USSR buys our barley, makes offer for wheat FORT WILLIAM “The sale of wheat to Russia and a smaller crop this year may help to alleviate the surpluses now on hand,” said R. A. Purvis of Winnipeg, president of Lakehead Terminals Ltd,, speaking here last week. interested in purchasing our wheat. This business could mean a great LABOR BRIEFS More than 4,000 railway work- ers of the Greater Winnipeg area filled Winnipeg Civic Auditorium June 12 and enthusiastically greet- ed a call to strike made by Frank H. Hall, chairman of the Joint Ne- gotiating Committee of the Associ- ated Railway Unions. It was the most spirited union meeting in years and left no doubt as to where the 10,000 railway workers of Mani- toba stood on the vital question of the strike ballot to be conducted later this month. ok * 2% 2 Some 6,000 B.C. salmon fisher- men are now on strike, but union and operators are expected to re- sume negotiations this week. Strike began at 3 p.m. Saturday after 93.5 percent of the fishermen voted to reject price offers of can- nery operators. * x x IWA workers in the B.C. coastal area have voted 74 percent in favor. of accepting a conciliation board “package” award which gives them no wage increase this year but a number of “fringe” benefits. * * x Some 2,500 transit workers in Vancouver, New Westminster and Victoria have voted to accept a BCER wage offer which boosts wages nine cents per hour for tran- sit operators and 11 cents for maintenance men. x * x Wage agreements have been signed by 15 out of 18 unions:.in the construction industry, most on the basis of a five cents an hour increase. Reception held for Mrs. Sobell More than 700 Vancouver citi- zens attended a meeting in Pender Auditorium last Friday to hear Mrs. Helen Sobell, wife of Morton Sobell, U.S. scientist now serving a 30-year prison term for his re- . fusal to testify against Ethel and _ Julius Rosenberg. When Mrs. Sobell was delayed and could not reach here in time for the meeting Mrs. Sheila Young of North Vancouver gave an elo- quent speech in commemoration of the first anniversary of the Rosen- bergs’ death. Arriving in town early Saturday morning, Mrs. Sobell was the guest at a reception held in the Fisher- men’s Hall that evening. She spoke quietly and convincingly of the campaign to remove her husband cer Alcatraz and win him a new tria j 1 FOR THE BEST IN TELEVISION SEE Fred Watts deal to us.” Earlier this year the Soviet Em- bassy in Ottawa, according to a report in the Financial Post, prov- ided Canadian exporters with a list of Canadian products it was inter- ested in buying. ‘ The list included wheat, butter, meat and other food products; mechanical, electrical and wood- working equipment, paper and cellulose equipment, raw _ hides, and merchant ships. The Financial Post reports that some firm offers have been made on a number of commodities, but wheat is not among them. The USSR in turn has offered for sale here such products as pig iron, chrome, manganese, furs, pet- roleum products, cotton, caviar, wine and hops. The Canadian-Soviet Friendship “A Russian trade group has been in contact with the grain trade in Canada and is seriously Two cargoes of barley were sold to the Soviet Union this month. Society publication News - Facts pointed out recently that the USSR, in the next two years, is going to invest $12 billion in farm mechan- ization. “Tf Canadian implement factories were to get such an ‘order’ and worked at capacity, they would still be trying to complete that job 50 years from now!” West Coast shipyards, in the dol- drums, would welcome orders for Soviet freighters. Scuttling of Can- ada’s merchant marine and block- ing of orders from People’s China and the Soviet Union under the U.S. Battle Act has reduced ship- ‘| building in B.C. to a fraction of its wartime peak. Want textbooks written, printed in this country TORONTO The government of Ontario was called upon to fill its responsibility towards developing an independent Canadian culture in a resolution passed last month by the 10th an- nual conference of the Ontario Fed- eration of Printing Trades Unions. The resolution stated that “Can- ada is a nation with full potential to develop a culture of its own and to provide for the teaching of its own particular history.” Then it urged that “such culture must orig- inate in Canada and text books must be written and produced on the basis of Canadian experience. s It expressed full confidence in the ability of Canadian scholars and industry to produce such books. The conference went on record “as insisting that the Ontario de- partment of education require that all primary and secondary school texts be set up, printed and bound in Canada.” _ Another resolution of tie same conference pressed upon the On- tario department of education “the necessity of teaching the history of the labor movement and its infiu- nce and contributions to the growth and development of Canada.” “Sometimes | wish you weren't so gun shy, Cactus!” There’s no mistaking our values in Men’s and Young Men’s clothes and furnishings. You can bvY yours here on our FREE CREDIT plan and save up to 10%. 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