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c i €5. OJt A # mt tii hnd 86 ak d j The Financial Post Saysâ€"â€" 6 RC T T ness methodk. Labour of every kind is getting a break from busiâ€" ness and industry â€" why the Roldâ€"Back im the teaching profesâ€" sion ? It is surprising to go over the lists of business and political leaders and find out how many were at one time teachers. Yet many of them are the Rardest to convince that the educaitional system must advance the advancement of science and busiâ€" ness methods. Labour of evergy kind is getting a break from busiâ€" "Direct and official contact betweer teachers and board memâ€" bers on salary matters will eliminate much of the misunderâ€" standing associated wwa Msfi!flm lobbying by teachers‘ reâ€" presentatives," says ul "All salary and other diffiâ€" culties may be ou olbéz' rélations between teachers and school boardk." Pushing Seaway Projectâ€"The Fedâ€" eral Government is bringing all pos« sible pressure to bear to nave Lawrence Power and Seaway Develi opment undertaken immediately. as an urgent defense project, states a Financial Post report from The reâ€"elecion of the Trumam adâ€" New Board â€" Ne w technique in ministration in the United States has manufacture of continuous lengths of smoothed he pathway toward‘ thiy goal. hard artificial board has been evolved Mr. Truman ‘came out emphatically By UK. firm, reports The Financial during his campaign in favor of "all Post in its ‘"‘What‘s New column." New or nothing" on the St. Lawrence. WHe mathing swid to cut production: cost wants it developed. as a combint less than oneâ€"third of average price. waterway and power development, orf Proctessing is a automatic; sawâ€" not at all. dust and mm into end of ma. This attitude colnsidesâ€" with that of dhine whic® mixes it in hopper, passes the Canadian @oÂ¥ernment: it undeÂ¥ heat by radio waves, a con< wouldn‘t go as fir as Mr. Trungn; wag fluow m of hurd board emergâ€" it pins hmhmfiO%? “fiwifle Board can ject being agreed to byâ€" th# ith printed deâ€" States witHin the next six months. sgn‘. Wfis m*d’ in man» other ~The° communists yap about the common man, surely he isn‘t that stupid and common that he would do the thmgs that they propose, and have done. It is our belief that. the common man, soâ€"called, will lift himself, .through democracy to something higher than mere existencte on which the communists place so much emphasis, yet for whith slgow *8o llptle concern in their country. Let‘s not hear about that D.P: again, eh fellows? Few parents want inferior cbnditions for training their children. They know that in the century there is definitely a relationship between quality and cost. If they want first rake school buildings and ?%mpmmfl they cannot purchase them at thirdâ€"rate prices; ey want pMesslonai instructors they cannot expect t ohi#e them at the rate ofâ€"untrained personnel. If they want individual considératiom g t v en their own pPartâ€" icular child, they cannot GW it m crowded classrooms from teachers who are givenr nofres time for contemplation or thought atkout goals beyon‘d the immediate one of the lesson. The Teacher‘s Federation urges that teachers and school boards get together to: assure ‘~dhildren of the community of the best. possible education. 6 Another point which she raised is the matter of tolerance toâ€" ward secondary schoo! teachers. "If people wish: understanding and tolerance for their chfldren why don‘t they give it to those who instruct their children?" She says: It is a moot point. It is one which has been discussed: many times and one which should be so apparent that it doesn‘t require much discussion. ties Toachefs we are told, ave human Then if they are human like the rest of us, then they Wo\xid like to treated as humans. Miss Eilleem: McGonigle, Ontario. Secondary School Teachers‘ Federation president, has urged closer relations between teachers and school boards as the first â€"step in eliminating salary difficulâ€" This matter of wages whwa Miss McGonigle brings up is an important one. These are the brave men. who booed out so loudly when Proâ€" fessor Watson Kirkonell was in town, knowing that they wouldn‘t be repremanded because they were a minority group. But we can be pushed around too much by minority groups. The Communists have shown us that. We don‘t wish to curtail them too much for fear that in doingz so we make it more difficult for other minority groups which arc ttying hard to be good citizens. Canada $2.00 Per Year United States: $3.00 Per Year Authorized as Aaes aatter uy me Pu:? Ofice Department, Ottawa The Communists, mCt being intérested in the result«â€"of their petition to the town eom\al the "forty raving, obnoxâ€" lous" DP‘s didn‘t attend the mesting. Instead they chose to send one ummmmm station with a script reviling this paper foy attitude about the matter. This editor was in the Kation at the time of the "call for help" from the UKkraman at 20 Mountioy Street. He heard the report of the police ovey theig twoâ€"way radio and that report is in the police recorw@ today or any day which the Communists wish to check :t, or any interssted citikem for that matter. And if that report makes mentionm of forty persons creating a disturbâ€" ance we will print a retraction im 46 point type (large heading type) on our front page. The whole matter was ridiculous and the communists know it. It was thoughit to Be M*Mpmnma But it backfired and they don‘t like 1t. "The Volee of the BusW" program had the wife of Henry Meyer spouling propgganda instead of Henry who was busy nominating the stooges for council that night. Mrs. Meyer said that the Porcupine Advancs was Paciting lawlessness. Bosh! \ _The Mountjoy Hall nas the same recourse to poli¢ce protection in this town as that of any other public Building. All they have to do when there is a fracas is to call the police and the police respond very quickly. % U s t Su mb ~ uh pore mA on o #°~ # o4 Ks The police wers very agile the night of November l4th and their report was given very soon dfter they arrived. Perhaps to the neurotic communists gathersd@ at the building one man proâ€" testing in a loud voice and using "obnoxious language" became as 40 men. The imaginationy of the communist has showinr won â€" derful resilience and stretening powsys in the past and we will no doubt hear much in the «e no doubt hear muck iw» fhe 8 But for people who have sworm to ovrethrow country by ploody revolution if they must, and whose members have talked of "blood flowing in the streets," they are very easily frightened What must their fellow travellers think of them? The big brave men who have been known in this town to intimidate war weary men and woniéen from Europe. They have also been known to crowd people off the sidewalks of this town and to knock down one crippled man.‘ Yes, we have the %mes and the cirecumâ€" stances. We nave only this to say on the mattes. The whole thing from every angle had the a’pm 6f a plot to discredit the D.P.‘s of this area and to fain for s Communists at a time when their stock is very i PHONE 20 TiMMIXs, ONTARIO Members Canadtan Weekly Newspaper Associhtio®; Ontarioâ€"Quebec Newspaper Association Published every Thursday by Merton W,. Lake Subscription Rates: Timmins, Ontgrig, Thursday, December 9th, 1948 Ebhe PBorcupine Adbance Teachers Ask For Folerance Imaginatfon Is Wonderful given th@ very highast priority in Canadian Government thinkng, as an urgent defense project. One of the key points in this arguâ€" ment is the development of the Labâ€" radorâ€"Quebec iron ore deposits. Such an at‘ack, Mr. Gardner asâ€" serted, was a challenge to all Canaâ€" dians, it placed a particular responâ€" sibility on business men. "I hold no brief," he said, "for any concern that in this davy and age operates without regard to the public interest." Gocd business practice was the first essenâ€" tial, and, to achieve more effective public realtions, business had to tell its story more completely and in terms more readily understood by the man in the street, he asid. in this country some form of selective sccnomic dictatorship that will apply to others but leave him unscathed. The experience, of other countries makes it perféctly clear that once regimentation is established, no interâ€" est or class in the community can escape its toils." MONTREALâ€"B. C. Gardner, presiâ€" dent of the Bank cf Monteral, told shareholders at the 31st annual meetâ€" ing this week that doctrinaire socialâ€" ism was attacking the moral and economic foundations of the nation. No Canadian, he stressed," can hope "that it will be possible to establish There were a number nominated for the six seats in council, and eight of them qualified, but three of them ng‘sted on withdrawing so that the new town would not have election costs added to its other expenses. These withdrawals left only five men qualified for the council, and so anâ€" other nomination had to be called to fill the vacancy. In any event, the town saved the cost of an election, and still secured the ‘services of excellent men. After the nominations here, the people were able to relax, and get ready to put off their Christmas shopping until a day or two before Christmas, that being a feature of life in Timmins in the early days. gln Che Days TUhben The porcupine MJoung The first five counc‘l boards in Timâ€" mins were elected by acclamation, the first mayor, W. H. Wilson, being mayor for five consecutive years. Mayor Wilson withdrew at the end of 1916, bu the acclamation idea stm held here J. P. McLaughlin, pioneex merchant of the North, being elected mayor by acclamation. Dr. J. A. Mcâ€" Innis had been nominated, but withâ€" arew to save the town the expense ard disturbance of an election. The 1917 Timmins council included: J. P. McLaughlin, mayor, and Counâ€" cillors A. R. Globe, Dr. H. H. Moore, C. G. Williams, A l n e r t Barzeau, Charlés Pierce and Dr. McInnis. The outstanding work of "this council, under all sorts of disadvantages and difficulties unknown today, seemed to warrant the good judgment of the ratepayers in following this acclamaâ€" ‘tion plan. It is a fact beyond dispute that under the®acclamation plan men of ou‘standing ability and public smimwrit were often fosund on the oldâ€" time council boards. + a® ate ctrale ate ats ate ate afe ats a¢n dn atn afs ats atn es ate ath ate ate afeate afe ote ie ate aie ie Times change! Or, perhaps, they Jvs©‘ move to different pl.aces! In the early days of the Porcupine it was the rule :o have municipai eléctions by ac>lamation in Timmins, while in the neighbouring township of Tisdale there was no such atmosâ€" phere cf pease, joy, harmony and coâ€" cvuerat.on, not around election time. In more recent years, Tisdale has managed to gst away from the oldâ€" time election turmoil, and has inâ€" deed, on occeasicn, shown a good exâ€" ample to Timmins. the wavy of eleg@tion excitement. Alm:ist invariably in T:sdale those aavys there were "sla‘es" in the muniâ€" cipal elect‘ons and it was fun to hear* each slate desgribe the ~other as blacker than biack. There was always danger of, fistieulfts at the election mectings, vet, strange to say, despite ail the heat, no real flre seemed to kindeld. In the election for the 1947 Tisdale there were two. candidates for the reeveship, and the â€" candiâ€" dGate for the four seats on: the council Even this, however, Jid not .upset the acclamation â€" tradition, for the cnly candidate to qualify at the secâ€" gnd nomination was Dr. J. A. Meâ€" Innis, who was accordingly el°cted by acclamation. Socialism Attacks Economie Basis Says B of M Pres. The people of Tisdale ~may have lcoked after their Christmas shopping earlier than in Timmins, but they ctrtainly had lots of distractions in RusQusta # # w# ## # # #* # # w # ® # ## *# *# # ## \ 4°;‘"; t "Ard now, laÂ¥lics â€" !usy drop a mrpooMul in your dishpan c=i PRESTO ... !!" ; No. 79. _ Oldâ€"Fime Electtons in the Pbreupime Releaesed ty Hew .k‘;:htcrprtm‘ + THE PORCUPINE ADVANCE, TIMMINS, ONTARIO This point, the speaker continued, took on added in that exâ€" isting levels of taxation had a direct ana adverse effect on the saving capaâ€" <ity of the public, particularly that portion of the community which might be régarded as a substantia! source of venture capital. The president reforred to the posâ€" sibility of using a flexible rate of inâ€" Af.er expressing his approval of the Government‘s policy of operating at a substantial fiscal= surplus, Mr. Gardner questicned whether‘ sufficient attention was being‘ paid to the conâ€" trol of expendilure. Governing bodi¢s might well be expected ‘to give a lead in the elimination . from: the public pudgset of all but absoluteély necessary cutlays." WEAPONS AGAINST INFLATION Chief corrective> to the present "wide disparity between the supply if money and the tihngs that money buys,‘~~Mr. Gardner s.ated, was inâ€" creased productivity, which in turn Jepended ultimately upon more rapid technical advance. There has been a 2com in capital expenditure on new plant and equipment in Canada durâ€" ing the past two years, ah encouragâ€" this expansion had not been matched oy an offsetting increase in saving. The result was compéeting demand for <apital and consumer goods and aA :trong impsatus to the upward sp‘ral of prices and costs. terest both to stimulatée saving and to wtard the rate of capital outlay. The ‘poilcy of easy money had been deâ€" vcloped in a period of deflation and unemployment, and he felt that there would be a definite advantage in inâ€" troducing a~furthér element of flexiâ€" bility into the interest rate structure. Further, he said, it was highly deâ€" sirable that an increased porportion or corporate financing should be done in equity form than through the issue of additional debt. GENERAL MANAGER‘S ADDRESS Gordon R. Ball, general manager, renorted that the bank‘s assets stood In the election for the 1947 Tisdale council, there were two. candidates for the reeveship, and the ten candiâ€" date for the fcour seats on the council téard were eithér on the E. G. Dickâ€" con slate, om on that of the otherf canâ€" â€"~Sylvester Kennedy. Both tlates held their own ineetings where tewnship affairs were thrashed out, xith some of ‘the candidatEés acting as if thevâ€"were ready to thrash or be thrached. To add to the interest, there were a couple of joint meetings, where the excitoment was evein more blisterâ€" ing. The public meetings Reld at Moneta, Schumacher ang South Porâ€" cupine, were excellent entertainment, with considera‘b‘!c sound information on the side. _ The late Sylvester Kennedy was a born. orator, with a ready Irish wit, a keen grasp of publics affairs, and undoubted public=spirit. He and his slate were visitors in‘ the fray, though he had a battle, rgyal on his hands, and had he beenya less able man the result might have been different. While there excitement and demonstration"‘ during that elecâ€" tion, all this was ‘mild and calm comâ€" paured to the ‘doings at South Porcuâ€" pine on election‘night when the res turns were in and known. There was a general celebration at South Porcuâ€" pine, such as South Porcupine knows how" to put on =upon short notice. Tnere were speeches, and other moise, and, of, course, there was a parade. There usual at such events, except.illâ€"will or other objecâ€" tionable ugliness. One of the proofs of.this was the fact that often when the crowds hunmrted up the newlyâ€", There was no raido in those days, but every other form of publicity was used by the candidates, There were big and little advertisements in The Porcupine Advance, slashings of cards and dodgers letters and circulars, and whatâ€"haveâ€"you. There is this to be said for that conâ€" test, . that thef'} o had the fullest opportunity te ar botlh sides and to weigh the questions with all the facts before them. ‘None of the candiâ€" dates filunket anvy of the issues. Everything wa‘s open‘ and above board. There mayv be" sométhing in the arguâ€" ment that it wasw.all worth the price ¢f an elections; s By G. A. Macdonald Hunt as the bank‘s offices in the United States Mr. Ball said, "This wasâ€" a most inspiring experience. . . I cannot steak too highly of the fme spirit of leamwork, enthusiagm and devotion of which I found evidence on all sides." Bartleman has a patch of land right in the heart of the town which he is nolding so that pride will go up and impeding the progress of the town. Do you think Mr, Editor, that this is the act of one who wishes to serve the community? How is it that Jimmy Bartleman says that he can lower the tax rate to 60 mills "by hook or crook" and lower the assessment too? Jimmy Barâ€" tleman may be an experienced counâ€" cillor and may have been mayor at one time but if he can do that little job he is a magician. Wasn‘t it dear Jimmy who w a n t e d to sue the town some years ago over assessment and who complained about the assessâ€" ment of land in certain areas of the town under the new zoning byâ€"law? Further, he said, it was highly deâ€" sirable that an increased porportion or corporate financing should be done in equity form than through the issue of additional debt. Gordon R. Ball, general manager, reported that the bank‘s assets stood at $1,991,000,000, total deposits at $1,877,000,000, both at the highest level in the B‘ of M‘s history. The volume of banking transactions had continuâ€" eti‘ to expand througnout the year; special services of the war and early postâ€"war years had been replaced by the larger volume of more _ normal banking business. The staff of the Bank of Montreal now numbered 9,300. Referring to journeys he had made across the conâ€" tinent, in the ccurse of which he visited 135 brancehs in Canada as well The 1917. Tisdale council as elected in that stirring elestion, comprised: Sylvester Kennedy, weve and Counâ€" cillors J. T. Easton" (who héaded the poli, receiving amost as many votes as the elected rge\'(!) J. Es Boyle, D. Mackie and D. Mfibbugall * t The result of. the â€"election seemed qvite decisive, and «everyone séttled downâ€"for the year. But someone raised some technicality about the election of J.~T. Raston> andshe promptly reâ€" signed. Nominations being called on the seat thus vacated, and the techâ€" nivality having disappeared, J. T. Faston was nominated again, and as soon as he qualified eh was elected again by acclamation. This might be used as another argument for acclaâ€" mations, as this councillor made as gcod a councillor after he was elected by acclamation, as she would have done as the leading mMan at the polls. It is interesting to récall that while one of the candidates was claimed by one of the slates, he did not appeal himself to the eelctors on that ground. Instead, D; Mackie‘s election platform was against indifference on the part of the electors to municipal, affairs, and carelessness on the part of counâ€" cils to municipal management. He stood on this same platform all the ‘ime he was in the township council, and he was on the township council he moved to Timmins. elected Teeve to cheer him, they found him fraternizing with his opâ€" ponent, both winnersand loser in the ecantest ‘being ~bDig mm in more ways than physically On the other hand, it can not be calimed that a good council can not be elected at the polis, for the 1917 Tisdale council proved a goo done the members being reâ€"elected on more than one occasion, though never by acclamation. In later years, Tisdale had more than one election contest that put the 1916â€"1917 one in the shade for liveliâ€" ness and excitement but it is doubtâ€" ful if it has had one with more real interest and enthusiasm, and less afrermath of illâ€"will. Today, it can be remembered withâ€" out bitterness, as a form of entertainâ€" ment for the public at large, with tiie added advantage that the contestâ€" ants were earnest and sincere enough to make the ratepayvers imbibe conâ€" siderable _ practicable _ information about their own municipal affairs. . Probably, with the exception of those intimately concerned ~in the battle, none remember any of the issues that were made so muc’h at, the time, But now all} should. agree . taht "a good time was had by all," vith no il} afterâ€"effects. + Dear Sir Letters to the Editor w# w # w# ## * tustuaSeate â€" THI® movie colony had the nvestigation jitters" rfit exactly a year ago when its producers, wriers and\M@tors were hysterkcal over Congressional prcbes of its politics There‘s more Nysteria today. But not over politics. This town has "job jitters" almost to the point of panik. It‘s getting tougher to make hardâ€" dollars out of mushy makeâ€"beiieve. The It‘s getting tougher to make hardâ€"dollars out of mushy makeâ€"beiieve. 1nNC brutal fac‘s are that the people on a thousand Main Streets and Broadways just aren‘t flocking to see the multiâ€"million ddllar sad sack film spectaci¢sâ€" and, according to a survey I‘ve just made .alongâ€"with leaders of the movie unions, Hollywood is at its ebb in decades, We §¥ c Â¥ us My favorite movie union official and I toured. the studio sound _ sector and found only three lots with any substantfil movie makingâ€"Paraâ€" mount, MGM and Twentieth Centuryâ€"Fox. Judging from sentiment on other lots, there isn‘t much hope for immediate recovery of this mul‘iâ€"billionâ€"dollar amusement industry. oh. itc i fls EPPE Lt sb Lad hoi n EoE mE Over at the Warnér Bros. vast studio, where 28 featured films were proâ€" duced this past year, plans, as near ay can be learned call for only ten feaâ€" ture pictures. At mo which has done little in the past few months, they are shooting ons small pix now and haven‘t had more than two rolling at a time since Howard hes took over. Refther T nor friends could find any indication of scheduled heavy camera work there in the early part of ‘49 . Sam Goldwyn is turning out more brilliant additions to our languanre more than he is films â€" and he neéedn‘t get off more than one wiseâ€"crack, for he‘s closed down. i i nA z "But there are two cthes imortant reasons. The box office here at home in the U. S is failing on individual pictures. It‘s true that there has not been a sharp drop in the overâ€"all box office take, but the average picture is earnâ€" ing substantially less money. In‘ order to‘ keep up the level of box office reâ€" ceipts, we need more pictures, because the theatres aren‘t able to keep a film running as long as they used to do. This, of course cuts the profits on each picture, and the investors are hesitating to throw in their money. "There‘s another factor, television, I¥‘s got the industry jittery." But despite the jitters on the job front, politicking is back to normalcey. Teh loud leftâ€"wingers of last year are quiet. They haven‘t given up trying to invade the Screen Actors and Screen Wiliters Guild but they‘ve been slapped down. They have virtually no influence here any longer, except through a handful of *produceéers. o M 1 * 1 t Fu L uk. w CX * CÂ¥ i\ Bv\ “ac-t-xvafoo;l;\;' afiutwpe;ce!-\{ _oi"tlidde”nomny working on films in the studios ate joblesg today. â€" Profits are so low producers are down to arguâ€" ing with the Screen Extras Guild over cuts in in mob scenes, The extras protest takeâ€"home pay is alkfld%" as a $1,000 a year, which makes them the worstâ€"paid of all AFL me is "The prin‘cipal reason is the decline of the fore‘gn market," he said. "As you undoubtedly know, approximately 40 percent of the movie industry in come came from the foréign market. This has been. substantially curtailed, causing a sharp drop in the gross (profit) or any picture produced» This has frightened the people who have to put up ty _8!1000;000 into a pisture. Enterprise Studio, which turned cut the heavy money loser, "Arch umph," has virtually shut completely. So have the producers over at Lion and many of the independents. . Of course, firings and layoffs are lengthening faces everywhere, and old timers who were there during the 1930â€"31 depression tell me that morale is lower now than it was evep then. What‘s done all this? Here‘s the answer I got from one of Hollywodd‘ top production experts. The Ho‘lywood Republicans (who .seem to be for Ha: and the Democriats, free of the bitfer badgering of the about their political activity in goodâ€"natured competition esd h dudbattcaticalcct 4* s hia t They tell a gag nhere t ygp i c a 1 of the pleasantries of this rivalry. Pat O‘Brien, the Democrat, ran into movie hcoofer George .Mm-hpy. the Repusâ€" lican movie leader, and asked: "How‘s your foot George?" 6 "Foot?" Murphy queried. f â€"‘""The foot you had in the White House door," Pat retorted. They both laughed and went to lunch. You can do tnat if you‘ve got the innate decency to feel that your poliâ€" rival may be just as right as you are. . CÂ¥ + 4 , 8 5 t PMAE â€" s No Eons e e Ei S l To develop their new national strategy, the Politi¢al Action Committee officials here are talking with regional CIO chiéfs from throughout the country. Then they‘ll take the best voteâ€"getting techniques used in each section, weave them toge‘ther and use them in 1950 . . . After taking the worst beating they‘ve ever had in the 30 years they have been operating in this country, proâ€"Communist CIO chiefs will meet in Detroit next weekend to decide how to exploit CIO‘ now that they‘ve managed to keep from being kicked out. Ther ewas no doubt at any time that Phil Murray singleâ€"handedly conâ€" frolled the CIO convention and personally had the votes to overirde any combingation of right or left wingers against him. The CIO has chartered hundreds of lit‘le unions ofâ€" musicians, building workers theatre employees,. bakery and biscuit makers, waste paper makers, efé. ete, Each of these has orie vote which Murray controls. Adted to the votes f#Om the regional coun. ci‘s and Phil Murray‘s own steel union, which he weontrols, he walkl into: the convention with a‘ full majority of the deleg@ present. These are the facts of life of a labor convention. And, despite all its woes, Hollywood has returned that Gecencey duu has taken the play away from the lefties. HEFARD ON T BEAT: PORTLAND: Oregon â€" FBI and Military Intelligence agents covered the maneurvering as caréfully ay any of the newsmen â€" and discovered the greatest concentration‘ of Communist union "whips" ever together in one city since the cfficial Communist Party conventions. tsld d PC CCaS ‘\‘1[\"\ Those comrades, who think they‘ve beem operating seécretly, ~â€"~~e pholoâ€" graphed and‘ rephotographed‘ several times as they spoke at the floor microâ€" phones or sat sulking at their tables. They should have known that no regulâ€" are newnpicture hawk would waote a negative or a flash bulb on them. Some of the information eathered is going right up to Army Chief of Staff Omar Bradley. £22 KAE 4 nA sAÂ¥ . n msaae s# D . # w6 oud h +s * Out of the bitter fight between the right wingéers and the proâ€"Communâ€" ists, startingly emnough comes the news that CIO has been hard hit. For exarple, Murray himself{ reviéaled that his powerful Steelworkers are ope.utingâ€"at a loss kecauvuse they had to pay out $1,000,000 last year to keep other CIO onutfits alive. The UE reports that because radios, washineâ€"maâ€" chines. vacuum cleaners etc. etc. are not selling at loeast 80.000 of their memibers aré jobless or just picking up a few dollars working part time. The catire raucous; swaggering proâ€"Communist crowd in CIO, excevt for thne UE aud the Fur Workers, have only 82,000 members according to Phil Murray himself, which means th@t the CIO‘s membership must be down to about £,000,000 or a little less. What‘s happened? Rollicking. Mike‘ Quill, who is purging the Communists from his strategic ‘Transport union, which the leftists infiltrated so they could cripple big cities at strategic moments, is preparing right down to the most minute detail for his convention nekt week. In line with this, he startled some of us at the CIO convention by walking in sunburned despite endless Portland rain. I asked him if he had just flown in from Hollywood or Florida. He grinned and said in his brogue: "No, Victor, those Commies would think they‘ve got me on the run if I walked in here palefaced. So I got me a sunâ€"lamp at a gymnasium here just to make the leftists think F can.beat them and still Eo T â€"_For the next two mOdpfi‘s;-ri'l‘ Murray wants to see avchap by name of Presiâ€" dent Harry Truman, all the GIO leader need do‘ is to shout across his own back yard. Rear of the Blair Hotse, the President‘s tempsrary residence while the White House is being reépaired, is separated only by the width of a small alley from‘ the back of the @IO‘s headquarters in Washington,. . . Still the best showmnan and pormoter in labor circles is Jimmy Petrillo (you haven‘t lived if you‘ haven‘t heard Him tell of his ad\fequres as a park somâ€" missioner in the Chicago z6:) Hiy musicians union has gained 53.00 member‘s in‘ the past year, mcore than any of the AFL outfits picked up. Kithough the proâ€"Commi®@ unions Rave virtually no membership in the US. proper, they have spent Mg dough unionizing the fish canneries that ring A"lhflp’s’_sfiat?e waterfront,, sugar refineries in Hawail‘s key defense areas, and 17,000‘ Panama Canal #ime workers, How come? have time to spend hours in the open." LibOr pet)ple nere t!ll' me thnt‘ gov. Dewey beat them in this state because he came here, got dusty o fltflé rural roads, stood out in the rain, mixed with the‘ farmers, rode with leaders to examine the vital dams in the area and fought it out on specific issues. They point ou t that Oregon is one of the few‘ states of its Ki ‘Gov' Dpewey carried and they believe that he made/ the same «ind‘ of flkh y. campaign elsewhere that he did here, he would have won! . . Incidentlly the labor crowd and the Democratic Party nere are feuding. Hollywood Republicans, among them members »Af. the Screen Actors Guild, and some of the California labor people who ecampaigned for Dewey and Wiarern now are taking of organizing for ld Btassen in 1952 . . . Powerful California unions have begun to buy an te radio s‘ atlom The AFL Ladies Garment workers and the now broadcasting over their own facilities. . . Next month Reuther‘s . lio station hits the airwaves in Detroit. Incidentally. only one of eve ne auto union memâ€" bers cared enough about the election to give a dollar bill to Reuther‘s Poli= tical Action Committee in 1948; Walter Reuther now has two bodyguards, supplied by his Auto union, with him all the time. Also a trained: nurse to handle his wounded arm. . .Beâ€" cause the CIO refused to be brushed ¢ff as was the AFL parley in Cincinâ€" nati, President Truman had to send official thanks to its conference here, However he promised CIQ leaders nothing either on or off the record. e o5 CR NAE If ou}ght to be remembered for a long time that the delegates from the notorious CIO Electri¢cal Workers (UE) sat silently while other delezates cheered Phil Murray when he said: ‘"This country is still the best in the wolfi’l'do’,,‘ T. ‘ "“ '. "." .... 6 Â¥% ~al Inside Labour by Victor Riesel C 12 > ie in Hollywood has returned that political decency and cut the heavy money loser, "Arch of Triâ€" THURSDAY. DECEXMBER 9th, 1948 I toured the studio sound stnge to ‘be for Harold Stassen in ‘52) sering of the Commies, are going Bagleâ€"