permit to return to Hungary up to October 1. ~ On August 31 this became publicly known through press stories and radio announce- ments in/this country. Since last November 33,000 Hungarian refugees have en- tered Canada, according to of- ficials of the immigration and external affairs departments, who say that the number of those who want to return is relatively small. However, according to a ah L UA pte sti stay) FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1957 Vol. 16 No. 36 VANCOUVER, B.C. By STEVE SZOKE : TORONTO A short-wave broadcast by Radio Budapest heard here August 28 announced an agree- ment according: to which the Diefenbaker government is willing to make free airplane space available to all those Hungarian dissident elements — so-called “freedom fighter” refugees —who register at the Hungarian Division of the Polish Legation, 255 Flora Street, Ottawa for a Murdochville strike tour urged by VLC Canadian Labor Congress and United Steelworkers should sponsor a national tour of two Murdochville strikers to ac- quaint the trade union movement with the issues at stake in the strike, Vancouver Labor Council decided Tuesday this week. A recommendation to that effect will be sent to the Congress and the USW. Tidin So = nee Authorised as second class mail by the Post Office Department, Ottawa lo¢ SIDORA CONDUCTS VIGOROUS DELTA CAMPAIGN Canadian Press dispatch, Roy Continued on page 2 See HUNGARIAN United progressive vote can hold Burnaby for labor in byelections Cognfidence that Cedric Cox, th F Candidate for Burnaby in. wi September 9 byelections, ll retain the seat held by iS father-in-law, the late E. E. thier for 24 years, was voiced a Week by campaign work- 'n Burnaby, traditional CCF §, considerable unity be- twe, : Len various groups, CCF, » and trade union, has been created around the pro- gram advanced by Cox and vigorously championed on platforms in every part of the constituency. ee In Delta, where five.can- ‘didates are contesting the seat @ vacated by Tom Irwin, former speaker of the legislature and now MP for .Burnaby-Rich-: mond, it has remained for Peter Gidora, LPP candidate, to inject the major issues into the campaign. ‘Tf the . other candidates were not prepared to deal with the real issues on the election ° platform, they can hardly be expected to do so on the floor of the House,” Charles Stew- art, Gidora’s campaign man- ager, told the Pacific Tribune Continued on back page See BYELECTIONS The suggestion was raised in a letter to council from Marine Workers, which recalled~ that during the great Ford strike at Windsor in 1945 a delega- tion of strikers made a coast- to-coast tour to win mass’ sup- port. “Latest development in the Murdochville strike is that the Quebec Federation of Labor (CLC) and the Canadian and Catholic Confederation of Labor will stage a ‘march on Quebec’ this Saturday to draw attention to the strike,” Bill Stewart (Marine Workers) told council delegates. “Our .union would be will- ing to assist the bringing of one or two Murdochville strik- ers here to tell their story at a mass meeting sponsored by the labor movement. Such a delegation would help arouse labor to fight for the destruc- tion, once and forever, of the evil of company unionism in Canada.”