: ‘serving, on SA | fight Se 5 eee . -@ merchant seamen’s tion act, and its pas- * an Order-in-Council is tt d a step in the right di- y officials of that: union. ilations, known as the - Seamen’s Compensa- “& alations, 1945, approved ‘der-in-Council PC 4755 stive August 1, provide ‘ale of benefits for in- _ bility or death suffered n, in cases not covered {ferent provincial Work- -ompensation Acts, and o. # arable to those under the “) l-act. RTE Zoe “3 jer provides for the fol- 0 . se of death the allow- ; 25.00 for burial and: the ech 4 Of $125.00 for trans- aa © to place of. burial. Al (ie for dependents for *r month. “Where there GY en under 16, $25.00 per - allowed for each child. under 18, $20.00 per allowed. e -cent of average weekly for lifes permezent'! partial dis- ‘nd temporary total dis- dr as long as disability , the aHewance is the , | his te be not less than _ Br week in any case. wt ) a ‘Adition free “hospitaliza- skilled nursing service, ' limbs and dental appar- _ be provided, the latter p laced. and kept in repair. @ oyer is compelled to fur- - ediate conveyance to the sae phySician, or seamen’s p2enting on, the,passage of sulations, J. M. “Digger” Fictory 1 was. Se eee by the Canadian Seamen’ SGaion ek, with the announcement from Ottawa by Lionel : ir Minister of Transport, ofthe institution of a com- ive scheme, to provide workmen’s compensation: for ; Canadian ships in home. andy permanent _ disability | iv ‘Smith;)"" West Coast representa- “The | Merchant Sea- |. tive of the CSU, ‘told PA, passage of the men’s Compensation Regulations, 1945, as a wartime measure; is a : partial victory for the Canadian | Seamen’s Union, which has fought | for the passage of legislation to include seamen in compensation- regulations. Merchant seamen at present are under Federal jur- isdiction, and it is the feeling that -an amendment - to the present “‘Workmen’s Compensation Act should be passed, making provi- sion for merchant seamen on a Federal scale.” “The passage of Order-in-Coun- cil PC 4755 is definitely a step in the right direction, but our final objective is permanent Fed- eral. legislation providing for sea- men who suffer injury, disability or death. The passage of these regulations as Orders-in-Council will not mean -that the union will cease to press for permanent legislation.’’* .The Order-in-Council draws at- tention to the fact that existing provincial workmen’s compensa- tion acts vary considerably in their general provisions and seales of benefits, and do not provide adequate protection for seamen on Canadian ships on home trade or foreign voyages. The cost of the compensation is to be paid by the employer, as well as cost of administration. The minister announced that a board responsible to himself as/ minister of transport has been created to administer the Mer- chant Seamen’s Compensation Regulations, 1945. The new board will consist of three members. All three members are officials of the government service and will serve on the board without re- muneration. Three great World-Wide News Services to keep SUN readers in touch “with all the happen- ings, e everywhere! BRITISH UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATED PRESS CANADIAN PRESS For News—- Read THE SUN Phone MArine 1161 Daily Home Delivery. ADVOCATE—PAGE 7 “DIGGER” SMITH “West ‘Coast Rep. CSU | natural outcome of the Soviet |and aggressor nations and her -self-determination. -chiefs' of. staff had studied mili Pacific ion’s; position toward fascist desire to assist in furthering the eolonial people’s struggle for The actual outbreak of war was presaged last April. in Foreign Commisar V. M. Molo- tov’s note to the Japanese gov- ernment serving notice of‘ inten- tion -to terminate the non- aggression pact, which normally would. have remained in effect until 1946. This was followed by the communique issued by the Big Three at Potsdam which, while making no specific’ men- tion of Japan, contained the significant. statement that the Soviet, British and American tary matters “of mutual inter- ests. Fred Rose “Clement Attlee, replacing ‘the late Mr. Churchill? as prime minister of Great Britain will tend towards a closer friendship between the Soviet Union- and Great Britain,’ Fred Rose, LPP, MP for Mortreal-Cartier and guest speaker, stated at the Third Annual United Nations Picnic held last Sunday at*Con- federation Park. that. there were -re- who of Germany Charging actionaries dreamed turning against Soviet Union and then up the pieces.” Rose stated that these reactionaries , had been foiled in their attempts, and the Soviet Union had the war stronger than ever. “picking emerged from He pointed cut that in voting down the reactionary and Tory elements who supperted Church- ill in Britain, the pecple had in United Nations Picnic the. mind a change in the foreign policies of Great Britain which would include the granting of freedom te Jndju, and assure Addresses close’ relations between the US SR and Great Isritain. 7 The picnic was well attended, a crowd estimated at nearly 3,000 in the Joyce and Larry Chen, children uf the family whe were recently threatened with ap- peared on the -x-gram and sang United Nations songs. joining any activites. eviction, and guerrilla Vera Miss US Sit won the Miss United Nations Contest, and the tume eantest was won by Rose- marie Pscpovitch, dressed in the traditional Ukrainian costume. The prizewinners in the draw were as follows: Olszewski, ¢ es rational cosa First prize, Mrs. Sinka; sec- ond prize, H. Woytowicz; third, Glen Thomas; fourth, Rose Washtock; fifth, Eli Badovi- nac; sixth, J. L. Taylor; sev- enth, Lily Cyetkovich; eighth, P. Kohut; ninth, H. Selano; tenth, W. Prokopik; cleventh, F. Roden; twelfth, Jim Mc- Leod. PACIFIC NORTH STAR AND B.C. OWNED AND OPERATED PACIFIC MEATS 8950 Shaughnessy BRANDS Grandview Funeral Chapel COMMERCIAL DRIVE at KITCHENER STREET . HAstings 0083 UULEECOSUEUSTASSCODEDESEDST Completely Remodelled and Renovated Owned and Operated by Simmons and McBride Nesananesusperebarsoeenressy MAR. CLARE SMALL, Manager i a In the 90-day period since V-E Day, the Soviet has been engaged in the giant task of moving new armies and _ supplies eastward across vast Siberia to strengthen the famous Far Eastern Red Army for a knockout punch. For across the border separating the Soviet Maritime Province from Manchuria is . Japan’s most powerful’ and-. best equipped force — the Kwangtung Army, long a potential threat against the Socialist state. Most experts consider that the first large scale: land fighting in the Pacific war will come when the Kwang- tung army is forced into action, and that will undoubtedly come now, may %in fact be already under way. Pee The area of conflict is almost equally certain. It will undoubt- edly take place at the start along the entire northeast section of the Mongolian-USSR. boundary. This area is not new to Soviet- Japanese warfare... Twice -:the Japanese warlords attempted “to stick their snouts in the Soviet garden’’—once in 1938 and again, in 1939. In August 1938 at Changkufeng, southeast of Vlad- ivostock, there was*a regular battle in which whole infantry divisions and every type of modern arms participated. In the summer of 1939 they tried again at. Nomonhan, at the east- ern tip of Outer Mongolia, where a whole series of battles, involv- ing entire army corps, were waged. Both struggles ended with a clearcut victory for Soviet arms. A similar outcome can _ be expected this time, though on a far greater scale and with far more decisive and far-reaching zesults. During--the 1938-1939 period, the Soviet and Japanese armies in Siberia and Manchuria were approximately equal. Now Soviet strength has been greatly increased by reinforcements from the European Red Army, and. there is small reason to doubt that ;Russian forces will soon be cutting deep into Japan- ese territory in Manchuria in an all-out drive to completely smash Japan’s hold on the Asiatic mainland. Soviet entry into the war is certain to bring greater pressure to bear upon~ Chiang Kai-shek for a democratic solution of the Chinese political crisis, made even more acute in the past week by Kuomintang army attacks on the Communist re- gions. 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