need for a more civilized weapon in winning an argument than a strike. C3 Mr. Vishinsky was very untruthful in his argument that the of Yugoslavia to the U N Secretary Council was "unlawâ€" ul and unjust." The Russian Geovernnnent suffers from the deluâ€" _ _ _ sseschkhiakhkh thaâ€" fF*aAirrAmrri Timmins, 6â€"11'tzirio, Thursday, December 1st, 1949 Mr. Vishinsky Most, Untruthful Makes Excellent Impression The Santa Claus Parade Steel Strike Over United State® $3.00 Per Year matter by the Post Office Department, Ottaws It may be generally known that the Timmins Citizens‘ Band is now thirty years old, but it is not so generally known that th> name goes back to 1017. The 1917 band was orig.nally known as the Italian Band, be.ng supâ€" ported by the Italian Society of the dis.crict. _ So many were impress:d by a concert presentcd by this Italigan Band that there was general deâ€" mand .¢r the extension of the ogranizâ€" atton t> the status of a icitizens‘ band. Bandmaster Rocco Scoce) and most ¢f his bandsmen were grac:ous ind coâ€"operative about the proposal, and cxpre sed every willingness to make the Italign Band the nucleus for a Timmins Citizens‘ Band, but there wocre many handicaps and difâ€" ficulties arising.. The town council of 1917 and 1918 felt that with so many other‘ loud calls or other exâ€" to urze thne advantages to Timmins from ag regular town band, not only for special ccceasions (such a; the visit here of the Prince of Wales), but also for regular events throughout the year for the enjoyâ€" ment of the public.. He scon had nost of supporter®, including many who had had experiangs in other bands. Whenever he expressed apâ€" preciatiocn of this support (and he often did) he never failed to special word for the support of the Porcupine. Advance. It was the restion of ‘The Porcupine Advainc that resulted in the calling of a specâ€" ‘al public meeting in the old town hall to discuss the question. perditure , no moanevy could se ~peat for other music. The infjuenza epâ€" idemic of 1918 also c:ntributed" more than its share of difficulties, Not only was thsre gene al confusion and divided intereâ€"t;, but the band also suffezed particularly as so many of the members paid toll to the ‘flu‘, a number passinz away. More and more the. burden of support fell back again upon the Italian Scciety. As a conâ€" sequence of all the circumstances and eccndition~. thrre was no Timmins Citizens‘ Band in 1919 when that year opened, Instead, there were two bands the Italian Band and the Finâ€" lander Band It was the latter band that supplied the music for the Timâ€" mins Foctball Club‘s Big Day on July 1st, 1919. Every time e‘ther of these two bands played in public, there would be a general demand for a Timmin; Citâ€" izens‘ Band. It was E. W. Johnson, who conductei a printing and pubâ€" lishing business in Timmins, who was chiefly responsible for the formation of the Timmins Citizens‘ Band in May, 1919. He deserves the title, "Father of the Band." A former mamber of the band of the Queen‘s Own Regt.‘ and an‘ ardent lover Oof band muic. Mr. Johnston took eviry opportunity ation. It was a most enthusiastic meeting. There were about thirty which was a good showing for those. days Amonzs those presgduat may be mentioned:: Dr. J. A. McInnis; Rev. Father: Therriault; Fire Chie: A. Borland; James Geils; J. T. Easton; Stan. Johns; G. A. Macdonald; Allan Clark: Alf. Prout; J. B. Pare; Sid. Fairbrother; A. Sims; R. Sims; W. J. Johnston. It is still interesting to rote that Sid Fairbrother is still a playing member of the Timmins Citizâ€" enus‘ Band, and, while Stan.Johns has not been able to continue active playâ€" ing, he still maintains his active interâ€" est, passing on the playing to his son Carl. The only other member of the present band crowding thirty years of service is F. J. Hornby. the: d Ndk y .. NS S S e dn t c 0 32 N N 1 it s n BR PR s 1 c ue uo ts c 3 n m e o t ie 0 0t t o on it m i as advanced and powerful as the U.S., Britain and France, or nations is reactionary and powerful as Russia, was a serious one. 1t seems to be forgotten that the time may come when Mr. Vishinâ€" sky may be able to pull off a "plot" which will enable Russia with the support of a handful of unimportant nations, to get U N resâ€" clutions and actions highly cffensive to Britain, the U.S., France and Canada. U.N., in short, as now organized, is living up to the advance notices, to the effect that it would almost certainly beâ€" come another League of Nations, a home of intrigue and. logâ€" ralling, would not be, in any sense, a real alliance of, nations capable of maintaining the peace of the world. < i 3 When the meeting convened, it was crident that the purpose was not furâ€" ther di cussion, but acitial organizâ€" The priposal to form the Timmins [b\ > No. 125. The Start of the Presentt Timmins Citizens‘ Band. DON‘T DO IT, FRITZ! . Was Noung C.tizens Band w:‘s ungnimcusly, Dr. Mcinnis was clected th@ first presidâ€" ent of the ncvy Fire Chief Borland was nam viceâ€"presâ€" ident, and J. T. Easton elێctéd secretâ€" aryâ€"treasure;. A wiay \@and means committee was appointed anc.ng <f the purchase of This committee included: Borland (who was also. nam:? ines: manager cf the band Easton, Robt. Sims,. T. Ben cthers. Thos:> at the meéeting were quite confident that. theâ€" ways and mcins committee wmfid find the ways and msans, all rlght. E. W. Johnâ€" ston was formally appointed~ bandâ€" measter of the new kand. <ns‘ band, opef to all cig.ses, creeds and raccs.~ The dcuble purpose held in â€" vicw was .to, prov.de band music for the people .L TV cffer opportunity to beccm: adept 41 ;,!_ga_n;' At the mecting enmphasis was given to the fact that the Timmins Citizens‘ Band was not de~‘igned in any way as cpposition to c<ther of the existing bands. It was to be a "strictly citizâ€" e . 2h: ~ oo e o. too D9 Tho new _ brgdfigaglon"" ssowed its good faith=arid sense of responsibility by a re~olutin to the effect that all instruments whin purchased. should be con idered as town proparty, ownerâ€" ship be‘ing vested in the town council. FEach member of th> band, on joining, signed an azreement recognizing the cwnership o0‘ the instrumenat he would play in the band.,. se As expected, the ways ad mans committse did a good job.. . Arrangeâ€" ments were made for the s2curing of the neces ary instruments, and on July 21st, the town council, on motion of C3uncillors A. Brazeau and J. M. Studor, voted a grant of $1,000.00 to the Citizens‘ Band to pay, for the inâ€" struments, the said instruments to bo th eve were bandsmen. The first band concert by the Timâ€" mins Citizens‘ Band was given in front 0: the New Empire theatre on Sunday evening, Sept. 14th, afte the church services An unusually largo crowd turned out for the event, and eR The first important engagenent filâ€" led by the Timmins Citizens‘ Band was the providing of the music on the occasion of visit here 0o: His Highness the Prince of Walee (onw the Duke of Windsor) on Qctobjer 16th, 1919. Thaere was no doubt but that the band added to the effe:tiveness of the genuine welcoms given to the popular prince. Another occasion that yvear in which the band proved its value was at the banquet given by the Town of Timâ€" mins to the soldiers and airmen reâ€" turning to the camp from the first world war. "During the evening," said The Advancs, in reporting the banquet, "the Timmins Citizens‘ Band was an individual factor in the succe s o the ccecasion, its good music delighâ€" ted all." the preoperty of the town 4 A4s, A c t it s EL to follow during the years. There was a good house, with net proceeds of $125.00, after all expenses were met. It is an inte_resting cocmmentary on the spirit of those days that the band boys handed over the whole net profits of the event to Bandmaster Jonnston as a token of the appreciation felt for his untiring efforts for the band, and as a partial recompence for the tima and talent he had so generously gjven to the training of the bandsmen. Timmins Citizens‘ Band wound up that first year of 1919 in a veritable blaze of glory jn the outstanding event in the New Empire theatre on Thutrsâ€" day evening, Dec. 18. That concert, with its varied pogramme, set up a hizsh standard for the similar events Af fihat De'cémber band concert, Martin, in The Houston Clh onicls many sincere compliments ng sidâ€" "ire retâ€" ans finâ€" nts. hief usâ€" and 16e and MclInni; occupied the chair in the genial, humor.us way that made him famous in this North Land. After scme of hjs happy wit and humour he commented on the progress maic by the band in a few months, and caiâ€" :d attention to the value to the town of such talented musical organization. The selections siven by the band fully upheld the good words of the chairâ€" man. "That band promi es to be the best in the North!" was the consider- ed cpini n of ons musician attending that concert. to The yourg man nodded towzerd his wife. "CShe did," e answered quite seriou ly. ‘"But sho had an anacsâ€" thetic."â€"The Reader‘s Digest. In addition to the sclections by the band, members of the band favoured with in trumental solos, these includâ€" ing cornet s:los by W. J. Browne nd Bandsman Campbell. Another favâ€" curablyâ€"reseived in‘t:umental numâ€" be: was by the Timmins Orchestra (Moss:s. Campbell, Raymond and Dobie). Vocal olbs <f ;pes‘adt merit were given by: Mrs. R. W. Miss Craig Hoggart‘-.’m: Mis; Jeain Roberts; James Geils, anrd W. R. Dodge. There was also a plcsasing duet by Messrs, Geils and Carey. A very popuiar item was the Scottish song and dance by Miss Mary Downey Thi; was followed by a dance by Downey and Downey, fatkher and daughter adding to their popularâ€" ity as entertainers. Piano azcccomâ€" paniments during the evening were played by Mrs. R Sims and W. H. Wilâ€" son. In the inavouidable absence 0‘ Miss Inglis, a talented elocutionist, J. Carsy favoured the gathering with a graphic rendition of, "Dangerous Dan McGrew." A voung fatlier was telling a group ¢f friepd; whot a bad time he had when his baty was born. Finally a younsy matrn "Who had that baby, anyway?" Aftor taxes. the B of M‘s net earn:â€" ings,. st $5,8186.000, compared with $2,458,000 in 1948. Out cf this, shareâ€" holders received the sun of $2,600.0%0 â€"a return equal to 4.23 per cont of the share}r>olders funds. A Two Billion Dollar Story The B of M‘s resources climbed to a â€"new peak of $2,139,000,000, providâ€" ing an excess of assets over public liabilities of some $85,000,000, a figure that the bank‘s strong financia‘. position. Earnirngs Well Maintained Jn 1949, the â€" Bank‘s earnings tctalled $8.221,000, after payment of stafi salaries, bonuses and pension fund contributions, as well as proviâ€" sion for contingencies and the deâ€" preciation â€" of premises. â€" However, taxes amountsd ts $3.504,009, or $420.0003 more than they did last year. With resources topping two bilâ€" lion dollars for the first yearâ€"end in its history, the Bank of Montroal today issued its annual repcrt, telling how this great sum was kept hard at work in 1949 through commercial loans and investments at record levels. Plain talk and thumbnail sketches lighten the statement again this year, as they have done in every annua summingâ€"up of the B of M since 1945, when it pionecred a human approach in the presentation of bank reports. | Headed "A Special Message to Cusâ€" tomers Of The B of M," the 13Znd yearly statement justifies its themeâ€" "This Year You‘ve Written A Twsâ€" BiÂ¥ionâ€"Dollar â€" shoewing how its resources are helping Canaâ€" dians in every walk of life to make At the same time, the figure for commercial loans has risen to ths highest yearâ€"end figure in the bank‘s history. Covering both business and personal borrowing, this has risen frem $456,000,000 to $487,000,000, repâ€" resenting credit extended to business and industrial enterprises for producâ€" tion of every kind, to farmers, fishâ€" ermen, :umbermen, and to citizens in every walk of life. 2 better future for ’themsel\’res,and for Canada. It demonstrates this by explaining in everyday language the meaning of the balanceâ€"sheet figures. Deposits Over Two Billion In almost every phase of its acâ€" livities, Canada‘s senior bank reports devel=pment corresponding to the business trends of the country durâ€" ing the past year. Both deposits and total ressurces have pas ed the twoâ€" billionâ€"dollar level, breaking all B cof M records. There is a healthy inâ€" crease in loans, tco, and the bank‘s earnings show a modest improvement despite increased taxes. The B of M‘s deposits have risen by $142,000,000 to a new high of $2,091,000,000. The larger part of this sum represents the savings of well over a million Canadian citizens, and the rest ccnsists of funds that manuâ€" facturers, merchants, farmers and business men keep in the bank to meet their dayâ€"toâ€"day obligations. Investments and Loans at Record Holdings of government and other public securities increased from just over a billicn dollars to the present figure of $1,045,000,000 Cash and quickly realizable assets add up to $1,602,000,000, or 78 per cent of everyâ€" thing the B of M owes the public. This is in keeping with the bank‘s traditional policy of mamtammg a strong liquid position. Ptis j\ Then came the rather patronizing statement that this UE was preponderâ€" â€"which was about as difficult as those radio Shareâ€"theâ€" We queries and retorts. Gaeth either deliberately or out of ignorance ignored the fact that inside this civil war the antiâ€"Communist leadership comes from New Rngâ€" antly a Catholic unionâ€"and you were left to guess for you@f the answer â€"land, where there zre no active ACTU headquarters, from the midwest, where â€"the leaders are Protestant, and frem Nw York and PhiladelpHia, where the two or three most active men are Jewish. As for the crossâ€"country hopping im Clrey, his differences. with ACTU‘s people have been loud and freâ€" quentâ€"and Jim‘s as devout a Catholic as I know. But this sort of proptcganda is just part of a weird war of nerves, skillâ€" fully spraying the countryside. The other night, fer example, Al Lowenthal, an antiâ€"Communist leader in New Jersey, took a few wellâ€"earned hours off to see the movie version of "Hamlet" Some extreme leftists spotted him and wiited for the picture to end. As Lowenthal cam2 ous, the Sita\â€", inist band lined up, pointed fingers and laughed snidely soâ€"that the in the community would think something was wrong with the movieâ€"goer. s ‘:..“.“-% In other sectcrs, when‘ UE president Al Fitzgerald cgm%,o o en all candidetes for, loeal offices are forced to riso and pledge loyalty to v e a m SS t qB N B n e e Ask any seaman who‘s been on the waterfront long enough get salty who "The Horse® is, and he‘ll tell you it‘s Roy Hudson, oneâ€"tameâ€"leaddr of the Communists® own seafarers unionâ€"The Marine Workers. Ask anyone of the small band of people who watch the Communbe "apparat"® day by day. They‘ll tell you Horseface was once among the Big Tnree ruling the American Communist machine, sharing honors (tdh/ Laoncrs sounds better) with Earl Browder and Stachel, who only recently was convicted of conspiring to teach violent overthrow of se government. Roy, the Horse, as the lad was unaffectionately known. had two attri« butes. HMe couldn‘t be deportedâ€"except to Nevada from Where he hailed. Ana he was a brilliant waterfront operator. i Somencv\ he was exiled in one of those weird inner patty convulsionsâ€" but now he‘s back and reportedly directing the Communist raids on Jj Curran‘s p_o!v’.tlcq!l‘y clea_t_\sed.National aritime Union. ~a» o s â€"+ es L. _3 _ .1 To .o K S se tKelLi k HUiIL d _ J HIifV w 3x K LWE C C 26 C S t ocm t in‘ > â€" the Horse loves direct action... Once, when arrested for breaking up a Seamen‘s Church Institute service, he called in 1850 of "his biggest "ceie"â€"and they roamed the Criminal Courts Building corridors ‘well ahncad of the 22â€"man police squad sent to keep order. * 1 Direct action is wnhat‘s hitting Jloe Currait‘s Maritime »wni¢en nowâ€"â€"a methodical planning~ of "sporadic‘" and seemingly. unplanned© outbreaks. And behind the Communist waterfront section now, for the first time in many yearsâ€"â€"recalled from his exile in ax.ld around Pittsburghâ€"is ‘"Plvw Horse " [+} \ @0 understand these tactics, one must first understand the average sailor‘s psychology. ‘The deckhand hates cops. The*police of a huncf:d ports have kept him under surveillance. ‘The constabullary on a hunared aocks have swung sticks at him.> And during the seafarer‘s early organâ€" izing days, the police were really against him. So the sailors ha'fie. the cops. Now this is the problem facing Big Joe Curranâ€"and he‘had to face / squarely last Wodnesday afternoon at 3 p.m. The lobbies of" Nis National waritime Union Hall, over on West 17th EStreet, have been regularly by a coaliticn mobâ€"Communists; angered unemployed, of whom there are some 5.090 on "the beach," and the nonâ€"party Stalinists who first worked with Joe and thne broke with him when he began fighting them too, on basic philosophy. «â€" a uy Gurran naa to decide whether to call on his own "beef" to clhar \hn, lobbies of the crowd impriscning his people for several days, in, the upper floorsâ€"oOor call on the police Not wanting a riot, and not by any mealns wanting to demean the union‘s reputation by having it appedr that "the sailors were brawling amongst themselves again, whaiit can you expect?‘ (you know the kind of sneering talk), Curran called on the Mayor to keep order But at 3 p.m. Wednesday, word was flashed to Big Joeâ€"and his aidgs that hundreds of men, from crews just off the recextly ‘doecked oceanâ€" traveling ships, were heading for the union hallâ€"to . protect it.© That meant violence. % Curran dispatched NMU patrolmen (waterfront business agents) to all wharis to head off the infuriated "loyalists." Some did get through and there was a bit of scuffling in the hall‘s lower deck. 't Now the antiâ€" Curran bloc is raising funds to spread agen.ts through pngeon and "too weak to defend himself." At the same tlme*x ie leftigts coalition is lining up its forces in other coastwise cities, alerted wction against Curran‘s halls there. As these squads fan out from Boston through New Yo delphia on down and around to Texas, they carry with th1 cop, intiâ€"Curran" propaganda. Soon warnings are heard â€" that there‘ll be raids in NMU headquarters in Philadelphia. Curran‘s temptation is to peel cff his supporters being *a,; the backâ€" elphia. But ground in New York and B:itimore, and rush them into Phi'l then nothing would happen there and New York would be .raiddd8 again. Evertually the sailors may fight it out, and Curran W 112 io MV smeared nc matter what he tries to do At which point he‘ll get thb;:‘-_se” saugh Evertually the sailors may fight it out, and Curran nc matter what he tries to do At which point he‘ll get t â€"and loud, too. At exactly 10.07 p.m. on the bleak night of Monday, Nov:â€"21ist, there blared from more than 350 radio transmitters across country y~machintâ€" 1gub.1 tecngued blast zt priests and thelr Catholic prishioners a,ctlve inside abor. To me, at least, a selfâ€"appointed monitor of this broadcast,.;it apneared thet, however subtly made, the caustic and costly commentatr was chargâ€" ing certain Catholic groups with an attempt to capture *gectox of the labor movement. F L# And hat‘s the atmosphere in this civil war as the nonâ€"Communists pull themselves out of the trenches for a few days to launch their new CIO electrical workers union in Philadelphic Monday morning. They will ta"‘ icr some 250,000 peéopleâ€"at the Aatest count. More bulletins later Then, exactly seven minutes later, an announcer took over Gaeth‘s mike in the studio of WJZ, ew York cutlet of the American Broadcasting netâ€" work, and said cooingly that‘ you could catch another of these "fbrthright‘" talks next week. Whoever wrocte that announcer‘s script ought. to catch something else! 1 Why? Because that broadcast, one in a $300,000â€"aâ€"year S'éf‘is by the clipped voiced Arthur Gaeth, was part of the chilledâ€"war between the proâ€" ~ommunist, United EKlectriclâ€"Workers (UE) and the CIO, and;g and paid for by the UE cut of ALL members‘ dues. ; The radio announcer‘s use of "forthright" in one swiftly ABpken word spun the impression that Gaeth wes a Crusading insoucient laying it on the lineâ€"while actually the line he laid it on was the Party line. I by nc means want to insinuate that criticism of Father Charles Owen Rice the Pittsburgh Labor priest Gaeth ripped apart. that night) or difâ€" ferences with the Assn. of Catholic Trade Unionists (which Ggeth scienâ€" ifically speared) should be verboten either in print or om;tHe air An zsttack on the labor pclicies or position taken on some issue by the Catholic Trode ,Unionists is one storyâ€"and is not infrequent where labor guys gather. I can recall that just a few weeks ago, as the steel, crisis started. some of the top United Steelwcrkers sat in a hotel room infione Peryis; Y Â¥ "wen In one city, the decent schncogles in the antiâ€"Communist camp conâ€" trol‘2d a UE local and called a meeting. On Counting the vote, they disâ€" covered they had «a majority of those present, but those present woere noy! < majority cf the union. So the good folk decided they‘d be fair and get a mail vote. What happened? The Commies moved into the local‘s hend.â€" quarters, took the records, the bankbooks, the keys, the ‘"installed" new "oificials." It tcok court order to get the property back. . olic Trade Unionists (ACTU)â€"and we all took each other apart on tactics cnd philosophy. W*J ntkanale â€" 2An‘""l‘an+hkhalin lalrnrmnn "o% m e ho L °0) * in ne But the attack on Catholic labor people as pclitically ‘fiéwar-hungry apportunists by spokesmen of the proâ€"Communist UE,â€" is part of the techâ€" nique c‘ jugg‘ing minority and religious groups against each other to weaken them and give the partyâ€"line boys control. Gaeth‘s broadcast inâ€"some detail allegedly gove the inside story of "priests" and "Catholic Trade Unionists‘" operatingâ€"and lent the impression that the fight on the UE was a religious «1 /4 plot In other sectcrs, when‘ UE president Al Fitzgerald CQméawjo"?pg'a’E: all candidetes for, loeal offices are forced to riso and pledge loyalty to thc proâ€"Communist UE administration. 4 In some areas, the preâ€"Commie leadership just refuses to recognize‘ petitions for union meetings at which a vote could be taken on whether to stty in UE or bolt to CIO. members are slugged. Or. certain: Pacific isles. hats are used for cf lctting" money go‘to your head. vinia city with Father Rice, the Presbyterian Rev. Stewart, igel workers‘ leaders including Bill Hart, exâ€"president of the Pittsburgh % of Cathâ€" One:."first" â€"which Russia can lay claim to is the glue that enables her to keep mending he? broken word. P °C _ The northern icecap, say scientists, is moving south. â€" UnSortunately, it probably won‘t get there until December, One drawback to becoming a big shot in the underworli is that fthe emphasis too often is cn the "shot." A philosopher advises us to have a daily hcur of meditation isn‘t needed by people who wait for buses. Czcch workers who are giving Stalin a free plane for his 70th birthday needn‘t think that wil} win his undying regard. Look at all the free planes Britain and the United St’a;ttes gave him,‘and where did it get them? â€" Those two new Canadian isles off Baffin Island are described as largely composed of bare ridges ofi disintegrated limestone . . . very flaii‘" And doubstless very cold. _ Horselace®" is back in town A Bit O This and That by Victor Riesel That‘s a new way nd Philaâ€" he lew York