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AJAX AND DISTRICT NEWS John Mills, Representative Phone Ajox 426 HOME FROM KOREA TO ENJOY CHRISTIvAS DINNER Home for Christmas, what a wonderful time to anticipate. What a joy to be reunited with one's own family. Last year Da- vid Davidson spent Christmas on the Pacific Ocean bound for Korea. This Christmas Dave was home safe and sound with his mother father, brothers and rela- tives. Shown seated at the din- ing table just before the eating of Christmas dinner together are Louis Davidson, Mrs. Davidson and baby Kenneth, Korean vet- eran Dave Davidson, father Da- vid Davidson, brother Harold and cousin Lois Neimann. The Davidsons came to Ajax in 1942 --son Dave went to public school here and enlisted in the RCEME two and a half years ago. He has spent a year in Korea and is very happy to be home again. Dave came laden with gifts for all the family, a smoking jacket for Dad, kimona for mother all iit, EVEN TAXES WERE PAID By JOHN LeBLANC Canadian Press Staff Writer TIMMINS (CP) -- Crime has taken about the biggest slump of any of the customary activities in this strikebound mining area. Some violence tied directly to strike activities spotted the early stages of the 5'2-month series of walkouts, but the general run of lawbreaking is in a nose-dive. "Crime is off about 50 per cent," said Police Chief Gordon Beacock as he relaxed with his 28-man town force that patrols this largest of the strike communities. "The outstanding feature," he added, "is that there has been no serious crime at all. We haven't had a holdup since the strike started, and for serious crime this must be the best period in the last 10 years." He's not too surprised, he said, because this is generally a peace- able, district at any time. "Like a lot of people from fur- ther south," the Toronto-born chief said, "I used to think this was a rough-and-tough brawling commun- ity. It's an idea many people have about northern gold camps. Just the opposite is true." A rundown of police statistics for a typical pre-strike month re- inforces the chief's statement. Three court appearances for as- sault, two theft and one shop- breaking were among the items on the book. CREDITS UNION Just 22 drunks answered the morning call during the month, though Timmins has 28 taverns for a population of 26,000. "For the situation during the strike," the chief said, "we have to give considerable credit to the union." " The United Steelworkers of America (CIO-CCL), which has 7,200 men on strike in this Porcu- pine district and in Quebec's nearby Rouyn-Noranda area, has organized its own police force to keep law and order among its membes. A 250-man "special detail" is equipped with identifying arm- bands by the municipal police. Its members are not sworn in as offi- cers, but the regular police co-op- erate closely with them. The union police have a man at dances and at every tavern nightly --the union gives him an allow- ance for a few 10-cent beers. A striker misbehaving or sinking too leave. If the regular police get a call much money in beer is advised to | Crime Cut In Half During Mine Strike to the union police. It has worked out well, says Chief Beacock. TAX ARREARS LOW Other town officials say munici- pal activities have not been hit h too hard. by the. strikes, though these have dried up most of the money normally in circulation. Mayor J. Wilfred Spooner of Tim- mins said tax arrears are about $50,000 higher than usual for this season but the municipality, which spends $1,200,000 a year, is in good shape financially with a cash reserve of $107,000 in the bank. From the civic viewpoint, the most serious aspect of the strike has been that the town has had to postpone the star of a $400,- 000 home for the aged. The mayor said the town's small welfare department has had few calls for financial help since the strike outbreak. "We have been called on by some non-strikers, bush workers and so forth, but the amount in- volved was negligible," he said. "We have really been surprised at the way things have held up." On the other side of the border in Quebec, Mayor Maurice Caou- ette had the same expression of | "surprise." "Tax collections have not been on minor ruckuses involving union too bad," he said, "and our total members, they turn the case over arrears are only $75,000. embroidered in q silks and glowing colour. The biggest gift to the Davidsons was having their boy home again. It was a happy Christmas. Photo by John Mills. Inaugurate New Lodge Tonight AJAX -- The inaugural meeting of the newly organized "Corona- tion Lodge," Loyal Orange Lodge will be held in the Ajax Armories on Monday evening cember 28 at 8 pm. Visitors are expected from Bow- manville, Oshawa, Whitby and To- ronto to take part in the initiation ceremonies and to start the new lodge off successfully. Christmas Fare Is Unclaimed AJAX -- (Times-Gazette Staff Reporter -- Ajax Police are hold- ing a suitcase containing (a) 2 dressed ducks; (b) six glasses ufh- Holiday Was Maoris Greet By JOHN LeBLANC Canadian Press Staff Writer eral Power Commission took the major move of naming the New OTTAWA CP)--The $750,000,000 | York state power authority as the | Quiet Here AJAX -- (Times-Gazette Staff Reporter -- No untoward incidents disturbed the peace and joy of Christmas Day or the holdiya week- end in Ajax. Only one gentleman imbibed enough to run foul of the law. A minor car accident on the overpass bridge resulted in noth- Royal Couple St. Lawrence seaway-power pro- WAITANGI, N. Z. (CP)--New | ject seemed to have sound pros- Zealand's Maoris reaffirmed their | pects of a 1954 start as this year loyalty to the crown in an impres- | closes. sive ceremony today on the site of | After a half century of contro- the 1840 treaty that first bound the | versy and inertia--largely south of | aborigine tribe to Britain. the river--this greatest of all Can- | Five thousand Maoris welcomed |'ada-United States peacetime enter- "our chief, our lord, | Prises had come up to the last two as she arrived | Visible hurdles. Canadian officials were 'hopeful these would be cleared in time to get the huge navigation and | the Queen as | our sovereign," h | with the Duke of Edinburgh at the historic treaty grounds of { U.S. entity to share with the On- tario hydro-electric power commis- sion the $450,000,000 cost and the 2,200,000 horsepower of the power phase of the seaway. That was one of the biggest steps ever taken on the seaway in the U.S. And it is the decision that now is under challenge in American courts: After the action, Canada and the Good Chance Of Seaway Start In Coming Year Who will build the navigation facilities to route deep-sea ships into and out of the Great Lakes past the hydro development? The Canadian government, after waiting more than 10 years for Congress to ratify a Canada-U.S. treaty for a joint job by the two federal governments, decided last year to go ahead on her own. This year, Congress once more the | had before it legislation for joint.| participation. Once again, the legis- lation was pigeonholed. U.S. got together in the fall on | pRESIDENT HOPEFUL the naming of a joint board of en- | President Eisenhower, address- used; (c) a lady's slip. The suitcase was found unclaim- ing more than dented fenders and | Waitangi--Maori for "weeping wat- ruffled. feelings, when two cars |ers'--where the tribe first sub- driven by Oshawa men collided. {mitted to British rule. Pickering Police Dept. report no | Before leavng Auckland on the arrests and a very quiet Christmas | first stop of a 2,250-mile tour of all round New Zealand, the Queen presented colors to the Royal New Zealand ed near the bus station on Har- | Air Force. wood Avenue North, Aja. -- | + Someone is minus the makings |jy knew something about the old of a good dinner, the ducks are (2m. had probably visited it at succulent looking birds. Owner may {some time, for she says that the hydro development into construc- tion within the year: OPPONENTS' LAW SUIT The two remaining obstacles: 1. A lawsuit by opponents before the United States Court of Appeals, on which final hearings were due | to start Dec. 23. | 2. An expected appeal by the | same opponents to the U.S. Su- preme Court in the event they lose out before the lower body. gineers to give over-all supervision | jng Parliament here Nov. 14, ex- | | to the hydro construction job. The | pressed the hope Congress will board is one of three top appoint- | yote next year to have the U.S. ive bodies that would have a hand | go in jointly with Canada. have them by proving ownership. Charge Woodcutter With Slaying Son FORT WILLIAM (CP)--Norman Russell Young, a 59-year-old pulp- | wood cutter, was charged Satur- day with murder in the slaying of his son, Daniel, 31, shot during a drinking party. Young, a tall heavy-set man, ap- peared in magistrate's court and was remanded to Dec. 31 alon with four men held as materia witnesses. v The four--Thomas Kabalay, Fred Primeau, Robert Kishegweb and Joseph Kishegweb--were with Dan- iel Young on his visit to the father's three-room house near Fort William. Provincial police said the shoot- ing followed an argument between the two men. They said they be- lieve the weapon was a .22-calibre rifle they seized in the father's | hearthstone was the only landmark | Seaway advocates are confident left. She mentions that her father, of winning any appeal to the top when he was six years old, walked | U.S. court, but it is believed here the two and a half miles to the a final verdict would be needed district school at Roekwood, which | by late May or early June to en- was the centre of the farming sure a 1954 start. After that, the community. Among the great railway build- |ers of the United States, James J. . |Hill easily stands first as a con- Kabalay, owner of the car instructive, far-seeing promoter. Un- which the body was found, told po- like so many of contemporaries in lice he had been sleeping and was the railway field, he was no land awakened by Mrs. Norman Young gambler in search of instant profits crying that her husband had shot at the expense of his victims, but her son. He phoned police shortly took a long view, basing his vision after 10 p.m. Friday. on definite realities. He thought When police arrived, Norman these new western states should Young unlocked his door and came studded with homesteads; the -ar- out of his shack in response to!able land should be tilled by com- home. their call. petent farmers, every facility Mrs. Daniel Young, who has a should be afforded them to hel seven-month-old baby and is ex- improve their crops and livestock | land markets should be found for | pecting another child in the spring, told police her husband and his father and some other men had been drinking throughout Christ- mas Day. Mrs. Norman Young said her son had a premonition of death. "It was very strange. He told me just a few hours before that he felt he was going to die soon." Cotton Trade In US By LEON FRENDLING NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Opera- tion of the U.S. government loan program enabléd the cotton market to withstand a good deal of bear- ish sentiment in 1953. Prices fluct- uated over a comparatively small range and were only slightly lower on the average than during 1952 Meanwhile, many in the trade are optimistic that prices will tighten in 1854 as the free supply of cotton is whittled down by nor- mal use and the huge movement into government loan stocks. But 1953 brought a mounting surplus as exports dwindled in the face of increasing overseas production and bumper United States crops. The end of hostilities in Korea brought a gradual reduction of mil- itary and defence spending and this contributed to the slow decline of cotton values. en Better For '54 DOMESTIC DEMAND STEADY Domestic consumption was main- tained at a fairly good level, with prices giving way slightly toward the close. Sentiment in the goods markets has turned a bit more optimistic, however, and good bus- iness is looked for in the first quarter of 1954. Government forecasters said the 1953 U.S. crop has turned out to be around 16,000,000 bales, much larger than anticipated earlier in the season. With total supplies estimated at around 21,500,000 bales, production controls have been invoked for 1954 as called for by farm law when supplies are held to above "normal." A carryover, or surplus, of some 9,000,000 bales is in prospect for the end of the crop year next July 31. Rockwood Memorial Tablet Honors Railway Builder Citizens of Wellington County will be interested in knowing that | the Historic Sites and Monuments | Board of Canada has placed in the | village of Rockwood a bronze tab-| let recording the fact that James J. Hill, the great American rail-| road builder, was born in this | county, says an editorial in the Suelo Daily Mercury. The tablet, | which is on the wall of the Eramosa Township offices in Rock- | sideroad, mid-way across the 7th concession. The site is still recog- nizable by a few old apple trees and some lilac bushes, though no buildings remain on the hundred acres. The spot is about two and a half miles northeast of Rockwood, and is reached by one road run- ning out of Rockwood, that leaving No. 7 Highway at the United Church. James J. Hill was educated at {them in Europe and the Orient. | With these ends in view Hill sent his publicity agents into the older | states to tell the farmers and their wives of the opportunities on the advancing frontier. THRIVING TOWNS Tens of thousands answered the |call and wherever a company of | prospective settlers assembled at |one place Hill's agents provided | trains of passnges and freight cars | to bring them and their possessions {to their destination. Nor were they left to shift for themselves. On the contrary there was a continuous and profound interest shown in the well-being of every community along the railway line -- in its tillage, ditching, highways, credit facilities and improved methods of productiok All the way from the akotas through Montana and Ida- ho to the coast his enterprises bore fruit in prosperous farms, thriving towns and great industries. When Hill died in 1916 he had the satis- faction of seeing the wheatfields of the American Northwest bound by economic ties not galy to the eastern states but to "Europe as well. James J. Hill was for a time interested in the prospective Cana- dian Pacific Railway, but with- 'drew before it entered upon con- struction. One may wonder if the Canadian transcontinental might not have had more effect in the |early upbuilding of the Canadian West had Hill's genius been given to its direction in its pioneer era. ANCIENT DEFENCE The art of self-defence known at | ju-jitsu was practised in Japan as early as the seventh century BC: | court would be in recess for the | summer. | Meanwhile, Canadian authorities 'looked back with satisfaction on | the second year in a row in which long strides have been made. During the year, the U.S. Fed- in the project. Others--still to be named--are an "authority" to build and oper- ate the $300,000,000 deep navigation system around the International Rapids section of the river, and a board of control to regulate the use of water with an eye to levels in Lake Ontario and in the river below the development. PRELIMINARY WORK Along with these moves, the fed- eral transport department and On- tario Hydro launched preliminary work in the seaway area, to clear the decks for actual construction as soon as a definite go-ahead is re- ceived. | Apart from the question of initial | clearance from the U.S. courts, one If it does not, the Canadian gov- ernment is ready to finance the waterway part of the development. In fact, it would be just as happy to do the work alone and thus re- tain control over the canals, which then would be built on the Cana- dian side of the river. One worry in this respect is that, should Congress fail to act in 1954, there might develop pressure from Washington on the Canadian gov- ernment to '"'wait until next year" in the hope of getting joint action. | Whether or not a start is made in 1954, completion of the seaway is still some years in the future. The hydro construction will take about four years. The waterway's finish will take a year or more ! more big question mark remained: ! longer. "Sarah Binks' Creator Retires From College By DAVE STOCKAND Canadian Press Staff Writer WINNIPEG CP) The Sas- katchewan sodbusters had their chronicler and her name was Sarah Binks. And while we are told death has | claimed the "sweet songstress of | Saskatchewan," her poems live on, | thanks to one man. Otherwise | Sarah's works, awfully close to the soil, would have been furrowed un- der and forgotten. The poems were collected a few years back by Dr. Paul G. Hiebert, associate professor of chemistry at the University of Manitoba. First, though, he had to write them. Because, as anyone who has read the book knows, Sarah Binks never lived--although the reader might not have caught on to the fact for quite a few pages. SUBTLE HUMOR The book "Sarah Binks," which won for Dr. Hiebert the 1947 Lea- cock Medal for humor, is dead-pan all the way. It pokes fun at the Prairies and at critical biographies of rea] authors. There are footnotes and foreword, a list of literary awards and all the trimmings as {well as the weird and wonderful yard. Sarah sings maiden thus: "Patrick O'Neil O'Connell Late of the Mounted Police And moon-in-the-eyes Macdonald Are blessed, but not by the priest." What brings all this up is that Dr. Hiebert paid a visit to the Winnipeg Free Press the other day with some news. "I'm retiring Dec: 30," he said, "And I just thought some of the students I've taught in the last 30 years might be interested." END OF SARAH Which brought the conversation to literature and word that it's un- likely Sarah will come back from the dead. of an Ojibway | poetry attributed to the. Prairie | miss who found beauty in the barn- | such as Blume: "You are like one flower, So well, so good and clean I look you on and long, Slinks me the heart between; Me is as if the hands I On head your put them should, Prayi that you preserve So well, so clean and good." Dr. Hiebert's retirement plans: Heine's 'Du Bist Wei Eine To move to Carman, 52 miles south ' west of Winnipeg, and write books. | What kind? "Important books," he says: "But you don't want to know all that stuff," he added. "Just say I'm going out to count the stars." After studying at Wesley now United College here and doing newspaper work for a while, Dr. | Hiebert took post-graduate work in philosophy and then chemistry at me University of Toronto and Mc- ill. Thirty years ago he returned here to teach. And now, like his Sarah, Thre will be no more of her lit- eral translations of German verse, he is moving out into the country, where -he and his wife have had a summer home for many years. RCAF Group Puts On Play LANGAR, Nottinghamshire, Eng. (CP)--Canadian servicemen and women at the RCAF's air material base here are taking to the air in more ways than one. A group of airmen and women from among the 300 serving here have formed their own dramatic At the moment they are working on a production of Terence Rat- tigan's London success, "While The Sun Shines." The group also plans to provide a radio drama team to entertain Canadians on the RCAF's closed radio circuit. They operate out of a wartime building redesigned 'by FO. Bill Morgan of Ottawa and Vancouver to serve as a base theatre. SEEK END POLLUTION KITCHENER (CP--A resolution asking the Ontario health depart- ment to start a crackdown on society and are planning to pro- duce both stage and radio dramas. municipalities responsible for pol- luting the Grand river will be put before a general meeting of the Grand river conservation authority here Wednesday. If approved, it may mean the spending of $6,000,- 000 to clean up the river during the next three years. From Blazing WOODSTOCK, Ont. (CP) -- A mother threw her two children from a second-storey window to neighbors standing below early Sunday when fire broke out in the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Wright ere. Mrs, Wright, roused by her sis- ter, Marion Wilson, 15, when the fire broke out ran to the room where her children, Lary, 2, and 'Patti, 3, were sleeping. She picked them up and dropped them out of THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE, Monday, Pooembeg 0, ney Mother Rescues Two Home the window to meighbors and thea jumped herself. s Wilson suffered leg burns in the blaze, believed caused when a clothes line on the first floor near a stove caught fire. The others were 4 Mr. Wright had left shortly he- fore the fire to return to the RCAF base at Calgary where he is sta- tioned. Damage, confined to the first floor, was described as extensive. Jets, Helicopters, WASHINGTON -- In 25 years, perhaps sooner, an airlines passen- ger will leave New York by jet at noon and arrive in Los Angeles -- also at noon. His plane will be flown by robot electronic brains. On arrival, a multiengined helicopter will take him to a downtown heliport. United States aviation, fifty years after Kitty Hawk, is about to enter this era, Emory S. Land, president of the Air Transport Association of America, writes in the De- cember National Magazine. He predicts such a trip and gives details. Today's scientific progress in the air foresees much more radical de- velopments passengers and freight traveling "several thousand miles per hour -- Hugh L. Dry- den, director of the National Ad- visory Committee for Aeronautics, says in the same issue. FIRST U.S. JETLINER SOON Vice Admiral Land and Dr. Dry- den both are trustees of the Na- tional Geographic Society. Their articles are a timely commemora- tive of aviation's advance since the Wright brothers' first powered flight on December 17, 1903. "I believe 1956 will see a jet transport introduced in domestic operation and another placed in service by a United States trans- atlantic carrier," Admiral Land writes. He adds that Boeing will Jiohably test-fly a jet transport in "In 10 to 15 years jetliners of American manufacture may re- place most piston-driven aircraft on transcontinental routes . and big multiengined 50-passenger heli- copters will replace fixed-wing air- craft on many routes of less than 300 miles." Electronic advances in the last five years have made jet operation feasible, the ATA president reports. One airline already dispatches hy- Geographic, Robots Mark Aviation's 50th Birthday pothetical "Paper Jets' cross-coun- i Say as training for real jet Helicopters will be an pare of a billion-dollar air t to built in the next ten years. Midcity heliports are now be planned. Completely automatic flight is a "distinct probability' in aviation's second half century, Admiral Land predicts. Electronic brains will take airliners off, fly them to their des- tinations, and land them safely and smoothly. Human pilots will ride only as monitors for the robots. FROM SUPERSONICS TO THE MOON Dr. Dryden cites the amazing speed records of recent months, which have now surpassed twice sound's speed, as evidence of the growing store of aeronautical know- ledge. NACA guided missiles have already traveled over four times the speed of sound, he reveals. Wind tunnels are under . con- | struction capable of more than 3,000 | mph. Fantastic shapes of the planes | of tomorrow are shown in spectadu- |1ar color photographs by Luis: Mar- dott of the National Geographie staff. "Achievements up to now have stimulated the thoughts of men of. vision to much more radical de- velopments, beginning with trans- port of passengers and freight long distances of speeds of several thou- sand miles per hour," Dr Drydes concludes. "I am reasonably sure that travel to the moon will not occur during {my lifetime, but I am sure that | the technical problems are solvable with a large but finite amount of manpower and money. § "Experiment and more experi- ment, unanticipated scientific de- velopments in apparently unrelated fields, ad probably the loss of many human lives in h pioneer flights will be requisite te attainment of this goal." TORONTO (CP)--United Co-Op- | eratives of Ontario did a $51,377, | 561 business in the year ended | Sept. 30, Hugh Bailey of Dundalk, general Jnanager, said Wednesday. He was outlining the year's de- velopments to the group's annual meeting. The organization com- prises 156 local co-ops with 60,000 members, This year's total was a decrease of $5,987,308 from last year's. The volume of the dairy and poultry marketing division was $7,843,620, representing 15 per cent of the over-all business, about the same as last year. Co-operative's Business Goes Over 51 Millions The farm supplies section rose fo a new high of $18,395 496, repre- senting 36 per cent of over-all vel- ume. This was an increase of $976,390, or 5.6 per cent over last year. The livestock division volume $25,138,444 was down $6,901, from last year. Net earnings from - operations were $375,493. Current assets as related to current liabilities were 1.58 to 1, an improvement over last year's ratio of 1.34 to 1. Mr. Bailey said a new centnal warehouse, providing 26,000 square feet of floor space, is nearly, com- pleted at Weston. Know How Letter Reached England LONDON (Reuters) -- The Sun- day Chronicle said Sunday secur- ity authorities have traced the man who mailed a letter in south- east London last Monday on be- half of Guy Burgess, the missing British diplomat. The letter was a Christmas greeting from Burgess to his mother, Mrs. J. R. Bassett. It was the first news of him since he fisappeared in May, 1951, with his foreign office colleague Donald Maclean. : The Sunday Chronicle said M.I'S, Britain's security or g a ni zation, knows a top British Communist just back from Czechoslovakia brought the letter into England 'and mailed it in southeast London. He has committed no offence and can- not be prosecuted. INJURIES FATAL TORONTO (CP)--John Francis McNeilly, 5%, struck by an auto- mobile while returning from school last Monday, died Saturday night. SALLY'S SALLIES CHURCH DAMAGED PETERBOROUGH (CP) -- Fire | damaged the Church of the Im- | maculate Conception. Two men ! praying in the Roman Catholic | church heard an explosion in the basement. They opehed a door and flames shot out. The fire burned through a small section of the altar | before firemen wearing oxygen masks extinguished it. By JOHN LeBLANC Canadian Press Staff Writer TIMMINS, Ont. (CP)--Canada's | biggest union has been running the 'ministration are distinct. Strategic moves here are directed by Leo (Buck) Behie and at Rouyn-Nor- {anda across the Quebec border by most highly organized strike in the | Pat Burke, area supervisors for Nood, bears the following inscrip- (the Guelph school and at Rock- jon: JAMES JEROME HILL three years in Pasmore's store Pioneer railway promoter .and | Which stood just beside the present | country's history in the hardrock | Quebec. | Now the first break in the long the PJSWA. wood Academy, then worked for mining areas of northern Ontario- QPERATIONS COMPLEX The administration here, where | |the union has the much bigger + : Ul ited < | Af - builder in Canada and the United United Church. He worked a furth- ' dispute has come with the settle | establishment, is a complexity of States, born near Guelph, 16th er year in Guelph, and then went September, 1838. Died in St. Paul, west, where he began his spec- Minn.. 29th May. 1916. |tacular career. RECALLS EARLY DAYS | QUAKER DISTRICT Frank F. Day, of Rockwood, the Mrs. Clara Hill Lindley, Hill's former postmaster, is authority for | daughter, some years ago worte a the statement that the great rail- [little book about her parents, which 'yvav builder was born on lot 6, was published by her husband after ~oncession 7, of Eramosa, a pro- [her death. In this she tells how yertw that had been taken up by Graham Hill, an uncle of her fath- his grandfather when he came to er, came to Eramosa Township Canada in 1829. Mr. Day says that [and secured land "in a Quaker he was told this more than forty | settlement called Brotherstown, lat- vears ago by Alex Burns, then er Rockwood." In 1829 other mem- about 70, who had lived all his life | bers of the Hill family cam: to ithi abont a mile of the site and the locality and secured a deed /hese wife vas a relative of the [to 200 acres of land. James !Hil A LE | the father of James J. Hill, and Mr. Day says further that James | the grandfather of Mrs. Lindley, J. Hill was born on the extreme |died in 1852 and left the farm to south corner of the east half of his son, James. The property was lot 6, on what is known as No. § sold in 1860. Mrs. Lindley evident- ment, pending union membership | acceptance, of the strike in Hol- {linger Consolidated Gold Mines at | Timmins. | The strike operation of the United Steelworkers of America (CIO- |{CCL) has been a combination of big business, government-type ad- | ministration and military discipline {among about 7,200 gold and base- { metal workers. | Since the series of about a dozen | walkouts 'got into full swing, the union has been spending strike {funds at the rate of $6,000,000 a year -- more than the combined municipal budgets of all the com- munities in the big mining camp-- and has worked out a 26-depart- | ment setup to take care of all the angles. trike strategy and strike ad- | operations run by Howard Conquer- | good of Toronto, a steel union man who has heen on loan to the Can- adian Congress of Labor as its di- rector of education. He supervises the work of 3,800 of the strikers, whom the union keeps busy on a five-day 40-hour week at a multiplicity of jobs. Biggest single group consists of the pickets, 1,200 of whom patrol the gates of eight gold mines scat- tered over 65 miles in this Por- cupine camp. Between 60 and 70 are employed issuing the 10.000 strike-welfare vouchers that go out weekly. An- | these food orders. A morale department of 200 per- 'sons and a personal - problems I |branch of 60 deal with various household and individual troubles of the strikers. ' ORDER MAINTAINED A 'special detail" of 250 men | | patrols dances and taverns to keep | | good order among USWA members. | A transportation department of | 400 men runs 400 cars and trucks, | mostly owned by strikers. Twenty | mechanics in the union's garage keep the cars in repair, and the | USWA also has bought its own fill- |ing station since the strikes start. |o eht kyiolpmesnc a3ndé0 Two kitchens employ 300 and | serve 7,500 free meals a day to those on strike duty. Two logging | camps operate in the woods 3 miles from here, where around 100 men cut some 1,700 cords of birch weekly. Strikers buy it at the cost Union Spending Half I'lillion Every Month In Strike Area price of $2.50. a cord--Iless than half the commercial price -- with: the union extending them credit. The womenfolk operate a cloth- | at about a third of store prices. ling exchange, where new and {on the vouchers. | A | wring other 50 send out cheques to cover /made-over clothes can be obtained by next summer," think we'll be in the co-operative toy shop has been manufact- housing business by then, with our hundreds of toys for the 5,213 own architects." il kids under 13 getting Christmas | 0Xes. HALLS KEPT CLEAN | Miscellaneous activities include two barber shops, where free hair- cuts are provided by eight barbers; a shoe repair shop, a sign paint- ing branch, an inventory depart- ment and a sanitation department of 60 men to keep the halls, of- fices and picket lines cleaned up. An expeditier steps up any lagging workmen, Forty persons turn out 8,000 daily copies of a 10-12 page mim- eographed strike bulletin, which has its own artist. A staff of four strike historians records all this and other activities | for union posterity. | Conquergood doesn't think many of the departments will be kept up after the strike, though he says the union may continue the toy manufacture, which has been turn- ing out commercial quality articles "But if the strike is still running he adds, |* Cope. 9953, Kimg "Nothing but a heel could have made those marks -- my hus' band, of course!" ALL ADVERTISEMENTS SUBJECT TO FOLLOWING CONDITIONS The Times-Gazette Publi s Limited s of The Daily Times-Gazette, : reserves the right to restrict all ads to or reject any copy. 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