his native land. Dr, Infeld, who Albert Einstein in mathematic pro- jects, is one of the world’s leading mathematicians. He recently pub- lished a book on the famed scien- tist. In his ‘letter of resignation to the University of Toronto, Dr. Infeld said, according to a statement re- leased by the university: “I find here excellent conditions for re- search and scientific work and for instructing the young Polish gen- eration. Nothing is spared in ef- fort or in money to develop native talent that exists. I have. found here a tremendous desire for peace and universal constructive activi- ty. “This nation experienced the horrors of war as did none other. everything possible to avoid an- Other conflict. My decision is to remain in my native land, to con- tribute all I can do to the scholar- ship being done in my field here, and to work for peace throughout the world.” Dr. Infeld -was a refugee from Poland, a man who had felt the lash of anti-Semitism in his youth, and many of whose relatives had suffered death im Nazi cremator- iums. Last year he visited his home- land and spoke at Cracow Uni- versity. -On his return he reported that the lectures, which usually would have attracted 50 or 100 - people, attracted a huge crowd to the same lecture hall where he had been refused the right to teach before the war, because he was a Jew. Dr. Infeld has publicly urged peaceful negotiations between the East and the West to end the _ threat of an atomic war. He de- bated the point once with Col. W. - Goforth. former head of the Can- adian government defense research bureau, now stumping the country advocating conscription and war. Syndicates split on support of govt war policy. 4 SHERBROOKE, Que. The important Canadian and _ Catholic Confederation of Labor (Catholic Syndicates) split on the question of Canadian participation in foreign wars at its convention here last week. ‘ Delegates watered down an er- ecutive committee resolution of support for the government’s war policy until it spoke only of “limi- ted participation” before the motion passed by the close vote of 178-138. Even in this limited form the resolution’s passage required all the force the executive could muster, with the general chaplain. Rev. Henri Pichette, president Gerard _ Picard and general secretary Jean - Marchand all striving to convince delegates that since Canada was committed to full support of the UN it must be prepared to back up all UN decisions. The resolution finally adopted “>. ~ The CCCL: urges that the _ government maintain its obligations as a member of the UN and... demands that Canada does not en- gage, beyond reasonable limits, in _ participation in foreign wars.” Before it was adopted two other _ Straight anti-war resolutions were Dr. Infield quits post to work in Poland for peace TORONTO Because he has found in the new People’s Republic of Poland “‘a tremendous desire for peace and universal constructive activity,’ Dr. Leopold Infeld, professor of applied mathematics at the University of Toronto, has resigned his post to remain at the University of Cracow in has been associated with Professor ’ Py Tee ee oe aaa Gel CNR profits up from $2 to $26 million MONTREAL Profits of the government-owned Canadian National railways have increased 1,300 percent in tne first eight months of this year! Up to the end of August yes the system reperted profits of 2, 395,000. At the end of August this year profits hit $26,075,000. This profit increase comes directly out of the sweat of the rail workers, for it is actually more than the in- crease in gross revenue, more than the increase in the eight-months’ take from freight, hotels, express, passenger and other income. DR. LEOPOLD INFELD In Poland he will work for peace Free milk for school children held ‘sinister’ TORONTO Threat of a second jump in the price of milk to 22 cents a quart was sounded last week by auditors of local dairies. Following hard on a one-cent jump in price ordered earlier this month, the companies say the latest increase is made nec- essary through demands of pro- ducers and labor. Not a mention is made of the need for lopping down profits of milk combines in order to pay decent prices to farmers and good wages to members of the milk drivers’ unions. = Meanwhile, a motion demanding free milk for children in provincial schools brought forward by Trus- tee Edna Ryerson was termed “sinister” by another member of the board of education. The labor trustee asked the board to request the provincial government to provide a free half pint of milk every day to every pupil in view of the recent jump in the price of milk to 20 cents a quart. The motion was referred back to the management committee for further consideration by a vote of 11-+5.. Rev. David Kerr .said the question had come up before. “The one-cent increase gives her (Mrs. Ryerson) the chance to bring up her annual motion once again. We all know she has sinister motives.” he asserted. & A Brampton distri€t shipper of milk, Jack Fraser, maintained last week that the dairy system of “quotas” should be stopped and the price of milk to consumer held at its present level. He pointed to the fact that the dairies have rein- troduced the quota system. This gives farmers $2.25 a hundredweight for milk normally getting $4.07) a hundredweight, almost twice as much. “Shippers are told by the dairies,” said Fraser, “that they can’t take any more milk and that the farmer will have to keep it on the farm— which is impossible since we have no storage space——or send it in and accept the $2.25 price.” Milk drivers are asking a $7 a week increase of the big dairy out- defeated by narrow margins. fits. Even during August, month of | nine-day strike, the CNR increased | its profits from $1,049,000 to $3,- 280,000, though gross revenue drop- ped $4,000,000 during the. month. The government-owned system had no wages tg pay for nine days and by speedup’ the bulk of shipments were moved by the workers with- out extra pay. Pe a BE! Par Court accepts police ‘evidence’ fines Michnick TORONTO Police “testimony” rather’ than the evidence of an unbiased citizen was accepted by Magistrate Prent- ice in police court here last week at the final hearing of charges against Sam Michnick, young war veteran who was brutally beaten by two detectives following his ar- rest on August 26. Michnick, who was arrested at the Canadian National Exhibition gates where he was collecting sig- natures to the world peace petition and beaten up at the police station when he refused to turn over his petition forms, was fined $10 or 30 days on three counts: obstructing the police, disturbing the peace and malicious damage. a Charge of disturbing the peace was based on the fact that Mich- nick yelled for help when he broke away from the two detectives who were beating him and smashed a window in the police station to at- tract the attention of people out- side. The malicious damage count was added because he broke the window. Arthur Nicholas, a Toronto ma- chinist, testified that he had, been visiting the CNE that day, had never known or seen Michnick be- fore, but that he had heard him call for help and saw two detectives puil him.away from a window of the CNE police station by the hair. But although Nichols corroborated Michnick’s testimony, Magistrat Prentice chose to judge the case on police “evidence”, Michnick’s attorney, Joseph New- Man emphasized that Michnick’s arrest had been illegal, that the right to petition was inviolate and that no unlawful act had been com- mitted. “It tortures one’s con- science to believe the story told by the police,” said Newman who in- timated the verdict would be ap- pealed.. 3 Polish criminal freed by French WARSAW At the same time as the French government is persecuting Poles and other anti-fascist foreigners in France, a Polish war criminal, Bo- hun-Dombrowski, who is guilty of the death of thousands of Polish citizens, has been released from a French prison. , A collaborator with the Gestapo and murderer of Poles, Jewish and Soviet citizens, Bohun-Dombrowski was placed high on the list of war criminals in 1947, at the request o: the Polish government. ‘ After the end of the war Bohun- Dombrowski escaped to the Ameri- can occupaticn zone of Germany and from there to the French zone. Polish government investigators discovered his alias and place of TLC leadership enying ‘labor’s right to labor’ Delegates to the post-convention meeting of Toronto Trades and Labor Council were left in no doubt that the top brass of the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada will attempt to extend its dictatorial con- vention powers to all sections of the Congress. They saw council president William Jenovese, who is also Ontario vice-president of the Congress, aut- ocratically rule out debate on an undemocratic edict unseating three leading unionists.on the grounds that they were suspected of being “Communists” or feilow travellers. The unionists were Sam La- Pedes, Canadian representative of the United Garment Workers Un- ion (AFL), Reg. Wright, president Local 161, International Chemical Workers Union (AFL), and Helen Weir, representative of the Hotel and Restaurant Employees Union (AFL). LaPedes, the only one of the three present at the Council meet-_ ing, was gagged by the chair when he tried .to speak on the issue. Jenovese ruled the issue was not to be debated. In effect he applied, for the first time, the arbitrary power that the TLC top brass has assumed. The rank-and-file dele- gates, who had come to the council expecting a report on the TLC con- vention, were taken by surprise. ..Jenovese wasn’t able to whip up the hysteria which prevailed at the Congress convention but he made it clear that the council executive would try to quash any future re- volt by intimidation. The executive intended to investigate many other delegates, he told the meeting, pre- dicting that the number to be purg- ed would extend far beyond the im- mediate three. Delegates listened closely when Emil Rosenthal (Typographical Union), pointed out that the report on the TLC convention didn’t men- tion any of the pressing bread and butter issues facing labor but plac- ed its main emphasi ry : rain tanta phasis ae “fighting “It was strange,” he “ there was no mention et at boo Strike, and stranger still that we talk here of a bill of righ then hear a report rps ti denies the rights of labor. to labor.” ae That was as far as Rosenthal was permitted to go, Jenovese again ruling all discussion out of order and demanding that the Typo representative take his seat. The dictatorial power assumed by Jenovese was an eye-opener to many delegates and will un- doubtedly be the main topic of con- versation during the period before the next council meets. Delegates, interviewed after the meeting, said they had been caught by surprise. Many expressed fear that the rights of the rank-and-file would be completely stripped away unless there was an upsurge from below. Such an upsurge, they felt, would have to. challenge the undem- ocratic TLC convention decisions and fight back to prevent those decisions being foisted on trades council, affiliated locals and federa- tions, - The TLC leadership, being afraid of the membership and knowing that popular opinion doesn’t really support the dictatorship it is at- tempting to establish, is going into action fast in an effort to stifle all opposition. The rank-and-file can defeat those plans, but it will have to act quickly and with determin- ation before the damage extends too far. residence and handed over a com- plete dossier on him to the French authorities, Wr On August 22, the Polish consul at Toulouse was informed that Bo- hun-Dombrowski had been arrest- ed and would face trial. The “trial” wee held in secrecy on August 24, with Polish observers excluded, and Bohun-Dombrowski was freed. In a sharp note to the French government the Polish government demands re-arrest of Bohun-Dom- browski and his extradition after a review of his case by French authorities. P TORONTO Ban atom bomb, mediate Korea, say churchmen — “Such weapons of modern war- ‘e as the use 0 : piioeaical weapons and on tion bombing involve ca sigs destruction of life on sO ON ee scale as to imperil the very se on which law and civilization As exist. It is therefore tps iie nae they should be ee by inte i ent.” jee ey resolution paoried unanimously by the United eRe General Council conference last week. * At the same ti also urged “conciliation ee in order to establish @ just peace at the earliest possible time. d delegates express bi et Sao nether: negotiations me, the council action for R. Mutchmor, secre- , Rev. J committee on tary of the church ee raternational Affairs, oa hs know it can be done now. aa the Asian countries had ar a and it was “g matter of comm that.” sense to recognize ection orting UN 2@ Although supp eal divided on @ i orea, the councit 1 Se to do so only in such a et as in accordance the of Christ”, a mo Buchanan of Edm i s defeated ea eae in contradiction to j n on the incorrect state- Ren it does not call for oe national control. The saat ne Anpeal, in its first point calling a the banning of the ae ta nal clared specifically this mus an carried out “with strict internatio ; al control over the fulfillment 9° decision.” “ Le new peace call issued by the World Peace Committee urges a4 general reduction in all armaments by all nations and barriers against aggression anywhere by any coun try, based on the conviction “that peace cannot be imposed by force: of arms.” } Actions taken against the Dean of Canterbury during his last vis- it to Canada, were deplored in another resolution on civil liber- ties endorsed by the conference. Lakehead council hits rail bill = PORT ARTHUR Further action in support of Ca- nadian rail workers and a demand for repeal of the government’s compulsory arbitration law, has been made by Lakehead trade un- ions. The Port Arthur Trades and Labor Council at its last meeting endorsed the following resolution: “The non-operating workers of Canada in their drive for the 40- hour week are carrying the torch for all Canadian workers. Act No. One of the present session of par- liament not only imposes unjust shackles on the Canadian railway workers in the form of compulsory arbitration, but sets a precedent that could destroy the right of workingmen to bargain collectively. We demand the immediate repeal of the piece of legislation known as’ the Rail Strike Bill.” PACIFIC TRIBUNE—SEPTEMBER 29, 1950—PAGE 2 ’ f atomic and bac-" a on in the midst of.