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| Gov't stand on disarmament queried

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@ “All money currently spent
on the nuclear military build-up be
severely reduced and redirected
towards real human needs _in-
cluding world poverty and the pro-
motion of mutual understanding
among all nations;
® “Canada promote the con-
_ Septofa nuclear freeze followed by
areduction and final elimination of
nuclear arms by all countries;
@ “Canada immediately pro-

hibit the testing of all missiles with
nuclear capabilities, specifically the
testing of the American Cruise
missile.” :

Allevato’s letter called on Per-
rault to request that the resolution,
together with the recommenda-
tions of the minority report of the
standing committee on external af-
fairs and defence, be adopted as the
Canadian position at the UN
special session on disarmament
opening June 12.

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That minority report, signed by
three NDP MPs, two Tories and
one Liberal, calls on the govern-
ment to support a nuclear arms
freeze, to deny the U.S. permission
to test Cruise missiles in Canada
and to press all countries to re-
nounce the first use of nuclear
weapons.

Committee members also ques-
tioned Perrault about the ‘‘am-
biguity’’ of Canadian government
policy on disarmament. Catholic
Ray Cox noted that Trudeau had
won praise for his call at the 1978
UN disarmament session to “‘suf-
focate’’ the arms race but added
that the prime minister ‘‘has not
followed through.”’

And since that time Canada has
presented another image as ‘‘very
nearly a satellite of the U.S.,” said
Cox, pointing to the government’s

stated intention to allow U.S.
Cruise missiles to be tested in Cold
Lake, Alberta.

In response, Perrault maintain-
ed that ‘‘no country of her size has
made as many peace initiatives as
Canada.’’ He also echoed external
affairs minister Mark MacGuigan,
noting that the Cruise missiles to be
tested in Alberta ‘‘are not armed.”

However, he said that he would
take the committee’s request to
cabinet and agreed that alternatives
must be found to ‘‘the insane arms
race.”’

He added that he has been to the
USSR as well as the U.S. and has
met Soviet leaders.

‘*There is a world-wide yearning

for peace,”’ he said. ‘‘And it does
not confine itself to one country or
ideological position.”’

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25 years |
logging
in USSR |

If there is one difference
Harry Mackewich notices be-
tween Canada and the USSR, it
is employment.

The 62-year-old former B.C.
resident and current citizen of
the Soviet Union had hardly
gotten over his jet lag, after ar-
riving here for a visit with old
friends, when the news brought
that difference home.

‘‘The second day after my ar-
rival here, they laid off all those
hospital employees. God, I
could take them all back with
me, the USSR needs them so
badly,’’ he exclaimed.

And he should know. For the
past 25 years he’s worked in the
Soviet wood industry, and due
to short-staffing has often
found himself working two
shifts in a row.

The problem is labor short-
ages, not unemployment in a
country with a socialist system
and a planned economy that on-
ly lacks enough people to fill all
the jobs. Said Mackewich:
“You could take all the unem-
ployed in Canada and put them
to work in one district.”

Born in Byelorussia, Macke-
wich was nine years old when his
family emigrated to Canada in
1930. He spent the next 28 years
in British Columbia, working
most of his adult lifein the wood
industry.

Then, in 1958, Mackewich
did what a number of people
have done, but which has sel-
dom been mentioned. He emi-
grated to the Soviet Union.

“IT went back on my own to
help build the socialist state,”
said the woodworker with
pride. ‘‘And it has been a won-
derful life.

“Well, some went there and
left again. They didn’t get used
to their (Soviet) life. But I think
there’s more freedom there than
here,” he said with conviction.

Why? ‘‘You can speak what-
ever you desire, you can criti-
cize. And, your advice is
taken.”

He settled in Babaevo, in Vol-
ogodskaya oblast (a district,
similar to a Canadian province)
between Moscow and Lenin-
grad, where he lives today. He
has worked in the logging indus-
try there ever since, which has
been long enough to notice the
differences between the indus- ’
tries of the USSR and Canada. }

“Nobody can just chase you |
off the job. Nobody tells you to
‘hurry, hurry’ all the time. And
safety is very well watched. The
supervisor is responsible for

cut an area one year, the next
year they seed it or plant seed-
lings. They even pull up the
weeds,’’ said Mackewich.

“I didn’t see any planting or
seeding in B.C., when I worked
here,’’ he added.

Mackewich will be in B.C.
until the end of July, visiting
friends and relatives. An avid
Tribune reader and supporter
from the old days, he hopes to
find some time in his busy
schedule to help out on mailing
day.

you.”’ |
And reforestation? “‘If they ;

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