All-Slav peace dispiay

At the recent Northern Ontario Exhibition at

display was seen by 50,000
sored handicraft displays,
Lisa Bondar.

visitors.

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Schumacher, the Timmins All-Slav Committee’s peace
Canadian Russian, Ukrainian and Croatian organizations spon-
such as that shown above. Attendants are Mrs. Mary Maniak and Mrs.

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Soviet Union wo

rks, builds

consistently for peace

would prevent any further develop-
ment in the Soviet Union for a
quarter of a century.

In his report to Hitler on the
extent and effectiveness of Nazi
vandalism he wrote: “A period of
25 years, that is the time Russia
will need to restore what we have
destroyed.” But the Soviet people
decided otherwise. Instead of tak-
ing 25 years to restore what the
Nazis had wantonly destroyed, they
decided to accomplish the task in
five years. :

Furthermore, they decided, in
thousands of meetings held in every
place of work throughout the coun-
try, that concurrently with the
battle to make good the wanton
destruction wrought by the Nazis,
the same tempo of organized eco-
nomic activity should be developed
in those parts of the country which
had been left free from Nazi occu-
pation and the total result of their
first five post-war years should be
both the reconstruction of the de-
vastated areas and an increase of
their total production to 50 percent
above its highest pre-war level.

Workefs and farmers, architects
and engineers, scientists and teach-
ers, the men and women in every

field of social activity throughout

the vast land of the Soviets, joined
in a great country-wide creative
competition as to who could do the
best and make the greatest contri-
bution to overtaking within five
years what the Nazis had planned
to be and the imperialists had hop-
ed would be a 25-year handicap.
And they have done it—in less than
the five years that they allowed
themselves.

One could not ask for more con-
Clusive proof of the inner vitality
and unquenchable fire of socialist
society. & :

In their gigantic reconstruction
of Byelorussia, the Ukraine, the
North Caucasags and the southern
and western parts of Russia, the
Soviet people have not contented
themselves with simply restoring
what the Nazis destroyed. They
have built better than the citizens
of those places before the war ever
knew. ae

To me some of the changes were
amazing. The last time I was in
the Soviet Union was in 1938 and
at that time the contrast with the
early twenties was striking. But
many of the developments and the
changes that I saw during May,

1950, marked a greater advance}

Over 1938 than’ the developments
of 1938 had marked over 1917.

‘The city of Minsk was destroy-
ed by the Nazis. I expected to
see piles of ruins similar to the
stark ruins that one sees all over
the city of London. Instead, I
saw a new city. New, not only
in the sense that it has been re-
built but also in the sense that
it is now a beautiful modern so-
cialist city. -
It stands where the old Minsk
stood. Most of its new streets and
broad avenues (vistas) flanked by
modern homes and other buildings
bear the same names but the new
Minsk is planned and built for the
people who live there. The same
is the case in all the vast recon-
struction of the USSR. ‘
The difference between the motive |
forces of sccialist construction and
of capitalist construction are illus-
trated in a striking manner in the
new Moscow. The broad avenues
which radiate from the centre of
the city haven’t “just grown”, they
are part of a plan — 4 plan which
is actually inspiring just to study.
The largest new building that was
going up was at about the 12th
storey. Upon the Lenin Hills, it
was visible from any spot in Mos-
cow. It’s the new university. It
will have living quarters for 6,000
students. ae
“rhe subway, Which has been ex-
tended greatly since I wag there in
1938 and is still being extended to
new suburbs, is not only a rapid
transit system, it is also a thing
of beauty. I asked a young Rus-
sian who was speaking in English
whether there was any definite rea-
son for building such beautiful but
expensive stations; served by broad
smooth-running escalators, decor-
ated with genuine works of art,
lined with comfortable seats. i
His answer Was typical, You
must forgive my weak English, but
do you know of any art gallery or
museum where so many people go
each day or can be influenced bet-
ter than by bringing some cultural

‘amenities to us on our Metro?”

“In the beautiful city of Kiev, on
the collective farms, in the several
factories that I visited, I found that
same attitude. It could be sum-
med up as a feeling that: ‘We've;
got to work and build and improve
our technique, we're going to ex-

pand our production, but it’s got

to make life richer.”

price reductions have brough#
down prices so that all the con-
sumer goods purchased by all the

eople of the Soviet Union through
the year 1949 could be purchased
®

today for 236 billion roubles less
than they would have cost before
the price reductions started.

_ While these sweeping price re-
ductiong have been bringing down
what has to be paid for goods, the
incomes of the workers and far-

jmers have increased tremendously.

Result is that production of some
things cannot be increased rapidly
enough to keep up with the grow-
ing demand.

The achievements indicated appre
give the lie to .the propaganda
spread by the capitalist press and
radio, <

The Soviet people are working,
creatively and enthusiastically on
a new higher stage of the harnes-
sing of nature in the service of
mankind. They have opened a new
chapter in man’s age-old struggle
to make this planet “a place of
joy and peace for all.’ Counting
upon peace, they are devoting en-
ormous resources of material, ma-
chines and labor power to under-
takings which are designed to bear
full fruit only for the next, coming
generation. :

They are changing the courses
of rivers, irrigating and fertilizing
deserts, modifying climates. They
are developing new and more pro-
ductive types of cereals and even
more productive cows.

While we permit all the resour-
ces of the capitalist countries to
be concentrated upon: preparation
for war, atomic war, they are
concentrating their energy upon
showing that peace has more
glory and greater victories than
war.

The achievements indicated above
are but the primary elements of
the really fundamental change that
the people of the Soviet-Union are
bringing about. In the course of
their reconstruction and the build-
ing of their country without land-
lords or capitalists and according
to a widely discussed plan, the So-
viet people are changing, yes, lit-
erally remaking themselves.

The working people of the Soviet
Union are confident of the future
and it is above all confidence in
themselves. Today it is becoming
clear that, of all the great and in-
spiring prospects that it is already
opening up, the most important
product of the building of socialism
will be socialist people. That is
the ultimate and decisive superior-
ity of socialism over capitalism,
the guarantee of socialist victory
and mankind’s advance to Commu-
nist society.

William Turner
named to contest

Burnaby

ncil

BURNABY, B.C.

COU

William Turner, president of South View Ratepayers’
Association, announced this week that he will run for council

in Burnaby municipal election
date.

Three council seats, currently
held by two CCF’ers and an NPA
politician, are being contested this
year. Turner feels that “new
blood” is needed in council to carry
through this program:

e Re-assessment of homes in
line with the real value of property.
(Last year the mill rate was re-
duced by one mill, but during as-
sessment higher value was plated
on homes, resulting in the average
citizen having to pay more taxes).

e@ Adoption of a business tax.

@ Restoration of the ward sys-
tem. (“I would like to see a plebis-
cite held in Burnaby this year on
a return to the ward system,” says
Bill Turner. “Large areas of the
municipality are neglected because
there hasn’t been any direct res-
ponsibility on the shoulders of the
councillors”).

@ Installation of an incinerator
for garbage disposal. (At present
Burnaby’s garbage is all piled on
one dump).

@ Setting up of a |permanent
board to work with the engineer-
ing department to survey the muni-
cipality and introduce a long range
program of dyking, sewer develop-
ment and drainage.

Turner, 41, is a busy citizen. In
addition to his work with South
View Ratepayers’ Association, he
is vice-president of Burnaby Rate-
payers’ Council, and an active mem-

next month as a labor candi-

_

ber of local 213, International Bro-
therhood of Electrical Workers.

“From the point of view of health,
as well as the need for moderniza-
tion, the installation of an inciner-
ator for garbage disposal is one
of the key things which must be
done next year,” said Turner. “At
the present time Burnaby is spend-
ing 2.2 percent of its entire expen-
ditures for garbage disposal.”

Three labor candidates will
contest school board elections.
They are Mrs. Catherine Marsh,
Elie Lachance and Ken Rich-
ards.

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Capitol Hill residents
honor Wilson family |

BURNABY, B.C

More than 100 residents gathered at Capitol Hill Com-
munity Hall on Thursday last week to honor former council
lor Ken Wilson, his wife Elizabeth Wilson, school trustee
for several terms, and their daughers Lena and Mrs. Ruby

Gamble. After 25 years’ residence
in Burnaby, during which time they
have played a prominent part in
municipal life and have been close-
ly identifiéd with the Labor-Pro-
gressive party and the progressive
labor movement, Mr. and Mrs. Wil-
son have now moved to Vancouver
to live.

Jack Stevenson, president of Van-
couver Trades and Labor Council
and himself a long-time resident
on Capitol Hill, made the presen-
tation of a silver tea service on
behalf of the community, remark-
ing:

“Mr. and Mrs. Wilson have prov-
en to be good workers and citi-
zens and respected residents ‘of

Burnaby. We hope they will fur-
ther the.cause of the working peo-
ple wherever they may live.”

J. Moody, president of Capitol
Hill Ratepayers Association, ob-
served that it was largely due to
Mrs. Wilson’s efforts that Capitol
Hill now had a new school and he
praised the work done by both Mr.
and Mrs. Wilson in “making Bur-
naby a better place to live.”

Head table guests included Jack
Stevenson, J. Moodie, Mrs. B. Wood,
Mrs. F. Marsh, A. Armstrong and
J. Green. \

An interesting program of music
and dancing was provided by mem-_
bers of the Happier Old Age Club.

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