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28, 1956

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CHINA RECOGNITION

for our national democratic
cause of Canadian indepen-
dence and ending the domin-
ation of our country by U.S.
imperialism.”

Morris is leader of the three-
member fraternal delegation
from Canada representing the
LPP. Other members are A.
A. MacLeod of Toronto and
Tom McEwen of Vancouver.

In his greetings to the eighth
the world’s. big-

congress of
Communist party, Mor-
ris said:
“Your werk, comrades, is

world.

ng the
or centuries from
development by
and im-

rapidly ‘char
Held back
her true
feudal landlordism
perialist exploitation, China’s
chains were broken and na-
tional liberation was won un-
der your party’s leadership.
In the words of Comrade Mao
Tse-tung, ‘The people of
China are standing up. The
day of insults is over!

“Now your great country is
advancing to socialism through
people’s democratic dic-
i whose steel core is

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‘he camp of peace, led by
the Soviet Union and _ the
People’s Republic of China,
embracing the lands. of peo-
ple’s democracy, and now in-
cluding an ever-widening zone
of states like India, Indonesia
and Egypt, not only guaran-
tees the final defeat of im-
perialist colonialism but also
brings closer the success of

Continued

UNITY

tempt to assist fusion in Italy
on Social Democratic lines,

Commin said that the pros-
pects of unification were fav-
orable ,in spite of some diffi-
culties caused by differences
in the trade unions.

Phillips said that a special
commission of. the Interna-
tional would meet in October
to consider disarmament; and
in November, the full council
of the International . would
meet to review: 3)

Disarmament and collective
security; aid to under-devel-
oped areas; recent develop-
ments in Eastern Europe; re-
ports of a conference of Asian
Socialist parties to be held in
Bombay soon.

the cause of peace and de-
mocracy in the western capi-
talist countries. ...

“Through the long years of
your struggle for national lib-
eration our people expressed
their support for your cause,
in the Hands Off China move-
ment against Japanese aggres-
sion and in your battles for
national freedom.”

A stormy ovation greeted
Morris when he mentioned Dr.
Norman Bethune, the Cana-
dian surgeon and Communist
who lies in Chinese soil, as
one who “symbolized the true
feelings of Canadians towards
the people of China.”

JOE WALLACE

City reception
for poet set

Joe Wallace, well-known
Canadian poet now on a cross-
country tour, will arrive in
Vancouver on. Friday this
week, the local New Frontiers
committee announces.

Cultural groups in the city
are making plans to have him
appear at various events dur-
ing the first two weeks of his
stay and he will then go on
to Vancouver Island.

On Saturday afternoon, Oc-
tober 6, New Frontiers com-
mittee will hold a reception

for Wallace in Pender Audi- ~

torium canteen, at which he
will autograph copies of his
new book of poems, Hi Sister,
Hi Brother. Tea will be serv-
ed and there will be a short
musical program.

Continued

STAMPS

says that the whole matter of
trading stamp schemes de-
mands’ federal prosecution
through the attorneys-general
of the various provinces in
which such schemes operate.

Under the Criminals Code
Sections 369 and 322 trading
stamp companies are deemed
illegal. The original ban took
place because racketeers gave
out stamps, but disappeared
when customers come to claim
their premiums.

The Retail Merchants’ group
is currently preparing a brief
to. present to federal Justice
Minister Stuart Garson, urg-
ing that prosecutions be
launched. The RMA spokes-
man deplored the fact that

provincial attorneys - general
were “shying away” from
prosecutions,

Here’s what happens in the
trading stamp scheme. A pro-
moting company (what is re-
ferred to as a premium-wares
house) approaches the retailer,
such as the IGA chain (Inde-
pendent Grocers’ Alliance)
which in eastern Canada has
been trying to beat the fierce
competition of the Loblaw,
A&P and Dominion chains. It
offers to sell him a bulk sup-
ply of trading stamps.

In Ottawa’s IGA plan, now
in Toronto too, and with Safe-
way at the Lakehead, and in
Western Canada, for every 10
cents worth of purchases a
shopper gets one stamp. He
pastes the stamps into a book.

Then he consults a catalogue
listing 300 items — from elec-
tric razors and toasters to
chinaware, bicycles and radios.
So many full books of stamps
gives him the item listed free
of charge.

The device is calculated to
lure customers to the given
store, increase volume of sales
and so pay for stamps which
the retailer bought in bulk.

But according to Dominion
Stores’ McCormack, when
everybody gets into it, trying
to take a lion’s share of the
fixed consumer dollar, the
whole idea falls to pieces.
Since no one has a monopoly
on the plan, each retailer who
goes into it, fights his compe-
tition to see which can give
away the most “gifts.”

There is an obvious limit to
this, since not all of them can
swell their sales volume, and
the inevitable result must be
a general rise in prices here,
there and everywhere in order
to pay for the premiums.

The consumer gets it in the
neck, as always, the promoter
goes off with the biggest slice,
and the original manufacturer
of the item also does a roaring
trade.

Firmly in agreement with
the head of Dominion Stores,
Rands declares:

“Nobody is getting anything
for nothing. There’s only one
way in which the retailer can
pay for the premiums he is
giving away. It must come
out of the consumer. Partly
because of these various gim-
micks the cost of living is
higher. There is no doubt

about that.”

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union itself.
a one-year contract.

Strike continued by

As the strike ef Tunnel and Rock Workers Unio#
tinued this week under the direction of the strikers
selves, union secretary William Hunchuk voluntarily,
to court to deny he was evading service of a noti¢
answer contempt of court charges.

Earlier in the week Mr.
Justice Sullivan had reserved
judgment on contempt charges
against eight union. members,
accused of continuing picket-
ing at the Upper Campbell
Lake project in spite of a
court injunction.

When asked to commit the
eight men to jail for contempt
of court, the judge observed
tartly that he has ‘no sym-
pathy with the idea that some-
body in a foreign land is going
to dictate the interests of
workers here.”

Contrators’ counsel A. Cam-
pbell Des Brisay said that
similar dictation applies to
most unions in B.C.

“It applied in the days of
coolie labor, too,” snapped the
judge.

Attempts to mediate the dis-
pute between Hod Carriers
and. the breakaway Tunnel
and Rock Workers have been
abandoned by Donald Mac-
Donald, secretary-treasurer of
Canadian Labor Congress, fol-
lowing refusal of Carl Berg,
Hod Carriers’ international
representative, to negotiate
directly with the rock men.

At the Upper Campbell Lake
hydro project Jack Ross led
some electrical workers
through the picket line this
week.

Strike of electrical workers at the big Ferranti plant
Mount Dennis, a Toronto suburb, is now in its
month, with strength of the picket line still increasing:
shows a striker and his family at a recent street dance of
ized by United Electrical Workers Union.
2 battle for wages and seniority, has become a fight for ”
A settlement is now being discussed base®

SEPTEMBER 28, 1956 — PACIFIC TRIBUNE —

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