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OPINIONS DA LY TIMES-GAZETTE EDITORIAL PAGE FEATURES THE DAILY TIMES.-GAZETTE OSHAWA WHITBY T4E OSHAWA TIMES (Established 1871) THE WHITBY GAZETTE AND CHRONICLE (Established 1863) MEMBER OF THE CANADIAN PRESS The Canadian Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news despatches credited to it or to The Associated Press or Reuters in this paper and also the local news published therein. All rights of republicatior of special despatches herein are also reserved. The Times-Gazette 1s a member of the Canadian Dally News- papers Association, the Ontario Provincial Dailies Association, and the Audit Burcau of Circulations. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carrier in Oshawa, Whitby, Brooklin Port Perry, Ajax or Pickering, 24c per week, $12.00 per year. By mail, outside carrier delivery areas, anywhere n Canada and England $7.00 per year, $350 for 6 months. $2.00 for 3 months. U.S. $9.00 per year. 'Authorized as Second Class Matter, Post Office Dept. Ottawa, Can. Net Paid Circulation Average Per Issue 4 v3 1 0 . DECEMBER, 1947 4 THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 1948 Ajax Union Week \ (The Varsity) A great step toward improved labor-management rela- * tions is being taken this week at Ajax. From union locals all over @anada, 130 workers and officials are assembling to study, attend lectures, and learn. Their board, lodging and week's loss in salary are to be paid by their respective locals. In many cases management is paying the week's wage. The first union school to operate in the winter, the Uni- versity of Toronto's playing host to union men is setting a precedent for future activity in the same line in other Cana- dian universities. The Farmer-Labor-Teacher Institute Con- ference, the Geneva Park two-week educational course, and the four-week course at Winnipeg held last summer for union workers are indicative of the growing emphasis on education. However, the United States and England are a jump ahead of us. In 1942, Harvard University initiated a Trade Union Fellowship--a one-year course in union leadership. The students were selected by the unions in all cases. In the first year there were thirteen union men, ten sent by their locals, and three who received fellowships on their locals' approval. London School of Economics in 1945 formed a compar- able course to that of Harvard, a course in Trade Union Studies. Again the enrolled were handpicked by the locals for potential leadership, sending the most promising invest- ment 'up to study'. It is interesting to note that the financing of the course is made possible by dividends by the Daily Her- ald, of which the Trade Union Congress is part owner. Trade unions have been called the backbone of democ- racy. It is through such organizations that the rights of the fndividual--In this case the workers--are protected. And it is becoming increasingly obvious that the workers' rights are best maintained and guaranteed through the efficiency and good government of the union. The success of a union depends upon its internal unity, mand the ability of its shop stewards and officials. Both the internal unity and the ability of officials are achieved most successfully through education. This fact is truer today than ever before. : Not only is it to the union's advantage to be organized through education. It is to management's advantage, and derivatively the advantage of the consumer. Educated offi- cials, with a background of trade union history, various labor developments and causes for their succesbes and failures are in a much better position to understand pertinent problems. Management, confronted by an official with assembled and catalogued cases, and a knowledge of industry's prob- lems and profits, may be temporarily taken back. But man- agement cannot ignore facts, especially when those facts are based on sound research. Confidence will develop on man- agement's part when labor officials offer suggestions which are proven workable. Labor will ind management becoming more under- standing. Cynics may quip that the understanding is the re- sult of fear. Idealists may suggest that better relations are the result of mutual respect. There is truth in both state- ments, Labor is in the sole position to see its difficulties. Through education their maladjustments can be presented in the most complete and expedient manner. It would not be clairvoyant on management's part to refute demands based on actual need plus an intensive study of the problem. With education fostering understanding on both sides, labor's attitude should not be belligerent, nor her demands unwise; management's attitude should not be defensive, nor her requests unheard. Freedom of the Press The eyes of newspaper and periodical publishers thi. ughout the Dominion are this week focused on the City of Edmonton, Alberta; where a preliminary hearing of charges of conspiracy to publish a defamatory libel, laid against Dr, Charlotte Whitton, of Ottawa, and Jack Kent ), \ Cooke, of Toronto, and Harold Dingman, of Ottawa is taking "1 place. The three are charged by the Alberta attorney-general 1 in connection with the New Liberty magazine article, "Babies for Export," which dealt with child welfare administration by the Alberta Social Credit Government. Mr. Cooke is pub- lisher of the magazine, Mr. Dingman wrote the article and Dr. Whitton wrote a report on welfare conditions on which the article was based. Reason for the interest in this trial is that in the opinion of legal men and publishers the freedom of the press will be challenged, and that if the actions launched succeed, it will open a wide door which may cause newspaper and other publishers no end of trouble and expense; as well as deny to readers of a free press certain privileges to which they are entitled. The evidence given in this trial should there- fore be of vital interest'to all Canadians. It may even be said that democracy is on trial at Edmonton, By HAROLD DINGMAN Ottawa Correspondent Edmonton, Jan. 20.--What do the Russians think of Americans? Herewith is one of the most fantas- tic stories ever told. It was taken from a collection in the current is- sue (February) of the Reader's Di- gest, and that magazine says that 100 Russian radio stations beam broadcasts in 60 languages all over the world. The burden of this tur- gid torrent of propaganda, accord- ing to the Digest, is distortion and abuse of all things American. "Fascist machine gunning on Broadway," is the heading on this story published in Il Lavoratore, a Communist organ in Trieste, and the following is the text: "In the middle of June in Holly- wood, the well-known film actors Gary Cooper anid Tyrone Power, who are regarded as leftists and have been declared un-American were jailed. But something else happened--the mysterious death of film actor Buster Crabbe, From an article by Immy Stendath the New York newspaper Red Star, we learn that Buster Crabbe was very popu- lar. An infantry lieutenant in the war, he was wounded and decor- ated. When the Committee on Un- American Activities started to in- vestigate Cooper, Chaplin and other film stars, he organized demonstra- | ticns among soldiers. | "He discovered valuable docu- ments which threw light upon the | criminal and aggressive plans of re- | actionary circles in America. On | May 31 he went to the apartment | of the well known film actor Spen- cer Tracy, also a well known leftist. They had a long talk in the pres- {ence of Tyrone Power. The next day Crabbe planned to leave New York with Power and Cooper to see Henry Wallace. When he (Crabbe) and an unknown person 'advised' him to stop his activities or suffer some 'unpleasantness'. But that did not scare him, He took a plane from New York to Washington in order to see Truman, But Truman refused to see him. "Then Crabbe, in agreement with Wallace, Elliott Roosevelt, Guardia and Stettinius, decided to | make the documents public. Sum- | ner Welles, notorious former un- dersecretary of foreign affairs, and Senator Bilbo, disreputable persecu- tor of Negroes and inspirator of the Ku Klux Klan, then openly threat- ened Crabbe to 'keep out of this affair which is none of his business'. But Crabbe did not retreat. "On June 3, at the corner of Broadway and Seventh Avenue, Crabbe fell, riddled with tommy- gun bullets shot from a closed car. "One hundred and fifty thousand people were present at the funeral of Buster Crabbe and his coffin was carried by Comrades Gary Cooper, Al St. John Jolson). "Did (probably means Al this murder, however, Power pointed out that their im- idea for which they are fighting. Cooper said, 'I am going to jail but I will come back. Bilbo, Baruch, Hearst and Rockefeller will long be masters of this country. They want to silence me but in spite of that I will expose all their dirty work.' "The death of Crabbe does not mean the suppression of his dis- coveries. Bilbo and his gang will have a big job on their hands if they try to machine gun every one of the people on Broadway who know about the reactionary gangs which are threatening not only the United States but the whole world with their criminal plans." The Reader's Digest adds: Buster Crabbe, former swimming champion who for a time played Tarzan, is, of course, alive and well; he was never in the army; there is no newspaper Red Star in New York; nobody ever contemplated jailing Gary Cooper or Tyrone Power, and so on throughout this amazing farrago. If the Russians believe such stuff as this, then God help the state of the world. e A Bit of Verse BARBARA ANN SCOTT 8he's Canada's own queen of blades, Therefore we think of her with awe. She's skated right into our hearts, This little girl from Ottawa. Her aching feet have brought her ame; Such as few skaters ever know. Her grace an smile Are really what we all adore, As well as her abilit; To skate her way right to the fore. So we pay tribute to her skill, Likewise her sweet, attractive self And wish her all the very best There is upon the skaters' shelf. WILLIAM SKELTON, Oshawa. UNJUST DOESN'T SHOVEL Brandon Sun) The snow fallls alike on the just and the unjust, after which the un- just does not shovel off his walk. e A Bible Thought Ofttimes He weaveth sorrow, And I in foolish pride Forget He sees the upper, And I the under side. Not till the loom is silent And the shuttles cease to' fly, Shall God unroll the canvas And explain the reason why The dark threads were as needful In the Weaver's skillful hand As the threads af sold and silver ii Uie pattern He had planned. "For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory." (II Cor. 4:17) La | achieve its purpose? Cooper and | prisonment will not liquidate the | Yo UR : not | Tyrone Power, George Brent and | "Alas, Poor Yorick" Neue Zeitung (Berlin) ® 30 Years Ago Mayor F. L. Mason in his in. augural address wiged appoint- ment of an official "to supervise the distribution of coal and other fuel." This official, he said, could also juvestigaie the quantity of coal required by householders and public institutions for the winters of 1918 and 1919. Acutely conscious of the fuel shortage in town, the Oshawa Min- isterial Association, passed a reso- lution expressing a desire to co- operate with those who were dis- tributing available coal supplies. The association offered to va | tinue use of church buildings for | arrived at his home his phone rang | Special meetings and suggested at union services could be held. The ministers urged curtailment of the use of fuel in places of "mere entertainment" such as pool rooms, moving picture theatres and club rooms, Town council re-appointed H. A.' Saunders as high school trustee; A. E. Cutler, Library Board mem- ber; William Merritt and R. 8S. Mec- Laughlin, park commissioners; R. H. James, John Gibson and A. J. Drew, members of the Board of Health. Eli Wilson, appointed principal of Pickering Public School, arrived to take up his new duties. With District Deputy Grand Master Price, of Beethoven Lodge, Brooklin, in charge, officers of Phoenix Lodge, I.0.0.F., were in- stalled. Installed were the follow- ing: J.P.G.,, T. Knox; N.G., Ed. Bathe; V.G., F. Rolso; R.S,, Peter McDonald; F.S. Robert Sproule; A. Brown, treasurer; warden, H. Suddard. COOLING-OFF PERIOD (Brandon Sun) It is suggested that there be a cooling-off pericd for applicants for divorce, wlich is better than trying to warm over the old ro- mance, o Other Editors IT HAS HAPPENED (Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph) A candidaie is a man who will pay $50 for a radio announcement and then demand {hat a ne~~"aper run it free. "MONKEY" TEST (Edmonton Journal) A Tokyo paper proudly reports that Hirohito can hold a fan in his toes and fan himself. Is this the qualification for a Son of Heaven? POPS OUT (Brandon Sun) A child always wants more than his share. Even at his tender age Lg can see the man cropping out im, FOR THE RECORDS (Brockville Recorder and Times) Mark it down in the book that when the Legion Club of Lunen- burg, N.S., was asked to vote on the question of a "wet" canteen, only a quarter of its members sup- ported the idea. NOT EXACTLY NEWS (Ottawa Journal) Governor Dewey of New York at last anounces officially that he is a candidate for the Republican nomination for President. As he has been hard after the plate for many months, this is not exactly news. NET PROFIT (Kitchener-Waterloo Record) We see where a lad of 23, accus- ed of marrying eight women in five years, had 19 cents to his name when the police finally caught up with him. With present prices and any year's wives what they are, any man who has even 19 cents after eight wives have gone through his pockets is no mere bigamist. He's a financial genius, r 2 3 % on Guaranteed hy 4 ° 4 /O Trust Certificates Issvep for any amount... . for a term of five years. ...guaranteed both as to principal and interest . . . . Interest cheques mailed to reach holders on due date, or, at holder's option, may be allowed to accumulate at compound interest. An ideal investment for individuals, come panics; authorized by law for cemetery oards, executors and other trustees. THE STERLING TRUSTS CORPORATION Sterling Tower, Toronto 36 years In Business ES Whitehall Notebook By JAMES McCOOK Canadian Press Staff Writer London, Jan. 29--(CP)--Political aqbservers say they believe the long- suffering labor party leadership soon will take some action against Konni Zilliacus, labor member from Gateshead, who has scolded Prime Minister Attlee and Foreign Min- ister Bevin about Britain's overseas policies. When Attlee broadcast criticism of Communist tactics, Zilllacus re- plied by liken! his leader to a governess "rendéted peevish by the naughtiness of the little ones con- fided to her care." Zilliacus, who served the League of Nations secretariat for 18 years, is considered one of Labor's most leftist members. He was involved in last year's "revolt" against Bev- in's foreign policy, a party rising that brought from the Foreign Min- ister the roaring complaint that he had been "stabbed in the back." Zilliacus, a studious, middle-aged man will enter the coming contro- '| versy with support from his local party organization. The Gateshead Labor Party announced it has ap- proved a resolution confirming sup- port of the member. Zilllacus strikes at the heart of Labor's foreign policy in Commons speeches. He has accused the gov- ernment of returning to power pol- itics and assuming "traditional tory concepts of what are our interests throughout the world." Russia, as much as the United States, should be considered a partner, and failure of British policies was a leading reason for failure to reach diplo~ matic agreements with Russia. He termed Bevin's program an "ill-starred attempt to bash our way through with a tory policy." Raymond Blackourn, Labor, King's Morton, in a recent Com- mons debate said the Gateshead member had visited Russia and Po- land and represented himself as a friend "of what he calls eastern de- mocracy." Zilliacus had tried to suggest "that we in the Labor Party believe in a concept of democracy which includes concentration camps and the terrors of whole parties of secret police which we fought against in the war." INSURANCE FUND GROWS Montreal, Jan. 29--(CP)--Can. ada's Unemployment Insurance fund now exceeds $425,000,000, according to Clifford A. Murche- son, director of the fund. He told a meeting of the Foremen's Club of Montreal that during the 1946-47 fiscal year, a year when the aver "ag rate of unemployment was prob- ably not more than half what it was in 1926, "$43,000,000 was paid by the government in benefits." POLICE APPOINTMENTS Toronto, Jan. 29--(CP)--Com- missioner W. H. Stringer of the Ontario Provnicial Police yesterday announced the promotion of Sgt. S. Hunter, formerly of Perth, On. tario, as District Inspector of Dis trict No. 11, Cornwall, Sgt. E, V. McNeill of Mount Forest, Ontario, was named district inspector of District No. 8, Peterborough. Comfortable -- Convenient -- Scenic OTORCOACH fares are LOW ... about 14 the cost of driving your own car, noticeably less than other means of public transportation. Motorcoach trips are INTERESTING -- you see more by highway as you travel. COMFORTABLE, too, for de luxe modern codches serve all the principal highways. Frequent daily schedules. 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