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Hungarian refugees policy stirs
Webate in Toronto Labor Council

TORONTO

| Support for the federal government’s policy of admitting Hungarian refugees pre-
Mitated a stormy debate at the last meeting of Toronto Labor Council.
| While delegates approved the federal government’s immigration policy in a resolu-

ton submitted by the executive, it had a stormy passage,¢ with many delegates rising

condemn it outright.

No refugees, town
grees, jobs scarce

5 TORONTO
‘One Ontario town which will
t sponsor any Hungarian
"fugees is Little Current, 55
Miles southwest of Sudbury.
For one thing, the council
% foncerned over employment
) its own citizens. When the
méestion of sponsoring refugees
ite before councillors they
Mere agreed that jobs for citi-
mS were so scarce this win-

ter they did not feel justified
in sponsoring even one’ refu-
gee.

Councillor Alf Cranston
voiced another concern.

“They can’t get along. in
their own country,’’ he said.
“They will just make trouble
here.”

The council agreed not to
sponsor any refugees. ¢

Inco asks consumers
fo pay for expansion

Thats what Mine-Mill union
ij, Omists say about the latest
Cents-a-pound price boost
‘ Nickel] — the largest single
Tease ever made.

iiree, producing 60 percent of

Capitalist world’s nickel
its price up in November
tent cents a pound from 64%

Sin 1954 when it also got
Bice boost,

Inne Mill officials drew at-
ton to the fact that the
ee day the increased price
ig ~Pounced, Inco released
4 an for a vast new nickel
‘Mop pe and refining program
‘Whip, OTthern Manitoba to cost
lou Million over the next
lon. v cars,
out ne curent increase is with-
Oubt intended to make
is Umers pay for the cost of
botwireect: and takes place
iy ythstanding the huge prof-
Nearer’ up by Inco in recent
Thi they said.
oti, Current year shows
‘Ning S running for the first
HMmparcaths at $72.6 million
May 40% to $57.7 million last
1B 06 Or the same period. It
hog hfidently predicted that
dreak Profits will this year
st at around $95 million.
Ninn &C8r it showed $91.7 mil-
ake Tt taxes were deducted.
Stimare (O8ether with the 1956
tive. € of $95 million, the
thay 82 Period 1951-56 shows
Mon 5 Staggering net profit of
& 9), Million has been amass-
leg aa the operations of the
tog at hop oly and price-rig-
“Tnste igher levels,
ba ee of taking capital ex-
Mog, ¢ Aollars out of current
or seeking financing or

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the
i ee2 market, th i
ei , the public
Spansie asked to underwrite
n out of higher prices.

SUDBURY

If you spend money tiday to buy kitchenware, an auto

‘4 Some other item with nickel in it, you're helping Interna-
| htal Nickel Company build a new plant or process that
. bring added millions in profit into the coffers of this

: “Owned monopoly in Canada.

In addition to its expansion
program for Manitoba, Inco re-
cently put its iron ore recov-
ery plant at Sudbury into op-
eration to render high grade
iron ore from its properties.
In 1955 some $27 million was
spent by Inco for expansion.

Lukin Robinson, Mine-Mill
research director said that
while paying out dividends to
the shareholder is a major
stimulus to the profit-making
drive of the corporations, at
present “the main reason the
companies want bigger profits

_ is so that they will have
more left over after dividends,
taxes and all other expenses.

‘«pPhese undistributed profits
will pay for expansion and
modernization of plant and
equipment: to produce and
sell still more at less costs
with fewer workers and so
make still bigger profits in the
future.”

In a recent statement Mine-
Mill called for a federal probe
of price boosts and profiteer-
ing. It declared: ;

“Labor’s position against
higher living costs is based on
these facts which mo amount
of company propaganda can
hide: prices do not rise —
they are raised; the power to
raise prices comes. from mon-
opoly control of the price of
milk, bread, meat, clothing and
the other necessities of life;
high profits, not higher wages
cause higher prices. And prof-
its now are soaring... -

“If prices continue. to be
pushed up, our union, along
with other unions, must de-
mand interim wage increases
t. protect the living standards
of our members.

Chief opposition came from
representatives of the build-
ing trades who pointed out
that the past experience with
Ottawa’s policy resulted in
victimization of refugees
through cheap labor policies.

Painter’s union delegate An-
drews questioned whether the
government was “paying fares
of immigrants in a move to
get cheap labor into the coun-
cro

Joe Dwan of the Plumbers
charged the policy was too se-
lective with the first people
coming out being “doctors,
lawyers and engineers.”

He declared he was not op-
posed to immigration but
pointed to the great need for
housing and taking care of the
needs of Canadians.

Bricklayers’ union delegate
Swain also scored the move
noting that not so many years
ago Admiral Horthy had ruled
the country and that his erst-
while followers could well be
coming over in the present un-
restricted flood of immigrants.

He noted how quickly the
government had come to the
aid of people thousands of miles
away, but how reluctant it
was to aid the old-age pen-
sioners who had given their
lives to developing the coun-
try.

He urged that aid be given
the miners of Nova Scotia in-
stead.

Jewellery Workers’ delegate
Ernest Gardner said he had
been a socialist all his life and
would probably die one. While
believing in sympathy for the
refugees he could not support
the government that “wants to
bring in immigrants when our
own men are starving to
death.”

Ford Brand made an appeal
that the statements of dele-
gates not be reported in the
press. He condemned those
who would allow “selfish ec-
onomic interests to stand in
the way of their coming to
Canada.” He said the refugees
had fought for freedom, “some-
thing we have never had to do
in the way they have to do it.”

There were interruptions
from the audience, “Speak for
yourself, Brand.”

Bert Gargrave of the Steel-
workers for many years a CCF
member of the B.C. legisla-
ture urged that a collection be
taken up “this very night,” but
no action was taken on the
proposal.

Robert McCormack, who
‘brought in the original resolu-
tion, winding up the debate
said:

“We do not support Admir-
al Horthy and the landed aris-
tocracy that started the whole
mess in Hungary and we do
not support the government’s
immigration policy. Let’s make
sure the governments do right
by these people.” He cautioned
against the refugees being con-
signed to the breadlines.

* ‘Typical of the ships now being built for the Soviet Union

in a number of foreign shipyards is the Nicolai Pirogov
(top)), shown unloading at Odessa. She was built in France
for the Black Sea trade. The Soviet fisheries delegation
which visited Canada earlier this year showed interest in
having seiners of the type of the Sleep Robber (bottom)

built in B.C. shipyards.

Red Cross repudiates
Hungarian aid group

TORONTO

Red Cross officials, the Canadian-Hungarian Federation and
Toronto Better Business Bureau have joined in repudiating the
operations of a self-styled “Organization for Hungary” with

headquarters in this city.

Headed by A. Kovari, secretary-treasurer, the group adver-

tises that it receives callers
who are ready “to accept mili-
tary discipline” or contribute
finances “to help actively the
Hungarian people in their
fight for freedom.”

Offices are in a battered-
looking building on Gerrard
street with dirty windows and
ricketty steps.

In an official announcement
Red Cross officials disassociat-
ed themselves from the spon-
sors of this group saying:

“The Canadian Red Cross
Society notes with concern the
use of the society name in the
paid advertising of an organi-
zation known as ‘Organization
for Hungary.’ .The Canadian
Red Cross Society wishes’ to
advise the public that it has
no knowledge of this organi-
zation. and is not affiliated
with it in-any manner what-
soever. The society’s name was
included in the organization’s
advertising without its prior

knowledge and consent.”

Canadian-Hungarian Feder-
ation officials operating
through the Red Cross, earlier
had publicized the fact that
it had no connection with the
questionable “freedom”  or-
ganization over a Hungarian
language radio- program.

Toronto Better Business
Bureau officials revealed that
Kovari who heads the “Or-
ganization for Hungary” was
interested in setting up a mili-
tary brigade and that he claim-
ed if it fell through the money
would be handed over to the
Red Cross.

Question as tothe reliability
of the organization and others
that might be operating was
indicated in the bureau’s com-
ment that: “If anyone were
to call up-on this question of
aid, and asked to whom money
should be sent, we would in-
dicate only one agency — the
Canadian Red Cross.”

DECEMBER 21, 1956 — PACIFIC TRIBUNE — PAGE 3