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Wen 5 ni No. 45 at HTitey sees El el se Ing y iL ot OY RRL UPd EE LA LAR Ae ely, + yaa GEA EO) Una tll etd 4a Waneouver British Columbia, November 4, 1955 SS Vea wave ewe “4g PRICE TEN CENTS Decision of Vancouver City Council, made up of Non-Par- san Association aldermen and Be NPA mayor, to adopt a “hold-the-line” policy for wages ‘I 1956 has every civic em- Ployee fighting mad. ee to 100 executive mem- Ts, Job stewards and dele- Sates attending a wage con- Beepce of Vancouver Civic Em- Epyees Union, Outside Work- 5 8, set their sights on a 10-cent and the-board hourly; hike, unanimously passed a “solution blasting city council oe the action, “taken without ‘Nsulting any of the unions Concerned.” et is the intention of city guncil to have its hold-the- Re policy adopted by the €tropolitan Committee, em- acing all municipalities in Unions prepare fo fight NPA council’s wage freeze line the Greater Vancouver area. “In effect, this is a com- bination of the employers set up to supercede the normal collective bargaining proced- ures between the respective councils and the employees,” said the union resolution. The wage conference pledged “full and active support” to the negotiating committee in pres- sing for contract changes, and extended “fraternal greetings to all civic employees in the Greater Vancouver area.” It also gave ‘“‘support to all en- deavors designed to promote mutual co-operation and friend- ship in the solution of our common problem.” Four NPA aldermen come up for re-election December 14, It isn’t likely that they will receive many votes from civic employees. Israel used as catspaw Acie / Mediterranean Sea ee eG 5, Red Sea ad RSTATUTE MILES Bgyetsion between Israel and Bia’ fanned by U.S. and sh imperialists, has been Ightened by clashes at El and Kuntilla. [PP will name 40 candidates he Labor-Progressive party 5 s ave at least 40 candidates Ae field to contest the next a ang election as compared € 25 it nominated in 1953. “ae decision, reaffirmed last Yuk €nd at the party’s B.C.- with» convention, was coupled org _Plans to undertake an “nizational campaign in the . central constituencies of not Province which the LPP has Previously contested. gen ting that some of the big- Sive of Bennett government’s tn Ways had. been in north- ritish Columbia., LPP Cial organizer Alf Dew- Said the fight must be “into the Socred S°vernment’s stronghold.” OVin St Carr, TEL AVIV Talk of a preventive war by Israel against Egypt emanating from Washington and London and repeated by irresponsible agents of imperialism in Israel itself is aimed at® compelling Egypt to break with its policy of neutrality and resistance to the creation of an anti-Soviet military alliance in the Middle East, Moishe Sneh, prominent Israeli labor leader, charged in a speech here recently. Sneh is one of six Commun- ist deputies in the Israeli Knes- seth (parliament) A life-long Zionist and one- time head of Haganah, Jewish resistance army in Palestine, before establishment of the state of Israel, Sneh was one of a thousand members of the left Socialist party who joined the ranks of the Communist party two years ago. “The imperialist circles of the West are driving Israel to- ~ wards aggression against Egypt,” Sneh said. “Why are they so incensed at Egypt?” the fiery MP asked. And he answered: “Because Egypt is the biggest and strongest Arab country to resist the U.S.-British scheme for the establishment of a mili- tary pact in the Middle East. Egypt resisted and is still re- sisting the Turkey-Iraq_ war- bloc under the aegis of Wash- ington. : ” “Rgypt’s example is being followed by other Arab coun- tries who refuse categorically to join a military alliance with the Western powers. Egypt established friendly relations and concluded economic treaties with the Soviet Union, People’s China, India, Czechoslovakia and other countries of the so- cialist and neutral camps, be- ginning thereby to free itself Continued on back page See MIDDLE EAST MOLOTOV AT GENEVA ‘Let us agree step by step’ GENEVA A call to back words with deeds in. international affairs and move forward step by step to the settlement of all outstanding matters was made here last week by Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov as the Big Four Foreign Ministers conference opened at the UN Palace of Nations. Molotov pointed out that statements had been made which were marked by a desire to obscure the positive resu Nigel Morgan was re-elected to his eleventh term as provincial leader at the B.C.-Yukon convention of the Labor-Progressive party in Clinton Hall here over the weekend. More than 400 people attended a banquet at the Russian People’s Home on Friday evening to honor Morgan’s 10 years of leadership. ‘Tributes were paid by Tom McEwen, editor of the Pacific Tribune, and LPP national leader Tim Buck. Photo shows Buck (left) and Morgan. THEY PUT CANADA FIRST Fighting spirit at LPP meet “Tam proud to be a Canadian, and I am even prouder to be a Canadian Communist, for I love my country and I know that it is the Canadian Communists, members of the Labor-Progressive. party, who are leading the fight to re- store Canada’s independence by fighting against the U.S. Buck will speak in city on Friday Tim Buck, LPP national leader, will conclude his 10- day visit to B.C. this Friday, November 4, with a public rally in Pender Auditorium here, be- ginning at 8 p.m. On Monday this week ‘he addressed an audience of more than 200 people in Victoria and on Wednesday he spoke.in New Westminster. ° Over last weekend he atten- ded the LPP B.C.-Yukon con- vention, which he described as “one of the finest conventions I have ever attended.” grab of our natural resources. This is the first LPP convention I have ever attended, but I am a young man and in good health, and I hope to have many years ahead of me in which I will fight for our party’s program, and during which I may have the opportunity to attend many more conventions.” It was Sandy Mowers speak- ing, a youthful part-time farmer and part-time logger from Notch Hill, and the delegates and ob- servers attending the LPP con- vention in Clinton Hall here over the weekend gave him a rousing ‘round of applause. When Sandy graduated from high school in Salmon Arm he Continued on page 7 See LPP Its of the previous Geneva conference and this showed the obstacles in the way of achiev- ing the objectives set by the earlier talks between the Big Four heads of government. He drew attention to the steps taken by the Soviet Union in the last three months to relax international: tension, such as the reduction of the Soviet armed forces by 640,000, the giving up by the Soviet Union of its bases in Porkala, Finland, nd Port Arthur, China, toget- her with the general develop- ment of contacts and coopera- tion between East and West. Dealing with the agenda, Molotov said: “It is in connection with the problem of European security, which is the principal one facing the nations of Europe, that we are to consider the problem of Germany, which is subordinate to it. “The Soviet Union favors, as before, settlement of the German problem in conformity with the interests of European security, and the reunification of Germany along peaceful and democratic lines. “We assume that in settling the German problem reliable guarantees should be set. up, so that German militarism may not arise again to threaten the peace and tranquility of the nations of Europe.” Molotov pointed out that re- militarisation of Western Ger- many was already being put into effect and this had created new obstaclés to the settle- ment of the German problem. “Under present conditions,” he declared, “an appropriate settlement can only be brought about gradually through a re- duction of international: tension in Europe, with the setting up of a reliable system of collec- tive security and’ as a result of better cooperation between the two parts of Germany.” Meeting protests firing of Stukus About 240 hardy members of B.C. Lions braved Wednesday night’s storm to attend a pro- test meeting in Pender Audi- torium and endorse a resolu- tion asking club directors to review their decision not to renew Annis Stukus’ contract as coach. ; The meeting also passed a resolution recommending that Stukus be hired as general manager if the board upholds its decision to fire him as coach. (See SPORTLIGHT, Page 11)