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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1955

~~ Pay immigrants
less at Kitimat

A construction company helping to build the CNR ter-
minal at Kitimat is paying newly-arrived Italian immigrants
70 to 75 cents an hour less than going rates, and is also de-
ducting the price of their fare from Italy.

‘This charge has been made by E. P. Rodda, business agent

Island PTA wins
fight for subway

NANAIMO, B.C.

Members of Princess Ann PTA
have won their fight for a sub-
way to their school to replace
a dangerous crosswalk on the
Island Highway. A huge cul-
vert measuring eight feet in
height is now being installed,
with a concrete walk.

PTA members lobbied their
MLA and local city council
members last summer demand-
an underpass but were told that
’ the project would be “too ex-
pensive.” '

Undaunted, and placing the
safety of their children above
the cost of an underpass, they
launched a powerful petition
campaign which finally com-
pelled Highways Minister Philip
Gaglardi to give in to their
demands. ?

of Carpenters Local 1081, in a
letter to federal labor depart-
ment representative George Cur-
rie. A copy of the letter has
been sent to B.C. Labor Min-’
ister Lyle Wicks.

“The Kitimat-Kemano and

District Trades and Labor Coun-
cil is deeply concerned and
views with alarm the wage rates
and conditions,” wrote Rodda.
He asked Currie to apply his
power “to remedy this intoler-
able situation.”

Rodda said one company,
Skeena Construction, is paying
going rates of $2.25 hourly for
carpenters and $1.60 for labor-
ers, but another. firm engaged
on the project pays only $1.50
for Italian immigrant carpen-
ters and 90 cents for Italian
immigrant laborers. -

In addition, this company
charges $2.40 a day for board
instead of the local rate of $2,
and deducts from the workers’
take home pay their fares from
Italy.

Houses overpriced
by $2,000, say vets

Renfrew Heights veterans will attempt to see federal
Public Works Minister Robert Winters when he visits Van-
couver this month to try,and convince him that Central Mort-
gage and Housing Corporation prices on the homes they live
in are $2,500 higher than fair market values.

Dr. George La Fleche, city
valuator hired by the Renfrew
Heights Community Association

to assess the value of homes

offered for sale to tenants last
August by CMHC, reported that
the houses were “cheap and
badly planned” and _ assessed
their value at from $1,440 to
$3,434 lower than CMHC fig-
ures.

His report will be included in
a brief to be brought up in the
House of Commons by Angus
MacInnis, CCF member for
Vancouver-Kingsway.

The’ brief will also be pre-.
sented on November’ 18 to the
B.C. Zone Command, Canadian
Legion, which is supporting the
tenants.

CMHC want to charge pres-
ent tenants $8,000 for homes
with four rooms and no base-
ment, up to $10,500 for homes
with fiye rooms and no base-
ment. ~

Residents protested that these
prices were at least $2,000 too
high and hired Dr. La Fleche
to inspect a number of homes
in the project.

Continued from page I

ENGINEERS |

a strike would have not only
cut off mill power, but fire pro-
tection and.community lighting
as well. ‘

In Victoria, Scott Shingle
Company and McCarters were
down tight. :

On the mainland, Vancouver
Shingle was-closed. Huntington
and Merritt steam plant was
down, with only six electric
machines working. In Universal
Box the chief engineer and one
company official with engineer’s
papers were still keeping the
plant going, and Alaska Pine
and the Hammond operation of
B.C. Forest Products were
operating with the chief engin-
eer and one scab.

With a blackout and ‘distortion
of strike news in effect in all
daily papers, and pressure by
the mill bosses and some IWA

‘

officers mounting to try and
force a back-to-work movement,

indications were the strike front
fcould be expected to strengthen
as longshoremen, railwaymen,
truckdrivers, electricians and
carpenters pledged support.

Sentiment among rank-and-
file IWA members . remained
strong in most centres likewise,
as the realization spread that
the strike could have important
repercussions if successful in
breaking through the employ--
ers’ no-wage-increase front.
As one IWA member, sharply
critical of the IWA leadership
and “idled by the strike, said:
“If this strike is lost it will be
too bad for every IWA and
other union members. But *if
the engineers win it will be a
breakthrough that will benefit
us all.”

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More than 500 workers have taken about 200,000 tons of asbestos ore this year
from the 6,100-foot level of a mine in northern British Columbia. The mine is the Sas-
siar Asbestos Corporation’s rich property on the slopes of McDame mountain which lies :
45 miles south of the Yukon border. The mined fibres are handled in a new mill which —
is treating 700 tons daily. Reserves of seven million tons of ore have been proven.
Mining operations run from Ju ne to. November, with the mill running throughout

the year.

Continued from page 1

. FORUM ON PEACE

Montreal. journalist Pierre St.
Germain and Toronto mission-
ary Dr. J. G. Endicott, exuded
a spirit of confidence that pub-
lic opinion for peace would tri-
umph over all. remaining ob-
stacles to solutions of world dis-
putes. It called for expansion of
peace activities in the new fav-
orable conditions. ~

Large sections of opinion out-
side the Canadian Peace Con-
-gress joined during the forum
in discussion with representa-
tivés of the Congress. This was
considered a sign that a na-
tional movement of the Cana-
dian people is taking up the
challenge of Geneva.

Delegates came from all parts
of the country — all the way
from the shores of the Pacific
to the cities and towns of Que-
bee. Among them were work-

_ers, farmers, businessmen and
intellectuals, Christian ministers
and laymen, French and English-
speaking, Slavic and Jewish
Canadian, housewives and youth.
There were men and women of
various political outlooks and
philosophies: But they were all
united in their desire for peace.

From B.C. came peace work-
ers encouraged by the success-
ful collection of over 54,000 sig-
natures on the World Appeal
Against the Preparations for
Atomic War. Those from Sas-
katchewan reported significant
progress made in winning pub-
lic opinion for peace. :

The Saskatchewan legislature
is the first parliamentary body
in the British Empire to adopt
a unanimous resolution for the
absolute prohibition of all weap-
ons of mass destruction.

The Saskatchewan delegates
warned, however, of the seri-
ous consequences to Canada
arising from the acute wheat
crisis. Only peace and extend-
ed trade between all nations
could help solve this aggravat-
ed economic problem. :

- Trade unionists from Ontario
joined ministers of the United
and Anglican churches in an ap-
peal to public opinion for “peace
and construction,” against “war
and destruction.”

From’ Quebec 333 delegates
came by a special “peace train”
to voice the sentiment of French

Canadians against conscription
and for peace.

“T need peace because I want
to stay alive,’ was how one of
their delegates, Jacques Rouleau
put it.

The new spirit of Geneva

abroad in the world underscor-.

ed the achievements of peace
workers. It inspired delegates
to make still greater efforts.

Dr. Endicott gave expression
to this new inspiration at the
closing rally, when he compar-
ed the present situation with
the dark days of the last seven
years, when the world was push-
ed time after time to the very

_ brink of war. : en
“Public opinion has become
the greatest world power,” he
. Said and it was this power that
was responsible for the chang-
ed situation.

Under chairmanship of Mon-
treal trade union leader Jean
Pare, sessions of the forum
opened with a symposium,
maked by the broadest platform
participation in the history of
the Canadian peace movement.

Speakers were: Rev. D. C.
Candy, of St. Cyprian’s Angli-
can Church; Rev. H. Howie of
West Hill United Church; Pierre
St. Germaine; Dr. G. J. Endi-

- cott; Jean-Jule$ Richard; Major
Lafond of Annunciation, -Que.;
Mrs. Rae Luckock, president,
Congress of Canadian Women;
Ray Stevenson of the Mine, Mill
and Smelter Workers’ Union;
Mrs. D. N. Pritt of the British
Peace Committee, and Rev. Ben
Spence of Toronto.

In an impassioned plea for
peace, Rev. Ben Spence who
attended the Helsinki World
Assembly for Peace, the Big
Four “summit meeting” and the
Geneva conference on Peaceful
Uses of Atomic Energy, express-
ed his conviction that public
opinion could succeed in saving
mankind from war.

“Public opinion of the world

is for peace,” he said, quoting
Lincoln to the effect that “Pub-
lic sentiment is everything, with
it nothing can fail, without it,
nothing can succeed.”
. Panel sessions dealt with five
topics: Canada and Disarma-
ment; Germany and European

Security; Canada and Asian

PACIFIC TRIBUNE — NOVEMBER 11, 195

“Toronto Peace Council, 2?

Questions; Trade, Cultural a
changes, East-West Contach’
Education and Youth. a
Messages and greetings Cea :
from distinguished Baa .
such as Prof. J. D. Bere
Britain; from Mayor Jean fit
peau of Montreal; Jean Laf a
general secretary of the W0 a
Council for Peace; from pees
committees in many count
of the world and from cities #”
towns in Canada. ah
Ray Gardner of Vancouvy,
read a message from May
Watanabe of Hiroshima.
thousand citizens are stl be
fering from physical distury,
ances incurred by the haves
Watanabe said in his ee
In a greeting to the ysiciad

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favor of peace, because Pe
seems natural to us ani
our primitive spirits canne
ceive the madness of pres
day war.” : oe

The forum unanimously adoPe
ed a Call to Canadian - uk
‘Opinion and a call to th
ernment of Cana ae
the achievement of 2
on disarmament, for ange e
trade and for peaceful relatio”™
with all countries.

At a closing rally arran
connection with the foru

ged in
m by.
d the
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Canadian Peace Congress)
1,500 people heard a fz
Mrs. D. N. Pritt, Jeanie
Richard, Bruce ane ae re
Dr. James G. Endicott. ane
Supporters and friends of t i
Canadian Peace Congress Cane,

new officers’ and a naH®
council. - 5

Dr. James G. Endicott Dies
unanimously re-elected © 1¢
man; Mrs. Eva Sanderso™ in
Toronto and Pierre St. Get ees
of Montreal were elected: ckle-
chairmen and Bruce posi:
purgh was returned to the P'™,
tion of executive secretary ers
national council of 98 mitt ees
representing peace C0 ia
and affiliated organization”
all parts of the country W®"

so elected. raat
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