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1954

McEwen reports from Moscow

By TOM McEWEN
MOSCOW

My heart throbbed to the music
ef a Soviet Army massed band of
over 1000 instruments blending
with thunder of a 37-gun salute
from the Kremlin battery herald-
ing Moscow’s celebration of 37th
anniversary of the great October
Revolution. With Charlie Sims
and a group of British workers,
I stood on the left of the Lenin-
Stalin Mausoleum and watched
a million people march through
Moscow’s historic Red Square on
November 7.

Around us were and .women
from China, India, Tibet, the Peo-
ple’s Democracies of Europe, peo-
ples of all nations, thrilled with
this unforgettable pageant of a
free people, masters of their own
destiny with their future in their
own hands. Even men wearing
the uniform of the Royal Cana-
dian Air Force were there.

| knew I was witnessing a
spectacle—reflected in the laugh-
ing eyes of the little Soviet child
and the warm handshake of the
worker from far Tibet — which
would have an enduring impact
on the future of humanity.

Here was a people marching
whose heroism, sacrifice and ef-
fort in the cause of lasting peace
could not be denied; a people
proud of their achievements ‘and
rightly so, and confident that un-
der the leadership of their gov-
ernment and their great Com-
munist party, there was no ob-
jective. they could not achieve
in the time to come.

In his brief address to the So-
viet Army divisions massed in
Red Square, Soviet Defense Min-
ister N. A. Bulganin declared:

‘| saw Soviet people
on march for peace’

“True to the principles of
peace proclaimed by the October
Revolution, the Soviet Union, has
consistently and unwaveringly
carried out a policy of easing
international tensions, a policy of
friendship and the development
of normal relations with all
countries.”

On November 6 in the Bolshoi
Theatre, at a great concert of
leading Soviet artists marking
this anniversary, Z. Saburov of
the Communist party’s central
committee declared in his ad-

dress:

“In the minds of the people of
all countries there will live for-
ever the consciousness that the
October Revolution raised the
banner of peace and showed the
way out of the First World War.

“The first thing Soviet people
did when taking power into their
own hands was to accept the pro-
posal of the great Lenin — the
historic Decrees on Peace.

“Closely around the Commun-
ist party and the Soviet govern-
ment, the peoples of our mother-
land meet on the 37th annivers-
ary of the great October Socialist
Revolution in a situation of the
further development of the econ-
omy and the culture of our coun-
try.

““The successes of the Soviet
people are hailed with joy by the
peoples of the lands of People’s
Democracy and strengthen the
militant unity of the peoples of
the world in their struggle for
peace and democracy.”

The massed choirs concluded
this concert with the singing of
Tuilikov’s stiring song We All
Are For Peace.

Soviet output rising

The million workers who
marched through Red Square on

November 7 had something to

celebrate.

In his Bolshoi ‘Theatre address,
Saburov told how Soviet indus.
trial production had risen 63 per
cent in the past four years and
during the first ten months of
1954 had jumped by 12 percent
over last year.

Compared with 1940 Soviet in-
dustrial production this year has
recorded a 280 percent increase.
Heavy industry has topped that
with a 340 percent increase.

Similarly in Soviet agriculture,
Saburov’s report shows that vir-
gin and long fallow land brought
under the plough has reached
the staggering total of nearly 43
million acres, and the pledge of
the Soviet government and peo-
ple made at this great November
7 anniversary is to increase the
total of new land cultivation to
75 million acres by 1956.

Spelled out in° simple terms
these staggering increases in So-
viet industry and agriculture
mean a steady rise in the econ-
omic and cultural wellbeing of
_the Soviet people.

~ * *

The great November 7 celebra-
tions in Red Square began with
the youth and ended with the
youth.

When the last of the thousands
of factory workers’ contingents

had marched through — blue,
green and red clad-divisions of
Moscow sports and athletic org-
anizations marched past ‘in re-
view carrying high a sea of red
and blue banners.

Here was youth vigorous, confi-
dent and enthusiastic, energetic
builders of communism marching
towards the historic goal of the
Communist society planned by
the great architects of a new
world, Marx, Engels, Lenin and
Stalin.

The wide streets and boule-
vards in the heart of Moscow
were taken over by the people
in the evening.

Amid a spectacular display of

fireworks, thousands of citizens”

thronged the streets — family
groups, Soviet Army, Navy and
Airforce men, groups of young
people armed with accordeons
and singing their favorite songs,
as hundreds of powerful arc lights
and displays of fireworks turned
the city into a living fairyland.

In their songs, their determin-:

ation to build peace, to keep their
great Soviet Union on its 37th
birthday in the forefront as a
mighty moral and exemplary
force for world peace, was the
dominant theme. The — slogan
“Peace To The World!” spoke
from every building, from every
heart in this great demonstra-
tion.

Hewitt hopes for teaching post

John Hewitt, former Shawnigan Lake School teacher (shown here with his wife, Dorothy) is hoping
the British Columbia Teachers Federation will find him a teaching post son, but says he is prepared t

take some other iob temporarily.

realize it is difficult to get placed in mid-term.”

because of her color, and Hewitt resigned his post.

Police probe demanded
by Effie Jones, unions

Police Chief Walter Mulligan said this week that if Vancouver Police Commission

failed to give him complete support, he would resign office.

“1 intend to stick to teaching as a career,” he said this week, “but
..Mrs. Hewitt was forced to leave Shawnigan Lake sefeee

But the commission, headed by

Mayor Fred Hume, decided to back Mulligan, despite the fact that criminals are having 2
field day in Vancouver while police preoccupy themselves with such illegal activities as lot

teries and overtime parking.

Vancouver Labor Council (CCL)
on. Tuesday night called for an
investigation of the police com-
mission and the police depart-
ment. The resolution, moved by
William Stewart of the Marine
Workers, also called for a five-
man commission, an addition of
two members who should be
elected.

“It is high time a full public
investigation was made in view
of the reports of violent crime in
the city and the dissension on the
force,” said Stewart.

Vancouver Police Federal Un-
ion has been demanding a pro-
motion policy on the force “for
fair and equitable testing of men
in line for higher positions.”

Effie Jones, independent alder-
manic candidate in the December
8 civic elections, this week releas-
ed the text of a letter she has
sent to Mayor Hume dealing with
the current crime wave and with
the situation existing in Vancou-
ver’s police force.

Declaring that law enforcement
has reached such a deplorable
state that Vancouver is becoming
known as
Mrs. Jones urged “that an im-
mediate public hearing be held
into the operation of Vancouver's
police force, with full opportuni-
ty given to members: of the force
and the policemen’‘s union to be
heard.

“Such a hearing should con-
sider charges of unfair promotion,
dictatorial practises, and undue
interference in the personal lives
of members of the police force
by the chief of police,” she wrote.

Mrs. Jones also called for re-
constitution of the police com-
mission “along more democratic
lines” and proposed a five-mem-
ber commission consisting of the
mayor, two elected police com-
missioners, and two appointed
members.

Ukrainian Canadians hit
power deal with Kaiser

Condemnation of the provincial
government’s proposed deal with
the Kaiser interests for the
building of a storage dam at Ar-
row Lakes on the Columbia was

voiced in a resolution unanimous-
ly endorsed by 120 delegates at-
tending the Association of United
Ukrainian Canadians’ provincial
convention here last weekend.
The AUUC delegates also pass-
ed a resolution demanding the
building of a natural gas pipeline
from the Peace River to Vancou-

“Canada’s Chicago,” -

PEACE
BAZAAR

SATURDAY -NOV. 20

UKRAINIAN HALL
805 E, PENDER

OPENS AT 2 P.M.
’ Afternoon Tea —
Puppet Show (Afternoon)

® CHRISTMAS GIFTS AND CARDS
t

® NEEDLEWORK

And Lots Mote

Guest speaker Peter Prokop of
Toronto outlined plans for the
‘growth of the organization and
stressed the need ¢for new build-
ings in many provincial centres.
The AUUC is considering pur
chase of sites in Port ies
Vancouver, Vernon, New West-
minster and Haney. Grounds for
a children’s camp have already
been bought in the Haney area.

Hastings Odeon Theatre was
packed Sunday night for a coD
cert which wound up the AUUC
parley.

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CLOSES - ?
Dinner (6 - 8 p.m,)
— _ Concert (Evening)

® HANDICRAFTS

B.C. PEACE COUNCIL

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