ACROSS

THE

Wy: NATION

Victims of ’Goodwill to men’

The
goodwill mouthed by politicians
at Christmas sounded particular-
ly hollow this year to 25,000

traditional messages of

Native Indians and Metis—
especially those who have to rely
on the benevolence of the Inter-
national Nickel Co. to keep from
starving.

Charges were made recently
that this giant U.S. firm, operat-
ing a huge mill at Thompson,
Man., was discriminating against
the Indians and Metis in its hir-

‘ing practices and that the
Diefenbaker government and its
.counterpart Tory regime of Duff
Roblin in Manitoba were tacitly

condoning this shameful situation.

Conditions of these people are
pitiful. Families are crowded in-
to one room shacks. Their only
clothes are those they wear. Food
is so scarcesas to be almost non-
existent. Bannock — made of
flour, baking powder and water
—is a staple. The average income
is $260 a year.

Traders control the prices paid
for furs, a couple of monopolies
control those paid for fish. They
keep the Indians and Metis in con-
stant debt through credit arrange-
ments that make the big city
finance companies look like
pikers.

RCMP tactics hit by rabbi

Abraham L. Feinberg, Rabbi-
Emeritus of Holy Blossom
Temple in Toronto and _ vice-
president of the Canadian Cam-
paign for Nuclear Disarmament,
has issued a statement deploring
RCMP surveillance of students
and professors in Canadian uni-
versities.

“The assumption that peace
members or marchers in peace
movements are potential sub-
versives is no compliment to the
distinguished and honorable men
throughout Canada who have as-
sociated themselves with organ-
izations like the CCND,”’ said
Feinberg.

Commenting further on screen-
ing of civil service candidates,

he said, might impoverish Can-
ada’s civil service. “‘A college
student immune to radical
thought is not likely to develop
much capacity for creative con-
tribution to Canadian public life.

“A Communist hunt on a col-
lege campus would engender a
psychological atmosphere of re-
pression and
germane to a garrison state than,
to a bastion of learning in demo-
cracy,”’ declared the rabbi.

Commenting on the witch-hunt-
ing charges, NDP leader Tommy
Douglas promised that examples
of interrogations will be pro-
duced in Parliament when justice
department estimates are being
discussed.

"No raiding’ - Cape Bretons

The Cape Breton Labor Coun-

cil has condemned the Steel- »

workers’ raid of Mine Mill in
Sudbury in no uncertain way.
At its regular December meet-
ing, Jim Robertson of the Steel-
workers under took to show a
film of the raid—apparently with-
out previous notice. This brought
forth a barrage of criticism of
those responsible for introducing
this crass example of class col-
- Jaboration and ‘union busting as

commendable Bune class ac-

tivity.

Speaker after speaker, includ-
ing some from Steelworkers local
1064, blasted the raiders whose
“victory” was not one for the
working class but for Internation-
al Nickel Co. and succeeded only
in rendering the hardrock miners

helpless for some time to come.

Meanwhile, Mine Mill has been
certified to represent 150 work-
ers at the Nickel Mining and
Smelting Corporation at Gordon
Lake, Ont.

The application for certification
was made in May and a hear-
ing wag held before the Ontario
Labor Relations Board in June,
but the decision to certify wasn’t
handed down until December—
and then, only after the union
threatened to take the matter to
court.

Because the application was
‘unopposed by any other union, it
should have been treated in a
routine manner; the fact that it
wasn’t, shows once again the
anti-Mine Mill bias of the OLRB,
union officials say.

32 wire Green. ’no A-arms’

A group of 32 labor leaders,
professors, clergymen, writers,
and other prominent Canadians
from various walks of life last
month cabled External Affairs
Minister Howard Green in Paris
urging that Canada not accept
nuclear weapons.

The cable to Green, who was
attending a NATO meeting, read:
“We support your efforts. Let

Canada play a role suited to her’

tradition and the challenge of
this hour. We would have Canada
a non-nuclear ally working for
secure defence through multilat-
eral disarmament.”’

Signers of the cable included:
James Bury, national secretary
of the New Democratic Party;
Rabbi Abraham Feinberg, vice-

_ president of the Canadian Cam-

paign for Nuclear Disarament;
E. J. Pratt, resident poet, Vic-
toria College; Kenneth McNaught,
assistant professor of history at
the University of Toronto; and
Rev. Ray Hord, secretary-elect,
Board of Evangelism and Social
Service, United Church of Can-
ada—to name just a few.

At the same time, the Toronto
Campaign for Nuclear Disarma-
ment also wired Prime Minister
Diefenbaker urging no nuclear
arms for Canada.

Diefenbaker, as well as other
ministers, has hinted openly
that public opinion, which runs
strongly against A-arms, has
been the decisive factor in pre-
venting Canadian acquisition of
these weapons so far.

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SOVIET A: AMBASSADOR SAYS:

~ VAST POSSIBILITIES EXIST

FOR CANADIAN-SOVIET TRADE _

Possibilies for a substantial
growth in Canadian-Soviet
trade were outlined by the
Soviet ambassador to Canada,
Amasasp Aroutunian, in a re-
cent speech in Toronto to the,
Export Study Club of Ont.
ario.

The Soviet ambassador sug-
gested, however, that such
possibilities were held back
because Canadian traders had
not duly appreciated a key
change in the world trading
set-up — the role played to-
day in the world market by
the socialist countries, partic-
ularly by the Soviet Union.

Soviet foreign trade had al-
most doubled in the last five

_ years, and is ten times great-

er than before the last war.
The share of the world trade
turnover of the socialist coun-
tries increased from eight to
13 percent between 1950 and
1962.

ALEXANDER TOPCHIEV.
vice-president of the Soviet
Academy of Sciences passed
away last week at the age of
55. He played a prominent
part in international scienti-
fic co-operation and in the
Pugwash movement for dis-
armament. He visited the
U.S, in 1961.

OUTPUT GROWS

In addition the industrial
output of the socialist coun-
tries now stands at 37 per-
cent of world industrial out-
put compared with 27 percent
in 1955, and is constantly in-
creasing.

At the same time, he said,
this strengthened position of
the socialist countries, com-
bined with the rapid increase
in the number of new inde-
pendent countries in Asia and
Africa, had led to a substan-
tial reduction in that part of
the world market represented
by the capitalist countries.

Because of this, various ex-
elusive economic groupings
and artificial restrictions on
trade had appeared, with the
European Common Market a
prime example of this,

The ECM, he asserted, is
directed toward further re-
striction of trade in western
Europe by those outside the
ECM, is aimed at strengthen-
ing the foreign market posi-
tion of its members to the
detriment of others and men-
aces the national economic
and foreign trade develop-
ment of Asian, African and
Latin American countries.
WHAT WE CAN BUY

Aroutunian cited these So-
viet goods which could be ex-
ported to Canada:

Machine tools, welding
equipment, oil field drilling
equipment, printing equip-
ment, bearings, geo-physical
equipment and instruments,
manganese and chromium
ores, pig iron, ferro-alloys,
antimony, irridium, graphite,
crude oil and oil products,
benzol napthalene, resin and
turpentine, methanol, hydro-
gen peroxide, potassium salts,
plywood, cotton :and linen
fabrics, furs, window glass,
medicines and medical equip-
ment, canned fish and crab-

meat,
watches.

photo cameras

WHAT WE COULD SELL

Among Canadian
that could be exported to the
Soviet Union, he suggested
the following:

Various types of machines
those for the lumber, paper,
asbestos, chemical and elec-
trical industries, certain types
of machine tools, medical
equipment, copper, various
types of chemical goods,
breeding cattle, hides

skins.
Canadian-Soviet trade was

still far from the possible and
desirable level, however, and
the ambassador hoped the

and

years to come would see bet-

ter results. He referred to the

second annual consultation on

Canadian-Soviet trade held in
Moscow last November.

THREE TO ONE RATIO

Aroutunian reminded his
listeners that the two-country
trade protocol of 1960 had
called for the Soviet Union to
buy $25 million worth of
goods from Canada a year, if
Canada bought half that
amount from the Soviet
Union—a two to one ratio.

But he gave figures to
show the trade ratio since
1960 had actually developed
at a three to one ratio in
favor of Canada.

It was clear, he said, that
“the main prerequisite for
the growth of trade between

goods.

the two countries is the in- q

crease of the imports of So-
viet goods by Canada.” It

was here he listed the import —

possibilities cited above.
Another aspect of Cana-

dian-Soviet relations that is —

closely connected with trade

stated, is the
tourists between the two
countries.

Greece’s national hero,
Manolis Glenos, the man
who tore down the nazi
swastika flag from the
Acropolis in 1941,— has
been released from jail
after world wide protests
on his behalf.

Sentenced in July,
1959 to five years’ jail
on a framed _ spying

charge, Glezos was the
editor of the newspaper
Avghi and one of the
leaders of the Democratic
Left Front (E.D.A.)

At last November’s el-
ections in Greece he was
elected. as an M.P. for
Athens, polling over 66,-
000 votes, the highest
number of any of the
new M.Ps, but he was
prevented from taking
his seat.

Glezos was released a
year before the end of
his sentence by a royal
decree and on emerging
said, “I would like to con-
vey my greetings to all
people of goodwill
throughout the world,
who spoke up in defence
of Greek democrats.

Manolis Glezos,
I would like to thank fore Greece’s famed Az.opolis, from be arrested again in 1958]
all those democrats who, which he tore down the hated nazi to face his third trial.

emblem

Manolis Glezos, hero, freed

ip

in 1941.

“hown standing be-

by their protests, helped
obtain my release.”
went straight to a meet-
ing of the executive com-
mittee of E.D.A., which
has just concluded its sec-
ond congress and was
unanimously
member of the executive.
: As he left the meeting
~ he was cheered and wel-
comed by crowds of
workers and_ students
side. Friends who met
him reported that
three and a half years in
jail have not broken his

is full of life.
their hands
after his heroic action on
the Acropolis, he
court martial and sent-
democratic activity twice
after the liberation of

Greece.

saved him from the exe-

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elected a]

who had gathered out- q

his|

militant spirit and that he} |

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were never able to get]
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