Civic Outside Workers state
refusal to support Alsbury

Election of a _ substantial
Number of labor candidates
pledged to fight for labor’s
program will bring a progres-
Sive change to civic affairs in
the Greater Vancouver area, in
the opinion of Vancouver Civic
Employees Union( Outside
Workers).

Outlining its stand on forth-
coming civic and municipal
elections in its current Union
Newsbulletin, the union’s ex-
€cutive board says:

“Labor must continue to
Campaign on civic issues after
the election of labor candidates.
This must be done on a sustain-
ed, year-round basis. Office
holders elected as labor candi-
dates must be repudiated if
they become tools of any poli-
tical machine hostile to the
Program of organized labor.

“In addition to the candi-
dates put forward by the labor
Councils, there is a number of
independent candidates. Some
of these have a long record of

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service to the working people,
either as trade unionists, com-
munity workers or civic cam-
paigners.

“We suggest that in filling
out your ballots you give some
consideration to those inde-
pendents who have proven
their integrity and their de-
votion to civic progress.

“It should be noted here
that your ballot will not be
ruled out if you do not vote
for the total number to be
elected for the position of
alderman, school board trustee,
or park commissioner.

“Tn respect to the contest for
the position of mayor in Van-
couver, we regret that Van-
couver Labor Council has not
put forward a _ candidate
around whom the labor move-
ment could achieve the maxi-
mum degree of united action.

“Tom Alsbury spent the best
part of several years in a vain
attempt to raid and destroy
our union, working closely

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with R. K. Gervin, who has
since become one of the main
anti-labor spokesmen in Brit-
ish Columbia.

“All the while, and for
years after this sorry episode,
Alsbury carried on a campaign
of vilification against the mem-
bers and officers of this and
many other trade unions.

“As a result of an article
he wrote in the Vancouver Sun
of February 14, 1956, in which
he made wild, irresponsible

harges against certain trade
unions, Alsbury was compelled
to make a public apology and
to settle out of court for $750.”

VLC to sponsor
rally of jobless

Vancouver Labor Council is
sponsoring a big meeting of
all trade union unemployed on
Monday, December 8 at 2 p.m.

The meeting will be held at
the Labor Temple, 307 West
Broadway.

All jobless trade unionists
are urged attend. It is expected
the. jobless rally will discuss
Ways and means of making
organization of the unem-
ployed more effective.

All attending this rally are
expected to have their union
card or. a letter from their
union as a condition of ad-
mittance.

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SPOR

ONNIE BOYCHUK tells a
R story about a white rat, re-
cently returned from the
laboratory to his cage, running
up to a fellow rat in great
excitement.

“You know what?” he ex-
claimed. “I’ve got Dr. Zilch
conditioned!”

“How so?” asked his buddy.

“Well,” said the first rat,
“every time I go through the
maze he gives me food!”

xt xt x

Jim Trimble of Hamilton
Ticats thought he had the
Bombers conditioned before
last Saturday’s game, but his
scheme went agley.

Now that the Grey Cup has
returned to its home in the
west, it may remain here for

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dian and Catholic Confedera-
tion of Labor, whose executive
last week called on all its
100,000 members to help the
strikers.

Meanwhile, in Toronto this
week, top Mine-Mill officers
and local members of the strike
committee conferred at Queen’s
Park with Ontario Premier
Leslie Frost, while outside the
legislative buildings a. 150-car
motorcade carried the strik-
ers’ demands for . provincial
government intervention on
banners and streamers.

The union delegation urged
Frost either to compel the
giant U.S. - controlled Inter-
national Nickel Company to
bargain in good faith or take
over the company’s operations
and negotiate a just settle-
ment with the union.

TLIGHT.

some time.

Hamilton has a good team,
but watching it against Bomb-
ers, and on TV in earlier
games against Big Four aggre-
gations, my opinion is that their
superiority back east stemmed
from the fact’ that the other
teams were lamentably weak.

Methinks Edmonton, and pos-
sibly Regina, could also have
taken the Ticats.

Hamilton’s vaunted defense
line just isn’t. If Winnipeg
could find holes, Edmonton’s
Jackie Parker would have had
a field day.

Not that Edmonton had a
better team than Winnipeg this
year. The Bombers. earned
their WIFU title fairly and
squarely. It’s just that Winni-
peg and Hamilton play a some-
what similar type of game,
which made the Grey Cup
shindig a sea-saw affair, with
both offensives scoring and
the Bombers having a slight
edge in defensive play.

Edmonton wouldn’t have
prevented Hamilton from run-
ning up a score, either, but
their more unorthodox offen-
sive strategy would have baf-
fled the Ticats. Eskimos
routed Montreal 50-27 in 1956.
I think Parker and Co. might
have scored from 50 to 70
points against Hamilton. And
that, even though the Esks
have slipped back a bit in the
past two seasons.

I’m not trying to belittle
the Bombers. They could easily
keep the Grey Cup for another
year or two, on all-round
ability and drive. For the win-
ner of the WIFU title next
year will have the edge over
any team representing the east.

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