Exchange delegations, delegations between the United States and Canada and the Soviet Union was called for by delegates attending the recent international convention of the International Wood- workers of America here. _ Resolution No. 13, passed by; the . convention, stated ‘that; sentatives of working people since the conclusion of the) and that the international 1958 cultural exchange agree-| officers be given the respon- ment between the U.S. and the) sibility of approaching the USSR there have been 82 dele-| U.S. government with a view gations of Americans and 68/to including worker delega- groups of Russians involved in; tions among the current ex- exchanges sponsored by their} change program.” respective governments. : - These exchange groups have Pe) e fe : » Pritenett on tour consisted in the main of tech- Harold Pritchett, city sec- nical, professional, artistic and’ government repre sentatives retary of the Communist Party of Canada, will speak at a from both sides. -“These developments serve to strengthen peace and make more and more .remote the : 5 possibility of war,” the resolu-|S¢Tes of meetings on Vancou- tion stated. “However, these| Ve" Island to commemorate trends could be more definite| ‘he 42nd anniversary of the and more lasting by exchange | S°vit socialist revolution. On Friday, November 6, Pritchett will speak at a ban- quet and dance being held in Harewood Hall. Nanaimo. ef working people and union delegations.” The resolution then states *that this 21st constitutional convention go on record in|} On Saturday evening, Nov- favor of an. exchange of/ember 7, he will be guest = American and Russian repre-|speaker at a banquet and dance in Cumberland. On Sunday, November 8, he will speak in the Eric Graf Hall, Port Alberni. Peacerally Professor Holland Roberts, chairman of the American- Russian Institute for Cultural . | Relations With the Soviet Un- :}ion, will be the guest speaker at a meeting sponsored by B.C Peace Council on Friday, Oc- tober 39, 8 p.m. at the Pereiz School, 1173 West Broadway. Professor Roberts was lead- er of the American delegation to the Stockholm Peace Con: ference. Slides will be shown and re- freshments served at the meet- ing, which is open to the pub- lic. : z 3 ‘erie and- ile letter abor reforms from i. But it's so rien ‘have to file it in here! ‘iM — THE FEDERATION OF PACIFIC FILM SOCIETIES AND THE U.B.C. EXTENSION DEPARTMENT present CERVANTES’ - DON QUIXOTE starring NIKOLAI CHERKASOV Russian Dialogue — English Titles Cinemascope — Sovcolor NOW PLAYING. PARK THEATRE says IWA convention MINNEAPOLIS—A greater exchange of trade union}: ELGIN NEISH : Neish runs im Victoria VICTORIA,: B.C. Elgin “Scotty” Neish announced this week that he will enter the aldermanic race in coming civic elections, and advance a fighting - program calling for “a square deal for the home owner.” P Neish, who polled a substan- tial vote last year, is again ad- vocating federal aid to educa- tion; a graduated business tax; downtown parking with no rise in meter rates; a federal winter works plan; public ownership of the B.C. Electric and B.C. Telephone; more youth recreational facilities and more civic assistance to senior -citizens housing pro- jects. In the mayoralty contest this year Socred MLA Don Smith is challenging Mayor Perey Scurrah. Youthhear report on festival Monica Samuelson, leader of World Youth Festival in Vien- na last July, reported on the festival at a public meeting in Pender Auditorium here Sun- day night. “Everywhere youth are on the march,” she said. ‘These are exciting times, for the bat- tle is on between the old and the new. Youth fight for peace, for social progress, for. the freedom and independence of colonial countries.” The meeting was chaired by Homer Stevens, leader of the Canadian delegation which took part in the first World Youth Festival in 1947. On the platform were young people who had attended other festi- vals in Prague, Warsaw, Ber- lin, Budapest, Bucharest and Moscow. Award-winning young pian- ist Andrea Kalanj performed several numbers and won warm applause from the aud- VANCOUVER, B.C. \/ ience. the Canadian delegation to the |. UFAWU demands visa for Soviet fishermen United Fishermen: and | week asked other organizations to join with it in dem: I d- ing that Ottawa issue entry visas to three representatives of Soviet fishermen and their interpreter who have accept= ed an invitation to attend a four-nation conference of fish- ermen’s organizations here on November 2. -The UFAWU general execu- tive board issued a statement which said, in part: “In the new atmosphere created by talks betweemheads of government and Premier Khrushchev’s visit to the Unit- ed States, and with the pros- pect of a summit conference further relaxing international tensions, the ‘government’s at- titude in delaying issuance of the visas for two months is to be deplored as an irritant to better relations between coun- tries. "When fishermen en four countries, Canada, the U.S., Japan and the USSR gather in this city. they will have be- Allied Workers Union | | fore them the common thre to their salmon fisheries aris- ing from mid-ocean exploita tion of salmon stocks. — ' “This problem, which in~ self can become a source of international friction, affects: all four countries. It can’ be resolved only by international — discussion and agreement. “The government places no obstacles in the way of Cana-_ i dian and American fishermen conferring on this and other questions of mutual concern. — WlHy then, should it impede wider discussions among fish- _ ermen of all four countries affected?” Greenwell asks ill into city parks board Demand for a full public inquiry into Vancouver Parks — = Board affairs by city council was voiced this week by — < Don “Dusty” Greenwell, candidate for parks board in the a forthcoming civic election. Commenting on the recent action of park superintendent Phil Stroyan in demolishing a parks board building with- out permission of Pazks Board, Greenwell said such action and the failure of the board Monday night-to give Stroyan a vote of confidence indicates there is something wrong. The public‘has every right to know how their affairs are being handled. Greenwell insisted that the hearing be open to the public. The independent parks: board candidate said that when a public board is domin- ated for ne years by one Wictoria’s cavalcade VICTORIA, B.C. — Some 35 ears filled with 10 people took part in a peace demonstration here prior to the United Na- tions flag-raising ~ ceremony last Saturday. | Slogans read: “Construction Not Destruction”; “Feed the Hungry”; “Swords into Plow- shares”; ‘Milk Not Missiles’; “Bread, Not Bomarcs’; ‘‘Trac- tors, Not Tanks.” The motorcade was sponsor- ed. by ‘the Peace by Peaceful Means Society and the local branch of the UN Association. | Be 4 . *3 political organization such as the NPA all kinds ‘of trouble can be expected. “This is an- other example of it,” he con- cluded. * Dr. health officer in Caernarvon Alan Phillips, medical Pie Ta Se county, England, writing in the authoritative medical jour- nal Lancet, said that leukemia deaths had risen 50 per cent in two. successive four-year 7 periods. He. added ihat if strontium 90 is responsible, leukemia deaths will rise in five other countries. * Ok a The Women’s Committee of the Communist Party this week cabled External Affairs — Minister Green in Paris asking him to inform President De Gaulle of the anxiety of Can- adians concerning the propos- October 30, 1959—PACIFIC {RIBUNE—Page 8 ed atomic tests in the Sahara Desert.