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By SAM LIPSHITZ

TORONTO

Labor-Progressive leaders from across the country paid tribute to two outstanding Canadians when
eileg poones to A. E. Smith and Beckie Buhay, former members of the LPP national committee, were

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Special session of the party’s national committee was interrupted to permit a visit to two ceme-
the Toronto area where the unveiling cezemonies took place. »

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fought for and gave leadership to
the working class and the battle
fo: socialism.

He recalled Beckie Buhay’s
work, together with Annie Buller,
Bella Gauld and her brother, the

the Montreal Labor College, which

England, he said, till the last min-
ute of her life, she lived with,

late Michael Buhay, in founding |

made a significant contribution to
the development of leaders in the
Canadian labor movement.

Throughout her years of devoted
work Beckie Buhay had made a
great contribution to the Canadian
Communist movement, said Buck,
and had shown herself to be one
of its outstanding national lead-
ers.

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‘Teachers test
loyalty oath

SEATTLE

The University of Washington last week was temporarily
erjoined from requiring loyalty oaths of its employees as two
distinguished faculty members filed suit to test the constitu-
tionality of the 1955 loyalty oath law.

The action was filed in Thurston
County Superior Court by Max
Savelle, professor of history, and
Howard Lee Nostrand, professor
and executive officer of the de-

partment of Remance languages |,

and literature.

Superior Judge Charles T.
Wright at once issued the tem-
porary restraining order and set
October 17 for arguments on
whether. the Jaw should prevail
until the constitutionality of the
law can be determined.

Dz. Saville and Dr. Nostrand
named the university and Wash-
ngton state attorney general’s of-
fice as defendants. They contended
ithe law violated the First, Fifth
and Fourteenth Amendments and
Section 10 of the 'UJS. Constitution.

They pointed out that the action
was being brought as “a friendly
test and not a protest against the
University of Washington.

“To emphasize this point, the
test is being made only iby a token
number of persons, although a
much larger number have express-
ed concern over the problem.”

They added that “if there is no
conflict” between the loyalty oath
and the US. Constitution, “we will
sign the oath.”

“We consider the question of

constitutionality important,”
they said, “because any device
that falls short of the constitu-
individual
freedom and due process of law

tion’s principles of

would be a step away from de-
mocracy and ttowards totalitar-
ianism.”

They charged that the law was
“vaguely worded” and had caused
confusion because different state
government departments were us-
ing differently worded oaths.

“This law encroaches upon the
freedom of our citizens far beyond
previous loyalty oaths,” they said.

“The law defines a subversive
person by reference to member-
ship in organizations listed on the
U.S. attorney general’s list. The
status of this list is controversial
for a number of reasons, among
which is the question of whether
the -several hundred condemned
organizations have had the ‘opport-
unity for a hearing at which to de-
fend themselves.”

The suit was prepared by Sollie
Ringold, Francis Hoague and Byron
Coney, members of the lawyers’
committee of the Washington
chapter of the American Civil
Liberties Union, who are serving:
in the case without fee.

‘Let them see for themselves’ says UE delegates

2 TORONTO

“When. the secretary-treasurer

trade unionists should go to the
Soviet Union to see for themselves,
instead of merely getting a lot of
propaganda, he is expressing the
opinion of millions of working peo-
ple in Canada who are fed, up with
cold war propaganda and who want
to learn the truth,” Jeff Hurley,
area cepresentative of tht United
Electrica! Workers, recently re-
turned from a 3,500 mile tour of
che Soviet Union with five other
UE delegates, said in an interview
here. He was commenting on a
statement made recently ‘by Gor-
don Cushing, TLC secretary-treas-
res. 3
: “The truth about the USSR is
open to any trade unionist. Last
year over 1,000 delegates in 130
delegations from almost every
country in the world went to the

USSR. :
“During our three-week Soviet

e| Cuba and other countries. In fact,

citizens,” Hurley reported.

ing to the Canadian ambassador.

was vight.

e| ta us,” Hurley said.

of the TLC says that Canadian

visit we saw trade unionists from
England, Scotland, Sweden, India,

in the hotels we stayed at in Mos-
cow and Leningrad there seemed
to be more foreigners than Soviet

While in Moscow, the UE dele-
gation veported to the Canadian
embassy and spent some time talk-

‘He certainly didn’t indicate to
us that foreigners were received
with hostility in the UISSR. On
the contrary, he told us a pit
about Soviet hospitality and he
We were taken to the
places we asked to see and every-
one was open and frank in talking

In the Soviet Union the UE dele-
gates were the guests of the Power
Stations and Electrical Workers’
Uniono, which had assigned its na-
tional secretary and two interpre-
ters to accompany the delegation
on its tour. :

“In the first factory we visited
—a TV plant in Moscow—we met
a worker in the shipping room
who spoke English. In Leningrad
we had a similar experience with
workers in a ‘heavy electrical
equipment factory. ‘They answer-
ed our questions freely without
interference from anyone,” Hurley
remarked. ;

"One of the proofs Cushing
speaks for Canadian workers in
his opinion about delegations to
the USSR is the interest there
was in our own union when we
organized the delegation. Our
member: contributed several
thousand dollars, and in one fac-
tory, Westinghouse in Hamilton,

4,600 workers cast ballots in a |

plant gate election, where thir-
teen candidates ran for the dele-
gation. In Kingston, a local of
about 1,200, the delegate there
was given a send-off parity at-
tended by about 700 people,”
Hurley explained. —~

“On several occasions the Soviet
trade unions have issued invita-
tions to the labor movement in
Canada and the U/S. to send dele-
gations.
am sure that all Canadian unionists
would be welcome and would re-

ceive the same reception we did,”

Hurley said. ‘

The UE delegation visited eight
electrical factories: the Dnieper
Power Station, the Stalingrad Hy-
dro Power project to be finished

Why don’t they go? I!

next year; health resorts for work-
ing people, new apartment build-
ings and cultural centres maintain-
ed by unions.

“Wherever we went people ask-
ed us to be critical of what we saw,
listened to our criticism intently,
and most of the time agreed with
it.

“Soviet trade unionists don’t
blush when foreigners point out
to them that there are still. poor
housing conditions in some centres
and that women seem to do heavy
work in factories. And they don’t
throw their arms around you when
you praise something like the
speed with which new apartments
are going up. They reply, ‘Come

Canadian unionists welcome in Soviet Union

We are trying to do better.’

“They are modest people who,
like Canadians, have an intense
pride in, and love for their coun-
try. Because they love their coun-
try they don’t want to see it ruin-
ed by another war,” Hurley said.

‘Canadian workers don’t want to
see our country ruined by another
war either. Visits by trade union-
ists would help wipe out misun-
dersiandings and contribute to in-
ternational friendship,

“What could be stronger than a
united demand by all the labor
movements in the world and the
members they represent that an
end be put to all wars? It would be
folly for any government to ignore

back in five years and have a look. it.’

Members. of the United Electrical Workers’ delega-

tion photographed in Red Square, Moscow. Jeff Hurley

is seen third from left.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE — SEPTEMBER 9, 1955 — PAGE 3