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Newspaper Association vvvv h Â¥ leveling off and perhaps a rise in prosperity. .‘ In spite of handicaps imposed by high lakour costs and material costs, the leaders in the gold mining industry have again proven their virility and courage by establishing a production record of $59,096,689 for the first ten months of the year 1948 as compared with $55,913,659 for the corresponding period of 1947...._There are indications that inflationary cycle is spending itself, and that costs are. temporarily stabilized, and that any further price movement will be pointed downward. _/ ‘The world‘s urgency to buy gold is indicated in this schedule of current prices: Triesteâ€"â€"bars at $60 an ounce, coins at $63 an ounce; ?@irqâ€"-}wl'an ounce to $63; Bombayâ€"â€"$86 to $88; Capatown and ohannesburgâ€"â€"Free gold price above $64; Paris=â€"$59 to $60; New Yifigxfk'._(unreflned gold) $42 to $43; Méexicoâ€"â€"$53; Peruâ€"â€"$55; Buenos Aires~â€"â€"$6"7. , 9e ; ~The one remaining stricture is imposed by the international Monetary Fund, whose subscribers agreed not to devalue thoir curâ€" rencies by more than ten percent. This has been repeatedly violated and the next meeting of the Bank might effect drasitc changes. Pressure for the revision of gold prices is coming from every quarâ€" ter. _ Gold producers of South Africa the world s laxgest are deâ€" manding upward revision. Hearken all ye who have been paying an extra tax to the town for enroaching on the town‘s property;_ This will dp your hearts good. â€" Well, me hearties, it seems hah when the:town had the architect draw plans of the new labrAtoryâ€"building they did not tell that he had to keep to within the 80 ffixot line. A glance at the building plans show that tahe bulldlng#?ab ft 6 inches wide already and the architect has drawn the plang, With an alternative of raisâ€" gmg the building to enroach av least t,wo feet on 'r,he town pr operty p e e e ECC T ons e se _ Devaluation may ke the answer to the present log jam in the gold industry. â€" Devaluation of currencies, or better yet, a free money market, is synonomous with an increase in gold buying prices. We refer to a free market for money and not necessarily for gold alâ€" though this is not a remote possibility: "Truman also recommended that action beâ€"taken by the Congres3 tq-'avpprove the St. Lawrence seaway and power project which will in turn boost cement and other building material stocks. D 8 ol UAIS NRAUCUTE. 8 *4 8 m @ > : Another little item that may or may not interest the taxpayels of Timmins is the fact that the tovgn uncil asked the architect to draw plans for the laboratory an ‘t suggestâ€"a.price for the darn thing.: Too, lots wereâ€"submitted to the departnient of health for choosing but nothing waaj;,ehmd atout the lot behind the firehall which would be a natural cholee for such a building. â€" Now they don‘t know whether the plans call for a $29,500 buildâ€" ing â€" all thats ieft in the piggy bank or a $50,000 building. gxg the building to enroach at least two feet on the town property. Several business houses in town navg "been checked up by the town fathers because their buildmgs have enroached as much as an inch over the lot lines. Just because the town is buildmg the bullding and paying for it does not mean that they can enroach on municipal property. This may seem petty to some but it is very important to proper town This town has been talking a lot lately about building a new fireâ€" ha‘l!. Sooner or later they will have to build as the old hall is beâ€" cominsg a fire trap. _ _ That certainly was an exceptionâ€" ally fine Christmas message reproduced in your issue of Dec. 30th., by Bishcp. The Bishop is truly a big man spiritually, and so plain and easy to approach, lovable and absolutely void of pride. His meekness is a grace ¢f ~ What would be better than to build the town laboratory in that loca.tdon? Some will say that it is too far from the main hospitai building. â€"Sure it is, but what about the other location where the laboratory is across the street and won‘t be connected to the hosâ€" pital by tunnel of any sort. These are things that the taxpayers should know and we don‘t have to go to any muckraking activities to get our information. The information is right in the town hall ror all to see. «Another item to chew upon these frosty Fridays, is the fact that the town council bought the lot across from the hospital on the gorner of Cedar and Fifth for $10,500. Why did they pay that sum for the property when real estate men say that the property llnot valued at more than a fifth of that sum or about $2000. What going on at town hall? Reéead the Porcupine Advance. . .We have begun to wonder what makes this old town tick. | â€"TO THE EDITOR ada $2.00 Per Year ‘ 1 ed as second class maturby the Wwing President Truman‘s speech yesterday the goid market 1 a healthy color which has been absent for many months,, strengthened all along theâ€"line and it‘appearedâ€"as though an investors were considering goid asAhe only steady meâ€" h a fluctuating market. One of the experts says that the for this is that Truman sought authority to regulate the dity exchange speculation which has been going unchecked ‘will mean that the speculators andâ€"investors will then have ‘6other mediums {or theirAinvestments.â€"â€" Endustry will be curâ€" from ‘the rap.d rise in ~Prices and aHl Commodities wili immins, Ontario, TI Ns e ies oo v *« 824 WA 4A J A4RMiA4 + m ridx tnd nrew } wh.m list of offize does es. It has a promise trom" es %. % A Matter of Encroachment wwwm Men t 5 Bs sc t the old Covenant as well as in the new the possession of the earth is promised fto the meekâ€"St. Matthew Vâ€"5; qo Rsalim XXIIâ€"26. | Meekness is an essential feature in any~chmaracter which is to play a high part in life or to perform a true service to God and man. It is the z.k who follow »Christ the closest who adorn Hik doctrine the most who possess opinions and a Year Ottawa madem:iselle Bertin, milliner t0o Queen Marle Antoinetie, is credited w th the saying: ‘"There is nothing new, except what is forgotten!" Ii the mademolselle actually said tret then, certainly, she was not talkâ€" ing through one of her hats. Often "New" things will be found to be n more than old things in disâ€" quise. so far as Timins is concerned, comâ€" mtnism is by no means new, though its earlier days may be forgotten. The Town of Timmins was only a sixâ€"yearâ€"old youngster when it had its first attack of Russian rot. At that time the commieâ€"rats were called Bolâ€" sheviki, though, as now, they travelled under a score or more of other titles. But neither the talk nor the tactics of the Bolsheviki differed much from the tattle and the treachery of the commies of toâ€"day. _The Bolsheviki tried to infiltrate irt» the Porcupine Mings Workers‘ Unâ€" ion of that day. They scught to f_am- The nucleus ‘of the Bolsheviki in T:‘mmins was a grsup of Russians and Finns, many of them on the list of alien enemies. Some of them used British names that would not stand investigation. The police found one cf them calling himself Robinson, though he was a Sonnovitch by birth. Even a Bolshevik "Brown" had origâ€" inally borne the name of Magyersik. <nt strikes and cause other disorders. They bleated, and they blatted; they plotted, and paraded. And how they did talk! They approached the Miners‘ Union for the use of their hall, promising several hundreds of new members for tne union if the favour were granted, and threatening dire consequences for the union if the reguest were refused. In March of 1918, the Bolsheviki played the communist track of imâ€" porting men from Sudbury and other places to augment the number here. Then they planned to bring the famâ€" sus or infamous, Russian orator to town. § The great Russian orator himself adâ€" dressed the union, but left the hall in great anger, and threatening venâ€" geance because the union scorned boath prormse and threat, affirming, instead, the union‘s adherence to loyâ€" alty, law and order. So, the orator had to speak in the old Finnish hall. In Russian Finnish aind English, he pass‘onately advocated the dethrcnement of all rulers, and the taking cver of all the world by the workers. ‘"No conscriptin! No Police! No law! 1 The line between the Old Year and the New is an imaginary one. â€" We are apt to think on New Year‘s that Old Man Time pauses in his headlong pace before starting out on another journey ,or that he gives place to a bright and eager youngster who knows nothing of the past steps out into the future with a smile. The later is pretty fancy, kut it is cnly true of childhood We come into this world with a new Erain, void of all memory, and we look out unbon it with wideâ€"eyes of wonder and curicsity. Not in entire forgetfulness And nct in utter nakedness; But trailing clouds of glory do we «cocmse From God, who is our home Plato suggested that all new knowâ€" ledge is reminiscence, and it would seem that the curiosity of a child is an ‘effzrt to recall somthing it had known before. As each curiosity is satisfied, the child seems to say, "I exp‘cre futher the world in which it has fsund itself. We are all children of an older growti and n> matier how much knowledge we have acqu‘red, if we have retained our sense of wonder, there is still a vast unknown to explore. We live to learn, and if we are ctten‘ive students we should learn Low to live. We make mistakes, and we are cften frustrated, but this is gart ofi our tuition. inson. We want them and Heaven knows we need them badly. demogogue . And damn his tr:asheâ€"ous flatt2ries. . without winking! Tall men, sunâ€"crowned who live above the fog In public duty, ana in private thinking; For while the rabbie, with their thumbâ€"worn creeds, Their large professiscns and their little deeds, Mirgle in selfish stride lo! Freedon weeps, Wrong rules the land and waiting Justice sleeps."® In other words, God give us men The New Year‘s Mystery By Lewis Milligan Actino on a warr:mt charging sedâ€" itious uterances, the. orator was arâ€" reted the next day as he was boardâ€" ing the outgcing morning train. He was taken at â€"once before Mag‘strate Atkinson, who remanded the case for a week ordering the accused held without bail, as the charge was so serious a one at such a time. . At first the gathering gavo. him thundercus applause, but soon there was a reductian in the enthusiasm, and many slfpped o ut of the "hall. These timid fellows were Timmins res. idents wh> had noticed that the audâ€" icnce included Chief of Pol‘ce John Clark, Constables Greer and McIinnis and Provin:ial Ccnstable R. Allen. Chief Clark met them at :the door of the station and told them nofhing could be done w.thout the magisrate who was then in South Porcupine He advised the crowd to disperse, and seâ€" cure in legal way what they dqsiled He also advised them to keep a reasonâ€" able distance from the doorwy.« In the afternoon a mob gathered at the Finn hall, and, after parading around part of the town, assembled at the front of police statiqn, where they demanded the release of the orator. â€" Sson the Chief was joined by Conâ€" stables Greer and Salley, who: took over the doorway, and, without a word spoken, unless a ready billy talks, they kept the crowd back of the l ne inâ€" dicated by the Chief. tss a Mayor J. P. McLaughlin cafi". to the scene, boldly addressing the gM« urging them to go away like 6 izens. He reminded them of the: gcm and benefits they enjoyed n C threats to rush the buxldm. he' them that such lawlessness would mean tloodshed,. and that their blood. would be on their own heads. Those in front, lsoking at the eager expression on the faces of the policemen, agreed with the mayor on the one point. Every end is a new beginn‘n3. We measure time by cycles â€"â€" a day is one revolution of the earth, a mcnth a cycle of the moon and a year the the completion of the earth‘s orbit around the sun. We set our clocks and calendars by these cycles for our own convenience; but what we call the end of a year is an artificial measurement, for the New Year might as well begin in June as in January, so far as the cycle of the earth is concerned In the meantime a goodly number o:;: townshsip, prov .ncial and* special constables were cn hand, so all danger of an assault on the police station was over. In addition so many other ‘loyal men had been attracted to the scene, that it would nct have taken long to sectter the aliens. When Magistrate Atkinson arrived, he refused to deal with the mob, reâ€" fusing to discuss bail unt.l at * to know. :. After all our explorations into the unâ€" known we must return to our base. Baffled by the mystery of things, Job exclaimed, ‘"Whence then cometh wisâ€" dom? And where is the place of undersianding?" And he concuded: "Behold the fear (reverence)of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart form evil is understanding." That is a good moio for the New Yearâ€" not cnly for individuals but for nations, and if it were observed there would:â€" be from evil is understanding." That is world a Warless New Year! The Senate Banking Committse was worrying about the Federal Reserve Board, of all things, when it discovâ€" ered by accident that an exâ€"general turned surplus property salesman was pecddling Red Cross blood, undoubtedly includ:ns some extracted from me, on the Shanghai black imarket as a SCX tonic for Chinesc gentlemen. The dainty eater was Oscar Ewing, ihe Federal Security Administrator. He thought he had to have a private cook to prepare his lunch at the office. The chef he borrowed from St. Elizabeth‘s Hospital The Comptroller Fireplace Chimney _ _ C Throw a piece of zinc on the hot cCc ccals in your fireplace and let the w. vrising fumes do the â€"job cf cleaning ii Wooden Bowl The following week the orator was givemn preliminary hearing before the magistrate, and there was ample eviâ€" dsnce to ctmmit h‘m fsr trial at Hailâ€" eybury. The orator made a sorry exâ€" Fibition of himself in court. His Torâ€" cnto lawyer m.:re than once threatenâ€" ed to withdraw from the case if his clicnt did nct show more sense and decency. ‘That was a blow to the Bolsheviki, but w:rse was coming. The Bolsheviki had been threatenâ€" ing what would happen if their orator was not freed, but the actual proceedâ€" ings left them in a daze. ‘Three of them in the court rocm were arrested for their part in the previous week‘s disorder, and there were so many poâ€" lice around that they could do nothing atbout it. The orator was whisked away t> South Porcupine provincial jail and, again, nothing could be done abourt that. The final blow was in the fact that Dominion police were suddenly busy all over town.. Everybody in the crowd before the ccurt house was detained until they gave satisfactory account of themselves. There was similar treatâ€" ment for men coming off shift at the mine. Between 500 and 600 men were taken in charge that day, though only aliens, and those defying the Military Ac‘* were placed in jail. WASHINGTON â€" My subject today is cherry pie and a slow â€" poke messenger boy; a dainty eater and a couple of pints of my own blood; a vanishing set of ‘automobile seat covers and a family of hungry termâ€" ites; a collapsible elephant and. well, a number of things. The next week saw fourteern men convicted and punished for their part in the disorder, and for several weeks thereafter the Bolsheviki felt the force of Canadian law, though some of the ieaders, in the usual sneaky come munist way, left poor dupes to take the consequences. They all add up to the somewhat cockeyed year of 1948, as seen from my private box seat, and why my emâ€" ployers see fit to pay ime a salary for enjoying life in the capital is someâ€" thing I‘ll never quite understand. But ‘that‘s the way it is and I‘m not comâ€" p‘aining and let‘s get ahead with my anrual review: The pie, as sliced in 15â€"cent slabs in federal cafeterias, was measured with a ruler by Sen. William Langer, of N. D. who feared the government stenos were being cheated. The termites took over the White House and ran out President Truman. His new $15,000~ back porch hardâ€" ly begun to lock natural 1600 iPennâ€" sylvania Avenue, when the chandeliers began to shake and the plaster to fall within. Mr. Truman, Mrs. T. and Margaret hurriedly moved across the street. The engineers tore the brocade off the walls and discovered underâ€" neath a horrid situation. They figure it‘ll cost $1,000,CCO0 to put in new timâ€" bers and make the White House safe for human habitation. As usually happens with communist schemes, stffering was brought on many who had no part in the riot. This sufferinz ht in two ways. The Dominicn police stayed in town and made a thorough roundâ€"up of evaders of the Military Act, as well as of alien» offenders. The second hit was a bitter one for many. Following a sug. gestion by the mayor, the Government stopped all liquor sh: pments into the camp untll the trouble was all over. labor leaders. * The FBI‘s evndence now in the hands of competent Justice Dept. attorncys who keep it griimly secret, will be jammed full of labor leaders‘ testimony reâ€" vealing certain unions as part of the Soviet courier and information gathenhg apparatus in this country. f #t # One of the soonâ€"toâ€"becomeâ€"internationally prominent union men is Waltcn Reuther‘s brilliant brother, the bookishâ€"looking bespectacled ‘Victor. * He and some of America‘s top business eéecutives are working on a plan to send thousands of skilled U.S. workers to Europe as sort of ambaassadorsâ€"inâ€" overâ€"alls to teach our swift production methods to the British, French, Italians and other Marshall plan countries so they can help themselves along with, takâ€" ing our money This plan also calls for thousnds of British workers to come here learn speed up techniques in our mileâ€"long factories. . . Blood, Cherry Pie And a Messenger Boy Eventually bail was By Frederick C. Othman That‘s just the kind of speech it will beâ€"â€"by a successful political leagder. W convinced that he renewed his lease on the Southern exposed porch. by "cha ioning the "little man." § impressed Mr. Truman is with all this was disclosed by his conversation with two iabor leaders in his office the other day after they had sworn. Ifim a political dope letter published in London. _ _ _ wian e % s All right. The secret‘s out in some circles. Several tight little bands of labor chiefs know exactly what President Truâ€" man will tell Congress. . They should, for worked hard and sat for hours in unreported closed conferences helping the Missouri lads put together the tough stuff which Mr. T shortly will throw at the new Congress. They did the job on special invitation when the crony crowd in the White {ouse suddenly discovered it didn‘t quite know how to jJampack the presid ial message with the aggressive demands which Mr. Truman hopes w that he‘ll make good all those whistle stop campaign promises. t > l The muiltigraphed letter, released by the British office of the Americans for Democratic Action, reported that the preâ€"election odds in Parliament had been 10v to one against Truman victory and that the president‘s election indilcated success for the Socialist leaders of the British Labor Party in the 1950 English national. balloting. k Mr. Truman asked to keep the letter as a souvenitr. â€" He then turned to his desk saying, "Let me show you this," picked up a Manchester (England) newspaper and pointed to a typically British heavy black headline which Joudâ€" ly hailed his election as a victory for the world‘s little people. . As he held up the newspaper, he laughed robustly, happily and proudly. L Up to that moment Washington labor circles had felt a chill com the siqe aoors of the White House. But then the atmosphere chan They know all this, in some form, will be right ‘up front in the Px:esfdent, 5 message. But they are wondeungâ€"how tough will Mr. Truman‘s bchmd theâ€" bc.eneb fight for all this be? : â€" I w ‘"@‘ney love sentiment. But they are unsentimental gentlemen. They know there is many a way to hedge a pledge. And they. got what they wanted. Mr. Truman will ask for the very knd of labor laws they outlmed Wwith their experts they practicaily draited the administration‘s housing. They have beéen promised a Dept. of National Welfare,. of cabinet rtmls-l-wml the post going to tne crusading 59â€"yearâ€"old, upcoming Democratic political star, Oscar Ross Ewing. y And the labor people are excited over this Department because their intense pitch in 1949 wili be tor all sorts of pensions, social security, welfare funds and free medical care!â€" When the full story of Russian espionage and secret political police activily in this country is told for the first time a few months henceâ€"â€"on the basis of scientifically gathered evidence which hasn‘t even been hinted at yetâ€"â€"many a face in Washington will be as red as the politics of the secret Sovict agents (American citizens) who used their intimate connections with unsuspecting but highly placed government chiefs to pour secret information into the Soviet intelligence bureaus. OnevSupreme Court Justice, for example, will be ‘horrified to learn that a lawyer he recommended for a key job has been under FBI suvreillance for years because long ago Bureau agents discovered him involved in attempted Naval espionage. For years, too, he has been close to some of America‘s top labor leaders. . . ‘ ® The FBI‘s evidence, now in the hands of competent Justice Dept. attorneys who keep it griimly secret, will be jammed full of labor leaders‘ testimony reâ€" vealing certain unions as part of the Soviet courier and information gathering apparatus in this country. QUICk labor maneuver in Washmgton is a plungmg drive to ‘get Mr. Truman‘s assistance and kick Southern Congressman off key committees so the union men can swing real influence on the Hill. Union chiefs are particularly interested in the powerful House Rules Committee which can block or spced new laws. The fight‘s now going on behind the scenes. Eor more than 10 years one of the mysteries on this boat has been a weird broadcast by Walter Reuther which hit the air during the famous sitâ€"down strikes in General Motors plants. _ Reuther, locked in a plant he and some, 400 men had seized, a factory closely guarded by police and troops at all gates, had managed to broadcast for 10 minutes. How had he gotten in? Where had he cbtained a mike and transmitter? T /A An Arkansas law calls for jail terms for ANYONE found on a picket line if violence breaks out. . .Watch for a threeâ€"cornered battle for control of, naâ€" tion‘s aircraft workers with the AFL teamsters under Dave Beck, the B achinâ€" ists and the auto union competing. . .When the CIO hits the air with a weekly national hook up, it‘ll go in for giveâ€"away quiz programs. â€" On a union scale of course, first prize being a $100 bond. Finally, last week at the laying of the cornerstone of Reuther‘s new FM Deâ€" troit station, WDET, the full story was told to a small group by labor‘sâ€"ace raâ€" dio consultant Morris Novik, the chap who arranged the Tallulah Bankheadâ€" Truman broadcast. He disclosed that although the telephone company had cut off all switchâ€" bhoard and pay station phones inside the seized GM plant, it had overlooked one privately listed phone in a viceâ€"presdent‘s office. Reuther found it, but did not want to use the instrument for fear of being accused of breaking the law by running up bills on GM property. So he got the number out to Novik, who telephoned Reuther, who spoke into the mouthpiece, which at the other end was attached to a leased wire which ran to a New York radio station. That ends the mystery of the Great Sitdown Broadcast. Today Reuther‘s multiâ€" million dollar union is building radio stations as a result of those early sitâ€" downs. 9 hss 3 cSA o It‘s better to face it. . Jobs are continuing to fall away. Increasing unemployment may slow the union‘s drives for fourth round wage increases. Ohio, for example. Although not yet serious and although the result of seasonal layofis, nevertheless the number of job sekers who asked the Ohio State Employment Servloe#for aid jumped 25 percent in 30 days. In that state about 73,000 wereâ€"listed‘ in the last count early in December. . .My own survey shows thousands upon thouâ€" sands elsewhere getting their notices. . . The first open battle and test of strength between Phil Murray‘s‘+men and Walter Reuther‘s lieutenants, which many in CIO believe is signific¢ant, came in the recent election for president of the Maryland and District of Columbia CIO council. The Murrayâ€"backed candidate defeated the auto union nominee. The government is threatening in 30 days to ship Marshall plan cargo in forâ€" eign vessels because it‘s cheaper. This will cost U.S. sailors as much as 15, 020 jobs and U.S. shipping companies their margin of profit. If such a move is made, the powerful AFL will withdraw its support of the Marshnall Plan and picket and paralyze all docks. . .So rough is labor politics at the huge Ford plant in River Rouge, union officials have asked local sheriffs for gun permlts to protect themselves. . . to proleCl . . Lest you think the new labor political machines aren‘t already working on the next Congressional elections, let me pass on the slogan they‘ll use in the next 22 months: ‘"You won the day, in the American way, you have anâ€" other date, Nov. 7, 1950." _ That‘s Election Day. They‘re not wasting time. John Lewis met quietly with his District 50 lieutenaants in Washington and discussed the launchng of an "organize the unorganized‘" drive to compete with the new CIO campaign. . .Fully aware of what a strike in the:Canadian gold fields can do to the Dominion‘s economy, the Steel workers have moved into the northern territory to replace the proâ€"Communist unions there. . . Inside Labour by Victor Riesel THURBDAY, JANUARY 6th, 1948 a‘most proved to my salisfaction that tae Department. of Commerce lost. that message in its own marble Mjncd sanctum." daaktes collapsing.