Appointment of American hit Members of CCL affiliated unions in this province are opposed to the appointment of Americans to fill Canadian trade union posts. This was made plain at last Sunday’s session of the B.C. Federation of Labor convention here when George Home, BCFL secretary, reported to delegates that he had written to the CCL executive council opposing a proposal to name a U.S. citizen as director of the CCL’s department for in- ternational affairs. Home made his disclosure in answering a question directed to him by Lloyd Whalen, president of IWA Local 1-217. It was learned that at the re- cent CCL convention in Toronto, the international affairs commit- tee met under the chairmanship of Donald MacDonald, CCL sec- retary-treasurer, to consider a successor to Martin Levinson, former director. former secretary of Vancouver Labor Council and more recently an organizer in Kenya for the In- ternational Confederation of Free Trade Unions. The committee re- portedly was split on recom- mending Bury, with MacDonald casting the deciding vote against him. f The nominee favored for the post is an American, an official of the United Auto Workers in Detroit. Home's protest to the CCL | national executive is believed to have been prompted by general sentiment within CCL unions Several names were discussed,|here that the post should go to among them that of Jim Bury,!a Canadian. 4 New Democracies impress Haney youth “What impressed me most of all during my recent trip to Europe was the cultural life en- joyed by the people and the op- portunities open to youth,” Bert Nilsson .of Haney told the Pacific Tribune this week. Nils- son was one of the young Cana- dians who took part in the World Youth Festival in Warsaw last summer. “In between meetings and the great sports festival I attended concerts and ballet in Warsaw,” said Nilsson. The 20-year-old Canadian “was also impressed by the tremen- dous building program going on in Warsaw, where the scars ‘of war are rapidly being removed. “People are dissatisfied with their present cramped living quarters,” he said, “but they know they have a system under which _ improvements can be achieved, and every day things are getting better. In the rush to Blumes presses free milk plan “Mr. Justice J. V. Clyne’s re- port on milk emphasised an im- portant point which I have made on previous occasions that consumption of -milk in B.C. is only half as much as it should be, according to nutrition standards,” said Dr. Joseph Blumes, indepen- dent candidate for school board in the coming civic elections here, in a statement to the press this week. “Tt is unfortunate that no re- commendations were included in the report to remedy the low rate of consumption,” continued Dr. Blumes. ‘In my brief to Mr. Justice} Clyne I proposed a subsidy to provide free milk in the schools. If such a plan can be carried out in Britain, surely something simi- lar can be done in B.C. where we have a much greater supply of milk in a richer country. A plansof this nature would im- prove nutritional standards and provide an outlet for increased milk sales.” Blumes added that the milk inspection system must be im- mediately improved to assure the purity of all milk supplies. | erect more and more apartments and buildings, they take some shortcuts. The result is that some of the buildings are pretty ‘rough’ by our standards, but their main concern at present is to provide housing for the people.” A construction worker him- self, Nilsson took a keen interest in building methods used in War- saw. “They welcomed criticism of their shortcomings,” he continued, “and explained that many experienced workers had been shifted to construction work in order~ to solve the housing problem in as short a time as possible.” : : When the majority of the Can- adian- -delegates began ~ their journey home, after visiting Poland,. Bulgaria, Rumania and Czechoslovakia, Nilsson and Rock Cloutier of Quebec City went by train to Switzerland, Italy and France. ~“The spirit of the workers in France is amazing,” said Nilsson. “They are keenly interested in politics and seem well posted on current events. I liked Paris and its people, and they seemed very friendly towards Canadians. But Yankees are definitely unpopular,’ and the French people deeply resent their arrogant behavior.” While in Prague the Canadians were surprised to hear a great deal of swing music being played. “The quality was so good that we thought our hosts were playing American records, but we were told the recordings were made by Czechoslovakian bands. Swing music is played in all the People’s Democracies and _ is definitely popular with the young people.” On his way back to Canada Nilsson spent a few days in Lon- don, Theatre and saw a new pro- duction of Makarenko’s Road to Life, In 1957 the World Youth Fes- tival will be held in Moscow, and Nilsson said he would like to go “if I can manage to get time off from wherever I’m working.” If he does go, he would like to take along a movie camera and “shoot” enough film for a docu- mentary story of a typical Canadian’s experiences at the festival. in- where he visited Unity’ Parent (bottom left) have been which were dragged out over a After eight years leaders of ST. JEROME, QUE. Eight and a half years after their arest for spiracy” Madeleine Parent, Quebec tex- | quitted by the Court of Queen’s Bench jury. Sitting October 27, the court heard a letter from Attorney- General Duplessis’ office saying it would not be “in the public in- terest” to proceed. Justice Francois Carson, nevertheless ordered the swearing in of a 12- man jury. No proof having been presented, the unanimous verdict of the jury was “not guilty.” Madeleine Parent and Kent Rowley were arrested during the Lachute strike of 1947, when they were leaders of the AFL United day they are leaders of the inde- pendent Canadian Textile Coun- cil. Commenting on the verdict, Miss Parent said: “With Ayers workers who fought side by side with us in Lachute, we rejoice in the ver- dict of acquittal. The fight for Textile union leaders Kent Rowley (top left) and Madeleine ; “seditious con-— R. Kent Rowley and, tile union leaders, have been ac- : Textile Workers of America. To-' acquitted of conspiracy charges period of eight and a half years: Charges arose out of the Valleyfield textile strike (above). Court acquits textile conspiracy social justice and the right ue organize is vindicated as @ leg timate cause. Much remains to be done before it isa victorle™ cause.” . Society offering : sub to members | A free subscription to the es . . $ ‘viet cultural magazine, vo. oe is being offered by the Canadie®” Soviet Friendship Society to P i |sent members and to new ME tb bers: joining during the me ‘of November, which has Dees ‘designated as Canadian-So Friendship Month. eri - VOKS is the official seer of the All-Union Society fot ~ tural Relations with Fore ,Countries. It is published ‘English six times yearly. to | Among recent contributors 7 VOKS have been Hewlitt poe ‘son, Galina Ulanova, Aram ‘chachurian, Mikhail sholokyr” Paul Hogarth and Jack Lind Clean up crime comics LPP women urge Bonner An appeal to have crime, war and horror “comics” withdrawn from sale to the PU was issued this week by the women’s committee of the Labor-Progressive party. At its meeting Monday even- on to; the committee went record Attorney-General Robert Bon- ner urging that his departmen take action immediately. ing to send a letter plics eee newsstands and corner’ shops again, under new titles. “We draw to. your attention tthe following: report from the | Vancouver ‘Herald, October 24, 11955, which indicates that the “Juvenile crime is increasing authorities are aware of the : continually and in our opinion harmful effect of such ‘comics’. crimeeand war comics are a con- tributing factor about something can be’ done speedily,’ the letter said. t } ““City police confiscated a which knife with a four inch blade "found this weekend on a 16-year- old Vancouver high school youth, | who was also in possession of a “Following the public protest small black note book, listing the against them last spring many titles of 39 comic books. titles were withdrawn but re-| “Police said everyone of the cently they are flooding the books listed was a ‘war comic.” Concert to mark — Friendship Month Seven national cultural groUP® will be represented in 2 varie! concert at Pender Auditoriu” here Sunday, November a7 8 8 p.m. a Sponsored by the Canadia? ie viet Friendship Society, th© Co cert brings to a close a moP ; : ater celebrations to promote eres 3 send understanding and genuine Die ship between Canada and ‘Soviet Union. — 2 PACIFIC TRIBUNE — NOVEMBER 25, 1955 — PAG!