it “Great enthusiasm and _ at-
tention is being directed to-
pward correcting and improving
Conditions: in agriculture, in
,peneral living standards, and
3 the realm of political free-
ce leaders of the Alberta
4 F told the press on their
#tcturn home from a tour of

gi the Soviet Uni :
slovakia, on and Czecho

tf Issued by William Irvine,
t provincial preside I
¢! Harold Branec: vice Dears
ident, the statement said re-
|) Ports of “spectacular advances
ein education and technology in
“these countries are by no
it) Means exaggerated.”

# They wer

... y e not-surprised to
* a campaign for world
oe in _full swing among
Oh Ty section of the popula-
, on, from the children to the
ts and leaders” because
en’ desire to succeed with
s me construction plans. In
4 ition there is a strong de-
} Te for trade with Canada.
OAs Summing up, ~ ‘the CCF
| POKesmen said: “We feel that
ae Breat possibilities exist for
gf Mutual benefit to both West-
.... and Eastern sectors. Re-
ection of tensions, promotion
e ; disarmament and increase
ee trade are fertile fields for
ee since they offer
i ame advantages to both
a Be cting that other countries
irc. realizing this and that
fe cw. was literally packed
a delegations seeking to
* ange ideas on economic,
; a itical and cultural matters,
de ; . CCF leaders declared: “We
if a leve that Canada, also,
ye ould give full freedom to
ie Rg exchange of ideas . . .”
% ae News Bulletin, issu-
r 3 y the USSR Embassy in
t pee aga, reported that the CCF
Y aay s tour included a trip to
of ere Automatic Bakery
ee ne Agricultural and
if trial Exhibition, the Su-

* F 3
p eme Soviet sessions; Pravda
Printing plant

Minister Milton E. Gregg if

/ ; ambassador to the United States, Georgi Zar-
9oubin, chats with 14-year-old ballet dancer Beverly

Fishing for oil lis the latest

*

device which is being used to

thing in scientific reasearch.

Photo shows Edith Parker displaying the 240-pound

search for oil and gas de-

posits under Lake Erie. It measures the pull of gravity and

rock densities on the lake bed.

‘Our ILO delegates

should be

citizens’

Prominent B.C. trade unionists this week told the
Pacific Tribune that “whatever the advantages of Interna-
tional Labor Organization conferences to labor in this
country or other groups of citizens, delegates representing

Canada should be citizens.”

The question arose on a
query made by H. W. Herridge
(CCF, Kootenay West) in the
House of Commons early this _
month. Herridge asked Labor

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anfield of Toronto in Washington following the opening

i night Performance of the Canadian Ballet Company,

any United States citizens had
represented Canada at ILO
conferences since 1950 to date,
their names, and the amounts
paid such delegates and by
whom.

-The replies given have a
special significance. to Cana-
dian trade unionists.

The “delegates” from Ca-
nada to the ILO conferences
of 1953 and 1956 were Clyde
E. Shumaker, representing the
Canadian Manufacturers As-
sociation, and H. C. “Hal”
Banks, representing the Trades
and Labor Congress of Cana-
da. Both were citizens of the
United States.

Shumaker’s expenses
($1,493.13), was paid by the
Canadian Department of La-
bor, while Banks’ (amount un-
stated) were paid by the ILO.

A local trade unionist stat-
ed that “Herridge should be
congratulated for reminding
Gregg and Louis St. Laurent,
that as yet Canada hasn’t be-

come the 49th state.”

Red-baiting Is
in “ll repute’

By FRANK ARNOLD

MONTREAL

Red-Baiting, long one of the most populat pastimes of
Quebec’s old-line politicians, seems to be falling into ill

repute these days.

This minor revolution in political thinking began with
the recent post-election “letter to the clergy” of two Laval

University professors, Fathers
Dion and O’Neill. In an ana-
lysis of the Quebec elections
they singled out as “immoral”
and anti-Christian the un-
scrupulous use of the anti-
Communist smear technique.

The denunciation of McCar-
thyism in Quebec was wel-
comed by the influential Le
Devoir. Gerard Filion; editor
of the nationalist paper, has
himself felt the sting of red-
baiting. In a blazing editorial
he recalls that Father Ledit,
a Jesuit priest, accused Filion
on his return from a trip to
China of “having been chosen
by Moscow to direct the for-
mation of a popular front in
the province of Quebec.”

“When one re-reads in 1956
such a stupid editorial, one
asks why the author has not
yet been locked up,” writes
the irate Filion. “But nothing
prevents Father Ledit, whom
Rome got rid of more than
20 years ago because he was a
hindrance and dangerous,
from finding two Catholic
dailies, Le Droit and l’Action
Catholique and a whole series
of weeklies and reviews to
spread his text in hundreds
of thousands of copies.”

Filion, who is. as Catholic
and anti-Communist as they
come, cites the time when
“Father Luigi dApollonia
burst out in Relation (Jesuit
review) with a profoundly dis-
honest article, which tore out
of context a paragraph from
one of my articles to give it
a meaning which was not
there, he found an attentive
and credulous audience. Let
me add to that the periodic
denunciations of a Bob Keiser-
lyngk (editor of the Catholic
Ensign) and of a Jean Ho, and
of several other notorious
aliens who have found
Quebec favorable soil for the
cultivation of their anti-Com-
munist virus. I leave aside
deliberately the obsessed and
the maniacs like Leopold
Richer (editor of the virul-
ently anti-Communist Notre
Temps). Their case belongs to
the clinic not to journalism.”

With boundless disgust and
merciless pen, Filion describes
the atmosphere that permits
“an Adrien Arcand, notorious
fascist, to spread his Unite
Nationale in millions of copies
in the province of Quebec; a
corset salesman and fabricator
of history by the name of
Robert Rumilly, as feeble and
venal a man as ever was, ac-
cuses by pen and by word all
those people who are not ‘sup-
porters of the king’ or pha-
laigists, of being, in one or
another dangerous degree, af-
fected by communism; _ this
lew person, Camillien Houde,
emerging all slimy from the
sewers of Montreal, has only

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to bring insidious accusations
against Jacques Perraut and
against Le Devoir, to find a
sympathetic audience, even
an enthusiastic one; all of this
is of a piece and all of it is
connected.

“From Louis Philippe Roy
to Pat Walsh, from Robert
Fumilly* to Adrien Arcand to
a Joe Menard there is a di-
rect spiritual ~ relationship;
their common denominator is
Nouvelles et potins (a scandal
sheet); their natural product,
I was going to say their man-
ure, is Duplessis.”

The article of the two La-
val professors and the _ ter-
rible wrath of Le Devoir
would seem to be occasioned
by the belated recognition
that red-baiting is aimed at
them as well as at the LPP.

And yet, and this is the
_tragic-comic situation, in the
very article in Le Devoin, in
which they comment sarcast-
ically on Duplessis’ silence, in
the face of the Laval article,
they. speculate that he will
seek to answer the Laval
charges by “taking the means
(all things are possible) to
ensure that the communist
party.in the province of Que-
bee (a few individuals who
seem to need the Union Natio-
nale in order to live) approves
openly the declaration of Fa-
thers Dion and O’Neill”.

By suggesting that Duplessis
and the LPP in Quebec are
somehow in league. Filion, and
the editors of Le*Devoir them-
selves carry red-baiting to the
final reductio ad absurdum.
The merely echo’ the stupid
folly of the Liberal party
who answered Duplessis’ red-
baiting attack on Lapalme by
claiming the Union Nationale
and the Communists were
working together.

If they cannot see the con-
nection (“the direct spiritual
relationship”) between their
own infantile red-baiting and
the spewings of their political
adversaries they »will simply
have proven themselves in-
capable of learning anything.

Labor Council sponsors
political open forum

Vancouver, Lower Main-
land Trades and Labor Council
will sponsor an open forum
September 12 at 8 p.m. in
Georgia Auditorium at which
the leaders of all political
parties will be invited, to state

their position in regard to
labor. #
Decision to sponsor the

meeting was made by delega-
tes this week after the council
officially “deplored” Bennett’s
decision to call a snap election.

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