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LPP Picnic
Enjoyed by
Thousands

Emphasizing the import-

ance Of Organization in win-

ning: election campaigns,
Leslie Morris, Ontario lead-
er of the Labor-Prosressive
Party, told the 7,000 people
who attended the second
United Nations picnic at
Confederation Park, Burn-

‘aby, last Sunday, that labor

by mobilizing its strength
around men and women
who would fight in parlia-
ment for new policies, had
an unparalleled opportunity
to influence the destiny of
the country in the coming
period.

Consuming 1,800 dinners, 340.
dozen hot dogs, 90 gallons of
ime cream, and thousands of
cups of cofree, the picnicers
spent a full day enjoyin~ the
music of the United Nations,
applauding colorful dance num-
bers, cheering their most “popu-
lar girl” and shouting appreci-
atively when George Bunka was
acclaimed winner over his op-
ponent, J. Sendlove. in the
wrestling match.

At the end of the day the
Picnic committee was able to
announce that $6,000 had been
added to the Labor-Progressive
Party’s campaign for a $10,000
federal election fund.

With a lead over her oppon-
ents of two thousand votes,
Vera Qizewski, backed by her
East End LPP Club as Miss
USSR, was acclaimed “Miss
United Nations” in the popular
girl contest. She polled 72,583
yotes.

Runner-up was Mary Kovich

of the Georgia LPP Club as

Miss Yugoslavia with 70,866
‘yotes. Mona Morgan, who held
the title last year, came third
as Miss Scandinavia, backed by
the Victory Square LPP Club,
with 65,187 votes and Alice
Shum, sponsored by the Chin-
ese-Canadian Progressive Club
as Miss China, was fourth with
A9,236 votes.

The applause of the crowd
judged Rosemary Popovich,
5, winner of the national cos-
tume contest as Miss Ukxraine.
Audry Brandon of North Vian-
couver, was second as Miss Ire-
land and Sharon McLean, aged
7 as Miss Scotland, came third.

The Little Lenin Library,
awarded in the People’s Book-
store drawing, went to H. Pearl
4455 Hastings Past, with ticket
No. 527.

Only W. Van Patenburg, 818
W. 60th Avenue, winer of first
prize on ticket 9573, collected
his prize, on the picnic draw.

Other prizes went to Elmo
Lahtinen, Port Kells, B.C., ticket
1583; Dick Gibbi, 1761 Graveley

St., ‘ticket 11 84; A. Mitchell,
680 Jervis St., ticket 904; FE.
Brown, Lynn Creek, ticket

13417; J. O. Kelbrede, 565
Broadway, ticket 11495; M. Po-
bit, 630 ° Princess Ave., ticket
9219. ju. Parten, 1826 Frances
St., ticket 8861; F. Mekush, 1668
Davie St.,; ticket 3371; R. Pur-
daas, 209° Blackner St., ticket
1784.

Prize winners are asked to get
in touch with the LPP Vancou-
ver City Committee, 531 Homer
St.; MAr. 5623_

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Election Outcome In

Quebec Still Uncertain

(Reports at press time gave
the standing as: Union Nation-
ale 45; Liberals 38; Bloc Popu-
laire 4; Nationalist 1. Leading:
Liberals (Maisonneuve) 1;
Doubtful (Rouville) 1; Deferred
( Charlevoix-Saguenay).

Whether Premier Adelard
Godbout will attempt to carry
on with a minority Liberal gov-
ernment until defeated in the
legislature, then calling anoth-
er election, is still not clear.
And as yet Andre iaurendeau,
leader of -the pro-fascist Bloc
Populaire, has issue no state-
ment to indicate whether his
party, which Stanley Ryerson,
LPP national executive mem-
ber, recently asserted had been
“made an instrument of division
and intrigue by Duplessis’
henchmen within it,” will be
prepared to support a Union
Nationale government.

While a preliminary tabula-
tion of the vote showed that the

- Liberals polled 448,537 votes as

compared with 403,514 for the
Union Nationale and 172,626 for
the Bloc Populaire, the heavy
majorities polled by- Liberals in
Montreal, where labor threw its
influence behind them, accounts
for the disparity between the
vote polled and members elec-
ted.

The decisive factor, reflected
in the result of the election, was
the entry of 24 CCF candidates.
Although only one CCF mem-
ber was elected, David Cote in
Rouyn-Noranda, and only in a
few constituencies was the
CGF’s entering of a candidate
justified, CCF candidates in a
number of constituencies took
enough votes from the Liberal
candidate to enable a Union
Nationale or Bloc Populaire
candidate to win the seat.

* Instances of this were:

Montreal - Laurier (Andre
Laurendeau, BP, 9495; Paul
Gauthier, Ls 8975; Eugene Poir-
er, UN,: 8348, Alfred Hender-
son, CCF, 580; Laurent Jarry,
Ind. UN, 358);

Montreal- St. Henry ‘CJ. De-
lisle, UN, 9518; Emile Boucher,
9164; Teani Mercier, BP, 4704:
R. J. Lamoureaux, CCF, 3747):

Temiscamique (Nil Lariviere.
UN, 2137: P. O. Goulet, Es
1779: Dr. Phillippe Chabot, BP,

1450; Antoine Titley; CCF, 802).

Hntry of the CCF into Mont-
real-St. Louis; where L. €pi.
Kalman Kaplansky, the CCF
nominee polled 754 .votes, was
also a potent contributing fac-
tor, because of the divisive red-
baiting campaign conducted, in
defeating popular Ald. Michael
Buhay, the LPP candidate. Bu-

' hay received 6512 votes against

the 9439 votes polled by Maur-
ice Hartt, the successful Liberal
candidate.

In Maisonneuve, where. the
outcome is still in doubt be-
tween Edmond Hamelin, Liberal,
and Dr. J. F. A. Gation, UN, over
whom he has a 12-vote lead,
Jean Pare, aireraft workers’
leader nominated by a political
action committee as an Inde- .
pendent Labor candidate, polled
1804 votes to 1367 votes for the
CCF candidate nominated to
run against him

(Commenting at Winnipeg on
the election results, Tim Buck,
LPP national leader, this week
declared that a Union Nation-
ale government would be “disas-
trous for Quebee as well as for -
Canada.” Prime Minister Mac-
kenzie King, he said, must now
make up his mind. whether to
go forward with reform-minded
Canadians “or continue his prac-
tice of keeping the balance be-
tween Quebec and the West.’)

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Evictees Enli

Of Rentals Court Jud

Among those who are sincere-
ly working to achieve better
housing conditions emerged a
new figure this week—Rentals
Gourt Judge Bruce Boyd, who
flatly declared that he would “go
the limit” to prevent eviction of
servicemen’s families, whether
he was “within his legal rights
or not.” Boyd, to whom Mayor

J. W. Cornett has passed the

buck on almost every occasion
when his worship’s office was
visited by housing delegations,

has been in a position for some~

time to appreciate the suffering
of the evictees. His sympa-.
thetic treatment of
cases has been winning: 2 Dp Fone)
of late.

This “week, the Industrial Re-
construction and Social Devel-
opment Council swung into ac
tion with a six-point howsing
program to be presented to the
city council Monday. The pro=
gram will be presented to alder-
men by a delegation headed by
Jack Wenderson,; president -of
provincial command, Canewan

Legion.
The six points are:

@ No evictions of soldiers’
families.

@ No evietions under Land-
ford and Tenants Act until a
33 is reviewed by the attor-
ae -general or his appointed
agent. 4

@ Requistioning of all empty
houses under the War Measures
Act for emergency. dwellings.

@ The Toronto plan to he
boosted from its present trial
of 100 dwellings (still to be ap-
proved ‘by city council) to at
least 500 dwellings. :

@ The Montreal plan to be
adopted as a long-range meas-
ure to provide all housing nec-
essary.

(The Toronto plan eis
that the city shall give lots to
the federal government on which
homes for veterans will be con-
structed, to be turned back to

the city at the end of 12 years. ~

The Montreal plan provides for
building of large-scale housing
projects by private capital with
governmental assistance).

@ Old Hotel Vancouver to be-

taken over as temporary hous-
ing for families of soldiers wait-
ing for land under the soldiers
settlement scheme.

Only this week Boyd warned
that landlords’ lawyers who do

. not take the trouble to see prop-

erty Involved in rent court cases
are going to have the riot act
read to ‘them. The statement
was made during hearings of an
eviction case, when Boyd flatly
told the landlord that the preni-
ises were already in such a state
of disrepair that it was un OS

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