Prairie farmers face’
hardship from: storm

By NORMAN BRUDY
: REGINA—While 20 million bushels of prairie grain
lie covered with snow, rotting in the field. the betrayal of

the Diefenbaker government is brought to the surface. ||

All the election promises remain only promises. If only
the snow could bury these promises, Prime Minister Dief-

enbaker would be a happy man,

The storm has ereated hard-
Ship dnd spells ruin to thous-
ands of family farms in north-
ern and north-eastern Saskat-
chewan. The wishful thinking
ef the federal government
ministers and officials that
nice weather will change the
situation is not true. Above all
it won’t give the farmers and
their families a decent stand-
ard of living this year. This
points out the need for farm-
ers through their organizations
to take direct political action
to prevent such situations in
the future. :

Candy workers

win in Montreal
MONTREAL — Victory
came to 600 strikers at Fry-
Cadbury after nine weeks of
militant struggle against an
adamant company, attempts
to run scabs and get shipments
of chocolate out in spite of
mass picket lines.
~The 300 men and 300 wo-
men strikers faced police, in-
junctions, arrests and finally
won an agreement granting a
12-cent hourly increase, no
discrimination, and the layoff
of 60 scabs until all bona fide
union members and _=§ strikers
had been reinstated.

Reports and future weather
predictions indicate very little
will be saved. Already the
stockyards in Prince ~ Albert
and North Battleford are fill-
ing up with cattle from the

farmers who have no feed. The ,

packing monopolies are skin-
hing the farmers as well as
the hides of the cattle. Cattle
prices are dropping in some
eases.as much as $2 a hundred-
weight, and generally the
price structure is in danger.

The hard facts are that
wheat now harvested will be
of a very low grade, with
heavy moisture content. This
means a price cut of as much
as 10 cents per bushel to the
farmer. Furthermore, there is
no guarantee that the Wheat
Board will buy this type of
grain. Since most small farm-
ers have great difficulty in
storing and handling damp
grain, a great deal is lost, cut-
ting still further the income of
the , farmer.

The Saskatchewan Commit-
tee of the Communist -Party
is demanding that the federal
cabinet quit wasting its time
with “do-it-yourself”? bomb
shelters, and act at once to
save the family farms in Sas-

‘| katchewan.

Visit of Vice-President Richard Nixon to the Soviet Union

’

CPC convention in Toronto to hear Tim Buck, national leader of the party, reminisce ;
about the earlier days in the party’s history: They are, from right: William Ross, Man- ;
itoba; Camille Dionne, Quebec; William Tuomi, Alberta; Bruce Magnusson, Ontario;

Nigel Morgan, British Columbia.

ON THE LABOR FRONT

A summit-for world trade unions?

By WILLIAM KASHTAN

The editors of Pravda and
Izvestia who were with Pre-
mier Khrushchev when he met
with seven vice-presidents . of

‘the AFL-CIO recently made a

useful contribution to truth-
ful reporting and towards im-
proved relationships when they
issued their text of what ac-
tually transpired at these talks.

That text was made neces-
sary because Walter Reuther
saw fit to falsify the content
of the discussions to such an
extent that both Joseph Cur-
ran of the National Maritimes
Union and Emil Rieve of the
Textile Workers Union were
compelled to tell newsmen that

WYla “substantial. part of Reuth-
| er’s account of what happened

; ‘\is a heap of nonsense.”

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(above) paved way for Premier Khrushchev’s visit to the
United States and President Eisenhower’s projected re-
turn visit to the USSR next spring. It is hoped that a
Summit meeting will be held before the Eisenhower visit,
but the French and West German governments are trying
te delay the top-level parley as long as possible.

‘|concerned. Reuther was
‘| viously not motivated by any
| desire to improve relationships
'| between the U.S. and Soviet
'| trade union movements, nor by

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This is not the first time

that truth has had to take a

holiday insofar as Reuther is
Ob-

a desire to strengthen the trend
towards peaceful co-existance.

The Soviet text is what ac-
tually transpired is therefore
extremely useful because it
sets the facts right. ‘

One section of that text de-
serves repeating:

“There are reasons io be-

B | lieve that this meefing») may

serve a good start, may help to
pave the way for the establish-
ment of the necessary contacts
between the tirade unions of
the USA and the Soviet Union.
"These contacts are neces-
sary and may prove to be very
fruitful in the struggle for the
common cause of strengthen-
ing world peace. ee

,

“As for those who persist in
their cold war ways, they will
only expose themselves in the
eyes of the working people o
the world. .

“The vital interests of the
working class require unity in
the struggle for peace. Though
we differ’ on many questions,
there is one common cause for
which we should rally our ef-
forts — it is the struggle for
peace.”

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Since this text was publish-
ed the auto workers have held
their convention in Atlantic
City. In the lengthy resolution
on foreign policy which: the
convention adopted it takes
note of the fact that interna-
tional relations have ‘under-
gone dGramatic, transitional
changes within the last two
years’ ’and that “a new his-
torical era is emerging whose
outline is still vague.”

Further on it states ‘‘the
freest passage across national
boundaries should be given
organizations in many fields
including bona fide trade un-
ion organizations. Exchanges
which until now have been
largely limited to official rep-
resentatives should be broaden-

ed to include people of every |

walk of life.’

This is a welcome change] gressive trade unionists.

Salata”.

from Reuther’s cold. war blasts
in San Francisco. e

If I read this correctly it
proposes that the trade unions-
of the USA, undertake exX-_
changes with the trade union
movement of the Soviet Union.

Is it too much to hope that
the Canadian trade union.
movement will begin to react
independently and establish a
proper relationship between it-
self and the trade union move-—
ment of the Soviet Union? In-
one way or another numerous
union conventions in Canada _
have expressed their desire for
this. Now is a good time to put.
it into practice. —
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Now is a good time, too, f0 ,
re-evaluate international. rela- -
tionships and work for re-es- -
tablishing. international trade ,
union unity. : aa

If it is possible and neces .
sary to have a summit mee —
ing to lay the basis for a dur- _
able world peace, it is equally
possible and necessary to have ;
a summit meeting of the’ —
world’s trade unions to ensure
peaceful co-existence and 10° —
advance the living standards of
the working people every-
where. : rs

These are two related tasks —
which ought to be taken uD
with renewed vigor by all pro- ~

CELEBRATE the 42nd ANNIVERSARY |
OCTOBER SOCIALIST REVOLUTION -

Sat., November 7, 7:30 p.m.

GREEN TIMBERS HALL
14344 - 88th Ave., North Surrey
(4 mile east of King George Hwy. at Bear Creek Pk.)

TURKEY SUPPER — ENTERTAINMENT
Admission: Adults $1.00, Children 35¢

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