B.C. LUMBER WORKER

“2nd Issue, July

NEWS DIGEST:
Items Of Interest To
Labor In Capsule Form

Union Motoreade Demands Action

OTTAWA — Over 200 unemployed workers from many Ontario
communities told the federal cabinet here that drastic action to im-
plement a full employment policy in Canada should be undertaken
immediately by the government. The jobless arrived in a 50-odd car
motoreade which started in hard-hit Windsor, Ontario, and gathered
strength as it moved toward its meeting with six Tory cabinet min-
isters in the center block of Ottawa’s Parliament Buildings. The
main brief was presented by Canadian UAW director George Burt,
a general vice-president of the Canadian Labor Congress.

Dodge States Pilots Necessary
OTTAWA — Canadian Labor Congress executive vice-president
William Dodge said here that the CLC believes “serious navigation
hazards” would result from the removal of pilots on certain sections
of the Great Lakes waterways. Mr. Dodge called on the federal goy-
ernment to make pilots mandatory on all Lakes waters. The pilots
have been on strike for some time in support of this position.

Hospital Insurance Act Passed
OTTAWA — The House of Commons passed the Hospital In-
surance Act, heard Prime Minister Diefenbaker declare that no
further extensions of seasonal unemployment benefits would be in-
troduced, but spent most of the week debating the budget.

Political Murders Disposes Myth
BRUSSELS — The “political murders” of former Hungarian
premier Imre Nagy, General Pal Maleter and other leaders of the
1956 freedom fight in Hungary “finally dispose of the myth that
Soyviet-controlled regimes haye been ‘liberalized’ since Stalin’s
death”, ICFTU general secretary J. H. Oldenbroek said in a state-

ment here.

Unemployment Up From Last Year
OTTAWA — Unemployment in Canada in the month of May,
although lower than April totals was still considerably higher than
the May, 1957 figure, according to the joint monthly release on the
employment situation put out by DBS and the federal Labor de-

partment.
C.C.F. Convention To Be Bilingual

OTTAWA — The CCF announced here that its forthcoming
biennial National Convention, to be held in Montreal July 23-25, will
be fully bilingual for the first time, and for the first time will yel-
come delegates from Newfoundland, thus ensuring that all ten
provinces will be represented. About 300 delegates are expected.

Israel Centre Receives $50,000 .

WASHINGTON — The William Green Memorial Fund Com-
mittee has made a contribution of $50 thousand toward the con-
struction of a Histadrut Cultural center in Haifa, Israel.

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Trade With China!

Probably one of the most important developments in
recent years was the trip to China by Royal Bank of
Canada President James Muir. Upon his return Mr. Muir
had some startling remarks to say about our trading and

other relations with China.

He pointed out that other Wes-
tern Nations were in China
drumming up a great deal of
trade for their countries, while
Canadians, as he put it, “seem to
sit back and wait for a silver
platter deal”.

H. R. MacMillan

Another well known Canadian,
at least well known on the West
Coast, visited China recently and
came back with the same story.
H. R. MacMillan, who has had
something to do with B.C.’s lum-
ber industry, upon his return
from China, had substantially the
same things to say as did Mr.
Muir.
The average millworker and
logger has known of the need for
expanded trade for some time,
but the average working man
isn’t in the position to put his
thoughts into practice. Hence, the
long delay in developing trade
with China.
To expand trade is quite a nice
objective and would certainly as-
sist both segments of the lum-
bering industry.

Total Exports
From the statistical informa-
tion that is available Canada’s
average annual exports of lumber

to China before the war amount-
ed to some $29,000,000 while
since the war the total exports
have dropped to only $1,000,000.
From this will be seen that there
is a great potential market, even
if we don’t take into considera-
tion the tremendous expansion in
China in the past year.

Of course, trade with China is
connected with the diplomatic re-
cognition of that country’s Gov-
ernment. It is simply not sensible
to expect that we can expand our
trade with this country while, at
the same time, withhold diplo-
matic courtesy. As Mr. Muir put
it, “Regarding the so-called “re-
cognition” of China in the politi-
cal sense, one just does not see
how 600,000,000 people, which
may be 1,000,000,000 before too,
long, can be given myopic treat-

ment.”
US. Dictates

We in Canada are following
the dictates of the Government
of the U.S. in the question of
recognition, being reluctant to op-
pose our neighbors to the South.
In relating his remarks to trade
with China, Mr. Muir was most
diplomatic for he merely said “It
was galling to meet and to talk

with the selling forces of other
Western powers.” You can bet
your last dollar that these “other
Western powers” included the
United States. -

What is liable to happen is
that after these U.S. traders gar-
ner enough orders, the Govern-
ment of the U.S. will extend
diplomatic recognition and Can-
ada will be left holding the bag.

Develop Own Markets

It is time that we in Canada
took heed of the remarks of such
people as Mr. Muir and started
to live our own lives, and de-
velop markets for our own lum-
ber, plywood, pulp and paper.

Opposition
Inconvenient

LISBON (CPA) — Portugese
dictator Dr. Antonio de Oliv-
eria Salazar in a recent tele-
vised speech here said that “it
is not convenient to have an
opposition party”.

In a recent election campaign,
about 23 per cent of the voters
cast ballots against the Salazar
candidate and for opposition
leader Gen. Humberto Delgado.

Election Fixed

Gen. Delgado, who said the
election was fixed, promised that
if he was victorious he would fire
Salazar. Salazar fired Delgado
from his military post after the
election.

New restrictions on freedom,
and new taxation, was forecast
by observers commenting on Sal-
azar’s latest speech.

Salazar said that press cen-
sorship would be continued be-
cause the “problem is extraordin-
arily difficult and a satisfactory
solution has not been found”.

He termed strikes “a crime”
and said that “we are obliged
to handle these matters with ex-
treme harshness”.

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